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Dragon Age and Manic House is Manic

Two photos before I finish lunch and get back to work, one of a neighboring house and one of a glitch in Dragon Age: Inquisition.



Toby steered SerTired out to the garden in Skyhold, and on the stone porch leading out to the garden, we found that someone had left their book behind where they'd been reading it. Exactly where they'd been reading it, about 3 feet off the ground. SerTired is standing in the book to show how how it's floating. :)



This is a neighbor who tends to win a lot of the yard-decorating prizes. He and about four other houses in the subdivision this year are going for gold in the Christmas Decorating Contest, and every time we go outside, I swear there's more added.



Thanks to those wreaths that look like eyes, Manic Garage is Manic. A couple of years ago he had candy canes there instead of wreaths, and they were tilted at an angle so that the garage looked very, very angry.

Not very visible in this picture: the lighted "OU" (University of Oklahoma) on the front of the house hidden behind a tree, and the FIVE FOOT TALL BLAZING WHITE CROSS that makes part of that big blotch of white on the left.
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[personal profile] yhlee 2014-12-15 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a lot of lights. ^_^
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[personal profile] telophase 2014-12-15 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Luckily, he's not directly across the street from us so we don't have that blazing into the front room!

[identity profile] wyrdness.livejournal.com 2014-12-16 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
I like the trees (well, the branches at least), and I could get behind the lights on the eaves, but the rest is heading a bit far in to the tacky side of Christmas for my tastes. All I find Manic Garage slightly sinister and alarming. Also in this photo it looks like the part of the house next to the garage is a screaming, horrified cyclops. I can't see what the red lights are supposed to be, but it is freaking it out.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2014-12-16 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2014-12-16 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh I had a book float outside the stairway up in the garden, about two people's height up, and it was part of a quest.

I was so relieved that eventually the collection of books I was supposed to find respawned in the original spaces and I was able to collect those. As far as I know that book is still hovering outside that staircase now.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2014-12-16 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Being a librarian in these gaming worlds must be quite a job.
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2014-12-17 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, the guy who gave me the quest (find 48 copies of Varric's run-away bestseller "Hard in Hightown" spread throughout Skyhold Keep) WAS the librarian, which I thought very clever ^^.

Re: books - I wish they hadn't taken the mickey out of her love, but I hope you've seen this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37pD5KtpC-w (I recommend the DA vids of LadyInsanity (Ashe) and gamermd in general ^^)

After posting the comment I checked in game, and yes, that book is still hovering ^^

(They do have some slight problems with collision of resources you can harvest, you can find herbs and stuff sunk into the ground and unclickable out in the world now and again)

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2014-12-17 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohhh, yes! SerTired romanced Cassandra and we used that chapter as a way to get into her iron pants heart! XD

I'm not sure how many of the resources Toby was unable to get. I only remember one, but then again he did a lot of generic grinding over lunch when I was at work, and saved the plot-heavy stuff to do while I was there.

edit: And thank you for posting that video, because it led me to this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_HqR_qhIms), of one scene in the Iron Bull romance option. XD
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2014-12-19 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for that full video, I'd only seen the beginning of it (And Dorian's glorious backview) in AngryJoe's review of the game - he quite liked it but the comments to his review of course focussed on the game being supposedly gay-centric and straight males having no appealing romance options.

I guess they get that because the females and males this time are not conventionally beautiful - even Dorian has his horrible haircut and Cullen looks the worst of all his incarnations (but has the most delightful animations and speaks eloquently with his eyes)... I'm shallow myself, I quite like Solas' voice actor, but just found him to unattractive to romance.

Leliana remained beautiful, but is of course totally closed-off which is utterly appropriate for the story.
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