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SOURCE: Jo Pearson [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g ] (Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs - Folding Ideas - Comments)

[Ellen]: "As a programmer, I find it hilarious that some programmers think that because they've mastered programming, they can master anything else. Thing is, contrary to people's conception of programming being hard: programming syntax is actually orders of magnitude more simple, consistent, standardized, automagical, and non-context-dependent than any given natural language."

"Pretty much all of us use one or more natural languages many times a day, in various formats. Yet despite how comparatively simple programming languages is compared to natural languages, if you ever do any programming you will quickly become astonished at how many bugs can hide in even the smallest program, how many mistakes you can make despite trying your best, and how difficult it is to identify all the edge cases that can arise."

"What programming taught me most of all is humbleness about the limitations of our knowledge, and how specific and context dependent any knowledge we have, is. I hypothesize that what these bros are reacting to isn't what programming as a discipline teaches you, but how society perceives and reacts to programmers."

"Whenever the topic of being a programmer comes up in my everyday life, people almost always react with something along the lines of "Oh you must be so smart, I could never do that." And I always tell them that they almost certainly could. Every day they're doing things that are far more complex and involved without thinking about it at all. For programmers to think "Right, I've mastered this, so now I can master anything!" isn't just the wrong end of the stick, it's the wrong end of the universe."

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(Roxanna): "Winning streaks are like dating a beautiful woman. Enjoy them while you can because it's only a matter of time before they dump you for being weird and clingy."

SOURCE: Sam, Poker Night at The Inventory 2

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https://youtu.be/-PlixVd27Is?t=615

(Roxanna): I'm not a fan of monarchies. I'm just not a big fan of people in funny hats with inflated egos. I'm not a huge fan of military dictatorships either.

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(Roxanna): I’ve tried to own as many of the systems as I can ‘cause I like all of them but currently I think the PlayStation 5 is the best console that's out there. And it's close! I- I am fortunate enough that I’ve got all of them right now. I didn't go out and buy them on day one but over time I figured 'If I can afford it, I’ll get the other one.’

(Ellen): Yeah.

(Roxanna): So, I’ve got all of them but if I had to pick, I think my PS5 is just the best overall machine. I think it's absolutely great.

(Ellen): Yeah.

(Roxanna): But I don't think I’ve said that about Sony’s product in any of the prior generations in ages and maybe some people will think that's wrong but it's like… I’m not on Sony’s side. It's not my job to defend Sony’s product. My main point is Be a Traitor.

(Ellen): *Laughing*

(Roxanna): Just Be a Traitor! You've always been Xbox, so what? Stab Xbox in the back. Just betray them. Just… be a turncoat. Go to the other side if the other side has what you're looking for.

It's not like loyalty to your country, your religion, your family or friends. Don't be a traitor on any of those things. But I guess religion's a special case. It would be weird if somebody was changing religions every year, right? Maybe that would be odd. But change fandoms! Oh, you used to like Star Wars? You liked it growing up? Who cares if you don't like Star Wars anymore? Like something else.

(Ellen): Yeah.

(Roxanna):  Change from DC to Marvel or vice versa. Change from PlayStation to Xbox. Change from fuckin… chess to checkers, I don't care. Don't have any loyalty to this stuff. Don't have loyalty to fandoms because it's all just there so that companies can make money off of it.

(Ellen): Yeah.

(Roxanna): If you like the work, like it. If you don't, then don’t have any loyalty to it. …When I first saw the Starfield thing, I tweeted that if they pull this off… it'll surpass Mass Effect for me.

(Ellen):  Mm-hmm.

(Roxanna): And I hesitated a brief second before I sent that out where I realized… I’m never going to say the 15 playthroughs of the Mass Effect trilogy I’ve already done mean nothing to me now, because I already loved those.

(Ellen):  Yeah.

(Roxanna): But in the future… I have no guaranteed loyalty to it. It doesn't have to be my favorite video game franchise forever.

(Ellen):  Yeah.

(Roxanna): I’m not obligated to do that. I can just change my mind if something else comes along and that's how I think people should be when it comes to entertainment. Have no loyalty.

(Ellen):  I feel like we end up talking about this a lot, to be quite honest. Umm… especially since we are like.. characters from a video game, technically. So, umm… Here we are. *Laughing*  Welcome to 5282017.tumblr.com HAVE NO LOYALTY TO CORPORATIONS. *Laughing* That's our tagline.

(Roxanna):  Yeah, I mean… kind of.

(Ellen):  *Laughing* That's- that's our shtick. We used games from Bioware, Obsidian, Bethesda, and Larian to aid in our development but WE'RE NOT LOYAL TO THEM!

(Roxanna):  I-I’m--

(Ellen):  WE’LL STAB THEM IN THE BACK!

(Roxanna): *Laughing*

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(Roxanna): “How are you able to turn small talk into involuntary therapy sessions?”

(Ellen): “Uhh… I don't know. I think that just happens to me all the time, but I feel like if you actually take an interest in someone, as in you just ask questions, they are more than willing to… divulge their entire backstory. Like people just want so bad to tell their story that you just set them off a little bit and they'll blab to you. …For the most part. Especially if you're a stranger and there's not really repercussions if you find out bad things, people will just say whatever, man! It's kinda crazy.

Like I've been at the store and just making small talk with people and I'll hear all sorts of crazy things. The biggest example in my memory was at the grocery store and I was making small talk with the cashier and this guy was saying ‘Oh, things aren’t going so great.’ and I ask, ‘Why not?’ He’s like ‘Well, my son’s in trouble again.’ and I’m like ‘Oh, no! What happened with your son? Why is he in trouble?’ and he starts going off on this crazy bananas story that I don't even know was real about how his son tried to join the Taliban and got caught by the FBI. I'm like ‘Oh What?! This can't be real!”

​(Roxanna): “Ha Ha! That happens!”

(Ellen): “It does happen. I just didn't expect to hear from the guy, you know, checking out my groceries. So anyway, people are crazy bananas.“

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[Roxanna]: I don't have PTSD from being in Iraq, I have PTSD from being in Florida

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Source: https://youtu.be/KLS0-htU7Ro?t=3622

[Ellen]: So I've completed Dragon Age 2, and I'm confused and frustrated by Merrill.

[Roxanna]: I won't dispute that. I just don't think she aged well. I remember the first time I met her. It was 2011 and I was like "What the fuck? This character is wild but in a good way." I remember putting my controller down and going "Holy crap, I can't believe this character is real and in a video game." I thought it was a revelation that she was so... awkward and weird and wouldn't finish her sentences and was like discombobulated and didn't know how to talk to Hawke. I thought that was brilliant conceptually. But that was in a time where the stuff we complain about now, in Anthem or ME: Andromeda, where the characters are so quirky and weird and wacky that they're near incompetent at their jobs, that was actually novel and Bioware was doing it well.

[Ellen]: Mm-hmm. Suvi, honey, don't lick the rocks.

[Roxanna]: Exactly. That type of character is not a novelty in Bioware games anymore. Maybe even the Video Game industry at large. But at this time, that sort of quirky, weird character who's kind of all over the place, I thought it was fun. And I thought Merrill was a great example. I just don't think she aged well.

[Ellen]: Mm-hmm.

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(ANONYMOUS): Do you think Dragon Age could support a theme park?

(Ellen): No. There is very few IPs that could support a theme park and I think it's really just Disney.

[Roxanna]: What about Harry Potter?

(Ellen): Yeah, but that's like one section of a theme park. It's not the whole theme park.

[Roxanna]: But it's an attraction though. People go just for that.

(Ellen): Yeah, I guess that's fair.

[Roxanna]: But yes, you could not do a Dragon Age version of that, I'm sorry. Like, you couldn't have the staff asking kids 'Hey, you wanna practice blood magic? Here's a knife!' You can't have that as an attraction.

(Ellen): No, you could not.

[SOURCE] https://youtu.be/ZkriTG99LEY?t=3796

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[Roxanna]: ...I'll get depressed, like, I will get legitimately sad if I cook something and it tastes so good and I think 'This is fantastic, I'm gonna make this for my sister,' right?

(Ellen): Uh-huh.

[Roxanna]: And then when I try and make it for her it comes out like Hot Garbage.

(Ellen): *laughing*

[Roxanna]: It's like 'I fucking hate myself.'

(Ellen): Aww...

[Roxanna]: And I don't know if it's necessarily just the pressure of it but I think that that could be part of it. I have such tremendous respect for chefs and cooks.

(Ellen): mm-hmm.

[Roxanna]: Like, people who can do it and not just do it in their own house, but do it with a time constraint in a busy restaurant and the food comes out amazing. It's not the same thing as being able to cook something at your house one time and have it come out amazing.

(Ellen): mm-hmm.

[Roxanna]: As opposed to having a full dining room and your restaurant needs to make money so you're just banging out winners every time.

(Ellen): Yeah.

[SOURCE] https://youtu.be/waZ9jsRgH04?t=468

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(Ellen): My strategy for guns is just run in there and very chaotically shoot everything. [SOURCE] https://youtu.be/KP8j-rJELTk?t=3179 (52:59)

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[Roxanna]: "Ohh, can you imagine if you and me were a villain where I'm one side of the face and you're the other side of the face and we have to flip a coin to see who gets to do fucked up shit?"

(Ellen): *laughing* "That's one messed up face, Roxanna. I'm sorry. Just the two of us mashed up--"

[Roxanna]: *laughing*

(Ellen): "That's-- that's gonna look fuckin' weird."

[Roxanna]: "If--if it's heads, Ellie gets to kill Kaidan. If it's tails, I get to kill Zevran. Again."

[SOURCE] https://youtu.be/kqpFpD6eM4Q?t=1417 (23:27)