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[Star fury]

MerinTB wrote...

Sylvius the Mad wrote...

Fast Jimmy wrote...

This is why we should all just speak Esperanto.

Lojban would be better. 

I thought Tolkien told us that Elven was the perfect language of the perfect people?

So the Finns are perfect people and have perfect language.

[Fast Jimmy]

EntropicAngel wrote...

Well this is a fun thread.

So, when you combine horseradish and ketchup, you get cocktail sauce, commonly served with shrimp. Had anyone tried to combine horseradish and MUSTARD?

Since its the mustard version of cocktail sauce, I'd call it "straight shot" sauce.

[In Exile]

Fast Jimmy wrote...
So, when you combine horseradish and ketchup, you get cocktail sauce, commonly served with shrimp. Had anyone tried to combine horseradish and MUSTARD?

Since its the mustard version of cocktail sauce, I'd call it "straight shot" sauce.

I dislike mustard. More of a ketchum man. 

[Vilegrim]

Allan Schumacher wrote...

In Exile wrote...

Allan Schumacher wrote...
Now, you can decide that Frank should always be excruciatingly careful about how he says things (I've learned that on this forum myself), but at the same time, Aaryn Flynn was called out on his twitter for the choice of "Do I save the village or let it burn" and responded with something akin to "It didn't come out the way I had meant. I was more meaning do you choose something else at the expense of the village?"

So like in DA:A? 

I think you're over analyzing the specifics of the choice again... hahaha.

But yeah, Amarathine (from what I can remember.  I didn't really work on Awakening nor did I play it through, unfortunately) would probably be appropriate.

It's more generally:  "Choose thing A, which may have consequences elsewhere, or choose something else, which has consequences with how thing A plays out."


Although the example was more to illustrate that something may come across clear in one's head, but others read into it differently.  Aaryn's is a bit more worthy of scrutiny, however, since it was actually part of active promotion of the game.

nuts...I was kinda hoping the 'lead the world to it's end' line in the orginal trailer was literal, just decide to burn the lot  (hopefully in the name of the old gods, or for the loot in the ruins)  The option to be truly nasty, not 'renegade' but utterly without remorse in pursuit not of a glorious goal, ot salvation, but just because you have power and other people do not, and those without power are to bend the knee or burn.  Warlord Inquisitor has a ring to it, don't you think?

Modifié par Vilegrim, 24 août 2013 - 10:23 .

[Allan Schumacher]

nuts...I was kinda hoping the 'lead the world to it's end' line in the orginal trailer was literal, just decide to burn the lot smilie (hopefully in the name of the old gods, or for the loot in the ruins)  The option to be truly nasty, not 'renegade' but utterly without remorse in pursuit not of a glorious goal, ot salvation, but just because you have power and other people do not, and those without power are to bend the knee or burn.  Warlord Inquisitor has a ring to it, don't you think?

I'm not at all sure why you drew this conclusion from a dissection of Aaryn's statement.

Especially since the scenario you picked still seems to support "choose one path, it has consequences.  Choose another path, it has different consequences."

Modifié par Allan Schumacher, 24 août 2013 - 10:30 .

[Vilegrim]

Allan Schumacher wrote...

nuts...I was kinda hoping the 'lead the world to it's end' line in the orginal trailer was literal, just decide to burn the lot smilie (hopefully in the name of the old gods, or for the loot in the ruins)  The option to be truly nasty, not 'renegade' but utterly without remorse in pursuit not of a glorious goal, ot salvation, but just because you have power and other people do not, and those without power are to bend the knee or burn.  Warlord Inquisitor has a ring to it, don't you think?

I'm not at all sure why you drew this conclusion from a dissection of Aaryn's statement.

Especially since the scenario you picked still seems to support "choose one path, it has consequences.  Choose another path, it has different consequences."

I took his original statement to mean save the village or burn it.  It was clarified into 'save the village but let an outside force destroy something else' or 'save something else and the vilalge burns.'  Or am I missing something?

[Allan Schumacher]

There were some people that criticized Aaryn because, the way they interpreted his options, was that the choice was "actively choose to save the village" or "actively choose to instead burn the village" (i.e. the choice was between "Be a nice guy" and "Be a sociopathic arsonist.")

The person sarcastically used the phrase "DEEP ****" in response.

[Vilegrim]

Allan Schumacher wrote...

There were some people that criticized Aaryn because, the way they interpreted his options, was that the choice was "actively choose to save the village" or "actively choose to instead burn the village" (i.e. the choice was between "Be a nice guy" and "Be a sociopathic arsonist.")

The person sarcastically used the phrase "DEEP ****" in response.

but..but give me the sociopathic arsonist cookies!   I mean you go to an engine that means pretty much anything can be blown up/ burnt down..... Now to get a character and story reason to do so and off I go giggling and loading the molotovs.

EntropicAngel wrote...



Edit: Asterisks over vowels works wonderfully--I don't know what "****" means.

Probably saving the profanity filter the effort.

Modifié par Vilegrim, 24 août 2013 - 10:42 .

[Versus Omnibus]

It's just an executive acting like he knows the game, even though I doubt he has step one foot in Bioware's building in the past year. Unless he says DAI is cancelled or something I'll continue to ignore him.

[Herr Uhl]

EntropicAngel wrote...

Edit: Asterisks over vowels works wonderfully--I don't know what "****" means.

Would be kind of hypocritical for a mod to break the site rules.

[Fast Jimmy]

EntropicAngel wrote...

I'm pretty sure DA I was never designed to give you the option to destroy the world, just like DA:O, DA ][, or the ME series.

I'd address KotOR but I have yet to play a Dark Side playthrough.

Edit: Asterisks over vowels works wonderfully--I don't know what "****" means.

I would say it is similar to "deep shirt." As in, man, the writing and options are so diverse and well-though out... this is some deep shirt!

Of course, I'm just inferring this from context, not from the actual Twitter statements themselves (I haven't seen them).

[Vilegrim]

EntropicAngel wrote...

I will admit, some of the more psychotic actions in DA before were absolutely awesome on a disturbing level.

Stabbing the prisoner in Ostagar? Awesome. The soldier in the Wilds? Even better.

Now, imagine, in DA][ deciding the Blood Mages where right, and slaughtering the lot....or joining the Qunari in wading in the streets in blood and fire.

Or in DA:O how awesome would it have been to, as the Dwarf Noble, return to Orzimmar and seize the crown.

[Allan Schumacher]

It is used in a very negative light. IMO someone was making fun of Aaryn for saying that. I also took the the term "Deep" to mean meaningful. but hey, reading comments online and having to interpret them.

Equivalent to sarcastically saying "wow, that's some real deep choices you have there...." By Aaryn's response, I feel he took it the same way.

[ManchesterUnitedFan1]

I'm pretty sure the Twitter user said 'Deep ****'.

Modifié par Allan Schumacher, 24 août 2013 - 11:57 .

[Allan Schumacher]

ManchesterUnitedFan1 wrote...

I'm pretty sure the Twitter user said 'Deep ****'.

Please do not cirumvent the language filter.

Modifié par Allan Schumacher, 24 août 2013 - 11:57 .

[ManchesterUnitedFan1]

Thanks a bunch Allan.

[Vilegrim]

'I will take the throne no matter who stands against me, living or dead, and if I must be the last emperor then I will make of it such an ending, This is where the wise man turns away. This is where the holy kneel and call on God. These are the last miles, my brothers. Don't look to me to save you. Run if you have the wit. Pray if you have the soul. Stand your ground if courage is yours. But don't follow me. Follow me, and I will break your heart.' Prince Jorg, the Broken Empire series.

That would be one hell of a motivation for the Inquisitor, for instance. Tear the world down around your ears for power and cruelty's sake. Give us a dark side option and mean it.

[rapscallioness]

what a thread.