“This is my favorite bag on the Citadel.”

At Sanshee booth at #PAXEast, all you #MassEffect nerds!

The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games (Expanded Edition)

An exhaustive treatise on the genre, covering all the seminal games across a 40-year period.

Out now: https://www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/all-books/products/the-crpg-book-a-guide-to-computer-role-playing-games

Chissà come sarebbe andata la serie di Mass Effect se fosse successo questo.

Credits: raik arglack

Time for a new #introduction post.

Hiya. I'm Dreadful Sanity aka Mel, a level 47 gamer from Germany. #Videogames keep me basically from going completely crazy and therefore alive. I'm #disabled, suffering from debilitating #migraines most days of the week. I also have #ADHD which means my brain is usually going all over the place. And last but not least, there is some #BPD mixed into the mess that I am. Beware of that.

The games that I usually alternate through are...
#Warcraft
#DragonAge
#MassEffect
#Cyberpunk2077
#TheSims4
#BaldursGate3

Though every now and then I will play something new. Or different.

I think that's all.

During the course of transcribing Legion's dialogue from #MassEffect2, I may actually have solved a mystery I've been puzzling over for a long time: the flashing of Legion's small headlights.
Because between the various versions of ME, the essential question is literally: to flash or not to flash?

Während ich Legions Dialoge aus #MassEffect 2 transkribiert habe, habe ich möglicherweise ein Mysterium gelöst, über das ich schon lange Zeit gerätselt habe: das Blinken von Legions kleinen Kopflichtern.
Denn bei den verschiedenen Versionen von ME lautet die essenzielle Frage buchstäblich: blinken oder nicht blinken?

#Tumblr (ENG): https://ideas-on-paper.tumblr.com/post/780882152564965376/to-flash-or-not-to-flash-legions-headlights

going to write a proper introduction post!

hello, my name is neo. i'm a transmasc in my 20's. generally speaking i like machines that move people, amusement rides, shooter games, and various sci fi and sci fi-adjacent media. i'm in between jobs right now, but my background spans aerospace engineering, acting, teaching, and operating amusement rides.

i occasionally draw and shoot 35mm film! (even less often, i write mediocre fanfiction.)

i'm on the fence about talking about my mental issues on new social media pages but you might find me mentioning them down the line.

i'll put my interests in the tags. (hopefully that's considered helpful here, like mastodon, and not spammy like it is on some sites.) happy to be here!

My relationship with long videogames

@the_gamer_tavern

In the past I couldn't, for the life of me, commit myself to playing long games (i.e. 30+ hours) because I fell out of interest and dropped the game.

Lately I started playing two "long" (always keep in mind that this adjective is used by my perspective) games: Red Dead Redemption 2 and Mass Effect 1 (the legendary edition) and weirdly enough, seems like they're sticking with me because I'm alternating one or another throughout the gaming sessions.

I don't know if this pattern will be able to help me with other games as well or if it's just peculiar to those two specific games but I'm crossing my fingers

Have any of you had a similar experience?

If jumping into an in-progress #ActualPlay #podcast is intimidating, I Should Roll has a Halloween mini-series and a winter holiday special (Antecedents and A Citadel Carol, respectively) that require no prior knowledge, just a love of #MassEffect.

https://ishouldroll.com/miniseries

I appreciate when #scifi authors make up some fictional physics and then describe all fictional technology as being plausibly based on those physics.

For example, in #MassEffect all the fancy tech works by way of an exotic element that alters the mass of nearby matter.

This gives you shields (bullets with negligible mass can't hurt you), artificial gravity (high mass has a gravitational field), faster-than-light propulsion (negative mass makes an Alcubierre drive possible), and so on.

Important message from our beloved female commander Shepard.

https://youtube.com/shorts/aYPBB7xw6No?si=41IfkdfkwzXMdN4Y

Today's goals:

• surviving the run for groceries
• melding with the couch
• playing with the Steam deck (Mass Effect Legendary?)
• drafting hike's route for tomorrow

I may or may not fire up the gaming rig to continue playing Red Dead Redemption 2 but this is open for debate.

What about your goals gamers?

#Cyberpunk2077 + DLC is among the best games of all time and up there with #MassEffect!
Full review:
https://kristoffera.tumblr.com/post/779537109554003968/cyberpunk2077-dlc-is-among-the-best-games-of-all

I am not a puzzle person.

I happily* spend 100 omnigel to solve that bloody Towers Of Hanoi puzzle.

*Grumpily

Did you ever wish you could enjoy all of #MassEffect's dialogue in one place? masseffectlore.com has got you covered - they have an ongoing project for transcripts from the whole series! If you want, you can even contribute transcripts yourself!
I myself contributed a transcript of all of Legion's Normandy conversations in ME2, which you can find below.
Huge thanks to Deb/omegastation on Tumblr for running this awesome project!

Habt ihr euch jemals gewünscht, dass ihr alle Dialoge aus Mass Effect an einem Ort genießen könnt? Bei masseffectlore.com seid ihr an der richtigen Adresse - sie haben ein laufendes Projekt für Transkripte aus der ganzen Serie! Wenn ihr mögt, könnt ihr sogar selbst ein Transkript beisteuern!
Ich selbst habe alle von Legions Normandy-Konversationen aus ME2 transkribiert; das Transkript findet ihr unten.
Vielen Dank an Deb/omegastation auf Tumblr für die Leitung dieses fantastischen Projekts!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Y3ueq8XWf77ZkxznylJebuyTEPZrMMhMmxZrVin7gk/edit?tab=t.0

https://www.masseffectlore.com/

I normally don't share the nonsense I create, but I'm really proud of this one.

For the #MassEffect #ActualPlay #podcast I'm on, #IShouldRoll, I often make in-universe ads and bumpers for inclusion into episodes.

Many of the ads I create are inspired by new words and names created by transcription errors.

Script, mixing, and voice over by me!
Music: The Best Jazz Club in New Orleans (music) by Paolo Argento from Pixabay

For the holiday-themed special episodes of I Should Roll, I play a Vorcha named Elfest (not his real name) who dresses up for holidays and tries to be the ur-example of that holiday. I present to you Elfest, in his Valentine's garb!

Art by Maria Damianou (https://linktr.ee/mariadvoice) #MassEffect #ActualPlay #IShouldRoll #TTRPG #Podcast

The vorcha I play in I Should Roll's holiday-themed standalone episodes has a lot of trauma stemming from surviving the Reaper War. He was trapped on Earth during the Reaper invasion/culling.

Elfest (not his real name), deals with this trauma by being the most -est of whatever holiday his employer is observing and butchers songs in doing so. Also, I am not a trained singer or musician.

#TheLegendOfZelda. #MassEffect #ActualPlay #Podcast #TTRPG #IShouldRoll