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A message I received yesterday, published anonymously and with permission:

I just want to say that even though they're a decade old I just found your timeline parts for Andy that include DAYD and Brittany. As someone who was a freshman in college when I got in that chat and then was slowly sliding out when we lost Brittany, your posts meant a lot to me. I'd let myself forget how bad parts of it were. And few people talk about the people he caught up with the fic and chat so kindly. Most of us were extremely young, lonely, or both and he took advantage of us. We were isolated enough that most of us hadn't heard anything bad about him until the shaman stuff. Anyways. It just meant a lot to me ❤️

And an addendum:

I don't think people realize how many of us who weren't in the inner circle didn't know that people were trying to warn the group about Andy and his past.

I didn't know anything until everything went down with CFC and her kids. At that point anyone who left was getting questioned and harassed by Andy/whoever still was on his side or confused enough to listen to him. One person blocked every single one of us as soon as he heard because he didn't have it in him to sift through and tell if there was another Andy lurking among us.

And everyone who was crawling out pretty much fell back in to varying degrees after Brittany was killed.

That Skype chat was a huge source of community for a lot of people. People were willing to listen to his outlandish stories to a certain degree. I'll never forgive him for the fallout of insisting, once again, on making himself an Icarus.

Details of "the shaman stuff"/"everything...with CFC and her kids" from someone who left the DAYDians over the event. For reference, this happened on Dec 28, 2009, and Brittany was killed on May 7, 2011.

The Skype chat mentioned was also known as the Room of Requirement and was maintained literally 24/7, with DAYDians (and often Andy himself) always available to talk to each other. It's where Andy did much of his "channeling" of Harry Potter characters and told many of his wildest stories.

It's rare to hear from anyone from this era of Andy's history, and I greatly appreciate that this person reached out. The DAYDians were a tight-knit, international community of caring, creative, intelligent, young people, and Andy was very demanding of their time, energy, and emotions (and occasionally money). The many ways in which he took advantage of them are really unconscionable, and a few of the most vulnerable are still "friends" of his to this day.

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Dragon Age: Origins Questions!

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found this one in my meme archives and i think its my 2025 energy

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alistair and loghain in the same party! using console commands

To activate the console: http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Console_(Origins)

To make the console commands visible: http://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/1110/?

At Arl Eamon’s Estate, activate the console and type:

runscript zz_addparty Loghain

Loghain should now be in your party.

Activate the console again and type:

runscript selectparty

The party screen will appear. Alistair and Loghain share the same space in the screen, but can be picked separately.

Loghain's dialogue is bugged to never flag as friendly, regardless of the player's actions. There's two mods that fix this: Sandbox Moments (a mod completely dedicated to Loghain, including an option for female pc to kiss him, link:  http://social.bioware.com/project/3666/discussion/2998/  ) and Ejoslin’s Loghain Friendly fix (which is part of the ZDF - Zevran Dialogue Fixes - package, link:  http://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/928/?  )

To get his approval up gift him all those maps you've been finding and Maric's shield. Also, save playing Return to Ostagar until after you have Loghain, he has a lot to say there.

Don't take both Alistair and Loghain to talk to Riordan, just take one of them. And before talking to Morrigan about the dark ritual, keep Loghain in your party. He will not be available to perform the Dark Ritual.

Using this hack means only Loghain's gate goodbye will trigger, so you won't see Alistair’s. When you play through the final battle, take Loghain with you to avoid potential bugs.

The epilogue slides will trigger normally, but some of Loghain's will not (specifically the 'recruting for the Wardens' slide)

You can still romance Alistair using this hack, btw.

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Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne Fancast

->Chris Hemsworth as Prince Maric Theirin

“Well, you know, I had other things I was supposed to learn.” “Such as ?” “How to be taken prisoner by outlaws, apparently.”

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one thing about me is that I will love Grand Enchanter Fiona Dragonage until the day I die she is my favorite

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The Best Orlesian?

This isn't a comprehensive list, but I figured I'd put something together to see who is most beloved from the ones I recognize. Feel free to comment with your favorite if you don't see them, and I can run a second poll with them added in plus the winners of this one, lol.

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Hope everyone has a Merry Kentucky Fried Christmas!

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Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes you pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.

Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.

Y’all are making me feel like the crypt keeper here, I’m begging you 😭

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He can compel me with such ease with that stare of his

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what happens when rook spends too much time with tav.

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Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne Fancast

->Chris Hemsworth as Prince Maric Theirin

“Well, you know, I had other things I was supposed to learn.” “Such as ?” “How to be taken prisoner by outlaws, apparently.”

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Dragon Age Origins: Shale talking about gender