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Total cooking time: 1¼ hours from start to finish
12 oz (340g) sweet potatoes
3 ¼ oz (90g) butter (preferably unsalted)
1 ½ oz (40g) cocoa powder
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
5 oz (140g) unrefined sugar
4 ¾ oz (135g) wholemeal spelt or just wholemeal flour
1 ½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp fine salt
- Peel and chop up the sweet potatoes, place in a pan and steam for 10-12 minutes.
- Meanwhile, grease a baking tin (approx 20x20cm / 8×8″) with butter and line with baking paper, and grease that again, then set aside.
- Pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees / gas mark 4.
- Put the cooked sweet potato in a bowl and mash it up, until it's as smooth as you can get it (there will always be some fibres, and that's fine, they add a nice texture).
- Heat the butter in a separate saucepan, remove it from the heat and stir in the cocoa powder and vanilla extract until it's a paste.
- In another bowl, beat the eggs until they're mixed together and then add them to the sweet potato bowl, together with the sugar and cocoa and butter paste. Stir all these ingredients together until well-mixed.
- In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking powder and salt, and then add this all to the sweet potato mixture and stir together until completely mixed (this does take a bit of stirring to avoid clumps of potato etc in the finished brownies).
- Pour the mixture into the baking tray, level it by shaking the tin from side to side, and then smooth the top with a spatula.
- Bake for 35 minutes, and check it's cooked poking a skewer or knife into the brownie tin; if it comes out clean, it's done.
- Once it's done, take of the oven and leave on a baking tray for a few minute before taking it, peeling off the paper and slicing into squares. If you're not eating these the same day, then store the brownie whole and slice later, as it'll keep its freshness longer.

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Topic Page: Samhain
1 November, observed by the ancient Celts as a festival marking the end of the harvest period and the beginning of the CELTIC New Year. With the coming of Christianity in Britain it became widely subsumed under the observations of HALLOWEEN and ALL HALLOWS DAY. The name is pronounced 'sown', rhyming with 'frown' and 'gown', or 'sow-in'.
(variations: Saman, Samain, Samonios, Samuin, Samhuin, Samhuinn, Samhtheine, Sainfuin, La Samon, La Samhin, Sham-in, Saimhain, Samhein, Oiche Shamhna, Taman; also known as Nos Calan Gaeaf (Welsh); pronounced "sow-en") — The Celtic New Year's festival (and the first day of Gemred, or winter) and arguably the single biggest influence on the contemporary celebration of Halloween.
It is a popular misconception that Samhain was the name of a Celtic god of the dead worshipped on the evening of October 31; a 1934 Halloween book refers to Samhain as "patron of the field" (although the same book later refers to "Saman, lord of death"); sometimes the word Taman is used instead to refer to a Lord of Death. The "Lord of Death" definition of Samhain began in the 18th-century, as part of the work of Charles Vallancey. Vallancey was a British surveyor who spent nearly 40 years in Ireland and wrote extensively about the island's language, history, and folklore. Vallancey believed that the Celts worshipped a deity called "Samhan" who "at this season called the souls to judgment"; Vallancey also wrote that "Samman [sic] was named BALSAB, or Dominus mortis, for Bal is lord, and Sab death." Vallancey's ideas were reiterated by the Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbroke in his popular 1825 book Encyclopaedia of Antiquities (there has also been conjecture that some early historians may have confused the word "Samhain" with the name "Samana," an ancient Hindu deity). However, most historians discredited Vallancey almost immediately —the London Quarterly Review in 1818 stated that Vallancey "wrote more nonsense than any man of his time."
In reality, there was probably no single god worshipped on this day, and the Celts had no "god of the dead." Likewise, after Vallancey it was commonly stated that on this night "the lord of death gathered together all the souls of all those who had died in the passing year and had been condemned to live in the bodies of animals, to decree what forms they should inhabit for the next twelve months" (from Ruth Edna Kelley's The Book of Hallowe'en, 1919); but beyond Vallancey's suppositions there is no evidence to support this idea, either. Samhain translates as "summer's end"; in Gaelic, Lá Samhna is the name given to the first of November, and samhradh is the name for summer. In Celtic tradition, Samhain was the greatest of four ceann fÉile, or chief festivals (or quarter days) held by the Celts (the others were Imbolc —later St. Brigid's Day —on February 1, Beltane or Beltene on May 1, and Lughnasad on August 1, when first fruits were celebrated). All Celtic festivals were associated with either agriculture or livestock; Beltane (when crops were planted and livestock put out to pasture) and Samhain (when the livestock were brought in for the winter) were the main calendar points, and Imbolc (associated with the lactation of ewes) and Lughnasad (a midsummer celebration) marked three-month points in between.
Surprisingly little is known of the actual rites and activities of Samhain, since the Celts kept oral rather than written histories; in fact, there is no indication that mainland European Celts celebrated the day at all, and it may have been a festival originally celebrated only by the Irish Celts. What is recorded about Samhain is found largely in the vernacular literature of the Celts, which was first recorded by monks and so is usually thought to be somewhat colored by Christian interpretation.
For the Celts, Samhain (the celebration of which is mentioned in the Celtic mythology as lasting for three days before and three days after the actual day itself) probably began with bringing the livestock in from the fields for the winter; the hardiest were kept as breeding stock, while the weakest were slaughtered, partly to provide provisions for the winter and partly because it was difficult to provide feed for animals in the winter months. This tradition of slaughtering livestock at Samhain time carried on in many parts of Britain; for example, until the 1930s most villages in the Wiltshire area had an official pig-killer who was always extremely busy at this season. The last of the harvest—barley, apples, oats, wheat, turnips—was also brought in at this time (the Celts may have shared the later Irish belief that any crops left out after November 1 were rendered inedible by malicious spirits or fairies).
The rest of Samhain was devoted to a mix of political and religious activities. A great assembly of the five Irish provinces was held at Tara (or Teamhair, sometimes also called Druim Cain, the beautiful ridge; Liath Druim, the grey ridge; and Druim na Descan, the ridge at the outlook). Tara was the seat of the high kings of first the crude Firbolgs, then later the great Tuatha de Danaan; the Samhain festivities held there included horse races, markets, political discussion, feasting and drinking (some folklorists have stated that the Samhain assembly may have lasted over a fortnight, and was celebrated only every three years). In one Celtic myth the young hero Finn MacCumal, goes at Samhain time to the assembly and encounters a law that states that no one there may raise a quarrel or bring a grudge against another as long as the gathering goes on. Samhain feasts were often held on the shores of lakes (bodies of water such as wells, lakes and rivers were held in great reverence by the Celts); for example, The Dream of Angus occurs on the shore of Loch Bel Dracon. On the evening of October 31 (since the Celts reckoned time by nights instead of days, their actual Samhain may have been the evening of October 31), all fires were extinguished, and then the Druids, or priests, enacted a ritual in which a new fire was kindled on the hill of Tlachtga (about 12 miles from Tara). Embers from this fire were distributed to each home (which paid a tax to the king in return) to start their own fires anew. Historical tradition has it that debts were paid on this day and duties honored (a tradition which was continued in the later celebration of Martinmas); any who refused to do so might be excommunicated (a fate which also awaited any who had dealings with those already excommunicated).
Samhain's most significant aspect, however, was probably not political but spiritual. The Druids would have performed sacrifices on this night, hoping to propitiate the gods into gifting their people with a mild winter; sacrifices may have included human offerings, perhaps even the infamous "wicker man" described by Roman historians—a large man-shaped figure made from wicker, in which sacrificial animals and people were caged and then burned (other accounts suggest that the Druids sacrificed black sheep on this night). The Celts, who often dug ritual pits, may have placed seed in such shafts or pits on Samhain, to ensure fertility come spring (when some of the seed was removed for sowing and replaced with a second offering). On this date the Dagda and the Morrigan (chief male and female deities) copulated to ensure crop and animal fertility for the coming year (one variant of this tale describes the Morrigan as having one foot on either side of a river). In some versions of this myth the goddess, an old hag by year's end, is revitalized by the union, becoming young and beautiful again.
As the border between two years, it was believed that Samhain was a night when the entrances to the Otherworld were open, and the spirits of the dead could roam free. The dead were commemorated (there were also similar activities at Lughnasad), and it was customary to put food out for spirits returning home. The dead, however, could also be malicious tricksters, like non-human supernatural entities, and so Samhain Eve was a night to stay indoors. The Celtic vision of the afterlife was largely benevolent: One description of Annwn (the Otherworld) was "Court of Intoxication," since it was a place where heroes feasted and drank with beautiful women and sometimes fought; but it could also be fraught with danger, since mortals entering the realm of the Otherworld might come across horrific monsters, and were often condemned to stay, never aging, until they tried to return to their own land, where they died instantly.
The Celts had a rich mythology, in which Samhain figured prominently. It first appeared when the Tuatha de Danaan (or the Celts' gods and goddesses) took Ireland from the Firbolgs; the Tuatha de Danaan were then beset by the nightmarish Fomorians, maimed monsters who each had only one leg or one arm and were led by an evil giant and his mother. The Fomorians demanded a ritual tribute each Samhain of two-thirds of the Tuatha de Danaan's corn, milk, and children. The Tuatha de Danaan battled against the Fomorians, and although the monsters were largely defeated they still roamed the Irish countryside, spoiling corn, milk, fruit and fish. Finally one Samhain night the Morrigan and Angus Og drove the last of the creatures from Ireland, and the Fomorians returned to their kingdom from beyond the sea.
Some Samhain myths center on legendary feats, such as Finn's slaying of the murderous Aillen, or Nera leading an army into the Otherworld on a quest for a great crown; others involve meetings between mortal men and women of the sidhe (fairies). In this latter vein is the tale of Fingin Mac Luchta, who is visited by a banshee (fairy woman) every Samhain who tells him all the precious things to be found in the royal strongholds of Ireland, as well as prophecies for the coming year. These meetings between mortal man and fairy woman are not always romantic, though: In the one story set at the Cruachan of Connaught, Cailte and Cascorach the Musician meet an old man who turns out to be Bairnech, steward to the King of Ireland. Bairnech tells them that every year at Samhain a woman comes out of the hill of the Sidhe of Cruachan and brings away nine of the best cattle from every herd. Since it is Samhain night, Cascorach goes to the door and kills the banshee with his spear.
Another Samhain story emphasizes the involvement of Druids with the holiday: On Samhain Eve Dathi, king of Ireland (from A.D. 405 to 428) was at Cnoc-nan-druad ("the Druids' Hill," now Mallaroe); he ordered his Druid to forecast the events of the coming year. The Druid went to the summit of the hill, spent the night there and returned at sunrise, only to address Dathi as King of Erin (Ireland) and Alban (Scotland). He thus correctly predicted Dathi's conquering expedition to Alban, Britain and Gaul.
Another tie between Druids and Samhain was the idea of fe-fiada, a spell that some believed the Druids cast on fairies to render them invisible throughout the year; only on Samhain was this spell lifted.
One of the most frightening (and one of the oldest) Samhain stories is found in the Dinnsenchus in the Book of Leinster. It tells of how King Tigernmas (who ruled Ireland around 939 b.c.) and many of his people were destroyed by some mysterious force as they worshipped an idol (given as Cromm Cruach) on Samhain Eve; they may have been destroyed by vengeful Druids, who were angry that Tigernmas had turned away from them.
When the Julian calendar was replaced by the Gregorian calendar in the mid-eighteenth century British Isles, it essentially created two Samhain celebrations, with November 11 henceforth being known as Oíche Shean Shamhain, or "Old Samhain Eve," and November 12 as Lá Shean Shamain, or "Old Samhain Day." Most customs and beliefs regarding Samhain and Halloween transferred to the "new" October 31 or November 1, while in most areas November 11 came to be celebrated as Martinmas.
Although Samhain was largely incorporated into the Christian holidays of All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day, it has been celebrated from Celtic times under its original name in certain areas of Ireland. It is also celebrated as Samhain by some contemporary Wicca, Neo-Pagan and Neo-Druid groups.
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Ugh... everything else about DA2 sounds great to me, except this. This is the kind of silliness I loved being able to avoid in DA:O by actually picking what I wanted to say (from an sometimes larger range of options). As much as I love ME1 and ME2, they feel so much more scripted, and the player feels so much less in control, than was ever the case in DA:O.
My name is Commander Shepard and DA2 is my favorite game on the Citadel.
A couple of thoughts. One, which I'll just say briefly, while it was indeed very brown, the graphics weren't "butt-ugly" on the consoles. The amount you guys put the graphics down, I'm beginning to suspect you have a contractual obligation to, or something. Next, I like the new crafting design from the sounds of it, though I'm curious how this will effect my cash flow, like selling potent lyrium potion stacks for a decent profit did in the first. On the topic of loot, is there any word on letting anyone other than a thief open a chest? Baldur's Gate had the smashing mechanics, where you could just manhandle your way in, at a slight penalty to whats inside. That always annoys me more than a lot of other things, is not having ready access to a ton of loot because my warrior can't figure out how to whack a chest open with that giant axe of his. On to the relationships. Can I knock up an elf yet? One with all the appropriate lady bits?
Allow me to just interject one thing about the dialog wheel in DA2 - it offers far more choices than ME2 (or seemed to, anyway). In ME2, you pretty much had the Paragon choice, the Renegade choice, maybe something neutral and then choices that let you probe for more information. In DA2, the top choice isn't always good-natured, and the lower choice isn't always "bad guy." From what I saw, it seems more nuanced than just good/bad, but of course it's tough to get a real perspective on something like that from just a few hours of play.
He's just trolling, let him be.
Of course they are telling the same story, most epic tales are just repeats of the old ones. DA:O is copying BG which is borrowing from Lord of the Rings, which takes a lot of information from Norse stories (and I skipped a few steps in there). I can do it again with other epics. Paradise Lost borrows from the Divine Comedy and in that Dante clearly states he is taking passages directly from Virgil's Aeneid which is a Roman retelling of the Odyssey that some modern scholars are doubting came from Homer (and if that is the case, someone else is concluding the Iliad story).
I never said you were wrong, just said you were mad. I could feel the anger oozing out of the words. Was it pointless to point that out? Yes, very. But... yeah.
In my experience, the difficulty did seem to be.. I wouldn't say way off, but I would say it was oddly weighted. I found pretty much all of the boss battles to be simple and easy, but I would spend an hour on trying to successfully complete some of the "random" map battles.
Also, even the hardest battles sometimes seemed to be inconsistent within themselves where the same set of enemies would act completely differently on back to back occassions (though I suppose you could put this down as being reasonably realistic AI wise).
Although I found the lack of a character voice somewhat jarring for a current generation game, I'm not sure about the direction of a completely new character. I assumed the idea of the name Origins was to give you a cast of characters that you would care about from game to game (as in Mass Effect) so if you want to use a fully voiced character rather than waste narrative time building empathy for a new character, why not choose two characters from the supporting cast (the obligatory one male one female). I think it would be really interesting to play as someone who has a defined characterisation and watch them evolve based on your playing style (Leliana becoming a cynical agnostic or Sten becoming a warmer people person.) I personally would accept a shorter game to be able to see something like that.
They could even do something with Morrigan to give insight to what the hell is going on with her because the Witch Hunt expansion sure didn't.
You know... I kind of agree with you. There's a lot of people that just equate "best videogame writing" with "world-class written material", when BioWare is and has been writing pulp for the last 5 years. Previously great pulp, nowadays outright repetitive pulp. I was stunned by how bad and contrived the main plotline of Mass Effect 2 was (in comparison to KotOR, or even ME1 for that matter, a game I considered unplayable but interesting).
But like all genuinely great pulp, they have their moments of brilliance - all of Mordin, Jack's loyalty mission, Morrigan's proposal at the end of DAO... It's just that they used to have loads of those back in the day! No more shocking Darth Revan reveals or Jon Irenicus' wife's glistening perfectly-preserved bedroom in the middle of his torture-dungeon!
And I don't believe they have the best-written videogames either. They just have loads of dialogue, a lot of it's humorous, and they focus on the characters' backgrounds and motivations. It's like Buffy the Vampire Slayer in videogame form. Only Whedon kept it tight and mixed things up ("Hush", "The Body"), while BioWare is just dumbing it down lately. Not that ME2 wasn't a fantastic shooter to play (I've shot my share of guns in gaming, and this was probably the most satisfying shooter yet) but the main plot is so bare-bones and devoid of urgency and drama that they might as well have called it "Dr. Shepard's Therapy Ship for Troubled Milky Way Denizens". At least that would be charming and without the forced epic space opera.
I never felt Dragon Age was too hard, in fact it was pretty average difficulty on nightmare. But then again, Bioware assumed people would know in what order to complete the "missions". They just had put it up on the internet somewhere. At first I struggled too, but after finding this it was pretty easy.
Ostagar / Korkari Wilds > Lothering > Mage Tower > Redcliffe Village and Redcliffe Castle > Brecilian Forest > Haven > and then after all this you can hit Denerim or Orzammar in either order you prefer > then Landsmeet and the rest of the game.
Can someone clear something up for me I'm slightly confused, I know that you can't pick your race etc. but can you make the character look the way you want to? Because I read somewhere you can't not a massive concern because the game itself look awesome but I think costumization is important in sense of uniquness and immersion.
Thank god the combat mechanics are different it was infuriating waiting for my warden to go and attack something it did feel much like dice rolling, but when it got going it was good. But I'm also grateful for the graphics revamp see I thought the Brecillian Forest looked pretty, but there was a HECK of a lot of brown, but I did LOVE DA:O
I just hope the give the Grey Wardens more powers than a) having nightmares about a black dragon b) the ability to sense - and be sensed by - Darkspawn (which just leaves you back at square one) and c) a shortened lifespan.
DA:O was the 1st game I'd ever played where there was absolutely no benefit to joining it's own exclusive badass organisation!
Absolutely agreed.. fair point, I won't argue there.
However Bio don't even try now, they don't have to, there's enough people saying how marvellously super uber they are that all comments to the opposite are drowned out in a fanboi squee.
Those of us who continue to actually read books in this age recognise their meanderings as trite and tired, I'll conceed that they can sometimes write dialogue adequately... Alister honestly made me laugh more than a few times, but mostly that was down to the vioce actor who's inflections were immaculate and not down to what was actually said/written. However Bioweary's (see what I did there :O) bigger pictures are so godawful cliched and regurgitated that you can see the joins from everyone elses efforts that have come before them.
There are only a few original stories to be written, but they can be written in infinately varying manners. Why is it always the big bad and the chosen one with his friends?.. That's not the only senario that can be written, but it's the only one Bio are capable of writing and that fact that that has become so screamingly obvious is what makes them the tired old man at the orgy.
Bioware are now irrelevent to original, though provoking storytelling and gameplay, and their persistance at this new gameplay direction is what proves it. The only reason it has become so hot now is that it is actually so dumb in general now that the masses can finally 'get it'.
Real RPG player's have been playing this kind of story for decades and we're tired of it's unoriginality and angry at how such a thought provoking and original genre has become so dumb and common place.
If rpg's were STILL the game's that they used to be, they WOULDN'T be as popular as they are, because by definition though provoking originality is a niche market and doesn't travel to the masses, because like it or lump it, the masses gravitate to the dumber bands of playing and complexity scares the shit out of them because they would never want to ruin their own self image by coming to see themselves as anything other than equal, in inteligence or capable understanding, as those of us who seek out complexity in our leisure.
If someone wants to flame me for that statement be my guest.. but it's never gonna make it less true.
OH.. mad as in pissed off angry..... then yeah... have a biccie.
Oh, excellent question. Yes, you can customize your appearance however you like, though both of the defaults are pretty damn hot.
Grey Wardens don't actually feature much in DA2. They are part of the world, but not the part you're focused on.
Seriously though, chill out.
OT- Sounds good to me. First one was awesome, but some of the classes (or parts of the classes) just felt "blech" to me. Hopefully this time a dual-wielding rogue will feel different than a dual-wielding warrior, at least.
I don't think it was very professional to crap all over DA1. It wasn't pretty but it wasn't butt ugly and I was plainly aware of my character's race. Also: I don't see why the character is referred to as 'silent' and being without personality. Your main character takes on whatever character and voice you, the player, give him or her. From a vocal sociopath, to a well mannered murderer to a silver-tongued angel of mercy. Saying the main character of DA is without personality is synonymous with saying you personally have no personality.
Anyway: my interest is finally beginning to arise when I read about journeying with a sibling, mainly to see if incest will be in the game. I loved how in DA I got to play as a male elf and bed Zevron.
The level system sounds like a great improvement and yes, adding color to the world sounds great too. I just wish I could continue playing as an Elf.
I never noticed difficulty issues. I remember killing Revenants and, Orges relatively easily no matter where they were.
Oh fuck, you're one of THEM, aren't you? That crazy bitch-ass cult that's been coming out of the woodwork all this month to verbally rape me and anybody else that likes BioWare games, and then gush and gush about Planescape and all the other half-finished piles of Black and Gray morality bullshit from Black Isle and its demonic bastard children Troika and Obsidian. Well, no more! I've been letting you nightmarish creatures torment me for too long, but I shall not tolerate your presence! Therefore, I SAY TO THEE:
If you don't like the game, please kindly leave the thread and do not come back.
OT: Well, that relieves my fears a lot Susan. I've been having some big fears about the weird changes this game's making. If you've played it, can you confirm if the darkspawn are as stupidly cartoony as they look in the concept art?
I'm sorry Susan, but that's twice now you've made some kind of psuedo sexual referrence in relation to this game, unfortunately I have to hold you up as a prime example of the new RPG player that is being catered to now.
Yes, relationships (although relationship used to mean just the type of camaraderie you had with your party, not 'relationship' relationship, although they exisited in moderation too) have always been a part of Biowares games and they used to be done with at least a modicum of wit and subtlety... but all that's gone now. It was beaten to death with obvious innuendo and the unending need for vicarious cheap thrills, and today's market is what we are left with.
I hope you don't see this as an outright personal attack, however you (and may I say most of today's audience) are an anathma to players of my particular bent.
It's only pixels.. how satisfying can that actually be? :/
You can kill the Archdemon?
Yeah, I read that and went, "Um, probably not the best phrase."
On Topic: They are fixing the two things that bothered me. The visuals (how many times did my character's head twitch when he was trying to look somewhere, or her hand go through her forehead instead of just rubbing her brow?) and the dialogue. I was a bit miffed when I got to choose a voice, and then my character never actually TALKED!
EDIT: Good Lord, there's a lot of hate in this thread. Calm down people.
Agreed with your personality points - the character is there to take on fully the personality that you give them.
I'd have preferred them to be voiced if I'm honest, but it's impossible to say they didn't have personality since that's what you spend the entire game crafting.
Thanks for clearing that up ^^, what was your favourite part of the play through? if I may ask lol
Oh! Phew! I really feel that the grey-and-grey morality is at the heart of what DAO was trying to be, especially with 50% of the choices never appearing twice (encouraging careful choosing) and most lines being arranged randomly, which made you read through them and choose more cautiously.
Without wanting to bash the near-perfect experience that was ME2, it really did drop the ball on this one. All it had was two insufferably extreme Picard/Mal Reynolds choices, and a neutral choice that penalized you later in the game. As far as consequence goes, most of them were just "press X to see Shepard act as a douchebag/Mother Teresa", and purely for spectacle. Plus, you get to exhaust all dialogue choices except the paragon/renegade ones, so conversations are usually a linear "click on everything" sequence.
The wheel arrangement does work for thumbsticks, though. I'm just worried that every line in DA2 will now have to be neatly summarized in two words. It's quite a limiting factor.
Sorry man.. but, no.
As long as I see this type of gameplay being lauded as the best thing since sliced bread, and having the audacity to call itself a 'real' RPG, then I'll be here raging away and trying to avoid the banhammer long enough to make my point... over and over again if I'm not being heard or understood the first time.
I sure didn't. Am I supposed to read the manual or the website for it? Other BioWare titles have equally challenging choose-quests-in-whatever-order parts, so I just assumed.
Plus, I've tried to play the game in reverse and even then the difficulty was all over the place. I dispatch the broodmother easily, then I get killed by a horde or regular darkspawn. Not even an Elite amongst them. Then quickload and I kill the same group effortlessly. Then Branka kicks my ass. It's just weird.
Wow... I and people lke me are the 'raper's' but it's you who can't even stand to see a different point of view written on your screen and aren't even willing to post an arguement, eloquent or not, in favour of your point of view, but you want us all gone?.. I have the feeling we make you inadequate.
Yeah.. guess how relevent your screaming abdab witisms are. :o
I loved playing DA:O, but I had serious problems with the difficulty. I went to each location in the correct order, but certain places were still difficult. On one character I quickly passed through the Deep Roads, but on another I faced serious problems. So as long as this is addressed, I'll enjoy it even more.
Also angel wings with dialogue options? I can't feel like a bad ass warrior choosing dialogue options with angel wings.
Could you go and create your own thread, where other people can post their opinions about the lack of ingenuity in mainstream games? This thread is about DAII not about Bioware's story flaws.
I'm not sure he was entirely serious. Planescape: Torment is widely regarded as one of the high points of videogame writing, the only problem being that the format is a bit... unfriendly. I didn't have a problem with the tons of text, but I also couldn't exactly binge-game it for 10 hours straight.
However, imagine Torment in the modern era, with 3D character models, facial animations, characters and camera moving around like in a cutscene, voice-acting, etc. - completely and utterly impractical and never going to happen. You cannot begrudge the industry for wanting to implement new technology, especially since the old one relied heavily on imagination and suspension of disbelief, something that isn't universal in today's wider audience.
Hm, before I respond I'd like to make a list.
On to to the topic at hand, and first I'd like to very much state thank you, I was afraid that you might be an affable person with a sense of humor and I might end up tolerating you. Those fears are alleviated, as your sense of humor was clearly left at the door, if it was there to begin with. On, then, to further matters: if you dislike the game I have no trouble with letting you carry on with those opinions, what confuses me is the fact that you and so many others like you have recently decided as if through some Black Isle-based Hive Mind to force your opinions on others like a bunch of nerdy Inquisitors.
This pisses me off so damn much. No offense to Susan who was reviewing the game, but I refuse to believe some of the stuff that the bioware guy said. "Lots of people didn't like the silent protagonist"....UM WHAT? Dao was game of the year and a best seller. The game was "old schooly" but that's one of the reasons I think it was successful.
There was no need to rewrite the book with the next installment, just fix the problems from the first one going forward. I think Bioware really kicked the can this time. There is no reason why DA had to be another Mass Effect.
I LOVE mass effect. But not all games have to be the same! The only excuse I can see (which bioware will never admit) is the money reason. But even that doesn't seem to make sense considering the unanticipated success of DAo with all its flaws...
Long story short I'm not buying this game. No matter how much everyone tells me it's better and how great it is, there is no excuse for such a dramatic shift. Dragon age didn't need fully voiced player characters to tell a good story, no game does. The loss of choice and customization is just too much for me. Try again bioware...
No, but it IS about the adeqacies or inadequacies of this one.. and it all amounts to the same.
But again with the people who, rather than extole the virtues of their point of view, just want all opposing insights gone.
Anyway.. why not keep it all in one place rather than cluttering up the forum with more... I'm sure that behaviour certainly would draw mod wrath.
Surely you lovers of this kind of thing aren't so threatened by my lone voice in the wilderness? Maybe it's that you know full well your arguements are on rather shaky ground and don't want that ground tested to extensively, no?
I really don't get this shift from DA. I mean, we already have mass effect, why do the same thing again? Wasn't DA supposed to be return to the golden age of RPGs?
Spoken like a true BRO.
Lol.. I've put far more than 10 hours straight into that game ;)
And yeah, yet again you make a very salient point, however I'm not sure you can lay all the credit (or blame) at the door of the graphical design.. it would certainly be different in a 3D engine, that I can't agrue with, however I have a feeling that the satisfaction of depth, storyline and immersion would probably (?) be on a level par, if not the exactitudes of actual gameplay.
Dude :D
Keep the faith. ;)
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But as my sons described the "thing" they saw, I began to listen carefully. It was a black, spherical object. It had one single round orange light in the center of it. The light seemed to dim, then intensify, then dim, and intensify. Most importantly of all, it made no sound whatsoever. That piqued my interest.
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How about a hot air balloon? My oldest son considered this possibility for a moment, but said that the object was probably too far up for a balloon to go. The black object was abut as big as the moon in the sky when you look up. My youngest made a drawing of what he saw:
So what the heck was it??? A black, spheroid object with a glowing orange light making nary a sound? What makes such a thing?
My son made a picture of what he saw. What do you think?
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In addition, it contends that school districts with the largest enrollments of minority students receive 16 percent less than those districts serving the fewest.
This comes on the heels of another study by WalletHub that contends that Illinois' tax structure places a greater burden on the poor and middle class than any other in the nation. It says Illinois has the second-worst tax system in the nation for low-income workers, who on average pay 12.1 percent of their income in taxes (that includes property, sales and income taxes) and the worst tax system for middle-income wage earners, taking 11.3 percent of their income.
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Faced with a $1.6 billion FY15 budget deficit upon taking office, Gov. Bruce Rauner almost immediately asked for executive powers to reorganize spending and enable the State to get through the fiscal year, which covers spending needs through June 30.
Without immediate action, the State would have been unable to make payroll at Illinois prisons, low-income working families would lose their child care assistance, court reporters would be laid off and money for services for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled would run out. In addition, inaction would have further delayed and perhaps jeopardized critical categorical school funding and State aid payments.
After negotiations in which House Republicans were full participants, the General Assembly agreed this week to language contained in HB 317 and HB 318. HB 317, an appropriations bill, made cuts and transfers in State spending. HB 318, a budget implementation bill, granted the Governor the legal authority to carry out and implement the cuts in spending and spending transfers made in HB 317. Together, these bills work to fill critical holes in the deliberately unbalanced FY15 budget passed by majority Democrats and signed by former Governor Quinn.
Approximately $1.3 billion of the moves occurred in the form of budget transfers from various funds, and approximately $400 million was in the form of an across-the-board budget cut. The HB 317-HB 318 package created $97 million in budgetary flexibility that can be used to respond to specific challenges, including the challenge of school districts that have run out of reserves.
The House vote on HB 317 was 72-45-0 and the House vote on HB 318 was 69-48-0, with all House Republicans voting in favor of the measures. The Senate followed up by approving both bills on Thursday, March 26, sending the measures to Gov. Rauner for final action. Rauner, who pushed for and signed both bills into law, expressed a readiness to follow up on this work in alliance with House Republicans. The two bills became law as Public Acts 99-0001 and 99-0002, the first bills signed into law by the new Governor.
House Panel Hears FY16 Revenue Estimates
The House Revenue and Finance Committee heard testimony on Friday, March 27, from the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability (CGFA), the Governor's Office of Management and Budget (GOMB), and the Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR) on expected State revenues in FY16, the spending period that will begin on July 1.
Spending pressures in FY16 are being driven by the continuing phase-down of the "temporary" January 2011 income tax increase. CGFA estimates that the State's cash intake from the income tax hike is dropping by nearly $5 billion over the two-year period starting in FY14 and leveling off in FY16. This matches the two-year period marked by a drop in the State's personal income tax rate from 5.00% to 3.75%. GOMB's numbers and IDOR's numbers closely match these estimates.
House Committees Advance 512 Bills to Floor
Including action in "committee deadline week," which ended on Friday, March 27, the Illinois House advanced 512 bills from committee to the House floor in the 2015 spring session. House committees began meeting in February to take testimony and hear advocacy from witnesses, proponents and opponents for and against the measures filed by House members. This work was finished up this week. After the conclusion of the two-week "Easter break," the House and its committees will consider floor action and amendments to the House bills that advanced out of committee. The House will also start looking at bills coming over from the state Senate.
Most of the 4,198 House bills filed so far in the spring session will not be considered further this spring, at least under their own names. Less than 13% of the bills filed this spring were able to achieve approval by a House committee. Advocates sometimes try to "consolidate" a stalled bill into a moving bill by redrafting the stalled bill as an amendment to the moving one. In addition, bills that do not move in the 2015 spring session may be taken up by the Illinois General Assembly in fall 2015 or spring 2016.
Jobless Rate Falls to 6.0% in February
The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) announced on Tuesday, March 24, that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for February 2015 fell to 6.0% from 6.1% in January. While an estimated 391,100 workers remained jobless in February, the overall numbers indicated that Illinois could be coming out of recession-scale unemployment numbers for the first time since the 2000s. 13,800 net new jobs were created in February, all in the private sector.
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The new Prairie State figures represented an improvement of almost two full percentage points from the deep-recession figure of 7.9% posted twelve months earlier in February 2014. Economists and commentators often use "year-over-year" unemployment figures, particularly for specific states and metropolitan areas, as a tactic to reduce false signals resulting from random fluctuations in the overall numbers.
Most areas of Illinois employment showed strength in February, with two key sectors – trade, transportation and utilities, and professional and business services – each adding more than 5,000 net new paid positions statewide. Three areas of weakness were statewide manufacturing, which lost 800 jobs statewide, educational and health services, which gave up 1,400 positions, and government, which yielded 1,600 positions.
IDES has rolled out a new, automated database for the use of Illinois residents seeking jobs and in possession of vital skill sets. Illinois Job Link offers a wide variety of positions and opportunities.
House Republicans Continue Push for Audit of Troubled Expense Accounts
After the story of mammoth expense-account spending by senior executives of the College of DuPage broke earlier this year, House Republican taxpayer advocates began calling for a deeper inquiry into the financial reality behind the troubled college management team's books. The College's board recently approved a severance package of benefits totaling $763,000 for the college's president.
DuPage County lawmakers have made this a key focus area in 2015. HR 55, a resolution requesting that the Illinois Auditor General conduct a performance audit of the College of DuPage to cover fiscal years 2011 through 2014, was unanimously approved in House committee on Wednesday, March 25. HR 55's lead co-sponsors are Representatives Jeanne Ives, Jim Durkin, Patti Bellock, Peter Breen, and Ron Sandack.
State Employees File Lawsuit, Seek Clarification
Three Illinois state employees filed a lawsuit on Monday, March 23, to seek legal clarification of their right to not make mandatory payments to labor unions in lieu of union dues. Called "fair share" payments, the funds raised by their mandatory payments are supposed to recompense public-sector labor unions for the administrative burden of representing all of the members of a unionized State office or workforce. Gov. Rauner has publicly called for granting freedom to Illinois State workers to decide whether or not to belong to a union and pay dues.
Illinois Helps U.S. Navy Prepare for Launch of New Submarine
The capital ship, which will be called the "USS Illinois" when it enters commissioned service, is in the final stages of being fitted out on the East Coast and is expected to be launched later in 2015. Chicago business leaders are helping train two key members of the crew – the culinary specialists who will man the submersible boat's tiny galley.
Physically slightly smaller and with smaller crews than the armored battleships that were once the backbone of the U.S. Navy, an attack submarine like the "U.S.S. Illinois" is in some ways even more heavily armed. A crew of 145 to 150 men will sail on a six-month tour of duty, much of which will be spent submerged. Modern technology even allows submarines to communicate with naval headquarters while deep under water. Although the "Illinois" is only 370 feet long, the "silent service" believes that American submarines serve as the ultimate deterrent to potential enemy action.
The "Illinois" will be the first U.S. Navy capital ship to bear this name since an obsolete battleship commissioned in 1897. Efforts to build a new American super-battleship in the 1940s to carry on the heritage of the Prairie State did not survive the end of World War II in 1945. The Aurora-based U.S.S. Illinois Commissioning Committee is leading fundraising efforts to properly celebrate two separate events: the new vessel's approaching launch and its commission.
Thank you to Zippy Shell Fox Valley for sponsoring a successful Fox Valley Networking Professionals networking event at Pomegranate Restaurant.
Matt Perez, Fire Marshal Aurora Fire Department, has accepted the call from Gov. Rauner to become the Illinois Fire Marshal. He will begin is new position April 1, working out of the Chicago office.
Welcome Karen L. Johnson, vice president – commercial banking, to Old Second Bank, 37 South River St. Aurora branch.
April is the start of the Summer Season at Naper Settlement. Tour the buildings, attend class in a one-room school house and visit the Martin Mitchell Mansion. More information is available online.
Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley is proud to announce that it will be adding an office, 127 First Street, Suite 215, Geneva, IL 60134, on April 1.
The Label Printers wins TLMI's Eugene Singer Award for Management Excellence, medium category for the sixth time in a row.
Engineering Enterprises, Inc. accepted the American Public Works Association, Fox Valley Branch Project of the Year Award in the Environmental category for less than $5 million.
Arnold Palmer Invitational, presented by MasterCard, will be extending an invitation to one of 20 participates and the junior caddie in the Palmer Cup, being held at Rich Harvest Farms. Congratulations Rich Harvest Farms on this exciting news.
SCORE Fox Valley 2015 Small Business Forum will be Tuesday, March 31 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Northern Illinois University, Naperville Campus, 1120 E. Diehl Rd., Naperville. The afternoon event will feature 12 educational sessions in a half-day format. Click here to register.
April is Earth Month so to celebrating the 45th anniversary, Green Buddha Life EcoArt Gallery presents "The Works of Lisa Goesling".
Dawn Hartman has been appointed as the new director of marketing for Naper Settlement. Welcome Dawn.
Hesed House will sponsor the 7th Annual Champions of Hope Breakfast event at Stonebridge Country Club on Wednesday, April 8, from 7:00 to 8:30 a.m. Click here for more information.
Change a Life: Be a tutor! Waubonsee Community College's Adult Literacy Project has online, self-paced, new tutor training in April & May.
Rebuilding Together Aurora's 2015 April Rebuild Event takes a house-by-house approach to improving the health and well-being of low-income households. The event will take place April 24 & 25. To sign up to volunteer, click here.
Congratulations to M/I Homes – Lehigh Station for a successful Open House and Ribbon Cutting event.
Thank you to Aurora University for sponsoring a successful Coffee and Connections.
Josh Baum (tenor) and Ric Larsen (guitar) will perform at Aurora University's Crimi Auditorium on Tuesday, March 24, at noon. Registration is required.
NIU National Safety Education Center will host a free seminar "Intro to OSHA for Small Businesses" on Friday, March 27, from 8:00 a.m. to noon. Contact email@example.com or email@example.com for more information.
Do you have a special event or announcement you want to share with other Chamber members? You can email Tracey Garza and get your information posted in the member news and social media.
Congratulations to Planet Fitness – Aurora on a successful ribbon cutting event.
DiGiovine Hnilo Jordan + Johnson Ltd. is pleased to announce they have joined PKF North America. The PKF membership will provide another value-added service to their clients who have international-service needs within local markets.
Come and enjoy a night of entertainment and refreshments as the children of Resurrection Lutheran Church/School will perform "Barnyard Moosical" and "Pirates – The Musical" on Friday, March 27, at 7:00 p.m.
MAP Monday Group will meet Monday, March 30, from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. at the Community Career Center. Facilitator Becky Brillon leads this small group to share goals, strategize and motivate each other toward success.
M/I Homes unveiled their new model in the Lehigh Station location. Congratulations on a successful ribbon cutting event.
Save the Date for a Multi-Chamber of Commerce Open House at Mooseheart Child City & School on Thursday, June 11, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
SCORE Fox Valley 2015 Small Business Forum will be Tuesday, March 31, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Northern Illinois University, Naperville Campus, 1120 E. Diehl Rd., Naperville. The afternoon event will feature 12 educational sessions in a half-day format.
DuPage Children's Museum is open seven days a week at Westfield Mall (near Carson's) with admission "Pay As You Will. " Visitors will experience DCM on a smaller scale. It includes the well-known and favorite "Neighborhoods" right in our backyard!
A Consolidated Election will be held Tuesday, April 7. Voters will be asked to weigh in on a number of races and referenda, including:
Early Voting is open March 23 through April 4. City of Aurora residents in Kane, Kendall, and Will counties who may have missed the registration deadline, may be eligible to vote during the Grace Period.
To find your polling place, click here.
The Aurora Regional Chamber of Commerce and Fox Valley PAC encourage you to share this voting information with your friends, employees, and family. While our community and region continue to bounce back from years of economic difficulty, it is critical that we take the time to vote and express our voice.
For those wanting to meet the candidates for Aurora City Council, the Chamber and PAC (in collaboration with the Quad County African American Chamber) are hosting a Candidates Forum on Tuesday, March 24, at 8:00 a.m. at the Copley Theatre, 8 E. Galena Blvd., in downtown Aurora. Thank you to Rasmussen College for providing refreshments for the event.
COGFA forecast: Illinois Economy
Slow economic growth continues; budget deficit continues to mount a yawning challenge. The staff of the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability (COGFA) presented their FY16 Economic Forecast to COGFA members at the Commission's meeting in Springfield on Wednesday, March 10. COGFA is the nonpartisan economic think tank of the Illinois General Assembly, and their Revenue Update for FY15 and numbers for FY16 will be key background data to be used by the General Assembly as they modify the State's FY15 budget and craft a FY16 budget to meet the urgent fiscal needs of the State.
COGFA's numbers confirm that the post-2009 Illinois "recovery" has been the slowest economic expansion of the post-World War II period. In each previous recession, not only were the rates of decline in economic output less severe, but the ensuing recoveries were faster and steeper. Illinois economic trend lines, starting in 2010, show steady but very shallow, palely upward-trending movements. New jobs are created in relatively low numbers and are being created, in Illinois, in sufficient numbers to force increases in median overall wage rates.
The pale post-2009 "recovery," combined with the pushdown of State income tax rates in January 2015 are two forces that continue to combine to create a worsening State of Illinois budget crisis. A spreadsheet presented to staff by the Commission shows net income tax revenues dropping more than $4 billion in FY16, below what would have been paid to the State under the tax rates in effect in FY14. Growth rates in tax revenues attributable to underlying rates of growth in the Illinois private-sector economy are expected to make up only $500 million of the lost income, leading to a structural deficit of $3.5 billion in FY16. To this number is supplemented accumulated past-year deficits and unpaid State bills of many billions of additional dollars, plus the spending pressures created by many "entitlement" lines within the State's budget.
Illinois Economy: Unemployment
Unemployment remains higher than U.S. as a whole, but drops another 0.1%. The figures for January 2015, reported on Thursday, March 12 by the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES), show that Illinois's jobless rate fell from 6.2% to 6.1% in January 2015. The same number was 8.2% in January 2014, down 2.1% over the 12-month period.
Soft spots in the statewide economic picture complicated the continued trend toward lower unemployment. Illinois employment – the number of Illinois residents with nonfarm payroll jobs – also dropped by 7,100 jobs in the same month. The declining employment and unemployment numbers reflected a stagnating Illinois population and the continued movement of many Illinois residents out of the labor force altogether. Movement out of the labor force is often correlated with a stagnant statewide economy, and with possible despair on the part of individuals of working age that they will be able to successfully find a job. "It's clear Illinois has more work to do," said IDES Director Jeff Mays, "to catch up with other states."
Specific sectors that showed strength in Illinois included leisure and hospitality (up 3,300 jobs) and educational and health services (up 2,300 jobs). Areas of weakness included manufacturing (down 2,100 jobs), construction (down 2,500 jobs), government (down 2,700 jobs), and professional and business services (down 5,500 jobs).
State of Illinois: Budget
Clock is ticking on FY15 budget crisis situation. The decision by the General Assembly and former Gov. Quinn to pass and sign an unbalanced FY15 budget in spring 2014 continues to endanger many Illinois residents. These are persons who are paid from, or dependent on, budget lines in the FY15 State budget where the amounts set aside were not enough to fully fund the expense item until the end of the fiscal year on June 30, 2015.
Examples of groups affected by unfunded FY15 budget expense lines include providers of subsidized Illinois child care, Illinois prison guards and circuit court reporters. These are individuals and contractors who have been told of a fast-approaching date when Illinois must find more money to pay them. Gov. Bruce Rauner has presented a proposal to the Illinois General Assembly to move money around within the budget to cover these anticipated urgent needs, but factions in the General Assembly who are politically opposed to the Governor have so far refused to allow this plan to come to the House floor for a vote.
Income Tax: Tax Refund Alerts
Comptroller Munger urges Illinois individual income taxpayers to register. The Illinois Tax Refund Alert system, rolled out this spring by new Illinois Comptroller Leslie Geissler Munger, allows taxpayers to monitor the status of their Illinois tax returns, including an automated text-messaging system. Similar to the familiar warnings that many of us get when our phone or cable bill is due, the test message will tell eligible taxpayers of their payment notifications. Registration is free through this portal: https://myrefund.illinoiscomptroller.com/.
Supreme Court hears oral arguments. The Illinois pension reform law enacted in December 2013 faced questions before the Illinois Supreme Court at oral arguments on Wednesday, March 11. The Illinois Solicitor General, advocating for the law, stated that the controversial law had been enacted to solve a fiscal emergency. Established constitutional law authorizes a state, in furtherance of its constitutional duty, to exercise what are called "police powers" that potentially override other considerations. Plaintiffs seeking to strike down the law say that it improperly violates a section of the state Constitution. Illinois has the worst-funded pension system of the 50 states. A decision by the state Supreme Court, which is expected later this spring, could affect budget and pension law policies that will be before the General Assembly as it approaches the May 31 adjournment date.


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Touch screens are ubiquitous and are considered state of the art in intuitive interactions with devices. Still some issues remain unsolved.
How do we create an engaging user experience beyond touch?
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The iterative creative process covered not just the gestures themselves but also how a 3D gesture performed above the screen can be made visual on-screen, and therefore intuitive.
In order to verify our expectations about the intuitive nature of our designs, the gestures were prototyped in different sample applications that now run on a working prototype device.
Aura enhances the overall experience on touchscreens by removing some of the issues with touch screen interfaces, and by adding joy of use interactions.
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Why I'm still on Twitter. Even as Glenn Reynolds has backed off of Twitter, many of you have probably noticed that I've seriously escalated my Twitter use. This is not because I see Twitter as an effective forum for debate. Indeed, I too am horrified by the way in which Twitter is shutting down any non-Progressive ideas while refusing ever to censor Proggies, no matter how often or blatantly they violate Twitter's ostensible rules. But….
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The second reason I'm still on Twitter is that I've discovered that it's a very useful way for me to store articles or ideas that I later want to blog about. Over the years, I've tried capturing those articles in Word files, bookmarking them in my web browser, or even noting them down on paper. No system, however, has worked as well for me as just scanning my Twitter feed. Indeed, I'm very sorry I didn't figure this out ten years ago, rather than a few months ago. So as long as Twitter is a useful repository for things that interest me, I'm inclined to keep going with it.
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