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Warden: Man, switching seamlessly between two weapon sets is tops!

Hawke: I traded that in for a voice and I've never looked back.

Warden: Eh, cool I guess.

Inquisitor: Hey guys! Check this shit out! *jumps*

Warden, Hawke: *appreciative noises*

Rook: *swishes hair*

Warden, Hawke, Inquisitor: *GASP!!* No fuckin' way!!!

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Great I forgot how to mod Dragon Age Origins

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I've been thinking about the disparity between Zevran's experience with the Crows and what we see in Veilguard.

Some things occured to me. First, all of the houses of the crows seem to work mostly on their own. Zevran's house was in Antiva City he says. So they way they did things could be, and were apparently vastly different from Treviso. We know through Zevran they were bought as orphans or slaves etc, trained through torture and trauma bonded with their fellow assassins.

I was also reading through my World of Thedas 2, and it seems the crows either as a whole or in ACcdid not like House Arainai and were quite pleased when Zevran brought it down.

Lucanis' house seems to use much more humane methods, more through adoption, family ties and legit training. Jacobus is a child and is treated well as far as we can tell, and adopted into the family. Heir is one of the trainers (and was the inquisition trainer for rogues, nice touch) .

I don't think it's a stretch to assume that either...

1. Zevran's rampage after the events of Origins caused some major changes all around.

Or...

2. The different guilds in the various cities don't subscribe to the same methods as House Arainai did.

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WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

WHO IS USING THIS

AN APP??? THEY HAVE A FUNCTIONING WEBSITE

THE LAST FUNCTIONING WEBSITE

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I wish there was social media without a really heavy algorithm...

Facebook is so strange because they don't show you what your friends are actually posting, just what they think will keep you the most engaged.

They seem to miss the point that our taste is much more open-ended than meets the eye. My preferences are not so much the stats of a static NPC in an RPG, but rather, an ever-shifting, entirely unpredictable miasma.

They're so intent on predicting what I like and indeed, they can predict a shadow of my taste.

I guess, engagement does not equal enjoyment, fulfillment, happiness...

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Wooo!! I see mods on Veilguard Nexus!!

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Apparently in China peach wood (Along with the rest of the plant) is believed to have properties that repel evil spirits, a little similar to silver in European legends or iron for both European fae and West Asian/Middle eastern Jinn. Taoists sometimes keep swords made of peach wood because of this. This made me realize something. If you took a peach wood stick, and attached studs to it of both silver and iron you'd end up with a club or staff (or mace, flail etc.) that would have the weaknesses of many kinds of supernatural creatures while still retaining effectiveness as a normal weapon (peach is a hardwood and silver's poor edge retention doesn't matter for studs). You could even keep adding new stud materials to get something ridiculous that affects over 120 catalogued folkloric monsters. Since you just need a few little studs you could even get some really expensive materials like meteoric iron (a thumb tip sized meteorite can still cost like 10-20 bucks I think). I could somewhat feasibly make a weapon that affects every monster ever thought to walk the earth, from vampires and werewolves to jinn and jiangshi and even mankind.

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Hey so fun new scam just dropped! I got a call earlier today from someone spoofing the local police department's desk number, asking me if there was a reason I'd missed my jury summons this morning.

Friends, I had not received a jury summons for this month. Which I told him, at which point his previously clear diction suddenly turned into a rapid mumble, only becoming clear for scary words like 'federal' and then asking to confirm my address, at which point I hung up and decided to call the police department later.

When I called the police department the desk officer sounded so tired y'all. All I had to say was "Hey I got a call earlier saying I missed jury duty this morning?" and she immediately sighed and told me that yes it was a scam that was going around and thanked me for calling to confirm.

So this is your periodic reminder that law enforcement agencies will not call you to tell you that you're in trouble. If you need to pay a fine of some sort they will mail you a physical invoice. Anyone calling you saying they're from the police or any other law enforcement organization (up to the CIA and yes I have heard of scammers attempting to impersonate CIA agents over the phone) who then tries to get financial information from you over the phone is a scammer.

I know I actually bang on about this a weird amount, but it is my fervent hope that the information will stick in peoples' brains if they get randomly selected for the adrenaline spike lottery. Scammers use scary words to get you to panic in order to shut down your critical thinking, and if even one person's brain spits out "Tumblr user waterhobbit said the cops/CIA/federal marshalls don't call about this shit" before their bank account routing number is in the hands of assholes I will consider it a job well done.

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So happy with my bookshelves FINALLY!

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Being Lavellan's parents is truly the most weird ass existence. Imagine being a normal elf in the Free Marches and you're informed your beloved son is currently eloping with a Tevinter Magister. Or worse, your beautiful daughter got dumped by God.

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Never again...

Will I pick Minrathous over Treviso. Nope.

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Being in the dragon age fandom for like 12+ years is like

Dragon Age 2 release week: this game fucking sucks, they ruined the lore and the companions are cringe

Dragon Age 2, 5 years after release: this game is fantastic albeit rushed, the companions are my favorite

Inquisition release week: this game fucking sucks, they ruined the lore with these new implications

Inquisition, 5 years after release: this game is fantastic, I love the lore implications

Veilguard release week: this game fucking sucks--

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Some new kind of scam? It’s giving scam but I also don’t really understand how it’s a scam?? but it’s 100% a scam yeah?