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[YurigirlzCrush]

thanks for the extra input! *smiles* I was just trying to figure out how a character would react after losing consciousness on Earth and waking up in Shepard's apartment. but it seems that it could pass for any big city from the apartment given a quick glance out the windows. so wonder and awe will have to wait for a later scene. *shrug* I was hoping that the windows gave an unobstructed view to space or something. but no big deal.

thanks again! hope everyone is having a good weekend! *waves*



sugarfaeries!! i'm top post and I don't have anything fun or interesting written that i'm comfortable enough to share. i'm total fail at top post! *cries*

Modifié par YurigirlzCrush, 23 novembre 2013 - 11:24 .

[Ignis Mors]

What do you guys think of this theoritical alt ending to ME3, that doesn't involve the stupid star child?
You attach the Crucible, and it isn't working. You go up, and learn from Avina, the details of the Crucible. Have her integration into the Citadel and the Crucible's attachment causes the program Vigil gave you to give Avina full access. ] This lets her access ancient files on the station's databanks so she can inform Shepard as to why the Crucible isn't firing. She'll then reveal three things through investigation options, as well as explaining how she can tell you this stuff. One, the Leviathan's lied about creating the reapers. They were merely around in that time. Two, the reapers were created to stop the Leviathans from enslaving everyone. And, three options for what the Crucible can do. Destroy and control stay, but synthesis is replaced by an option to detonate the Crucible and the Citadel. Have the dialogue make Destroy and Control sound like options that might not work, but the third will definitely let you win, but at great cost. Have this be the ending where the relays are destroyed in a more controlled detonation that leads to the reapers dying, Shepard, gone, and severe damage to the fleets but not complete destruction. Have it essentially send the galaxy back to the dark ages. In the new control, Shepard's body is still destroyed, but the relays just send out a blast that overwhelms the reapers' current AI, giving Shepard control. And, maybe even giving you an option to keep killing everyone, send the reapers to their destruction in say a star, send the reapers into darkspace to just leave everyone alone, or have the reapers help people rebuild their homes. While having them not use their indoctrination. Just, turn it off. We already know that they can control the strength of the indoctrination signal. And, destroy just takes out the reaper code. This causes the reaper nanites in husks to destroy the husks. So, they still have husks vaporizing. It makes the reapers detonate their drive cores.[/color] Which has been shown to kill them in the Derelict reaper mission. Next, the geth and EDI are still destroyed, sadly. But, Shepard is fine, except for the damage received from Harbinger. So, you have three endings that satisfy desires of three largely different demographics. You have your depressing as hell ending for people who want that. You won, but at ridiculously high cost. Oh, also, Destroy only works if you have max EMS, and control only if you have very high EMS. While the other one, works on any. You have your kinda sad ending, but still happy-ish ending in control. And, you have your happy but slightly bittersweet ending in destroy. I personally think that these three endings would be much more satisfying.  

Modifié par Ignis Mors, 23 novembre 2013 - 11:41 .

[MrStoob]

@Ignis:
Reapers reap because Leviathan? I'd like more detail on that as the Reapers' method doesn't add up then. To avoid the Leviathan having total domination on the galaxy, surely the rest of the galaxy would need to live on in order to make the action valid. Hunting the Leviathan would take priority in that scenario, I would think. Comes back to the question that BW answered so poorly: why the cycles, specifically?

[Ignis Mors]

MrStoob wrote...

@Ignis:
Reapers reap because Leviathan? I'd like more detail on that as the Reapers' method doesn't add up then. To avoid the Leviathan having total domination on the galaxy, surely the rest of the galaxy would need to live on in order to make the action valid. Hunting the Leviathan would take priority in that scenario, I would think. Comes back to the question that BW answered so poorly: why the cycles, specifically?

They reap the others because some leviathans escaped into hiding, and through the cycles, they make so the Leviathans don't go around enthralling people because that would lead to their discovery. As well as the people who made them's philosophy of it is better to die free than live as a slave. 

[YurigirlzCrush]

i'm with Stoob on this one. the cycles would be unnecessary if the Leviathans were the problem. they wouldn't need to wait until societies advanced 50,000 years to reap them if they were worried about Leviathans. in fact, waiting 50,000 years would be bad in that case, since the Leviathans could spend all 50,000 of those years enthralling entire civilizations. it wouldn't make sense for the reapers ever to retreat to dark space in that case. they would have to scour every single planet with overwhelming force that not even the Leviathans could overpower and wipe them out. wiping out civilizations would be pointless. a machine's logic would dictate that they go after the source.

[YurigirlzCrush]

sorry for the double post but for some reason it's not letting me edit my last. I have a question that I need creative input on.

how do you think an asari with a hanar parent would act? or what sort of traits would they exhibit? *ponders* I have a few ideas, but I really can't picture them speaking like hanar, with the... this one does this, this one thinks that... type of speech.

[MrStoob]

I'd say the mother's influence cannot be dismissed and asari are quite proud of their culture/history. I've had one asari character with a hanar father (small part in a Serrice Uni oneshot), but not sure how helpful that'd be for your premises as she's not particularly 'hanar-y'. They say kids rebel... etc.

On the cycles:
If AI/organic war, then the cycles make sense, though execution is lacking.  To prevent the AIs from completely wiping out ALL organic life (and systematically snuffing out any conditions that may nuture life), then this solution is sound.  Intelligent organic life persists.  Obviously, not a long term solution, but that's the problem that the Catalyst faces and it seems almost desperate for an alternative.

I'd done a spin on this whole thing that the Catalyst realises it misinterpreted programming by not ensuring that intelligent organic life is persistant in the galaxy, that the cycles do not provide a solution to that problem.

Modifié par MrStoob, 24 novembre 2013 - 12:30 .

[hot_heart]

Ever done research for something then just decided to scrap it? I have narration about Miranda transforming the team into a finely-tuned, lethal orchestra and was going to include some related musical terms both basic and classical (tempo, percussion, ostinato) like I had briefly in an earlier chapter. I checked on a few, spent a good half hour or so, reading up on things to make sure I had them correct, but including it in the writing, even sparingly, just didn't work. Oh well!

[MrStoob]

Hmm. With the ever increasing removal of user content around the BSN (polls, blogs, etc), how long until they come looking for us?

[fluffywalrus]

I doubt bioware will take this category of the forums down. It simply wouldn't serve a purpose, and it would disenfranchise a fair bit of the fandom through stripping them of brand ownership. Removing groups, blogs and polls? Those are community peer to peer things. But taking out a fan creations forum? That would simply be a horrible business decision.

[hot_heart]

I should think they're completely revamping the forum software to something developed in the 21st century.

Probably just winding down the 'extra features' to make an eventual shift a little easier, besides saving on bandwidth and such with the removal of a few of them.

Modifié par hot_heart, 25 novembre 2013 - 03:37 .

[fluffywalrus]

hot_heart wrote...

I should think they're completely revamping the forum software to something developed in the 21st century.

Probably just winding down the 'extra features' to make an eventual shift a little easier, besides saving on bandwidth and such with the removal of a few of them.

I just hope that they don't do what so many have done, and make a forum like Gamespot's. Sluggish, garish, poor aesthetics and interface layout, clunky posting and signature features, etc. (well, they've since worked out some of the bugs and taken some advice on improving it all, but it's still horrendously slow, unorganized, has buggy posting and signature code, and the site design is bare-bones, which isn't bad, but the use of space is awkward and it's kind of off balance).

I mean...by all means, I'd be happy for Bioware to update this forum. But they need to remember that there are three key elements to updating forums: maintain or improve communication abilities, maintain or improve loading speeds, maintain or improve navigational abilities of users.

So long as those three are covered, this should hopefully be good. But as someone who has gone through dozen up forum upheavals, usually companies end up trying to glitz things up with unwanted and clunky features that end up slowing everything down. Functionality is key, and more often than not, it's one of the least prioritized things when updates are considered.

I mean, I get that BSN needs to be updated...The sidebar on the left is mostly useless and repetitive, and there's little need for it in its current state. And it kidn of acts like a weird sort of facebook-type framework in some ways, which is awkward. But these forums are generally very functional, and I know that if they change, and it takes me double the time to access pages, and everything's sluggish, i'm probably gone for good. :\\

Modifié par fluffywalrus, 25 novembre 2013 - 03:39 .

[hot_heart]

In fic-related news, tinkering with this latest chapter, I just realised I could've put Shepard and Miranda together after Sanctuary, or at least have them contact each other another time before Earth, without bending the existing canon too much. (Though we're supposed to believe that between Horizon and Earth, she reunited with ex-Cerberus colleagues and assaulted numerous Cerberus bases).

The big concern was that Shepard asks if Miranda is "Feeling better?" and she replies, "Much" which is clearly supposed to be related to the Kai Leng encounter...except I could actually alter it to be with regards to Miranda getting worried about Oriana, who she left on the Citadel not long before the Reapers took it. Later, finding out she's fine.

Of course, it took until some brainstorming over contacting Liara to realise this (since she's also on the Normandy, why wouldn't Miranda seize the opportunity to speak to Shepard as well?) If only I'd figured this one out sooner.

I should be able to fit it into this chapter, though I'm not sure what there would be to say that isn't covered by the later scene. Hmm...

Modifié par hot_heart, 25 novembre 2013 - 03:39 .

[YurigirlzCrush]

fluffywalrus wrote...

if they change, and it takes me double the time to access pages, and everything's sluggish, i'm probably gone for good. :/

*cries and cries* nooooooooo! you can't be gone for good! I refuse to accept such a travesty! *megapout*

[Fatiguesdualism]

OK, so now I'm confused (easily enough done admittedly) I was using the proof-reading function on FF.net when it flagged something new at me.  'Bias language' so I thought I would ask for some opinions here.  The word in question is 'crippled' as used in:

But that had been the only damage the Normandy had suffered – and she had crippled one cruiser and damaged the [an] other.

Now (to me) 'crippled' says heavily damaged, but still (somewhat) capable.
Whereas 'disabled' means (again IMHO) 'dead in the water' - damaged beyond the point of any functionality.

Basically, am I wrong here?  Should I be using something other than 'crippled'?

p.s. These are objects I'm describing here, NOT people.  I realise a person with a disability is not a 'cripple' on the other hand -in many cases- I wouldn't say they're a 'disabled person' either, they are a 'person with a disability' -and now I'm wondering if I'm about to be ripped apart/reported/cast out 

[YurigirlzCrush]

crippled seems fine to me. maybe there's some rule I don't know suggesting that it is generally applied to living creatures? no idea why it would flag that one. but I think it's fine as is. I certainly wouldn't have stumbled over it while reading or pointed it out as an error.

[fluffywalrus]

I'd say you're good. Blame the global reaction to 'cripple' that ffnet gave you, and ignore it.

[Ignis Mors]

Hey guys, are you having any trouble with the doc manager's setup? I was going to work on a file, but it was in a weird setup, where it only showed two lines, and had random stuff added. 

[Ignis Mors]

 Hit F12 and it says that there is a problem with something called tinymce. I've tried everything I can think of. I've tried a hard reset of my computer, reinstalling chrome, installing firefox and checking there, checking in internet explorer, any ideas on how to fix the tinymce problem?

[fluffywalrus]

Ignis Mors wrote...

 Hit F12 and it says that there is a problem with something called tinymce. I've tried everything I can think of. I've tried a hard reset of my computer, reinstalling chrome, installing firefox and checking there, checking in internet explorer, any ideas on how to fix the tinymce problem?

It's an isue with ffnet itself, not anything you have. Tinymce is a WYSIWYG editor (which is why you're seeing code for paragraph breaks and font formatting and everything)...ffnet probably tried to update stuff server-side and ended up screwing up the code for that aspect of it somehow. So editing documents is probably screwed up until further notice. I'm sure it'll be fixed soon enough

[Ignis Mors]

fluffywalrus wrote...

Ignis Mors wrote...

 Hit F12 and it says that there is a problem with something called tinymce. I've tried everything I can think of. I've tried a hard reset of my computer, reinstalling chrome, installing firefox and checking there, checking in internet explorer, any ideas on how to fix the tinymce problem?

It's an isue with ffnet itself, not anything you have. Tinymce is a WYSIWYG editor (which is why you're seeing code for paragraph breaks and font formatting and everything)...ffnet probably tried to update stuff server-side and ended up screwing up the code for that aspect of it somehow. So editing documents is probably screwed up until further notice. I'm sure it'll be fixed soon enough

Alright, thanks for the info. I've been trying to edit the code by copy-pasting it into the spot directly, but that wasn't working. That also explains why everything I've tried has failed. 

[MrStoob]

On the 'cripple' thing. It's a well used and common turn of phrase. FF are not doubt being so overly PC it's dumb, and I'd personally say under the advice of an idiot. I can only imagine that these people get very confused over every genuine metaphor...

...

Shepard looked on with his steely gaze.
Idiot: "Did Shepard have steel eyes? That's not canon."

[fluffywalrus]

MrStoob wrote...

On the 'cripple' thing. It's a well used and common turn of phrase. FF are not doubt being so overly PC it's dumb, and I'd personally say under the advice of an idiot. I can only imagine that these people get very confused over every genuine metaphor...

I wouldn't say it's them being overly PC so much as it's just that logic, at least what software runs on, cannot possibly adjust for cultural context. So they just keep the word in and flag it as a warning.

That said, I'll admit freely that I hate when people say something is "overly PC/politically correct", because as a member of a marginalized community, I've had people verbally abuse me, dismiss my arguments and opinions, etc, and whenever I complain, I'm ignored or the abuse persists and I'm told to stop whining. And whenever someone other than me, someone not in a marginalized community brings up the issue, and requests changes to people's behaviour, it's suddenly 'forcing' people to be more "PC".
IMO you either have respect or you don't. If I use ableist language and am called out on it, and the complaint is legitimate, I apologize and change it, because it's no skin off my teeth and I should know better. And any writer who encounters such a situation and holds off on making such changes because to do so would be "too PC", or that it's "not that big a deal"? They're disrespectful sh!ts.

So just like MS word underlines words like ableist, heteronormativity, cissexist and transphobia, for instance, and considers them spelling errors or non-words, I know better and just ignore the squiggly red line, because programs don't have the ability to comprehend, and they're not entirely inclusive and nuanced with their language. But people can think for themselves, and often aren't as inclusive either. So this issue over "Cripple"? Just a software issue with it being flagged there, much like curse words are here. It's more of a warning.

And sorry for ranting. been on reddit all morning and have had to deal with some ****s who think it's morally proper to treat people like me as subhumans. So some of my ire has likely transferred to this post, but the moral is that if you can't have enough respect or empathy for someone to make a minor, harmless change in your word selection of all things, there's something wrong with you. Not saying anyone here is like that. It's just that if a word gets flagged and your first response is to say it's by some 'idiot' forcing people to be 'overly PC', maybe you should sit back and ask why it even matters to you so much  that someone, however misguided, flagged a word in hopes of authors not harming or offending someone.

Modifié par fluffywalrus, 26 novembre 2013 - 03:27 .

[Fatiguesdualism]

Thank you for the advice Yurigirlzcrush, fluffywalrus and MrStoob - I am glad to know I haven't just offended a lot of people. I am still trying to figure out how I actually posted the chapter in question. I thought I had only saved it, pending a final, final proofing. But apparently not!

Also, fluffywalrus, I am sorry to hear about your experience on (reddit? ) I hope your day got better afterwards.

Modifié par Fatiguesdualism, 26 novembre 2013 - 07:43 .

[MrStoob]

Apologies if I offended. I still haven't got over 'sheep-gate'...

Baa, baa-

Modifié par MrStoob, 26 novembre 2013 - 09:40 .