Imagine you could sell $39.99 shovelware to almost every single kid that watches Jimmy Neutron, because you’re gonna drown that show in ads for it.
The child then grinds down the parents’ resolve and the money is eventually spent.
I totally didn’t witness this first hand when sculpting feces into nickelodeon-shaped games.
They had me for a hot second because I saw Into The Breach on the app store 🤩
But you can’t even run the game without logging in to a Netflix account 🤮
I mean I had one, but fuck that noise I’m not cosigning on that bullshit 😤
The ending was perfect!
Thanks for a much appreciated dose of whimsy to start my day 👍
Nothing augurs success like hearing about the “incredible talent” that just went to “other teams at EA” 🙃
The original ending was a very “that’s it?” moment.
The actually added a new game-over condition, by allowing you to just shoot the annoying reaper child, to quell the frustrations people felt.
Even in the remaster is still feels like a choice between red, blue, or green color endings.
RIP Marauder Shields, the true final boss of ME3 🙏
That, to me, is the real tragedy of Mass Effect, looking back through this new lens. BioWare seems to have borrowed many concepts from Revelation Space, but very little of it is explored with any depth, and none of the ideas are given new twists that improve upon them.
Damn, didn’t expect a thoughtful analysis of Revelation Space and its impact on Mass Effect.
But since Mass Effect avoided most of the extra weird stuff, the ending of Mass Effect 3 never really had a chance to be good.
Ahh, can’t talk about ME without addressing the elephant in the room the controversial ending.
Good read 👍
They calling me: I sleep (it goes to sms because I never setup voicemail)
I must call them: Real shit
As one who played every Dragon Age game, this expresses much of how I feel as well.
After such a long wait I wanted another Origins or Inquisition, but I got something else and it was a fine, forgettable, C+ entry. A game that wants you to wave a giant foam finger instead have thoughtful choices, but at least it delivered an ending.
Ya I’ll have some of that please.
Federation outsiders serving a gleaming resort planet find out their day-to-day exploits are being broadcast to the entire quadran
Ok not bad, Acapulco is a funny show about working in a resort so I can sorta imagine it in space. Not as sure about the Punkd angle, but I’m remaining optimistic.
Starfleet going around to other worlds to fix and moralize about other peoples’ problems, but never needing to self-reflect or improve on themselves.
There are a few PTSD episodes that at least try : Picard at the chateau and Archer on shore leave after the Xindi adventure.
I feel these are the best episodes where a character realizes they have changed and not for the better, but I wish there were more.
Maybe trek is sleeping on the post-adventure recontextualization power of a shore leave coda?
So ultimately, I feel like what we’re saying is that in order for Starfleet and that beautiful vision that Roddenberry had of this optimistic utopia, in order for that vision to exist, in order for the light to exist, you need people who operate in the shadows. And it’s a yin and yang. You can’t have one without the other.
I don’t like this sort of mother-goosery in my fully automated luxury gay space communism.
I prefer the assimilating power of root beer as the true defender of the federation.
If we’re going to take that last shot literally, Baraam is warp-capable
Wow. Turns out I walked away after “Your Mama IV” and completely missed this final shot of the space station going to warp.
Thanks, I hate it.
So the Terran empire runs some kinda hunger games for the next evil emperor… and the current evil emperor is just cool with abdicating I guess?
I wish I could enjoy it, but it just feels so dumb to watch a fairy tale transfer of power in the most evil setting.
Long answer, but good answer friend.
This in particular is gold:
in this future, humanity still succumbs to the pains and pitfalls of present-day life in a way that suggests we won’t grow out of them
I thought Section 31 was some shit clinging to the bowl, but the writers keep assimilating it into the Star Trek matrix so much so that it implies the Federation of TNG is a naive facade 😔
Viva Mintaka III 💪🏴 I love that episode for having primitive superstitious Vulcanoid aliens instead of generic humanoids.
We live in a world that has walls federation worlds, and those federation worlds have to be guarded.
Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Barclay?
she was chosen to rule the Terran empire
Administer 15 mg of damnatio memoriae to the previous regime, stat!
Admiral Vance:
“It’s made of our shit, you know?”
That’s the big what-if for me out of this article: what if disco had klingons that didn’t become radioactive to so much of the audience?
The whole klingon war felt like it happened in a single episode or two and I wonder how much of that was them concluding they made an ugly-sonic and tossing it.
Maybe we would have seen more Ash Tyler and less Book, who knows 🤷♀️