Dragon Age: The Veilguard - A woke disaster? Yep!

[God of Nothing]

I just have no way to draw aggro, and I really don't want to pick up miasma to do that as guides recommend, so I had to finish this alone.
i swear, arcane warrior could solo the entire fucking game with little issue completely built

Time to do Awakening. Though I might try and see the other origins or playing a melee rogue.

 

[Snekposter]

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There needs to be a cultural exchange. Maybe bring some Australians in to bruce up their meetings.

The Angry Australian? I can totally see it.

"Oi, what kind of daft cunt came up with this?"

3.6 Roentgen is ~3.5 dental x-rays, so, about 1/10 of a chest x-ray.

Which is fine for when its just a quick x-ray, but sustained exposure, like say, walking around an exploding nuclear reactor to check how bad the damage was? Obviously at 15,000 like it actually was they were all dead men walking, but even at 3.6 you're looking at health risks if you stay there for any period of time.

Not great, not terrible.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

I don't pretend to be an expert, but it seems to be a lot more than that. Anyway, the gag is from the Chernobyl miniseries, where everyone who was trying to lowball the disaster kept repeating "3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible" because 3.6 was the highest they were able to measure with their lousy equipment ... while in reality the dosage turned out to be 15,000 roentgen.

You are absolutely right. When I double-checked my calculations they were was off by a factor of 3. Roentgens are difficult to convert to the current internationally accepted biological equivalent unit of absorbed radiation (the Sievert) because they are fundamentally different in how they deal with how radiation is absorbed/impacts living tissue. A really rough translation is 1 Roentgen is approximately equivalent to 0.01 Sievert, so that would be ~0.036 Sieverts. With a dental x-ray being ~0.01 milliSieverts, 3.6 Roentgens would be~3500 dental x-rays, so roughly ~100 chest x-rays which is generally somewhere around ~0.1 milliSieverts. With yearly average background radiation being approximately 2 milliSieverts, a dose of 3.6 Roentgen would be roughly equivalent to ~17.5 years of background radiation, or 3.5 full body CT scans. That is without a doubt not a small dose of radiation, but not a truly horrifying level of radiation where it would be immediately fatal or produce signs of acute radiation poisoning. Long term risk of cancer would absolutely be elevated against background cancer levels, especially in radiosensitive tissues such as the brain, thyroid, liver, kidney, lung, stomach, colon, bone marrow (blood forming cells), uterus, ovaries, testes, and breast, and particularly in children. I'd expect an increased long term risk to be at most 3.5 times above baseline cancer levels over 30 years. Even the risk of cardiovascular disease would likely be increased at most double above baseline over 10 years, being higher the younger someone is.

I also am no expert in radiation exposure, but I'm decent at understanding radiation risks.

 

[Mola Ram]

When I double-checked my calculations they were was off by a factor of 3.

Chernobyl takes a lot of liberties despite its overall sense of authenticity, so I didn't want to rely on it as a counterargument, but at one point the party hacks are confident 3.6 is the equivalent of a chest X-ray only to be told by Legasaov it's more like the equivalent of 400 chest X-rays. It's really worth watching, either way.

 

[BlankSpaceBaby]

Your companions are all Q U I R K Y people with issues and they outright state that you have to tend to their issues first before saving the world. Don't want them distracted, after all, hmmm? Conversations in this game are basically that one never-ending "team building" session that you will never get away from because you are in hell.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

Chernobyl takes a lot of liberties despite its overall sense of authenticity, so I didn't want to rely on it as a counterargument, but at one point the party hacks are confident 3.6 is the equivalent of a chest X-ray only to be told by Legasaov it's more like the equivalent of 400 chest X-rays. It's really worth watching, either way.

I'll have to give it a watch, it sounds interesting. They got it right that the party hack was indeed downplaying the risks intentionally to save face.

 

[Mola Ram]

They got it right that the party hack was indeed downplaying the risks intentionally to save face.

That's possibly the single biggest running theme of the series.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

And the drop-off is being sustained and gaining ground slowly based on current numbers with week over week Monday playership being off ~33%, so 1 in 3 people fewer people playing it this Monday compared to last. This level of fail is nothing short of impressive. So, they were right, Veilguard is impressive, just in absolutely all the wrong ways.

 

[Kane Lives]

And the drop-off is being sustained and gaining ground slowly based on current numbers with week over week Monday playership being off ~33%, so 1 in 3 people fewer people playing it this Monday compared to last. This level of fail is nothing short of impressive. So, they were right, Veilguard is impressive, just in absolutely all the wrong ways.

Anecdotal but a common thread even among the slop enjoyers of my circle is that DAV is "fun" (of course, else they won't be playing it), but then they list out all the criticism that has been spouted in this thread (childish writing, companions flat, combat boring) and then end it with "eh, maybe won't play it again I think, but I had fun."

 

[Absolute Ego Dance]

I'll have to give it a watch, it sounds interesting. They got it right that the party hack was indeed downplaying the risks intentionally to save face.

Chernobyl takes a lot of liberties despite its overall sense of authenticity, so I didn't want to rely on it as a counterargument, but at one point the party hacks are confident 3.6 is the equivalent of a chest X-ray only to be told by Legasaov it's more like the equivalent of 400 chest X-rays. It's really worth watching, either way.

Here's the scene.

 

[Counterfeit Obol]

Chernobyl takes a lot of liberties despite its overall sense of authenticity, so I didn't want to rely on it as a counterargument, but at one point the party hacks are confident 3.6 is the equivalent of a chest X-ray only to be told by Legasaov it's more like the equivalent of 400 chest X-rays. It's really worth watching, either way.

The best part is that the party hack who makes that comparison is Scherbina (admittedly, from underlings who downplayed the comparison), who ends up becoming Legasov's most trusted ally when it came to cleanup and containment.

Chernobyl was an amazing series.

 

[jje100010001]

This isn't what's going to happen - it's already happened. Anyone that was considered "real" Bioware has left over last few years - no Darrah, no Laidlaw, oh Ohlen, no Giader, and so on. It's already a hollow studio pumping out mediocre garbage. Some bailed during DA2, some bailed during DAI, but all of them bailed before DAV.

The main writer for Dragon Age and Mass Effect is a they/them faggot since 2015 who is somehow (clearly) a bigger faggot then the first faggot who DAO, DA2, and DAI.

I don't think Bioware will shut down either, EA will keep it around forever in some form like Popcap and Maxis to profit from the name recognition.

Maxis is basically proof of a post-life studio existence at EA. The original studios are long-gone, and it is really at this point an unrelated studio wearing the Maxis name.

 

[Megatardingo]

Maxis is basically proof of a post-life studio existence at EA. The original studios are long-gone, and it is really at this point an unrelated studio wearing the Maxis name.

Man it's so sad considering what bangers companies like bullfrog and maxis gave that they were choked out of existance.

 

[BlankSpaceBaby]

https://questalerts.com/dragon-age-origins-sees-76-player-surge-after-the-veilguard-release/ | Ghostarchive link

Note that the article isn't worth reading aside from the headline - it's padded with things we all know already to meet some word count.

Still, it's nice to know that this game is good for something...

 

[Weltraumfürst]

I'll have to give it a watch, it sounds interesting. They got it right that the party hack was indeed downplaying the risks intentionally to save face.

I highly recommend it. The series is a bit dramatized, like the "bridge of death"-thing, for which there is no evidence, but it's one of the best TV shows ever. It's baffling that the most notable thing the showrunner did before was Scary Movie 3, of all things.

I will say that they did Dyatlov dirty, because they portrayed him as an unrelenting asshole who was largely responsible for the accident, despite him being nothing like that according to multiple accounts, but he's fun to watch because Paul Ritter plays him as a guy you love to hate, and they got pretty much all the historical details right.

They also don't state that nuclear power is inherently dangerous, but they show that the accident could have only happened in the Soviet Union.

And now I'll stop fangirling before I derail the thread, just watch the show.

 

[anti SJW]

So someone asked if they could add a rope neck tattoo for character creation and EA put it in.



Link to tweet. Tweet is long.

The developers did think of everything.

 

[30+GameOvers]

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https://questalerts.com/dragon-age-origins-sees-76-player-surge-after-the-veilguard-release/ | Ghostarchive link

Note that the article isn't worth reading aside from the headline - it's padded with things we all know already to meet some word count.

Still, it's nice to know that this game is good for something...

Reminds me of when people noticed that Skyrim, a 13 year old game, has more people on it than Starfield when it received it's long anticipated single contractually obligated DLC

Bioware collapsed, Bethesda collapsed, who is even left among the CRPG pillars of yesteryear?

So someone asked if they could add a rope neck tattoo for character creation and EA put it in.

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Link to tweet. Tweet is long.

The developers did think of everything.

It will never not be funny to me that troons got all the customization options they wanted, but they still cry when people actually utilize them. It is never enough for them.

 

[Asian tech support]

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https://questalerts.com/dragon-age-origins-sees-76-player-surge-after-the-veilguard-release/ | Ghostarchive link

Note that the article isn't worth reading aside from the headline - it's padded with things we all know already to meet some word count.

Still, it's nice to know that this game is good for something...

The jeet who penned that article couldn't even be bothered to actually check.

Recently has witnessed 76% surge in player activity on Steam, peaking at 2,642 players. This is not bad for a game that’s been around since 2009, To put it in perspective, that’s more than its original peak of 2,278 players back in 2010.

It peaked at 4740 in June of this year, which was actually a ten year high.

 

[God of Nothing]

awakening is fun but i really want it to be over so i can move on to finding my witch bitch
she's too dumb and vague to be trusted alone with our literal god child

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

awakening is fun but i really want it to be over so i can move on to finding my witch bitch
she's too dumb and vague to be trusted alone with our literal god child

Based Morrigan chaser.