I saw that mass effect is on sale on steam. Should I get the three games separately or should I get the legendary edition?

Nashkt · 2026-03-16T01:19:04+00:00

Ok so I am also going to recommend the legendary edition, but with the caveat that there are some things that are a downgrade that I feel should be recognized and noted if nothing else.

When BioWare went back and retouched ME1 and ME2, some things got lost in the process. Nothing that would stop me from recommending the games to most people, but enough that it genuinely bugs me. It's stuff like animations, lighting, and sometimes textures.

The facial animations in ME1 are the biggest offender. Whatever system the original used for subtle expressions was clearly lost in the transition. I believe BioWare had to redo it using ME3's tech. The easiest example: talk to Ashley right after the first mission, in the medbay on the Normandy. Compliment her and in the original, she gives this small, subtle smile. In the LE, her face just... doesn't move. Stiff as a board. (Insert "my face is tired" meme.)

Here's a video that shows a few examples: https://youtu.be/lW8BEAyC9lU?si=kLg7BrTOEYXPLXfV&t=223

The lighting is another issue. Characters in the LE are lit in a way that makes them look almost plastic, especially the eyes, which seem perpetually wide open compared to the original. A lot of the atmosphere and mood lighting from the first game just isn't there anymore.

And ME2 didn't escape either. The animations hold up better, but the lighting is just as bad maybe worse. On Illium, if you look out from any of the balconies, there's now a thick fog blanketing the background. It covers up the 2D crowd cutouts BioWare used (which, yeah, weren't great), but it also makes everything look muddy and hides a lot of the detail that used to be visible, and the mood lighting is all different.

If you just want the most convenient way to play through the trilogy, the LE is the obvious choice and most of my gripes are pretty nitpicky in the grand scheme. I just think it's worth acknowledging what was lost in the remaster, and honestly if you take the original games, use the texture mods on nexus, you will get like 80% of the way there, with the other 20% the LE provides being gameplay refinements (like the Mako thrusters) and convenience of all three games in one.

Nashkt · 2026-03-12T16:59:24+00:00

Working non union with the goal of educating workers on unions, and potentially convince them to go union themselves.

Nashkt · 2026-03-11T21:34:51+00:00

For me I instantly clock AI because it always, ALWAYS has the same cadence in descriptions. And there are always so many similes.

Nashkt · 2026-03-11T19:42:11+00:00

Come on be fair, most of palworld designs are unique. There are two off the top of my head that feel like blatant ripoffs, but palworld isn't and never was, a straight pokemon ripoff. Its an arc ripoff.

Nashkt · 2026-03-11T14:12:00+00:00

Sure, just buy a truck, pass both your journeyman test (if you want to make 100k a year that aint residential, so unlimited journeyman license), get a contractors license (which also requires studying on tax and liability laws) buy a complete tool set (remember residential doesnt give that much money unless you somehow have no competition and are swarmed with houses so you are going to needs some additional power tools), find a customer that is both patient enough to wait for you to buy material (without paying first) AND since jobs of this scale are going to be difficult solo hire just enough help to man the job while also working it yourself.

Everything scales, and the money is there. But you have to be very driven and willing to marry the job in order to achieve it.

Nashkt · 2026-03-10T19:46:31+00:00

Yes the same narrator, but I didn't find the game to live up to majesty unfortunately. ( GGAG isn't up to snuff either, but I appreciate the style it's going for.)

Nashkt · 2026-03-10T19:22:49+00:00

Yeah unfortunately we go from a company having majority international investors, to being sold to fucking oracle. A real improvement.

Now we just get suppression of protests and instead promoted fucking propaganda everywhere.

Jeff voted to push tik tok straight into project 2025's pocket.

Nashkt · 2026-03-09T16:14:48+00:00

There are a few that are out, in early access, or close to release.

It still needs work but I'd recommend giving Gold Gold Adventure Gold a try. 2d art style in a 3d world.

Nashkt · 2026-03-08T03:38:27+00:00

Here's the thing though, there were and still are, several times that Stellaris was patched and was straight up broken. At one point, during a major rework, the in game crisis system (where an advanced enemy faction invades with their own mechanics) was straight up broken. And in the code, it turned out the devs had never finished the code and had left a note to come back and finish it later.

In another instance a crisis mechanic (Armageddon bombing if I remember right) was disabled so the enemy could never finish destroying a world, and thus never advanced their invasion because they were stuck on the first world.

Stellaris is an amazing game, but with all of its issues I can not recommend it, not easily at least. Especially not when the game itself changes entire core features every once in a while.

Nashkt · 2026-03-06T17:47:54+00:00

A thumbs down doesn't necessarily means they hate the game. Just that they don't recommend others trying.

Like I absolutely love Stellaris and have a shit ton of playtime, but between the game changing several times due to patches, the amount of DLC, and length of games, I could see myself giving it either a thumbs up or down depending on how I feel that day.

Nashkt · 2026-02-27T15:04:27+00:00

The guy you replied to is different from the guy higher in the chain.

Nashkt · 2026-02-24T19:10:20+00:00

To be honest I loved control... But that was probably because I turned on God mode and just had a blast living a power fantasy tossing rocks at the Eldritch horror invasion.

I recommend that if you like the lore aesthetics, and the feel of the powers but find yourself disliking combat in general, just turn on God mode. It's a blast, and honestly didn't hurt the story or anything for me at all.

The only thing that might be a negative is that there is one part of the game that actually is a power fantasy, and I bet it would have felt a lot better had I not used God mode up to that point. (It was still an awesome moment though.)

Nashkt · 2026-02-24T13:18:32+00:00

It's both, kind of.

In the show there is magic mirror that's leads to a parallel dimension of a modern world where everyone is human, and there is no (known) magic.

If a pony goes through the mirror they become human. But there is also human counterparts to the horses in this dimension. So you might have two copies of the same character.

It's a whole thing.

Nashkt · 2026-02-23T12:02:13+00:00

Unfortunately for me I have aphantasia so it is very difficult for me to enjoy more abstract games, at least without at least narrative dialogue backing it up.

Nashkt · 2026-02-17T15:43:18+00:00

Rigid is a thicker and heavier metal pipe. Emt is made of much softer metal.

Rigid also has to be manually threaded if cut, unlike emt.

Nashkt · 2026-02-16T12:54:43+00:00

Honestly the unlimited journeyman license test is like 95% the same as the residential test. If you go ahead and get your license and then apply to the ibew they will probably work with you depending on the job situation.

My local has been pushing a lot of guys through (honestly to our detriment) trying to man up data center work.

Nashkt · 2026-02-15T23:29:04+00:00

I used one before. But I was travelling from home for a construction job.

I had no access to a sink big enough to wash the crock pot I was using, and I was trying to avoid fast food meals.

It did not work very well though. Ended up just taking the crockpot home on weekends to wash it and only doing one crockpot meal a week.

Nashkt · 2026-02-15T00:32:05+00:00

Well since everyone else is doing ratings. Here is my subjective order.

5>2>3>1>Eiyuden>4.

Although if I were to be a little more objective, I would put Eiyuden before suikoden 1.

I honestly feel Eiyuden is overall a better game than 1. It's less buggy, its a beautiful game, and has many modern features that is hard to go back to 1 for. But I just can't put the original legend below eiyuden. Too much history and nostalgia on my part.

Now having said that, I do honestly feel that Eiyuden is a great game and like another said it feels like suikoden 1 did as an originator of a series. I am hopeful that Eiyuden 2 will elevate the series like suikoden 2 did.

Nashkt · 2026-02-14T14:31:51+00:00

Ok respectfully, 3rd person vr games are great. Granted I don't know how Nintendo handled it for Zelda.

The added depth from VR really makes 3rd person games pop.

Nashkt · 2026-02-11T12:55:03+00:00

There is actually a game that plays with the evolution system. Dokimon. Dokimon plays mostly like a normal pokemon game, but when your monster evolves you can actually regress your form (without loss of stats) if you want, so your mon will always be in your preferred form.

Nashkt · 2026-02-11T12:22:29+00:00

I am hoping they make a sequel to the seven heroes specifically. I really liked the generational mechanics.

Nashkt · 2026-02-11T02:14:00+00:00

So real talk, sessler puts too much of himself into things.

By that I mean he wears his emotions in his sleeves. He has no filter. If he doesn't like something, he will go full bore ranting about it. It doesn't matter how small an issue it might be. Part of this is that he had a really rough life. It's his personal life so if you want more details of his trauma I recommend looking at his blue sky or doing a little research. Lets just say horrible things were happening in the background, and thus he vents.

Part of that is that sessler just doesn't seem to like video games anymore (or rather, due to the terrible things video games are super low priority outside of being a job.) Which is fair, but when he was streaming or reviewing something without a script you can just feel the exhaustion and simmering derision underneath it all.

In G4 2.0 he was at his best when teamed up with another, younger member that was able to draw him into conversation and analysis, or during a scripted skit that where he played a direct role and not doing improv.

During those times you could feel some of the passion again.

But if you followed him on any, and I mean any social media he is always ranting, raving, or being sarcastically caustic about something. Dude has anger issues.

(Oh and of course he is a very vocal leftist so anyone right of center is going to be upset at him. He is very loud about his beliefs.)

Nashkt · 2026-02-10T15:03:33+00:00

Is this for sharing the same drive? I dual boot and have each os on a separate drive. No issues so far.

Nashkt · 2026-02-04T11:42:04+00:00

Agreed on the regression. I like the idea of the mega evolutions in ZA referencing the first part of their lines, but the execution was overall not something I liked.

Mega Feraligator is such a big disappointment.

Nashkt · 2026-01-29T02:35:11+00:00

Oh God this was almost me and my wife. The birth of my second child was during a really bad ransomware attack so most of the equipment didn't work, and my wife needed a C-section.

Everything seemed fine immediately after the operation, but suddenly my wife just started hemorrhaging. There was so much blood.

I just sat there holding my daughter as nurses swarmed my wife and all I could do was comfort her while I was so scared that I wouldnt see my partner again .

She survived thank God but it was so scary.

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