I saw Turtle Down says you stun an enemy if you block it at the right time. Is the "time" consistent amongst different enemies? Like, am I looking based on when they start an attack ,or before it lands? I kept trying it against one of the turtle enemies and could never get the timing for the stun down.
So, recently got more privacy minded, read up on things, educated myself on stuff.
I decided to switch from Gmail and Outlook to Posteo, I am in the slow process of moving all my important accounts over.
Now, other than, I believe, certain specialised accounts that are exclusively privacy focused, I do not believe I use my actual new email address for anything, so it should arguably never be exposed.
I currently have 2 email aliases that I use for things.
One is a financial variation of my email that I use for purchasing account stuff, like Amazon or Paypal or stuff. The idea being that at any point I can abandon that alias and get a new one, and maybe even split things up if I feel the need. Right now, it serves my purpose.
Then I have an alias that is for friends, family and employer, in terms of contacting me if they need it. I would also likely use this one when signing up with the government in some cases, if they needed to contact me. This one is ideally an alias I do not want to be changing often, and so I would like to limit it's reach to very specific scenarios.
Conceptually, I plan another Alias, which is where I will have to start paying Posteo for an alias, and this one would be related to Job Recruitment, connected to LinkedIn, what I'd put on my CV, and I expect to much more frequently change and rotate as time goes on and job agency / linked in spam gets worse.
Where I am hitting a bit of a wall, is Google.
See, I don't need or particularly want a gmail account, but, I do in fact need a Google Account to use certain other platforms. It's mandatory.
So the question I'm struggling to answer, is what alias would I use to register a google account, do I use one of the above, or do I have a new one? I have no frame of reference for what sort of platforms, or services, that I would register an account with that would be arguably best grouped up with Google in this scenario, but I'm also asking how worth it is to have an entire alias I pay for, exclusively for google in this scenario.
I could, I suppose, just have a new gmail that is used exclusively for this account, maybe setup auto-forwarding. It's not an email I share anywhere, I'd never login to it if I can avoid it, but presumably it'd be more common for any service that uses my google account to send things like Verification emails, which I'm not sure how many I'd even have, and whether it'd be worth that being in a second inbox versus in posteo?
If I were to use it within posteo as an alias, the question becomes... Are there any other types of accounts you could think of, like platforms, that would be "Grouped" up with a Google Account email?
I don't know how to handle this separation of different identities or priorities when it comes to aliases, particularly as each alias I have with posteo past this point costs me a small monthly fee, so I'm hesitant to create new ones unless I feel like they add something.
Dunno if any such games exist, but I've been seeing a bunch of streamers play Mass Effect recently and it awakened some of my annoyances with the franchises original trilogy, and I wanted to talk about them.
I appreciate that, conceptually, locking content and especially endings behind owning other games / buying other products, that it would annoy some people.
Yet, if you are doing a narrative focused game where each instalment is an immediate followup of the previous in terms of story, where you take everything I do in one game and use that to decide what the state of the sequel is, all while implying my decisions matter?
I feel like it's only fair that, as someone that puts a lot of time and effort into one game, investing heavily into the story, mechanics and emotionally? You reward that by giving me something.
Mass Effect 1 had these resources. Half you get by scanning planets, the other half you get by exploring planets in the most scuffed vehicle I've ever had to use. It was a nightmare.
But here's the thing. You cannot do ANYTHING with those resources. They sit in storage, and await Mass Effect 2, because that is the game where you will use them.
And so, I spent time getting every resource I possibly could, only to reach ME2 and find out it did not matter.
Because ME2 gives you all the resources you need.
The only benefit to doing those minigames in ME1, is so you don't have to do a better optimised version of that minigame in ME2.
Yeah, a better and more optimised version.
Literally no reason to do it in ME1, unless you were under the impression it would have an actual use.
Or what about story implications.
Mordin have a big amazing questline in ME3? Well, hopefully you didn't let him die in ME2, which companions can die if you don't perfect it. Mordin? He has a 50% chance to die if you perfect ME2. I had to save scum THREE TIMES at the end of the game before I finally got an ending where he didn't randomly die.
To anyone that did let him die? Well shucks, guess you will experience that exact same questline, in the exact same way, with a random ass background character who appeared out of nowhere. The only difference is some of the dialogue, but literally everything else is the same.
"Had to be me, someone else might've gotten it wrong" he says.
Fuck that's not true. Literally someone else will do it if he dies and you decide to live with it.
While some of the characters have arguable variations if you let them die, where someone else does their thing but they have a different personality, so sometimes you get some lore implications.
But in terms of what quests are available, nothing changes. No content is denied to you if you let someone die, or you didn't play the other games.
I know other people think the emotional / lore side is enough, but I was just so disappointed being told my choices matter and it just never felt like it did. I save these characters and it felt like there was little to no impact on the world or story.
I personally would've loved if ME3 (The ending was shit imo) had a "Perfect" ending that was only achievable to those of us that had been with the franchise from the beginning and got perfect endings in each previous instalment.
Narrative focused games with continuous story instalments are the only games where I have this opinion on, so not many games would've met that for me.
But sometimes it feels like playing multiple games in this scenario entitles you to a couple references, jokes or a nostalgia mission and nothing else.
It went on a "3 day break" last year that lasted 2-3 months.
It's been over 4 months since their last chapter, after they returned for a very brief window. Novelupdates marks it as on hiatus.
Anyone heard anything from the author or have any actual news on what's going on?
The lack of information has me about to drop it despite really enjoying it.