Agiel

"Klotzen, nicht kleckern. Man schlägt jemanden mit der Faust und nicht mit gespreizten Fingern."

Sounds like it scales well and was made to work on older hardware while also take advantage of newer, more powerful hardware. If so, thumbs up BioWare. We'll find out for sure soon enough. Wonder if it can scale down all the way to DX9 for those to whom framerates are God.

So finally got my Dragon's Keep invite in my email inbox and signed the NDA, unfortunately I visited their Twitter and saw this: ... ...that is some bulls***...

My Dragon Age stream is going up in an hour. Mostly for the benefit for those waking up in Europe, but those in the US who burn the night oil are welcome as well. twitch.tv/lamashtu

The absurdly tiny head and its resemblance to Sarah Palin's has been the biggest turn off for me for the character to be honest.

Running my stream of Origins right now. For those who are interested. my stream url is as follows: twitch.tv/lamashtu Going to be playing on hard as a City Elf rogue, cos 'eff those Dalish, Kallian Tabris is original gangsta baby.

I had kind of wondered how the world or Arcanum would turn out when it entered the age of precision guided munitions, C4ISR, advanced composite materials, and general push-button warfare.

That it will, though it will have more in common with Mass Effect 3's than say, Neverwinter Nights'. That said, I did have a real good time with the multiplayer of Mass Effect 3. A Neverwinter Nights-style editor would have been lovely though.

Doctrine overview for Hearts of Iron IV. Of note is AirLand Battle and Shock and Awe being a thing nearly forty years early: I do also like the "Desperate Defense" doctrine icon that shows a man in a wheelchair with a Panzerfaust.

Largely ambivalent to romances in Bioware games to be honest. There's no law in my book that says the romanceable characters are terrible, but I think when that option is absent the Bioware writing team has the time to make a character shine on their own two feet. Examples being (I omit their DnD works, since I feel that romances weren't quite their hat back then): KOTOR 1: -Canderous -HK-47 -Jolee Mass Effect: -Wrex -Mordin -Legion -James Vega Dragon Age: -Sten -Oghren -Varric -Aveline

To pass the time until Inquisition, I decided to do a stream of Dragon this weekend either on Friday or Saturday morning United States PST, depending on when I get my streaming set-up squared away. It will entail about all of Origins the canonical DLC as well, and I will not be streaming Dragon Age 2, as hopefully the Dragon Age Keep will stand-in for that experience. What it will entail: -Idle musings of the series and vidya games in general. -Me breaking the game through tons and tons of mods (none of it romance or sex-related, I assure you) and the odd exploit or two. -Suffering performance anxiety and stage fright from streaming seriously for the first time. -No romancing, since my lady city elf rogue thinks boys have cooties (sorry, Bruce). If it all pans out and I (somehow) get a decent amount of regular viewers I think I have a couple of other games lined up to stream including, but not limited to: -STALKER -Falcon BMS 4.32 -Deus Ex: Human Revolution -Steel Beasts -...and many more!

What drew my attention most was Bioware milking the whole "make the 'elite' enemies ginormous" gameplay trope for all its worth. That, and it would not be totally out of my place to play the stock sonar "pinging" noise whenever I'm using the "find lootable stuff" mechanic while exploring. Otherwise, still very much interested.

Kind of what I was trying to say. For Origins you had to have Awakening in order to get a pot that lets you respec, and the DLC store for DA2 had the pot for that as well. There was no other way to respec with the base games.

Hopefully there's some way of respeccing not associated with any DLC like previous offerings of the Dragon Age series.

I think it's been said that Bioware wants it released about a month before the release of Inquisition proper, which would make it middle of this month.

So not only does she have great dimensions, but she's a medical professional you say? Though I'm afraid she'll have to get in line behind Blizzard asking for the password to my non-existent World of Warcraft account and the job offers to earn $500 an hour working from the comfort of my home desk.

I've yet to receive my invite. I suspect putting myself down as a super hardcore gamer actually worked against my favour. I even vainly attempted to find an invite in my spam inbox, alas, it was not in there. Incidentally, a 28-year old woman named Olga from Saint Petersburg, Russia is "[sic]very interested in acquaintance making."

A German guy who hangs out on our TeamSpeak (a big tank nut, and quite proudly German, which means he's a bit like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster) had this as his signature:

I feel that like religious nuts, Randists believe that somehow absolute faith in their dogma secures their fate against oblivion. Oblivion in this case being an existence of mediocrity working a nine-to-five job as an office drone, wherein every day you stand in the shower regretting the decisions you made in life.

Looked up an article the Navy's newest destroyer, DDG-1000 Zumwalt, and I couldn't help but notice one tiny detail in the caption for one image. Care to guess what it was? Original article here: http://www.defensenews.com/interactive/article/20140928/DEFREG02/309280017/Meet-Zumwalt-US-Navy-s-Stealth-Destroyer-Will-Go-Sea-Next-Spring

I believe it has been said they would not be releasing such a thing or a demo ("Demo? Wot's dat?"), though this is information that I only learned secondhand. However, considering they did not release it for Dragon Age 2 that's something I would say with fairly high confidence will not happen.

Some Space Marines that contract pneumonia from poor fitting uniforms: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8203978/Russias-too-thin-designer-uniform-leads-to-pneumonia-and-flu.html http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-21017915

There was a great one that depicted the birth of NO MA'AM, but I believe it's been taken down. That said, this is a riot as well: