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[Shari'El]

Oh Maker Shari that was sad..

 

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We used to have a pigeon routinely visit my bedroom windowsill at my parents'. We called him Jack. I don't know what happened to him in the end, he just stopped turning up .

 

 

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I also have a good story! When I was 12 or something my mom brought a box from work with two baby pigeons, her co-worker found them on the street after they fell from their nest. We took care of them for weeks and watched them grow, I helped them learn how to fly by putting them on my hands and gently lifting up and down to make them flap their wings.

One was black and the other white and brown, after they left the "nest" I saw them return a couple of times, the black one even returned once after a year.

It was really touching  

[Janic99]

Art post again. 

 

Solas looking over the balcony. (NSFW for butts and nudity.)   

 

 

That booty tho
I am so glad that I am not alone here who looks at men's butts

n__n

[CapricornSun]

That booty tho
I am so glad that I am not alone here who looks at men's butts

n__n

 

*highfives*

Weird little trivia about me: I realized at a young age that I do like looking at men's butts. Don't ask why. <__<

[FernRain]

@Shari:

 

Naw that's nice, I used to like trying to nurse birds and butterflies back to health. Edit: I mean, I still would!

 

@Mayriya:

 

Oh if it's not normal, I don't want to be normal! Something strange came over me after I broke up with Blackwall and told him I owned him. He later told me he couldn't believe he ever loved me, I was like hohoho catfiiiight! When I choose a chaotic personality I stick with it and end up laughing a lot..

[Illyria]

I couldn't resist ordering the Emergency Induction Port. It came with one.

 

This was here in New York. New York Comic Con is happening and they decided to have a meetup event tonight. It was much fun.

 

Emmmmmmmmmmergancy induction port.

[MayriyaNoori]

@Shari:

 

Naw that's nice, I used to like trying to nurse birds and butterflies back to health.

 

@Mayriya:

 

Oh if it's not normal, I don't want to be normal! Something strange came over me after I broke up with Blackwall and told him I owned him. He later told me he couldn't believe he ever loved me, I was like hohoho catfiiiight! When I choose a chaotic personality I stick with it and end up laughing a lot..

Yeah....it was surprisingly fun playing a Sith.

 

I mean, Jedi are great.......but it was different for me to play a character who was essentially raised and trained to be a psychopathic killer by higher ranking, power hungry psychopathic killers.

 

But shocking Vette ended up being like this personal thing for me. I hated her. Couldn't explain it.

[Aneira]

I had some thoughts that I wanted to share with you guys, cause they occupied me since I went to bed last night.

As a gamer and especially a female gamer I have so often come across people who asked why I like playing games and waste so much time on it instead of doing something productive or creative. I often avoid discussions of that kind, mainly because I think everyone likes what she/he likes, so what? It's called free time, so I can freely choose how I want to spend it. Also gaming is a big hobby of mine but far from the only one. (And even if it is for some people: What the heck? None of my business!) I was even told that games kill your brain cells (srsly..) and you become dumb and uninspired and whatever.

 

While browsing the bioware forums und reading this thread in particular it struck me that this is so far from the truth as can be. This game has inspired so many people on so many levels to get creative, be it writing, drawing, painting, music, sewing, knitting - hell I have even seen Inquisition cookies somewhere that were beautifully made.

 

I think it's great how "just a game" can inspire people in such ways and it angers me to think that someone who has shopping as her own "hobby" dares to shrug off mine as not creative and dumb.

 

I've been writing since I was really young, but hadn't in quite a while due to personal reasons, but when I had finished the game with my Lavellan I sat down and wrote 80 pages straight. So much for dead brain cells, huh?

 

I'm not sure where I was going with this, but yeah I just wanted to share my thoughts. (So hopefully it stops running around in my brain now that I got it out.^^)

[CapricornSun]

Looks like there's now a video version of Dread Wolf Falling In Love.

 

 

*gross sobbing* 

[FernRain]

@Aneira:

 

I have to actively avoid talking about it with one side of my family but the other side are gamers so they're good.

 

I think of Bioware games like a living novel that you are a part of, you get out of it what you put in to it. Artsy people appreciate the visuals, writers the characters and story, theorisers the lore, logisticians the combat and stat building. Then the online community that brings us all together to share. For myself at least, that's been something more healthy and motivational than most things available to me in present circumstances.

 

I'm gonna go with Isabela and say to those that scoff, "they don't know me, I know me" .

[Shari'El]

I had some thoughts that I wanted to share with you guys, cause they occupied me since I went to bed last night.

 

I agree with you, nobody ever berated me for playing video games (I've even been considered cool, I guess depends on what kind of people you meet) but I know it's an opinion that exists quite commonly.

 

Video games inspired me to draw, inspired me to write and think, video games developed my E.Q and I.Q as I was growing up, video games helped me develop better eye-hand coordination, video games helped me cope with bad times in a relatively healthy manner.

It's not a lesser hobby to any other hobby that exists out there. I'm not sure why watching TV and movies is considered a better hobby, or reading books. Video games are art, they have engaging soundtracks, moving stories, beautiful art and themes that make your brain work. They let you touch other people minds and allow their creators to express themselves in manners that aren't tied down by the rules of the real world.

 

My end goal is to create video games because I love creating (I'm a programmer but I draw and write as well) and the idea of putting something meaningful to the world really drives me, I even took a course in game design. Video games can shape people and encourage personal growth, they're awesome.

[MayriyaNoori]

Looks like there's now a video version of Dread Wolf Falling In Love.

 

 

*gross sobbing* 

Oh God WHY..................

 

*ugly crying and flailing*

[Flemmy]

I had some thoughts that I wanted to share with you guys, cause they occupied me since I went to bed last night.

As a gamer and especially a female gamer I have so often come across people who asked why I like playing games and waste so much time on it instead of doing something productive or creative. I often avoid discussions of that kind, mainly because I think everyone likes what she/he likes, so what? It's called free time, so I can freely choose how I want to spend it. Also gaming is a big hobby of mine but far from the only one. (And even if it is for some people: What the heck? None of my business!) I was even told that games kill your brain cells (srsly..) and you become dumb and uninspired and whatever.

 

While browsing the bioware forums und reading this thread in particular it struck me that this is so far from the truth as can be. This game has inspired so many people on so many levels to get creative, be it writing, drawing, painting, music, sewing, knitting - hell I have even seen Inquisition cookies somewhere that were beautifully made.

 

I think it's great how "just a game" can inspire people in such ways and it angers me to think that someone who has shopping as her own "hobby" dares to shrug off mine as not creative and dumb.

 

I've been writing since I was really young, but hadn't in quite a while due to personal reasons, but when I had finished the game with my Lavellan I sat down and wrote 80 pages straight. So much for dead brain cells, huh?

 

I'm not sure where I was going with this, but yeah I just wanted to share my thoughts. (So hopefully it stops running around in my brain now that I got it out.^^)

Like

[Flemmy]

Looks like there's now a video version of Dread Wolf Falling In Love.

 

 

*gross sobbing* 

Sob Like I want the sound clips.

[TheyCallMeBunny]

I had some thoughts that I wanted to share with you guys, cause they occupied me since I went to bed last night.

As a gamer and especially a female gamer I have so often come across people who asked why I like playing games and waste so much time on it instead of doing something productive or creative. I often avoid discussions of that kind, mainly because I think everyone likes what she/he likes, so what? It's called free time, so I can freely choose how I want to spend it. Also gaming is a big hobby of mine but far from the only one. (And even if it is for some people: What the heck? None of my business!) I was even told that games kill your brain cells (srsly..) and you become dumb and uninspired and whatever.

 

While browsing the bioware forums und reading this thread in particular it struck me that this is so far from the truth as can be. This game has inspired so many people on so many levels to get creative, be it writing, drawing, painting, music, sewing, knitting - hell I have even seen Inquisition cookies somewhere that were beautifully made.

 

I think it's great how "just a game" can inspire people in such ways and it angers me to think that someone who has shopping as her own "hobby" dares to shrug off mine as not creative and dumb.

 

I've been writing since I was really young, but hadn't in quite a while due to personal reasons, but when I had finished the game with my Lavellan I sat down and wrote 80 pages straight. So much for dead brain cells, huh?

 

I'm not sure where I was going with this, but yeah I just wanted to share my thoughts. (So hopefully it stops running around in my brain now that I got it out.^^)

 

Actually, psychological studies have shown that people who play video games among other things develop their coordination skills (and unlike what some people will say no study has conclusively shown that it breeds violence). Also, games like Dragon Age and Mass Effect force us all the time to consider right and wrong and how our actions may effect others, so my theory is that playing these games help us develop our prefrontal cortex (sadly no science to back this up, would have loved to make a study though!).

 

I've worked as a teacher, and it's worth noting that I have been able to use my interest in gaming both to make connections to students I would otherwise have very little in common with, and also to make girl gamers feel better about themselves since I am willing to openly admit and talk about games. Like you, I've sometimes had to deal with the questions and raised eyebrows, but people here in Sweden are mostly chill so it has rarely become an annoyance.

 

Obviously games inspire a lot of art, as we can see everyday in this thread. Even I, who is lousy at everything creative, attempted to make a Dread Wolf statue in clay (it's not a very good attempt, but A for effort right?). I had fun, and I would perhaps have missed out if the game had not inspired me.

 

So continue enjoying your games, because I sure will!    

[Flemmy]

@Aneira:

 

I have to actively avoid talking about it with one side of my family but the other side are gamers so they're good.

 

I think of Bioware games like a living novel that you are a part of, you get out of it what you put in to it. Artsy people appreciate the visuals, writers the characters and story, theorisers the lore, logisticians the combat and stat building. Then the online community that brings us all together to share. For myself at least, that's been something more healthy and motivational than most things available to me in present circumstances.

 

I'm gonna go with Isabela and say to those that scoff, "they don't know me, I know me" .

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[MayriyaNoori]

Sob Like I want the sound clips.

Go to

 

http://www.youtube-mp3.org/

 

and enter the URL for the video. It should be able to convert it no problem.

[Janic99]

Looks like there's now a video version of Dread Wolf Falling In Love.

 

 

*gross sobbing* 

ooh new audio.. I need to get that audio on my videos ^^ How is that done I am curious now. I would not make a video like that though

[Flemmy]

I am trying to write a story based on dragon age world with a similar story to Solavellan but with it's own characters. But I guess I sucks at writing seens the pace is of a turtle or a snail, really slow. I thank you bioware for the inspiration however. And sob in eternal pain of tragic love stories...

 

(Ps: I haven't even finished the first chapter and I started in june, so now you know what I mean to be slow.)

[Homeboundcrib]

I had some thoughts that I wanted to share with you guys, cause they occupied me since I went to bed last night.
As a gamer and especially a female gamer I have so often come across people who asked why I like playing games and waste so much time on it instead of doing something productive or creative. I often avoid discussions of that kind, mainly because I think everyone likes what she/he likes, so what? It's called free time, so I can freely choose how I want to spend it. Also gaming is a big hobby of mine but far from the only one. (And even if it is for some people: What the heck? None of my business!) I was even told that games kill your brain cells (srsly..) and you become dumb and uninspired and whatever.

While browsing the bioware forums und reading this thread in particular it struck me that this is so far from the truth as can be. This game has inspired so many people on so many levels to get creative, be it writing, drawing, painting, music, sewing, knitting - hell I have even seen Inquisition cookies somewhere that were beautifully made.

I think it's great how "just a game" can inspire people in such ways and it angers me to think that someone who has shopping as her own "hobby" dares to shrug off mine as not creative and dumb.

I've been writing since I was really young, but hadn't in quite a while due to personal reasons, but when I had finished the game with my Lavellan I sat down and wrote 80 pages straight. So much for dead brain cells, huh?

I'm not sure where I was going with this, but yeah I just wanted to share my thoughts. (So hopefully it stops running around in my brain now that I got it out.^^)

I'm in with you in that i started playing games when I was 6 or 7 I'm 22 now and still playing them. I remember the first game I got, spyro the dragon that game took me to a whole new world and that's when I started drawing, little creatures and animals. I don't draw anymore since I left school. I dont think it kills your brain at all, if anything it shows you so much, take you to a new place. Also it feed your right hemisphere which is the creative side lol. Also I was short sided and playing games helped I no longer needed glasses. hobby is a hobby and it's yours not anyone else's and if your mates share that hobby then that's even better. I don't see how someone else's hobby is better then anothers hobby if it makes you happy then who cares as long as your happy right.

[Tess]

I had some thoughts that I wanted to share with you guys, cause they occupied me since I went to bed last night.

As a gamer and especially a female gamer I have so often come across people who asked why I like playing games and waste so much time on it instead of doing something productive or creative. I often avoid discussions of that kind, mainly because I think everyone likes what she/he likes, so what? It's called free time, so I can freely choose how I want to spend it. Also gaming is a big hobby of mine but far from the only one. (And even if it is for some people: What the heck? None of my business!) I was even told that games kill your brain cells (srsly..) and you become dumb and uninspired and whatever.

 

While browsing the bioware forums und reading this thread in particular it struck me that this is so far from the truth as can be. This game has inspired so many people on so many levels to get creative, be it writing, drawing, painting, music, sewing, knitting - hell I have even seen Inquisition cookies somewhere that were beautifully made.

 

I think it's great how "just a game" can inspire people in such ways and it angers me to think that someone who has shopping as her own "hobby" dares to shrug off mine as not creative and dumb.

 

I've been writing since I was really young, but hadn't in quite a while due to personal reasons, but when I had finished the game with my Lavellan I sat down and wrote 80 pages straight. So much for dead brain cells, huh?

 

I'm not sure where I was going with this, but yeah I just wanted to share my thoughts. (So hopefully it stops running around in my brain now that I got it out.^^)

I tend to avoid too much discussion about gaming with my surroundings, besides my husband and one brother in law who both game, because all I meet is complete misunderstanding. Gaming is still relatively new to a lot of people, and female gamers seem to be somewhat shocking, even - probably depending on country and upbringing, of course, less people are shocked in Europe upon finding me being a gamer than in the south here, in Middle East - most people simply do not grasp the concept of female, mother, fibrecrafter, wearing a scarf and gaming.

 

But I agree.

It can be productive in the sense of inspiration.

I've started to actively exercise after playing a female Troll in WoW and feeling like a muffin compared to her. Shed 20 kg just to look closer to the fit body.

It made me resume drawing, albeit on a small scale, and prodded me to give a go to writing again.

Knitting and crocheting I do just to spite the general gaming stereotype... and it's a great relax

[Homeboundcrib]

Looks like there's now a video version of Dread Wolf Falling In Love.

https://www.youtube....2&v=uqIZPaL2hac

*gross sobbing*

Now I'm just sad i don't know why I do it lol you are an idiot Solas a big one. The music makes it sting even more.

[Caddius]

Whenever discussions of video games being a waste of time come up, I tend to do a lot of scoffing. 

What usually sticks out in my memory was when we were doing some sort of tabletop gaming at the local Alfy's, and an acquaintance of mine nodded toward the big group of guys down in the pit laughing and carousing.

"I know a few of them," he said, "and a few of them made fun of me for being so interested in pretend things, in film or DnD or whatever. And there they are, playing fantasy football, and screwing around the same way we are. Their obsession of choice is just a bit more mainstream than ours for now." And then there was a lot of cheerful, creative profanity on his part.

Gaming is a medium like any other, just with an extra focus on interactivity and choice, just like books have more of a focus on your imagination, and films are able to really tap into sweeping visuals and precise audio. 

Also, writing is a big part of my life, as is map-making. Those both stem from video games. The first story I ever recall writing was a comedy about the defenders of Ghostgate in Morrowind.   And that grew on and on, until the characters got too big for Ghostgate and I wanted to start experimenting with different ideas, and voila, original Caddius fiction is born.

And I memorized the map of the Mediterranean during marathon sessions of Rome: Total War, and I got good at drawing it by, er, getting bored at school and drawing out the current state of affairs and making plots. 

Since writing, maps, and video games are basically my entire existence...

[Flemmy]

Go to

 

http://www.youtube-mp3.org/

 

and enter the URL for the video. It should be able to convert it no problem.

thanks

[Solas]

you're right, sorry my bad fernrain!!

[MayriyaNoori]

Whenever discussions of video games being a waste of time come up, I tend to do a lot of scoffing. 

What usually sticks out in my memory was when we were doing some sort of tabletop gaming at the local Alfy's, and an acquaintance of mine nodded toward the big group of guys down in the pit laughing and carousing.

"I know a few of them," he said, "and a few of them made fun of me for being so interested in pretend things, in film or DnD or whatever. And there they are, playing fantasy football, and screwing around the same way we are. Their obsession of choice is just a bit more mainstream than ours for now." And then there was a lot of cheerful, creative profanity on his part.

Gaming is a medium like any other, just with an extra focus on interactivity and choice, just like books have more of a focus on your imagination, and films are able to really tap into sweeping visuals and precise audio. 

Also, writing is a big part of my life, as is map-making. Those both stem from video games. The first story I ever recall writing was a comedy about the defenders of Ghostgate in Morrowind.   And that grew on and on, until the characters got too big for Ghostgate and I wanted to start experimenting with different ideas, and voila, original Caddius fiction is born.

And I memorized the map of the Mediterranean during marathon sessions of Rome: Total War, and I got good at drawing it by, er, getting bored at school and drawing out the current state of affairs and making plots. 

Since writing, maps, and video games are basically my entire existence...

I generally don't have anyone get onto me for playing games......but the few times any debate on it has come up it usually stops if the question "How many hours did you spend watching the game/news/latest TV drama last week?"

 

It's just a choice of entertainment.

 

Besides, my current days are mostly occupied with folding diapers and yelling "No don't touch that!"

 

If I want to spend a couple hours a day zoning out into an alternate reality I think it's okay.