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like okay

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it's crazy how so many european languages took like..SO much from greek except the word yes, which means the complete opposite in every other language

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Waking up to 30°C 70% humidity, drink coffee and pass out has become the authentic mediterranean experience 😍😍

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have watched several YMO music videos and these are great theyre all like. yhese 3 guys look like theyre being forced at gunpoint to do middle school PE dances in front of a greenscreen or a set made of paper towel tubes and sometimes a lady in extremely 80s clothes and makeup is there also

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This bundle of over 200 games is giving all of its proceeds to Ukranian hospitals. Even if you don't plan on playing the games, it's well worth supporting.

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I want to see the fall of LinkedIn during my lifetime

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Sten 🥀

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FYI

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comfort

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Loghain paying visit to the Warden in Amaranthine

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I made a timeline summary of this today's article (linked here) about what went wrong in Veilguard and its production (in case you are curious but don't want to read the whole article, which I do recommend)

Pre-2017 Darrah and Mike Laidlaw were already talking about Joblin (DA4) but that was paused to focus on Mass effect: Andromeda in 2017

EA started to eye live service games so in October 2017 they decided that DA4 would become a live service game too (Mike Laidlaw disagreed). Laidlaw steps down from art director and is replaced by Matt Goldman

They start working on DA4 Live service (called in code Morrison) but the team is very small as most people are working on finishing Anthem

Goldman is the one who wanted a more lighthearted entry that would be more suitable for an online game, instead of the dark DA of the past

2019 Anthem flops

In 2020 Hudson (head of studio) and Darrah (head of franchise) resigne. Gary McKay announces that DA4 will be a single story game and not a live service one

This change is done without allowing any reset of the previous work or revision at all, but the team was only given 1 year and a half to transition back to a single player and told to aim for the a big market

The article stresses that many decisions were made with no time, thinking that only a year was left till release, so rushed decisions piled over other rushed decision

End of 2022 testing of DA4 has negative reactions (lack of choices and consequences, caused by the fact that the game was thought of as a multiplayer so no choices can impact the world)

2023 new internal team from Mass Effect was added, which caused conflict as apparently they started to exclude DA leaders from the meetings

It was the Mass Effect team that added the emotional finale but the article stresses that these changes only ended up increasing animosity as the DA team was told before that they had no resources or time for such story additions, but somehow because the Mass Effect team decided it, then it happened

Mass Effect team also remarked that Goldman's snarky tone felt dated and out of style so the dialogue rewrites started (which caused tonal inconsistencies)

Mass layoff at Bioware in Aug 2023 (I think. This date was added by me) demoralized the team even more

The first trailer for Veilguard in 2024 is not well received

The game comes out to mixed reviews, and ends up with half the players EA predicted

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hey I still update my playlists every now and then so...there you go

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I painted Sten for @dragonageannual ‘s zine SAGAS!

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liking a character that's unpopular is very funny in the sense of. there's me and five other people who like this character and we all follow each other

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12/06/2023

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literally what is wrong with all of them