OK, I know this is a little overdue, but I just thought I'd pop it up here. When it comes to video games, I prefer those with a good story. The same qualifications I have for most of my movie preferences. When I first played Mass Effect, I found it to be a very enjoyable game with a good story, nice game mechanics and great graphics. The fact that the story changes due to your choices and classes (I haven't fully played with that) is a definite plus. Replay of the game was just as good as the first time, as you get to become more powerful and you can play with that "different choices" thing. Yes
Then came Mass Effect 2 and I was, well maybe not "excited" but close enough. Sure enough, the story was excellent and added on to the original. Your character's development didn't really seem to have anything to do with the development of your character in ME1, like Baldur's Gate 2 built on BG1, but other than that, it was good.
Then I met the replay.
I was disappointed.
Not only do they cap the experience at level 30 (which is like 3 levels higher than achievable in the first run through), but you don't get chances to add more weapons like you do in the first run through (unless you buy the downloads online which I have). For instance, there is a place in the game where you get to increase your A: Assault Rifle, B: Your Shotgun or C: your Sniper Rifle. In the first run through I chose the Assault Rifle. I got to keep this new weapon in the replay, but when I got to the place, I did not get the choices again. Which meant that re-playing the game really had no purpose, other than simply to play the game and then you might as well create a new character. They even TELL you that you should replay before importing into ME3. Why? Either I'm missing something or BioWare dropped the ball on this.
Another problem is your "squad." They really have few powers and are bulky to control. They have a bad tendency to run forward practically forcing you to get too close to be effective (at least forcing ME to).
On a side note, I'm currently P**Sed because I have the game on the hardest setting and get get past the fight shortly after the weapons choice thing.
Still, if you like first person shooters and you like to take a little control of the character, the ME line is an excellent line of games. I recommend it, but then I recommend a lot of stupid stuff, so there you go.
Peace up
Charles
Gott spielt nicht verful mit dem Universum. A.E.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The Anus of History or Human History has Hysterically Hammered Humans
Some of you are going to say "but Charles, that's the ANNALS of history." To those people I say "shut up and read the post."
Others of you are going to say "but Charles, that's the ONUS of history." To those people I say "Shut Up And Read The Post."
And then there's the smart one that says "Yep, he got the whole Anus of History thing right." To THOSE people, I say, "SHUT UP AND READ THE BLOODY BLOG ALREADY!!!"
And then there are those that say, "what? No Chocolate. . ."
CHOCOLATE, now please, can we get on to the post?
Thank you. When I say "The Anus of History," I say it that way, because that's what history is. It is the last part of humanity. Yet it creates more toxic waste than the rest of said race. History blows big freekin' farts.
I like to claim that women are the cause of most wars. I would like to apologize to the women and clarify that. Women have been the cause of most wars, that were not caused by History. I'm not misogynistic, I'm just stating a fact that men will do anything for women, most especially kill each other. But this post isn't about women, it's about history.
The Old Testament tells of how Abram and Sarai had no children so Abram knocked up his slave, and then God said "Abandon the slave and your responsibility to the resultant child and have a son by Sarai." Abram did so, changed his name, and skipped out on all the child support. (We are supposed to revere this bum by the bye). The people that he abandoned eventually became the nation of Islam and have hated the Jews ever since, spawning wars. This is the greatest, in-depth example I have, but not the greatest cause. Wars have been fought over "formerly ours" territory, insults my great-great . . . great-great grandfather received from you respective grandfather's goat Elijah. I mean, a simple review of history shows just how much history has had to play on the creation of wars.
The disparagement between India and Pakistan is over a single, insignificant and worthless chunk of land because "it once belonged to {our side}". Incidentally, land is the second greatest cause of wars. World war 2 was (partially) started because the Germans lost WW1 and had to suffer sanctions. Christians have persecuted Jews because of what the leadership of the latter killed the leadership of the former. The argument against the last 2 could be said that it was the ACTION that caused the war, but that would be logically fallacious.
Fighting against an action is a personal thing. We logical people would not go and beat up on the grandson of the bully we knew in elementary school. It also, logically, makes no sense to beat up somebody for something they did 30 years ago, but that can happen. Still, in the latter, you are beating up the perpetrator, not their progeny. Of course, this argument goes against the best selling book of all time. The Old Testament (Current Testament according to the Jews) states that the sins of the fathers shall be visited unto the seventh generation. Or something to that effect. In other words, God is allegedly telling us to fight over history. And we do.
Now, the really Anus part of this is that history changes. I don't mean "our perspective of history changes," I mean it actually changes. When I was growing up, there were certain truths in my life. Gravity pulls things down. I before E except after C. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Blacks were treated as second class citizens before the 60's (and later.) The last 2 are history, yet are still "fact." Or are they? There is now coming to light "official and irrefutable documentation" that Edison did not invent half of what I have learned he invented. How is this possible? How is it that these documents can disappear until the people who could possibly refute it are long dead? Plus, if you watch movies and television, they show blacks being treated as full equals in the 20's 30's 40's etc. in an ever increasing amount. Most would tell me "shut up, it's just Hollywood," but it IS a re-write of history. Our children are growing up with these images and thinking WOW, all men have been treated equally throughout history, that's cool! Well, it WOULD be cool if it was true. But it's not.
This is how history gets re-written, through "previously undiscovered" documentation and depictions on the media. If you cannot see the problem with this changing/whitewashing of history, then you have forgotten the credo of "historians." Those who do not study the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. I am afraid that some day (and it may be long after I am dead) we will be in a society where one race/creed/color/religious group is fettered and subjugated to another right here in the good ol' USA, because it "never happened before" and no-one sees the signs that it's happening again. It is my belief and hope that we remember what has been done in the past accurately, yet do not call the the descendants of said history to pay for the errors of their forefathers. Even if history DOES get re-written (and it will again and again) let's not hold one responsible for the actions of his neighbor's uncle's step-daughter-in-law's parakeet.
Peace up
Charles
Gott spielt nicht verful mit dem Universum.
Others of you are going to say "but Charles, that's the ONUS of history." To those people I say "Shut Up And Read The Post."
And then there's the smart one that says "Yep, he got the whole Anus of History thing right." To THOSE people, I say, "SHUT UP AND READ THE BLOODY BLOG ALREADY!!!"
And then there are those that say, "what? No Chocolate. . ."
CHOCOLATE, now please, can we get on to the post?
Thank you. When I say "The Anus of History," I say it that way, because that's what history is. It is the last part of humanity. Yet it creates more toxic waste than the rest of said race. History blows big freekin' farts.
I like to claim that women are the cause of most wars. I would like to apologize to the women and clarify that. Women have been the cause of most wars, that were not caused by History. I'm not misogynistic, I'm just stating a fact that men will do anything for women, most especially kill each other. But this post isn't about women, it's about history.
The Old Testament tells of how Abram and Sarai had no children so Abram knocked up his slave, and then God said "Abandon the slave and your responsibility to the resultant child and have a son by Sarai." Abram did so, changed his name, and skipped out on all the child support. (We are supposed to revere this bum by the bye). The people that he abandoned eventually became the nation of Islam and have hated the Jews ever since, spawning wars. This is the greatest, in-depth example I have, but not the greatest cause. Wars have been fought over "formerly ours" territory, insults my great-great . . . great-great grandfather received from you respective grandfather's goat Elijah. I mean, a simple review of history shows just how much history has had to play on the creation of wars.
The disparagement between India and Pakistan is over a single, insignificant and worthless chunk of land because "it once belonged to {our side}". Incidentally, land is the second greatest cause of wars. World war 2 was (partially) started because the Germans lost WW1 and had to suffer sanctions. Christians have persecuted Jews because of what the leadership of the latter killed the leadership of the former. The argument against the last 2 could be said that it was the ACTION that caused the war, but that would be logically fallacious.
Fighting against an action is a personal thing. We logical people would not go and beat up on the grandson of the bully we knew in elementary school. It also, logically, makes no sense to beat up somebody for something they did 30 years ago, but that can happen. Still, in the latter, you are beating up the perpetrator, not their progeny. Of course, this argument goes against the best selling book of all time. The Old Testament (Current Testament according to the Jews) states that the sins of the fathers shall be visited unto the seventh generation. Or something to that effect. In other words, God is allegedly telling us to fight over history. And we do.
Now, the really Anus part of this is that history changes. I don't mean "our perspective of history changes," I mean it actually changes. When I was growing up, there were certain truths in my life. Gravity pulls things down. I before E except after C. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Blacks were treated as second class citizens before the 60's (and later.) The last 2 are history, yet are still "fact." Or are they? There is now coming to light "official and irrefutable documentation" that Edison did not invent half of what I have learned he invented. How is this possible? How is it that these documents can disappear until the people who could possibly refute it are long dead? Plus, if you watch movies and television, they show blacks being treated as full equals in the 20's 30's 40's etc. in an ever increasing amount. Most would tell me "shut up, it's just Hollywood," but it IS a re-write of history. Our children are growing up with these images and thinking WOW, all men have been treated equally throughout history, that's cool! Well, it WOULD be cool if it was true. But it's not.
This is how history gets re-written, through "previously undiscovered" documentation and depictions on the media. If you cannot see the problem with this changing/whitewashing of history, then you have forgotten the credo of "historians." Those who do not study the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. I am afraid that some day (and it may be long after I am dead) we will be in a society where one race/creed/color/religious group is fettered and subjugated to another right here in the good ol' USA, because it "never happened before" and no-one sees the signs that it's happening again. It is my belief and hope that we remember what has been done in the past accurately, yet do not call the the descendants of said history to pay for the errors of their forefathers. Even if history DOES get re-written (and it will again and again) let's not hold one responsible for the actions of his neighbor's uncle's step-daughter-in-law's parakeet.
Peace up
Charles
Gott spielt nicht verful mit dem Universum.
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