[Saddam Hussein]

They were Dunmer.

[beardo]

How do you even mistake Dunmer with Dwemer?

[Saddam Hussein]

ZeniMax is doing their part for social justice:

<Saddam> beerdo: There's a quest in TESO about trans people
<Saddam> I thought you might like to know that
<Saddam> Okay, not literally trans people
<Snupes> Is there really
<Snupes> wow
<Saddam> But it's a pretty obvious parallel to trans people
<Saddam> It's about an Argonian who says that she's really a crocodile
<Saddam> Stop laughing
<Saddam> http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/119428/a-predators-heart
<Saddam> There's someone going into more detail about it
<Snupes> Is it mocking
<Saddam> No
<Saddam> It works out in the end, in fact
<Blanko>
<Saddam> You give her the heart of this old crocodile you kill, and then she magically reincarnates as a crocodile or something
<Saddam> something something lore, I guess
<Blanko> mffw
<Snupes> wh
<Saddam> The writers confirmed in their recent AMA session that they're quite socially progressive
<beerdo> All my life, I have harbored a secret. I am not a man. I am a Batman!
<Saddam> There's a number of gay relationships portrayed too
<Snupes> Was it actually a trans parallel or just one of those old sorts of joke stories like that?
<Snupes> "I may look like a human but I'm actually a(n) [insert animal/inanimate object here]" is a staple of everything ever.
<Snupes> Though usually the person is just cray cray.
<Saddam> It seemed sincere to me
<Saddam> Seriously
<Snupes> Hm.
<Snupes> I guess it just sounds really ridiculous, maybe it'd be different had I played it
<Snupes> Just seems hard to make that sincere and not "lol"
<Saddam> The character certainly isn't crazy
<Saddam> She just comes across as genuinely sad
<Saddam> And like I said, it does work out in the end

You can see the quest for yourself here, beginning at about 12:24:



Draw your own conclusions, I guess.

[beardo]

There's a "group dungeon" with a boss who you can't kill alone, because she has tons of HP and always does a full restoration once you get her HP down to about 20%, and she can't be knocked down. She hardly does any damage on me though, and I'm twice her level, but this is retarted. They are essentially depriving lone players of content by doing this shit.

inb4>playing mmorpg as single player.

[Saddam Hussein]

Fortunately, I swooped to beerdo's rescue, and we completed the dungeon and accompanying quest together.  We are adventuring bros.

[beardo]

that fucking lousy reward though...

[Ghost of V]

Sounds like you guys are having a lot of fun. I'm kinda jealous.

[beardo]

It's fun enough when it's playable.

[Saddam Hussein]

It's easy to criticize the game and make fun of its many, many flaws, but at the same time, it's a huge amount of fun, and I can't stop playing it.  In that respect, it's actually quite faithful to the series.

[Rama Set]

There's a "group dungeon" with a boss who you can't kill alone, because she has tons of HP and always does a full restoration once you get her HP down to about 20%, and she can't be knocked down. She hardly does any damage on me though, and I'm twice her level, but this is retarted. They are essentially depriving lone players of content by doing this shit.

inb4>playing mmorpg as single player.

Does the AI simply stop employing that tactic in the presence of 2+ players?

[beardo]

Yes. One player is not able to deal enough damage alone before her healing spell is recharged. But with two, there weren't enough time for her healing spell to recharge before she died.

[Rama Set]

Of course not.  It's just easier to kill with two people instead of one.

So it is a DPS issue.  Fair enough.

[beardo]

I reckon so.

[Saddam Hussein]

I found a letter addressed to someone named Parsifal.  It made me smile.

Anyway, I am now in Hammerfell.  Hopefully it'll be more interesting than High Rock.  Although there is at least one cool thing about High Rock that bears mentioning here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/2cbwkc/eso_adds_a_new_metaphysical_tower_the_doomcrag/

That's right, Kirkbride's wonky theory about magical towers protecting Mundus received some in-game acknowledgement!  And a couple of people there discuss the possibility that it was these towers that were responsible for transforming Cyrodiil.  On that subject, you might notice that the guy saying "I have no idea what that means" is the same dull historian who wrote this, which is even controversial in-universe.  I don't know if ZeniMax is ever going to expand on this or anything, but even the implication that we shouldn't be taking the whole "derp transcription error" explanation at face value is a good thing.

Snupes, beerdo, and I were discussing this earlier on IRC.  We're all confused and disturbed by it:

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/trial-vivec

Is this seriously canonical?  I took a look on r/teslore, and everyone there seems to be cool with it.

[beardo]

Azura explodes.

[Blanko]

[Rushy]

Vivec: "VIVEC WROTE THIS"

[Saddam Hussein]

What kind of a person thinks up of this stuff, let alone write it down in a public forum?  I think Kirkbride has some serious issues.

[beardo]

the middle panel is kinda hot, but why is Azura a Dunmer?

[Blanko]

What kind of a person thinks up of this stuff, let alone write it down in a public forum?  I think Kirkbride has some serious issues.

Is shoving a penis-spear into someone's mouth and making them explode really that weird to you?