Returning player here, played a lot about 5 years ago and just got back into it this week.
Did they change LRMs and ams while I was away? I dont remember them being as popular or effective. For example I build a lrm sun spider back when and it was kinda meme-y.
My friend just got his endorsement from a weekend class so im showing him the ropes and trying to flush out his training. Ive been riding for a decade and his wife is very nervous about this adventure.
Any advice on stuff to practice? I made him run emergency braking, emergency swerves and u-turns for about an hour last weekend.
Okay here me out. I work in social impact vc (SIVC) and non profit granting, and as of late ive been trying to definitionally distil our policy into theory, or at least create a framework backed by existing theory. This page of notes for mostly personal reasons has citations from marx, smith, keynes, hayek, and robyens.
Somewhere in there I figured this doc of my notes might work as an essay, or book... or fuck it a manifesto.
The general idea is using SIVC and nonprofit instidutions (what i do for work) as financial mechanisms for decentralization of care (hayek's knowledge problem) as well as democratization and revaluation of corporate entities (Marx and robyens).
Context aside The goal of this post is to crowd source some economic thinkers i can reference for more research, preferably modern ones. Who else should i look at? What am I overlooking. This is economic philosophy not political economics.
Just finished a full legacy edition run as a vanguard fem shepherd with renegade leanings. I tried to rp as if I didnt know what was coming but be fair and ruthless. I.e. sorry wrex, and sorry ash in me1, destroyed the genophage data in me2. Etc.
All that aside, altho the narrative of those decisions leading a me3 shepherd who knows they dont see the other side... reminiscent of the Serenity villian who says something to the effect of "i work to build a world i don't deserve to live in". Ahem. Aside that. The ending is better today than it has ever been. Especially if you play a shepherd who doesnt believe theyre making it out.
I know there were some redrafts of the ending. And some poor VA casting for the catalyst kid. But the general idea is a stroke of some form of genius (it could be an accident idk, but generally back then bioware had good writers).
In a series built on the idea of choice, in the end you don't have one. Saren wanted to work with the reapers, the illusive man wanted to control them. Both were indoctrinated. Thus there's only one option: the mission you started in ME1. Theres a certain beauty in that that always leads us to the cannon ending.
SURE there was no final boss fight. But to be fair. How the fuck do you fight harbinger mechanically. He fucked it and thought you died.
Anywho cheers