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Dragon Age 2: Fuckin' Bitches, Stabbin' Dragons
JD:
she's kind of a hypocrite for calling him a hipster though, considering she was mocking everyone else for doing so.
Tom:
I hat you Gamlen. We have a meaningful moment and then you go ahead and say something like: "I hear you've moved the apostate boy into the house. I guess I don't have to ask which one of you's the girl."
Ozymandias:
There's maybe a difference between calling everything a giraffe and making a joke that something actually looks like a giraffe.
Tom:
It seemed way more snide than slyly humourous.
The Circle really needs reformation, starting with Mage Health classes on Blood Magic (incl. necromancy and making deals with demons). If you don't do it responsibly or even do it all, you will most likely die. As soon as they get a foothold in your mind they'll steal your body and ride that husk around like a drunken teenager in a stolen sports car. Then a hero comes a long and slays it.
Then there's the other part. The Templars/Chantry lock you up because they believe all mages are all evil blood mages and are a threat to their hegemony over the non-magical people. The innocent mages then turn to blood magic to fight their oppression only to become evil abominations void-bent on throwing the wildest house party ever, thus validating the Templar/Chantry's beliefs causing the cycle to repeat with the occasional genocidal Rite of Annulment. The First-Enchanter's final act only reinforced this further (way to be an example, Orsino)
When I was tracking blood mages at some point, Anders mentioned something about saving these mages from their own stupidity. This went from pointed to pointless as soon as he did that entirely stupid and thoroughly unnecessary thing in the third act.
(Full Disclosure: sided with the mages)
The very short development cycle + and the conceited 3 years later thing hurt the writing the most, imo. There's an entire library worth of issues that I'm sure anyone who's played the game has recognised. I expect a good deal from Bioware's writing staff so this game was a personal disappointment (less so than Golden Sun, the biggest let down of a game I played this year) and I don't care anywhere near enough to play it again anytime soon. That said, a bad Bioware RPG is still a slightly better than average game.
KvP:
One thing you'll miss if you don't regularly read the codex is that the Circle of Mages is housed in the Gallows, where tens of thousands of people died in terror and bondage over centuries. This makes the barrier between Thedas and the Veil dangerously thin throughout (might as well throw some Stephen Kingi-y "places have memories" mythology in there, why not). That, and the fact that the Circle is housed in the heart of a major urban center, makes the Kirkwall Chantry a coterie of incredible, humongous retards.
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