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[Sialater]

Hate when that happens.

[Raonar]

But but but....

Hangovers are fun!

EDIT

... or so I've been told.

Modifié par Raonar, 17 décembre 2010 - 06:39 .

[Sagacious Rage]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

I read your Anders story!
But then, you knew that already since I reviewed. I thought it was great!
(I am trying to write. And suddenly everyone in my chapter has a hangover. Because I have a hangover. This will not do.)

I seriously did appreciate that. You're like the queen of Anders fics so getting a nice comment from you meant a lot, ngl. 

Also oh hai r u me? I'm looking around my apartment all "Man, I should do laundry or... meh. Coffee. Coffee is my friend." At least I don't have a headache.

@Raonar Somebody lied to you.

[Raonar]

Sagacious Rage wrote...

@Raonar Somebody lied to you.

I sodding knew it!

Meh...

In other news, FF.net stats are still down after a whole soddin day (or so...)

Not that it's unheard of.

BTW, did you guys/ladies see that elf companion for DA:2? With lyrium burned into his skin? I really feel like Hawke's getting preferential treatment because his companions are just too much more awesome than the Origins/Awakening ones.

I mean really, a superpowered elf with the name of the hound of the norse apocalypse?

[Sarah1281]

It's always a little odd if you post something when the stats are down so there are no hits whatsoever but you're still getting reviews despite the fact the site is insistent that no one's read it...

[Sialater]

@Raonar: I wish they'd given him a different name.

[Raonar]

Sarah1281 wrote...

It's always a little odd if you post something when the stats are down so there are no hits whatsoever but you're still getting reviews despite the fact the site is insistent that no one's read it...

I am in exactly the same boat because I just got an e-mail notification of a review.

Sialater wrote...

@Raonar: I wish they'd given him a different name.

Me too. A name like Schrodinger or something.

Or Squip. (Sarah knows what I mean)

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

WeRtheBrox wrote...

Dearest Shadow, can you give me some tips on how to open the toolset notes?  I downloaded it for the sole purpose of looking at character files for reference, but I can't figure out how to open them.  The closest I got was finding Excel sheets of characters' skill trees.

Yes, I'm an idiot. 

Sure. I sort of fumbled around until I figured it out.

Open the toolset, and in the top right area there's a whole bunch of little icons. One of them looks like a speech bubble (if you hover the mouse over it, it says 'Conversations'). Click this.

The list of folders directly below the icons will have changed. Open one (say, 'Followers'), Open 'Alistair', then double click on 'alistair_main' to open his dialogue.

Click on one of the dialogue lines. I picked one near the top:
[OWNER] So, I'm guessing someone told Anora I was planning to steal her throne. She has a nasty glare.

Below this window you should see another window with a whole lot of tabs (Dialogue, Plots and Scripting, Localization, etc). Click on the Localization tab and you'll get two new windows, one of which is VO/Localization Comment. For this particular line of Alistair dialogue, it says:
Trying to broach an awkward subject.

If you can't see the window, you may have to resize some of them. Make the dialogue section smaller, the black cinematic area smaller (or close it altogether) etc.

[LupusYondergirl]

Sagacious Rage wrote...

LupusYondergirl wrote...

I read your Anders story!
But then, you knew that already since I reviewed. I thought it was great!
(I am trying to write. And suddenly everyone in my chapter has a hangover. Because I have a hangover. This will not do.)

I seriously did appreciate that. You're like the queen of Anders fics so getting a nice comment from you meant a lot, ngl. 

Also oh hai r u me? I'm looking around my apartment all "Man, I should do laundry or... meh. Coffee. Coffee is my friend." At least I don't have a headache.

@Raonar Somebody lied to you.

Oh wow, thank you!  I love your stuff, so I'm blushing like mad now.
(although really, if I'm the queen of anything it's of morning-afternoon-evening after regret.  I've never been able to pound shots of whiskey one after another in the past, why did I think finishing college would somehow give me the ability to do so successfuly now?)

My headache finally went away after a pot of coffee, a can of redbull, and remembering I forgot to take my meds this morning because I crashed at a friend's place last night.  Oops.

[inquartata02]

LupusYondergirl wrote...
 I've never been able to pound shots of whiskey one after another in the past, why did I think finishing college would somehow give me the ability to do so successfuly now?)

You mean that wasn't what college was for!?

[Sialater]

inquartata02 wrote...

LupusYondergirl wrote...
 I've never been able to pound shots of whiskey one after another in the past, why did I think finishing college would somehow give me the ability to do so successfuly now?)

You mean that wasn't what college was for!?

Wow... did I miss the point.  Though mine was vodka.

[Corker]

Shadow of Light Dragon wrote...


Open the toolset, and in the top right area there's a whole bunch of little icons. One of them looks like a speech bubble (if you hover the mouse over it, it says 'Conversations'). Click this.

The list of folders directly below the icons will have changed. Open one (say, 'Followers'), Open 'Alistair', then double click on 'alistair_main' to open his dialogue.

Huh.  I get the icons and the speech bubble, but when I click on it, under is is _Core Soundsets, Demo and Writer's comp folders.  None have a "Followers" sub-folder.

OTOH, I'm looking at statues. Whee!  The ladies with the bowls and swords are supposed to be elven? Huh!

[Sagacious Rage]

@LupusYonderGirl



Awww, now I'm blushing, too! We need to stop before this gets too cute. See, this is what I was concerned about: you clearly are a big fan of Anders, and you write him very well, and I know when I get into a character like that I become extremely judgmental of how they're written in other fics. Now, I generally keep those things to myself because it's not like *I* came up with these characters. I'm not going to stomp all over somebody else's fic telling them they're doing it wrong. But it does make me sadface.



However, when somebody writes a character I hold near-and-dear really well? I LOVE IT. So tl;dr I'm glad (and maybe a little relieved) you enjoyed my interpretation, is all.



@inquartata02 Well, I know that was a course of study I put some serious effort into...

[jackkel dragon]

@Corker: It seems you have the Demo module selected. If I'm remembering right, click "File" and go down to "Manage Modules." Click on "Single Player" to highlight it and click "Open." You'll swear your computer polymorphed into a turtle as it loads DAO, and you're set.

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

Corker wrote...

Huh.  I get the icons and the speech bubble, but when I click on it, under is is _Core Soundsets, Demo and Writer's comp folders.  None have a "Followers" sub-folder.

OTOH, I'm looking at statues. Whee!  The ladies with the bowls and swords are supposed to be elven? Huh!

Odd...I have a whole heap of folders showing.



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[LupusYondergirl]

@inquartata, sia: Not when you go back to college in your 30s. I can't party like I did a decade ago. I handed in my last final paper yesterday and went out to celebrate. Managed to celebrate a bit too much.

Side note: Reason it took a dozen years for my BA? I minored in vodka the first time through.



@Sagacious Rage: I know what you mean exactly. I haven't seen many Anders fics that get my hackles up, but it happens with Jowan a lot. Although I will admit, I have a fairly non-standard view of his personality.

[Raonar]

Can you guys and ladies believe that the stats on FF.net are STILL down? Was there a two-day-in-a-row-without-stats period before?



Anyway, congrats to Lupus for finally finishing all that college stuff! (yes, a I'm a bit late, but so what?)

[Maria13]

Oh, yeah, beginning of this year there were eight days in a row with no stats...



Lupus, well done.

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

Maybe they turn the stats off over the new year! Surely people are enjoying the holidays outside in the sun with their families, not hiding in dark rooms writing fanfics. >.>



Or...maybe that's what they're *trying* to do. It's a conspiracy!

[Maria13]

Sun, what sun? We've got a foot of snow here today. So yeah, I'm going to be writing ff...

[Corker]

@jackkel dragon - That did it! Thank you and SoLD both - I've been wondering how to see dialogue in the toolset for *ages*!

[Leonia]

Was there ever any toolset information released for Awakening/DLCs? I'd love to have access to all of Anders' dialogue (the Wiki has most of it but not all).

The holiday season is totally a good time to write fanfic though, 'tis a good excuse to avoid chaotic family members and do something worthwhile. Plus the sun is too hot. Wish it could be winter here.

Modifié par leonia42, 18 décembre 2010 - 01:53 .

[WeRtheBrox]

Corker wrote...

@jackkel dragon - That did it! Thank you and SoLD both - I've been wondering how to see dialogue in the toolset for *ages*!

Ditto!  Thanks to you both, Shadow and jackkel.  This will make research SO much easier - unlike the time I opened my game journal and typed out my entire first conversation with Alistair so I could refer back to it later.  Ugh.

On a side note - they sure played fast and loose with the ages, didn't they?  Bryce and Eleanor are 40, and Fergus is 30?  I know they often started young in medieval times, but dayum....

[Raonar]

The toolset ages are mostly wrong. They weren't changed form the early development guidelines. Alistair is said to be 30 in the toolset, because that's what he was originally envisioned as, but then they realized someone that old wouldn't see a good enough reason to hand out leadership to someone who could be as young as 18 (CE and DC, DC especially since he's younger than Bhelen AND Rica, who are in their early twenties).

So trust the dialogs, not the ages.

Modifié par Raonar, 18 décembre 2010 - 06:22 .

[jackkel dragon]

Now I wanna see fanfic that acts as if the toolset ages were correct...

Edit: I also want Alistair Onasi.

Modifié par jackkel dragon, 18 décembre 2010 - 05:20 .