Geek Confessional Thread 2024

[MGibster]

Mass Effect 2 is the one that holds up the least.

Looking back, I agree with your assessment. My wife was laid off from her job around the time of ME2's release. She would do the mineral scanning for me while I was at work.

 

[MGibster]

I gotta disagree. If folks are not sure if an action flick is supposed to be satire or not, is a pretty clever execution.Especially, if folks dont get/care about the commentary and love the movie anyways.

A satire can often be a good example of whatever genre it's poking fun at. Robocop is a good action movie, Futurama is pretty good science fiction, and Scary Movie is a decent horror movie. Starship Troopers isn't even a good action movie. At best it's in that so bad it's good category.

 

[RoughCoronet0]

I’m weird in that I actually really like doing all the menial side quests, fetch quests, and planet scanning/mining/mako traversing in all of the Mass Effect games (also the Dragon Age games too, and really any game), so they never bothered me.

I really love all three games in the trilogy (I’ve never played Andromeda so I can’t speak on it) but Mass Effect 3 is my all time favorite, and is probably one of my favorite games of all time. Played through it at least 8 times so far.

 

[payn]

Loved ME 2. The constant thought you were dead interactions and all the cinematic action! I’d prefer the renegade paragon path having a little more choice in the matter but I still enjoyed the hell out of that game. I guess I’m the outlier felt it was best of series.

Andromeda sucked.

 

[Deset Gled]

I love Brutalist architecture. From the function to the aesthetic.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I love Brutalist architecture. From the function to the aesthetic.

Same. My city has a bunch of brutalist buildings:

 

[Thomas Shey]

I'm oddly fond of brutalist stuff too. I know some people hate it, with enough vigor they'll sometimes take a bit of a go at you for feeling otherwise.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I just read a piece about the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Washington Post and it kept dunking on the campus' brutalist architecture. I've been to JPL's (pre-pandemic) annual open houses twice and found the campus lovely. Brutalist doesn't have to mean bad.