#script from corseque

[revacholthinker]

Gold & jewelry banter by and with Emmrich ✨

[sydneystarlights]

Ohhhh I'm going insane. I think at some point during the development of veilguard the shadow dragons were not going to lose their hq if you didn't save Minrathous cause there is recorded voice over mentioning Ashur’s current blighted status and even a line from Dorian that would have had Dorian mention that he helped fight off the dragon during its attack. @/corseque matched up speakers to script lines and organized it all by conversation (I adore them sooo much for their work it's so NICE to be able to tell whos saying what for most of the script) and there are multiple mentions in Tarquins On Click VO, Ashurs On Click and ambient VO, and Dorians On Click VO that would only fit if you could talk to them post Minrathous being devastated.

*Dorian flashing back to my inquisitor dragging him and Bull along to kill all the high dragons in the south* and just so many lines referencing Ashur being sick-

Its tough to verify all the voice over lines are recorded or not at the moment because ealayer3 is veryyy finicky right now on what VO files it will open or just decide to crash at but Dorians line and the first line from Tarquin on this post ive checked and they are recorded.

Sadly Ashur's On Click and ambiant VO files crash when I open them at the moment but with the other lines having been recorded its likely his are too even if they're not implemented in the game. It would have been SO COOL to see and visit blighted Ashur over the course of the game if you didn't save Minrathous. I would have loved to see that progression.

[thesummerstorms]

Noa & Neri Sibling Banter

All of this is courtesy of the script file compiled and cleaned up by @/corseque. If there's a ** in front of the first speaker's name, it means I haven't personally heard it in game, so it might be cut material. (Or I just haven't encountered it. Or forgot I heard it.)

Bolded lines are just my favorite bits.

** Noa: You went courting in Rivain last week! Neri: And how do you know? Saw me there, did you? Noa: Never you mind.

** Noa : Must you be so flashy? Neri: Must you ask questions you already know the answer to?

Neri : It's a brave new future for Treviso. Noa: There's still Antaam out there. Neri: Certainly. But they won't be as quick to replace them. Noa: I'll be testing that idea.

** Noa: I hear Minrathous got hit pretty hard. Neri: They faced a blighted dragon, too. The Shadow Dragons managed to drive it off. Noa: I was concerned that… there were losses. Neri: She is safe. I made sure.

Noa: Are the Antaam numbers any lower? Neri: They replace them as fast as you kill them. Noa: Challenge accepted.

Neri: You really approved people moving to the new house? Noa: Jacobus needs a good start. And extended family is always a good investment. Neri: Ah, there's the Noa I know.

** Neri: Antaam, dragons, maybe-gods… What I wouldn't give for a simple contract. Noa: Since when are any of your contracts simple? Neri: Since before occupations. When wars were civil and stopped with a single kill.

** Noa: How long have we called it "the garrison"? Neri: Too long. House Beltrami fell to the occupation quickly. Noa: Someone let the Antaam breach their docks. I'd rather see the estate burn than be in Antaam hands. Neri: That would serve no one.

** Noa: Are you and Viago getting along? Neri : Now is not the time for rivalries.

Noa: Have we numbers? On people lost? Neri: Surprisingly few. Many injuries, though. She had that hateful, icy cold. Noa: We were lucky to drive it off. I hate needing luck.

** Neri : What are you scowling at? Noa : Just keeping up the practise.

** Noa: You should have let me kill them. Neri: We had to keep them away from the garrison to let Rook work. There will be another chance.

Teia : Noa says we fight as much as she and Neri. I told her their bickering was amateurish, and that they'd need to work much harder to argue as well as we do. Viago : That was altogether the wrong message to take away from that.

[amburuthings]

Using FrostyEditor to check how original and localized text differ in Dragon Age :D

AYO, I've been meaning to compare the differences between the global english version (as both the original version and the most represented in the fandom) and my local french version for YEARS ! Thanks to @corseque 's input, I've figured out a very easy way to do just that !! Here's a bunch of screenshots so you can do the same at home with your own language for curiosity and fanwork purposes :D

This is for PC. Sadly I have no experience with the other platforms.

So first of all, you need to download and unzip FrostyEditor. Launch it, you're likely greeted with an empty "Load Profile/select game" window. Click on "Add" and browse through your folders until you reach DragonAgeInquisition.exe or Dragon Age The Veilguard.exe

After selecting either, you might have to restart FrostyEditor to be able to see them appear in the little panel above (I had) Once you see your desired game show up here you can hit the select button and wait a little until the software loads everything up.

DAV might ask you for an encryption key which I was able to find on the internet. This link might break but I think there should always be places where you can fetch it later, probably. (Yes it's VERY long)

For this example I'll be using DA:I, when everything is loaded, i advise you to open the View>BiowareLocalizedStringEditor once for each language you want to compare versions of (for convenience)

This is opening all of the text in the game (afaik), now check on the right, that selector will let you pick one of the available languages !

For my purposes, I'm keeping one BiowareLocalizedStringEditor tab in original English and switching my other one to French. I can now alternate between the two to compare the text ! But that's a ton of text and it's not even in order. No problem. There's 2 interesting search features right here at the top.

The global english fandom has got pretty much everything indexed, in the wiki or via popular quotes, so you might already know the lines you want to check for your precise translation. There's also the complete, organized game scripts Corseque just released ! You can hit "search for text" and input keywords to have FrostyEditor look through the entire thing for you. Hit search until you reach your line.

You've got an ID ! Here this is 20220 (no need to remember the 0s) Switch to your other-language-tab and type it into "Search with ID"

Hit search and it'll fetch your exact localized line ! Wow look at this ! "You like my side benefits ?" Became "Is this a compliment ?" SHOOK

You can switch back and forth between your tabs to take a look at the surrounding lines, search for another, rinse and repeat, it's FAST !

YAY :D

Note : it is very normal for localised text to present some divergence from the original. Being a translator is an entire job involving serious skill and creativity to avoid turning litterature into a stiff rock while still respecting the author's vision, so the results are never a plain 1:1. This is not throwing any shade at any of the workers involved. All the differences I've found this far have been VERY reasonable. <3

[onewomancitadel]

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#ok wtf came back to edit: the automatic dropdown of tags to pick sometimes really fucks with stuff. it tagged something completely randomly

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

These are like blink and you'll miss it shots (I only skipped to it by accident, and it plays for like, less than a second). I think her sexy performance persona is funny, because easily her most sexy shots are when she's not trying to be like that.

77 notes - Posted January 30, 2022

#4

Cinder Fall is a good character you guys are just boring

80 notes - Posted August 11, 2022

#3

General wreck of TROS notwithstanding.

90 notes - Posted September 13, 2022

#2

The last time I tried to give a video essay a chance which was rather recently I fucking snapped when the essayist had the gall to ground his criticism in 'and why does everything happen to the protagonists?' the fucking state of narrative criticism, good grief.

134 notes - Posted November 14, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I was just musing on how Reylo was argued against for years: 'it's gross,' or 'it's problematic,' or 'he killed Han', or 'it's incest' (that was the funniest one). Reylo is a good comparison of a ship because alike to Knightfall it's a mythic romance, it has a lot of similar motivating themes along with monomythic storytelling. It was also canon.

The issue with Reylo is that not once have I ever seen Reylo argued against on the grounds of monomythic interpretation or anything decently textually and thematically relevant. Because it was essentially impenetrable.

You couldn't argue with it on the terms of the text or the Original Trilogy because the Original Trilogy had a central redemption predicated on love, and in the context of a young man who is the evidence of Vader once being flesh-and-blood, a familial relationship was natural; between Rey and Kylo, who were both young and shared similar wounds, romance was the natural answer (particularly for picking up where Padme/Anakin left off).

The narrative reasoning that motivated Reylo is Star Wars. It's inseparable. It's mythic. It was the only planned canon detail of the Sequel Trilogy. It's evident in the concept art. They sought out Adam Driver to play Kylo and had a particular Romantic vision of Kylo. Eddie Redmayne auditioned for Kylo with the Pride & Prejudice script:

With films that top secret, they don’t give you the actual lines. So they give you a scene from Pride and Prejudice, but then they tell you you’re auditioning for the baddie. If you’re me, you then put some ridiculous voice on.

Pride & Prejudice is one of the most notable romance novels ever written and presumably this is referencing the 2005 film adaptation.

The Reylo dynamic was planned to be romantic.

The point I'm trying to make here is that you can't argue on these textual grounds and that's why you weaponise personal taste or anti bullshit. It's part of why it became so militant (and it was wrong place wrong time as a part of a broader shift of fandom) and to this day I still encounter people who try to explain to me that it's regressive for a female character to 'fix' a male character completely misunderstanding the thematic point of it or relationship of the characters that was reciprocal and grounded in the ethos of SW. They just keep repeating it because it's all they know and it makes them feel special and contrarian.

Sort of the point I'm trying to get at (as I have made a few posts about this already) is that the grounds on which someone is arguing something matters just as much as what the substantial content is. Reylo's refutation was personal taste. That was it. Because there was no other refutation.

Food for thought.

136 notes - Posted November 6, 2022

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[brutalfish]

WIP meme!

(which I am stealing from @corseque​ because I want to write down all of the different projects I’m working on, since I’ve been feeling jumbled and like I’m forgetting things lately,,,...)

My webcomic BACKLASH, which I’m trying to consistently update every Sun/Wed this year as a personal challenge to myself! This is always happening lol

A short one-shot monster romance comic, The Gods Are Still, based off true events of a Skyrim playthrough >:)c I’m spinning it to be a little less copyright-infringing, but I’m excited for it, it’s gonna be good~  I had people on Twitter vote for what monster romance they wanted me to work on first and they all voted for the werewolf one, lol. I’ve got the script half-finished and am doing a lot of design work and thumbnails at the moment! Hoping to have it done in a few months, fingers crossed!

A homebrew tabletop system based on the BACKLASH universe, because I want to run my friends through a campaign where they can be whatever kinda crazy wacky characters they want, heheh~ Character sheets are done, but I am working on the Merits List, the Incantation List, the Artifacts List, the Affinity List, the Fighting Styles List, and basic write-ups for each different race so players know what the advantages of each are~

A Secret Comic Thing, hush hush

The script for my sentai magical girl comic, Super Manifest: Steward Cycle! This comic is all plotted out - I just have to write the dialogue, design the monsters, and then draw it >:)c I’ve got up to chapter 2 written out!

It feels like a lot of projects I’ve piled onto myself recently, and not gonna lie I’m feeling a little stretched thin/overwhelmed, but I really want to get some of these things finished and clear up some space in my brain! Gottta get the ideas out into the universe to make room for new ones, haha~