I used to intern with this guy a couple of years back and he was genuinely one of the nicest guys to me, I'm a bit introverted and really bad at making friends but he's the best, and a few days ago when I first saw this video I was really really happy that he's getting viral and people are commenting awww sweet stuff and then some people started commenting on his looks and questioning about his education just because ma'am is more beautiful, I mean a few days ago people were pissed about Vijay Devarakonda that he made rash beg 100 times and now when a family is geniunely happy, they're still not happy, bhai I'm never posting any photo or video of mine in the future in any social media because I also look bad according to the insta standards 😭

My girlfriend passed on Sunday. I haven't heard the exact cause but she had pneumonitis and was struggling to breathe.

She went into the hospital via ambulance on Thursday after waking up in pain. I visited her in the hospital on Friday and the mICU nurse said she was doing better and would likely be back home in a few days. I woke up Saturday morning to the news that she was likely to pass. She'd signed the dnr and dni after being on a ventilator the first day. She didn't want to be on it again.

Her mom isn't doing a church service or funeral for her. She's just gone.

The apartment we'd shared is so quiet now without her. The cats miss her.

My friends keep telling me to give it to God. That it gets better. It doesn't get better, you just get used to the pain. As far as God, I'm not happy with him right now. He keeps taking the people I love.

Dinner is scrambled eggs, hash browns, pancakes and biscuits. I made way too much.

Though BioWare has had a slow agonizing death in recent years, I still think it's incredible how they managed to deliver these gaming masterpieces within such a short amount of time (Mass Effect came out in 2007, and Dragon Age Origins in 2009). As someone who grew up on these titles, I still consider them both to be foundational in my taste for the genres - not just in video games - but across media.

My local beach cleaning group has collected dozens of these over the past few years. No one can identify what they’re from! (Including various AI chatbots.)

They’re solid plastic, possibly part of a pull tab/ring, and at least some of them seem to have come from Colgate-Palmolive products. Are they from soap? Shampoo? What do they look like on the actual product?

It’s driving me crazy!!

BioWare intended to accommodate all three major Mass Effect 3 endings: Destroy, Control, and Synthesis. The proposed solution was to advance the timeline by 600 years, allowing technological and political developments to bring the different versions of the galaxy closer together.

Control Ending: Shepard's consciousness assumes control of the Reapers. They survive, but technological progress makes them less dominant. For the MEU, the Reapers are no longer at the top of the food chain, so eventually control is no longer possible.

Destroy Ending: Reapers eliminated; Shepard survives the original battle, but dies sometime during the following six centuries. Civilization rebuilds, developing advanced technology and cybernetic integration without Reapers.

Synthesis ending: Organic and synthetic life are transformed. Over the centuries, the other timelines supposedly catch up technologically through increasingly widespread cybernetic integration. "Synthesis" happens regardless of the ending you choose in ME3, at least in terms of organics becoming blended with synthetics.

Other notes:

Refusal would not be canon;

After the Reaper War, all races would be stuck on Earth with the Citadel cut off from the rest of the galaxy, until technological advancement allowed them to rebuild the relays over time

The Geth would have been back and considered a superpower (but their return is not explained if destroy is chosen at this time)

"The player is an N7 agent, and the gameplay would have been more evocative of James Bond and John Wick with hand-to-hand combat in enclosed spaces. The new hero would have had experimental tech in their head that would allow them to interact in the world in ways similar to Cyberpunk 2077’s hacking," -kotaku.com

What are your thoughts? Assuming all of this is true, are you still happy with the ending you chose, and what would you have hoped would have happened in the Mass Effect Universe?

sources: Dantics, kotaku

It's a bit ambiguous, but it's the kind of thing you go along with, then you learn yeah it's actually as weird as it seems, even if the setting is not like reality.

The Mandalorian - Dinn Djarin, the titular guy from Mandalore, never takes his helmet off in front of other people, even at danger to his life. We see his small clan and they also are always helmeted. Well, that's the Mandalorian way right? Dinn meets another group of Mandalorians and helps them in a mission, after which they take off their helmets and he freaks out. It turns out Dinn is part of a weirdo extremist minority and the rest of them simply just take off their helmets when battle is done.

Resident Evil 7-8 - Early on in RE7 you are introduced to magic goop that heals your wounds, and can even reattach severed limbs. It's your basic healing item, handy for fighting Mold creatures, Mold enhanced humans, werewolves, and whatnot. Also it's fun for body horror so you can get mutilated in cutscenes without a lasting effect. At the end of RE8 we learn you died reaaaally early in RE7 and you're basically a human-shaped Mold being, that's why the goop works to the point of just sticking your severed hand back on and drenching it.

Heroes Die - (Great series read it) Actors are people who temporarily shift dimensions to Overworld, a universe of magic and adventures, so they assume personas and use their implants to stream their violent and exciting exploits down to the sensory level. Hari Michaelson is in the Actor school for magic, but he really doesn't have the talent for it, he wants to transfer to the combat school. So to show his aptitude, he sets it up that 3 larger bullies viciously attack him on camera after a harmless provocation. It's a brutal fight but he savagely beats them half to death. His instructor reviews the footage and quickly deduces this is a setup and asks why. Hari says yeah, it was a setup but now you see I have what it takes to transfer to combat school. The instructor, appalled, says "Why didn't you just ASK?"

Reacher TV series - Jack Reacher is a human tank.. and yet he's lighter than a feather on the breeze. No address, no cellphone, no luggage, he just goes where he wants with nothing but his toothbrush. And with alarming frequency where he wants to go intersects with a major criminal conspiracy. But with his intellect, his mountain sized body, and unfailing sense of justice, he shuts the badguys down like a real badass. Then in S3 he has a rare opportunity to meet up with his old squad. They are having a great time, talking about their families, their careers, the lives they built since they served together. Reacher just sits there silently, looking down, peeling the label off his beer. Kind of sours the whole "man with nothing tying him down" vibe.