Posts made by Thenomain

@tek said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

@Thenomain said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

@tek

The WrongFun comes in with playing a canon character in a non canon manner.

At that point, you might as well have made your own character. It feels lazy.

Than telling new stories with established characters? I'm going to assert that this would be even harder. With a non established character, you get to make up anything at any time. Your character likes trout but hates whitefish? No need to check canon, because you are canon.

@tek

The WrongFun comes in with playing a canon character in a non canon manner.

@TNP said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

Seems Anders was separated from Justice and pardoned.

If this isn't all but proof that staff are making a game to play their favorite characters and little other reason, I don't know what is.

@Ganymede said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

@Thenomain said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

The Qun is meant to be the Islam analogue, in a rough way.

That's fine, but it's not even close. As I said, the mindset of assimilation is very close to how Islamic regimes operated in the Middle Ages, but the idea of "everyone to their role" is closer to Stalinist communism.

And the Martin Luther analogue uses explosives instead of nailing beliefs to the door, and doesn't start a war of just the spirit. I understand what you're saying, but I don't know how that changes anything. The Europe analogue is upside-down (hotter being north). The Inquisition isn't the Inquisition. The Church started in France by a woman who freed slaves from the Ancient Roman analogue. Most of this isn't perfect, and isn't supposed to be.

I don't know what any of this has to do with the price of tea in Navarra.

@Akurel

It may be. A lot of Dragon Age is a pastiche (hah!) of European history thrown through Fantasy's blender and topped with a dollop of modernistic sensibilities.

@Ganymede

Direct quote from the developers. The Qun is meant to be the Islam analogue, in a rough way.

If someone asks if you need help, and they are earnest, the response is never a defensive "obviously". You realize that I could mess you up at any point in this discussion, right?

Also, you are apparently a sock puppet made of straw.

I've tried to make hot or even iced milk chai, for all that I could drink myself sick on Oregon Chai. I've never managed it.

@Songtress

Could you put in hard line breaks? When you use ``` the system doesn't auto-wrap.

Das is alles. Danke.

Today on my way to work, a group of college students were crossing a major 5-lane street against the turn light/Don't Walk signal. Thhe car in front of me waited, but man the ironies considering what I've just learned about pedestrian right of way.

I'm also surprised how easy the Ohio laws can be to read, on the matter of where and when a pedestrian has right of way. I now understand Gany's complaints that rules on Mushes aren't bad if they're written well, and aren't written well.

@Ganymede

That is awesome.

And Now I Know

@Three-Eyed-Crow

Do you mean Tolkien/D&D Pastiche, or Game of Thrones/L&L Pastiche, or a Witcher Pastiche? Because it's none of these, but closest to Witcher. Videos nonwithstanding, I would say it's pre-Renaissance with heavy classism, a finicky dual-realm magic situation, racism and slavery and other forms of oppression (save little sexism, except as commentary in the Catholicism analogue)... the more I think about it, the main generic blandness is that there are humans, elves, dwarves, and dragon people as Kind Of But Not Really Muslims.

Anyhow.

Off to watch videos.

@Ganymede said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

@Thenomain said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

I'm guessing they'd be mostly tempted to take it as a Lords & Ladies game.

The setting for Dragon Age is very much not Lords & Ladies.

I know that.

And you know that.

Because we've played Dragon Age.

But if you haven't, how do you introduce some of the delightful nuances on a web site?

What kind of game would people want to default to if you just said, say, "city-state in a pre-Rennaisance world of magic"? I was having problems imagining a quick introduction to the world that wouldn't leave people to hitting a default.

Like Lords & Ladies.

Was my point.

@icanbeyourmuse said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

I've not seen a wiki that has information for someone dragon age dumb.

http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age_Wiki

Mind you, this is like someone asking about the kinds of things that go on in the Trigun anime and being handed a link to TV Tropes.

If you do nothing else, read everything having to do with Dragon Age: Origins, then DA: Awakening. And even then I'm not sure that'll prepare you but it's easier on most people than playing these horribly dated masterpieces.

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

Made it through my phone interview only stumbling over my words a couple of times. However, I think I managed to play it off as just being too excited. >.>

Either way! Did well enough that she scheduled the 2nd phone interview with me at the end of the call.

...unfortunately that's stage 2. Of 5. I'm gonna spend a lot of time on pins and needles over the next few weeks. >.>

Best of luck. I always find that the high after a good interview is countered by the depression of waiting and further depression if you don't get the job. This is one of the main reasons I don't job-hunt much, but when the payoff works it's great.

@icanbeyourmuse said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

The wiki also is not the most informative for someone who has never played the Dragon Age stuff.

While I agree, mostly because it looks like the wiki is brand new, I'm also not sure how well someone who has never played a Dragon Age game would fair. I'm guessing they'd be mostly tempted to take it as a Lords & Ladies game.

Fresh gunpowder black.

My favorite is 100 Mile Tea. It can keep me awake for days on one cup. The world starts to blur after a few minutes on this stuff.

Lipton makes the single best bagged brewed iced tea on the planet. No shame in that.

@Auspice

Social Crucible. I can either find the change or bring change to pretty much any situation I find myself in. Fire is almost never involved. Almost.

@Griatch said in Necessary tools for running plots as a non-staff player?:

@Apos said in Necessary tools for running plots as a non-staff player?:

@Arkandel Yeah I agree 100%, I mean if a tool is too complicated then at best it won't be used, at worst it'll discourage people from not even trying to PRP since it'd turn them off from it.

It sounds like a prime candidate for using EvMenu actually.
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Griatch

Do you have any links to same? Thanks.

@Kanye-Qwest

This isn't an appropriate place for this; please keep it for the Hog Pit. Thanks.

@Glitch

Did you find a setting, or will it break when we do an update?

It is 5am and I'm suffering a combination of jaw-aching headache and sinuses so stopped up that my sink stopped working by osmosis, all triggered by almost twenty minutes of off and on sneezing three and a half hours ago.

I am so ticked off at the human body. If I don't scoop out my eyes with a spoon I'm afraid they will be pushed out on their own accord.