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Hey, y’all! Just another random, loudmouthed, opinionated, Southern-fried nerdy American living abroad.

I’m moving off kbin to lemmy, so I won’t be posting from here (unless kbin social gets it together).

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stopthatgirl7 OP , to worldnews in Tourist climbs Brussels statue, breaks it
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He wasn’t a kid; he was drunk.

stopthatgirl7 , to gaming in Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 17th
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I wonder if Bioware will try an Andromeda 2 down the line, I think that universe deserves another shot.

Sadly, with the closure of BioWare Montreal and them deciding to go back to the Milky Way for 5, I don’t think we will. Which is a really shame, because I still think Andromeda 2 could have really been special, because the Montreal devs said they learned a lot from Andromeda and had big plans for 2 and improving things.

A lot of people also compared Andromeda to the entire ME trilogy, which really wasn’t fair to it.

BioWare had a good idea with trying to do something new, but sadly, often times True Fans don’t want something new; they want the exact same thing. They couldn’t - or wouldn’t - let Andromeda be Andromeda.

stopthatgirl7 , to gaming in Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 17th
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I’ve played Andromeda - quite a lot, actually, because before I started PC gaming, and after my PS3 broke, the only way to get my Mass Effect fix was to play Andromeda.

I think Andromeda got a bad rap. Or rather, people were a lot harder on it than it deserved, because the game was rough and, more importantly, Ryder wasn’t Shepard. Ryder is a very different character and folks wanted Shepard in a different skin. They wanted Paragon and Renegade when BioWare went with a more Inquisition feel to developing how Ryder can react. Add to that how the beginning act was easily the least polished section of the game at launch, and so people just dragged it. And once The Gamers as a collective decide a game is only fit to be made fun of, that’s it.

Now, Andromeda wasn’t perfect at all. The facial animations are not the best, and I still have no idea why they thought Ryder’s running animation was ok. I also really think the writing needed at least another two rounds of editing. But. The game play is really solid, easily the best of any Mass Effect game, and there was something there in the story (it just needed some rewriting). BioWare also made the mistake of putting in more for the sake of more - Inquisition was too big, and they decided to try to make Andromeda bigger, and there’s a lot of filler quests that shouldn’t be there.

I actually really enjoyed playing Andromeda, for all I got really irritated by a lot of the things I mentioned here - and I got irritated because I could see how close they were to something really, really special, and how they needed more time to get there, but didn’t have because of the mess they made of early development. There were enough things and decisions that I really wanted to see how they played out down the line, and I’m sad I probably won’t get to.

The best way to enjoy Andromeda is to go in thinking of it as less of a “Mass Effect” game, and more as a game set in the Mass Effect universe, if that makes sense.

stopthatgirl7 OP , to gaming in Is It Just Impossible to Have an Honest Conversation About Starfield?
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Thank you!

stopthatgirl7 OP , (edited ) to gaming in It’s 2023 and Some Gamers Are Trying To Get a PlayStation Employee Fired for Playing an Xbox Game
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I honestly don’t know which is stupider, console wars or iPhone vs Android. Like. Use whatever you like to get your dopamine rush.

I especially can’t wrap my brain around being so loyal to your console that you’d try to get someone fired for playing a game on the other console. If you are at that point, you need to go outside for serious. Go for a nice hike in the woods or something.

stopthatgirl7 OP , to gaming in Terraforming Mars team defends AI use as Kickstarter hits $1.3 million
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Oh, that’s good to know.

I like kbin, but ur still really rough around the edges.

stopthatgirl7 OP , to news in Lauren Boebert's Beetlejuice companion owns pro-LGBT bar that hosted a drag show: report
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Eh, there have been different updates to the story, which is why. In a week, folks will go back to forgetting about her until she does something stupid again.

stopthatgirl7 OP , to news in “I simply fell short of my values”: Lauren Boebert issues apology after being removed from “Beetlejuice” performance
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She also had a boob out, so there ought to be an indecent exposure charge if nothing else.

stopthatgirl7 OP , to gaming in Is It Just Impossible to Have an Honest Conversation About Starfield?
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It feels a lot like scores have been artificially inflated for a long time. Like you said, games that can barely run will get a 5, or a 4 at the lowest. It’s like half the possible scores have been lopped off, so there’s no real way to tell what a score actually means. A 7 should be a perfectly serviceable game, but it’s treated like you’ve called a game complete trash for anything below a 8.

stopthatgirl7 OP , to gaming in Is It Just Impossible to Have an Honest Conversation About Starfield?
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Do you think that’s because a lot of the planets are procedurally generated? I’ve seen people saying that since they’re generated, not hand crafted, they feel really same-y after a while, and there’s never anything interesting to find to start you on a quest you could easily miss, like you could find in other Bethesda games by exploring.

stopthatgirl7 OP , to gaming in Is It Just Impossible to Have an Honest Conversation About Starfield?
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It looks like they’ve made a LOT of fixes to some of the base mechanics, so hopefully that’ll make the game closer to what it was envisioned to be. It might make the game feel fresh for a replay.

stopthatgirl7 OP , to worldnews in Tourist climbs Brussels statue, breaks it
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He was arrested, and the company the statue belongs to is calling for him to pay the repair costs, not their parents, so maybe early 20s?

stopthatgirl7 OP , to news in Lauren Boebert's Beetlejuice companion owns pro-LGBT bar that hosted a drag show: report
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I really do wish the headline had pointed out the hypocrisy on her part and not with phrasing that reads as being pro-LGBT is bad.

stopthatgirl7 OP , to gaming in Terraforming Mars team defends AI use as Kickstarter hits $1.3 million
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Yup, the @ sign does it.

stopthatgirl7 , to technology in The iPhone 15 gets USB-C, a redesigned Cybertruck surfaces and California considers banning AV trucks | TechCrunch
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All cables will be like that for the 15, because they’re using last year’s pro chip. The 15 pros will have full USB-C speeds.

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