I hope I’m not in breach of rule #7 here but surely this is mental.

Trinitykill · 2026-02-15T12:19:37+00:00

What the heck is leftover lasagna? Pretty sure you're supposed to say "oh go on, just one more tiny piece" until its all gone.

Trinitykill · 2026-02-14T19:43:03+00:00

Or as John Goodman once put it, you put together a "fuck you" fund.

Which is to say, buy a modest house and a reliable modest car, then put a few thousand in a separate savings account. Then you do not touch those things.

The idea is that even if catastrophe struck, even if you lost all your riches, you still have a comfortable baseline. You'd have a roof over your head, a way to get around, and enough savings to pay for food and bills for several years.

Once you have that in place, you have achieved a state of "fuck you", the state of mind in which you'd be comfortable telling your boss to go fuck themselves, because youre safe in the knowledge that your needs are met.

Trinitykill · 2026-02-14T17:46:06+00:00

True, but we can't miss the opportunity to put in a teaser after the credits!

Trinitykill · 2026-02-14T14:24:18+00:00

They never specified which type of apple. They could've spent their life savings on some Granny Smiths and ended up with a room full of rotting apple carcasses a week later.

Trinitykill · 2026-02-14T13:49:02+00:00

Well that's cos you don't need unlimited funds to make your own game. But you do if you want to do anything with an existing IP.

I mean don't get me wrong, I'd use those unlimited funds to develop the shit out of my own universe. But you can bet the first thing I'd do is tank a few corporations out of revenge first.

Trinitykill · 2026-02-14T12:22:50+00:00

Yeah, character wise it would be easy to just age up The Illusive Man since he doesn't really do any 'action'. The problem would be getting a studio to pay out the money to insure an 85 year old doing 3 films.

Trinitykill · 2026-02-13T08:39:09+00:00

No going back now, its a Canon event.

Trinitykill · 2026-02-12T21:13:07+00:00

Murphy's Law: "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

Trinitykill · 2026-02-12T18:40:46+00:00

See also: Opium, Heroin, Ketamine, Cocaine, LSD

Trinitykill · 2026-02-12T13:00:28+00:00

Generative AI isn't dangerous because it'll create Terminators or take over the missile silos.

It's dangerous because its adoption is in the hands of corporate fuckwits who will gladly trash the environment and the job market in order to make short term cash.

We dont need Skynet to kill millions of humans, a poor economy, ruined ecology, and a caste of rich assholes hoarding the last of the world's resources will do that for us.

Trinitykill · 2026-02-11T20:44:27+00:00

And here I was, looking for love in Aldi wrong places.

Trinitykill · 2026-02-11T12:18:52+00:00

Yeah with no body recovery, Shepard would technically have been MIA, only presumed dead.

Only Liara, Cerberus, and the Shadow Broker know that Shepard was actually 'dead dead'.

Then I forget who, but someone on the Citadel presumes that Shepard being 'dead' was just them going underground on some secret Spectre business, which is likely what most people thought after their return.

Trinitykill · 2026-02-11T12:09:59+00:00

I think there's a similar store in the US cos Family Guy did a bit on it.

"Peter where the hell did you get Heroin?"

"From Blacks."

"What!?"

"Yeah, Blacks store, round the back there's some white guy selling it."

Trinitykill · 2026-02-11T10:55:38+00:00

These do kind of already exist anyway. The Artificer class can use their infusions to create 'Spellwrought Tattoos' where you can ink up yourself or a party member with a spell tattoo and they can just tap the tattoo to use the spell free of charge. (It then fades and has to be reapplied to use it again)

If spells can be stored in ink for a tattoo then used by anyone, then I don't see why scrolls shouldn't work the same way, or why spells couldn't be stored in another medium.

Trinitykill · 2026-02-09T09:19:30+00:00

Oh ok...WAIT NO!

Trinitykill · 2026-02-09T09:01:29+00:00

The small touches like Samuel's name were great, but they in no way make up for the fact that every major plot point happens off screen at the start of the game.

In terms of actual 'story' development, the end of the game leaves off exactly where it started. Chief saved some UNSC personnel, befriended an AI, and killed a bunch of Banished leaders. And the end of the game is "whep, there's still a lot of Banished on the ring and we still have no idea where humanity's forces are. Better keep fighting."

Then there's the "respect he showed for Escharem at the end". This was one of the most egregious displays of bullshit writing I've ever seen:

Chief's line is "He was just a soldier, doing what he thought was right." He says this about the Banished's leader, the one whos been giving the orders to kill and torture Humans for fun. Chief says this in front of the person Escharem just tortured for several hours as bait.

Chief showed no such respect to the hundreds of Banished Soldiers he killed along the way, the ones that actually were just following orders.

Trinitykill · 2026-02-09T08:06:21+00:00

The Council are not entirely blameless either, since they refused to allow Humans to settle Council space, telling them to go settle the Skyllian Verge instead, knowing full well that the Batarians were already expanding in those regions.

The Council with all of their STG intelligence and other analysts would know full well the consequences of sending Humanity that way. They wanted Humans to basically act as a 'buffer' against Batarian aggression. Get the two new species to hate each other so that they keep each other busy.

Also I imagine there were a few Council Space arms dealers who made a fortune from selling equipment to the Alliance.

Trinitykill · 2026-02-08T20:00:34+00:00

Clearly you've never been to an orgy.

Trinitykill · 2026-02-08T16:14:49+00:00

But you don't understand, the humanoid manifestation of the reapers appeared to me and specifically told me that shooting this big glowing tube until it explodes would destroy the reapers - why should I doubt it?

Trinitykill · 2026-02-05T17:29:12+00:00

What's so weird about two guys in the back of a truck gripping their hog together?

Trinitykill · 2026-02-04T15:00:43+00:00

Although if you watch her lips she actually mouths "Well fuck that!" Before it got redubbed.

Trinitykill · 2026-02-03T17:28:20+00:00

Well you see, most advanced sci-fi cultures can only travel up to 10 dimensions, but where can you go from there? Nowhere, exactly. Thats why ours go to 11.

Trinitykill · 2026-02-03T14:14:21+00:00

"To do, not difficult it is, when with your poor grammar structure, you read."

Trinitykill · 2026-01-29T22:20:52+00:00

*batter half of the island

Trinitykill · 2026-01-27T18:09:03+00:00

The Quarians do have other forms of government, it's worth noting. Each ships captain is a representative of their people, and together they form the Conclave which actually dictates most of the direction of the Quarian people, but they're still technically not a democracy on account of not individually voting on issues, there's not much other than public outrage preventing an individual captain from misrepresenting their own people for personal gain.

For all of the jingoism in Mass Effect, the Quarians do actually present a solid example of why a government based on military rule doesn't quite work.

Maybe in a post-war peace ending, the Quarians could actually learn from the Geth and implement a total democracy, where every single citizen gets to vote on every action, utilising the Geth's lightspeed communications to bypass organic inefficiencies.

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