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[Al Foley]

 Not maybe, my friend. Definitely. 

I do mean to make a thread about this I really do.   Suffice to say it depends on which Corypheus you are talking about, the one on screen, yep Ultron was much more compelling and had his crap together.  But if you are talking about Corypheus's off screen portrayal then...the Tevinter Magister is way more of a threat.  Way more compelling.  It is kind of a shame.  

[Toasted Llama]

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Okay, but whether or not she is the Monarch or not, she will be titled Queen when William is King, yes?  I understand Phillip is Prince, but that's because of the weirdness of gender rules at  the time when Elizabeth ascended the throne.  Her mother (Queen Elizabeth's) was called Queen wasn't she when George was King?

 

*Drinks something from some obscure pub in East Enders land*

 

EDIT:  Seems her title was Queen Consort...  I stand corrected.  HOW DARE YOU KNOW MORE ABOUT YOUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT THAN ME!!!

Here in the Netherlands we call the King and Queen ... well... King and Queen. Even though our Queen is originally not even Dutch but Argentinian.  Never heard of the concept of "King-consort" or"Queen-consort" before DA, so it might just be different per country.


To be fair though King & Queen is somewhat weird for me since our 2 previous ruling monarchs were called Queen and Prince. But maybe that has to do with the fact that both of these men were German. (Random fact of the day: This means that the Dutch King is 3/4th German and 1/4th Dutch and the Queen is 100% Argentinian. Their children are only 1/8th Dutch.)


EDIT: Queen-consort/King-consort/prince-consort/princess-consort is actually the correct term for those married to a ruling monarch here in the Netherlands as well, but nobody uses that term to address the monarchs.
 

[LightningPoodle]

I do mean to make a thread about this I really do.   Suffice to say it depends on which Corypheus you are talking about, the one on screen, yep Ultron was much more compelling and had his crap together.  But if you are talking about Corypheus's off screen portrayal then...the Tevinter Magister is way more of a threat.  Way more compelling.  It is kind of a shame.  

 

Spoiler

Ultron was literally this far away *gestures with fingers* from wiping out the planet in the blink of an eye. Global Extinction, bro! That was with a force fighting against him, same as Corypheus, except Corypheus didn't know sh*t!

[LightningPoodle]

One day, Germans will rule the world.

[Al Foley]

Spoiler

Ultron was literally this far away *gestures with fingers* from wiping out the planet in the blink of an eye. Global Extinction, bro! That was with a force fighting against him, same as Corypheus, except Corypheus didn't know sh*t!

Spoiler

Well to be fair Corypheus was about the same distance from destroying the world, same circumstance almost to a t, had a force fighting against him...though to be fair at that point he had lost his mind.

Though I do suspect given Ultron's lines earlier in the film his goal was not neccessarily to wipe out humanity, I do not think he could have done it with the set up of the plan, but to do enough damage to the planet and leave enough for the survivors that hopefully they could 'evolve'.

[Al Foley]

One day, Germans will rule the world.

*nocks arrow* not if I can help it.

[Lynroy: Final Edition]

Sorry Roy, still waking up. Mix me up a coffee martini?

Sorry, I can't. I just boarded my last flight.

[Al Foley]

 

Spoiler

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English
will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the
other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government
conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has
accepted a 5 year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of
the"k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less
letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
"fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments
will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a
deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the
silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"
with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be
dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid
to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor
trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze
drem vil finali kum tru! And zen ve vil tak over ze world!

 

*drinks some schnapps*

And the French shrug their shoulders being used to the dissapointment.  

[LightningPoodle]

Spoiler

Well to be fair Corypheus was about the same distance from destroying the world, same circumstance almost to a t, had a force fighting against him...though to be fair at that point he had lost his mind.

Though I do suspect given Ultron's lines earlier in the film his goal was not neccessarily to wipe out humanity, I do not think he could have done it with the set up of the plan, but to do enough damage to the planet and leave enough for the survivors that hopefully they could 'evolve'.

 

Spoiler

Well, yeah, okay, you're right there. With any extinction event, there are always survivors, otherwise nothing would remain. We humans wouldn't be here if nothing of the dinosaurs survived. Same goes for the dinosaurs. I think that was Ultrons main goal.

 

In terms of Corypheus... Dude, he was grasping at straws since the moment the game started. 

[Al Foley]

Spoiler

Well, yeah, okay, you're right there. With any extinction event, there are always survivors, otherwise nothing would remain. We humans wouldn't be here if nothing of the dinosaurs survived. Same goes for the dinosaurs. I think that was Ultrons main goal.

 

In terms of Corypheus... Dude, he was grasping at straws since the moment the game started. 

No he wasn't either.  

Spoiler

Heck if anything he came even closer to succeeding in his plans then Ultron did in his. lol. Only reason why Ultron got that close was Scarlet Wtich got...justifiably upset...so he got lucky there and exploited human weakness...

 

Corypheus on the other hand?  He came within a hair bredth of succeeding with his plan.  Like three times.  

[Alex Hawke]

I do mean to make a thread about this I really do.   Suffice to say it depends on which Corypheus you are talking about, the one on screen, yep Ultron was much more compelling and had his crap together.  But if you are talking about Corypheus's off screen portrayal then...the Tevinter Magister is way more of a threat.  Way more compelling.  It is kind of a shame.  

Has anyone read this http://blog.bioware....ry-paper-steel/ ?

[LightningPoodle]

 

Spoiler

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English
will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the
other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government
conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has
accepted a 5 year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of
the"k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less
letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
"fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments
will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a
deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the
silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"
with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be
dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid
to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor
trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze
drem vil finali kum tru! And zen ve vil tak over ze world!

 

*drinks some schnapps*

 

My God. The plan is... spectacular!

[Al Foley]

Has anyone read this http://blog.bioware....ry-paper-steel/ ?

I hadn't hyet.  

[the Dame]

I'm OOL.

 

Those Germans have their fingers in all the royal families!!

 

*nods in agreement*

 All of the Romanov leaders took German consorts as their wife. But, funny fact about Russians: to be Russian you do not need to have slavonic or Russian blood (truth be told, I don't even understand how one can define themselves by blood.. But, wait, blood mages can /end of lame joke) or even be born in my country..  All you need is to love and feel Russia. So our monarcs were 100% Russian.

 

*raises glass in silence for stupidity of her grandfathers*

 

One day, Germans will rule the world.

 

We'll see. 

 

 

Spoiler

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English
will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the
other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government
conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has
accepted a 5 year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of
the"k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less
letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
"fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments
will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a
deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the
silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"
with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be
dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid
to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor
trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze
drem vil finali kum tru! And zen ve vil tak over ze world!

 

*drinks some schnapps*

 

I want to hear Oreo's opinion on the matter. I need him to read this quote. For science.

[LightningPoodle]

*nods in agreement*

 All of the Romanov leaders took German consorts as their wife. But, funny fact about Russians: to be Russian you do not need to have slavonic or Russian blood (truth be told, I don't even understand how one can define themselves by blood.. But, wait, blood mages can /end of lame joke) or even be born in my country..  All you need is to love and feel Russia. So our monarcs were 100% Russian.

 

*raises glass in silence for stupidity of her grandfathers*

 

I love and feel Russia - even though I've never been - so am I Russian?

[LightningPoodle]

Where have the people gone?

[the Dame]

I come and go as I please 

I love and feel Russia - even though I've never been - so am I Russian?

 

That's unexpected. 

Hm...   How did you realize that you love & feel Russia?

And you know how they say: even though it's nice to hear, still, love should be declared through actions, not words.

 

I know (met a couple of times) one Scottish man, who was working in my country for 8 years. Once his expensive contract was over, he refused to return to London and to his family. Of course, he visits them as often as he can, but still, can't return to "normal and comfortable life".

 

This reminded me of (watch with engsubs, folks  ).

 

 

Russia is beautiful, but can be a b*tch.

All I wrote is pure IMO, of course. 

[ModernAcademic]

I officially hate time difference!

 

I hear ya. o/

When it's midnight in my country, it's already like 3 am in the Forum. 

Many times I come here and the posts are all at around 5 am. I's so strange; I feel like I've entered the Twilight Zone. 

[LightningPoodle]

 

I come and go as I please 

 

That's unexpected. 

Hm...   How did you realize that you love & feel Russia?

And you know how they say: even though it's nice to hear, still, love should be declared through actions, not words.

 

Since the day my friend, well, actually a friend of my brother, came up to me in school and said "Are you Russian? You look Russian." and then I feigned a Russian accent (terribly) and from that day on, he believed I was Russian. Still does. ...It's been 5 years...

[ModernAcademic]

Eating mango and drinking water.

 

Also, the bathroom near my room smells like ****. I wish people would close the door and open the damn window after going to the loo. ¬¬

[LightningPoodle]

Eating mango and drinking water.

 

Also, the bathroom near my room smells like ****. I wish people would close the door and open the damn window after going to the loo. ¬¬

 

I swear, when it comes to bathrooms, some people are savages.

[ModernAcademic]

I swear, when it comes to bathrooms, some people are savages.

 

Couldn't agree more, my dear Sparkles.