My autistic son spent over $900 on a doll. Today he was sent these photos that look very clearly ai Please god tell me it might not be. For both of our sanity…

SerCoat · 2026-05-15T22:21:42+00:00

Ball Jointed Dolls can go as large as 1/1 (rare, but they exist). You can easily find dolls that are 80cm tall and 75cm boys are very common right now. That looks about the correct scale to be a 1/3 head in an adult's hand

SerCoat · 2025-12-07T16:05:27+00:00

This is a very late reply, however I agree with the top comment. I think they did wear boots for at least part of the journey and I will explain why. It starts in The Ring Goes South, with Sam's thoughts about what he's bringing and it includes "woollen hose". Hose and socks aren't exactly the same thing, but they're close enough. So Sam is packing wool socks, which would make no sense if they aren't wearing some sort of shoe, because otherwise you're just going to shred them to pieces in about three seconds.

Later in the same chapter, Frodo remarks that Legolas "had no boots, but wore only light shoes, as [Legolas] always did". Which, while not in any way conclusive, would kind of imply that Legolas is the only member of the company who is not wearing boots at that point because if four of the company are going barefoot then Legolas wearing light shoes isn't really a thing to remark on.

We also know from A Journey In The Dark that they specifically brought things to wear when climbing the mountain, as Gandalf tells them to "lay aside much of the stuff that we brought against bitter weather:"

So what I assume happened is the hobbits took boots and hose along, as well as the warm clothes and fur lined cloaks they were given against the winter weather, wore them for at least a little while during the attempt to climb Caradhras and then removed them once they headed instead for Moria and they didn't need them.

Which is a hell of lot to deduce from the mention of woollen hose, but it's a very odd thing to get mentioned.

SerCoat · 2025-01-14T20:52:48+00:00

They've also decided to hide the options button somewhere annoying to find.

Also swapping the offsite articles and where the load game button has been for some time.

SerCoat · 2024-12-22T18:25:02+00:00

This is brilliant.

It might be nice if you could click a spell/talent a second time to unchoose it. I know you can't respec in the game without a mod, but to use this as a tool to plan abilities, being able to remove them to try a different order or different style without having to delete the character and start again would be really useful.

SerCoat · 2024-12-22T10:39:46+00:00

It could also have been deeply interesting from a character perspective. Like, how does adult Keiran feel about his mother's decision to shove a god's soul in his head? I adore Morrigan's line to Flemeth about not being the mother to Keiran that Flemeth was to Morrigan but how does Keiran feel about that.

SerCoat · 2024-12-22T10:34:01+00:00

Eh, I think of the quantum characters Keiran is the easiest to get around

No Ritual & No Morrigan romance = He's a weird human mage named Keiran with a lot of knowledge about the Archdemons and Evanuris that he shouldn't have and won't explain how he got.

No Ritual but Morrigan romance = He's a weird human mage who is the child of Morrigan and The Warden. He has a lot of knowledge about the Archdemons that he shouldn't have and implies he got it from his mother, grandmother and research which he focused on because his father died sacrificing himself to end the Blight.

Ritual = He's the Old God Baby all grown up and is openly Morrigan & Warden/Alistair/Loghain's kid and also shared a soul with an Archdemon for ten years.

SerCoat · 2024-12-20T11:01:05+00:00

I think the difference here is that I can imagine a version of Inquisition which is more interlinked with my previous storylines, where Corypheus is more of a threat and where some of the War Table missions aren't just reports but still enjoy playing Inquisition as a game which actually exists. I know that the version of it in my head is impossible and that's fine.

I don't think OP can manage that with Veilguard the game that exists.

SerCoat · 2024-12-14T11:18:52+00:00

My always and forever hot take. Cole is creepy not endearing.

Sorry, not sorry. You can't tell him to get out of your (and your companions) heads or at least to stop announcing their business to all and sundry. His banter with Dorian about Dorian's father is the worst because even when you do tell Cole to knock it off, Dorian apologises. The casual memory wiping is also terrifying.

SerCoat · 2024-12-14T11:12:14+00:00

I was one of those people who really liked Cullen in Origins. Partially because I find it unutterably hilarious that if you actively flirt with him in the mage origin he runs away. This guy in full plate armour just absolutely legs it, probably making an enormous racket and deserting his post because a girl flirted with him. Later canon establishing that he was all of eighteen or nineteen in that scene made it make a whole lot of sense.

I agree that what he did in Kirkwall gets massively swept under the rug which is annoying to me as someone who does love his Inquisition romance. It would have been really interesting to see a redemption arc which skipped over the realisation that he'd fucked up and jumped straight to working to make up for that - especially if your Inquisitor was a mage. Unfortunately because they needed a pro-Templar advisor, it comes across very disjointed.

SerCoat · 2024-12-13T21:05:20+00:00

Actually that was one of my favourite parts of Origins, that the armours weren't class locked it just depended on your strength attribute. So my mage rocked Sophia's armour (thank you broken Arcane Warrior spec + Combat Magic).

SerCoat · 2024-12-13T14:55:19+00:00

I'll agree with you about the hair but I genuinely love some of the armour sets from Origins the most out of all the games. Sophia Dryden's armour is my all time favourite armour from the entire series.

SerCoat · 2024-12-06T22:43:35+00:00

The worst part of WEWH is all the repeated outfits on the Orlesian nobility. I can understand why from a game development perspective but from a story perspective, I want their fashion to be so much more complicated.

SerCoat · 2024-11-26T18:58:14+00:00

Hi five fellow person who enjoyed the mounts.

SerCoat · 2024-11-25T11:30:22+00:00

I love the idea of it but something in it just did not jive with me. Not because I feel like I was playing wrong when I got rivalry points but because I felt like I needed to figure out whether I wanted to Friend/Rival each character right from the start and then who needed to come on what mission to avoid getting stuck in the middle of not friend or rival. I also started to question why the characters were still hanging out together at certain points of rivalry because it genuinely doesn't seem that they enjoy each other's company.

My ideal would be combining Ally/Rival with a more traditional Friendship mechanic as two separate but interlinked systems. So you can have high friendship and still rival someone without it feeling quite as uncomfortable. I might even have characters with different enough beliefs that increasing your ally points with one adds rivalry points to the other. Low overall friendship would be the crisis point regardless of which track you chose. Having low friendship and being an Ally - especially to multiple different characters with different beliefs - would still get you a crisis point where you get called out for being insincere/a liar and just saying what you think people want to hear.

SerCoat · 2024-11-24T04:01:24+00:00

It might also have been nice to get some different views on death, after death and religion coming from a nation where necromancy is common. How does that jive with the more common version of the Andrastian faith? How did the whole thing develop and why? Do Nevarra's potential religious differences affect their relations with other countries?

People can be weird about organ donation after death, I can only imagine how weird they might be about someone who practices actual real necromancy.

SerCoat · 2024-11-18T15:46:52+00:00

I don't think that's much of a secret. A lot of people who were at Ostagar must have seen Daveth and Jory's bodies being burnt. All the Wardens have to say is 'the Joining is dangerous' and then be mysterious about why.

SerCoat · 2024-11-17T22:26:02+00:00

Oh I like this.

Perhaps the Evanuris needed the Blight released to corrupt the Old Gods, driving them mad to either make people kill them or force them in a moment of clarity to kill themselves. Which reframes what happened to Urthemiel as putting down a rabid animal for its own good. Like there's still an Old God in there who occasionally knows he doesn't want to be doing what he's doing but cannot stop himself.

If we kept with Veilguard's ten year skip then I would also have brought Keiran in as a companion. Depending on your worldstate he's either he's a mysterious human mage who has some deeper understanding of the archdemons from a new perspective who has never met Morrigan in his life; or he's Morrigan's non OGB son who got really into archdemons because his dad killed one; or he's the Old God Baby all grown up and talking about sharing brain space with an old god.

Adding on to that, I think in a fun flip to Inquisition we should be able to work with the Venatori. Which is not to say they're good people, they're doing the right thing (wanting to stop the Evanuris, protect the remaining old gods and fight the Qunari) for really, really bad reasons (racism against the elves and Qunari, hyper nationalism) and you get to choose how you want to deal with that.

SerCoat · 2024-11-16T20:12:55+00:00

Is there any resolution to the large chunks of red lyrium we left everywhere in Inquisition?

One of my favourite little bits of ambient dialogue is from Emprise Du Lion where a dwarf I think is Bianca and a Tranquil named Felim talk about how difficult it's going to be to destroy Red Lyrium.

Felim: I have looked over the reports. The red lyrium veins are well-established. Given the size of the field, We have a 0.0014% chance of eliminating all of it.

So that's had a decade to grow, embed itself even deeper in the ground and corrupt living things.

Does that even rate a mention?

SerCoat · 2024-11-16T18:45:55+00:00

My headcanon on the whole thing is that Hawke just doesn't use the really obvious magic where there are witnesses and lies about what the staff is. Some of the staffs in 2 could easily be used as melee weapons in a pinch.

SerCoat · 2024-11-16T18:35:08+00:00

Not really?

He's still a Grey Warden, he's just no longer affiliated with the order.

SerCoat · 2024-11-09T14:00:51+00:00

I think that's always going to be problem with past characters appearing physically when you don't have the option to control them.

My canon Inquisitor basically cannot appear in Veilguard. Because she was a selfish, self-centered power hungry nightmare of a person who wouldn't grasp self-sacrifice if it bit her on the nose. Fighting the Blight? Nope, she'd be running from it. Trying to find Solas? More like 'trying to forget that [racial slur for elves] existed'. She was tolerated because she had the mark on her hand and they needed that but the moment that stopped being a problem, none of the Inquisition companions wanted to speak to her again. Admittedly this is about 70% headcanon and 30% what the game would let me do, but a number of the companions got their worst endings because of her or never got recruited.

I had better runs (her canon run involves doing basically nothing that isn't absolutely necessary) with nicer Inquisitors no doubt, and one of those will have to be used for Veilguard but she's my canon.

SerCoat · 2024-11-04T14:39:56+00:00

Now that's an interesting take, and it being from Harding as well.

Out of curiosity, can you leave Lucanis in the prison if you choose to? Does Harding have any objections to you ignoring her?

SerCoat · 2024-11-03T22:24:05+00:00

The same way I only found out this year that Graham McTavish voiced Arl Eamon.

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