Dragon Age Party Banter

What does it mean to pierce the Veil, that which separates our world from the realm of dreams and demons? For the average man and woman, it is a frightening thought to consider just how fragile this separation actually is. The Veil is not a physical curtain, not a structure limited to a particular place—it is everywhere. It is in their home, in the streets where they walk, in farmers’ fields as well as remote mountain vales. At any moment it could be torn to shreds, allowing demons and other horrors to flood into our world like water through a burst dam. Known lore tells us that small rifts can be sealed… but what about a large one? What if some catastrophic magical event created a rift so large and horrific, it weakened the integrity of the Veil as a whole? Such a “breach” would threaten our entire world, turning concerns about occasional demonic intrusion into a charming anecdote compared to the monsters we would then face.

Have you ever found yourself wanting a metric fuckton DAI music? Have you ever thought to yourself, aw man, DAI’s soundtrack was 15 hours shorter than I wanted it to be? If that sounds like you, then holy crap, have I got a link for you.

I’ve ripped all the music from this game - that is, all the ambient snippets of music that you hear while running around in the world, and all the music that happens in cutscenes - and it turns out there’s 16 hours (1.6 gigs) of it.

(- here’s the download link -)

EA Representative (to Game Informer): “We do not support our assets being used in political campaigns.”

Summary: 

Fan uses Mass Effect 2 voiceover assets in order to create a Trump advertisement with a call-to-action to vote for the presidential candidate. 

Donald Trump retweets the video on his official account. 

Electronic Arts copyright claims the original video on Youtube, effectively blocking the video in all countries. (EDIT: The video is still playable through Twitter)

EA releases statement, denouncing the video.

via GameInformer:

“The video was an unauthorized use of our IP,” a company representative told us via email. “We do not support our assets being used in political campaigns.”

The galaxy is safe again.

TL;DR Vote Conrad Verner. Make Humanity Great Again.

Interactive Map of Thedas v.2.0

An update! A bit later than I anticipated because I discovered that tumblr removes input fields from custom pages and had to find another hosting solution.

New Features:

Ability to hide/show features (borders, labels, etc.)

Deep Roads Map (many thanks to higheverrains, who allowed me to extrapolate from their Deep Roads theory and add it as a feature to the map! It is hidden by default but can be viewed by checking “Show Deep Roads Map” under Show Features.)

Two different distance grids (each with 30km/60km versions based on average walking/riding distance in a day) based on different theories.

Labels on the oceans and seas!

Added a handful of additional locations from DAI

Improvements / Bug Fixes:

Zooming in/out functions more smoothly now

West Hill is now in the correct location (… also thanks to higheverrains)

… Rivain no longer gets chopped in half when you zoom in on it.

Coming Soon(ish):

My next goalpost is to refactor some of the code to make the map load more quickly. Once that is complete, I’ll probably gradually move into adding additional detail based on the location maps from DAI. Let me know if you are interested in helping out! (No coding experience required, just a basic image editor and some patience)

Interested in seeing more?

Let me know what you’d like to see! If you go the extra mile and give me rough coordinates for the location on the map + the zoom factor you were viewing it at when you got the coordinates, I can have it up much more quickly!

Let me know if you see any incorrect/outdated information.