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Isriana — Why Video Games Are Better Than Reality: Part 2
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I used to play sports, but then I took an arrow in my interest zone and started playing video games instead.
The upside is that kicking people's asses takes so much less sweating when done virtually. The downside, however, is that last week when I actually had to run few hundred metres to catch the bus I was panting half an hour afterwards and felt like I was going to die. So yeah, as an incredibly crappy runner I can't help being partly envious and partly amused by the fact that everyone in video games seem to be able to run indefinitely no matter what the conditions are. There they sprint in their full battle gear, day and night, up the mountainside from one battle to another - they're never out of breath, never break a sweat or show signs of tiring. Not a word of complaint about aching calves, weight of their huge inventories or the sores those Heavy Iron Boots Of Strength +3 must be causing... I want super stamina too!
So many RPG characters seem to be unnaturally skilled in long distance running so I decided to choose more than one game as examples. Oh and those of you who wonder... I use Sacred Ashes mod (this one dragonage.nexusmods.com/downlo… to be specific) for my Leliana, hence slightly different looks. I also have Phoenix Armor for my Warden - DAO is a modding paradise...
Izalie Rowan, Molly Shepard, Ellara Cousland and Skaila Skaran © me
Casavir, Sand and Neeshka © Obsidian and Atari
Liara T'Soni, Garrus Vakarian, Alistair, Wynne and Leliana © Bioware
Lydia and Vigilance © Bethesda
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Actually, No. When you RUN in Skyrim, you deplete your Stamina. Once it's gone, you can no longer run, you can only walk until it replenishes, and you wheeze until you regain some Stamina.
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Well that doesn't apply to all videogames. Just awesome RPGs were you could become your most awesome self.
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I know that feeling...
well... maybe not so much now since I rarely game often anymore.
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lol...story of my life...yet again...you and I are freakishly similar hahahahha
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Heh heh too true 
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oh neeshka, easily my favorite neverwinter nights character
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Ha, Garrus is adorbs.
also I WISH I HAD RPG STAMINA TOO
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Why video games are worse than reality.
If you thought YOUR government was bad, you should see how these people handle a crisis.
It is often possible to rip apart someone's mind and turn them into a happy psycho cultist trying to kill everyone.
Unholy abominations trying to burn the world are actual things and not just the product of fevered imaginations of people who take certain parts of the Bible too literally.
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Oh boy, another one of those "video games are made by Satan and should be destroyed", wanks. Look kid, what does that tome have to do with the majesty of gaming?
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Translation, I point just how messed up all our lives would be if it actually was real and not just a game, you don't seem able to handle it.
And I love that Satan bit, especially how you'd have to clearly not actually look at what I said in order to think it said anything like 'video games are Satanic'.
Tl;dr? Get a life and read what people say before you make dumb posts.
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Sticks and stones break my bones, but words never hurt me.
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That is an amusing comment that does not change the fact that you still didn't actually bother to check my first comment before you responded to it.
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This is trie. So true. So true that i can't even describe it.
Oh and I was wondering; on a scale of one to ten, how much woudld you reccomend the games in this comic? Other than Skyrim, which i already have. I've been looking a bit into Dragon Age Origins. Is it really good?
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I love Dragon Age: Origins so I might not be the most objective source but yes - if fantasy setting and RPGs are your thing you just can't go wrong with DAO. The other Bioware titles Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (not featured in this comic though) and Mass Effect series are very close to my hear as well, and Neverwinter Nights 2 is my very first RPG so I'll obviously treasure it forever. 
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Thanks for the input! I'll be sure to keep my eyes open for any of those games!
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Yeah.....i was wondering how'd they keep running so endlessly
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I have never seen a drawing so accurate and relatable...until i saw this.
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Hah! Yeah, that gets me too. All I ever did in high school gym was jog and I was STILL the absolute worst runner in my class. But play a video game and you'll hike a mile without breaking a sweat. Wanna climb a mountain? Be Lara Croft, you'll climb three on the way to an optional power up.
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I wonder if you should play skyrim with some of the survival mods installed
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I always laugh at it, whenever my heavily armoured characters are sprinting in what becomes an endless sidescrolling game for them, and leisurely breaking of olympic records for me. Skyrim frame ees lol! Practically took a photo of what I did the other night, suddenly taking an interest in a blue dartwing and running across fields and rivers and mountains to get it. Volstag (coincidence or someone else?) followed like the good backpack he is. Barbas the Butt was ditched long ago, though, and Vigilance will be bought one day when I can guarantee that he won't die the way Queen Alfsigr almost always tries to.
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I never noticed the unlimited stamina thing till now. Real life sucks sometimes
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You had to run to school at one point?! That actually happened?!
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Technically, I was running home which is far more pressing matter.
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Oh. That's still incredible!
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Video game people: they use magic to make sure that they can run for miles on end.
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lol 
you made Garrus look so cute!!!!
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I just keep reminding myself: Commander Shepard doesn't have asthma; Commander Shepard has Reapers.
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heh another reason video games are better than reality.
in video games you loot the dead, get lots of money, and quests to save people and kill bad guys and stuff.
in reality, its called graverobbing, and you get suspected for murder. heheheheeh. you should do a comic on that if you haven't already hehehehheeeh.
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I can run 400 meters in a little over a minute and a half.
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Good for you. I hate running with passion...
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Ha Ha, nice work. Also I love the way Garrus is running! ... calibrations.
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I have to walk that every day. And I'm in a marathon tomorrow....
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although this comment is a bit late..
you idiot ¬.¬
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Ah what kind of font did you use for your letters, they look quite elegant!
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The font is called Morpheus, and it can be downloaded for free (for example from dafont.com)
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Ooo, which armor is she wearing in dragon age origins? I gots to know
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Don't forget they also seem to be able to swim for infinite lengths of time in frigid waters.
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...and while wearing full plate armor, too.
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