One small thing I wish had come up in Veilguard from previous games: the accent worldbuilding. It wasn’t always consistent - DA:O only seemed to care about country or race, anyone non-human being generically North American and anyone human being mostly RP English unless they were Antivan; for regional accents, they seemed to purely use them for effect or go with VAs’ natural ones. (There are about two bandit NPCs who seem to have badly-done Midlands English accents purely because they’re not meant to be very bright; thanks, love Canadians reinforcing that stereotype. Anders being Lancashire seems to be pure coincidence because of his voice actor - you rarely ever hear the accent in any consistent way in other NPCs, and it’s completely ignored in his very Southern DA2 recast.)
But by DA2, there seemed to be definite trends: Free Marches could be RP English or North American depending where you came from; dwarves tended to sound North American but there were exceptions for some people raised on the surface; elves tended to be either Welsh or Irish, which matches the “very old culture with a linguistically completely different root from Trade/English”. Starkhaven is most definitely Scots.
Blackwall posting a picture of his hayloft: women hate how little it takes for us to be happy Josephine: nothing wrong with keeping it simple, but I’d add a pillow Blackwall: I don’t deserve a pillow Violet: I don’t think you’re happy
no yassifying femtash in my house. she too has burly arms and wld be called ugly by ppl who think themselves funny
After so many people trying to get me to read it I am listening to Legends and Lattes. And you know what? The writing on a technical level isn’t half bad. It’s just. Nothing at all of any interest happens… which it turns out is great for falling asleep to.
Ooof, I’ve been trying to reach out a bit more IRL but something I’m realising is that a) your thirties really do mark a big shift and if you’re married your single friends don’t wanna hang and your married with kids friends also don’t wanna hang because you don’t have kids.
Also like. Life gets busier, I get that. But I had so many people say they wanted to meet up in January (like more than I could actually fit in to the calendar) and so far… literally nothing. Everybody has ghosted on an actual date.
Not to be a pretentious asshole but yes there is a problem with people no longer reading the classics. A lot of the YA literature romance novel crowd perpetuates the myth that the classics are inherently boring and stuffy and there’s nothing you can relate to or learn by reading them. And they’re not. These beautiful universal things we enjoy, comedy, romance, tragedy, family strife, they’re still so poignant centuries after they’re written.
