NOWHERESCAPE

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Signing off

I’m moving on to a new tumblr. Nowherescape was a fun and entertaining experience that lasted way longer than I expected. The time has come to move forward. I’ll continue to write on my new personal space on tumblr, danielcarrapa.tumblr.com, but I’ll be doing it exclusively in Portuguese, my native tongue. I want to thank all my wonderful followers on this page for making this journey so much better. I had a great time here. My best wishes for all of you. This is Daniel, signing off...

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Thoughts on Alien: Isolation

So I finished Alien: Isolation on hard mode thinking "this is so brutal I'm never going to be able to play this again". And the next day I start playing it all over again...

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Alien: Isolation (2014)

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Relax, we're almost to the top!

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Jacqueline Nought, also known as Subject Zero, is a notorious criminal whose crimes include piracy, kidnapping, vandalism and murder. She is also a biotic, possibly one of the most powerful human biotics alive, and is considered so dangerous that she was kept in cryogenic stasis after she was caught...

Check out this playlist on @8tracks: Psychoticbiotic by Daniel Carrapa.

Image credits: Nightfable.

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Mass Effect 4 Concept Art.

In Honor of N7 Day, Bioware released a set of Mass Effect 4 concept art.

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Happy N7 Day y’all! 

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Party all night long!!! Pay attention at what the Afterlife bartender offers, it may be a trap (or a Weeping Heart). Saddle your drones and have fun with Tali <3

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Game over man! Game over!

I’m currently playing Alien: Isolation. On “hard” difficulty, of course. It’s a painfully horrible game. I love it. But, seriously, I was venturing through the San Cristobal Medical Facility in search for supplies when the xenomorph makes his grand appearance, coming out of one of the vents in the ceiling, and starts searching for me. Five minutes later I’m crouching behind this small kitchen counter in one of the nearby rooms, watching the monster go back and forth in the adjacent corridors, and I’m saying to myself: That’s it! I’m just gonna stay here. That’s the rest of Alien: Isolation for me. The whole rest of the game. Me, staying here, not moving, for hours. I’m never leaving this spot. I mean, this game is scary.

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Give us a kiss, darling!

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Don’t make a noise!, Alien: Isolation fan art by WandererGirl.

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This war has brought us pain, and suffering, and loss. But it's also brought us together as soldiers, allies, friends. This bond that ties us together is something the Reapers will never understand. It's more powerful than any weapon. Stronger than any ship. It can't be taken or destroyed. The next few hours will decide the fate of everyone in the galaxy. Every mother, every son, every unborn child. They're trusting you. Depending on you to win them their future. A future free from the threat of the Reapers. But take heart. Look around you. You're not in this fight alone. We face our enemy together and together we will defeat them.

Commander Shepard, Mass Effect 3.

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Where do you go, when all is gone? Who do you rely on, when everyone is lost? This is the story of Commander Shepard. This... is the End.

Mass Effect fanmix in memory of the great Commander Shepard, First Human Spectre, Hero of the Citadel, Savior of the Galaxy.

Check out this mix on @8tracks: Shepard Commander by Daniel Carrapa.

Image credits: Alyona Maksimova.

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Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer.

Javik, Mass Effect 3.

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Both of your parents were in the Alliance military and you spent your life in space, on ships and on stations as your parents went from one posting to another, the Volus call you Earth-clan, but you know where you belong, you were born and raised among the stars, amidst the wonder and danger and silence, and there's no place you'd rather be...

Spacer by Kaiidth, a fanmix for Spacer Shepards.

...And then I discovered the #masseffect tag at 8tracks.com and that was the day that changed my life forever. ;)

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Rise of the Tomb Raider is a timed exclusive for Xbox

«Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft's Xbox division, confirmed Rise of the Tomb Raider will be a timed exclusive for Xbox. It will launch holiday 2015 for Xbox 360 and Xbox One. After the exclusivity deal ends, publisher Square Enix is free to do what it will with the game and the Tomb Raider franchise. Spencer did not comment on how long this exclusivity deal will last.» Via.

I'm guessing that means the rest of us will have to wait 3 to 6 months to play it. Not as bad as we all initially thought. Still, one has to wonder if this time-exclusivity deal isn't sending the wrong message to a large part of the fanbase considering Tomb Raider has always been a multi-platform franchise.

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Casey Hudson leaves Bioware: thoughts from a simple Mass Effect fan

Let's talk about "it" right from the start. I was one of many Mass Effect fans that didn't really enjoy the ending of the final chapter. It took me about a year to accept the game for what it is and reinvest myself back in the trilogy. But here's the thing: there are many, many video games out there, but the Mass Effect series is the one I keep coming back to, over and over.

Casey Hudson is the main responsible for the creation of one of the most fascinating sci-fi universes ever imagined. He and his colleagues at BioWare have created a textured world populated by iconic and unforgettable characters that we've fallen in love with and keep celebrating here on Tumblr, year after year. That must mean something.

It's with great sadness that I've seen the news today regarding Casey's departure from BioWare. I find myself remembering his passion for the project, so well expressed in the memorable demo footage shown at E3 in 2006.

I also remember that, in my perception of things, that passion, that enthusiasm, is something that I haven't seen in him since the launch of Mass Effect 3. One can only imagine how it all must have been hard to process on a personal level, no matter how exaggerated or valid some of that criticism might have been.

But the truth is that all that amazing universe of potential that lies in Mass Effect is there because this guy had a vision, and we all fell in love with it. So I say: thank you Casey Hudson. I hope you find that passion once again in your life, and new inspiration for amazing projects and ideas.

And I do hope that, sometime in the future, your path may once again cross the path of Mass Effect and maybe, who knows, of Commander Shepard, stepping once again into the Normandy for a new adventure!

Keelah se'lai.