Posts made by Monogram

Oh well, yeah, in that regard, you're absolutely right.

@Ganymede said in Mass Effect: Andromeda: The Thread:

@Monogram said in Mass Effect: Andromeda: The Thread:

The Witcher III and The Last of Us Remastered looked better, and they are older. I'll give the game a pass because the faces are more customizable in Frostbite, and there is far more dialogue, but it still kind of bugged me.

You sure about that? I mean, when I made my Ryder, I noticed a particular /lack/ of choices when it came to making a face. Not when you compare it to the previous titles. Or at least, it just seemed that way.

Speaking of Witcher 3, went back and played it this past week after not touching it for a year. Reminded myself of what a damn amazing game it is. And pleased to know there will be a Witcher 4, just not as Geralt. Likely after Cyberpunk 2077.

Going back to the initial post of this thread(because I sorta glazed over everything else), I look at our society and, oddly, look at two things. The Fermi Paradox and the Singularity.

As reference to the former, not about aliens themselves(though I can wish I'll be alive when/if that day ever comes), but to the aspect of the Paradox called the Great Filter. Earth has already been through a series of these filters, according to Fermi and those who agree with the theory, but the reason it applies to the general Paradox in general is: why haven't we met anyone out there yet?

The idea is that these filters, enigmatic as they are, represent changes to a planet's overall state and society, whether by nature, cosmic events, the race's own actions, take your pick. In terms of humans, I tend ascribe to the latter of these. Some planets with life just don't make it past a filter, which is, in part explains why we haven't met anyone not from Earth. But this filter also ascribes to ourselves.

Basically, and while I wouldn't consider myself a pessimist, it may come off as such. I have strong reservations that we as a species will make it through the next barrier, the actions of the past couple of years is, to me, indicative to that. I don't doubt that nature will likely play a hand in it, but the biggest culprit I suspect is ourselves as whole. Not any singular person, just as a species.

Most futurists predict the next Filter will occur in the next fifty to two hundred years, give or take. And most consider the the Singularity will be apart of that. I don't know how much anyone else reads up on it, but there's been some slightly unsettling hints that we are getting closer and closer to artificial intelligence, and anyone in this particular field with any sense is saying that this is a really bad idea.

This isn't any kind of proclamation that 'the sky is falling', but looking at the slow degradation and regression of our culture as whole, and not to say it's anything new if you look back at the past three decades, but it doesn't give me exactly a lot of hope that we'll all magically find ourselves in a more cultured and evolved state.

Then again, I'm the same person that's always said that the only thing that's going to bring everyone together is either A. Being invaded by extraterrestrial threat or B. Simply knowing they exist. So... y'know, take with the biggest grain of salt you can find.

@Tinuviel said in Mass Effect: Andromeda: The Thread:

@Ganymede Ripped from ME:3, run through a 1990s graphics processor, and then reconverted to modern hardware. Badly. In Russia.

Maybe, but I have heard that working with the Frostbite engine made things a little difficult, I don't know if they could just take an assert that ran on a different engine and slap it onto another.

Also, I could be completely wrong on that, I just /heard/ that using Frostbite was a huge pain in the ass.

@Finn Vardis?

When you have barely anything in pantry(and haven't gone for gorceries in over two months) and is able to put something together using ingredients you wouldn't normally combine and it turns out being pretty damn good.

Aaaaaand this is the state I live in.

I am not shocked about this whatsoever.

http://deadspin.com/aaron-hernandez-commits-suicide-in-prison-cell-1794445345

Say what you will about Aaron Hernandez, but at least he killed that scumbag Aaron Hernandez.

I tried it as well. Pretty damn good, I'd say.

Sexy times interrupts tennis match.

I"m just stupid enough to want to try this.

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

@Monogram said in RL Anger:

@Ghost And here I thought you were complaining more about the tube steak than the pastel meat grinder.

He loves my tube steak.

@Ghost And here I thought you were complaining more about the tube steak than the pastel meat grinder.

Dunno if anyone else has watched it, but I I caught the first two episdoes of the new season of MST3K on Netflix.

Amazing. If you're Mistie, go watch them.

Double post. Also minor spoilers so ignore unless you're curious.

Apparently there's a theory going around that Cora is the Illusive Man's either legitimate or illegitimate daughter. Though mostly people point to the fact that the Illusive Man's real name was Jack Harper and obviously, Cora's last name is also Harper. But I feel like that would be far too on the nose and obvious for anyone that's actually read up on ME lore.

Granted, in the same breathe, this same theory also proposes that Cora is also the Benefactor, which I'm really dubious about.

If you really want to game the system, so to speak, there's a particular few things you need.

One is the Piranha shotgun. Research it as high as you can, and when you create it, put the plasma seeking bolts augment on it. What this does is all the pellets from the shotgun hone in on your target, and negates the penalty for shotgun range. The pellets cause just as much damage from range as they do close up.

Arms, legs, and helmet, research the Kett armor. Chestpiece use the Maverick armor. These all give gun damage bonuses.

Very important, find(if you want to chase after it)the Adreneline fusion mod. What this does is for a penalty to skill recharge(from 50% lowered to 25%, depending if you bought the right cryo pods), upon kill, all your abilities instantly recharge.

So, buy this point, if you have a level X Piranha, with the right mods and bonuses from passive skills, you should be doing a natural 1000+ damage per round, and that's without the 3 second damage bonus through the use of the Charge, Tactical Cloak, and Turbocharge. If you want to get really perverse, active Turbocharge, Cloak, then Charge at an enemy. Yes, all those 3 second damage boosts from Cloak and Charge stack on each other, which will, in theory, effectively give you 4000 points of damage for three seconds.

So really, can just chew through enemies, while recharging your shields to full after every Charge.

This build is almost unfair.

You really don't have to. The problem with APEX missions is that you'll eventually run out of missions to give your teams. And I'm too lazy to really work on multiplayer just yet.

Too busy running around with this insane build of Turbocharge + Charge + Tactical Cloak and a shotgun. I plan on playing my next playthrough on Insanity because right now, it's just unfair.

Noticed a new glitch that's becoming a thing. So, items, like weapons and armor you find scale with your level. There is currently this problem where I think level VII or VIII(I think VIII)doesn't appear in item drops from APEX missions or is held in a merchant inventory. So you literally cannot buy anything from between levels 60-70 that has a particular level to it. The only things you can buy, that I've noticed are Nomad mods, consumables and materials for research projects.

I guess this is an ongoing issue that'll be fixed in the next patch(whenever that'll be). This is sort of a pain in the ass, because I've figured out a pretty decent setup, but I need a certain augment mod....which I can't buy until I hit level 71.

Did anyone else notice how the omni-tools actually look decent after the patch instead of glitchy-looking mess they were before?

That's why you build a gym in your basement and re-enact the training montage from Rocky IV(the best one).