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[Rascoth]

Which personality alignment does your Lavellan fall under?

Oh! Late to the party. I have two Lavellans. Aine would be True Neutral, while Faye would be Chaotic Good with a bit of Chaotic Neutral.

 

Soon they will alos have new stories to tell. "Now da'lens, to summon the Dread Wolf for aid you will need this charm."

 

"Um, Keeper, why does it look like a butt?"

 

"That's not just any butt, da'len, that's Lavellan's holy butt. Its one of Fen'harel's weaknesses."

 

Andraste's holy cheese wheel = Fen'harel's holy cake.

This post and what follows   I'm dying.

 

*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. <__<

Butts, butts are good *nods in understanding*

 

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. I'm 22 and I've been playing computer games for past 14 years (I've played on console before that... anyone familiar with Pegasus?). I never considered even thinking about why I like playing games before someone asked me that. I found it so obvious why I loved games that I didn't know how to reply. 

 

Games bring you to another world, make you think, react, adapt to situations you'd never encounter in real life. They let you experience another life, another adventure that would not be possible in this world. How is that not creative? How is that restricting? In fact, I found some games stimulate my imagination more than books, which are oftenly mentioned as the best way to do so. 

 

I just learned that it's the best to shrug and walk away when people claim that games "kill your brain cells". Well, the cells that definitely will not get killed just said goodbye.

[Julilla]

I don't get crap for liking video games. My friends who don't play are endlessly amused and entertained by my interest. When I'm met with surprise, it's usually a younger guy. Last time was a couple years ago with a physical trainer. He was about 23 or so and somehow we got the conversation onto Assassins Creed. He looked at me agog and I parried with my standard "What? Girls can't play games?" Then he looked very embarrassed because here was a woman in her 40s telling him to check himself. Poor guy looked sad then and said "I wish my girlfriend liked video games." Lol! Get yourself a new girlfriend, son. That guy thought I was the coolest. Anytime after that if he saw me he'd ask if I'd played this game or that.

I will say though that it took til I hit 30 to stop caring what anyone else thought about my geeky interests. Now I give zero f*s and I'm open about it. I feel bad that some of you can't share with others. Hang in there! Someday you'll have a partner who pins you five Solavellan pics a day like my husband does!

[Aneira]

Thank you all for your replies!

 

@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" .

 

When I grew up I was pretty much the only one in my family who was interested in video games and also at school my friends were not that interested. Having a computer at home was relatively new but since my father was a geek about programming and video editing I had a chance to use his computer. But my mother and my sister never got into it that much and I think they still don't.

 

My boyfriend, whom I live with since 2009, is a gamer, too, so I have at least one person to talk to.

 

At school, during my training at a vocational school and now in college I never met anyone that interested in games. So I stopped telling about it since I felt like an outsider who would be looked down upon (silly, I know, but well..)

 

Isabela's quote is great, I'll try to keep that in mind!

 

*snip*

 

So continue enjoying your games, because I sure will!    

 

I sure will, too!

 

*snip*

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.

 

I'd think so, too, and I probably shouldn't give two flying f..s about people who think less of me because of my hobby, but it really got to me when I was younger and it still kinda does, so I tend to not tell anymore.

There was one incident during my first semester at college: We were on a field trip at a college library and the librarian told us about her work and her research strategies. She mentioned that no one can know everything about everything so we had to learn where to look things up efficiently. As an example she asked: "Or does anyone of you know what limnology is about?" And I said, actually, I do, it's the study of fresh water. A classmate asked me later where I know that from and when I told him, that I used to play World of Warcraft and there was an achievement "the limnologist" he replied something along the lines of that he would never had pegged me for a gamer since I seem so normal and smart.

 

*snip*

 

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.

 

*snip*

 

Oh I love Morrowind - it was my first RPG and I still have very fond memories of it! Before that I only had played The Sims.

 

*snip*

 

I just learned that it's the best to shrug and walk away when people claim that games "kill your brain cells". Well, the cells that definitely will not get killed just said goodbye.

 

I'll keep that reply in mind, also!

[Janic99]

*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. <__<

Oh I know the feeling about that hahahahah... hahah.. n_n ahh all those celebrities I loved... and that young guy who was practicing to be a teacher at my junior high.. XD

 

I mean.. it's not wrong to look..

[Elessara]

To chime in on the alignment discussion from a couple pages ago ...

 

I've never liked the D&D alignment system.  It's too narrow and rigid.  People are too complex and you can't fit everyone's actions into those definitions.  Well written characters in games should also not fit which is why we see people pegging Solas into so many different alignments.  If I had to I would put Solas into the Neutral spectrum (in respect to both law/chaos and good/evil) because morally he prefers helping people but he's also willing to get his hands bloody to do it and he's willing to do morally questionable things to help those he cares about and because while he prefers order as it prevents unnecessary suffering he will also lead a rebellion against established authority that causes suffering.  I don't really think you can pin Solas down to any one set alignment though.

 

I also find it interesting that most people that responded put Vivienne in the Lawful Evil category.  I agree actually but it's also kind of sad.  She could have had a lot of depth but pretty much what you see is what you get with her.  I liked her as a character (even if most of my characters weren't fond of her) but she was a bit one dimensional.  

[Elessara]

 

When I grew up I was pretty much the only one in my family who was interested in video games and also at school my friends were not that interested. Having a computer at home was relatively new but since my father was a geek about programming and video editing I had a chance to use his computer. But my mother and my sister never got into it that much and I think they still don't.

 

 

 

I'm the only one in my family interested in games.  And most of my friends are online but we log into voice chat every day and talk so I'm not really alone.  I don't usually get crap for liking games.  One of my co-workers - she's awesome, she's probably the only friend I have that lives close to me - she isn't into games at all but she doesn't judge.  I can tell her I'm taking a couple of days off from work to play a game and she just accepts and tells me to enjoy myself.

[Flemmy]

If anyone want a special dialog with Solas in trespasser and don't know how I found this on youtube.

By: FluffyNinjaLlama

[Kadan]

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.

I spent many hours with a baby/toddler on my lap as I built or played, and I think some of that rubbed of on the kids, they are creative and thoughtful, they see things and instead of just taking it at face value dig deeper.

 

I played console video games until graduating from high school and it wasn't until my late 20's that I found PC games. The first was Sim City I believe it was 2000 but could have been 3000. Then The Sims came out and I was hooked. It was a virtual world that I could interact with and I loved it. By the time Sims 2 came out I was diving into research on how to upgrade my computer to play it and by the time Sims 3 was released I was building my own systems. With the sims 2 that was also the first time I became involved with an online community and began building homes and creating recolors for walls, floors furniture and clothing. I was even invited to join parsimonious.org to share my work with the world. I was also hit by the writing bug and attempted to write a few stories involving the lives of my sims but I never finished any of them. Sims 4 fell a little flat of my expectations and just can't hold my interest like the others did. So I turned to DAO and the rest is history

 

The games, the computer upgrades, the content creating all were therapeutic for me and helped me deal with my life. Without diving in to too many personal details my ex was a controlling manipulative man. He was charming to everyone he met, but no one saw the evil except me. Now I'm happily divorced, raising my kids on my own, going to school to finish my bachelors in both finance and accounting. The games give me that creative outlet I need to keep the world in perspective otherwise it's filled with just facts numbers and rules and regulations, and gets very boring very quickly. It also gave me the knowledge that made me the office IT gal.

 

My nephew is autistic and few people can relate to him, my son and myself are the only ones he really connects with because we understand what he sees in a video game. They have actually helped him become more social around people. Maybe it's that the three of us are similar, mild autistic tendencies have been overlooked or mislabeled as ADHD for decades and the three of us share a few personality quirks that really annoy certain people. But either way he would be in his own little world if not for the games and the contact with people that play them.

 

I think I read somewhere that some nursing homes were encouraging elders to play video games to stimulate the brain, and the sims games has even been used in some life choice classes to teach life skills.

 

I will never be ashamed of my love of video games. My mother, and one of her sisters love Facebook games. The Farmville series is their favorite. My mom had a notebook where she tracked the cost of her crops, the amount she could sell them for, against the time it took to grow and optimized her plantings for the highest gain. It was quite detailed, she had put many hours and a lot of thought into it. The accountant in me was quite impressed. You are never too old to play, and find something worthwhile or meaningful in a video game, no matter how silly the game may look to someone else.

[NightSymphony]

I'm way behind. My Lavellan was Neutral Good at first, but over time she became Chaotic Neutral.

[Tanyara]

 

Male Lavellan knows how to tick Solas off and how to gain his approval.

Spoiler

Source: http://sanzosin.tumb...-found-the-bone

 

 

 

 

This.... is very Tamaki and Haruhi (from Ouran High School Anime) 

[Eivuwan]

My family has accepted that I play video games, but I know they think it's like smoking cigarettes or something. I think people are just afraid of the addicting aspect of videogames, but you can say that about any other forms of entertainment. It's really just ignorance.

[Janic99]

If anyone want a special dialog with Solas in trespasser and don't know how I found this on youtube.

By: FluffyNinjaLlama

ya XD I know all these fluffy sends. Fluffy is ma friend<3

[Renmiri1]

O.o we are less than 200 pages away from beating Cullen's thread for #1 

 

[Shari'El]

O.o we are less than 200 pages away from beating Cullen's thread for #1 

 

Less than 70 even 

[CapricornSun]

Art break again.

 

Another Solas comic by theresa-draws! Comic 7. Veilfire

Spoiler

Source: http://theresa-draws...mics-7-veilfire

 

 

Adorable sweater nerds. (Solavellan)

Spoiler

Source: http://dearasteria.t...st/130944622064

 

 

Solas and Lavellan in Halloween costumes. 

Spoiler

Source: http://tsyele.tumblr...ting-bae-choose

 

 

"Alas, as long as the music plays, we dance." Solas and Flemythal for Inktober. (Pretty!)

Spoiler

Source: http://ajadraws.tumb...-music-plays-we

 

 

Post-Trespasser: In the Fade (Solavellan). (Gorgeous art! )

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Source: http://uuyly.tumblr....upid-stalkeregg

 

[NightSymphony]

I got my first computer when I was about 13 or 14. The first game I ever played was King's Quest 7. I had played arcade games before that time and thought they were fun but I wasn't into it like I was with King's Quest. That was the beginning. My dad bought me a Sega and I played Castlevania and Sonic 2 on it. My parents would rent games for me to play. They encouraged it. My dad never got into the games, but my mother loves Sims and playing games on Facebook. I never really got made fun of for playing games. None of my friends played, none of them were even on the internet at the time. This was in the 90s, the internet was still pretty new.  I met my now ex husband online and we bonded over video games, after we got married we played them together.  I hear those stories a lot, people meeting their soul mates online in MMOs. It's not weird anymore like it was back then. Video games bring people together, look at us. You people are awesome! I'm rambling, Forgive me if this doesn't make sense. :-P

 

 

EDIT: Art art art

http://nadetha.devia...u-fen-565559867

[Kadan]

I got my first computer when I was about 13 or 14. The first game I ever played was King's Quest 8. I had played arcade games before that time and thought they were fun but I wasn't into it like I was with King's Quest. That was the beginning. My dad bought me a Sega and I played Castlevania and Sonic 2 on it. My parents would rent games for me to play. They encouraged it. My dad never got into the games, but my mother loves Sims and playing games on Facebook. I never really get made fun of for playing games. None of my friends played. none of them were even on the internet at the time. This was in the 90s, the internet was still pretty new.  I met my now ex husband online and we bonded over video games, after we got married we played them together.  I hear those stories a lot, people meeting their soul mates online in MMOs. It's not weird anymore like it was back then. Video games bring people together, look at us. You people are awesome! I'm rambling, Forgive me if this doesn't make sense. :-P

 

You rambled no more than I did.   My kids tried to set me up with someone shortly after I divorced. I had gone to school and was friends with his younger sister but had never met him before because he was a few years older than I was. They were watching him play some online fantasy game I can't even remember the name. (His family owns a number of small businesses in town and I was using their laundrymat) Anytime he was there they did their best to make us talk. Poor kids, they like him and didn't understand then why we were only friends. He's my real life Dorian His family is from Italy and he now spends much of his time there handling family affairs. So I don't see him often anymore.

[Abelis]

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

video was nice, but i agree with u, the audio was trying to tell it like a story from his pov and it was lost in this vid i think

[Moondreamer01]

Growing up, my parents always refused to get me any video games. They were much against kids playing them, and I guess they believed a lot of the bad things that were being said about them at the time. But, I was fascinated every time I went to friends' houses and they were playing them. My favorite thing in the world was sitting beside them and watching them play. Never having played myself, my coordination just wasn't good and I didn't like the fact I only kept dying again and again so I prefered watching. I remember being blown over by the original Nintendo version of Zelda. Video games had stories!

 

My first game were for pc and bought with my own money (less expensive than trying to buy a console, as we already had a computer). I got into the whole Mysts series of game (so awesome, I wish there were modern games like that *sighs*) because it didn't need coordination with the controls lol. Later on, when I started working summer, I finally got a PS2 and sank with pleasure into FFX. Then, WoW with an ex. I still don't consider myself to be very good at playing, since I'm missing years of practice. My parents still don't understand the appeal, but at least, I think my exmple has served my nephew well when it came the time to convince his parents gaming's not evil.

 

To go back on a conversation that happened pages ago, about different AUs, I will love anything that's well written and has a plot. i love plot-heavy fanfics in general. Feynite's Looking Glass fic is awesome for that. Another AU I've seen only once is a scifi based when where the crew of the Haven goes in search of the elves' ancestral home planet and Solas is the pilot/navigator. They haven't written a lot of it unfortunately. Also, I've seen fanart but not fanfic of it, but an Indiana Jones-style AU would be awesome!

[MayriyaNoori]

I think the first PC game I ever played and really got in to was Myst. I had always played consoles before that.

 

But Myst changed my gaming world.

 

And it's such a simple game. Walk around and look at cool stuff and solve puzzles. But I thought it was boss and after that I slowly drifted away from consoles and into the land of PC gaming.

[Janic99]

O.o we are less than 200 pages away from beating Cullen's thread for #1 

 

Let the spam begin~~


*Cullen greatly dissaproves

[MayriyaNoori]

Let the spam begin~~


*Cullen greatly dissaproves

Solas something something Solas.

 

>_>

[Janic99]

video was nice, but i agree with u, the audio was trying to tell it like a story from his pov and it was lost in this vid i think

The video was very nice for a beginner I just make totally different kind of videos as you might have seen on my channels and I am currently trying to record more vids after getting this great hair on trespasser XD so I after getting more footage I am going to make more videos and these audios were perfect. I personally did not like the music in the background of the story. I would've used a little different kind of music. I also would've used a small echo and I must say that since I have OCD (I have been to doctors) I just get sometimes slightly irritated by how people making fan vids do not try to think about the timing and the meaning of the lyrics and they just put randomly some scenes not even think zooming or how to change the scene smoothly to another XD I know beginners do not know these things but that's why I try make my own and I actually use A LOT of time making them and what makes me most happy is that people actually recognize when I use a lot of times on making a video. I think the last video I made took about 7-9 hours. It looks simple... but it is not haha I haven't learned masking yet but I feel like it's super hard. I tried but it did not work out the way I wanted to.. gotta practice more n__n''

[TheyCallMeBunny]

We need to win this! So spam spam spam!

 

 

[drosophila]

Good morning!

 

I slept through a lot of the gaming discussion, and I still seem to be out of likes, but I throw a bunch of hearts to everyone who shared their gaming experience so far, and how it helped them grow.     

 

Now a confession: Before I stumbled upon DAI, I was one of those people who had a negative view of gaming. I got my first computer at 6, and I grew up loving all things computer except the games. One reason is that I'm a workaholic and a control freak who would make the excuse that watching an episode of anime for 20 minutes out of an entire day can count as learning Japanese, and that's why I'd allow myself to watch it. Another reason is the general culture in my field, dictating that one should devote their entire existence to Science, and if you enjoy *anything* unrelated to Science, you are being frivolous. So I used to think gaming was a waste of time that did not accomplish anything towards a specific goal, and to be completely honest, I looked down on gamers. I used to have many arguments with my husband about it at the beginning of our relationship, until I just decided to accept it as one part of him, and started getting him gaming gifts on special occasions as a token of peace. 

 

So this is where DAI came along. It was supposed to be for my husband. I remember working on something on my laptop and sitting by his side while he was playing, and then Cole's first scene is Skyhold came up. The entire scene and Cole's character seemed so well-done and interesting. It caught my attention and I thought, "Hey, this game has some really deep story to it." I decided to try it and ultimtely ended in Solavellan hell

 

What I learned is that games, if done well, are a very unique medium that can combine almost any type of creative content - writing and storytelling, music, art, animation. I truly think DAI with apocalypse boyfriend is one of the masterpieces of human creativity, and should be more widely known. And it inspired me to write for the first time in close to a decade. Ultimately, I think I'm a richer person on the inside for playing it. 

 

So a big apology on behalf of the crowd who scoffs at gaming. I was wrong.