#pearshap3d

[galacticdrift]

pearshap3d replied to your post “Last night as I was drifting off to sleep, I realized I actually…miss...”

I'm playing mass effect 2 for the first time at the moment, can't wait to romance Garrus (but are there queer romances for femshep? I hope so!)

Nothing that grants the actual romance-related achievement, AHEM, BIOWARE, but you can hook up with Kelly or, as I recall, Morinth?

illustratedacorns replied to your post “Last night as I was drifting off to sleep, I realized I actually…miss...”

Oh? What made you angry about mass effect? I'm curious, since I personally liked the third game :)

To be fair, I had beef with Mass Effect going back to ME2. I wrote about it over here when Ems asked about my "bitter bioware ex-fangirl" tag (looking back at that tag, wow, I guess I really have mellowed a lot despite my lingering anger).

[alwaysspoopy]

pearshap3d replied to your post “Today I have proven that zombies do, in fact, get sunburns.”

hey, how was your race?

It was good!! I died at about halfway, so it was better than I expected. Plus, it was nice to know that the actual running wasn't bad at all, it was definitely the obstacles!

[alwaysspoopy]

nickname thing: runner 5'(prime)

WOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Wait… (Spoilers)

If I’m Runner 5’… does that mean I’m dead? Sam’s on his 4th, right?

[callmearcturus]

pearshap3d replied to your post:How does one find a beta reader, for fics and things? Is there a community place set up for finding one?

Leaving constructive+appreciative comments is hard without feeling like i’m ungrateful or too harsh even when the fic is amazing. Especially when ESL. Thoughts?

If you are speaking as a beta: if an author has recruited you, they WANT those comments and are actively soliciting them. Let 'em have it.

If you mean as a reader: there is a divide between constructive and critical comments. IMO constructive remarks can be given freely. Critique should only be given when asked for, as some people are not writing with the intent of improving. Sometimes it really is just a hobby, and that's fine. People like me, though, tend to welcome critique because it lets us hone our skills.

As for appreciative comments, those are the best. And when I get a comment like "I loved this chapter, this part was great," I'm thrilled.

When I get one like "I loved this part, it's great to see someone tackling this topic from this angle" or something that shows signs that the reader is a deep reader, that's where I get betas from.

[callmearcturus]

i just finished re-reading the hunters initiative trilogy as a complete piece (lovely long read on a french beach), and it's still so good. i have some questions if you're up for it, about what Mogar did when he destroyed the Bifrost (or tried?) and what Narvaroth's motivations were when having sex with Captain America. Wanted to say anyway, i love it a lot still.

Oh god, I'm glad it still stands up. I always get worried when I go back to look at OFN. I don't think the quality differential is too high, but it always worries me, nonetheless. Like, why the fuck did I write OFN in present tense? WHY.

As for your questions!

The Bifrost thing is explained when you put Narvaroth and Michael's stories together. Basically, Mogar's job was to defeat any invaders into the realm. He was NOT allowed to venture outside the realm because his powers were so great, they were considered the amaranthine equivalent of the nuclear option. But Narvaroth cajoled Mogar into going and meeting an amassing attack force on the enemy's end of the Bifrost so they could take them out before they were ready to strike. They went through and started hammering on the Bifrost gate on that side, which would strand the enemy there. And the Burning King felt that happening and that's how Mogar got banished. For reckless short-sightedness.

The Narvaroth-Ryan thing is complicated. Narvaroth is disgusted by humans in general, but Ryan is... yanno, Ryan. If he wasn't so easily led astray, he would have been a good partner in crime for Narvaroth. So if there is any human that Narvaroth "likes" (too strong of a word), it's Ryan.

What Narvaroth was trying to do in that chapter was deal with his suffocating envy of Michael and Gavin. He was trying to egg up Ryan. It didn't work, though, because as Michael said: he (and by extension Narvaroth) are pretty young by amaranthine standards. They shouldn't be able to produce eggs. Michael was able to because he's adapted to Earth willingly and thus the sympathetic biology effect has sped up his metabolism/lifespan to more closely match Gavin's.

The entire point of that scene was to show that Narvaroth was still a fucking child. He wasn't able to do what Michael did because he's not grown up, he refuses to adapt to his new planet, and so he's not advanced to the stage Michael has.

I hope that explains that!

[chornijvoron]

Hey! I bought the mass effect trilogy, i know you like it a lot but i never played it, do the different dialogue options really affect your character in the long run? (I chose standard femShep). I'm trying to choose what kind of personality i'd like her to have.

Yes! Ahhh, I’m excited for you! 

The dialogue options DO change how the game goes and your character develops - sometimes dramatically. [Hopefully you don’t mind slight mechanics spoilers] Choosing the Paragon options (usually the top; often nicer or “let’s cooperate!”) over and over will raise your paragon score; choosing Renegade options (bottom; often rude, cold or xenophobic - at least in the first game; it gets much more nuanced in 2 and 3) raises your renegade score.

Your amount of Paragon & Renegade, and in ME1, Charm and Intimidate skills, changes which conversation options may be available. The conversations you have can change the choices available to you and your ability to persuade other people to do/not do things.  And the things you choose and say in game 1 affect the rest of the series!

Not to say every conversation has life or death consequences - most of them are just forming you “personality” as expressed by Paragon/Renegade, so I think it’s pretty common to feel around for the first game to kinda figure out who your Shep is.

THIS IS SO GREAT I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT PLEASE ASK ME MORE ((((:

(also if you don’t mind spoiling yourself MassEffect Wiki lays out the consequences of pretty much all major convos and what Charm/Intimidate you need to have different options available. Charm / Intimidate goes away after ME1 and the game is then based purely on past choices and paragon/renegade scores)