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Andy Chalk

Stressing out waiting for Dragon Age: The Veilguard to download? Here's some Dragon Age ASMR to help mellow your mood

Dragon Age: The Veilguard ASMR thumbnail - image of two giant statues in the Arlathan Forest.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is out today, and if you find yourself stressed and aggravated because you're waiting for it to download—no preload on PC!—and it's going so slow and all your friends are going to be hours ahead of you by the time you get into it, I have just the thing to help you chill out and take the edge off: Dragon Age ASMR.

I was first introduced to the concept of ASMR by former PC Gamer editor James Davenport, the man who—among other things—encouraged PC Gamer readers to "watch people peel plastic film off new PC parts because you deserve it." The acronym stands for autonomous sensory meridian response, and it's essentially a physiological reaction to audio stimuli, most commonly produced by Twitch streamers whispering into, or rubbing things on, their microphones.

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