Chill Zone (The Tavetaan)

Feb 7, 2017 11:16:49 GMT bella said:

I've started a new trilogy run to get myself back into the universe without having to spoil myself about the new game. Almost through ME1, man, I forgot what a grind it was

But only 7 weeks to go indeed!

In the meantime I wish youtubers didn't put too much info into their thumbnails and titles. I follow a few gaming channels and, while I get why they do that, I'm actually thinking of unsubscribing for the next few months (unless there's a way to hide them that I don't know about). Ah well.

I've been playing multiplayer to scratch the itch since I don't have time to play the trilogy. I'm curious to see if I'll get the N7 Shadow Infiltrator or N7 Slayer before early access is out. I think I've almost unlocked every class but those two. Some rares I've even managed to max out.

I remember early during the release of Watch Dogs 2, that a fair number of youtubers were not very courteous about spoiler thumbnails.There is a character called Wrench who wears a mask and whose face is not seen until a later mission. Guess whose face people got spoiled on because of thumbnails?

I looked and found a way of disabling thumbnails that I thought you and perhaps others might be interested.

How to disable Youtube thumbnails

www.wikihow.com/Disable-YouTube-Video-Thumbnail-Images

www.reddit.com/r/Markiplier/comments/2ub59f/do_you_guys_know_a_way_to_block_youtube_thumbnails/?st=iyvgha1w&sh=6231733e

Feb 7, 2017 16:17:14 GMT bella said:

Feb 7, 2017 11:43:02 GMT shechinah said:

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Ooo, thanks! Will definitely check out those links later  

And it's amazing that people are still playing ME3 MP after almost 5 years. Is it difficult to get a full lobby nowadays? It's been a few years since I last played. I hope the MP for Andromeda is just as fun.

I hope you can use 'em

I've honestly not had much trouble lately with bronze and some silver and the squads tend to fill up in little time. I tend to play on weekends but I've found game in the afternoon on non-weekend days as well. It is still very fun, I feel, so I hope Andromeda's MP will be just as much at least. It works nicely when I need to just play something and, of course, when I need to scratch that Mass Effect itch but don't have time to play a save.

Feb 8, 2017 23:41:39 GMT majesticjazz said:

Feb 8, 2017 18:24:35 GMT AllyCatAttack said:

My husband always jokes that I would leave him for Garrus Vakarian. Whenever I respond that I wouldn't leave him for Garrus, he'll say "Oh no, I don't blame you, I'd leave me for Garrus if I were you; he's badass."

I never understood the hype about the Garrus and Tali romances. It seems like an echo chamber of everyone liking then cause everyone else likes them.

Personally the Liara romance is the most natural and has a better arch throughout all 3 games. Then there is the Thane romance which is the most emotional.

But yeah, the Garrus romance is just so...."trendy" and trendy things due to popularity isnt always the best.

Eh, I played the games before I had much, if any, contact with the fandom so I romanced Garrus before I knew about his popularity. It was on my first playthrough. I liked that romance was initially awkward, which made sense since human-turian relationships likely don’t have much of precedence so customs, positions and safe sex would be something that need to be researched and I’m proud to say that my Shepard did her part by buying that Fornax issue on Omega. I like that it is initially played as just a slow-building case of casual sex but then a romantic relationship begins shaping and surfaces in final scene in Shepard’s quarters. Garrus showing his vulnerabilities and Shepard just being there for him expresses the emotional shape the relationship has taken. It is still unspoken until the third game but it is there nonetheless. In the third game, it stops being unspoken and the relationship has become romantic with the two having a stable relationship that’s very sweet and drama-free except for the whole Reaper thing. My only real complaint about it is that there was too little of Shepard learning about turian customs.

In contrast, Liara and her romance never appealed to me on any playthrough. I’m not knocking on you for liking it or her: just that we likely see characters differently and experience their respective romances similarly different.

Heh, I admit to being far more amused than I should that my first Shepard was a sniper. I imagined she and Garrus talked guns from time to time. She was also a Sole Survivor so I think she could relate personally to a lot of the things Garrus was going through in the second game. Anyway, this was just me explaining why I found the romance appealing.

Speaking of Thane, he was the romance of my second playthrough and I honestly didn't intend for her to romance anyone. It just happened because I thought their characters fitted so well together. I was one of the people who didn't mind Thane's death since I never expected him to be cured and I thought the death scene was well executed. 

I always liked the bit of the romance in the final scene between the two in Mass Effect 2 where Thane basically remarks that he'd made peace with death but now that he's found love again, that peace is gone. Shepard's reply is to basically enjoy the moment and life. I think that scene sums up the romance: it is sad that you won't be able to spend your lives together but enjoy the time you have together and life in general. While there were bits I did not like of how Thane and the romance was handled in Mass Effect 3, I did like that the terminally ill aspect was kept and taken to its, however heartbreaking, conclusion especially the funeral and the videos in the Citadel DLC.

Note: this is about a book in the Mass Effect: Andromeda series. The post contains no summary of its plot but it does include its title as well as cover. Therefore, to be better safe than sorry, I've tagged the post as spoiler.  

Mass Effect: Andromeda Collector’s Edition Diecast Nomad ND1

Not counting delivery and potential discounts, it is priced at $99.99 and it is scheduled for release on December 31, 2017. This product includes the Steelbook cover but like the other editions, not the game.  

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Product Description

I've checked and the release date for the games themselves on Amazon.com are listed as March 21, 2017. I don't know if the release date for the Nomad Diecast editions are caused by an oversight or if that really is their scheduled release date.

There is a statue collectible as well but I'm honestly not sure whether that would constitute a spoiler due to, well, reasons. It's not of a squadmate but of the protagonist but it may be a spoiler of something that occurs in the game.