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Nasrin by Inara

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Found this screenie Inara took for the wiki while looking for Lorne pictures. Here you can see Lorne’s shack, of course, but Lorne himself remains ever illusive. Almost as difficult as finding a courier picture with his clothes on, or Krem sitting in his chair.

On to the news:

  • In order to increase site speed, some of you may have noticed some minor tweaks here and there. For example, I’ve limited the blog posts to 4 per page, and reduced the image size of the screenshots. Clicking on the image will send you to the normal size if you want to save them.
  • Ronja Monto did a version of “Once We Were” from DAI. It’s very soothing.

https://twitter.com/AndrastesTits/status/553734699127177216

She says they’re terrible, methinks this is what you call a “humblebrag.” Just kidding Natalie I love you please respond to my e-mails.

  • This news is a bit older, but David Bodtcher did some narration for some Sci-Fan audiobooks a year back. I can’t put my finger on why, but that website template looks familiar.
  • By the way, I’m trying to make sure every actor’s name links to their respective home pages, and typing mod names should do the same. So if you type the words SkyUI anywhere on this site, it should link to the respective page. Let me know if there are others you feel should get the same treatment.

Lastly, for a brief instance today I tried using an Adsense footer, and it was the worst thing ever. About an hour into this experiment, one of the advertisements did a redirect to a site called consumernews247.com.

Freaked me out for a second, but once I figured out what was going on I deleted that banner ASAP. Seriously though, what the fuck. Get your shit together, Google. Anyways I think I’ll stick with the one WordAds box for now, should be enough to pay for the hosting re-up in April.

 

Tools and Tidbits

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And I said, “Look lady, if your pipes are leaking water, I’m not going to waste my time deactivating them.  I’m the Dwarvenborn, not your personal plumber.”

Here are some more newsy bits and baubles that I didn’t touch on in the last post because they did not exist yet, at least in my solipsistic view of the universe.

  • On the Bioware forums there are some nascent tools available for DAI modding for those interested. Since this is a game where the player has a voice, the only thing I’d personally be interested in adding are background scenes and atmosphere NPCs who dish out one-liners with no response from the Inquisitor. There are a couple in Skyhold, for instance, that you click on and they have about a dozen sound files set to random.
  • Anna Castiglioni did a mock radio show  interview with James McLauchlan complete with Skyrim ad breaks to help promote her mod.
  • For those waiting on audition decisions, I’ve made a few but I’m waiting to confirm some stuff like mic checks and things of that nature, will be sending out emails shortly.
  • Podcasts might return soon as well, I know at least Alice and I ran into a snag during the holidays and never got a chance to record. I’ve pretty much abandoned the idea of a regular schedule though.

I’ll probably be releasing 3.09 as soon as the new follower Treads-the-Ashes is finished and voiced, which includes all the minor roles and things of that nature. Trailers forthcoming.

New Year’s Daenlyn

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Screenshot of Daenlyn by Numeriku. He looks very toasty.

I’ve always felt starting the new year in the middle of winter didn’t make much sense, symbolically anyway. The trees are still barren, the bears are still hibernating, and the White Walkers have only just begun to breach the Wall. It’s not even the darkest night of the year, that was eleven days ago. January 1st is the 3AM of the Earth’s daily slog, too early and too late to signify anything.

Still, for all the crap winter gets, it’s the only time of year my room doesn’t double as a pizza oven when gaming. So fuck off, Spring. You’ll take St. Patrick’s Day and like it. I can deal with a few ice zombies if it means an extra 10 FPS. On to some news:

  • One of the mod’s VAs, Mara Lightfeather, made a Skyrim Romance Mod, yay. Now Mara, in the description you say I taught you how to mod but we both know I maybe answered like 7 or 8 of your questions tops. Truth is, I’m too lazy to teach anyone anything. At some point I would like to finish the tutorial series, however.
  • SkyComplete is a plugin that keeps track of unfinished quests and things. Which is kind of helpful for this mod in particular.
  • Viridiane has a new website. Well, it was up in November, but it’s news to me. On this site you can read excerpts of the epic fantasy novel she’s working on and ask her questions about life. In any case I recommend making this your new home page and place of worship as I have.
  • Here is Ronja Monto singing and doing Elfy things. I probably linked this previously, I don’t remember.
  • Lastly, in a previous news segment we featured a fanfiction on Rumarin. If you search the database, there’s actually a few older ones to parse through as well. Some even have adult content warnings, that’s how you know they’re good.