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Guy Pitching Black Doves (squinting at his pitch deck cards): Okay. Ahem. Netflix has a gap in its holiday lineup this year, and I was picturing snow falling on London. Friends reconnecting. Families coming together for the holidays. And—

Executive: Ah pardon, didn’t your agent call this a gruesome bloodbath of crime syndicates and political betrayal?

Guy Pitching: …Well. Yes. But also very raw and challenging relationship moments leading to healing and hope. You know, the kind with lots of yelling but it’s snowing outside, so it’s beautiful and cathartic. Also the yelling is actually just shooting people with guns.

Executive: …

Other Executive: …

Guy Pitching (fumbling with the cards now): Ahh… err… did I mention there would be Christmas carols?

Executive: Throw in a rocket launcher and I’m sold.

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Tumblr Fandom Stats

Following the release of Bioware's official player choice stats, I'm curious to see how the Tumblr fandom measures up. This Google Form contains all the questions from the official stat graphics, as well as a few that were not included that I'm personally curious about.

This form contains major endgame spoilers. Do not click the link until you've finished the game.

Please only fill it out once per Rook, but if you have multiple Rooks feel free to fill it out for each of them! Live stats will be available for you to view once you've submitted the form. This form does not collect your email address. I will release a breakdown of the final results on my blog at a later date!

Thank you in advance for your participation, please reblog for reach!

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When I first met Bellara in Veilguard, I didn’t think I’d end up enjoying her company as much as I do now. At first, she felt… superficial. Her initial dialogue seemed too on-the-nose, and her habit of predicting game mechanics—like saying, “This is the last barrier!” or “We’re almost there!”—came across as overly fourth-wall-breaking or hand-holdy. I remember thinking, How would she even know that? I dismissed it as bad writing and moved on.

But as I got to know her, something started to shift. During one of her personal quests, there’s a moment where you’re disabling a power source, and she implies there will be a second wave of enemies. A companion asks how she knows and she points out it's a pattern from previous battles.

It reminded me of a codex entry where she talks about a book she read for the team's book club—how she lost the book halfway through but still guessed the twist correctly.

It hit me then: this is just how her brain works. And that’s when I started to see myself in her. I think a lot of people with neuro-divergent tendencies, like me, have the knack for predicting stories/patterns or drawing correct conclusions faster than others or from seemingly out of nowhere. I started warming up to her as I saw more of myself in her personality.

But my newfound affection for Bellara lasted until exactly the next part of the quest, where we came across a door puzzle. Bellara decided, despite my gameplay settings of no hints or quest direction, to explain every little nuance of the puzzle in quick succession as I explored the room.

I got so annoyed. I remember thinking, Why won’t you just let me figure this out? Sadness grew as I realized poor writing had stunted my gameplay.

And then it hit me: Oh. Wait. This is me. I do this all the time to people.

If people or situations are moving too slowly, I start trying to take control. Not intentionally. Usually from nervous or excited energy, when my filters are weak or emotions are high. At this point, Bellara is very motivated to get to her destination, so it makes sense she would react this way.

So for me, her too-obvious statements and unsolicited advice is actually great dialog writing, because it fits the character's point of view, AND it elicited an emotional response from me as a player, where I had to figure out why the heck she was being so annoying in the first place. I like when games make me frustrated and I have to step back to see why a character was motivated in some way.

Bellara IS hand holdy. But not necessarily to cater to a clueless player. She can't help it. She's smart, knows things, and Rook is too slow to come to conclusions on their own, and she has places to BE.

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You know this would break that poor man.

How well do you guys think Dorian would cope with the knowledge that he has the same haircut that Solas did a millennia ago?

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I can't be the only one who did this in the Anderfells. My inner 8th grader is satisfied.

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Gosh someone get him a direct line to Jorts

lucanis and his contract negotiator

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So I’m mid-pet when I realize I'm completely ignoring the dying guy next to me.

Davrin stands back, silently judging.

Neither of us talks about it ever again.

It's a good thing this Rook is romancing someone else...

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And yes I made myself for my first Rook.

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Well so far my Rook is very against pottery.

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I've been ready for this since the day I was born. Boop. <3

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I just want to boop.

You can spam boop me!

reblog if you let people spam boop you

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Boop or boop day!

pov you’re on tumblr for halloween:

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But I'm gonna be so busyyyyyy

OH THEY DID NOT JUST GIVE ME BOOPIN' POWERS ON DRAGON AGE LAUNCH DAY HUEHUEHUEHUE

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Gotta reblog or I'll never find it again.

Cosplay Guides for Dragon Age: The Veilguard companions are here!

Take a peek at the guide for Harding above, and see guides for all 7 companions here!

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I am very very excited for all of us.

It's almost here!

And today it's official for me! Veilguard is pre-ordered. I highly recommend getting a budgeting partner who secretly saves for the deluxe version of games like this. Much amazed.

We decided on the Xbox version (we have both Xbox and PS) because it may be able to handle the graphics slightly better. Means when John is playing Veilguard I can impatiently chop trees in Medieval Dynasty while I wait my turn. 😅

Anyway, he is in full preparation mode with snacks and logistics for the launch. He's even planned a date night for us tonight.

I think the date is because he knows I will not resurface from the fade for a very long time once my little gremlin claws sink into this game.

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thank you reddit user kirzana for turning all the dragon age codexes into pdfs so i could search for any instances of "eclipse" in them

and it turns out there's exactly one (1) from da2 and originally it was in code