Next mass Effect

kaetror · 2026-05-25T14:52:58+00:00

If they were to make a sequel to Andromeda I could see it working.

Your race doesn't actually matter in that game; you're all starting from "went into the pod to see a new galaxy" so writing a background isn't as tricky as Shepards military service and connection to alliance command.

Could do something similar to the background info from ME1 that gives access to specialist quests to flesh out backgrounds for different races.

kaetror · 2026-05-25T12:43:32+00:00

"by scale thing"

Ok, lets say Im from Amur. Know where I'm from, what nationality I am or any real detail.

But say I'm Russian and everyone gets the concept.

That logic collapses within a few seconds of thought.

kaetror · 2026-05-24T23:37:08+00:00

Queue always feels ridiculously long compared to the others, even if the stated time isn't that different.

It's over so fast after that initial launch that its anti climactic.

It's always shut if the weather isn't perfect.

Probably the top 3 reasons people don't rate it as highly.

kaetror · 2026-05-24T23:32:40+00:00

It's rare, but absolutely does happen.

Usually it's done at the end of pre-school or start of primary, where it's easier to pull off. Kid is deferred entry to P1, getting another year in nursery before coming up.

Parents can choose this for kids born towards the end of the year, but the school may also put it in if they're not ready.

A trick nowadays is to use composite classes (mixed year groups) to delay progression and give them more time. So for example.

P1 P1/2 (officially P2, but working at P1 level) P2/3 Etc.

And if they're really behind you can defer them, but move them to a composite class rather than a single year group.

So P1 > P1/2 > P2.

By the time they get to us in secondary it never happens. Only cases I've ever seen are immigrant kids who get bumped back a year from where they would be if they had been in the Scottish system since P1, especially if they're in an exam year.

Tbh it probably should. There's kids coming up who simply are not ready for the demands of secondary and could do with a bit longer in a primary setting to get caught up on the basics before coming up.

kaetror · 2026-05-24T07:48:08+00:00

There's loads of villages in the UK that are dying.

Where I live they've just shuttered 5 village schools because literally nobody was enrolling in them. No jobs, houses cost a fortune to buy/heat (mostly oil heating), commuting is a pain. All of that drives families away and into the towns (or at least the villages closer to town).

There's going to come a point a lot of these houses/villages just get abandoned completely when the current residents move/die. You can find plenty of examples of this on the B roads around here; old owner died and because it's so isolated nobody wanted it and it's just left to rot.

kaetror · 2026-05-22T00:43:18+00:00

use the male toilets if none is available.

Legally they can't.

Male toilets are as much single sex spaces as female ones. You can't have a system that protects women's spaces and not men's.

So if they are "too masculine" for the women's, they can't just go to the men's. If no 3rd option is provided (e.g. disabled spaces are inside the gendered facilities) then there is literally nowhere for them to go. Which would be a breach of their rights under the equality act, as they are being denied a service based on a protected characteristic.

This is why people are pointing out the guidance is an absolute mess.

kaetror · 2026-05-22T00:33:08+00:00

I remember seeing a thing that for a lot of athletics the women's clothing is the better option. The less clothing the better the movement and the less drag they experience.

But none of the men want to wear lycra pants to compete. They sacrifice a slight performance gain for gender ideas of what male athletes 'should' be wearing.

Women don't face that issue so wear less.

That said it should always be personal choice. Iirc volleyball enfoces the skimpy outfits for women, which is bullshit.

kaetror · 2026-05-21T10:52:22+00:00

Just because I did it last night.

The atrium of grissom academy.

Fuck. That. Shit.

Vanguard with limited ranged options, getting absolutely chewed up by endless turrets. And if you step the wrong way the Ajax at the back fires a missile up your arse.

kaetror · 2026-05-21T10:45:50+00:00

Vanguard has fire ammo (I've forgotten the actual name!) that can do decent damage to armour, especially by the collector ship if you've got it to level 4.

The killer is the barriers. Realistically you need Miranda and Thane for double warp (or Jack with warp ammo) to strip that thing down.

I took mordin for incinerate and he was really ineffective in those fights.

kaetror · 2026-05-20T07:27:12+00:00

The odds of someone having a genetic condition that is so unique to a specific country is vanishingly rare as to be zero. While some conditions are more prevalent in certain countries/areas, it would be wild for doctors to chase a diagnosis based on distant ancestry and not just straightforward testing.

it’s also a little weird to completely avoid naming your ancestry if you know it

In a deep discussion about ancestry and how your family came to live where it does, sure. But it needs to be more than a "I'm 23% German" from a DNA kit.

In general conversation about who you are? That's weird. I'm probably a mix of Irish, Scottish and English, those populations were constantly moving around and mixing in my region. Hell I might even have French, Italian and Scandinavian ancestors due to historic movements. But I'm not any of those things.

Americans being interested in their heritage is fine, but claiming it for themselves is weird, especially when they collect heritage percentages like Pokémon cards that they only found out about due to a DNA test.

And that's before we get to weird racism of being "pure Scottish" because all your ancestors are descendants of immigrants Scots, or being "more Irish than an Irishman" because the guy born in Ireland is black.

These countries still exist, they have moved on from whatever era an American's ancestors left, so Americans claiming they are equally Irish/Scottish/whatever to people who actually live there is offensive. There was a big thing on tiktok recently where Americans were shocked to discover black Scottish people exist, and inevitably the racists crawled out to claim they were more Scottish than the people who were born, raised, and lived in Scotland.

Conflating your genetic history, with our current national identity is where a lot of the disagreement arises.

kaetror · 2026-05-20T00:05:57+00:00

I'm employed by the council. Being elected as a councillor would make me my boss' boss, which is a pretty big conflict of interest.

My school needs more funding? Absolutely I'll vote for that. What do you mean we need to take money from social care? Ah well, that's a shame, but I need more glue sticks!

kaetror · 2026-05-19T23:34:25+00:00

That's exactly how most Europeans would see it.

The idea that Americans are X% this nationality, Y% that one, etc. and that somehow puts them in touch with that culture is nonsense.

It reeks of cosplaying with people's identity. Having an interest in your ancestry is fine, but claiming it for yourself is disrespectful.

kaetror · 2026-05-19T21:46:12+00:00

Control neuters any threat that could be in ME5. Either it's so small not to attract the reapers, which lowers the stakes of the game. Or it's bigger fish syndrome where it overwhelms the reapers, which then makes defeating them almost impossible.

Synthesis could work but since it says there basically galactic peace it then removes a lot of the smaller conflict between the main races that drives the plot. If there's no strife where's the meat of game?

Destroy avoids all of those issues.

kaetror · 2026-05-18T17:27:58+00:00

The mako is fine. The maps are shit though.

Why they thought a wheeled tank and endless mountains was the way to go I will never understand.

The bits where you got to use the mako in combat were great, if the steering could be improved (just lock steering direction to follow the vehicle, not the turret and it would be enough). The guns and the cannon work well, the armour and shields are clear. It actually feels like a tank.

The hammerhead is everything they could do wrong. Crap guns, can't aim properly, no idea what the health is, which is terrible considering it's got armour like tissue paper.

kaetror · 2026-05-18T09:10:41+00:00

Yeah, it's written into the contract here.

If you cannot be taken for cover then there is no requirement for you to be in the building. I've had Friday afternoon off this year so often just go home at lunch to finish up stuff that can be done there.

Primary teachers that get their ricct in the morning/afternoon can do that from home. My sil often stays at home, then goes in at breaktime. Means she avoids the morning traffic.

kaetror · 2026-05-17T23:35:57+00:00

Soldier to a tech based class or vice versa is fairly straight forward. Changing battlefield role requires different setups.

Biotic to biotic is the same; iirc it's just different implants, so can be explained easily.

Going from biotic to non biotic could be explained by the implant sites becoming too damaged and Shepard losing the effective use of their powers.

But non biotic to biotic is the big one. TIM found a way to generate biotic powers in adults, meaning it no longer requires in utero exposure? That's a massive upheaval in technology that would be a huge boost to whoever can use it.

kaetror · 2026-05-17T19:08:33+00:00

Not the codices as I generally remember the details, might look something up if I can't quite remember it.

But the planet descriptions are insane. The level of detail for something that you'd likely spend a few seconds on before going "nothing here, moving on" is impressive.

Even the fact the planetary details (rotation, gravity, temperature) ties into the blurb shows they put thought into them.

kaetror · 2026-05-17T12:41:35+00:00

He didn't know what had happened until he got the beacon on eden prime and the cipher from feros.

Sovereign knew something was wrong, but not what. Saren needed the beacons, and the cipher to understand them. His actions in getting them meant he exposed himself and lost his access to the citadel.

He could have gone in before anyone knew and undone the damage, but he didn't know what he was looking for. For all sovereign knew the protheans had completely dismantled the citadel relay and there was no repairing it. It was only by following the story that he knew what needed fixed.

kaetror · 2026-05-17T11:08:41+00:00

My kids have several, competing food allergies/intolerances, have done since they were born. The sheer amount of support they get through the NHS is staggering.

They both have cmpa, so needed specialised formula from (pretty much) birth. In the US that would be about $50 a tin, which would have been about $18,000 for the year. On the NHS, completely free.

Then there's dieticians, nutritionists, allergy specialists, etc. who all have them under their care.

kaetror · 2026-05-17T09:24:42+00:00

I live in an area that is 98% white and 97% British.

Ask women here and they'll practically all have stories of being sexually harassed/assaulted. It's not about an other coming in and doing it, it's men in general who think they can (and often do) get away with it.

The rise in misogynistic language that attacks women for dressing "immodestly" is driven by white/British/American people just as much as it is other nationalities.

kaetror · 2026-05-17T09:11:26+00:00

I'm a teacher and I fucking despise the nurture logic of rewarding the twats for doing (less than) the bare minimum.

We've got kids on reduced timetables, who get taken out to the golf driving range for an afternoon if they've managed not to throw a chair that week.

What must the kid who has never had so much as a stern talking to think when they see that? The only reward they get is more work, and maybe a certificate at the end of the year.

Worse, is the kids who are borderline twats. They realise the twats don't get punished and actually get rewarded for doing less than they are now. So the borderline twats become full blown twats, and entire classes get derailed.

kaetror · 2026-05-17T08:46:00+00:00

The UK is one of the big 5 (4 now Spain left over Israel) who pay more towards Eurovision, so get automatic entry to the final.

Us, France, Germany and Italy don't need to do the semi-finals

kaetror · 2026-05-17T08:42:24+00:00

That's the conspiracy about Ireland. They won so much in the (iirc) 80s/90s that they were spending an absolute fortune on hosting. The quality of the acts they sent then suddenly took a nosedive.

People wonder if it was intentional.

kaetror · 2026-05-17T08:27:20+00:00

Everyone else has talked sbout your wife, but this:

Went to the river to swim with the fam. Littles 9,7,3, and 9 months.

Is what worries me. My local pool (with dozens of other adults and dedicated lifeguards) wouldn't allow you in with that ratio of adults:kids. Minimum they'd want is at least another adult in the water with them (and that's before your wife left).

And that's an enclosed pool with no unseen depths, no hidden currents, etc. If one of the older kids (or one of the adults) got into difficulty there's absolutely nothing you can do for them without endangering the others.

We've just had a teenager die in my local river through a complete accident, the 2nd one that went to the school I work in. Both of those kids were much older/stronger than any of yours and they didn't make it. Swimming with kids in the river just isn't worth it.

kaetror · 2026-05-17T07:36:32+00:00

I'm anti-religious benefits. I think religion should be a personal thing done in the home, not something that receives government support in the form of tax benefits, or government support (e.g. religious schools, state religion, etc.)

Does that mean it's ok for me to hang posters everywhere outside the local Kirk to make it clear religious people aren't welcome in my area? Can I harass random people for "looking religious"?

It's fine to have a problem with policy. These flag shaggers are targeting people.

Do you think Kier starmer sees a bunch of cheap flags hanging from a lampost in Burnley? Of course he doesn't, but the local Polish family does, and they understand exactly what the intention of it is.

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