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what was astounding was everybody you would talk to irl would be incredulous you would criticize such an awesome franchise but like 15 years after the fact and the game has literally no legacy. they couldn't even squeeze a worthwhile cash grab sequel out of it

As mentioned the game was Shepard's story, and the people at Bioware failed to grasp the cool sci-fi universe they built and make use of it.

Andromeda showed they had no idea what to actually do with what they had, and the failure of ME3's ending makes it so that expanding on the universe is absurdly difficult without a very competent writer who is willing to settle for a smaller scope of story. Which make it impossible to progress because even if you could find such good writer to deal with the material the nature of the first Trilogy means that the owners of the IP would never settle for making the smaller scope game where you play as, say, a Blackwatch Turian officer going after pirates and traitors or a N7 helping stop piracy and protect colonies. It HAS to be just as epic as the originals, with just a big a story. Which means new Reapers. Which fucks the universe over.
 
because that would require attention and continued spending, not just dumping paper in an old mine.
look at this way, you can bet there was someone in the 80's was going "why not put it all on tape?"

the initial transfer from analog to digital would make the contents easier to handle overall, but at the same time handling the medium itself would become more complicated, especially when it's about long-term preservation.
fair point.
if you ignore the austin power's fuckbot, the whole MUH EARTH wank for PR, the deus ex machina, reapers "beyond comprehension" letting said deus ex machina dock with the fucking citadel right in the middle of a space battle, especially when they already know everything from assimilating illusive man, fucking cereal killer kai leng... but sure, 99%.
I don't remember the austin power's fuckbot. Muh earth was retarded. The deus ex machina and the citadel docking was the ending that was bad. Kai leng was also retarded. Ok so like 75% of the game is good. I liked how the Krogans and the space gypsies were handled.
because mass effect was shepard's story, and that story ended in 2012, not necessarily in a good way.
the whole industry running head first into a wall repeatedly since then doesn't help either.
Bioware should've spent time making a new IP while they were working on dragon age Inquisition. Something not high fantasy or high sci fi. Mass Effect Andromeda killed whatever good will was left in the brand. Dragon Age Vailguard killed whatever good will that was left with Bioware.
32 percent of game developers are women or non-binary.
 
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Bioware should've spent time making a new IP while they were working on dragon age Inquisition. Something not high fantasy or high sci fi. Mass Effect Andromeda killed whatever good will was left in the brand. Dragon Age Vailguard killed whatever good will was left with Bioware.

To be fair that is because Bioware is no longer Bioware.

We are dealing with a Ship of Theseus situation here, except instead of wook and sail rigging it is human capital. How many people from 2024 Bioware were around in 2008 Bioware? Very few. Same with say Bethesda: How many people working on Starslop had worked on Skyrim? Or even Morrowind? Almost no one.

These studios are shadows of their former selves. All they have is the name, all the talent is long gone.
 
A large part of why people refused to get gaslit was also because for at least the 5 years prior to GG you had journalists shitting on gamers and calling them every -ism and-phobia in the book and crying about how there wasn't enough hecking minorities in games or conventions because they were all Huffington Post/Vice/whatever other SJW blog rejects. You also had controversies with the integrity of journalism beforehand, from Driv3rGate where journalists were praising that game despite it being a turd, The whole Gamespot/Kane & Lynch scandal, and then all of the journalists bitching about Resident Evil 5 being set in Africa because you had to kill black zombies despite the fact that it wouldn't make sense for there to be large numbers of white zombies and if there were in that game they would bitch about that too and in that case rightfully so.
You also had the whole shitshow with Brad Wardell, where they breathlessly covered every single second of that controversy, declared Wardell guilty in everything but name (we had one particularly noisome journalist imply that because he chose to fight it in court he was super guilty, in what I can only describe as the kafkatrap to end all kafkatraps) , only for Wardell to win the trial and have his accuser's charges thrown out with prejudice, so she can never again attempt that shit - whereupon much of the journosphere pretended nothing ever happened.

They did shit like that over the Wardell case, which even at the time was tacitly known to be horseshit, but when faced with overwhelming evidence during the initial Eron Gjoni and Five Guys accusations - something with actual fucking evidence from the outset - the same fuckers circled the wagons, basically guaranteeing they'd be called out for not doing their usual vulturing because it was very clear they had something to hide.

You can't do that shit without people noticing.

A large part of why people refused to get gaslit was also because for at least the 5 years prior to GG you had journalists shitting on gamers and calling them every -ism and-phobia in the book and crying about how there wasn't enough hecking minorities in games or conventions because they were all Huffington Post/Vice/whatever other SJW blog rejects. You also had controversies with the integrity of journalism beforehand, from Driv3rGate where journalists were praising that game despite it being a turd, The whole Gamespot/Kane & Lynch scandal, and then all of the journalists bitching about Resident Evil 5 being set in Africa because you had to kill black zombies despite the fact that it wouldn't make sense for there to be large numbers of white zombies and if there were in that game they would bitch about that too and in that case rightfully so.

Fun note: That shit is the real reason GG happened. They had been setting up to get a footprint in the industry from the nanosecond the industry outperformed hollywood, only to arrive too late.

As mentioned the game was Shepard's story, and the people at Bioware failed to grasp the cool sci-fi universe they built and make use of it.

Andromeda showed they had no idea what to actually do with what they had, and the failure of ME3's ending makes it so that expanding on the universe is absurdly difficult without a very competent writer who is willing to settle for a smaller scope of story. Which make it impossible to progress because even if you could find such good writer to deal with the material the nature of the first Trilogy means that the owners of the IP would never settle for making the smaller scope game where you play as, say, a Blackwatch Turian officer going after pirates and traitors or a N7 helping stop piracy and protect colonies. It HAS to be just as epic as the originals, with just a big a story. Which means new Reapers. Which fucks the universe over.

Which is incredibly frustrating because you don't need the Reapers at all (or anything like that) to have equivalent stakes. You just need good writing and writers who understand what they can do with the universe they've been given. A team of Autists from this very fucking subforum could and have written amazing stories based on any of a dozen sci-fi properties, big and small, and through nothing more than a good understanding of the universe they're writing for, came away with gold. Modern game dev doesn't hire good writers, it hires whatever scrag will push agenda and not threaten the worldview of the landed gentry, consequences be damned.

I do not joke when I make the assertion that many high-level writing staffers could be outperformed by randos on Fanfiction.net.
 
Why can't a normal raid or zfs array be used? When one drive has a problem, just change it for another drive.
Raid is backup for your hardware, not your files. If you accidentally delete a file, or it gets corrupted, raid does nothing to help you fix that. For backup you need redundant copies, ideally in multiple locations

Also, one of the issues with raid is that when an hdd dies the other drives in your array are also likely at the end of their lifespan because they're from the same lot# and restoring a lost disk is extremely stressful on the remaining drives to the point that it's not uncommon to kill more drives while attempting to get the array back up and running. It's better than nothing and at least gives you a chance to restore the latest version of a file that you were actively working on but if it's your only copy you're eventually going to lose everything

LTT tried pretty much what you're suggesting and there's been multiple occasions where they almost lost everything because of single pieces of hardware dying, and it hasn't even always been hard drives that caused the issues
 
I do not joke when I make the assertion that many high-level writing staffers could be outperformed by randos on Fanfiction.net.
In the end, for Hollywood/Game Industry writers, ideological purity and adherence trumps skill and good ideas.

Executive meddling is also a fucking plague. Writers are constantly being made into secondary sources for their own writings, having to instead follow story beats given to them by marketing and directing. It's why Hollywood slop like Fast and Furious or Marvel will have a dozen writers, they aren't looking for a story they are looking for a script which also fits what the studio wants.

But yes many writers are beyond incompetent and have a job only because of nepotism and ideological adherence. Emil Pagliarulo for example is a complete hack seems to openly hate videogames, constantly huffing his own farts about how his writing is good by gamers are too shit to get it and instead would rather rip pages off his wonderful book to make paper airplanes out of them (paraphrased from actual quote of his). Naughty Dog infamously kicked out the writer of the original The Last of Us and Uncharted to put Druckmann who didn't know shit.
 
Emil Pagliarulo for example is a complete hack seems to openly hate videogames
The Dark Brotherhood quest line in Oblivion was pretty good. He wrote that. However, he wrote Fallout 3 and 4's awful mainquests. In my opinion, if you're going to write for video game RPGs then you need to be DMing a tabletop RPG at least 1 group if not multiple. Good for team building and writing.
 
Update on that broad from the Subway who fell flat on her face trying to take a MAGA hat off a zoomer. NY Post unmasked her! NY Post article | Megalodon | Archive.Today

Dierdre Bardoff dijo:
Published March 29, 2025, 7:30 a.m. ET

She’s going to need a re-brand!

The woman who received “instant karma” after berating a President Trump supporter on the subway — and then face-planting on the platform after trying to grab his “Make America Great Again” hat — is an increasingly “agitated” creative director for several luxury brands, The Post has learned.

Alberta Testanero, a 55-year-old dual Italian-American citizen, went viral for the caught-on-video incident on the 6 train in Midtown last week after branding the MAGA fan “uneducated” and a “racist.”

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Testanero was lambasted after accosting the MAGA hat wearing man on the subway and then trying to snatch the chapeau. x/ImMeme0

Testanero has gone off the deep end when it comes to politics, a former colleague claimed.

“She and I stopped being friends a while ago, as she became extremely liberal and very agitated,” the one-time coworker told The Post.

“I see nothing has changed, but now she’s gotten into the extreme, doing things like this,” the coworker said of the subway incident, adding that Testanero was known to argue with Republicans and frequently call out people she deemed “racist.”

A freelance creative director and branding specialist who has worked with posh outfits like Tiffany & Co., Coach, Bergdorf Goodman and Kate Spade, Testanero prides herself on “maintaining the highest standards,” according to her online profiles.

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The creative director declined to comment when reached by The Post. Max Lakner/BFA / Shutterstock

“An experienced team leader, I have a keen understanding of the relationship between corporate strategy and creative vision,” the Murray Hill resident and Fashion Institute of Technology alum boasts on her LinkedIn. “No matter how large or small, I approach every project with enthusiasm always furthering brand vision and maintaining the highest standards.”

On a Facebook account apparently belonging to Testanero, she shared a family photo of the Obamas and a bizarre image of “Joe” and “Barack” friendship bracelets.

The lefty art designer publicly called out the MAGA fan, wagging her finger in his face while aboard a northbound train around 11:30 p.m., according to a video that has since racked up more than 5 million views.

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Other straphangers encouraged Testanero to leave the Trump supporter alone. x/ImMeme0

“If you f–king voted for Trump, you’re a racist!” Testanero yelled at the man during the March 19 incident.

The young man laughed, asking how he could be racist and arguing he is indeed “highly educated.”

“Oh, are you?” Testanero responded. “Then why are you wearing that hat? Only uneducated people wear that hat.”

Some bystanders urged Testanero to leave the guy alone. “That’s why he won, because of people like you,” a rider chimed in.

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Testanero’s face plant on the subway platform after trying to snatch the MAGA cap was called “instant karma” by one observer.

When the man got off the subway at the 28th Street station, Testanero lunged at and chased him, trying to grab the hat before she fell face-first onto the filthy floor.

Social media users slammed Testanero as the “perfect definition of the left.”

“This is a great example of brainwashing,” one Instagram user said. “A hat should not elicit a deeply emotional response. Step out of your echo chamber once in a while.”

Testanero did not respond to inquiries and refused comment when The Post showed up at her Madison Avenue apartment building Friday morning, telling the doorman to turn the journalists away.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

I did a Brave search on this woman because I wanted to see if any lefty news outlets covered the story. I got much more than that: The AI-generated response basically soft-doxed her!

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Link 1 (ilanrubin.com) - Nothing of interest

Link 2 (thesasamanifoundation.com) - She's apparently on the board of fucking directors for a charity that does gender equity stuff in East Africa.
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Link 3 (clay.earth) - This seems to be some AI-generated corporate DoxBin WhitePages platform. Supposedly scrapes from Facebook, LinkedIn, and other sources. Sadly, her LinkedIn page returns a 404 error, even when I'm logged in.
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Link 4 (cityrealty.com) - She apparently sold some sweatbox (725 square foot) on Madison Avenue for $591,000 back in February.

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Link 5 (bfa.com) - You can pay 85 fucking dollars for a photo of Alberta standing alongside two middle-aged guys, one of them being a pasty white guy with a Cole Smithy trilby.
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Link 6 (propertyrecordcards.com) - She apparently once owned a house around 2003 in an affluent North Shore neighbourhood in Long Island called Woodbury. I think she's probably kicking herself for selling the house in 2003 for 150 grand because Woodbury NY 11797 is one of those annoying neighbourhoods where the residents are so rich they don't want street lights on any of the main roads, and you have to drive past deliberately wooded areas to pull into a driveway where the house is like 1000 feet into the property. Property values there nowadays hover around the 750 grand mark at least nowadays.

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I must emphasise all this was given to me when I did ONE search on Brave for this broad. Anyone else who wants to dig deeper can feel free to do so.
 
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The Dark Brotherhood quest line in Oblivion was pretty good. He wrote that. However, he wrote Fallout 3 and 4's awful mainquests. In my opinion, if you're going to write for video game RPGs then you need to be DMing a tabletop RPG at least 1 group if not multiple. Good for team building and writing.

Writing a single string of quests is quite different from a whole game. He should never have been given power over the whole thing. Peter Principle in action.

I did a Brave search on this woman because I wanted to see if any lefty news outlets covered the story. I got much more than that: The AI-generated response basically soft-doxed her!

Sounds to me like she was very much trying to show off and build a online presence for self shilling and networking. Well miss it worked, congrats.
 
Bioware should've spent time making a new IP while they were working on dragon age Inquisition. Something not high fantasy or high sci fi. Mass Effect Andromeda killed whatever good will was left in the brand. Dragon Age Vailguard killed whatever good will was left with Bioware.
Veilguard practically was a new IP, it lost pretty much all of the dark fantasy trappings of the original entry in favor of generic pastel uwu soft fantasy for theater kids who watch tabletop podcasts like Critical Role.
 
Isn't Florida where all the retired Canadian snowbirds live? The ones that go Canada rah rah rah when told to (and don't when explicitly told not to) despite not being in Canada for six months of the year?
Some leaf some not
Like down in South FL like Boca Raton (God's waiting room) there's a common joke about there being more old NYC jews than in New York
 
Isn't Florida where all the retired Canadian snowbirds live? The ones that go Canada rah rah rah when told to (and don't when explicitly told not to) despite not being in Canada for six months of the year?
Florida has alot of problems housing wise.

The insurance situation is really bad. Even what would be a cheap house with a great rate you have to pay out the ass for hurricane and flood insurance. Also I hear with so much land being filled in swamp, its not unusual to have foundation issues.

Its also the place all the boomers buy their second house and put it up as a Air BnB half the year. Also apparently half the celebrities in the world have a Miami home and the ones that like Disney have an Orlando home too.

Then you have everywhere an hour from Orlando or Miami having every affordable place to live getting bought/rented out by illegals who then ruin the properties. Those brown skinned maids who clean up the Disney hotels have to live somewhere. Fun fact they arent actually Disney employees they are contractors.

Places like Orlando and Miami have all the problems of local Democratic governance. So luxury housing only is getting built.
 
I am a full-time worker. My neighbors won't work. It fucking sucks to see they get A-brand products for doing fucking nothing for the community. When I sometimes have to struggle to even buy a B-brand product.

For some people on disability (not the spectrum people because you can get a job, you are just a lazy nigger. Even people with Down syndrome can get a job here. :story:)
I totally understand that people that are on disability for real receive good brand products and even some extra soda drinks and snacks.
I do understand that those people who really are on disability feel sad/angry about the situation that is happening now.
It sucks enough for people who really want to bring something to the community but can't because of their disability and are just stuck at home all day that they get good care.
Fuck me, put even some Ben & Jerry's in their food package for those people.

But like, my neighbors, whom I actually know since high school since we went to the same high school are just normal fags that want to smoke weed all day instead of working.
People like my neighbors destroy the whole system that was created for the people in need.

Fun video about disability fraud.
 
Writing a single string of quests is quite different from a whole game. He should never have been given power over the whole thing. Peter Principle in action.
The problem was people loved and love Fallout 3 and 4, even though their main quests weren't good. (I have to find my dad. I have to find my son. My dad is a good guy with technology. My son is a bad guy with technology.) It isn't clear what exactly he helped write for Skyrim but he did work on it. Game settings have become bereft of reasons for conflict. Conflict happens, but for dumb or unclear reasons. Conflict usually arises because two groups want some kind of resource. Not because a mustache twirling villain wants to kill puppies for no reason.
But like, my neighbors, whom I actually know since high school since we went to the same high school are just normal fags that want to smoke weed all day instead of working.
A lot of people on disability also work under the table.
 
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