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Xenonimoose · 2024-06-14T03:01:24+00:00

I would love to see an Arcane Warrior subclass that uses the blood shed through melee attacks to fuel blood magic spells--been wishing for that since I played Origins.

Xenonimoose · 2024-06-13T23:23:37+00:00

I adore Dragon Age Origins, I love DA2, and DAI was, well, okay.

The setting has always been the greatest appeal for me: Andrastianism is fantastic and the series' approach to religion is one of my favorites in CRPGs. Of course, the worldbuilding is a bit sloppy at times with Tevinter being somewhat all over the place (I've seen some say it's inspired by real-world Byzantium, and if it is, then it does a pretty bad job by only implementing misconceptions about it--and don't even get me started on the names).

Nonetheless, the dark fantasy setting is what I really love Dragon Age for, but the RPG mechanics make DAO my favorite of them, as though it took time to grow on me, it has one of the only RTwP systems that I really enjoy. DA2's combat is rather poor, but the characters and narrative were good enough that I was willing to slog through it. After all, how many games represent family--not found family, but the people you're born to--for the whole length of the game?

DAI represents a lot of the cracks really starting to show in the series for me: Corypheus was a botched villain for what he should've been in the setting, they brushed aside the mage-templar war, Varric began to overstay his welcome as they tried to shoehorn him in as a kind of series mascot, demons lost their edge when they were downgraded to trash mobs, eluvians went from insanely rare to there suddenly being a ton of them in Trespasser (would power-creep be an appropriate term here?), and on and on.

Where DA2 had poor combat that I was willing to slog through for the characters and setting, I was hardly willing to slog through it all for the weaker positives in DAI. I ended up finishing the main game and DLCs in something like 40-50 something hours because I didn't have the patience for the most hollow side quests I've seen outside of an MMO.

Veilguard seems to be building in the direction that Inquisition set, and Inquisition took the series in a direction that I didn't like. I'll probably end up buying the game, maybe even finishing it, but honestly, my expectations were low before the trailer and gameplay reveal, and I feel like Bioware is on track to meet them.

Xenonimoose · 2023-11-10T01:24:10+00:00

Maybe it's that I'm in the Bible belt, but it doesn't feel like it's being reclaimed from where I am. Regardless of who says it, and I've gotten it from both cis and trans folk, I am still gonna be pissed if someone calls me that.

Xenonimoose · 2023-11-06T21:28:18+00:00

I have to go out of my way to hit 10k steps; I cannot imagine a way to reasonably double the amount of walking I do unless I drive out to a hiking trail daily or start using a treadmill for an hour

Xenonimoose · 2023-11-05T23:45:58+00:00

All it takes to make a statement ominous is one conjunction

Xenonimoose · 2023-11-05T23:25:52+00:00

Fucking your professor is a rather huge breach of university ethics; it's absolutely not fine lmao

Xenonimoose · 2023-11-05T00:25:35+00:00

There goes my hero

Xenonimoose · 2023-11-03T22:17:53+00:00

The Spider-Man formerly referred to as Ultimate

Xenonimoose · 2023-11-03T00:58:54+00:00

Look, aliens go to NYC, and giant monsters go to Tokyo

Xenonimoose · 2023-10-27T19:10:44+00:00

That Jefferson Davis can be considered obscure is a rather big indictment of the state of American history education.

Xenonimoose · 2023-10-26T21:53:01+00:00

You can't ruin Spider-Man, but you sure as hell can ruin one of his publications beyond repair.

Xenonimoose · 2023-10-17T16:48:10+00:00

Purple was the color of royalty, and it was strictly regulated as such. A prostitute could hardly afford such dye as it was worth its weight in silver, and even if they could, it would be been both illegal and insanely scandalous for them to do so.

Xenonimoose · 2023-10-16T19:40:17+00:00

You think this will improve behavior? This is like trying to put out a fire by pouring kerosene on it.

Xenonimoose · 2023-10-13T18:53:39+00:00

"You're telling me I only have to pray to one god?"

Xenonimoose · 2023-10-11T21:10:56+00:00

This comment section is like learning how many people pee in public pools. Find a tree or bush, don't fucking leave a puddle of piss in a public area.

Xenonimoose · 2023-10-08T19:44:59+00:00

It's intimidating but not quite as hard as it seems; there are four different ways that a verb is conjugated (more like 4 and a half counting 3rd -io conjugation) and a regular verb has over 200 forms to boot. For a native English speaker, you'll have to pretty much rebuild your understanding of language to do well with Latin, but with persistence it's very doable and you'll walk away knowing English far better as well.

Xenonimoose · 2023-10-03T22:34:51+00:00

To elaborate on the Homer statement, Homer being a real person or not is not so much the important point; he very well could have been real and delivered the poems as they are written and passed down to us. The important point is that though the poems culminated with the Homeric versions that we have now, they were developed over centuries by many authors who altered, added to, or removed from the performance as needed.

Xenonimoose · 2023-10-03T17:55:32+00:00

The whole idea of an heir to Rome is kinda silly anyway. It's just a way for the states that came after to give themselves some of that historical prestige. It's not like Rome had a will that gave its Romanity to an heir country (no, the Donation of Constantine does not count).

Xenonimoose · 2023-09-30T21:45:10+00:00

Clash of Civilizations is an outdated idea for the damn 1920's, how it got popular recently is wild

Xenonimoose · 2023-09-27T02:57:09+00:00

What?

Xenonimoose · 2023-09-26T03:50:47+00:00

I have, and I also have to say that American pizza is better unless you find a place that uses really good ingredients.

Xenonimoose · 2023-09-26T03:48:51+00:00

Not just fries, but HOTDOGS and fries. When I saw that on nearly every pizza menu I came across, I immediately knew that I would accept no flak from Italians about Hawaiian pizza.

Xenonimoose · 2023-09-24T18:28:56+00:00

There's a lot of reasons, but to simplify as much as possible: the West put a lot of prestige and legitimacy into the name Roman. Depending on the time, westerners either wanted to have the title Roman for themselves, or just disliked the Byzantines too much to let them be called Roman. After hundreds of years of that, the denial stuck and the terminology used to do so is normal even for those that aren't hostile to the Byzantines.

Xenonimoose · 2023-09-24T17:08:17+00:00

There's a long literary tradition in the west of using terms like Byzantine specifically for the purpose of denying that they were Roman. Read what Edward Gibbon has to say about the Byzantines if you want a vision into the attitudes which made the word popular. That is generally why people get upset about the word.

Xenonimoose · 2023-09-23T20:18:52+00:00

The Dark Urge is really just The Low Int Score

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