ShadySands

Just off the top of my head, around this time last year

Back home in Tucson for a few days

In terms of colds and flus, mostly they show up to work and get everyone else sick, leading to a lot of absent workers in a never ending cycle of back and forth contamination. Apparently many companies here think that's bottom-line profitable. I don't think I've worked at a place that didn't have at least 5 days of sick time per year...although I'm not surprised that it occurs, especially these days. Also, why did my quick-reply box suddenly become bright white? I usually go to work when I'm sick unless I'm near death and use my sick days as extra vacation. Of course, I work from home My reply box was the same because chrome was blocking something or other. Not sure if something changed with the site or my browser because I didn't care once I fixed it and also just lazy

Pork belly ramen

Where outside of that one Wynne scene that's all about her spirit keeping her alive? In Inquisition it has come up more than once already Not sure how often in earlier games but I'm sure it's referenced more than once

I don't mourn the loss of health regen but I do miss the healing spells if for no other reason to keep some NPCs up

Magical healing exists in some cutscenes so its removal was purely a gameplay decision

Yep

I'm not very familiar with Skyrim or Oblivion but it does remind me a bit of FarCry 3 with all the capturing of locations and random activities. A lot of the activities are just finding things like shards and telescope-like things (the name escapes me at the moment) which prompts a fill in the constellation mini game. Also, some treasure map stuff and collect x of y or close all the breaches. Some of the platforming puzzles are a little wonky since you don't have very fine control over your characters movement but there isn't much of it. The few maps that I've been to outside of Val Royeaux have all been fairly large but even VR was bigger than I expected when I heard it was just the marketplace. My main gripes so far are that I spend so much time running from place to place and that the camera is still much too close for my tastes. The mounts help a bit with the running but you lose the banter which to me has been enjoyable so far. That said, I'm having fun with it even with all the content padding. The bottom line is that it isn't the game that I want Bioware to make but it's good for what it is

Yes, but I wouldn't recommend it. It's hard to move your whole party around like that and there is a lot of running around

How bad? Not terribad but it plays smoother with a controller imo

I'm not a big fan of the keyboard and mouse controls. Considering just plugging in a controller

I thought the one with Kevin Costner was decently entertaining

I haven't seen any of the last two seasons of Supernatural. I have some catching up to do

Yes, I'm going to be playing it from South Korea at 8 AM Denver time

I loved those books growing up RIP

I think Sawyer is a good designer, possibly even a great one but I think we just have a fundamental difference of opinion on some things, balance and magic/wizards specifically. I'd like to see what he can do with another setting where I have less strong feelings about certain particulars like sci-fi or modern day something or other. I'm still looking forward to PoE even though I may end up playing on easy or cheating just to get the combat over with but that's not poor design as much as it's just not my preference. All my concerns may even turn out to be nothing by the time the game releases but either way I wish Sawyer and Obsidian nothing but success and will once again likely be first in line to back whatever they have planned next

Take care Nep

Welcome back LC!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g181khk2Jyo Of course Gun Shot Wound won the game but that was entertaining

Regarding the more reserved reviews, I think it's more likely they are trying to get out in front of the controversy this time around. They don't want to be overly negative just in case there is no DA2/ME3 torches and pitchforks but at the same time they want to hedge their bets just in case the anti-Bioware brigade does come out in full force Or maybe not. We'll find out next week EDIT- that was my 1000th post and it only took me 9 years. I kinda wish I had been sober and the post had been more profound.

Hot chocolate with a toasted jumbo marshmallow and Baileys for me and the missus Mine has a shot of Jameson in it as well

I thought we were just posting random stuff and conspiracy theories my bad