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I wish there be dragons here. But it’s just me.

💜 #Code ∙ #3D ∙ #Moddev . #Tooldev
🩷 #Cyberpunk2077 ∙ #DragonAge ∙ #RCU
💛 #LPs ∙ #VP ∙ #Debriefs
💚 #Writing ∙ #OC ∙ #Fi ∙ #Eyry ∙ #Guen
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If you're asking yourself why on earth would you want DA2 at 4k and HDR you're not wrong but it does make a subtle difference. Unfortunately it takes YT like a couple weeks to get around to running the HDR encoding until it's available
Side by side comparison of the 4k60 and 4k60 HDR views of the same scene in Dragon Age 2. The source conversion to SDR isn't that great on youtube so it's a bit washed out, but even without that the HDR version does indeed bring in more dynamic range in the shadows and highlights.
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Original livery

🔖 #Cyberpunk2077 #VP2077 #VirtualBikes
The original livery is quite a busy bright red and silver even without the stickers everywhere, and the fairing appears as though it's metal. Here pictured parked on the side of a highway on-ramp with Night City's Japantown in the background. Note the fancy physics on the engine sagging the frame of the bike over the lean of the front wheel support.
November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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I need to take a video or something but the 2077 material system is incredibly fun to work with. The entire body is essentially a single custom multilayer setup minus the stickers (as are the other discrete parts like the front and rear wheel assemblies).

🔖 #Cyberpunk2077 #Moddev
A Yaiba Kusanagi modded into Valentinos livery using custom masking and material templates. The bike is dark gray with gold, ruby red and darker black parts. It appears as though it's got a carbon fiber chassis with a titanium engine block and much of the piping and other auxiliaries are plated in gold. There's an airbrushed-looking art piece on the fuel tank facing toward the rider, featuring a Santa Muerte motif with a gold flake detail finish.
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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This lighting does absolutely no favors to Taash's azure fit and every single one to Fi's purple.

🔖 #DragonAge #DATV #VP #Taash #Fi
Fi and Taash in Hossberg, the desert sun lighting Fi up with a golden outline.
November 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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"Saved your bacon, I did."

"We're doing Nevarran."

"Turnips?"

"Fair."

🔖 #DragonAge #DATV #VeilguardSpoilers #VP #Mila #Fi
Mila, daughter of the Wardens' blacksmith Holden, staring appraisingly up at Fi. Both seem to have dressed to effect, Mila's sky blue and white tunic vibrant over her deep hickory brown skin and black hair whereas Fi's purple hair carries in a richer hue to her leather cloth armor.
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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I finally found some nice cold/bad weather clothing for her.

🔖 #DragonAge #DATV #VP #Fi
Fi walking past the camera glamorously in a little dark gray leather tunic with purple velvet accents for the collar and shoulder, as well as the heavy coil of rope she's lashed over one shoulder. The trim is a brassy metal matching the brass forearm guards made of three heart-shaped plates starting from a smaller one at the wrist and overlaying larger ones up to the elbow.
November 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Also worked on Her a bit more. Lack of wavy hair is a problem.

🔖 #DragonAge #DATV #DAI #Ruffles #LesMontilyetD'Émeraude
Character creator headshot of a middle-aged woman with vaguely Mediterranean features.
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Bethanana for scale

🔖 #DragonAge #DATV #DA2 #Fi #BethanyHawkeDeRiva #LilRooks
A tighter crop of the enclosed image, with Bethany added in the picture. She's fairly tall at 5'8", so the adult Fi at 4'3" is only at chest height for her and the 13-year-old Fi is just about waist height.
November 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Chose really just the worst spot for the test picture but I made a little... er, little Rook experiment. Fi ca. 9:37

🔖 #DragonAge #DATV #DA2 #Fi #LilRooks
Fi in her usual casual outfit at the Lighthouse, but with a younger version of her in the same picture. She's shorter, has pretty much no muscle to speak of, her natural red hair in twin braids, and while her features are still very recognizable, they're a bit softer in the more youthful face.
November 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Rogue seems the toughest to play with lack of Stagger and Momentum draining on hit, but it's a lot of fun :)

🔖 #DragonAge #DATV #FridayNightKnifeFight #Fi
Fi seen between blinding white rays of light and swirling, coursing electricity, the guard of her saber coming down straight toward the camera.
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Just add the eye and sunburst
Cesare Paciotti stiletto heels with a metal dagger shape running down the heel. Blue suede with patterned red sole.
November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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@criticalrole.bsky.social I think this is because the waiting source doesn't have captions supplied at all? If so, maybe throw in an empty CC file or something? It took me 3 streams to realize that they *are* available for the actual broadcast 🥹
Critical Role Campaign 4 waiting screen for Twitch with the options menu stating that closed captions are not available for this content.
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Weird, not sure if it changed in Temporary Containers or if it's just been That Long but I had to directly use the Actions menu to convert a Multi-Accounts Container into a Permanent Container or otherwise TC deletes the container when the last tab closes..
Temporary Containers menu in firefox, use hamburger top left to see menu, open Actions, then click on Convert Temporary to Permanent Container if it's not already faded out indicating the container IS already permanent.
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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My creative endeavor today
Glorp cat with reindeer horns and red nose sitting 'in' a ufox humidifier which, would you believe it, looks kind of like a flying saucer UFO with 'portholes'
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Tbh this feels pretty bold today
Cloudflare's verify you're human checkbox
November 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Inky! Growing up in Rivain and Llomerryn specifically was maybe the easiest time a tall, ungainly kossith girl could have in Thedas, so rather than being in any way ashamed of her stature, Eyry loves being unmissable and does absolutely nothing to play it down.

🔖 #daOCqotd #DragonAge #DAI #Eyry
Eyry towering head and shoulders above three important women in her life, Josephine, Cassandra, and their dear friend Leliana. An older Eyry during the events of Veilguard. She has only grown in the last decade or so, as is typical of the kossith bred for the Beresaad as her father was. Heightwise it might only have a couple inches, but the muscle she's packed on has easily added half again her weight from her younger days. She is a little more subtly flashy than she used to be, but gold still gleams in her impeccably tailored, clearly thought-out outfit. There is still absolutely no missing her.
November 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Happy anniversary, Inquisition, let's hold off on the fireworks and really just any kind of light shows in the sky!

🔖 #DragonAge #DAI
The very first meeting of the future Inquisitor Eyry Montilyet D'Émeraude (née Adaar), a kossith apostate, and Cassandra Montilyet D'Émeraude (née Pentaghast), the Right Hand of the Divine, under somewhat inauspicious circumstances.
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Hawke's an Amell too, and quite happy that though Bethany is the one with all the gifts from mom, she herself still inherited a wiry strength and the kind of roguish dirtbag dyke charm that together ensure it's at least not just the bills she's drowning in.

🔖 #daOCqotd #DA2 #DragonAge #EvieHawke
Hawke at the reclaimed family estate sometime in the latter half of the 9:30's. The Kirkwall-style "champion's armor" hangs just a bit loose on the slim but undeniably strong frame, much as her barely coiffed short hair hangs over her face, the sides shaved down for practical reasons. Kristen Stewart in Love Lies Bleeding is just about the perfect fancast for our dear Evie Hawke.
November 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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I usually drink lu’an guapian or sometimes some other green tea, but I guess the winter has put me on to black tea so I’ve been having Lady Grey… except this time I apparently ordered Lady GREEN, which turned out to be a green tea with rose petals and cherry and vanilla extract. It’s… not terrible?
A green cup with green tea and a small one-serving glass tea pot with the Lady Green tea leaves inside, both set on a brightly colored small tray.
November 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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This is a fun, somewhat misleading graphic on tornadoes. It's because the EF classification is based on *damage caused*, so naturally the highest counts are where there's people and property to damage.
US map with number of recorded EF3-EF5 tornadoes; the highest areas are all around midwest, all the way from Atlanta to Cincinnati to Minneapolis to Amarillo, even though "tornado alley" is mostly Northern Texas up to South Dakota (although obviously they do occur well beyond that area).
November 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Anaïs is classically pretty in the Amell way, but in the Circle it mostly brought her unwanted attention when she just wanted to be left alone with books.

She's mostly happy she can make herself presentable with little work when she has to. And her hair is easy!

🔖 #daOCqotd #DragonAge #DAO #Anaïs
A younger Anaïs at the Circle with her still raven-black hair. The Warden-Commander in her late 40's, grayed but with a less furtive look in her dark brown eyes.
November 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Moments before zzz…eddeeew43eww333dd
Nomi falling asleep with her face hanging over my keyboard. Anya is cheering on. Nomi is a medium-sized black Exotic Shorthair cat with a squished teddybear face.
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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This lighting tho

🔖 #DragonAge #DATV #VP #Fi
Fi craning her neck to listen to Emmrich. The necromancer is tall for a human. Light pours in through the half-open side of the observation tower, illuminating both the conversing pair and the bookshelves behind them.
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Continuing the science project

🔖 #DragonAge #DATV #DA2 #LaceHarding #BethanyHawkeDeRiva
Lace and Bethany seated on the scout's bedroll. Bethany's looking at Lace with soft surprise, her hand closed over the dwarf's.
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM