#eyestumblin

Happy New Year! 🎉

And definitely! Some ways I’ve wanted to further use ambient dialogue:

lore journal series 

scenery gifs captioned with dialogue (I adore the sights of Tyria)

remixing dialogue into fan-made trailers 

doing a mini podcast series with friends discussing some of the more humorous/interesting dialogue

…plus various fun little lists like compiling time-sensitive dialogue, and going cross-platform (YT, reddit etc).

Yes I think it has been very helpful. There’s certainly less messages coming through, and those that do make it seem to be more well thought out. And I have people to quietly vent to about any particularly infuriating ones.

I think part of the problem is that any time you answer a question a tumblr, that post appears on people’s dashboards with “Ask this user a question” which takes you directly to the ask page, and even though the description there begged people to read the FAQ they simply wouldn’t, and fired off their quick question or comment which required a long answer from me.

Now there’s a different hurdle, because the ask box is closed, they have to look harder to ask a question or send in a comment, so I hope they are reading the FAQ instead.

Some people chose to bypass that by going to ‘submit’ and not using that function for photos, but that seems to have dried up after I removed the ability to submit text posts on the drferox blog (they are still open on ask-drferox).

Aw near, the scarf moves on human? I've only previewed it on charr and the tails stick straight out stiff

nope they move on Charr as well! Set your animations to “high” in your graphics settings!

yep ! 

They are illegal in Australia. My definition of ‘exotic’ is probably a bit different to yours.

It’s from “Small Victory (Epilogue)” at the end of POF. If you hang a right just before going into the party you’ll find those NPCs. 

I usually explore instances fairly thoroughly (fun fact: Zafirah is at the party too, but she stealths out if you come too close), but somehow I had totally missed these guys until a friend helpfully alerted me in the absolute best way: