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[Lady Luminous]

Auck! I forgot to make a world state for my final inquisitor! I'm going to have to make Alceus all over again. *sigh*

[Lebanese Dude]

Don't do politics, guys, they destroy friendships.

I'm Lebanese. We have more factions and religious sects per unit population than any other nation on this planet.

This is our motto.

[Ashaantha]

I have been informed that someone is blaming herself for me deciding to take a break from here just for a couple of days so wanted to stick my head in and say this is not the case!

*throws mug at Dienne*

 

Not the case at all. And thanks to that lovely person who let me know about that self-blaming going on.

To crush the other rumours: It's just with my life completely falling apart this last week I found myself more sensitive to the snippy interactions in here from a lot of people, back and forth. Which has been going on for a month or so now, not just one day ... Probably the sarcasm, which I struggle just 'getting' on a normal day, is included there as well lol. It is just a little too much for me at this present point in time thanks to RL stuff and not needing it in my escape from RL too.

[Serza]

Oh, maybe she wouldn't have to do all that unrightful self-blame if I didn't step in my shock trooper boots and went on the counter-offensive.

 

I can be like that... *shrug*

[Rel Fexive]

Sad times.

[Serza]

But hey, at least the boys had a lot of fun blasting people to hell, and making XCOM jokes while at it!

 

(Seriously, those guys had so many aliens on their team, they were asking for me to make an XCOM joke)

[Rel Fexive]

But hey, at least the boys had a lot of fun blasting people to hell, and making XCOM jokes while at it!

 

(Seriously, those guys had so many aliens on their team, they were asking for me to make an XCOM joke)

 

Yeah, too many high-ranked nutters there.  Still, better than facing aimbot 155-to-5 guy any day.

[Beren Von Ostwick]

I have been informed that someone is blaming herself for me deciding to take a break from here just for a couple of days so wanted to stick my head in and say this is not the case!

*throws mug at Dienne*

 

Not the case at all. And thanks to that lovely person who let me know about that self-blaming going on.

To crush the other rumours: It's just with my life completely falling apart this last week I found myself more sensitive to the snippy interactions in here from a lot of people, back and forth. Which has been going on for a month or so now, not just one day ... Probably the sarcasm, which I struggle just 'getting' on a normal day, is included there as well lol. It is just a little too much for me at this present point in time thanks to RL stuff and not needing it in my escape from RL too.

 

Stormy, in case you don't come back before I leave for a couple of days while out of town for Christmas, I want to wish you a very Merry Christmas!  Much love and hope you have a joyous time!  

 

This actually goes for everyone, but I was going to say adios late Wednesday before I left...

 

[Lady Luminous]

Saw this, and thought of Roy.

[Lynroy: Final Edition]

I am equally horrified and thrilled at that mug. Thrilled about the 'stache. Horrified about the text accompanying it. I'll take a drink for each.

[Lady Luminous]

I am equally horrified and thrilled at that mug. Thrilled about the 'stache. Horrified about the text accompanying it. I'll take a drink for each.

Haha, I'm just glad I got a reaction from you!

[Lynroy: Final Edition]

And now I must drink and prepare for another night in the trenches. Just three to go and all that Sparkling Cider is mine.

[Lebanese Dude]

I wanna play DAI again, but I have this nagging need to play a full DA trilogy playthrough from the start for consistency.. Just creating a world state feels contrived, and just loading up playthroughs I've completed four years ago isn't any better.

 

Why am I so complicated? FFS.

[Lady Luminous]

I wanna play DAI again, but I have this nagging need to play a full DA trilogy playthrough from the start for consistency.. Just creating a world state feels contrived, and just loading up playthroughs I've completed four years ago isn't any better.

Why am I so complicated? FFS.

I love creating world states; I've experienced all the combos at some point, so creating an ideal state for the character I'm creating is a kind of artistic expression for me.

I just scrapped a character because I forgot to make him a world state and refuse to play with a default Hawke, haha.

[Lynroy: Final Edition]

Lol reminds me I started a DAO run before Trespasser was announced. That was promptly dropped in favor of doing trespasser 20 times.

[Lebanese Dude]

I love DAO, but I just went on a tilt in a thread

 

Post and my response:

 

Spoiler

 

Loading screen after loading screen.   Running around just so you can talk to one of your followers/craft an item/do stuff.  Walking around but not getting anything done except to pick up crafting crap and kill x mobs.  The UI is terrible.  Controls are awful.  Inventory management is a job.

 

 

You can dramatize **** enough to literally apply this to every BioWare game...hell every game ever released.

 

Dragon Age Origins had load screens up the ass slowed down by a persistent memory leak problem, empty zones with Elfroots and Deathroots that needed Dragon Age Redesigned to fill up with life, a WoW-clone interface, glitch after glitch, unintuitive control schemes, and an inventory system that made vanilla Skyrim's look good. 

 

Let's add some more!

• There's the cheap relationship building system via gifts,
• incredibly linear development paths for warriors and rogues
• several useless specializations that only had four abilities that also required mods to fix. Arcane Warrior made you an auto-attack bot
• massive ability bloat by the time you hit late game and especially during DA:A
• Omg the aura stacking.... I looked like a rainbow. That champion aura with its audio spam.
• Ridiculously easy combat after hitting level 9 (minus the Amgarrak boss. Talk about a spike in difficulty) that needed Combat Tweaks to make it remotely difficult, even on Nightmare.
• Unlimited potion spamming
• a damage system that required healing spam unless you have a specific party with specific abilities.
• Useless crafting abilities
• ****-brown filter permeating the game visuals
• an unvoiced protagonist with a blank expression
• Armor with stats irrelevant. Can literally go naked and destroy things at level 10.
• Stat allocation becomes a chore after hitting stat requirements for abilities
• Speaking of, stat requirement for abilities limiting character development. "Ooh the illusion of choice".
• STR STR STR STR STR STR STR....: warrior stat allocation
• DEX CUN DEX CUN DEX CUN DEX CUN DEX CUN....: rogue stat allocation
• MAGIC MAGIC MAGIC MAGIC MAGIC MAGIC...: mage stat allocation
• Jowan. ****** Jowan.

 

It needed several patch cycles and mods to make it good.

 

Yet you seem to love it. 

 

Interesting... 

 

I love DAO though. Wouldn't have it any other way  ... except Alistair being bisexual but w.e

 

 

I have to admit it was a little fun to dig around for all the crappy parts of a game without consideration of the experience as a whole. No wonder people ****** about DAI. I have a new understanding of them.

 

I have a renewed desire to play DAO now though. I'm all nostalgic.

[Lady Luminous]

Lol reminds me I started a DAO run before Trespasser was announced. That was promptly dropped in favor of doing trespasser 20 times.

Oh Trespasser, dear gods how much I love thay DLC. I'm trying to finish any half vanilla playthroughs I have before going through it any more times.

[Donk]

So... on the subject of tension, disagreements, snippyness, etc.

 

What I'm about to write may make people uncomfortable. But it needs to be said.

 

In the early days of DQ, we were just a small group. Now, Poodle mentioned that the reason its falling apart is because people have nothing in common any more (relating to off-topic discussions) but I don't agree. Amongst our DAI discussions, we've had plenty of off-topic discussions. Where sensitive discussions are concerned (I will bring up for example, something pretty recent. The topic of "abortion" was discussed, and despite differing views, it was civil).

 

Off-topic and political-type discussions are not the issue.

 

The issue here is, people are saying and doing things that annoy others. It's hinted as much that it is annoying, but it's always said in a "polite" manner. And it never drives home for these people, so they keep doing the annoying things. But people won't say it straight out, because they don't wanna hurt people's feelings, and don't want to put this thread at risk of closure.

 

That's just one issue. The second issue is, in the early days, we were a crazy mob. We made jokes that were shocking, and sometimes inappropriate. Sometimes it was taken too far. Of course I'm a prime example of this. I can recall a few times I have pissed Roy off with something I've joked about. We sorted it out amongst ourselves.

 

Recently, I posted a disgusting Gif. Instead of asking me politely or saying, "Hey Donk, that's gross. I don't wanna see that. Please spoiler it or hide it." I got from Foley, "Ugh why do you have to take things too far! Hide it or spoiler it now." And then a post that very much hinted that he would report me.

 

And this, is the nail in the coffin. I left, because I don't want to have to worry about being snitched on for something offensive I might say. It came to that. That we can't sort things out ourselves and have to run to the mods. And obviously, being the crazy mofo that always jokes about inappropriate and shocking things, it didn't bode well for me.

 

I got that it may have offended people. And I would have been happy to hide it. But I didn't need that. I simply do not want to associate with people like that. So, while I remain on the BSN, I hang out elsewhere, where people like that don't go, and I can be myself. Simple.

 

The DQ isn't what it used to be. And I guess I was naive to think that it wouldn't change. But everything does.

[Lebanese Dude]

*snip*

 

I hope you realize the irony in taking offense at one person taking offense.  

[Lebanese Dude]

Oh Trespasser, dear gods how much I love thay DLC. I'm trying to finish any half vanilla playthroughs I have before going through it any more times.

 

It's so good. I haven't played a Solas romanced elf through it yet. I can't wait.

[Donk]

I hope you realize the irony in taking offense at one person taking offense.  

 

You obviously didn't get the point.

 

I stated that I get that people get offended. And also said that in the past, we could sort it out among ourselves. Without having to throw a shitfit and threatening to run to the mods, which is why I left.

[Lady Luminous]

You obviously didn't get the point.

I stated that I get that people get offended. And also said that in the past, we could sort it out among ourselves. Without having to throw a shitfit and threatening to run to the mods, which is why I left.

I think he was trying to lighten the mood, honey...

[Lebanese Dude]

You obviously didn't get the point.

 

I stated that I get that people get offended. And also said that in the past, we could sort it out among ourselves. Without having to throw a shitfit and threatening to run to the mods, which is why I left.

 

Maybe that one person who threatened you was having a shitty day and was in no mood. Stuff happens you know. Can't always assume the worst in people.

 

Hell if I did, I'd have quit the BioWare forums after DAI released. Holy **** this forum was a mess. Good thing the DQ helped cool **** down

 

Your posts are always awesome. I'm glad you still hang around BSN.

[Donk]

Maybe that one person who threatened you was having a shitty day and was in no mood. Stuff happens you know. Can't always assume the worst in people.

 

Hell if I did, I'd have quit the BioWare forums after DAI released. Holy **** this forum was a mess. Good thing the DQ helped cool **** down

 

Your posts are always awesome. I'm glad you still hang around BSN.

 

I'm not arguing with you.

 

After all, part of the reason I left was so everybody could post here comfortably. But I felt like I had to explain the issue of this thread.

 

Take care, people.

[Lady Luminous]

So... on the subject of tension, disagreements, snippyness, etc.

The issue here is, people are saying and doing things that annoy others. It's hinted as much that it is annoying, but it's always said in a "polite" manner. And it never drives home for these people, so they keep doing the annoying things. But people won't say it straight out, because they don't wanna hurt people's feelings, and don't want to put this thread at risk of closure.

That's just one issue. The second issue is, in the early days, we were a crazy mob. We made jokes that were shocking, and sometimes inappropriate. Sometimes it was taken too far. Of course I'm a prime example of this. I can recall a few times I have pissed Roy off with something I've joked about. We sorted it out amongst ourselves.

Recently, I posted a disgusting Gif. Instead of asking me politely or saying, "Hey Donk, that's gross. I don't wanna see that. Please spoiler it or hide it." I got from Foley, "Ugh why do you have to take things too far! Hide it or spoiler it now." And then a post that very much hinted that he would report me.

And this, is the nail in the coffin. I left, because I don't want to have to worry about being snitched on for something offensive I might say. It came to that. That we can't sort things out ourselves and have to run to the mods. And obviously, being the crazy mofo that always jokes about inappropriate and shocking things, it didn't bode well for me.

I definitely think you have a point; I think we need to just be honest with one another and be willing to talk things out instead of burying the issues and trying to be polite.

I certainly don't think we should ever be threatening one another with reporting, and there is a certain way to ask someone to spoiler something we may find uncomfortable so their feelings don't get hurt.

I don't want this place to come apart at the seams, and I'm really hoping we can sort this out and come to an understanding as a group.