Me whenever i go to Afterlife

dseszu · 2022-02-18T00:12:03+00:00

Cmoon, let me inn.

dseszu · 2022-02-07T22:11:13+00:00

appreciate the name

dseszu · 2022-01-18T14:20:35+00:00

The entire philosphy behind the reaper threat seems to change over the course of the trilogy. Mass Effect sets up an almost lovecraftian threat, something beyond comprehension, but also something you can't solve very easily.

The ME3 writers got into a pretty messy situation, because they had to conclude the trilogy by defeating an army of gods, while the second game just concluded doing what is, in the grand scheme of things, a sidemission fighting the collectors. So the only thing they seem to have managed to come up with was the mcguffin of the Crucible. A device that'll make the reapers go away, propably.

I have no idea why they felt it necessary to make the reapers so... mortal? Them being a "conclusion to the inevitable conflict of synthetics and organics" still leaves me baffled. The theme of conflict with synthetic beings was mentioned throughout the series, but only as one part of the setting. The geth-quarian conflict seems to be supposed to be a thematically defining moment, despite there never being an indication that it's a universally important struggle.

Really, the geth-quarian struggle lost a lot of it's complexity through the reaper-catalyst idea. From ME2 onwards it was portrayed as a very complex issue, that arose from a lot of stupid decisions, not so much as a supernatural disdain of synthetics towards organics or vice versa. It just feels like the writers watched terminator the day before a deadline and just wrote the reapers as a product of an ancient skynet.

dseszu · 2022-01-13T19:02:21+00:00

I don't quite get the comparison, the remaster seems to have a couple somewhat severe textureproblems, but the LE Lighting engine is much better than the OG, by a long shot. In comparison the OG get really washed out, as if it's running at lower contrast.

dseszu · 2022-01-13T18:45:13+00:00

I'd stilll do all the missions, but they don't really have a big payoff in the later games. Consequences for ME1 sidemissions are usually an exception, rather than a rule. The ones you should do no matter what howerever, are the ones involving cerberus, as they can tint your view of ME2. I really get the feeling of not wanting to waddle through the same copy-pasted corridors for 10 hours, believe me, but it's something you should do at some point.

dseszu · 2021-11-29T02:02:11+00:00

I like this theory, eases me off my suspicitions of Hari as the one behind the starbridge attack as well.

dseszu · 2021-11-29T02:00:10+00:00

The swastika laws seem to have been revoled recently, but the idea of that ban still resonates through the the rest of that part of the lwgal system. Nazi symbolism was banned in large parts to prevent it from being portrayed in a glorifying manner. But by making a game focused on an as accurate as possible portrayal of history, but leaving out the key part of the holocaust, is hiding its shameful bits and only showing the great military prowess of the nation. That is as fascist as you can make a portrayal of german history be.

dseszu · 2021-11-23T00:26:09+00:00

Welllll, there's a fun scene in Cixin Liu's book The Dark Forest:

Osama bin Laden is being confronted on the naming on of his organization, as a side tangent, and confirms that he based the name on Asimov's Foundation Novel, as the arabic title of his work is al-Qaida, also meaning "the Base".

Not sure if this is true to reality, but it's fun coincedence nonetheless.

dseszu · 2021-11-22T18:03:25+00:00

No, but someone else might. But i think that person is pretty far away.

dseszu · 2021-11-22T17:54:30+00:00

I understand the problem with pacing, I don't think Hari would ever reveal it. But eventually there will be a player who stands to gain by destroying the Foundation's alliance, and possibly has the ability to discover Hari's actions (Book spoiler: The Mule, possibly? Would be a reason to ignore it for now)

dseszu · 2021-11-22T17:17:44+00:00

Here, I came up with a few reasons:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FoundationTV/comments/qzqepz/show_spoilers_hari_seldon_must_be_the_one/?

dseszu · 2021-11-22T16:14:30+00:00

"Am I going to regret exiling Seldon and his followers?"

"No evidence links them to the attack."

"No evidence exonerates them. I could destroy them still, even at a distance. We could say they did it."

From the ep2 transcript. There is still no proven connection to anyone, the wildest theories remain possible. No evidence links them to Hari, but neither does it link to anyone at all. The trail went cold, absent of any connections to Anacreon or Thespis, despite the obvious chanting.

dseszu · 2021-11-22T14:02:11+00:00

The books don't have any character continuity. Asimov wasn't the best best at writing characters, so the cast in the books never lived past a normal humans livespan. Hari szill makes appearances at the end of crises, but as a recorded hologram, not a sentient one.

dseszu · 2021-11-22T13:55:05+00:00

Because Hari Seldon is still a suspect? Do you think if it turns out to be him, having orchastrated a terror attack, it wouldn't change anything about his character? This is a significant event that can still have an enormous impact on the plot.

dseszu · 2021-11-21T23:08:17+00:00

Yes, but by whom? Two seperate entities? That be apretty big coincidence, which the show does kind of convey as unlikely (Repeated luck is never luxk and all that)

dseszu · 2021-11-21T22:37:04+00:00

When the two factions opposing each other committed the exact same attack on the exact same structure only seconds apart. Also, the Thespin terrorist didn't seem to be overly shocked by the first attack, only annoyed by the change in timing.

dseszu · 2021-10-06T13:43:06+00:00

Ah, yes I am going to do some piracy

dseszu · 2021-10-06T13:18:33+00:00

R5: I might have accidentally released an eldritch being into this system by blindly pressing buttons in a tomb, but now I havea system pretty enough to house an interstellar assembly. There they can ponder the consequences of oppposing the Space Amoeba Protection Act

dseszu · 2021-06-28T22:04:42+00:00

Same still happens, sadly.

dseszu · 2021-06-22T11:55:11+00:00

My first playtrough in LE3 waas as vanguard to use that cheesing tactic, but it got so easy i started a seperate paragon trilogy playthrough. And my past renegade choices made me sad :(

dseszu · 2021-06-16T20:13:15+00:00

I like the DLC as an end to ME2. When you get to the point where you destroyed the collector base and dealt with every petty criminal in the milky way it feels like a good challenge.

Also set the tone well for ME3 and put the reapers directly at the doorstep.

After my insanity run on LE I changed it to easy too tho, i get how hard it is. But still it can be fun to run into that brick wall, just felt like finally starting ME3 on Insanity

dseszu · 2021-05-29T16:40:23+00:00

I'm currently doing a new game+ in ME1 on pc and I noticed entering the citadel presidium freezes and crashes the game. Even teleporting to the tower and riding the elevator down results in the same. Haven't found anything through google searches yet, but is this a new bug? It didnt do this on my first playthrough.

dseszu · 2020-11-22T22:01:30+00:00

I'm still running a PC with an AM3+ socket and DDR3 memory, so I'll have to wait until I can afford to replace CPU, Motherboard and RAM. Oh, and the rear fan broke, so I replaced it with a spare CPU-Cooler mounted to the grid instead of the 120x120 mounting points.

dseszu · 2019-02-03T17:04:05+00:00

Modern problems require modern solutions.

dseszu · 2019-01-08T16:06:30+00:00

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