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My Chemical Romance drummer Bob Bryar found dead aged 44

@junipersky Tell child that her therapist goes to therapy.

I liked my time with Veilguard. Just as I liked my time with Origins, Hawke and Friends, and Inquisition. I also enjoyed Mass Effect Andromeda and desperately want a sequel, but know it probably won’t happen. There are valid critiques in here, of course, the game isn’t perfect. But I enjoyed myself… so if you can get it cheap or as part of a subscription you already pay for, then play it for a bit. At worst, you’ll be bored.

@Roz said in why is nobody talking about Veilguard:

WGA doesn’t include video game writers AFAIK

It does, though not many video games are written by members, and the WGA Awards had a category for video games from 2008 - 2019. It gets complicated and political quick if you do a deep dive on it, so for the sake of your sanity I’d just not.

So obviously it’s a very dark time, horrid things incoming and so forth…

But did anyone actually have The Onion buying Infowars on their 2024 bingo cards?

@Rinel said in why is nobody talking about Veilguard:

I think the Antivans are mixing Spanish and Italian, or am I missing something?

They are, but the voice actors are also Spanish/Hispanic and Italian (eta: thus the accents are more authentically from the region they’ve adopted/adapted), rather than Generic American doing a voice.

@Rinel said in why is nobody talking about Veilguard:

Also, is the female British VA for Rook Scottish? I keep hearing a twinge to her vowels.

Not originally, she’s from Northumberland, but that’s very close to Scotland so there’s likely some overlap… Her name is Bryony Corrigan, for reference.

Played it, finished it, and smooched Harding.

I agree that they sanded it down a bit too much, with very little resolution or development on several thorny pieces of lore from previous editions: the ghettos, casual anti-elven racism, Tevinter slavery, etc. But it has been a decade, and I’d wager most folk these days are after more joyous fantasy escapism than the grittier fantasy-like-reality.

Additionally, from my limited checking, most of the voice actors seem to be culturally/ethnically appropriate – save for the main character, for obvious player-choice-related reasons. ETA: So the accents aren’t necessarily ‘silly fake’ they’re just accents. They might be put on, but they’re not like the formerly faux-French we’ve had to deal with.

Without spoiling the ending(s), it definitely feels like it’s bringing this era of Dragon Age to a close. Perhaps something akin to what ME3 and Andromeda attempted to do with Mass Effect, starting off a new series in the same setting. If that’s the case, I’m not entirely confident that Veilguard is going to be any better than Andromeda was at introducing a potential new series even though I had oodles of fun while playing it.

Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dead at 31

@Tez It also counts as a +2 magical bludgeoning weapon.

@Tez I got myself one of those very very old school IBM keyboards. It’s older than… Okay not us but probably some people.

@Warma-Sheen said in Inuki Ban Thread:

I think if you really believed that was real, booting them and isolating them is doing way more harm than good.

I’m not going to comment on the rest of your post, as it’s late and my reading comprehension turns to dogshit after midnight.

But.

I disagree with this quoted section. It’s not our responsibility, be we admin or shitposter, to be an emotional support for anyone else. It’s a kindness we provide, on occasion, but on this forum it’s not our job.

To that end, when people state or imply that being here or reading things posted here is detrimental to their mental health, the most responsible thing we can do is give them useful resources that we know about, wish them well, and exclude them.

So, not every time someone mentions suicidality, but if it’s implied or stated that we, our words, our forum, etc are causing, impacting, or influencing said suicidality? Then yes.

@Warma-Sheen said in Numetal/Retromux:

Right, but the place doesn’t look like a dumpster fire.

If it’s being run, in any version of that term, by a person I dislike, then I count that as a dumpster fire. It could be the perfect game oriented precisely to my wants and needs, but if it’s run by someone I can’t trust or don’t like, then it’s a terrible game.

@Warma-Sheen said in Numetal/Retromux:

I just think that kind of thing gets missed under all the negativity.

While true, that’s a little like lamenting people not giving plaudits to the band playing while the captain of the ship is ploughing head-first into an iceberg made of poop. If the band want to have a great performance, they need to be in a better venue.

@Third-Eye I only marginally disagree with the ban because I worry that permanent banning is the only punishment being meted out. No cooling down periods, no talking tos, etc.

It’s obvious, at least to me, that Inuki wasn’t operating in good faith - which, honestly, would have been a better reason for the ban than suicidal talk - but could that have been changed with a chat?

@Meg said in Inuki Ban Thread:

i get it’s a sensitive topic, but its a thing some of us have struggled with for a long long time and ‘not talking about it’ policies that basically are pervasively silently a rule in real life isn’t great.

While I agree, I also think it can get a little burdensome (for lack of a better word) on others if it’s mentioned with any frequency. It is much the same as talking at length about struggles with a disability, illness, etc, etc. We don’t want to alienate or oppress people for whom life is a particularly darker shade of crapsack, but at the same time we don’t necessarily want to encourage too much conversation about it outside of designated areas.

Which, I’ll admit, does sound like the kind of thing a member of a majority says about every minority… but I hope it came across more about nuance than that.

@Warma-Sheen said in Numetal/Retromux:

Is it fair to paint the whole game this way if the problem is only with this one singular person, even if they are the headstaff?

Maybe, maybe not. Others have discussed.

Frankly, though, I don’t care about fairness in this kind of situation. If it looks like a dumpster fire, I will avoid it even if it allegedly smells like patchouli.

@Tez I am fully willing to suffer early onset arthritis (yes, early onset, fuck you) for the sake of clicky clacky clunky.

Ken Page, who starred in ‘Cats’ on Broadway and voiced Oogie Boogie, dies at 70

It’s really a big fuck you to theatre for now, apparently.

@Gashlycrumb I dislike how easily this could be an RL peeve, but I believe that’s part of the point you’re making. Maybe.