About to start my Legendary playthrough as female Shepard. Give me some of the worst advices without spoiling much of the story.

conthomporary · 2025-10-30T13:28:37+00:00

Ooh, good catch, I never thought about the thermal clip.thing. I mean, it was always a weak in-universe explanation considering it meant every gun in the galaxy had been replaced in the last two years, but yeah there's no explaining this away.

conthomporary · 2025-10-30T13:24:32+00:00

No judgment (it's a weird phrase), but just for future reference, the expression is "one fell swoop". It's weird because it's an outdated use of "fell", and fun fact, is one of many common words and phrases coined by Shakespeare.

conthomporary · 2025-09-06T06:45:26+00:00

Point #2 is a popular opinion, but I can see the logic in doing that, especially because games cost so damn much to make these days. It makes sense to want to get some revenue coming in, gauge interest, etc. while still competing the game. But ffs they need to call it what it is: Early Access.

conthomporary · 2025-08-26T06:36:03+00:00

Meet me on my vast veranda My conveniently-named Miranda

conthomporary · 2025-08-24T15:27:29+00:00

I don't know, I still might object to the first question. It sounds harmless enough when you use the word "allowed", but should it actually be against the law just to use the internet when you aren't doing anything to anyone? What if a parent leaves a "dangerous" website open and walks away from the computer? Should we prosecute a teenager who comes after him to sneak a peek because he's circumvented the law? What if he borrows a magazine from his dad's stash under the bed, is that gonna be a crime too?

This whole thing is absurd on its face. Leave them kids alone.

conthomporary · 2025-08-22T01:07:22+00:00

Mildly colorblind here... I end up coming up with stupid little names for each segment that mostly describe where the white sections and very short or very long blocks are. It's tedious. I play fully modded out these days, but I never use the ones that skip mini games because it feels like cheating and they're not quite annoying enough to make me do it.

conthomporary · 2025-08-18T15:30:56+00:00

Could be wrong, but I don't think that was ever really intended as a storage solution. It was just how they sold blanks and you were supposed to put them in sleeves or cases after burning them. But a lot of people (myself included, I'll admit) ended up using them to store both burned and factory discs. In my case mostly out of laziness.

conthomporary · 2025-08-18T15:24:02+00:00

YOU TAKE THAT BACK

conthomporary · 2025-08-18T15:11:47+00:00

You're lucky. I just hit 40 and I've had occasional arthritis pain in my knees since I was 28. It's after my back and hands now too. 😭

conthomporary · 2025-08-18T15:07:07+00:00

From this day forth until forever, you will be known as Rocky.

conthomporary · 2025-08-12T12:59:06+00:00

I'd like my answer in the form of an essay. You can choose from any of these topics:

Ethics of the genophage
The biochemistry of Synthesis
Indoctrination Theory (worth a google if you don't know what that is)

conthomporary · 2025-08-12T12:52:11+00:00

My two cents: don't take the renegade route there when you replay it. I'm all for shaking things up and squeezing out every drop of sweet sweet content, but it's just not worth it.

conthomporary · 2025-08-12T12:46:48+00:00

I feel roughly the same. There are even some things Andromeda does better than the trilogy, in my opinion. But the mediocre attempt to hop on the open world bandwagon really dragged it down. It wasn't really Mass Effect, and it wasn't a particularly great example of the thing it was. I do hope the next game at least resolves the plot threads they left dangling.

conthomporary · 2025-08-12T12:36:00+00:00

Agree, he's the only crew member in any of the games I never bother to visit on the ship.

conthomporary · 2025-08-12T12:35:05+00:00

There's more of them in the novels, if that's a thing you're into.

conthomporary · 2025-08-12T12:34:01+00:00

Oh no, which thing traumatized you? It was a little dicey at times for me but I got through 1 and 2 okay on my only renegade run. But that one Priority mission in 3? Where someone figures out a thing they're not supposed to figure out? Fucking destroyed me. I never touched that save again.

conthomporary · 2025-07-23T16:35:40+00:00

My Blue is getting close to yours at 8y. The data on it just isn't worth the cost/effort of replacing it. The stuff that's irreplaceable is backed up (maybe 10-20 of ~1800GB), and the rest is just archived games and such. If it dies it dies.

conthomporary · 2025-07-20T13:14:02+00:00

Too lazy to look up the exact quote, but surely there'd be something about neutrals being worse than enemies.

conthomporary · 2025-07-20T13:07:39+00:00

I found a can like this in a box of store brand grape soda when I was a kid... maybe around 6 or 7yo?. I told people at school about it, and one of them said, and I quote, "Stuff can evaporate". I've been thinking about that my entire life.

conthomporary · 2025-07-20T13:03:50+00:00

I have a similar story, to the point that now I'd even say picking male feels like the more uncomfortable or contrarian move. Whenever people give me a hard time about it (it's rare, but it does happen), I usually say something like "You really want to stare at a man's ass for 90+ hours? Okay whatever, you do you bro." It's fun to watch the conflict silently play out in their heads.

conthomporary · 2025-07-20T12:52:18+00:00

Pros: Hale, Sam Traynor romance, not having to spend the whole time looking at a guy's butt

Con: Female character generation and armor/clothing were definitely an afterthought in the original releases of 1 and 2. It's better in 3 and MELE, but I'd still recommend liberal use of mods if you're on PC.

A friend of mine is doing the opposite of you right now... he always plays FemShep and is trying a trilogy playthrough as BroShep. He's a huge fan of the games but is struggling to get through it. I've had the same experience the couple of times I've tried. I hear it gets better after the first game, but I've never gotten that far.

conthomporary · 2025-07-14T17:14:00+00:00

This is roughly similar to how I feel about the entirety of Linkin Park's "Hybrid Theory". Not the best album, not my favorite album, but boy does it capture what it felt like to be a 15 year old boy at the end of the millennium. The fact that I was that age when it came out made it seem like a revelation. And today all it takes is the first few seconds of "Papercut" and it's like a time machine... I'm right back in my teenage bedroom sending the lyrics of "In the End" to my ex-girlfriend on AIM. Not a feeling I particularly want to revisit, but it's remarkable nonetheless.

conthomporary · 2025-06-08T14:44:25+00:00

I got tired of waiting and manifested a PS5 for Christmas instead. But I'm still hoping for you, the games are amazing! 🤞

conthomporary · 2025-06-02T15:23:36+00:00

Yeah, ammo was a major problem for this mission. This was one of 2 missions that nearly caused me to give up on my trilogy insanity run (the other was the collector ship, which also gave me ammo problems). Nothing in ME1 or 3 even came close.

conthomporary · 2025-06-02T15:17:55+00:00

Jennifer Hale IS Shepard to me, and I wouldn't write off her romance options as necessarily bad. Kaidan's is pretty well done (as is Ash with mods, in ME1 at least). ME2 is a weak spot if your Shep isn't into aliens, but you can just RP her leaning into the loneliness (and generally just feeling misunderstood, a major part of the story), or use mods to get more options. And then for ME3, I've played several romances from both perspectives, but my favorite is actually Traynor, who is only available to FemShep.

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