veilguard (the yadablah)

 I get that this is a continuation of the game but I'm getting way too much instant-lore.

The bad guy has a big spaceship and has a kind of a curfew going on. 
I just met a hot lady and she is well dressed too.
*My* character looks slightly deformed compared to her.
I'm debating restarting, staring at everyone's cheekbones for hints.
Why do guys who play videogames suddenly have to know all about face makeup?
And then when the game is in progress I'm distracted by my bad judgement. Her chin and jaw are too small, her forehead too wide, she is way too pale.
She has nice eyes but her eye-makeup is wrong somehow.
On the other hand, her "default" was an elderly woman who spent too much time in the sun.

The dialogue is too fast to follow. Old dudes crapping on this game are deaf or something, I'm guessing.
Real bad guy must be stopped, at all costs. I got that.
I haven't died yet.
Five game-minutes and counting.

PS "Bellara" is hot (I think) canu-canu?? Nuki-nuki?? and the rest is Dickensian freaking lore (Lore, lore, lore And stuff) lalalalala....lalalala
And yes, there are nested quests and treasure and cats to pet, but why bother.
The labyrinthian primary quest is nested enough, tyvm.
It's a great game but it's boring (so far) but it's a great game (*yawn*)

There is something very weird about the reviews for this game, because people write booklets about how much they did not like it.
A person reading those reviews is probably reading them because they are unfamiliar with the game and want opinions, and these people are little help.
After the 400th line of why they disliked something, you cease to care.
I personally feel as though the game needs playing several times before an opinion can be formed, and these critics have some motivation they don't talk about in their little compendiums. I don't want to guess exactly what or why they bombast, I'd be wrong, but it's more than just the game itself.

I must have her, she will be mine
(obscure movie reference, nvm)

Playing as a neophyte,the overwhelming temptation is to deck this guy.
A blithering stereotypical old dude (see "dad")

And you never convince him anyway,
But

You'll lose a girlfriend because she's a pacifist.
Is this asshole worth it?

So repeat "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country,"

Or whatever lame phrase they give you to say.
Girlfriend is happy (depending upon the girlfriend)

"Scene Change"
When the screen goes black when the conversation has ended, is *supposed* to actually change the damn scene, not stand around awkwardly with your dirk in your hand, looking for the door.

Major PITA (because, sometimes the scene actually changes, most times it does not)

Wut is "Ossuary"?
A cemetery for poor people.

Who decided "cemetery" and "cemetary" , a better more bombastic blog

(but, "Ossuary" not "Ossuery"?) bone depositery (hmm)

-tery (cemetery)

-tory (obligatory)

-tary (secretary)

FOAD (Funduscopic)

Deeeeep thots (reddit)

 This could take a while to write, pardon my dust.
Or ignore it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeworkHelp/comments/1jfu1az/1st_grade_math_how_can_you_describe_this/?sort=old

Get some people with an obsession to jaw on about absolutely anything,
Or,
Read my blog and despair that there are no comments.
People will wax philosophical about anything.
Using many words.

It's a trick question.
Many say "No" (it cannot be proven) as a pithy and meaningful answer.
Or being the supercharged genius first-grader you are, you could

• draw a numberline
• Convert ONE of the sides (so it isn't both sides)

uh.....

I ran outta steam.
rewrite 4+2 to 5+1 (says someone)
If there was a vote, no one would agree, and anarchy and chaos would ensue.

Dictators would dismiss the question and fire the questioner.
Then they could dictate the answer.

I flunked math for many reasons but this one deserves recognition
(Math is written by these guys)

5+2=4+(1+1)
Who the hell invited Parentheses?

I'm not up on my emojis but this guy loves his own answer.
1st grade math doesn't include variables nor parentheses, does it?
I'm guessing this was a small lesson,
 to teach you to understand _______,
and the "_____" was edited out to turn it into a trick question.

Some teacher who talks like one, wrote the below.
Unfortunately they touched on several unexplained concepts.
1. Parentheses in First grade

2. "make a ten" Her words have no meaning.

3. "commutative" "Algebra" which, us being bots full of microprocessors, will know about one day (We'll be einsteins)

doubles facts?

I got a good one, but it's politically incorrect:

Teach currency, change, "Make a dollar" (add coins to make a dollar)
Give change from a dollar.

There won't be any calculators or registers close by, you'll just have to know about two nickels making a dime, four quarters in a dollar. 
I wouldn't actually know who gives a fuck about "Associative" but throw in parentheses for the hell of it. a*(b*c) is the same as (a*b)*c so what's with the fancy-assed jewelry? a*b*c, fucket.

Pedantic a-hols, "Minuend" "Subtrahend" and ten zillion other terms no one uses

(Vinculum)

Word of the day:

"Demiurge" which (in context) is a cute name for a writer or an artist.

Wiki has a thought, but it's in greek.

People get mad at stuff they categorize as "woke"

But I'm one-finger typing on a phone. So no links yet. Please stand by.

https://movieweb.com/snow-white-rachel-zegler-controversy-is-racist/

https://www.outkick.com/culture/little-kids-parents-walking-out-trump-hating-snow-white-remake

Lots less relevant (zzzzzz) 
two viewpoints

As far as "Snow white",

Theaters are creepy (creepier) 
And white people condemn Columbians (they're not white enough)
I think I need editing.

Lawyers richer than god bow down to trump, as will everyone else if they want anything good for themselves.
So me and my teeny little blog do not want to invite Sauron, it's bad enough with gossipy neighbors.

Licks

But I had a point, I swear, only it got all self-edited.
Kamala Harris, Snow White (would fail against any white)

not that it mattered;
 they lavished love on the five or six states that really matter (not yours.)
And once they assimilate all the judges, Voting will be a fond memory.
But yeah Harris Lost, White did poorly.

(Ignoring maybe that musicals are so 1960's)
(They should'a picked Anne Hathaway,  
It's racist to call a person "Racist" rather than conservative, hmm)
This needs work.

Miami residents in the sixties picketing to remove the "Nigger" from their neighborhood (on PBS) 
People have evolved since then. 
Not "She's a woman" but "She wears glasses, has a brain injury, was mean to her workers, she prolly wasn't born here, sold stock, has a basement, hates babies"
And what power-hungry nut wants to endure that?
They've got it down to a science, aided by AI.
Fucket, we're screwed, nevermind.

What, Like it's hard?

 "Ee socks so goo" (a spell) (He sucks so good)

"What like it's hard?" (another spell) (Walk like a Tard)

I had more but my mind doesn't do short-term memory at all.

"The bleak emptiness".... "(what,) My Mind?"

O.
A biggie: "We Twine" (I twine, you twine, they twine)
I never heard "twine" as a verb before, and it reminds me of ivy climbing up a pole or maybe two vines twisting together.
But nowhere on Internetdom does it say exactly what it means when Sapadal says it.
"We learn. We twine," twine with what?
You could get all bombastic and philosophical, but I am looking for specifics.
"We relate," maybe. 
"We agree," less likely.
"Fascinating" (a la Spock) probably not, but it's related, I swear.
"We wrap ourselves around the concept" Now I'm just reaching.

Stuff is fraught with meaning.
"Dream of golden poppies on the road ahead."
Aren't poppies in the game associated with death?

Or something, they're creepy.
"Dandelions with two heads" also creepy, because I know this isn't a nature documentary.

I tried writing this while the game was running (and steam and WeMod) and it crashed.
I'll try to rephrase this from memory:
Yatzli says, "You Do know what it means to lose all your teeth in your dreams?"
No, and neither does the internet.
They harp on the word "Lose" or try to sell you on dental care.
One more unsolved mystery.
I cheated like an SOB to get into Yatzli's little library, and then the computer froze.
So...I know it's an aside, one of those things a person shouldn't worry about, but I do.
Mama mushroom leads her little kid mushrooms through the woods.
Massacre bears and giant Lizards (I think maybe the lizards are the indigenous people)
"Why did I have to kill the bear?" asks God.
I was only following orders.
I don't know if they mean all this subtext or if I am projecting.
Anyway I have to type fast and avoid the crash....

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I was Buddha, Gandhi, Mother Theresa
(as long as You asked and I could choose)

For she IS the righteous chosen One!

Train:

"The righteous Few" according to the people who think of themselves that way,
Truly believe in Trump.
Verily:

(comments) Link

Loedwin swore an oath to her God (Woedica)

The train of thought ends with "The Battle  hymn of the republic"

(I can't write I'm a terrorist or hate babies, but you've turned congress, this great country, into a "Righteous vs everyone else" (O just play the damn game, they write lots better)

The voice in my head said, "Brucella!"

"Out, out! get it out!!"

OK forget it, hepto and spaghettio are not on my list, I am not anorexic and I haven't vomited in years (from bad cookies, so I tossed them, get it?)

The so-called diagnosticians couldn't find it with both hands (read above)

so maybe there is an AI computer test.

But my voice is cute, coming up with terms like "Brucella."

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A link I don't want to lose: https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/dr-drew-pinsky-20177803.php which is sort of a point I was trying to research.
Dr. Drew is a Conservative. I wondered.

My game (and the article) use words that wouldn't be allowed before, I think.
People said them constantly, you just wouldn't see them engraved in games or blogs.

"Fucking" is an adjective, not a verb (the polite one anyway).
"Asshole" is also an adjective, not a body-part.
"Adjective" is being used loosely,

 I suppose there are clubbier grammarian terms. 

I can't write a blog about it,

but sticking it here on the ass-end of an unread blog is prolly all right.

Quick note (amazon vs Kroger)

 Not having to go to the market is a luxury I can usually only afford once a month.

The shame of not being able to ask a friend or a neighbor to pick up bananas is on my mind.
A doctor lady totally gave me some hamburger after making a special trip there, but then I spoiled it all when I went into a tirade about money-grubbing proctologists.

So OK let's forget all that.

My supermarket delivers,

Amazon delivers, 

Amazon is cheaper but their products don't taste as good (Kroger cornflakes and Kroger green beans are better.)

Amazon seems easier. 
I had a whole nebulous rant all prepared before I started writing this, and now I just feel sheepish.
And poor.

Service fee and Tip

 The rest of this is nerdy rants about Avowed relationships.
Kai, the green-scaled guy, has an endless bombast for would-be psychologists and social workers. He reputedly (I wouldn't know) is the only character allowed to have a BFF relationship with the player.
Yatzli is apparently married, so she flirts tons with whoever will listen.
Giatta Castell is the only well-balanced character in the game.

I enjoy this game more and more, but there are limits.
I skip over dialogue and optional quests. I can't wait for the ending when Sapadal takes over my mind and turns me slowly into a tree (I think that's what she does)

Definitely the mind-thing, but ignoring subtle hints about your body, I don't actually know about her physical side effects..

If we're all 12-14 it's a nice G-Rated story, lotsa gore, no sex.

I'm too old for an "old" quiz.

They're right about kids' shows, most of them sucked and I never watched them.
But I'm flattered you think I'm young (in mind, anyway)

No star-trek, rifleman, bonanza, "fugitive" questions, and they're still on.
They must be trying to resurrect Crap, "MAGA" 

Abnormal Psychology (Avowed)

Help! (help!) ((help!!))

 Knowing around ten percent of this story is a terrible beginning for a blog.

Woedica is a bit of a sadistic fascist who wants to kill Sapadal (please gloss over all misspellings or this could take days)

It's Art!
(It's insane!)
We're unenlightened (IOW, "whut?")

Referencing the picture above, (sort of),
The original Star-trek movie (V'ger) was bombastic and full of itself, banking on worshipping fans, and I hated it, and I was told, "It's too high-level for you, you're not cerebral enough") (Think horrible epithets and you have what I thought at that time)

The player has to use psychology to get the novel at the end to have a happy story.

Woedica cannot brook opposition and kills everyone opposing her.
Sapadal has some sort of brain damage from being tortured as a child.

Woedica vs Sapadal.
Free Sapadal and banish the eveil queen, or burn everyone everywhere and Sapadal would be happy (in part of her mind.)
Someone actually wrote this stuff, what twisted fantasies lurk in the darkside?

Plant people

Sapadal-merging isn't just a fantasy in my head, according to some article, but it's bad, says the article.
Why?
"Envoy" (me, the MC, the protagonist) has either been in love, never been in love, or has a boyfriend (she's a girl) waiting for her back home.
Writing this paragraph made me realize that if Player were a guy, the results might be different.
Regardless. People discuss stuff fervently that I've never seen in my game.

Wait, whut?

https://www.reddit.com/r/avowed/comments/1izu4uz/can_we_talk_about_that_ending/ Typical internet-style, people are vague and clubby, and you don't know exactly how to choose that ending.
I'm um, "Be careful what you wish for," but it is a game.|
My search for whether Envoy has ever been in love goes on, no one seems to care or I haven't found it yet.

BTW, envoy is the reincarnated queen of the Ekida whose city was conquered.
(I think.)

Whether Envoy ever gets to play anything besides Dudley Do-Right is worth exploring (I think.)

Envoy could be the green-guy's girlfriend, 

the skeleton's ex-lover, 

or part-plant-person 

(none of these endings EVER happened to my character) 

(The "friend" forever)

I worry so much about getting around and not being lost, that I miss tons.

The minigame of getting "Kai" to forgive himself, move on and explore the world, is a type and a shadow of the full game.

Free Kai's soul.
Free Sapadal's soul.
Cringe at Avowed II, "Woedica's back and she's pissed off."

o well.

(See previous entry) Sadistic women and entries through the rear make good
darkest-fantasies but terrible endings.
Jimmy Cagney in the grapefruit movie is a nice example, and it was from 1931... OK maybe that's too much of a stretch to follow. 

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The artist making my game "Sapphic Space" and creating a bot in space, made the bot arch her back during conversation.

Imagine maybe that a ceiling is too low, and a person leans foward to compensate.
The closest term I know is "Lordosis," but the women (woman, *sigh*) doing this are not forced by their body to do this, but rather they strike a pose.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886922005098

The non-flirty bot is broken and cannot be woken up.
But I'm including the screenshot for comparison.
She stands straight, I guess (I am not the photographer)

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Killer mushrooms, what's next, deadly burritos?
That you'd fall in love with at airports (nevermind)

Whatever you believe or can conceive of,
yada first and with a better blog

Anyway....

I'm part Sapadal now.
Everyone says that this ending is dark, 

but I've already played the Dudley Do-Right ending.
OK, plantdom, here I come.

The narrator reading the book stops to let Sapadal Speak.

"You're Mine.
"Forever."
And lots of other words.
Dark? Don't believe it.
Specifically, the book is the same (War never changes.)

Best ending ever.

dirty train

 Train:
Why so many cartoony sex games just assume that the characters enjoy stuff in their backside.
Train:
"American Me" (an old movie)
an ex con returns home, and eventually wants sex with the wife.
She becomes horrified as he rolls her over and proceeds to lubricate (U no where.)

Caboose (as it were)
sitting on the john expelling what feels like concrete, I didn't enjoy it or fantasize about it, and blame you all for tossing labels around like candy. FOAD, labelers.

That one and maybe Shawshank Redemption are more truthful.

GATES II Fat Tuesday

 A high up lady in the news had an ashen cross on her head, or I thought she did.
So I looked it up and yes, fat Tuesday was Mar 4.

What the hell day is This?
Well anyway, my excel budget says I have enough for another game, which of course is clearly impossible.
It miscalculated or I did.
O by the way, none of these blog entries are ever read, except one I wrote last month about games.

Along those lines, I should, I Will, change the title.
But to what?
"Gates" of something.

TLDR skip down to a video about safe-for-internet (and the neighbors) risqué games.

I loved watching her lips move, and her form-fitting knit-top is to die for.

I can justify the game, if I write a blog about it.
"Uncharted Lost Legacy"-something, which was a bing result of an inquiry for a game played by women.

 (My reading comprehension is sinking, my math skills died long ago, and (o yeah) my memory is terrible.)

"Uncharted Legacy of Thieves."
I'll never know in a zillion years what most people mean by the word "Legacy."
I'll never know why loooooong reviews about how a person hated a game, matter to anyone.
I'm taking a chance on a game no one ever heard of, because Bing said you like it. 

But I haven't picked up on the Lingo yet.
Terf / Anti-Terf /militant? OK I can't keep typing labels and you know what yours is, But my point is, I am very wrong asking a search engine what "women" like.
("Women protagonists with nice butts you can stare at," is prolly illegal though)

"Sapphic space" is a life-puzzle, where half the endings are either terrible or bad, and one or two good. Did I mention the puzzles?

You play a computer with no arms or legs, to a woman who does very little that others don't direct her to do. Answer correctly, keep her spirits up, survive life choices. The end.

(Link)

Independence or sex?

Long video from a famous lady about women (I think) 

"Uncharted" looks a lot like a typical goodfellas movie so far. Guys getting shot at in prison. 
Maybe I better double-check the title.
Parkour and Puzzles, nonstop, if you don't count the cinematics.
Don't do exactly what they say and it's death.

I'd say that I hate this game and stop playing, but The reality would be that I'd be out of too much money without anything else to buy.
So for now, this is it.
Games you go through like homework assignments vs games you enjoy until they're too boring to repeat.

• What game should I buy
• Why do my choices matter to anyone (video game choices)
• Do my written-down game preferences violate internet rules (Eye color, etc) because they would go against someone else's preferences?

No I'm not going to write anymore about it, the video says it nicely.

romantic memories

 https://www.beltone.com/en-us/articles/whooshing-sound-in-ear

Logic dictates that there are no gargantuan but far-away highways, no ocean waves roaring at the bottom of a really high cliff.
Science sort of ruins the mood.

If you only hear it waking up from your dreams, does it count?
I used to think it depended on the weather.
On Very warm or on rainy days, the whooshing travelled farther.
It's like waiting for a bus next to a Walmart parking lot, close to some freeways, if you were wearing earmuffs.
My other misconception was that tinnitus sounds like a test-tone they used to use on TV at 3am.
Not like a day at the beach.

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I wanted to find out why TBD network moved to a fox channel, and discovered
-Sinclair Network is supposed to be conservative
-Deceived the FCC
-(Tried to "sell" stations to close associates)
*People Like biased news, as long as it's conservative.
So many things to learn, I prolly didn't catch it all.
TBD will become "Roar" soon, anyway.

Old news for some.
TBD used to show kitty and puppy videos,
Now they're more edgy (lol)
The clipped news article is old and only part of the (old) news I read.
Anyway...

maybe "avowed"?

 

If you can even see anything in that dinky picture, It's supposed to be people walking into a room, in the predecessor to "Avowed" which jaded-gameplayers seem to dislike.
People recommend this game, pillars of eternity.
People who must've been in hospital waiting-rooms, IDK, it looks absolutely awful.
https://www.reddit.com/r/avowed/comments/1ipraz8/why_theres_a_lgbt_tag_on_steam/
So what I read somewhere was some random diss, there are no girls to kiss (I guess)
Anything not soldiers bundled up with gigantic rifles must therefore be too gay,

And the story is generic monster fighting.
What makes a generic monster-killing, mountain-climbing game memorable anyway?
Everyone has their own idea.
I don't like cabins in the woods where the undead come to attack relentlessly unless you have a flame-torch to burn them away with, genre.
And if the highlight of the game is getting into a car or riding a horse, forget that too.
Do chatty people want to drag you into some piddly quest?
I literally ran away from these characters in (um) whatever I am playing now.

• Go get the milk for the old lady who can't go to the store
• Along the way, meet the homeless guy desperate for a hamburger
• (get the scratcher from the hamburger place)

• Miss your bus to go to the doctor, he's closed when you get there, and your life slowly ends (the end)

"CRPG" is a word I need to look up, as well as the name of the game (Horizon forbidden-west) I'm playing now.

"!" is usually an indicator I avoid like the measles, and wifi messages to drop in on some town to try the meat.
Beeeecause, inevitably I'll get entangled in some piddly quest that forgets about the main quest (e.g., your doctor appointment)

What?

O!
"Avowed"
IDK. Maybe all the shills are betting on a discount or a sale, but since they already got the game free, I fail to see the point.

The reddit thread I linked to has a few posts who say they are anti-woke, and passes "Avowed" as OK for Anti-woke people.
As opposed to a game I never heard of, "Veilguard."
Int..eresting.
Is it cheaper than "Avowed"?
Are the characters teeny stick figures? 
Wait, I gotta go look.

Pink and purple, never a good sign

The most bombastic blog-entry in the world, ever, for all time,

https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg_gamers/comments/1gjuqm8/my_objective_review_of_the_veilguard_as_a/

I'm avoiding my main quest, which is, picking a cheap game.
I should get back on track.
HOW MUCH is "Veilguard"?
If (for example) it is 59.95, I'll buy Avowed.
But if they discounted it to please Musk-fans, I'll try it (maybe)

What would (insert woke/anti-woke hero) buy?

"tenderqueer earnestness"
And how do you feel about that?

I still don't know, even after the bombasts,

what either game is about.

IDK... not enough B&W kill choices?
Since when does buying a fucking game declare your sexual proclivities?
I'm righteously pissed.
Fight the intolerant assholes!!
(And stuff)

Olive-oil lore 

vs 

Canola Lore.

I like Canola (FOAD, Olive)

But maybe...I'll try "Avowed" first, since I can't get a straight answer about plots.
Can you kiss the princess or not!? (Geez)

If you like Beets and Brussel sprouts,
you'll LOVE asparagus in Crawfish pie.

I don't think I said that right.
"Kingdom-come" was awful. Period.
I still own it, I'll never play it.
Farmer's slowish kid rides to a castle (Why is this supposed to be good?)
"Wanted something more" are you kidding?
Squid-flavored popcorn.
Kimchi on liver.
Someone somewhere just loves those things. 

Lancelot (senor Balles) falls in love with Princess Decollete

and slays mighty dragons to please her.
Does she get a clue or does she give him a limp hand to kiss and some ceremonial sword?
Decollete is under the spell of the mustachioed Fallas.
Lancelot is mortally wounded.

(O well) c'est la vie

So far, Avowed is OK.
Assuming I haven't forgotten some bill (it was a hefty $70),
or chosen the wrong character type,

or missed out on some attribute point (dexterity vs intelligence, etc)
I like it, kind of.

To write this I had to stop, which disables my cheat-trainer, and I'm not sure yet which cheats to train.

But I'm confused so far. Someone is trying to kill us?
(Everyone, yeah, but someone from the mainland sunk our ship)

Insert Meme here

My character *could* look vaguely like someone if I knew what the slide controllers did.
I think I messed up the cheeks.

I'm too tired to play, but so far It's OK.

Like many games of this genre, there is a lot of walking, and some dialogue choices, and moral issues. My waking dream today was being a well-respected colleague in some hospital, but the fleeting dream made little sense otherwise.
As the dream ended, someone was trying to tell me that they had assisted a suicide, and they were pretty broken up about it. They never used the actual word "Suicide," it was a code, similar to "? 07D"

So I googled "07d" (part of the code) and there are codes, but the implications of the dream were that this was an internal code only used by nurses, and not something they'd announce.

Anyway, my brain must've translated a game scene about a game-character's friend dying and how he dealt with it. 
You get limited responses to what people tell you, things like "I'm so sorry," or "He was better off" (whatever,) and the exact thing you'd say isn't always listed.
These game characters have issues, I suppose, to flesh them out and make them more appealing.

It's unsettling, because what if you say the wrong thing?
The game results aren't in yet, but because I do what I want,

 and I have not googled the exact correct responses (yet,)
My brain made up a dream about it, I guess.
The world might fail, because of something I said.

I almost get this.
(do we win?)

It's not nice to fool with mother nature.

Bad guys: Loedwyn and her Goddess Woedica

Good Guys: Ambassador what's his name.
Bad guys: The guy in Volcano-(Solace)-keep.
(less bad but hard to live with, his wife)

It's one of those extremely familiar (but hard to remember) games where a narrator reads a book at the end of the game, maybe like "Fallout" and a couple others.

Your choices matter, and some of the very limited choices (it is decreed) shall suck.

Someone somewhere will give you a severe tongue lashing, while you read answers from a script.
Act the fool

Be the asshole
Lord it over everyone

But the game is worth playing a couple of times (It had better be, for the price.)

In Scifi I'm thinking about, If you can't fake an accent you refer to stuff obliquely and shift verbs and pronouns.

Chauncey Gardiner ("Chance the Gardener") did this in the movie "Being there" and people thought he was very wise, only talking about plants.
The Gardener in the game does the exact same and you have to wonder if she is wise, or backwards somehow.

The letdowns are very few.
You're a daughter of a god, but it gets you no biggie powers (you get powers, if you can actually use them in the heat of battle)

And keys and secret buttons (for first-time-players) are tough without Google.

Cheating is good. Cheating works. But no one promotes you and you don't get much more than a cool sword,

No romancing, just a chatty tease here and there, And the most self-confident woman is Ryngrim, a minor character who pops up occasionally (like some guest star.)
She talks like some BDSM star but never does anything.
The tree (see picture) also makes cameo appearances, but the most bombastic people are the most minor.

But I enjoyed it anyway.
I await mods, and stuff.
The walking cat (elf, whatever) could be the most enticing. I'm undecided.
It's like most of the cast came from Egypt (or Mars.)
I have cool scars.
Independence, United EU, not bow to the oligarchs and evil minions (inquisition), I got it as right as I could have, the second time.
My only question is what the hell to do with all the crap they make you collect.
Also, I'm hiding behind being a fighter, bcuz being a mage sucks.

Couldn't I be a noble-born mage / soothsayer and still kick butt??

I walk around in a black jumper. I guess that's OK, hmm