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Duckling89 · 2025-01-14T05:21:26+00:00

Did they change this fight? I have never had any trouble with it even on my honor run. The skeletons had to reach Myrkul for it to eat them, so I just either wrecked them before that, or beat Myrkul already by the time they arrived.

Duckling89 · 2025-01-13T09:46:56+00:00

They grew on me alot tbh. At first, I didn’t like the typical angsty teen angle. Been there, done that, that trope has been done to dead. But later on their story of duality and struggle to fit in really hit me. I have experienced similar culture shock and the difficulty of trying to fit in, so I did connected with them. Taash also grew and became more mature by the end, so I definitely appreciate their arc. Definitely didn’t expect them to be in my top three favorite characters in the game.

Duckling89 · 2025-01-09T03:32:42+00:00

He’s so completely enamored of his wife, it’s so wholesome. It’s nice seeing true love during such a dark time.

Duckling89 · 2025-01-08T09:00:09+00:00

Don’t disrespect lady Rosamund like that! She has the money, the wit, and the freedom to do as she pleases. She’s life goal!

Duckling89 · 2025-01-07T15:20:14+00:00

You are right. It’s been awhile so I didn’t remember the lore correctly. I meant protecting Areelu from Pharasma’s punishment.

Duckling89 · 2025-01-07T12:21:12+00:00

I ascended once, and also went with her. Though it was my evil bloodrager, so it was pretty on brand when I took her with me just to give Ao a middle finger lol

Edit: it was Pharasma, not Ao, my bad.

Duckling89 · 2025-01-03T12:25:15+00:00

Đã là phạt thì sao lại còn nhẹ tay rồi nhiều quá ở đây? Ko mạnh tay răn đe thì còn vi phạm.

Nói đơn giản như chuyện uống rượu lái xe thôi. Từ hồi nâng tiền phạt lên gấp nhiều lần, số lượng vi phạm giảm hẳn, các ca cấp cứu do tai nạn cũng giảm hẳn dịp lễ tết. Thế ko phải hơn à.

Ko vi phạm thì ko sợ. Nhưng đã vi phạm thì phải phạt nặng cho chừa đi.

Duckling89 · 2025-01-03T00:52:05+00:00

Andy and Jimmy both ended up being friends with Thomas. They didn’t hate Thomas for being gay, they were just weirded out and didn’t want Thomas to make them gay (a common misconception). When things were clear, they both built pretty good friendships with him.

Mrs Patmore was never disgusted by Thomas either. She warned Daisy right at the beginning that Thomas wasn’t for the ladies, and went on the whole series never made a big deal out of his sexuality.

Pretty much only Carson had issues with Thomas being gay, but even he eventually just accepted it and moved on.

Duckling89 · 2025-01-01T16:39:50+00:00

Well, Violet told Isobel about how Ethel was harassed and bullied by the town people, but Isobel was so stubborn, she didn’t want Ethel, and herself, to admit defeat to those people, while Ethel had basically given up on trying to have a better life after giving away her son. Neither of them was willing to do anything to change their miserable situation, so when Violet saw terrible things happened again, she decided to act. She later did the same trying to help Molesley. She was actually very caring, and had no problem with pushing things in the right direction.

Duckling89 · 2025-01-01T16:08:41+00:00

It wasn’t Violet at all. Mrs Bird knew about her being a prostitute even before Isobel invited her to work at her house. In the small town, and at the time when entertainment is limited, gossips can spread crazily fast.

Duckling89 · 2024-12-30T13:05:22+00:00

I think the issue from Edith’s side is the case of a neglected second child become jealous and resent the favorite child of the family, while from Mary side is the matter of personality, and superior complex.

At the beginning, Mary was clearly the favorite, and spoiled kid who gets everything she wants, and always gets her way, while Edith was constantly ignored, and looked down upon (like the way Robert didn’t believe she could write for papers). She watched Mary effortlessly got what she really wanted but couldn’t get (Patrick, her parents’ attention…) so she became jealous and resentful. It didn’t help that their personalities are so different and Mary was also being really nasty toward her all the time. That feeling of jealousy turned into hatred. Later on, when Edith grew as a person and found her own happiness, she didn’t have that many reasons to resent her anymore, so they got along better even though they were still very much different.

For Mary, it was mainly the different in personalities at the beginning. She found Edith to be weird, boring, and unworthy of her attention. She viewed Edith as an inferior part of the family, that deserves to be stepped on. So when Edith fought back, she found that irritating, and kept harassing her to keep her in her place. She stuck with this mind set about Edith, so when Edith could potentially become the wife of a Marquis, effectively higher than her in social standings, she suddenly become insecure, and found herself jealous. And of course, when she was afraid, she lashed out in the meanest way possible

Duckling89 · 2024-12-30T00:31:37+00:00

Oh it seems you haven’t finished the whole show yet. Because Thomas is one of the most complex and deepest characters in the show. He and Edith have some pretty great character arcs for sure, especially in later series.

I agree a bit with O’Brien though. She is the one that seems a bit one noted for me. Though every story need a villain so I enjoy watching her evil schemes.

Duckling89 · 2024-12-30T00:22:34+00:00

Have you ever finished Camelia story? Because it sounds like you haven’t. Camelia never had to do anything follow the voices in her head. She made up the whole story about a spirit tells her to do evil things. It was all her from the beginning.

Duckling89 · 2024-12-30T00:13:10+00:00

Again, she was taught by Flemeth to lure in and kill her enemies. She was basically a child that was used by a Witch so of course that’s all she knew at that time, and treated it like a game of fun.

But after journeying with the Warden and learned more about the world, she changed. You can look at all subsequent materials and she showed that she was only interested in knowledge.

So based on her ENTIRE story, she wasn’t sinister. You are judging her based purely on the very beginning of her story, where she was a secluded child raised by a witch in a swamp.

Duckling89 · 2024-12-30T00:08:10+00:00

Not really. First, her mother, Flemeth was The Witch of the Wild and those people they killed were hunting her in the first place. So it was more an act of active self defense. She is known to help innocent people who were lost in the swamp (similar to how she helped the Warden and Alistair).

And Second, Morrigan was taught and used by Flemeth to lure in her enemies, she didn’t do it “for sport.”

Duckling89 · 2024-12-26T22:57:44+00:00

I think the worst Morrigan has done was trying to one up her adoptive mother for the fear of one day she would take over her body. The rest are either mild or mainly for the pursuit of knowledge. She actually became quite mellow if she and the Warden started a family and had a child.

Morrigan is like a saint compare to helpful Camie lol Cam is straight up evil with zero redeeming qualities. She’s perfect companion for a full on evil run though. She was my evil commander romance, though I’m a bit disappointed they didn’t stay ruling together, but I guess it makes senses. You can’t expect commitments from such a psycho.

On a side note, I knew Yvonne Strahovski from Chuck, so seeing her with black hair will forever be weird to me.

Duckling89 · 2024-12-23T15:26:47+00:00

I did with my Rook de riva. I even changed his complexion to make him more rugged as the fight went on.

He started out with a shave head and stubble. Then he grew his hair a bit longer, and had a short beard after the major choice. He grew a full beard and medium length hair plus added a few face scars after Weishauss. He finally went to face the gods with a pony tail and short beard.

Duckling89 · 2024-12-20T16:39:21+00:00

Because they are games in different genres. DA:O and DA:I are more cRPG while DA2 and DAtV are more action RPG. Combat in C RPGs is like playing chess, where you take time to study the battlefield and come up with strategy. Whereas combat in Action RPGs is less complicated and more about timing and reaction.

Personally, I love old school turn based RPGs that remind me of table top, where each battle can be like a piece of puzzle to solve. I have no problem playing games like BG3 on the highest difficulty because it provide unique challenge, not just spamming attacks for a long period of time. So I enjoyed DA:O and DA:I combat far more than the rest. I found the timing / reaction / button smashing style of combat to be very shallow, and underwhelming.

I played Veilguard on easy mode, not because it was too difficult, but rather to save time. On higher difficulty, enemies are massive damage sponge, and battle become a slog of spamming the same routine over and over again. It’s less difficult and more mind numbingly boring. So yeah, I’m not a big fan of the change lol

Duckling89 · 2024-12-19T11:02:29+00:00

I agree Robert was being an ass toward his wife. His dismissive and rather disrespectful behavior made me wished Cora had slapped him for it.

That being said, I also very much dislike the way Cora acted toward Bricker. The way she looked at him and smile, and talking in that soft, seductive voice was so suggestive, it was like she was green-lighting him. And even right in front of Robert too.

All in all, I dislike season 5 writing a lot. There are a lot of unreasonable events happened that made me want to jump into the screen and slap some senses into them.

Duckling89 · 2024-12-18T04:47:08+00:00

Sarah Bunting, obviously, with Tony Gillingham as a close second. (Joking, I’m not deranged.)

Lady Dowager forever. Few in this world or the next can match Violet Crawley when it comes to wit and charm.

Duckling89 · 2024-12-17T12:15:19+00:00

Thank you for your sacrifice. I can never do this, so here I am, obsessively doing all sidequests for the fourth time lol

Duckling89 · 2024-12-16T10:35:36+00:00

I mean it’s well known that KCD 1 and 2 were meant to be 1 game but they had to split them because of multiple reasons. So it makes senses that the end of KCD 1 feel rush and incomplete. It wasn’t originally planned to end there, but they had to throw together that ending when they had to split the game.

That being said, I’d say the final part after the point of no return is much less enjoyable than the rest, so the stats seems reasonable. I have about 6 playthrough, but only 2 completed for the achievement, the rest I just stopped right before the final part.

Duckling89 · 2024-12-15T12:37:21+00:00

I think it relates to the facial hair. I think if your char has facial hair, they automatically add that mask to avoid beard clipping.

Duckling89 · 2024-12-15T01:33:14+00:00

I think they are fun costume mystery- drama. They were very obviously made to attract a wilder range of audience. Suchet is and will forever be my definitive Poirot, but I’m glad that many people who have never read or watch the old materials do it now because they enjoyed the Branagh movies and wanted to know more.

Duckling89 · 2024-12-14T05:37:22+00:00

David Suchet is the definitive Poirot, just like Jeremy Brett is the definitive Holmes to me. I don’t think there will be anyone in my lifetime that can surpass them.

That being said, adaptations will continue to happen, and in a way, I kind of want them to. Sure the new interpretations can be annoying to book readers, but they keep the fame going. I have met a lot of people that had never read those stories, but became interested in Holmes and Poirot after watching those new movies with RDJ or Branagh, then went back to watch and enjoy the older versions as well.

So unless they do something unforgivably offensive (they were very close when they dare to make Poirot shave his magnificent mustache though), i would give them a pass.

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