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I said on twitter about a week ago that I think DA:I gave me the brainworms back in 2015, because now it's installed on the PS4, and now I am playing it, I cannot stop thinking about it. So much so that, when I found out DAII (my favourite of the three) was on sale on Steam, I immediately went and checked the specs to see if it was playable on my PC (it is! And I added it to my wishlist, so I'll know when it goes on sale again).
I spent the bus ride home from my x-ray appointment thinking about Certain Things in DA:I. I started thinking about music videos again, for the first time in YEARS. I wouldn't make any, but certainly being able to capture footage directly from your console (say) would make some of that ninety percent easier? (Don't answer that, it's not something I'm seriously thinking about).
I may even be close to remembering the idea I had while listening to I'd Do Anything For Love that one time - I'm beginning to suspect it may have been a DA fic, which would absolutely make sense, give what remnants of the idea I did remember. (Although given that I was possibly thinking about paladins, it could have been knights in general, but I strongly doubt it, even though knights in general is a Thing™, even if I don't talk about it, which I don't).
So anyway, I am playing the glitchiest version of DA:I ever, I swear. I do not remember it being this bad on the 360, but maybe I just blanked that out, or straight up decided I didn't need to remember it. But yeah, it's mostly pathfinding errors (everyone in my team finds it impossible to stand still at points, lol).
I am currently about 15 hours in. I'm not saying exactly where, because I am aware I have friends on here who would still like to avoid spoilers. Which is why everything else is going under a cut!
So I spent a good portion of the first ten hours (i.e. most of the time you're in Haven) wondering what the heck it was caused Corypheus to attack you. Because, while I remember certain areas of the Hinterlands like the village I grew up in, I could not remember (much) plot relevant shit AT ALL.
And then In Your Heart Shall Burn came up as the next plot relevant quest, and I was all like, "ohhhh yeaahhhh!"
I was also convinced, for some reason, that "I have seen the throne of the gods, and it was empty," was some sort of tumblr/twitter type shitpost, because it sounds to some degree like "I will face god and walk backwards into hell" (or that sort of thing). So while Corypheus is working his way up to saying it, it's rattling around in my brain, and I'm about to say it out loud to the TV, when he goes and says it himself. (You can hear him say it in this video here). I nearly fell off my bed in surprise.
I realised afterwards that I shouldn't be surprised it sounds like a shitpost - the writers hang out on social media (and certainly some of them were on tumblr while this was being written), so it sort of makes sense?
Oh also? I had completely forgotten about Cole! Which is funny weird, given that's one of his powers. I completely forgot that he shows up during the attack on Haven. I mean, I remembered that he existed, but...I dunno. Brains are weird!
Anyway, then we got to Skyhold, and that's more or less where I am now. And I sided with the mages, and I'm running around telling anyone who'll listen that mages should be free, damnit! (Vivienne greatly disapproves)
Also enjoying telling Solas and Cullen to fuck off at every available opportunity.
(I have circled back round to my previous feelings about Cullen, which is that I don't like him. Sorry to anyone who does but really, I just. Hard no, sorry).
(Also, though, Cullen's attitudes towards mages are wrong anyway, so I'm p sure I was telling him to fuck off six/seven years ago anyway).
And that's basically that, for now. I probably had other stuff to say, but I have since forgotten it because I didn't tweet it, because spoilers!
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In other news, as I mentioned, I had my hand and foot x-rays, and now I know how feet are x-rayed! Also I thought I'd get lost in the hospital, since it is a Maze of Epic Proportions, only to end up finding the corridor leading to the x-ray dept very familiar*, and turning up for my appointment around forty minutes early. Although that lead to me getting seen earlier, which meant I got back into town sooner, and home sooner than I expected (although unfortunately I ended up back in my town at school letting out time, which meant annoying teenagers on the bus, sighs).
Then I had the dentist yesterday, and he was relatively pleased with the state of my mouth, so yay!
However, my shopping trolley that I use to carry heavy stuff in decided one of the wheels ought to break, while I was legging it for the bus home, so that was a fun time! I don't know if they're replaceable, or if I will have buy a whole new trolley, but ugh. Mind you, the whole thing has lasted me nearly four years, which is longer than I thought it might (as it was cheap), so that's the only positive I'm seeing about it right now.
[Edit from the future]: the wheels are not replaceable - I tried to get both covers off the bit that attaches to the axle with no luck, so new trolley it is, sighs [/eta]
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*I've spent a lot of time in said hospital (but not for health reasons, apart from when I had my wisdom teeth out).
I spent the bus ride home from my x-ray appointment thinking about Certain Things in DA:I. I started thinking about music videos again, for the first time in YEARS. I wouldn't make any, but certainly being able to capture footage directly from your console (say) would make some of that ninety percent easier? (Don't answer that, it's not something I'm seriously thinking about).
I may even be close to remembering the idea I had while listening to I'd Do Anything For Love that one time - I'm beginning to suspect it may have been a DA fic, which would absolutely make sense, give what remnants of the idea I did remember. (Although given that I was possibly thinking about paladins, it could have been knights in general, but I strongly doubt it, even though knights in general is a Thing™, even if I don't talk about it, which I don't).
So anyway, I am playing the glitchiest version of DA:I ever, I swear. I do not remember it being this bad on the 360, but maybe I just blanked that out, or straight up decided I didn't need to remember it. But yeah, it's mostly pathfinding errors (everyone in my team finds it impossible to stand still at points, lol).
I am currently about 15 hours in. I'm not saying exactly where, because I am aware I have friends on here who would still like to avoid spoilers. Which is why everything else is going under a cut!
So I spent a good portion of the first ten hours (i.e. most of the time you're in Haven) wondering what the heck it was caused Corypheus to attack you. Because, while I remember certain areas of the Hinterlands like the village I grew up in, I could not remember (much) plot relevant shit AT ALL.
And then In Your Heart Shall Burn came up as the next plot relevant quest, and I was all like, "ohhhh yeaahhhh!"
I was also convinced, for some reason, that "I have seen the throne of the gods, and it was empty," was some sort of tumblr/twitter type shitpost, because it sounds to some degree like "I will face god and walk backwards into hell" (or that sort of thing). So while Corypheus is working his way up to saying it, it's rattling around in my brain, and I'm about to say it out loud to the TV, when he goes and says it himself. (You can hear him say it in this video here). I nearly fell off my bed in surprise.
I realised afterwards that I shouldn't be surprised it sounds like a shitpost - the writers hang out on social media (and certainly some of them were on tumblr while this was being written), so it sort of makes sense?
Oh also? I had completely forgotten about Cole! Which is funny weird, given that's one of his powers. I completely forgot that he shows up during the attack on Haven. I mean, I remembered that he existed, but...I dunno. Brains are weird!
Anyway, then we got to Skyhold, and that's more or less where I am now. And I sided with the mages, and I'm running around telling anyone who'll listen that mages should be free, damnit! (Vivienne greatly disapproves)
Also enjoying telling Solas and Cullen to fuck off at every available opportunity.
(I have circled back round to my previous feelings about Cullen, which is that I don't like him. Sorry to anyone who does but really, I just. Hard no, sorry).
(Also, though, Cullen's attitudes towards mages are wrong anyway, so I'm p sure I was telling him to fuck off six/seven years ago anyway).
And that's basically that, for now. I probably had other stuff to say, but I have since forgotten it because I didn't tweet it, because spoilers!
~
In other news, as I mentioned, I had my hand and foot x-rays, and now I know how feet are x-rayed! Also I thought I'd get lost in the hospital, since it is a Maze of Epic Proportions, only to end up finding the corridor leading to the x-ray dept very familiar*, and turning up for my appointment around forty minutes early. Although that lead to me getting seen earlier, which meant I got back into town sooner, and home sooner than I expected (although unfortunately I ended up back in my town at school letting out time, which meant annoying teenagers on the bus, sighs).
Then I had the dentist yesterday, and he was relatively pleased with the state of my mouth, so yay!
However, my shopping trolley that I use to carry heavy stuff in decided one of the wheels ought to break, while I was legging it for the bus home, so that was a fun time! I don't know if they're replaceable, or if I will have buy a whole new trolley, but ugh. Mind you, the whole thing has lasted me nearly four years, which is longer than I thought it might (as it was cheap), so that's the only positive I'm seeing about it right now.
[Edit from the future]: the wheels are not replaceable - I tried to get both covers off the bit that attaches to the axle with no luck, so new trolley it is, sighs [/eta]
~
*I've spent a lot of time in said hospital (but not for health reasons, apart from when I had my wisdom teeth out).
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