The Official Status Thread
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit Especially Leap Days.
You'd think so, but no.
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@Gribnit J'insiste.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit J'insiste.
I agree, but you can't fight City Hall.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit Especially Leap Days.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so.
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@Gribnit Not with that attitude.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit Not with that attitude.
But this attitude was from a guy who fought City Hall. Or at least the package said it was. If such an attitude exists in any case and has basis, it must arise from and therefore occur during the process itself, of fighting City Hall.
Someone therefore has fought City Hall with that attitude.
Where is your God now, @kazitor ?
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Status: Got a ticket for Dune (in English, mind) on Wednesday evening. The reviews were either "it's okay" or "it's really good" so I'm hoping that it will be indeed good and earn enough money so the 2nd part will be made.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Got a ticket for Dune (in English, mind) on Wednesday evening. The reviews were either "it's okay" or "it's really good" so I'm hoping that it will be indeed good and earn enough money so the 2nd part will be made.
Is it just
Dune
or just the book usually calledDune
or some even more suicidal film scope? Expositing obscure and relevant detail like Herbert likes to do, is a bitch to portray, so far.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Expositing obscure and relevant detail like Herbert likes to do, is a bitch to portray, so far.
I knew that he's still alive somewhere!
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Expositing obscure and relevant detail like Herbert likes to do, is a bitch to portray, so far.
I knew that he's still alive somewhere!
Goes by Frank Hoover now. Sells commemorative vacuum cleaners in Dallas.
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I quit on book 15? I think. The Winds of Dune
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Status: Does 4 Gb for 10 minutes of video sound reasonable?
I don't know what went wrong...
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I quit on book 15? I think. The Winds of Dune
I hope its a sharp lesson about reading books published posthumously.
status merge conflicts. On imports. Everywhere.
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Status: Playing Mass Effect: Andromeda. Early on there's a quest about a guy who tried to kill another guy but was one second too slow before something else killed the target, but it still looked like he did it. The game presents a choice - convict him for murder anyway and hide evidence to the contrary, or let him go free. Apparently nobody in the entire galaxy heard of the crime of attempted murder.
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Status: Got to work. Screensaver on work computer had crashed. I hope that's not a sign of how the rest of the day gonna be...
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Status: Am now in possession of a left-handed trackball. After using it for a few hours, I have to say I'm not impressed. The ball does not roll smoothly. Up/down isn't bad, but side-to-side is very jerky. It's not too bad for large movements like web browsing, spreadsheets, normal, not critical computer use, but it quite sucks for precise graphics or dragging pane dividers or modern scrollbars that are ultra-narrow.
Also, I now have significant evidence that at least some of my mouse issues may not be due to to the mice themselves. Bad switches certainly are, but other unreliable operation seems to be due to the layout of my computer room. The computer is at one end of a big L-shaped desk, and the mouse is at the other end of the desk, with an ugly bag of mostly water in between. Ugly bags of mostly water are very efficient at absorbing 2.4GHz wireless mouse signals.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Up/down isn't bad, but side-to-side is very jerky.
This is my operating state with my right-handed ball device.
Not sure how to fix other than adding more oil to the ball...
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Apparently nobody in the entire galaxy heard of the crime of attempted murder.
Well what kind of a crime is that, after all. Participation trophy.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Up/down isn't bad, but side-to-side is very jerky.
This is my operating state with my right-handed ball device.
Not sure how to fix other than adding more oil to the ball...
Clean the f out the rollers.
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Overheard in scrum:
is really really fast, so make sure there's plenty in the backlog for him.
:fuuuu: that's exactly the reputation I didn't want to have.
It's perhaps the consequence of consistently over-estimating the level of effort when assigning points to stories.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Playing Mass Effect: Andromeda
I'm so sorry.
It's not nearly as bad as they say. I like it quite a bit, actually (although I miss the "3x faster cooldown of powers because you chose a shitty pistol as your only weapon" thing from ME3). Especially since it's only $7.50 on Steam right now (or was yesterday).
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
:fuuuu: that's exactly the reputation I didn't want to have.
Increase your methodology stricture, that can multiply your time. I have this problem all the time as a living god.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
I [am] a living god
How can we worship you?
And most important: what's your devine word on pro-/anti-vaxx movements?
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@Gąska The gameplay is probably best in series, yes. The story is both bland (the bad guy is a forgettable blathering idiot) and makes negative sense and breaks established lore in almost every way.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
I [am] a living god
How can we worship you?
And most important: what's your devine word on pro-/anti-vaxx movements?The vein must be removed or the shrimp is unfit for consumption.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
(the bad guy is a forgettable blathering idiot
Worse than the villains in Ratchet and Clank games? I can recall their names only with effort.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Overheard in scrum:
is really really fast, so make sure there's plenty in the backlog for him.
:fuuuu: that's exactly the reputation I didn't want to have.
It's perhaps the consequence of consistently over-estimating the level of effort when assigning points to stories.
Wait, are you me?
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Overheard in scrum:
is really really fast, so make sure there's plenty in the backlog for him.
:fuuuu: that's exactly the reputation I didn't want to have.
It's perhaps the consequence of consistently over-estimating the level of effort when assigning points to stories.
Wait, are you me?
We'll figure that out at calibration.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Apparently nobody in the entire galaxy heard of the crime of attempted murder.
Well what kind of a crime is that, after all. Participation trophy.
S06E05 - Sideshow Bob on Attempted Murder – 00:17
— The Max Power Way
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
It's not nearly as bad as they say.
The writing is definitely what lets it down, both on the large scale and small scale. The environment design and graphics are good, and the class-switch mechanic can be quite fun. (There were also a number of nasty release bugs, but those mostly got fixed.) But the overall story has too many weaknesses, and the character writing is just full of derp. Also EA killed the DLC, which they could have used to provide at least something with decent writing.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
The vein must be removed or the shrimp is unfit for consumption.
I never consume shrimp.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Playing Mass Effect: Andromeda
I'm so sorry.
It's not nearly as bad as they say. I like it quite a bit, actually (although I miss the "3x faster cooldown of powers because you chose a shitty pistol as your only weapon" thing from ME3). Especially since it's only $7.50 on Steam right now (or was yesterday).
It wasn't great, but it wasn't horrible. Obviously unfinished (ie they had a lot of story that should have been finished, but they stopped doing DLC) and pretty seriously buggy (at least for me, routinely crashing and getting stuck in ways others didn't), but not buggy at the level of a Bethesda game. But decent mechanics and ok story (as much as it was). Honestly, I prefer the mechanics to any of the first 3 (especially 1, which is just painful).
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska The gameplay is probably best in series, yes. The story is both bland (the bad guy is a forgettable blathering idiot) and makes negative sense and breaks established lore in almost every way.
Established lore was already full of self-contradictions, holes, and
. Mass Effect is not a paragon of consistent worldbuilding or, for that matter, engaging stories. It's got great character moments, and ME2 has some really good loyalty missions, but generally neither the writing nor the stories nor the world itself have made a lick of sense when you stop and think about it. And the main bad guys have always been blithering idiots.
And I enjoy the games. But I don't worship at their feet, like some do.
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@Benjamin-Hall ME1 did the worldbuilding part pretty well
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall ME1 did the worldbuilding part pretty well
Only by leaving most of it vague and blank. As soon as they tried to fill in those holes, the contradictions and
nature became clear. And frankly, Sovereign's plan really made zero sense to begin with. The Reapers have always been kinda stupid (for an age-old machine intelligence that's wiped the galaxy over and over).
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@Benjamin-Hall I should go.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall I should go.
No, please, I need the
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I quit the series when in ME2 I accidentally triggered the endgame sequence before I was done with the sidequests, and I didn't have an old enough save to finish them.
I've been meaning to play the Legendary Edition and see what I missed in ME3. Eventually.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
No, please, I need the
I can't be arsed. I'm neither eloquent nor well-read enough to argue with @Benjamin-Hall. While I was sitting on iGPU, I was sometimes ranting on Steam ME:LE forums, where intelligent lifeforms are far less likely to be found. Plenty of
there. In some part about woke censorship (aka removing Miranda's buttshots) - that I personally don't give a damn, I might add. Some interesting topics, though. How ME1 was inspired by classic sci-fi movies and then later entries threw out the designs in favor of rather basic futuristic corridors. Then LE came around and changed the scene lighting for worse. Also my personal headcanon ending outline - I must have bedazzled people with my writing genius so much that no one felt like commenting on its perfection.
what I missed in ME3
Nothing. It makes only slightly more sense than Andromeda. If
says Reapers were stupid to begin with and ME2 baby Reaper plan was... very weird at best, then in 3 they went full
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
rather basic futuristic corridors
brutalism is a helluva drug
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Nothing. It makes only slightly more sense than Andromeda. If says Reapers were stupid to begin with and ME2 baby Reaper plan was... very weird at best, then in 3 they went full .
Of the 3 first games, ME3 has the best mechanics, and most of the story almost (relative to the ME baseline) makes sense. But the ending was rushed and presents false choices[1] as well as some choices that don't fit the established fiction all that well. Then again, I'm not sure how possible really having proper branching is in a video game. I know some RPGs have it, where what ending you get depends on what you did (more specifically what flags you triggered along the way), but those are generally ones with much smaller scope.
[1] specifically, your choice of endings comes down to what button you press at the end, with three basic option sets:
- Did not enough (ie intentionally triggered the endgame before the meter was full enough, something they flat out tell you is a bad idea): only "bad" ending available
- Meter full enough but not above a (hidden) threshold: Choice of "bad" ending or two different flavors of "good-ish" ending. Neither of which are all that good, so pick your poison.
- Meter above hidden threshold: previous option plus a "golden" ending...which is the one that doesn't make all that much sense in the fiction.
Doesn't matter if you slashed and burned your way, always picking the "I'm a megalomaniac" option or if you played full paragon, always trying to find compromise, or whether you liked or hated synthetics (via your actions). Same options, only depending on how many War Assets you gathered.
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@Benjamin-Hall I played ME1 and 2 after 3 came out. However I did not want to deal with the snowflake store ME3 was exclusive on at the time, so I never played it.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall I played ME1 and 2 after 3 came out. However I did not want to deal with the snowflake store ME3 was exclusive on at the time, so I never played it.
I played it then, and am currently replaying it in the LE format, this time with all the DLCs (because those come with the LE) as part of a consistent playthrough. Still just...ok. Not brilliant (none of them were), not bad. And I can't say the writing and worldbuilding was all that much better compared to Andromeda (which I also played through).
When ME1 came out originally, it was a step above most other such games. But that's a very low bar to clear. Because most games have crappy writing and worldbuilding. If I wanted good worldbuilding, I'd play a TTRPG where I built the world myself (smug/hubris alert). Or many of the "good" JRPGs. Video games are for spectacle and mechanics.
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- Why are Reapers landing randomly and just lazoring shit and letting zombies loose instead of strategically attacking targets? I'm sorry, that's wrong - they laid waste to Arcturus Station and an entire starfleet just on the way to Earth, but then suddenly got hit with 10 negative levels for the rest of the game.
- Why would turian fleet help Earth when their own world is burning even worse?
- How can krogan ground forces possibly help against kilometer long walking capital ships?
- How did Cerberus break in the galaxy's best intelligence unit's most secret base? It's being said that the dalatrass betrayed their own, but it's still a massive asspull.
- How did TIM procure such a massive army in 6 months? Where did all the money, logistics and ships come from?
- How in the blazes did they take over Omega?
- Where was the Crucible located? If Cerberus was using Alliance, how come nobody tried to take it over?
- If TIM was letting the Alliance build the Crucible to control the Reapers, why doesn't he want the Catalyst found to complete it? In fact, ever since resurrecting Shep why is he actively working against Shep, falling flat on his face every single time and still almost ends on top by sheer luck alone?
- How can anyone possibly build something without having a slightest idea what it does? (
's Lounge thread is arrows)
- How the fuck Reapers move the Citadel, which itself is a relay?
- Why does the Starchild basically go "the evidence is wrong" on the geth peace deal?
- Fuck Kai Leng with his own katana.
@error, have your
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@Applied-Mediocrity I basically agree. But similar issues are present throughout the whole series. So it's not that ME3 makes less sense, it's that none of them make any significant sense. Fridge logic all the way down.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
rather basic futuristic corridors
brutalism is a helluva drug
I once had a conversation with somebody studying something architecture-adjacent about how brutalism sucks. Well, I said that it sucks donkey balls while he defended it. Then he mentioned a third party having said “only architects like brutalism” and how that’s not true at all. To which my response was basically :Thor.png:, because it absolutely is true.
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@topspin its weakness may be that it stems in a way from parody. Classical massifs were designed to loom, but not wink while doing so. As I'm about to say, the danger of adding another layer of metacommentary is an overbearing apostrophe.
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Status: I'd like to see a browser implement tabs for tabs.
When I went back to Chrome because Brave was stupid, the tab creep started again. I fill up a window and use another window as my current scratchpad until it fills up and I have to open another window. Well I got to the point where I had 8-9 windows and it was difficult to find what tab in what window was playing that noise so I thought I'd group like tabs into windows. Now (dozens of low memory crashes later) I have 20-21 windows and still can't find anything.
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