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57 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:
Is Destruction Derby getting killed in reviews? I played a match this morning and then wasn't able to get another one started after that. Is PSN having issues?
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12 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:
That's why I don't even believe you have a girlfriend!
As you shouldn’t!But anyone here fb friends with me knows she’s real.
So maybe three people.
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2 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:
I dunno aren't we like 6 months too late on the Biggie is fake bandwagon?
1 full year.
It's been years since I've witnessed something that spectacularly sad. Maybe on the Vesti when a member's hot gf who also posted on the board was actually a fake account by the guy himself.
I don't understand why people lie about themselves, but now I'm suspicious of anything anybody says about their life.
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Ex-BioWare Devs Reflect On Mass Effect 3's Controversial Ending
WWW.THEGAMER.COMIt seems that Mass Effect 3 developers have pretty mixed impressions of the series' famous ending - just like the fans who played it.Jay Turner, ME2/3 writer:
Quote“When I played the game, I was pretty OK with the ending, since I considered the whole of Mass Effect 3 to be the ending for the trilogy, but after I replayed it and realized that my decisions only really changed the color of the explosions in the ending cutscene, I was pretty upset.”
Mass Effect 3 senior gameplay designer Patrick Moran
Quote“A good number of the Mass Effect team pushed back against the ending,” Moran explains. “I remember reading the story beats, [and] getting upset because it felt like all the decisions I made no longer mattered. I sent an email off challenging the ending and received no reply. The Mass Effect team was run like a Navy ship, with strict reporting lines, scopes of responsibility, and team leaders who had been there awaiting their turn for promotion for years and years. You followed orders and tried to not be too squeaky or uppity. The Dragon Age team was definitely more of a pirate ship at the time.”
Mass Effect 2 and 3 writer Chris Hepler
Quote“The ending relies on space magic, and the lead writer, lead gameplay designer, and executive producer all just embraced that and owned it from the get-go,” Mass Effect 2 and 3 writer Chris Hepler tells me. “‘Any sufficiently advanced technology’ and all that. They wanted and got a really big decision that affects the whole galaxy. If you give it a moment's thought, none of the three options are perfectly moral or the ‘right’ answer for everyone. Destroy may not solve the problem of AI and organics; Control rewards the Reapers; even synthesis, which is harder to get than the other two and sounds like it'd be permanent peace, basically violates the entire galaxy's bodily autonomy without consent. So that part, I think, works.
“Did it satisfy the fans? Not at first, and I found a lot of the criticism to be legitimate. The Extended Cut gave us a second chance to make an ending that acknowledged many more of the players' choices, and was about as good as we could reasonably make given the decisions we'd already made. I felt a lot better about myself and us as a team after the EC came out.”
Mass Effect 2 and 3 development director Dorian Kieken
Quote“I think overall, people did not appreciate how much Mass Effect 3 was the end journey in itself,” Kieken says. “And how many stories that started in [the first] Mass Effect and evolved in Mass Effect 2 were being tied [up] during the game. Add to that the integration of [the first] Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 saves, and I think Mass Effect 3 was a great ending in itself.
Mass Effect 3 senior writer Neil Pollner
Quote“There's no way to tightly ‘wrap up’ something that has been accumulating and branching and growing for so long like that. When you give people deep choice throughout the experience, I think any ending that doesn't allow for an incomprehensible amount of variation is going to disappoint.
“To my knowledge, most of the team didn't know how Mass Effect 3 was going to end. And as far as I know, the vision for it was not set early on.”
More in the link.
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7 hours ago, marioandsonic said:
The difference is, the GOP also packed the courts and got 3 SCOTUS judges. The Dems will end up with nothing, and I predict in 2024 the GOP will hold the House, the Senate, and the POTUS, and they'll replace Breyer after he croaks.
Breyer is going to retire this year. -
I mostly do cashew but I’ll have to try oat.
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17 minutes ago, Biggie said:
Me either. They both are dead.
After finding out you are 20 years older than you pretended and you never moved out, nothing you say is believable. Sorry bro. -
14 minutes ago, Biggie said:
Maybe ask @SaysWho?cause he says there are tons of games for the PS5!!
Truth. But I didn’t have to wait for my parents to buy it.
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NFL offers Biden all 30 football stadiums as mass Covid vaccination sites
WWW.NBCNEWS.COMCurrently, seven NFL teams are hosting vaccinations for Covid-19 at or near their stadiums. -
2 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:
@SaysWho? Turns out the area in Bloodborne I bounced off in 2016 was Cainhurst Castle. Looks like my old character was level 44 or something and my best weapon was +3. My new character is level 150something and my saw blade is +8, and who would have guessed that would make a difference?
Though I guess this is an optional area, seeing as how it ended in a dead end? And those mosquito vampire things were still super annoying, I was glad the castle wasn’t full of them.
IIRC the “last” boss I beat back then was Rom which I haven’t run into again at this point in my run, but I probably have enough momentum to finish this time around. I gotta go that before I play the DeS remake, since I know that running well will spoil me on going back to BB.
Also I can never find someone that wants my co-op help but whenever I ask for it, I find someone immediately. Weird.
Cainhurst is indeed optional. Great place with a fun end boss. It's easy to accidentally find it, and I don't really remember if I found it my first runthrough.
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6 minutes ago, BloodyHell said:
I'm shocked Roger Stone, author of the brooks Brothers madness, could possibly be involved in this.... Said No-one ever.
Thing is, if he lied and has anything to do with this, his pardon won’t save him. -
2 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:
I admit, I went through a phase of actually watching him when he was on CNN. I remember my friends at the time thinking I was nuts
Fox is worried about these lawsuits from these voting machine companies and from my understanding, they are in real trouble.
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I remember when he was on CNN. He was shouting about immigration and free trade deals even then, but the level of crazy, like birtherism, didn’t come till 2011 I think.
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Mass Effect: Legendary Edition Changes Some Gratuitious Camera Shots - IGN
WWW.IGN.COMCertain gratuitous camera shots have been changed by Bioware for the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition remaster.QuoteIn an interview with Metro, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition's Project Director Mac Walters said that the team changed certain camera angles that were deemed gratuitous. "Kevin [Meek] actually called out some camera cuts that were just.... why was that focusing on Miranda's butt?," Walters explained. So in some cases, we said, 'Okay, we can make a change there'."
Elsewhere in the interview, Character and Environment Director Kevin Meek alludes to another low camera shot where a male Shepherd is sat with his legs open. The developers were unable to change the animation itself, but they could alter the position of the camera to change how the shot is framed. "If you were wearing a skirt, it would be a bit unflattering," Meek explains. "So we can’t necessarily change that animation, but you can raise that camera up slightly to reduce the problem.’
The developers stopped short of changing entire character models, noting that the camera shots that they did change were "a decision that was made as part of many creative decisions and just showing it at the best possible fidelity that we could going forward".
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16 hours ago, thewhyteboar said:
Republicans believe with the fervor of a religious zealot that they should be able to say and do whatever the hell they want and never face any repercussions.
This is good.
Here's a slightly longer version:
Honestly, it was refreshing for Democratic leadership to so vocally stick up for them. I'm not implying that they don't care about the progressive members as people; it's more that I feel their politics are shunned, so to see leadership promote their ideas as reasonable yet facing hatred dangerous like this was refreshing.
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8 hours ago, Ghost_MH said:
My bedroom has a randomly textured ceiling. There's this bunch of squiggles that looks like a face when I'm not wearing my glasses...which I do a lot in bed, coincidentally. We, as a species, are just trained to look for patterns in things. Sometimes when folks, even successful folks, look out at the world looking for answers they can easily be lead down destructive paths. That's nothing new. We just get to combine that great human feature with the anonymity of the Internet and trolls and sickos. It's a great pairing.
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I don't think anyone has to feel sorry for them, but due to how dangerous it is, I'm definitely welcoming any back who eat crow because I want them back to reality. And I say this as someone who has talked down to PLENTY of them who spouted QAnon conspiracies in real-time.
Sometimes you can get big-time activists from people who were neck-deep in this kind of stuff.
8 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:Me. My deconversion happened in the early days of this forum and I discussed it at length. As far as I know, I remain the only atheist in a deeply religious family. My husband was the same. He just stopped believing in his teens instead of 20s.
A lot of atheists have these stories.
One of my friends who I've seen linked here had a similar story:
In her case, I knew her when she was a born-again Christian, but I started to notice her speak out for, as George Carlin would say, the "underdogs" - minorities, immigrants, LGBT, women. One of her crazy far-right uncles and her had many spats publicly, but she completely ripped herself from the far-right. I'm happy to say I was friends with her even back then, but seeing the change has been extraordinary and makes me optimistic. Major kudos to you as well as it's not easy.
It's also an example of how even when someone represents so much of what you're against, they can become big allies down the line.
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3 hours ago, stepee said:
I’ve waited so long for Kal to deliver a really bad take, I thought I would be happier when it happened.
I feel like so many of his takes are that these discussions just routinely go into ribbing each other. :P4 hours ago, Bloodporne said:Like I said, I actually really like GoW 2018 but its stilted air of maturity is actually more absurd and silly to me especially in context of its gameplay.
2018 is simultaneously a more mature story but a funnier game than the previous ones. I don’t remember a lot of funny parts of the original games, but the dialogue between he and his son, the dwarves chemistry with Kratos, and the head and his tales were fantastic. -
This person was a bit more straight-forward.
She was stunned by Biden's inauguration. How this South Carolina mom escaped QAnon
WWW.CNN.COMAshley Vanderbilt says her four-year-old daughter Emmerson knew "something was wrong with her mom."First, how it supercharged: lots of time on her hands during the pandemic, a common theme.
QuoteVanderbilt worked in the office of a construction company. But, like millions of Americans in 2020, she says she lost her job at the start of the Covid-19 lockdown. Feeling depressed and with more time on her hands, she began spending a lot of time online.
The 27-year-old mom is an avid user of the video app TikTok. It's there, she says, that she was first introduced to QAnon.And how the election shattered her:
QuoteFirst, Trump would declare martial law, then the Democrats (and some Republicans) and the Hollywood celebrities in Washington, DC for the inauguration would be rounded up and arrested. Trump had "opened back up Guantanamo Bay" (it never closed) and "increased the capacity to 200,000."
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But on the morning of January 20th, 2021, Trump flew out of Washington to his new home in Florida and Biden became the 46th President of the United States.
"I was devastated," Vanderbilt recalls. "Instantly, I went into panic mode."
She called her mom who was at work. "I just told her it's like we're all going to die. We're going to be owned by China. And I was like, I might have to pull my daughter out of school because they're going to take her."
Her mom tried to calm her down. "Obviously God's will was to have President Biden come in for this country, so it's going to be fine," Vanderbilt says her mom told her. "This happens all the time. It's an election. Parties switch, no big deal."
After their call she said her mom texted her a warning to not take her daughter out of school.
QuoteAnd so some QAnon adherents concocted a new conspiracy theory in the hours after inauguration. President Joe Biden's inauguration itself was a key part of the plan, the new theory held, and Trump would return as President in the coming few weeks. Then, certainly, all the deep-state arrests would happen.
That was a step too far for Vanderbilt. She began to realize that she had bought into a lie with an almost religious fervor. Over the past two weeks she has been posting on TikTok, the platform that dragged her into the conspiracy theory, sharing her story in the hope that it might help or inspire others to see the light.QuoteShe was able to do something that many people, including some elected representatives and a few members of the Republican Party, are not. She has admitted she was wrong and has condemned QAnon as a dangerous political movement.
So maybe three people.
Ex-BioWare Devs Reflect On Mass Effect 3's Controversial Ending
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I don't think it's unreasonable, in this kind of game, to want a win ending. I don't mind endings that don't feel like a 100% win, but they're usually not games like this.
Your persuasion skills can win you
Wrex's trust and spare his life. Your choices can save the Geth and Quarians. Your choices and save the Krogans. There are win/lose scenarios sprinkled throughout the entire series, so it's weird that once you've made all your choices within your story, you're stuck with a, "Haha, nothing can stop the harvest unless you try one of these three things."