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[riverbanks]

LOL Funny, I don't really view those as apologies, at all. They just seem par for the course of their "crazy oversexed Cullenite" marketing machine. I'm sure that dev on Mike's stream wasn't the only one  parodying the cullenite squeeing when the silly ladder horse and the VGA spot came out. 

 

Perhaps, perhaps. I'm feeling rather in good will towards the office, so maybe I'm letting them off the hook easy, but... it's not something I want to hold too hard a grudge over. My grudges are generally reserved for the fandom these days, anyway.

[Tishina]

Perhaps, perhaps. I'm feeling rather in good will towards the office, so maybe I'm letting them off the hook easy, but... it's not something I want to hold too hard a grudge over. My grudges are generally reserved for the fandom these days, anyway.

I'm trying to believe that the situation at the ball was more meant as a reminder that these things work both ways and that it isn't all in fun to an introvert. I hope.

[Sephirona]

To be blunt, doesn't the fact that they (the Orlesian 'Cullenites') take it so far when he is clearly uncomfortable sort of make us look like jerks, too?  I get that groups of primarily women who like things ('fangirls') are always going to get dumped on but it feels a bit mean-spirited of a dig, under the circumstances.  The 'inappropriate', sexual, whatever kinds of fantasies, art, displays, gushing, etc. that are done to a fictional character are really not comparable to actual non-consensual 'flirting' or harassment of a real person, so it's kind of an obnoxious way to translate Cullen fans into an in-character setting.

 

Oh feck it I don't know, I'm tired and angry and full of ennui.  Going to bed.

 

I agree. I am grateful that Cullen was included and that he was written very tastefully as a romance for us, but the reasons you stated here are also why I was a little uneasy about how they claim Cullen smells like Elderflowers. I mean, it's a hilarious joke insult in Monty Python ("Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"), but while the implication that Cullen is the delicious consumable bait and we, the women, are the rodents who can't help but be lured in is amusing, it also is a bit condescending. At least it's not very direct.

 

And yeah, I'd never approach a person in the manner those nobles did, whether in-game or in real life. Tishina's right - as an introvert, the whole situation with the nobles is terrifying to me. I never go to social gatherings with random strangers just to chill, it's not in my nature and I don't find the idea the least bit enjoyable. The only reason I'd go would be if there were people I knew there who I could huddle with so I wouldn't have to be approached alone by strangers whose sole purpose is to get me to dance or drink with them. I'm all for making friends on my own terms and in places with people I know I can be comfortable with (such as on this thread  ). Cullen was ganged up on and had to fend for himself for the entire duration of the ball. Blackwall was right - he did need a bodyguard, lmao.

[R2s Muse]

Perhaps, perhaps. I'm feeling rather in good will towards the office, so maybe I'm letting them off the hook easy, but... it's not something I want to hold too hard a grudge over. My grudges are generally reserved for the fandom these days, anyway.

Wise approach. I don't hold a grudge so much as want to keep the context firmly in view. The more things change over the past few years, the more they stay the same. 

 

Anyhoo... as Cullen would say... 

 

http://catemorgan.tu...typeity-typeity

[riverbanks]

Anyhoo... as Cullen would say... 

 

http://catemorgan.tu...typeity-typeity

 

I ACTUALLY SHOULD. Maker's balls, what am I even doing wasting time on the forums, this fic ain't writing itself. Sorry, Commander, I'll... be over there... pretending I'm writing. >>

[Monica21]

Mostly, my feelings about Wicked can be summed up in: "that's it?" Because war is my favorite subject in historical fantasy, and the novel set up this huge war, left me on the edge of my seat, biting my nails to see chaos breaking out all over the place and giving me a great show of what war is really like in this universe (since DAO's "civil war" was a joke), so I was SO EXCITED for it - but then we get to the game and.... the war is over? Wait, what? We're just gonna timeskip ahead and handwave the entire actual war and reduce it to skirmishes among rebel groups in the Exalted Plains and some fancy exchanges of pleasantries at a ball? If you could see my face when I realised the great Orlesian civil war I was hoping for WAS SKIPPED OVER before the game even started. If you could see it.

 

Stolen Throne remains the closest I've got to getting a good war storyline in this DA-verse, and even that handwaves way too much. Even the super duper mage/Templar "war" was basically a handful of lunatics shouting at each other in the hills for five minutes before you killed everyone and moved on. Sigh. This universe hates me and will never give me a war proper, will it.

 

The thing that always gets me about The Stolen Throne is that there's this huge buildup to the Battle of the River Dane, and then it's like an epilogue chapter with Loghain seeing a dragon and the book ends before the battle. I don't even know why he's the Hero of River Dane except that he won. What heroics did he perform? UUUUUGHGHHGH

[mireisen]

I'm trying to believe that the situation at the ball was more meant as a reminder that these things work both ways and that it isn't all in fun to an introvert. I hope.

 

<- Shameless extrovert. I do like my down time, but I was that annoying friend that hated going to the bathrooms alone LOL Actually that's not true, I could go but I get a lot of pep from interacting with people. I'd totally go nuts at a ball if dressed and practiced right (I get nervous if it's something new). I'd totally be smooching all the nobles there. I just wish my Trev was flanked by Dorian and Viv. They'd be like...the trio of wild wild whoa.

 

But yeah...I hated watching Cullen get harrassed like that. He was cool for what it was, but dang the butt grab was too far. I don't go around grabbing people's butts. I've been boobs grabbed before and I'd imagine it'd feel that violating for a guy. Totally not cool.

 

Who's writing for the BB? I'd like to get some BETA readers once I get more stuff in..?

[wiccame]

LOL Funny, I don't really view those as apologies, at all. They just seem par for the course of their "crazy oversexed Cullenite" marketing machine. I'm sure that dev on Mike's stream wasn't the only one  parodying the cullenite squeeing when the silly ladder horse and the VGA spot came out. 

A passing comment on a twitch stream might be forgotten in time but to be made the butt of a big joke and immortalise that in a video game......I think the best apology could be a quizzy/Cullen grand wedding DLC 

[Zarro-Morningstar]

I don't wanna go much further into this here because we'd be veering too far off-topic - and it's not the place anyway; but this is actually not historically accurate at all. History is reshaped and retold as it best befits the interests of those telling it, and there are many interests that a narrative in which women were always submissive, inferior, objects to be used, etc. can serve. Real history is a lot more complex than that, though. And even just the fact that this is the "historical" narrative GRRM is interested in perpetuating makes me side-eye him from here to the moon.

 

Anyway, that's off topic enough, and we're trying not to burn through pages too fast until the 5k, right. So... that Cullen fellow, huh.

Okay 

 

I'm probably one of the really bad one's who go off topic so much, lol. Sorry R2, I'll try to reign myself in more. As for that Cullen fellow, well he seems to be rather sassy if we take the MP into consideration!

[kalasaurus]

http://www.deviantar...ullen-491302397

[riverbanks]

The thing that always gets me about The Stolen Throne is that there's this huge buildup to the Battle of the River Dane, and then it's like an epilogue chapter with Loghain seeing a dragon and the book ends before the battle. I don't even know why he's the Hero of River Dane except that he won. What heroics did he perform? UUUUUGHGHHGH

 

ohmyGOD don't ask me about my ~feels~ on the grand glorious Battle of the River Dane that never actually was.

 

Like.

Spoiler

 

It's that sad.

[kalasaurus]

My Quizzy is starting to look homicidal...

Spoiler

 

[Monica21]

ohmyGOD don't ask me about my ~feels~ on the grand glorious Battle of the River Dane that never actually was.

 

Like.

Spoiler

 

It's that sad.

 

I love it!

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I always name my dog Dane because I headcanon that Bryce and Loghain were friends and it would be weird to name a dog Loghain, so that's the closest my Cousland can get since she grew up on glorious tales of rebellions and battles and Ferelden honor.

[Tishina]

My Quizzy is starting to look homicidal...

Spoiler

 

You haven't looked at my profile pic

[QweenBeen]

It appears I may have missed some heated conversation and off topic ones and it's probably for the best because fenris just gave me doe eyes and I'm still swooning. So I'll have to recover with this

Flower for the Inquisitor by bloodberry crime


Cullen loves you ALL

[riverbanks]

Yeeeey I did it, my dumbface Quizzie is finally wearing armor at home! \o/

 

 

Thank you Melissa and kalalala for all your help with this.

[QweenBeen]

Oh wait...fenris who?!

http://www.deviantar...Oh-no-492988180

[QweenBeen]

Yeeeey I did it, my dumbface Quizzie is finally wearing armor at home! \o/



Thank you Melissa and kalalala for all your help with this.

Yay! Makes for much better cut scenes! I got my armor to work once but I forgot how I did it after the first time and gave up. Hopefully a simple mod or patch will save the day later.

[Zarro-Morningstar]

My Quizzy is starting to look homicidal...

Spoiler

 

Just wait until you get to the ball...my IQ was rather protective of Cullen. I like to call this her, "AHHH HELLL NAW" face XD

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Have a Cullen everyone!

[Monica21]

I haven't started my game in a while, so it hasn't been updated, but before the second patch (and even the first patch) the only area I had any issued with was the Western Approach. My party was silent, and the background music was lost shortly after traveling there. So, fingers crossed Go to Val Royeaux directly from the war table. If you get music there, your banters should fire normally in any other area

 

No music in Val Royeaux, and so far everyone is quiet as a mouse, even in other zones. This is depressing. I'm thinking time to figure out how to uninstall the patch. It's just weird wandering around with no one saying a word.

[Queen Rowan]

Hi. Quick dropping in to say I found ANOTHER Alistair lookalike. It's starting to creep me out in a good way. Okay bye guys talk to y'all about Culleny goodness tmr probably.

[Teshayel]

No music in Val Royeaux, and so far everyone is quiet as a mouse, even in other zones. This is depressing. I'm thinking time to figure out how to uninstall the patch. It's just weird wandering around with no one saying a word.

 

And you have travelled there directly from the war room? That always did the trick for me. I'm sorry if it doesn't work for your game I hope uninstalling the patch will help. Good luck! 

 

Have a Cullen for consolation (by Widdershins-Works):

 

[MelissaGT]

Well, I've been playing around with the color correction tool included with DAI Cinematic Tools. I'm much happier with the results:

 

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Before:

After:

[Narcia_]

New one from Greendelle

 

http://greendelle.tu...ge/108970721011

 

She even gave Alistair his own  'do back! (sorry this pic was a little bigger than I thought. lol)

[Scintillla]

Seems like I missed a good discussion. Although I had completed the Wicked Ears a little while ago, I just got a snippet at the War table about it. Unsure if any of you got it as well, but in any case, the nobles write to find out about his lineage and if I remember correctly, he simply tells Josie and Leliana to burn the letters. Her response is basically to be quiet and look pretty. I did feel bad for the guy, cause at the end of the day, he does have some substance.