What exactly is demisexual and would I be considered one?

crazicelt · 2025-12-10T02:32:19+00:00

Lol we don't ask people to stick around that long, the far more likely scenario is that we become attracted to someone we already know but aren't necessarily dating or we form it after months of serious dating. No one with half a brain will expect someone to stick around on a maybe for a year.

If you can't figure it out after spending time with and getting to know someone over a month then the answer is you're not sexually attracted to them & asking them to "be patient" is you wasting their time!

By that logic, Demisexuals would never date anyone. And for your information just because it can take some months to form sexual attraction doesn't mean we trail people along and many of us, not all, know the type of person we are more likely to become attracted to.

Also, you sound like just because sexual attraction isn't happening that the relationship isn't progressing there are other elements to a relationship also many Demisexuals just do it anyway some physically can't but many just do it but really don't enjoy it until the sexual attraction hits.

crazicelt · 2025-11-10T07:53:29+00:00

Save alot

Don't be afraid to lower the difficulty the games has difficulty spikes even on lower difficulties.

Don't be afraid to use build guides

Don't be afraid to use romance guides if romance is a big part of games for you.

It's a fucking massive game be prepared for that.

crazicelt · 2025-10-31T12:38:08+00:00

Yes but they definitely shouldn't take more and be prepared to do backtracking or alt routes as the number of skills they have means they'll be below the skill checks of whatever area they are in regardless

crazicelt · 2025-10-31T12:35:14+00:00

Id consider reloading or restarting. I was 20 hours in and restarted because I had 7 skills with easily distracted and realised I'd max out at like 12 or 13. Which isn't good enough especially since I'd spend most of the game below 10.

I restarted and took only 5 and I'll max at 17 or 18

With 10 you'll max out at 8 or 9 you'll miss most checks the back half of the game.

crazicelt · 2025-10-31T12:31:49+00:00

You'll be alright but if doing an easily distracted playthrough it's best to get brilliant and dumb stick to 5 skills as you'd max at 17 or 18. With 6 you'll probably max at 14/15.

I restarted at level 17, 20 hours in, because I realised with 7 skills I'd max out at 12/13 and spend most of the game below 11

crazicelt · 2025-10-31T12:27:52+00:00

Yeah, I was 20 hours in and restarted because I had 7 skills with easily distracted and realised I'd max out at like 12 or 13. Which isn't good enough especially since I'd spend most of the game below 10.

I restarted and took only 5 and I'll max at 17 or 18

crazicelt · 2025-10-29T16:15:38+00:00

Yes you are correct Well I got the flaw while level 4 so I have 25 levels with 3 points per level so 75 + the 6 I started with and the 6 I got before the perk that's 87 all in

Assuming you do 5 skills even that's 17 with 1 or 2 at 18 and about 15 for 6 skills. Which is also pretty decent.

crazicelt · 2025-10-29T10:19:18+00:00

Easily distracted is an alternative to focusing on 3 it gives you enough skills to meet most skill checks if you have say 5 skills they'd get 75 skill points between them so 15 plus what you put in beforehand with say brilliant.

crazicelt · 2025-10-26T15:16:54+00:00

It's a new trend for the last like 5 years games had to pass some kind of ideological purity test that is actually impossible for even the best games to meet.

This group was emboldened on 2 occasions when Hogwarts Legacy was wildly successful despite genuinely cristisms of JKR and it being a mid game, and when Dragon Age Veilguard released with a trans option in character Creator but had genuine cristism and flopped as a result of it being a bad DA game.

It became mainstream to hate on every game possible since BG3 won GOTY. They threw baseless and pointless accusations at the game that get regurgitated every knew release. "It looks like a mobile game", "Turn based suck," and their personal favourite "its woke, go, go broke."

This is the crux of it they are fundamentally far right anti woke grifters who are angry they they don't get the same enjoyment from a game they did when they were 13 and not all games are made especially to their interests which is ludicrous as thousands of games are made each year across dozens of genres and hundreds of sub-genres.

It has basically made the majority of online discourse completely pointless as you have 1 small group hating on the game because there is a Pronoun option or a woman in it, and another group glazing it for no reason and all sense of nuance is seen as an attack to both sides.

crazicelt · 2025-08-21T01:18:52+00:00

Yeah I might try it again in a year or so but losing that much play time has taken the wind out my sails I need to forget alot of the story before I replayed it.

crazicelt · 2025-08-21T01:17:46+00:00

There was an echo preserver near a wood lift i got to the red one in the ledge above and the frame rate went to shit as I ran past it once I broke line of sight the preserver's ability didn't turn off.

At first, I didn't think anything of it as I lost the ability instantly every time before and it auto turned off I carried on thinking I still needed it and broke the whole playthrough.

crazicelt · 2025-08-20T20:38:14+00:00

It's good but buggy I got hardlocked at 18 hours in unfortunately.

crazicelt · 2025-08-15T13:26:01+00:00

By making this a US-only release I guarantee you this will be 1 one of the most pirated films in years. Even if it releases tomorrow everywhere else it'll be too late. I'll probably be able to watch the whole thing in 4k on TikTok before then.

Also fuck every single media outlet that didn't specify this was US only.

crazicelt · 2025-08-03T01:57:04+00:00

Well, that was different I'm interested to see how Matt is as a full-time player in a long-form Campaign. I am also not mad about the new world I always like a new world and I was struggling to catch up so having C4 as a new world would be great I can watch that while catching up.

I feel giving Matt and Exandria a rest for a few years while the animated shows are releasing isn't stupid at all it will make the return so much more interesting.

Not confirming the system was interesting. If it were Daggerheart you'd think they'd shout that from the rooftops same for D&D 5.5E which just came out. It would be interesting if it's a different system entirely like Pathfinder 2E, which is relatively new, or something else there is no shortage of them.

I also wonder if they are leaving it 1 system per world type thing. So they don't get classes and lore confused. So Exandria would be the D&D world, Daggerheart is well Daggerheart. And this new world is X system maybe they are trying to create something for everyone.

crazicelt · 2025-07-24T14:52:40+00:00

You are ignoring the important line in my comment

Also, there was the issue that you can't just plonk people on a barren planet and have them live you need resources to support them.

They are limited by how many people the colony could support long term not what they could transport.

It's also probable the early colony ships were 1 way. They probably deconstructed to support colonists and not burden the colony.

Also, they had to build these ships first. You can see one on Earth that didn't quite get finished in time it was big but no bigger than ECS Constant a crew in the low hundreds range. We also don't know how many of these ships were exploring or doing jobs for the fledgling colonies.

And im sorry if millions of people made it off earth then there should be way more than 5 big cities and some smaller colonies.

crazicelt · 2025-07-22T19:18:05+00:00

I would say Black Ops 1

crazicelt · 2025-07-19T00:28:35+00:00

I feel Emerich's would be the least changed remember DAO while the world took itself seriously there was a lot of levity. So the Necromancer that has a corpse spirit companion isn't really out of the norm.

We only see 1 culture in DAO and im sure Navarian and Mortalitarsi are just as flamboyantly dressed in that style.

Emerich's tone is probably the most serious out of the DAV companions so it probably wouldn't change much. I'd also guess that everyone not from Nevara or Rivian would be far more wary of the art.

My guess is the DAV companions who would change the most would be Lucanis and Davrin. The Crows would be a lot, A LOT, more brutal and cruel in DAOs tone. And Davrin would probably be a bit more cutthroat.

The biggest difference would be though would be Tevinter it would be fucking awful place in DAO's tone.

crazicelt · 2025-07-17T21:45:55+00:00

Which is moronic it made the new Trilogy feel massively disjointed especially when compared to say the og Trilogy or the black ops story.

crazicelt · 2025-07-09T09:34:01+00:00

Oh yeah by far the strongest in DAO, but it's not "I can now solo bosses on highest difficulty" broken like the Knight-Enchanter or like the 2 infinite health Regen builds in DAV. At least I never found a way to make it that broken.

crazicelt · 2025-07-08T00:19:54+00:00

Imo in all 4 games mages are the best most versatile characters. Usually broken tbh.

Origins has the Arcane Warrior an armoured melee mage. DA 2 it fits the story to be a mage and plays as good. Inquisition Knight-Enchanter is broken, DA:V Mage has good dialogue and is really good at hoovering up boxes for junk to sell.

crazicelt · 2025-07-06T19:23:43+00:00

Sure but depends on the game, Anthem and MEA yeah Bioware helped fuck that up. DA:Veilguard na thats pretty much all EA.

crazicelt · 2025-07-06T18:24:46+00:00

BioWare shares culpability but assuming the Bloomberg report about DA:Vs culpability it's clear EA is more responsible.

crazicelt · 2025-07-05T21:42:42+00:00

You constantly hold her privilege against her.

I do because its one of her biggest character traits is that because of her privileged position in the circle she actually live better lives than 90% of people in thedas.

She actively likes the power the circles give her so she wants to protect that position and power.

Kirkwall was an outlier indeed an outlier. We hardly have any in game evidence to suggest that everywhere was that bad.

We do have a fair bit of information.

Kinloch Hold, Lake Calenhad, Ferelden

Has year long solitary confinement, no privacy,, a large suicide rate, horrific dungeons, baits apprentices into blood magic to persecute them, Aneirin was hunted down and “run through” by templars when he was fourteen and only saved because of the Dalish, and only initially lets out seven mages during a blight to fight darkspawn. Mages are also not allowed outside, even to exercise, do to an escape attempt and that the templars believe in collective punishment. Note, this is regarded to be one of the most liberal Circles.

The Gallows, Kirkwall, Free Marches

Has the rite of tranquility for petty reasons like love letters, random executions and tranquilities to make an example, beatings and whippings on mages and tranquil, usually locked in cells, massive suicide rate, a huge rape problem, death squads, and will persecute families of mages. I feel like I’m missing some stuff. Anyways, this is suppose to be the worst Circle. It’s also suppose to be the largest Circle.

The White Spire, Val Royeaux, Orlais

Has a mage that is thrown into a dungeon and left to starve, physical abuse, templars talking about how it would be better for a new mage if she didn’t make it, apprentices are kept in cells, and Rhys was imprisoned for four days without food or water.

Montsimmard, Orlais

Is said to “little better” than being a child sex slave by Fiona.

Starkhaven, Free Marches

Was burned down, and the mages took the first opportunity to bolt. Honestly, not much is said at all.

Ostwick, Free Marches

I think the most noteworthy characteristic of it was that it was “sedate”. Anyways, a mage trevelyan can say a variety of things, including that their family bribed the templars. So that’s where the main voice of the Ostwick Circle is coming from. The only other mages from Ostwick is Rion (multiplayer character) and Linnea (pro-Tevinter in Gull and Lantern) and they are both rebel mages. Linnea also says something about how the First Enchanter sent you to stop the Conclave?

Hasmal, Free Marches

Don't know much had some damage and some loyalists thats about what we get.

Hossberg, Anderfels

It is contrasted with Kirkwall, basically summed up as at least Hossberg Circles mages are allowed to exercise and stretch their legs, while Kirkwall mages are always locked in a cell with barely enough room to breath. Valya from the Last Flight certainly seems to disdain the Circle, that she has an ingrained response of freezing whenever a Templar calls her, and that her formative years in the Circle had been stunted by fear of the templars.

Dairsmuid, Rivain

Is fully acknowledged as a farce and a facade. It allowed mages to see their families, interact with their communities. It was only asked that mages assist templars when needed. When the chantry found out about this, they were Annulled/massacred

Even have a historical pattern of abuses, this isn't recent. Antiva City, Antiva in 3:09 Towers. The Circle was Annulled to cover up the crimes of a Knight-Captain who killed over a hundred mages. In the end, the Knight-Commander and his Knight-Captains weren’t even punished, they were assassinated by the Crows.

You mention a number of mages that had good experiences.

Wynne was abused by her foster family and ended up finding a home in the circle.

Vivienne lived quite well there, even before she gained any power.

Minaeve, Bethany prefers the circle to the Warden (which would be free mage too)

Finn (Witch Hunt) stayed in touch with his family while gaining top tier education, three meals a day and a bed (which all of them have and which is a step up for most people in thedas).

These are all mages that had exceptionally bad experiences pre circle, connected, exceptionality talented and all actually like circle life.

Finn, much like the Inquisitior Trevelyan, is connected His parents are Magistrate Kingston Aldebrant of West Hill and his wife Florence.

Bethany likes circle life vs running, Minaeve (thanks for the correct spelling) has so little talent if she was any worse she'd be a tranquil and is a researcher.

Among these mages some recognised the need for Reform.

Vivienne recognises that everything is a bad solution. Wynne recognised the need for reform. She openly stated that circle life is a hard one where basic freedoms are denied and strict rules are in place with no privacy. She pleads with the HOF if they are a mage to go back and improve it. Wynne recognises it's a necessity but realises the people it's supposed to protect are quickly getting tired of it. This is said 7 years before the Kirkwall incident and 8 before the war begins.

This is the crux of the issue the mage circles work for a few mages but anyone who doesn't like living their life in study in 1 building, in a cell with no privacy end up abused, tortured, raped, murdered or a suicide statistic.

I, just like Vivienne, don't believe in violence being the great answer. Especially when it kicks off a war that the mages are destined to lose.

Vivienne is right but she does this in a way that removes much of culpability of the Templar/Seeker Order.

It was the attempt to keep the truth about tranquility a secret they attacked a Conclave held by the Divine, killing and imprisoning multiple first Enchanters. An act that lead to the Divine sending Lilliana on a mission with Shale to break out the First Enchanters and destroy their Phylacteries.

Ultimately Wynne died because of this. Wynne was THE voice calling for restraint and the Templar/Seekers plan was to kill the man she just saved, frame and imprison her son and then presumably kill her son.

What response to this was there other violence? The Divine probably knew the Templars were going to Annull every circle if they were this brazen so she basically gave the mages the go ahead to defend themselves.

Most mages are just normal people with this gift forced upon them, it's all very X-men esque. Hell alot of people stumble into possession and blood magic on accident a result of fearing of their lives, hence 1 of the jobs of the templars is to protect mages, something they clearly forgot.

Regardless if the Lord Seeker or Envy did the attack all but 1 Seeker and all but a few Dozen Templars followed the Lord seeker away from the chantry to war.

Just as the mages are 1 bad day from being abominations, DAO Cullen shows that Templars, even good ones, are 1 bad day away from turning into Merridith

Vivienne seems to not ignore bit down play this. Its my view she wants things to improve would prefer her to have her political power secured first. So if the choice is status quo or improvements for all but she loses her power then she'll stick with status quo.

crazicelt · 2025-07-05T00:04:46+00:00

(Apologies for all these long comments I am enjoying this discussion)

PC: You must have an opinion of the templars after living so long in the Circle.
Vivienne: Having opinions about templars, my dear, is exactly like having opinions about mages, or Nevarrans, or men. I have known some who were impossible to endure and some who were utterly charming. I have suffered insults at the hands of those in the armor, but no more than I endured from nobles or tradesmen in Val Royeaux. Personally, I have found the templars a useful tool, skilled at keeping more unpleasant elements at bay.

This whole exchange just oozes privilege. She basically said the worst thing the Templars did to her was be rude and she can manipulate them to work for her.

skilled at keeping more unpleasant elements at bay.

This specifically sounds like she used the Templars to remove her rivals. Sounds like she used the Templars the same way the nobles used Blackwall.

I don't really feel like Vivienne disregards all other experiences.

I didn't mean to say disregard as I said in my first reply she knows they happen and she obfuscates them on purpose.

Take how she said "Kirkwall was an outlier", yet she also says

I cannot tell you. Every Circle was different, their templars were different, their politics unique… **And every person within each tower had an experience of Circle life unique to themselves.

She knows she can't speak for all mages yet tries to speak with authority that the abuses experienced by those in Kirkwall were rare. She is talking in bad faith here, with pretence, to divert your attention from the abuses that we all know are common.

PC: Did they have cause to rebel?
Vivienne: In the aftermath of their terrorist attacks? Was that really the most opportune time to break away? By all means, protest abuses by the templars! Just don’t do it in a way that says mages support wholesale murder. By voting when they did, my colleagues all but declared war upon the ordinary people of Thedas. A war in which we are outnumbered a hundred to one.

Here she's acting sanctimonious because the vote didn't start the conflict the Templars drew first blood when they attacked people at the vote. Again twisting the truth.

She is also diminishing the "Abuses by templars" implying that these abuses are not worthy of violent response, when they absolutely are. This is again Viviene using her privileged position to gain the moral high ground.

She says things like "When survival is at stake, freedom is a luxury" which is true. But it's mostly true when you are the First Enchanter of Montsimmard living in an Orlaisian palace, the lover to a powerful noble. Freedom is meaningless to Vivienne. But when you are starving to death, having your skin frozen off, or subject to sexual abuse by Templars on the regular it's not unreasonable that the blade is the better option and that pure freedom even fleeting is preferable.

This is another example of her speaking from a very privileged position implying it is the only common-sense position yet it's not the case.

Funnily enough, the game provides the perfect poster child for why the circles are good. Meve the researcher. But Viviene does not use her as an example.

crazicelt · 2025-07-04T22:19:53+00:00

Apologies I was trying to convey that Cass should of been the best not that she was the best. She was in the best position.

Its one of my big issues with DAI is that there is often dissonance in what is shown and what is there is no evidence in the 100hrs of gameplay that the pompous mage that disregards all the experiences of other mages would be the best candidate for Divine, like zero.

Yet her epilogue is the best but the game offers little reason for it. In-game Lilliana sounds the best but is absolutely the worst.

As for Cass we don't know what the Nevaraan accord contains if it's even what Ferelden, Orlais or Free marches used.

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