Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Lincoln
being that apparently every single batarian in the galaxy is a slaver or a murderer or a terrorist
and when they were introduced they were literally called "The Vile Batarians"
The vast majority of batarians are restricted to their own space.
After the conflict with the humans went badly for them, and the citadel refused to support their desire to boot the humans out of territory they wanted all for themselves, they gave the council the finger and withdrew their people to their own corner of the galaxy.
My future bandmate and website PIC, Sara (aka Gem) recorded a new song tonight, called Tears of a Turian Saint.
I was linked to a Google doc about Mass Effect: Deception today. I don't read the novels, but the whole situation had me and my good friend (and future bandmate!) @JordynNolz in a fit of lulz for a good 20 minutes tonight.
During which time we composed this song. We like to think of it as an ill-conceived love song from the author of Deception to some Mass Effect fan. Enjoy.
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That is way too pretty a song to be a proper parody
EDIT: Not to say it's not awesome, just... It's so soothing!
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A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
My future bandmate and website PIC, Sara (aka Gem) recorded a new song tonight, called Tears of a Turian Saint.
I was linked to a Google doc about Mass Effect: Deception today. I don't read the novels, but the whole situation had me and my good friend (and future bandmate!) @JordynNolz in a fit of lulz for a good 20 minutes tonight.
During which time we composed this song. We like to think of it as an ill-conceived love song from the author of Deception to some Mass Effect fan. Enjoy.
That's pretty fantastic
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Caulk Bite 6One of the multitude of Dans infesting this placeRegistered Userregular
Doesn't that idiot know that to properly burn a book, you light the fucker in the middle and let it burn all through the pages before spreading to the glossy outer cover? What the hell kind of idiot is this?
I may have to make a complaint to the batarian embassy.
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chiasaur11Never doubt a raccoon.Do you think it's trademarked?Registered Userregular
Doesn't that idiot know that to properly burn a book, you light the fucker in the middle and let it burn all through the pages before spreading to the glossy outer cover? What the hell kind of idiot is this?
I may have to make a complaint to the batarian embassy.
How would you burn the Book of Sand, then? Because if I, hypothetically, had a copy, I might, hypothetically, have a bet about that.
like EA would allow a non-human starring character
even if you get to pick your race a human will be on the box front and center
This isn't just an EA thing!
It is hard to sell anything that doesn't star a human as the main character. A lot of people have a hard time relating to characters that aren't human or at least very human looking. Same reason you would never see an Elsweyr/Black Marsh Elder Scrolls game.
like EA would allow a non-human starring character
even if you get to pick your race a human will be on the box front and center
This isn't just an EA thing!
It is hard to sell anything that doesn't star a human as the main character. A lot of people have a hard time relating to characters that aren't human or at least very human looking. Same reason you would never see an Elsweyr/Black Marsh Elder Scrolls game.
morrowind
Elves are basically humans
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
like EA would allow a non-human starring character
even if you get to pick your race a human will be on the box front and center
This isn't just an EA thing!
It is hard to sell anything that doesn't star a human as the main character. A lot of people have a hard time relating to characters that aren't human or at least very human looking. Same reason you would never see an Elsweyr/Black Marsh Elder Scrolls game.
like EA would allow a non-human starring character
even if you get to pick your race a human will be on the box front and center
This isn't just an EA thing!
It is hard to sell anything that doesn't star a human as the main character. A lot of people have a hard time relating to characters that aren't human or at least very human looking. Same reason you would never see an Elsweyr/Black Marsh Elder Scrolls game.
You know what's more old than batarians being nothing but dudes for everyone to hate?
EA being a company for everyone to hate
at least give that honor to a company that still more or less deserves it, like Activision.
EA still has customer services issues and is still a business in the business of keeping afloat, but they're not the company they used to be anymore.
It is hard for me to forgive EA for destroying command and conquer.
Generally though they aren't that bad, particularly compared to activision.
Command and Conquer Generals 2.
But yeah, EA isn't that bad of a company nowadays at all.
They have funded Dead Space, Syndicate, Mirror's Edge, Kingdoms of Amalur and Rock Band. On top of Bioware's ventures and longtime stand-bys like Battlefield.
The only negative things I can recently think of are the rebranding of that C&C studio to Bioware and the rushing of Dragon Age II.
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tayvaanI always like to savor the last shotbefore popping the heat sinkRegistered Userregular
You know what's more old than batarians being nothing but dudes for everyone to hate?
EA being a company for everyone to hate
at least give that honor to a company that still more or less deserves it, like Activision.
EA still has customer services issues and is still a business in the business of keeping afloat, but they're not the company they used to be anymore.
It is hard for me to forgive EA for destroying command and conquer.
Generally though they aren't that bad, particularly compared to activision.
Command and Conquer Generals 2.
But yeah, EA isn't that bad of a company nowadays at all.
They have funded Dead Space, Syndicate, Mirror's Edge, Kingdoms of Amalur and Rock Band. On top of Bioware's ventures and longtime stand-bys like Battlefield.
The only negative things I can recently think of are the rebranding of that C&C studio to Bioware and the rushing of Dragon Age II.
Generals is cool and all but the tiberium games were my favorite and C&C4 took a massive dump over that whole franchise.
You know what's more old than batarians being nothing but dudes for everyone to hate?
EA being a company for everyone to hate
at least give that honor to a company that still more or less deserves it, like Activision.
EA still has customer services issues and is still a business in the business of keeping afloat, but they're not the company they used to be anymore.
of course they're not
they fired all their QA guys and outsourced it to the lowest bidder
In what, 2009? And it doesn't even look like it was all their QA guys, unless I'm looking at the wrong news reports. Mostly just Redwood and Mythic stuff. And yeah, it still really sucks, but you've still got stuff like the Partners project ensuring new, and in many cases risky, games are getting out there with the developers retaining the IP. That's a really good thing! But nah, let's ignore any good things a company does and soley focus on the bad.
The Bioware thing I can definitely agree with, but that just seems more like a stupid business move that's sure to backfire if mishandled any further rather than anything malicious.
You know what's more old than batarians being nothing but dudes for everyone to hate?
EA being a company for everyone to hate
at least give that honor to a company that still more or less deserves it, like Activision.
EA still has customer services issues and is still a business in the business of keeping afloat, but they're not the company they used to be anymore.
of course they're not
they fired all their QA guys and outsourced it to the lowest bidder
In what, 2009? And it doesn't even look like it was all their QA guys, unless I'm looking at the wrong news reports. Mostly just Redwood and Mythic stuff. And yeah, it still really sucks, but you've still got stuff like the Partners project ensuring new, and in many cases risky, games are getting out there with the developers retaining the IP. That's a really good thing! But nah, let's ignore any good things a company does and soley focus on the bad.
The Bioware thing I can definitely agree with, but that just seems more like a stupid business move that's sure to backfire if mishandled any further rather than anything malicious.
yeah in 2009
I had a several friends lose their jobs
EA is, and always shall be, a shitty company
they've been trying to improve their image since someone up the chain realized it was literally costing them money, but that doesn't make them any less of a shit company
which isn't to say Activision isn't also a shit company and indeed probably worse
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
I've played games almost my entire life. I was in the 3rd grade in West Germany when the NES came out. And something I've never done, because of how useless and dumb it is; is get angry at a development studio or publisher.
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Tossrocktoo weird to livetoo rare to dieRegistered Userregular
um clearly you haven't seen my online petition with 572 signatures
wait why does the council want to get rid of our slavery? are they racist or something?
The Batarians actually think this. No wonder everyone hates them.
wait why does the council want to ban the institution of marriage? Are they racist or something?
Of course they 'actually' think that. It's part of their 'cultural heritage' and when have you ever known people to get over other people not liking stupid parts of their culture easily?
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Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Lincoln
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The vast majority of batarians are restricted to their own space.
After the conflict with the humans went badly for them, and the citadel refused to support their desire to boot the humans out of territory they wanted all for themselves, they gave the council the finger and withdrew their people to their own corner of the galaxy.
JordynNolz.com <- All my blogs (Shepard, Wasted, J'onn, DCAU) are here now!
EDIT: Not to say it's not awesome, just... It's so soothing!
That's pretty fantastic
I may have to make a complaint to the batarian embassy.
How would you burn the Book of Sand, then? Because if I, hypothetically, had a copy, I might, hypothetically, have a bet about that.
Why I fear the ocean.
morrowind
Elves are basically humans
nah.
the regular N7 is so classy and then they make that
yah.
EA being a company for everyone to hate
at least give that honor to a company that still more or less deserves it, like Activision.
EA still has customer services issues and is still a business in the business of keeping afloat, but they're not the company they used to be anymore.
It is hard for me to forgive EA for destroying command and conquer.
Generally though they aren't that bad, particularly compared to activision.
of course they're not
they fired all their QA guys and outsourced it to the lowest bidder
But yeah, EA isn't that bad of a company nowadays at all.
They have funded Dead Space, Syndicate, Mirror's Edge, Kingdoms of Amalur and Rock Band. On top of Bioware's ventures and longtime stand-bys like Battlefield.
The only negative things I can recently think of are the rebranding of that C&C studio to Bioware and the rushing of Dragon Age II.
Generals is cool and all but the tiberium games were my favorite and C&C4 took a massive dump over that whole franchise.
In what, 2009? And it doesn't even look like it was all their QA guys, unless I'm looking at the wrong news reports. Mostly just Redwood and Mythic stuff. And yeah, it still really sucks, but you've still got stuff like the Partners project ensuring new, and in many cases risky, games are getting out there with the developers retaining the IP. That's a really good thing! But nah, let's ignore any good things a company does and soley focus on the bad.
The Bioware thing I can definitely agree with, but that just seems more like a stupid business move that's sure to backfire if mishandled any further rather than anything malicious.
yeah this was big thing near the end of the last thread, but I still need to read the rest of the list anyway
though some of these, like the citadel not being star shaped, seem needlessly picky
well, I got nothing I'm doing for the next while
Some of them are so blatant it's pretty obvious the author had only a vague knowledge of the games.
The list that Thetheroo linked classifies the errors by significance
some of those mistakes are irreconcilable
Twitch (I stream most days of the week)
Twitter (mean leftist discourse)
and, good lord, I hope they don't have a bearing on the video game's story
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Twitter (mean leftist discourse)
yeah in 2009
I had a several friends lose their jobs
EA is, and always shall be, a shitty company
they've been trying to improve their image since someone up the chain realized it was literally costing them money, but that doesn't make them any less of a shit company
which isn't to say Activision isn't also a shit company and indeed probably worse
If you were to scroll slightly up the page, you would see a song my friend and I wrote about this.
JordynNolz.com <- All my blogs (Shepard, Wasted, J'onn, DCAU) are here now!
Is that supposed to still be a physical thing they ship to you? Or do you just get a worthless .jpg and get told to go to a print shop?
The latter.
The Batarians actually think this. No wonder everyone hates them.
wait why does the council want to ban the institution of marriage? Are they racist or something?
Of course they 'actually' think that. It's part of their 'cultural heritage' and when have you ever known people to get over other people not liking stupid parts of their culture easily?