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  • spacekungfumanspacekungfuman Poor and minority-filled Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Eddy wrote: »
    i would've really appreciated it if being a blood mage unlocked an entirely separate narrative path in the DA series

    That's a lot to ask of Bioware. Obsidian, Troika or Black Isle could pull it off though.

  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    In Germany, the period presented marketing problems. At the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Adolf Hitler, a health faddist, insisted that every bottle of Coke have a caffeine-warning label. The same year, anti-Semitism hurt sales when a German competitor stole some kosher Coke bottle caps and urged consumers to avoid the "Jewish American" drink. To counter this, Coke's German branch passed out sodas at Hitler Youth rallies and displayed huge swastikas at bottling conventions.

    your sig was really good following reading that, bee tee dubs.

    It was made before the forums shifted over to Vanilla, so it's like an easter egg now!

  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    will i like dragon age if i loved mass effect but generally don't dig rpg's

    Dragon Age: Origins is an RPG's RPG. It feels like a refresh on what they were trying to do with Baldur's Gate back in the 90s, in their own world, with some KOTOR game sensibilities.

    Dragon Age 2 feels like fantasy Mass Effect 2-3. Defined character with a set one-word name that everyone calls you by, varied romance options, highly narrative-driven.

    Dragon Age: Inquisition looks to be taking the best parts of those two fairly different games and making something better than either one. And it looks to be MASSIVELY long.

    So from a $ to time ratio, its a good investment.

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    Let's play Mario Kart or something...
  • LoserForHireXLoserForHireX Philosopher King The AcademyRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    gtav hits pc in a couple months right

    what else is coming out on pc

    i bought sr4 for $.37 but i don't feel like playing it i don't think, i want something less lighthearted

    Dragon Age, The Crew, Far Cry 4, GTA5 (in Jan), MGS5 Ground Zeroes

    what is the crew, i never finished far cry 3, is mgs5 more stealth stuff or more revengeance sword animu, will i like dragon age if i loved mass effect but generally don't dig rpg's

    DA Origins was very old school RPG. DA 2 was like Mass Effect: Dragon Age.

    I don't know what the new one is going to be like, but I bet it's still pretty Massively Effectish.

    "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
    "We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
  • MortiousMortious The Nightmare Begins Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    So I'm playing DA Origins, because.

    And I'm not a mage.

    Why would anyone ever do this? Not using magic is the worst.

    I don't even get to be a blood mage eventually!

    Blood mags is both OP and really breaks the narrative. Everyone should want to kill you the first time you use blood magic.

    That part acutally bugged me in DA2.

    Nobody acknowledges that you're a mage. Walking around in a robe with a staff. Casting spells everywhere. Humming "I'm a mage, I'm a mage, fuck you I'm a mage" under you breath.

    No one notices.

    Move to New Zealand
    It’s not a very important country most of the time
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  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    Eddy wrote: »
    i would've really appreciated it if being a blood mage unlocked an entirely separate narrative path in the DA series

    That's a lot to ask of Bioware. Obsidian, Troika or Black Isle could pull it off though.

    it would basically be like choosing one of many in MOTB

    just gotta pay some voice actors a couple more peanuts and bam

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • LoserForHireXLoserForHireX Philosopher King The AcademyRegistered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »

    *yawn*

    This is old new Chanus.

    Welcome to information age.

    "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
    "We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    how's your penis this evening fellows and fellowettes

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »

    *yawn*

    This is old new Chanus.

    Welcome to information age.

    YOURE OLD NEWS

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • LoserForHireXLoserForHireX Philosopher King The AcademyRegistered User regular
    Oh, and since this is the internet, I think that I have to say something about your mom, call you some slur, and then tell you to kill yourself.

    That is how you internet.

    "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
    "We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    evilbob wrote: »
    Please post the song later. Need to get Too Many Cooks out of my head.

    I can't stop seeing it as Too Many Cocks

    God damn it.

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  • spacekungfumanspacekungfuman Poor and minority-filled Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    I planned on playing an arcane warrior/blood Mage. But they made them so evil I could not do it. Took the other stupid prestige class instead. Did not matter. That game is so easy on hard.

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    Oh, and since this is the internet, I think that I have to say something about your mom, call you some slur, and then tell you to kill yourself.

    That is how you internet.

    adroit websurfing my good man are you a hacker

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • Rear Admiral ChocoRear Admiral Choco I wanna be an owl, Jerry! Owl York CityRegistered User regular
    So I'm playing DA Origins, because.

    And I'm not a mage.

    Why would anyone ever do this? Not using magic is the worst.

    I don't even get to be a blood mage eventually!

    Blood mags is both OP and really breaks the narrative. Everyone should want to kill you the first time you use blood magic.

    Playing a blood mage makes you at least as bad as the kind of person who always wants to roll up a drow

  • SparvySparvy Registered User regular
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    In Germany, the period presented marketing problems. At the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Adolf Hitler, a health faddist, insisted that every bottle of Coke have a caffeine-warning label. The same year, anti-Semitism hurt sales when a German competitor stole some kosher Coke bottle caps and urged consumers to avoid the "Jewish American" drink. To counter this, Coke's German branch passed out sodas at Hitler Youth rallies and displayed huge swastikas at bottling conventions.

    Though as far as I can tell (it is surprisingly difficult to find info on this) copyright symbols like the one used in that ad didn't begin to see use until after the war. While there existed copyright before the registering of trademarks apparently didn't for a long time.

  • VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    evilbob wrote: »
    Please post the song later. Need to get Too Many Cooks out of my head.

    I can't stop seeing it as Too Many Cocks

    God damn it.

    due needs to get too many cocks out of his head

  • spacekungfumanspacekungfuman Poor and minority-filled Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Eddy wrote: »
    Eddy wrote: »
    i would've really appreciated it if being a blood mage unlocked an entirely separate narrative path in the DA series

    That's a lot to ask of Bioware. Obsidian, Troika or Black Isle could pull it off though.

    it would basically be like choosing one of many in MOTB

    just gotta pay some voice actors a couple more peanuts and bam

    But Bioware doesn't write alternative or branching dialog. . .

  • evilbobevilbob RADELAIDERegistered User regular
    evilbob wrote: »
    Please post the song later. Need to get Too Many Cooks out of my head.

    I can't stop seeing it as Too Many Cocks

    God damn it.

    But there's no such thing as Too Many Cocks :winky:

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  • TTODewbackTTODewback Puts the drawl in ya'll I think I'm in HellRegistered User regular

    Oh god.
    Mississippi got so obese it ate Alabama.
    Fuck

    Bless your heart.
  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    Vanguard wrote: »
    evilbob wrote: »
    Please post the song later. Need to get Too Many Cooks out of my head.

    I can't stop seeing it as Too Many Cocks

    God damn it.

    due needs to get too many cocks out of his head

    Or I need to embrace it and make the Porn parody viral video.

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  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    at first i was like why is this a good burn, she said he has a tiny penis how would she even know that's just a lazy canard

    then i googled and discovered diplo does not have a large penis and he once posted a picture of his un-big penis on twitter

    i am learning things

  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    “To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it's because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that's where phrases like 'deadly dull' or 'excruciatingly dull' come from. But there might be more to it. Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from feeling, or at least from feeling directly or with our full attention. Admittedly, the whole thing's pretty confusing, and hard to talk about abstractly...but surely something must lie behind not just Muzak in dull or tedious places anymore but now also actual TV in waiting rooms, supermarkets' checkouts, airports' gates, SUVs' backseats. Walkmen, iPods, BlackBerries, cell phones that attach to your head. The terror of silence with nothing diverting to do. I can't think anyone really believes that today's so-called 'information society' is just about information. Everyone knows it's about something else, way down.”

    DFW had some serious issues and i actually disagree with his thesis here due to my subscription to cultural elite theory

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • spacekungfumanspacekungfuman Poor and minority-filled Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    So I'm playing DA Origins, because.

    And I'm not a mage.

    Why would anyone ever do this? Not using magic is the worst.

    I don't even get to be a blood mage eventually!

    Blood mags is both OP and really breaks the narrative. Everyone should want to kill you the first time you use blood magic.

    Playing a blood mage makes you at least as bad as the kind of person who always wants to roll up a drow

    Also, infinity magic is so broken in that game. I had a tiny MP pool as an arcane warrior. Did not matter. Still so strong.

  • Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    People should use the word "canard" more often.

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  • TTODewbackTTODewback Puts the drawl in ya'll I think I'm in HellRegistered User regular
    You ate your entire weight in candles.

    Thank you.

    Bless your heart.
  • Belasco32Belasco32 Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    how's your penis this evening fellows and fellowettes

    on its way home :)

  • simonwolfsimonwolf i can feel a difference today, a differenceRegistered User regular
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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    i don't understand why the candle is still burning inside of you

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    edited November 2014
    Eddy wrote: »
    Eddy wrote: »
    i would've really appreciated it if being a blood mage unlocked an entirely separate narrative path in the DA series

    That's a lot to ask of Bioware. Obsidian, Troika or Black Isle could pull it off though.

    it would basically be like choosing one of many in MOTB

    just gotta pay some voice actors a couple more peanuts and bam

    But Bioware doesn't write alternative or branching dialog. . .

    ME3 was a microcosm of the diamond-shaped narrative method that they use[d for the trilogy] - you can have branches but they'll inevitably converge

    presumably if bioware entertained a blood mage-specific path, there would be a specific individual/special PC characteristic or method of reconciliation that allowed them to merge the stories at some point

    Eddy on
    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    eddy what is cultural elite theory

  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    As I'm googling Diplos penis I am not at all surprised that I read that as Too Many Cocks.

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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
  • Belasco32Belasco32 Registered User regular
    ug, I have...become an asshole :(

    I just had a conversation with a friend in which I had a fucking answer for everything and reasons to back up my answers...

    I am a horrible person :(

  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    Belasco32 wrote: »
    ug, I have...become an asshole :(

    I just had a conversation with a friend in which I had a fucking answer for everything and reasons to back up my answers...

    I am a horrible person :(

    nah, don't kick yourself too hard.

    Sometimes people want answers and sometimes they just want someone to listen.

    Who knows? Maybe they appreciated it.

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  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    edited November 2014
    Vanguard wrote: »
    eddy what is cultural elite theory

    it's just the cultural equivalent to [economic] elite theory :P

    elite theory, aka the ronya boilerplate:
    The theory posits that a small minority, consisting of members of the economic elite and policy-planning networks, holds the most power and that this power is independent of a state's democratic elections process.

    basically there are makers and distributors of cultural standbys and mores

    Eddy on
    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    Anybody want to play LoL with me when it finishes downloading in like an hour?

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