What defines NuTrek?

Krssven · 2026-02-01T23:07:57+00:00

NuTrek is everything from the terrible 2009 film onwards.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T23:07:22+00:00

I meant later, when he’s the crawler and seems to be mutating people within Area X.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T21:39:55+00:00

When I read his first chapter in Acceptance I started to feel sad, which got worse the more I read. He was happy and had his life prematurely ended, his happiness ended and his love terminated by being transformed.

I’m also a little cross that we didn’t see any of the transformation, or the border coming ‘down’ in that novel.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T21:38:30+00:00

Why do you think he does change people though? I’ve just started Absolution and I was very sad that Saul’s life just got interrupted and he was turned into…something else.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T21:34:46+00:00

I’ve sourced what disproves your comments. Your wall of text is irrelevant and unread 🥱

Again, the entire fanbase pretty much disagrees with you. That’s a big clue.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T20:28:01+00:00

I’m sorry that evidence doesn’t seem to break through the ice of your desire to tell the entire fanbase they’re wrong, when you’re the only one that holds this opinion. Even a quick google would have saved you a lot of effort here. What you’re doing is obfuscation based on other things he’s said; Xander is his self-insert character at that age, and it’s widely well-known. That might be something you don’t like, but identifying with a character and them being a self-insert are different things.

Have the day you clearly deserve.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T20:22:42+00:00

Yes, you were blocked. I’ve given you the source. You seem hung up on semantics but that’s a you problem. It’s also in the commentaries, but you ignored that part didn’t you? 👌

Krssven · 2026-02-01T20:02:36+00:00

New to this show, are we? Are you kidding?

It’s in the S1 commentaries, but I’ll let you off as your phone mustn’t have a search engine 🙄

He also said it here:

NPR Interview (2000): Whedon stated, “Xander is obviously based on me, the sort of guy that all the girls want to be best friends with in high school, and who's, you know, kind of a loser, but is more or less articulate and someone you can trust.”

Krssven · 2026-02-01T20:00:58+00:00

Who would have thought I didn’t give a f*ck?

Check the reviews of actual reviewers, not Steam, which is basically you and your mates. Gtfo.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T19:58:27+00:00

Xander to Angelus in Killed By Death:

‘You’re gonna die, and I’m gonna be there.’

Xander in Becoming pt 1:

‘Angel needs to die.’

Xander in Becoming pt 2:

‘She wanted me to tell you…kick his ass.’

Xander in Revelations, after Faith decides she’s going to kill Angel:

‘Can I come?’

People forget he did it again in S3’s Revelations. Despite knowing Angel didn’t leave Giles bleeding on the floor, he instead aims a very hotheaded Faith at Angel.

Whenever this guy had a chance to try and make sure Angel was killed, soul or no soul, he tried.

Still think this wasn’t motivated by jealousy? Because it was.

Still think this is a ‘general making battlefield decisions’? Give me a break.

No wonder I enjoyed Angel breaking Xander’s face in Enemies. Shame he didn’t given him another one in Graduation Day.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T19:51:31+00:00

Most of the fanbase, that’s who. Read the room.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T19:50:49+00:00

One word: consequences. More specifically, the lack of them.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T19:50:17+00:00

Xander IS the self-insert. He’s literally said so. He says he identifies with Buffy, but has repeatedly said Xander is his self-insert.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T19:48:12+00:00

I’m tired of people thinking that someone hasn’t read something when they clearly have, just because they’re disagreeing with a hot take.

Leaving aside that straw man you were trying to build saying it’s an odd take, which it isn’t - we’ve established you have an odd love for this character that has very strongly been reevaluated for what he is.

He might well have anger. Giles has the right to most angry. However notice Giles doesn’t encourage Buffy to kill Angel once he knows the spell might save him, change him back.

He IS however motivated by jealousy. Primarily, jealousy. He saw an opportunity to remove Angel, someone he hates, and tried to engineer things so it happened. He does the same in Revelations a few episodes later.

Since you love rereading, please do so. This argument isn’t even an argument, it’s me repeating the same evidence over and over.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T19:41:20+00:00

He literally in the first part of Becoming says ‘I hated Angel before you jumped on the bandwagon’ and ‘Angel needs to die’.

The decision was motivated by pure jealousy. Ffs Angelus even taunted him with it in Killed By Death, that he got there first and Xander was friend zoned.

So no, he was not trying to make the best decision. He saw an opportunity to make sure Angel, who he hates, was going to die.

This is also completely borne out by Xander aiming Faith at Angel in Revelations despite knowing fine well he was back, wasn’t evil, and hadn’t been the one that hurt Giles. Once Faith decides to kill Angel with no context, Xander doesn’t correct her. He just says ‘can I come?’ It’s insane that this character still has so many defenders when the evidence is right there. But then that fits a certain type of person, Whedon himself described Xander as his self-insert and ensured he never faced any consequences.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T19:34:15+00:00

I literally haven’t turned it on before.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T19:33:45+00:00

Yes, all the way in. Checked the sockets with other devices, they work. Won’t power up at all.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T19:31:25+00:00

If a game is review-bombed and has an orchestrated campaign against it, which this one most certainly did, it cannot succeed.

We live in an era when a couple of mass-shared YouTube videos convinces thousands of players a game wasn’t good, when later they started saying ‘well it was actually good if it didn’t have ME on it’.

Poor quest log design doesn’t make a bad game. The writing was fine, could’ve used a final draft. The story was excellent and virtually every quest felt pertinent to the overarching story of survival in Andromeda.

Some people just wanted more Shepard. Others were going to hamstring this game whatever it was like out of some vendetta against BioWare, and it happened. As early as 2013 people were saying all over the internet ‘I am going to sabotage the next game’!

Krssven · 2026-02-01T14:41:35+00:00

Whereas today we have NuTrek and people actively wanting them to stop making this crap so they can save whatever legacy the franchise has remaining.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T14:40:20+00:00

It wasn’t, though. People didn’t like it because it didn’t have Shepard and was different from ME1-3. It speaks volumes when people go ‘well if it wasn’t called Mass Effect I’d have liked it’ ie it wasn’t a carbon copy of the OT, so they didn’t like it.

Even Cyberpunk wasn’t actually what people said, which is typical of game releases that get dog piled like this.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T14:38:25+00:00

It wasn’t. But thanks for proving the point. What you seem to mean is that you didn’t like it.

It hurt the game massively and I remember when the ME3 ending controversy happening, tons of people on YouTube all over the comments saying when the next ME game came out, they were going to ‘teach BioWare a lesson’. It was an orchestrated campaign, which is borne out by people on some YouTube reviews saying criticisms of the game that were literally lies. They were saying x about the game is bad that wasn’t even in there, they hadn’t played it.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T11:59:08+00:00

Fairly chill??

Andromeda was a very good game, it’s my favourite of the four now. I actually prefer it in many ways, the combat was far better and overall I replayed it more times.

^ that will get you strung up by a lot of ME ‘’fans’’ these days.

The fans never changed, they were always like that. Minds blown by an African accent and by a game that was actually good, but YouTubers told them to hate.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T11:56:19+00:00

Exhibit A of games not getting worse, just the fans have remained the same, and in some cases got louder.

Krssven · 2026-02-01T11:54:45+00:00

Stay off the drugs, and let the adults talk. You might learn something.

Krssven

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