Ugh yes, this so much growing up. My parents were NOT impressed with me playing WoW. I imagine it would be even worse if you're playing a story based game and you can't pause (cinematics in Inquisition) and people around you are like "talk to me NOW!".
Little art break
The Trap comic part 1
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Solas and Lavellan
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Take Me Back
http://miazuesepp.de...ellan-566828676
Cassandra Sketch in case Colonel is lurking. :-P
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I get this all the time in my house it's like a set up. They sit and wait and then pounce straight away when there is a cut scene lol.
And then the "Shh! Wait a second this is important", and they look at you with disgust at the thought of a video game being more important than them. Yup this is bringing back memories. So glad my husband just gets it. Even when Trespasser came out he left me alone for the day so I wouldn't be distracted 
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Sorry for all my forum spam 
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I get this all the time in my house it's like a set up. They sit and wait and then pounce straight away when there is a cut scene lol.
I repeatedly talked to my mother and paused just long enough for her to unpause Law and Order to demonstrate just how annoying barging in on Knights of the Old Republic is. I haven't had trouble with these issues for a few years now. 
Except with Inquisition. When my fiance and I were playing that the first time through, they always managed to barge in at the worst times.
You know that really impressive entrance Coryfish has at the end of In Your Heart Shall Burn? With the fire and the dragon and the booming voice? It's actually a lot cooler when you didn't see Corypheus at the start of the mission, just a quick glimpse of Samson before your head snapped around to witness someone falling down the stairs. I was shocked to see that he's revealed at the beginning on the next playthrough. 
Yeah, its hard to find people with like interests in the smaller towns. I'm in Rotorua, so unless you want to talk about tourism or sulphur poisoning you're wasting your time.
The random middle earth scenery is pretty cool though. Glass half full.
Messenger pigeons. I'd write obscure Inquisition quotes and references and send them flying in all directions with a return address and wait to see if anybody replied.
wheeeyy fellow kiwis 
Ive been to Rotorua its beautiful. Im from little old Taranaki, Im in the same boat as most here. No one to vent or obsess with so I just talk at my mothers face because at least she will love me crazy and all 
I went to the midnight launch for DAI and there were surprisingly tons of people there but Ive yet to meet anyone to talk to about games. Should have collected all them nerds in my pocket then and there
Yeah thats it lol 100% hahaha I still live at home with my mum and lilttle sister and big bro. Mum is the worst offender lol.And then the "Shh! Wait a second this is important", and they look at you with disgust at the thought of a video game being more important than them. Yup this is bringing back memories. So glad my husband just gets it. Even when Trespasser came out he left me alone for the day so I wouldn't be distracted
Sorry for all my forum spam
This kind of talk made me go back through my posts about my father (who is Best Dad and dutifully listens to my non-stop video game stream-of-consciousness) where Solas was concerned.
7 months ago: i told the story of solavellan to my dad over lunch today
his opinion: “sounds like its going to end in tears”
1 month ago when I excitedly informed him of the upcoming release of Trespasser (dlc relevant to the story I'd told him that time):
about a week after Trespasser had dropped:
And then the "Shh! Wait a second this is important", and they look at you with disgust at the thought of a video game being more important than them. Yup this is bringing back memories. So glad my husband just gets it. Even when Trespasser came out he left me alone for the day so I wouldn't be distracted
Sorry for all my forum spam
My fiance always dreads when a new BioWare game is out because he says he becomes single for 2 weeks. "I used to have this girl that loved me. But she went away." Poor guy, I stop playing DAI long enough for The Witcher 3 to come out. Then not long after finishing that Trespasser dropped and I have been sucked back in. We usually try to play games that have multiplayer because it's a nice way for us to spend time together. We lost the MMO itch a long time ago so it's been Borderlands 2 and then Diablo 3 that we play together.
He likes RPGs but he finds it hard to sit down and play them because he'd rather be doing something he can still spend time with me during. It's taken me a couple years now to wear him down and convince him it's ok to play something else. He started playing Mass Effect finally this week. Maybe in a year or two he'll finally get around to the Dragon Age series. Then he can finally understand why his fiance was so melancholy for a few weeks before Christmas last year! Well not because he'd romance Solas, but I could at least finally talk about it with him! He hates spoilers. It's a point of contention for me sometimes lol. I am just relieved he's finally playing ME so in a few weeks I can hopefully finally tell him all these feelings I've had bottled up for the last 2-3 years. He prefers playing male characters but I convinced him to play FemShep.
Ahh all the interruptions, Makes me glad my house has gaming rules, especially for when things first get released. Other people in the house get a week's warning minimum that on this day they may NOT interrupt the gamer at all. This was awesome rule for me when Trespasser was released, 12 hours of uninterrupted gaming through the DLC 1 and a bit times. So awesome, but it only works if everyone in the house.. all 2 of us.. play video games lol. My boyfriend and I have other house rules based on gaming. My parents think I'm wacko and need help, because they think since I have a kid I should never , ever play video games but sit watching boring tv shows all day instead. My kid, for the record, loves sitting on my lap smashing random buttons while I play.
About Best Elf:
I remember the whole TME drama about SOLAS KILLED BEST ELF/ NUH UH HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT
I was a firm believer that Solas didn't kill Felassan. Now that it's basically been proven that is was him, it puts into perspective how naively optimistic I was about Solas, just because of how I prefer to view him as fade nerd!Solas rather than Fen'Harel.
I'm never going to get over Solas having killed Fellassan, especially because it insinuates he has a cold enough heart to be able to kill those closest to him, and therefore a romanced Lavellan or a quissy who's his good friend.
I just ... it makes me sad every time
It shows his darkest side, and just thinking about it is so depressing
Actually ... Solas killing Felessan doesn't bother me that much? Yes, it shows he has a ruthless side, one that can put personal feelings aside for duty - although we sort of knew that already. And Solas himself says he didn't lead a rebellion against immortal god-kings without getting his hands bloody. But mostly, Felessan was his agent and Felessan had betrayed him. Is it really that different than Leliana ordering the death of her agent that had betrayed the Inquisition?
I imagine Solas regrets doing it, even probably regretted it at the time. But it doesn't bother me knowing that Solas has a darker side. Everyone does really. I guess it just makes him more believable as a character, knowing that he has this side to him. And let's face it, Assquisitors or renegade Shepards or jerk Hawkes tend to do things just as bad or worse.
Just had a mini Twitter conversation where the result was someone half-jokingly blaming Cassandra's straightness as the reason for winding up in a Solas romance and well, I can't say that wasn't a little part of my circumstances.
Cassandra's heterosexuality = the path to Solavellan hell.
wheeeyy fellow kiwis
You should have! When nerds are scarce you have to collect them like pokemon! I endure a 6 hours bus trip to Wellington every three months just so I can hang out with someone who is interested in these things, because why do things by halves?
This kind of talk made me go back through my posts about my father (who is Best Dad and dutifully listens to my non-stop video game stream-of-consciousness) where Solas was concerned.
7 months ago: i told the story of solavellan to my dad over lunch today
his opinion: “sounds like its going to end in tears”
1 month ago when I excitedly informed him of the upcoming release of Trespasser (dlc relevant to the story I'd told him that time):
about a week after Trespasser had dropped:
I'm out of likes, but your dad sounds like a lovely person. Who delights in our emotional torment.
Just had a mini Twitter conversation where the result was someone half-jokingly blaming Cassandra's straightness as the reason for winding up in a Solas romance and well, I can't say that wasn't a little part of my circumstances.
Cassandra's heterosexuality = the path to Solavellan hell.
It is tho cause Cass F/F was my top choice in DAI romance on my Want list >__> Solas was next
I'm still at home lol hahaha such a big kidI repeatedly talked to my mother and paused just long enough for her to unpause Law and Order to demonstrate just how annoying barging in on Knights of the Old Republic is. I haven't had trouble with these issues for a few years now.
Except with Inquisition. When my fiance and I were playing that the first time through, they always managed to barge in at the worst times.
You know that really impressive entrance Coryfish has at the end of In Your Heart Shall Burn? With the fire and the dragon and the booming voice? It's actually a lot cooler when you didn't see Corypheus at the start of the mission, just a quick glimpse of Samson before your head snapped around to witness someone falling down the stairs. I was shocked to see that he's revealed at the beginning on the next playthrough.
and you just gave me a weapon, time for payback mum 
I can only imagine how funny that would have been. It's mean to say this but I love when family members fall over hahaha. I remember my mum calling me from the front yard, I went out there and she had slipped on green moss. Hahahaha I was laughing but then she turned into a rage demon an then I ran laughing lol.
I know the exact feeling. I live in a small town in New Zealand, and the twelve or so other people here are just not into gaming, or nerdy things in general. I have no idea why. Almost everyone thought I was crazy when I attempted a career in archaeology, because who cares about history? The others are the friendliest Christians you could ever hope to met, but apparently don't have any time for fiction. It's a lonely way to live for someone who spends their spare time writing fanfiction, but hey, at least there's the internet!
Yeah, I don't know what I ever did without this thread. Seriously, it was only a year ago that I started actively posting here and before that I was never an active member of any online community or fandom. In the course of the past year I've learned a whole bunch of new terms-- NSFW (that was an interesting discovery), what other things asterisks can be used for *laughs*, what smut meant (the way you guys use it), what a gif was and how to post it (I was living under a rock, I swear), a crap ton of new abbreviations (IRL, IMO, TL; DR, KISA, AU, OTP ), what fluff and snark mean, and tons of other new things that I can't think of right now!
I never had a way to vent my obsessions before!
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Of course, before this thread I've never been this obsessed with a character or game this much (writing fanfiction, spending hours chatting online, biting my nails waiting for new scraps of information)... so you guys might have caused sparked this addiction, or maybe I was always a closeted fangirl and you just through open the doors!
Anywho, it is nice to share thoughts and ideas about nerd culture with other people instead of inwardly struggling over the feelings I have about a certain topic (I probably laid in bed for hours staring at the ceiling, arguing with myself about the ending of DA2).
I love history! What period and culture do you focus on?
It's definitely tough not being able to discuss things you really care about with people you really care about. A few of my family members humor me, but they're not actually interested. My older sisters will gab on about their lives, and kids, and boy drama and those moments when they politely wait for me to update them on my life all I can say is "my classes are going well. I have tons of homework I need to do though." when I want to say "I just finished this book about this prostitute who struggles to uncover mysteries of courtly intrigue while war brews and people plot against her!". They would listen to be nice (unless I ever tried talking about the Solas romance, in which case I'd probably get a condescending "you need to find a boyfriend/get out more"), but I want discussions and interest 
. Oh well, I should be happy with what I have, and what I have is a loving blanketfort!
It is tho cause Cass F/F was my top choice in DAI romance on my Want list >__> Solas was next
I laughed because yeah, there's definitely at least some truth to it. If Cass had been available as a F/F romance option, I think I would have.
I'm out of likes, but your dad sounds like a lovely person. Who delights in our emotional torment.
he's the daddest dad I'm genuinely really lucky. such a good dude.
and also secretly a troll with a real dry sense of humor, LOL he thinks the whole thing is pretty hilarious. but he's also full of Typical Dad-ness (so a bit out of touch with social media and stuff) and he can't get his head around how from time to time thousands of people read and spread my ideas/theories about a video game around. hahahaha
dads man
My fiance always dreads when a new BioWare game is out because he says he becomes single for 2 weeks. "I used to have this girl that loved me. But she went away." Poor guy, I stop playing DAI long enough for The Witcher 3 to come out. Then not long after finishing that Trespasser dropped and I have been sucked back in. We usually try to play games that have multiplayer because it's a nice way for us to spend time together. We lost the MMO itch a long time ago so it's been Borderlands 2 and then Diablo 3 that we play together.
He likes RPGs but he finds it hard to sit down and play them because he'd rather be doing something he can still spend time with me during. It's taken me a couple years now to wear him down and convince him it's ok to play something else. He started playing Mass Effect finally this week. Maybe in a year or two he'll finally get around to the Dragon Age series. Then he can finally understand why his fiance was so melancholy for a few weeks before Christmas last year! Well not because he'd romance Solas, but I could at least finally talk about it with him! He hates spoilers. It's a point of contention for me sometimes lol. I am just relieved he's finally playing ME so in a few weeks I can hopefully finally tell him all these feelings I've had bottled up for the last 2-3 years. He prefers playing male characters but I convinced him to play FemShep.
I was the same, I got really upset for a few weeks after the Solavellan romance. It was really bad, but it pushed me into art so I'm glad it happened.
Now my husband is playing the Walking Dead which (apart from a little of DA:2) is his first major "choices" game. Just five minutes ago he actually cried at something emotional that happened, naww.
Yeah, I don't know what I ever did without this thread. Seriously, it was only a year ago that I started actively posting here and before that I was never an active member of any online community or fandom. In the course of the past year I've learned a whole bunch of new terms-- NSFW (that was an interesting discovery), what other things asterisks can be used for *laughs*, what smut meant (the way you guys use it), what a gif was and how to post it (I was living under a rock, I swear), a crap ton of new abbreviations (IRL, IMO, TL; DR, KISA, AU, OTP ), what fluff and snark mean, and tons of other new things that I can't think of right now!
I never had a way to vent my obsessions before!
...
Of course, before this thread I've never been this obsessed with a character or game this much (writing fanfiction, spending hours chatting online, biting my nails waiting for new scraps of information)... so you guys might have caused sparked this addiction, or maybe I was always a closeted fangirl and you just through open the doors!
Anywho, it is nice to share thoughts and ideas about nerd culture with other people instead of inwardly struggling over the feelings I have about a certain topic (I probably laid in bed for hours staring at the ceiling, arguing with myself about the ending of DA2).
I love history! What period and culture do you focus on?
It's definitely tough not being able to discuss things you really care about with people you really care about. A few of my family members humor me, but they're not actually interested. My older sisters will gab on about their lives, and kids, and boy drama and those moments when they politely wait for me to update them on my life all I can say is "my classes are going well. I have tons of homework I need to do though." when I want to say "I just finished this book about this prostitute who struggles to uncover mysteries of courtly intrigue while war brews and people plot against her!". They would listen to be nice (unless I ever tried talking about the Solas romance, in which case I'd probably get a condescending "you need to find a boyfriend/get out more"), but I want discussions and interest
I did that same for the Knights of the Old Republic. I remember writing fanfiction of the sequel during high school and being so ashamed that I shredded it. I actually made a point of not getting into any new games and abandoned fantasy as a whole until I stumbled across DA:O on Steam. These days I shamelessly spend stupid amounts of money on games and time on fanfiction and nobody shall stop me. But I can absolutely sympathise with the 'you need a boyfriend!' stuff. Why do people think that gaming is some kind of replacement? When I want a boyfriend I'll jolly well get one, but if that means giving up all my favourite hobbies again then I am happier single.
I love Italian history, especially the early renaissance. Reading about Caterina Sforza is what got me through a really dark patch in my life, (that woman was a damn tank masquerading as a beautiful Countess. Seriously, Machiavelli was scared of her.) Solas would definitely approve of the political wheeling and dealing It's like a more emotionally volatile Orlais, but with more murder!
You should have! When nerds are scarce you have to collect them like pokemon! I endure a 6 hours bus trip to Wellington every three months just so I can hang out with someone who is interested in these things, because why do things by halves?
Wow thats dedication Next time Im at the launch of a game I love I will go nerd shopping. Hmmmm, yes, you there nerd, you will do. You will now be my friend. Got it? Lol
When I want a boyfriend I'll jolly well get one
That's the Kiwi spirit !
For any that wonder why we refer to ourselves as fruits.. a Kiwi is NZer, named after our native bird :
Wow thats dedication
Is that not how everyone does it? You, friend! Boom, done.
regarding the 6 hour bus trips, I do admittedly visit family there as well, but nerding out over Inquisition is frankly the highlight of every visit.
A Kiwi is NZer, named after our native bird
We are so cute and fuzzy
I love history! What period and culture do you focus on?
You've just made a terrible mistake.
Let's see:
The Bronze Age Middle East is going up there on my list recently
Classical Greece
Achaemenid Persia
Also Parthia, Sassy Sassanids, etcetera
Alexander and the completely stable, peaceful kingdoms that emerged after his death
Rome, from village to monarchy to Republic to Principate to Empire to Rather Less Empire to Constantinople to Trebizond. 
Especially the Late Republic and Late WRE. Marius and Sulla are (dangerously unstable) bae. Quintus Sertorius and Cicero are also bae.
Axum and Yemen
Dark Age Britain
The Medieval Norse
France in general
Medieval Europe in general.
The Caliphate.
The Mongol Invasions
The Renaissance
The Sengoku Jidai in Japan
I've been trying to find a dynasty of China's to really start obsessing over
The Wars of Religion in Europe
The Swedish Empire
All of the colonies
The Zulu
Indonesia
Russian history. All of it.
...and, um, Thedas history, and Elder Scrolls history, and Mass Effect history. 
and also secretly a troll with a real dry sense of humor, LOL
dads man
My dad joined Twitter not long ago and is following me, so now I'm like...do I censor?...my dad is watching. I haven't....but I still think about my dad following when I post.
I decided to take a nice, relaxing shower, and I don't know if it's because I'm currently fighting a cold, but I just had one of my low blood pressure episodes and felt all ill and faint, so I had to rinse my hair and get enough cool air to buy time to get myself out and to the couch. Where I am now recovering with you all.
I should probably drink more tea in a few minutes.
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