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Post by Rouccoco on Jun 4, 2019 23:06:25 GMT
Random question - the KISA love is strong here. I was wondering if anyone had any preferences for said KISA's ideal age? (Or any LI really, I was just playing NWN2 where Casavir's coming up on forty, and in DA you've got Alistair who's 20 in DAO, Cass is in her late thirties, Cullen is early thirties by the time he's romanceable, Blackwall's gotta be in his forties, etc.) Late thirties is probably the sweet spot. It feels like the neutral age, where the character will get neither a growing up story, nor a "I did done mess up in my long life" story. I'd like them to steer clear of both with a KISA. |
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Post by Davrin's boobs on Jun 10, 2019 3:08:59 GMT
Random question - the KISA love is strong here. I was wondering if anyone had any preferences for said KISA's ideal age? (Or any LI really, I was just playing NWN2 where Casavir's coming up on forty, and in DA you've got Alistair who's 20 in DAO, Cass is in her late thirties, Cullen is early thirties by the time he's romanceable, Blackwall's gotta be in his forties, etc.) I like men older than me, but then again Alistair won me over so I dont know I'm just confused and very gay. |
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Post by Lee on Jun 10, 2019 3:39:40 GMT
Random question - the KISA love is strong here. I was wondering if anyone had any preferences for said KISA's ideal age? (Or any LI really, I was just playing NWN2 where Casavir's coming up on forty, and in DA you've got Alistair who's 20 in DAO, Cass is in her late thirties, Cullen is early thirties by the time he's romanceable, Blackwall's gotta be in his forties, etc.) I like men older than me, but then again Alistair won me over so I dont know I'm just confused and very gay. You are in good company. Here's to the gay and constantly confused by all the things! |
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Post by izut on Jun 15, 2019 6:26:47 GMT
I just bought DAO Ultimate Edition and DA2 DLC bundle on Origin since both are on sales. I already had DA2 so now my DA collection is back again AND I finally have ALL DLCs for both (something I was never able to get on Xbox due to region blocking). I only had DAI GOTY and a few DLCs for DAO and DA2 when I owned xone.
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Post by Davrin's boobs on Jun 15, 2019 17:51:45 GMT
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Post by Lee on Jun 16, 2019 2:52:18 GMT
Davrin's boobs I felt that in my soul. I've seen it far too often. Also just in general people claiming to be allies to the LGBT, but constantly showing no remorse or any desire to defend or help the M/M situation improve. The lack of care from some people is so clear.
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Post by Andrew Mancer on Nov 4, 2019 23:06:51 GMT
So Dragon Age was first released ten years ago...it's hard to believe how much time has passed since I first played the game and I was first introduced to a world that became an important part of my life. While I'm not a fan of the direction the series has taken since then, there's no denying the impact it's had on me and all the happy memories I have because of it.
Origins remains one of my all-time favorite games along with Mass Effect 3 and I often say I can't decide between the two and which one would take the top spot.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary yesterday I played through the Origin that introduced me to the world of Thedas with my boyfriend, the Dalish origin. I tried to recreate my original Warden as closely as I could and it was just fun talking about all the memories with my boyfriend and kind of developing my original Warden's backstory a bit along the way with him!
(It was also great having him hear Carolyn Seymour as the keeper because we're currently going through the Mass Effect and I keep telling him how much I love Chakwas!)
It was great revisiting the Dalish origin since now I can never play the game as anything but a human noble with the gay Alistair mod!
We played on PS3, the way I originally did, so the temptation wasn't there this time die to lack of mods!
I would really love to go through the game again...but for now I'm busy with other things...and don't have my PC anyway!
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Post by Andrew Mancer on Jan 20, 2020 0:04:18 GMT
I somehow ended up watching some reviews for Dragon Age Origins and 2....and that led to me jumping into some old save files on my PS3. (Mainly to make love to Anders and Zevran...)
Now I'm just listening to the bard songs from Inquisition and just thinking about all the good times I have had with the games and what they mean to me...
It makes me want Dragon Age 4 soon...hard to believe how much time has passed since Inquisition's release. I thought I'd be playing the fourth game by now when ot first was released!
Just feeling really nostalgic today...guess that was bound to happen when I have time to spare on my own.
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Post by dgcatanisiri on Feb 22, 2020 19:36:16 GMT
Another day of "fuck the fandom" on the confession blog today... I talked myself into submitting a confession about how I feel about the Dorian romance/lack of bi!Cullen situation. There are some at least sympathetic responses, but it really feels like some people just see "I didn't like Dorian" and decide to pile on the hate.
Honestly, I'm half-convinced now that part of why I submitted this was to simply be able to block the assholes... |
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Post by Davrin's boobs on Feb 22, 2020 20:34:38 GMT
I do understand why people is so protective about Dorian, being one of the first openly gay dude in videogame history and all that but I will never understand why criticizing Bioware golden boy make you automatically a fucking demon lmao it's just a fucking fictional character and it's totally fine to like him or dislike him, or like him and disliking some aspects of him. There is no black or white about this  The fact that some people distance of each other over fictional characters I will never understand it lol There are users here that have favorites that I dont like and viceversa and we get along just fine and thats totally ok, we are adults and these games and characters are not our real life, and I bet Gaider aint nobody's sugar daddy  What I'm trying to say is that listen or not listen at all but things should not get personal over fiction, it's just sad  Shoutout to Numai, BA, Andrewmancer and every Solasmancer fan every time I talk shit about Dorian, Danse, Solas or Sebastian, bear with me, love ya   |
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Post by dgcatanisiri on Feb 22, 2020 21:28:59 GMT
I really want to respond to some of the comments, but they really don't deserve it.
Though I do want to point out that "Dorian was written by a gay man talking about his experiences!" isn't a winning move in this - it's not like Dorian actually GETS any development through this story. He really doesn't. If anything, particularly with Trespasser, he ends up reverting, the game hammering him into accepting his father's complete non-apology. The story as it is isn't even about Dorian - it's about his father first, to show that he recognizes he did something that caused the break between father and son, the Inquisitor to "learn" about the humanizing pain that gay people go through, and then Dorian's "contribution" is to be pushed into accepting Halward's non-apology.
Like, even if you WANT to view this whole thing as a story about that society and culture, where the homophobia is involved as a side effect at most and not intentional, not the "actual" core of the story, and it's more the way the real world is structured that makes someone view it through this lens... That's still the view people come in with this, and it is not going to just get waved away because of "fictional world." Media is and always will be a reflection of the culture and society shaping it. They are intertwined in a way that you will never undo those ties.
Also, isn't it contradictory to argue that 1) Gaider wrote this as a reflection of his experiences as a gay man and 2) that it isn't REALLY about homophobia, it's about the restrictive society and culture of Tevinter and fitting in to it?
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Post by dgcatanisiri on Feb 29, 2020 7:12:08 GMT
So... Blue Wraith #2 has a... moment that's stirring some things up.  The writer has a Tumblr response to the reactions. Personally... I think this is the wrong approach to take, because this is definitely NOT how Fenris was ever treated in my games, where I take the friend!path every time and friend!romance any time I'm not acting purely in the name of variation's sake. I understand where the writer is coming from, what they're trying to say with it, that this isn't necessarily THE truth, just Fenris's emotional truth, where he is in this moment and time in processing the fallout of the separation that has canonically scattered the Kirkwall crew to the winds. But I do not agree with it. If anything, I feel like it is both a) regressive, ignoring the growth and development Fenris went through during the game, and b) even damaging, in the sense that it's effectively emotionally relapsing a trauma survivor for no real reason. Also, on a personal level... Can I PLEASE just have my very limited emotionally connected characters who are canonically queer have their goddamn happy endings for freaking ONCE?! |
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Post by mediocreogre on Mar 6, 2020 23:22:01 GMT
So apparently there is a new DA novel coming out like next week. Tevinter Nights. Collection of short stories. It’s a lot about Solas, our favorite plot centric, world changing, shape shifting, immortal who is you know just not into dudes. And that’s very important to his character. Very. Important. The angst a male elf would experience after being gas lit by him would of course not feed him, he lives off very specific angst tears.
Anyways. Moving on from my envy, there’s a couple LGBTQ characters from my preview I got. Cool stuff about Darkspawn really bringing back the lovecraft overtones from DAO. I wish I wasn’t a dumb gay boy who can’t read or I might read it I am so desperate for a DA anything that isn’t all about some rando Inquisiton people fighting some venatori or whatever.
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Post by dgcatanisiri on Mar 7, 2020 6:23:36 GMT
I have this reflexive shudder at the idea of Lukas Kristjansen's writing these days, and I know he has a couple of stories in it, so... That's not a comforting thought, but...
*sigh* Still, I'm gonna pick this up. Supposed to drop on the tenth, so...
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Post by mediocreogre on Mar 7, 2020 19:29:52 GMT
I have this reflexive shudder at the idea of Lukas Kristjansen's writing these days, and I know he has a couple of stories in it, so... That's not a comforting thought, but... *sigh* Still, I'm gonna pick this up. Supposed to drop on the tenth, so... Good news is that it is an anthology, so ignore the authors you don’t like. The story i read read in my preview was I believe “Horror of Hormak” by John Epler. Real good. |
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Post by dgcatanisiri on Mar 20, 2020 4:25:45 GMT
Gods is Dragon Age starting to get exhausting, as a franchise, with how much they'll put Dorian in EVERYTHING just because it's near Tevinter...
Like, okay, a part of me WANTS to be happy about a gay character getting this kind of prominence and attention, but... THIS gay character, in particular? I really don't care for him, and yet it seems like EVERYTHING that's coming out of Dragon Age-related media is going to involve him in some fashion or another.
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Post by mediocreogre on Mar 20, 2020 5:22:34 GMT
He’s the new Varric
edit: i’m An ambivalent Dorian person myself. I mostly just don’t care as much as i don’t like how he was handled. But I guarantee you if they pull another Varric and make him a companion we will all be super sick of him. Most the time I took Varric with me in DAI I just felt sad, like he was that kid in college who graduated years ago but won’t leave.
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Post by turianlannister on Mar 22, 2020 1:57:45 GMT
I was at a scifi con in February in Southampton and Gareth David Lloyd and Kai Owen were guests, I asked Gareth if he'd done any work on DA4 but he said he hadn't recorded anything since the teaser trailer and he was under an NDA
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Post by mediocreogre on Mar 30, 2020 15:00:08 GMT
I’m replaying DAI in this quarantine, doing a female elf to romance Solas (in my 1.5 previous playthroughs I went with Dorian then Bull) and I decided to experience “Adoribull” as I never have.... basically DAI went from an okay game with bad m/m options to now the most frustrating and kind of just obnoxious thing I have experienced in DA. Between dealing with Solas to romance him and the weird Adoribull banter I kind of now have a much darker opinion of this game.
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Post by disgustednoise on Apr 20, 2020 0:15:22 GMT
Me every time I start a DAO file: I'm going to play as somebody besides Cousland this time.
Also me every time I start a DAO file: Remembers how cute the backstory is between Ser Gilmore and Cousland is with the mod and immediately picks Cousland.
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The fact that some people distance of each other over fictional characters I will never understand it lol 
