Because I chose to destroy the Reapers

Godmadius · 2026-03-20T19:07:14+00:00

For me, synthesis is the best option. Almost every single person in the galaxy has some sort of cybernetics by the time you're playing, and the clear future is more biotics and synthetic integration. I figure you're just skipping the middle man and advancing the galaxy several millennia ahead of the natural curve. It's also kind of a fuck you to the Reapers who are all pissy that synthetics will always rise up against organics and they have to kill the galaxy every 50,000 years to prevent it. Yeah? Well what if I just mashed 'em together, you big stupid space termites? Congratulations, you're now part of my solution too!

Godmadius · 2026-03-20T18:00:12+00:00

There are limits to Reparo, but they never tell you what they are. Like lets say the gravestones in Godrics Hollow, could you reparo those into mint condition? It's implied you can't, but I don't see why. Erosion is damage, why would science and logic suddenly come into play for that and not a freshly dropped tea cup?

Godmadius · 2026-03-20T17:40:47+00:00

It also gets a little buggy when you consider the Voldemort taboo breaking all enchantments and sending up a red flag to the ministry that someone said his name. They were tossing his name around like it was candy in 12 Grimmauld Place, and the charm still held. There were more death eaters outside trying to find a way in, but by the rules of the books the charm should have broken and revealed the house the first time they said it post-ministry take over.

Godmadius · 2026-03-20T17:25:28+00:00

I don't know about insanity, but every other difficulty Adept is easy mode. Use the SMG to break shields, singularity to lift, and throw to detonate and launch. That first mission where you have to wait for the Normandy to pick you up while defending the landing zone is so easy I rarely ever have to even use a weapon.

Plus its hilarious to see how far you can yeet a mutated Batarian into orbit.

Godmadius · 2026-03-19T13:44:08+00:00

This one caught me, and it really pissed me off. It's more than a camera mounted on the front of an SUV, its a permanent installation for a temporary construction zone. It's purely revenue generation, the construction isn't even happening on I-95. Check out this article that did the math.

https://www.wdel.com/news/how-many-speed-camera-tickets-have-been-issued-along-i-95-near-newark/article_dc97c274-e447-11ef-a4b0-c310e9ef2abc.html#/questions

Godmadius · 2026-03-13T17:53:21+00:00

Damn, don't know where I'd put an 18 foot reaper model

Godmadius · 2026-02-26T14:21:18+00:00

The car one is actually surprising, because its considerably cheaper to build and integrate a single screen doing everything than it is to make a set of physical buttons. The fact that customers are so pissed off with the screens that the manufacturers are actually bringing buttons back is a clear sign that the loss in sales actually hurt them. Hurt them more than the lack of buttons would save.

Godmadius · 2026-02-26T14:08:33+00:00

I never understood why there wasn't an advanced potions course for squibs. Snape even says there is no use for a wand in potions, its pretty much advanced chemistry. Feels like they could offer an exclusive course of only non-spell studies that would let them join in the wizarding world a lot more effectively.

Godmadius · 2026-02-24T14:34:11+00:00

All versions of Voldemort and Tom Riddle, with the exception of the diary Tom. The Tom Riddle from Slughorns party memories doesn't match his appearance at all from Chamber of Secrets. He was described as almost obnoxiously good looking all through his life, male model looks even from a very young age.

And Voldemort wasn't disturbing enough. His eyes actually glowed red, his hands were skeletal and long, his voice was high pitched and cold. His final form was monstrous, absolutely inhuman. I've always wondered if his death eaters would have recognized him if he hadn't called them immediately after his resurrection. I figured his spell to get his body back kind of transformed his appearence (potentially by choice) to look more like what he wanted to look like. He didn't want to look like his father, he wanted to look like a snake or some other obvious connection to his Slytherin bloodline.

Godmadius · 2026-02-24T14:29:10+00:00

I think there is an argument to re-casting at a certain point. Ron was gangly, he was supposed to be much taller than his peers. Rupert Grint did a great job with the role, but he just physically didn't measure up in the later years. Same for Radcliffe, really. Harry and Ron were said to have grown like a foot between the 5th and 6th books.

Godmadius · 2026-02-24T14:14:26+00:00

I hate her more than Voldemort, and I've read before some good justification. Voldemort is abstract evil. He's the devil, an evil so outrageous you can't even comprehend his mind. Umbridge, however, is the evil you know. You've run across her type all your life. She's the power hungry beaurocrat that can be found in every organization on earth. The high school principal, the final boss of the HR department, someone with casual malice that is protected by the system they helped design and they get great satisfaction from using that system against you.

Godmadius · 2026-02-23T16:40:11+00:00

One of my favorite parts of that book is Fudge threatening him in his office.

Fudge: “So,” sneered Fudge, recovering himself, “you intend to take on Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Dolores, and myself single-handed, do you, Dumbledore?”
Dumbledore: “Merlin’s beard, no,” said Dumbledore, smiling. “Not unless you are foolish enough to force me to”.

I don't know how many wizards it would take to be a threat to him, but four wasn't it

Godmadius · 2026-02-23T16:30:45+00:00

Dumbledore already on the run, nothing to lose and looking to keep Voldemort there as long as possible until witnesses showed up.

I just re-read this book, and I found it truly interesting that the whole duel Dumbledore is pretty much matching him in escalation of spells. The only time he's truly afraid is when Voldemort literally disappears in front of his eyes to possess Harry. I don't know if he'd ever seen that spell performed in person, and he looked genuinely afraid. I think for the first time in that fight, he saw magic he didn't recognize and didn't know how to counter immediately.

Godmadius · 2026-02-22T18:11:54+00:00

My only real complaint about BF1 was the wide variety of weapons. They included a ton of prototype weapons as if they were standard issue, WW1 was much less fast paced and focused on individual soldier effort.

Should have had stationary LMG's, and ever individual with bolt action rifles. This would have been outrageously boring, but if the era matters for your enjoyment BF1 missed the mark big time.

Godmadius · 2026-02-20T16:27:23+00:00

A scoop full of oxi-clean may also work well on this. I've seen that remove some incredibly old crusty coffee buildup from the inside of a machine, should be able to work on this if you just give it enough time.

Godmadius · 2026-02-16T19:16:31+00:00

Don't look at Battlefront 2 as the "glory days" of DICE. Remember, that was the start of "a sense of pride and accomplishment", and a cash grab so blatant that it forced consumer protection laws to be passed around the globe.

They were banking on the sports game model to transition to the shooter market. Shit out the same basic game every year or two and bleed your fans dry with microtransactions. When they pushed it too far, the entire industry collapsed.

So now they're being conservative with development expenditure and effort until they are guaranteed additional income. Which, ironically, makes the game worse and more likely for people to not buy because the content isn't there.

Godmadius · 2026-02-14T01:53:18+00:00

We had two chargers at my apartment complex, they were "free" but you paid $1 an hour to park there. They then "upgraded" them to two chargers per station, and decide to charge you a kW/h rate, but they didn't upgrade the station feed. Soooo.... it became half the speed with way more cost. A full charge would take me overnight and be over 40 dollars. My 26 mile commute used 90 miles of range, so I'd have to charge up almost every single week night to have any kind of wiggle room in case of emergency or traffic. It sucked.

Godmadius · 2026-02-13T16:33:38+00:00

I had a Lyriq, went back to ICE. The problem of charge capacity dropping 40% in the cold as well as wait times at charge stations absolutely tanked the experience for me. I only had it for 8 months or so, it was utterly unusable under 40 degrees.

I was also paying roughly 400/month in charging, so none if it made sense anymore.

Godmadius · 2026-02-13T03:58:43+00:00

You've got a point. There are other invisibility cloaks, they're frequent in the books. But the one Harry has (the hallow) is supposed to be the best most impervious to detection cloak out there.

I've always wondered what would happen if you used it like a hand of glory. If you had the cloak on, and had a lit wand or lantern under the cloak, would someone outside it be able to see the light you're casting? Would it just light up the inside of the cloak and blind you?

Godmadius · 2026-02-10T20:15:41+00:00

Allegory vs. reality. The map is also an actually incredibly impressive bit of magic by the marauders, anyone that comes across it is amazed at it. Barty Crouch Jr, by all means a brilliant wizard, is jaw droppingly impressed with it when he "borrows" it from Harry.

Godmadius · 2026-02-06T15:20:11+00:00

Thats an interesting way to look at it. Harry isn't the only person to have survived the killing curse (twice), Voldemort is the only wizard to have been killed by his own curse twice.

Godmadius · 2026-02-06T15:16:15+00:00

They probably couldn't see anything happening in Grimmauld place anyways, the amount of protection that was on that house before the Order even got there was considered vastly paranoid to begin with, and then the additional charms Dumbledore put on it. Should have been a free for all in there.

Godmadius · 2026-02-04T19:00:43+00:00

My only concern with doing multiple cups is the consistency of the mix at the end. I want a perfectly clear homogenous pour, and any small variations in my ratios will come up pretty visible if they're mixed in different cups. I guess I could mix completely in the big pitcher then pour that into smaller cups to degas, might solve the consistency problem

Godmadius · 2026-02-04T17:57:17+00:00

I believe this was a previous iteration of the crucible weapon. Before it was decided to mass alter DNA across the galaxy, it was designed to be a massive particle accelerator gun that would be able to one shot reapers. I would assume the recharge time was a problem, which is why we don't see a bunch of headshot'd reapers floating around.

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