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ultranos ([personal profile] ultranos) wrote2011-01-23 02:52 am
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Yeah, I get like this.

Still addicted to Dragon Age: Origins. I, er, may have fallen in love with the setting. It's bloody and there's political intrigue and the Blight is near enough to an apocalypse to count. (There always needs to be an "it's the end of the world!" plot) I'm also loving the fact that I can be snarky, and was absolutely delighted when one of the dialogue responses was literally what I said out loud to the computer.

It's kind of fun playing the Human Noble origin as "I know how to behave in public and according to my station, but I have a sharp tongue when I want to". (And I wish I could find my PC's brother, because I'm just about convinced that the Cousland siblings were bloody hilarious and absolute terrors as children. Huzzah, personal canon.)

Also awkward: suddenly getting The Talk from one of my party members. I apparently triggered a flag somewhere. Because the fact my PC was involved with another party member was news to me. Which leads me to imagining her blinking a lot and going "wait, what?"

And the party member I thought would hate me forever and leave the party (until I figured out how to talk to him) is the first one other than my dog to have a 100% approval rating. *dances*

In other news, a strange and wonderful thing happened on Friday. At 3pm, after coming into work at 11am and taking lunch, I found that I had...nothing in my queue. I'd designed a part for someone, finished QCing the last order I had, and then wrestling with Ubuntu to install MATLAB and Eagle on the computer running the new CNC mill. It was very strange. But not unwelcome! I like being able to stare at TVTropes and Metafilter guilt-free.

Which I've been doing a lot of, because my GM team for the tenday we're writing is picking up speed. We're juuust about out of the major planning phase, and I expect the hardcore writing of characters, mechanics, and plot to start soon. Which is good, as one of the GMs got hired by a company out in SF and will be remote for the majority of the writing. Good thing we have a repo.
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[personal profile] auguris 2011-01-23 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
That guy falls in love with you if you breath in his direction. After you do his companion quest, all you have to do is blink. Believe me, my lesbian templar-disliking mage was surprised, too!
Edited 2011-01-23 21:41 (UTC)
auguris: Close up shot of the bottom of a kitten's foot. (I can kill you with my brain.)

[personal profile] auguris 2011-01-23 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Golly, how did you guess. XD There's an unfortunate bug/programming snafu in which, if you get her to like you too fast, her companion quest will never become available. (they may have fixed it, I never went back to check.) So the romance only went halfway, although I did get to smooch her in front of the whole camp. She also likes shoes an awful lot.

[identity profile] marydell.livejournal.com 2011-01-23 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Dragon age: origins is so great. I've played it through twice (elf commoner first, then human noble) and I have been sad since because no other game has come along since that's half as good.

[identity profile] ultranos-fic.livejournal.com 2011-01-23 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I've played through 3/4 of the first Mass Effect, and it's pretty good (I got distracted by school). I hear ME2 is even better, and hey, Dragon Age II comes out in March. :)

If I play through again, I might do it as a city elf, but my backlog of games is pretty high for me to be thinking of replays. (My life is so hard)

[identity profile] rodlox.livejournal.com 2011-01-23 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
yay for empty!queue !

all the best.

[identity profile] ultranos-fic.livejournal.com 2011-01-24 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Yes! It was an amazing feeling.

All the best to you too.
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[identity profile] holdouttrout.livejournal.com 2011-01-24 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
I admit that I'm curious about this Dragon Age thing. Hmmm.

[identity profile] ultranos-fic.livejournal.com 2011-01-24 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
It's fun! *tempts*
I can provide more information, if you so desire.

(All part of my grand plan to get more people into gaming. *mine is an evil laugh*)