Zelsabriel

Exactly. Mississippi checking in. o/

I'm not surprised in the least.

I work in healthcare and I've been so burnt out after working through COVID despite how politicized it was, not knowing if I was risking my life, my loved ones' lives, or my own permanent sense of smell and taste, all while getting told off by ignorant, selfish pieces of crap just for wearing a mask and taking an illness that I personally witnessed kill many people seriously, not to mention being overworked and understaffed for literally YEARS due to a combination of baby boomers retiring while simultaneously increasing the need for healthcare workers by needing more care as they age, coworkers finding other jobs because of their own burnout, and hospital administration trying to maximize profits at the expense of the workers and at the expense of patient care that I just up and resigned from my own job a week ago.

I don't even know what I'm going to do. I withdrew my retirement account early and I'm just taking some time to figure it out right now. Tbh though, the idea of going back to healthcare makes me feel physically ill. And that's really sad because I got into it to help people, but after the way people acted during the worst pandemic we've had in a century I don't want to help anyone anymore. I just want a normal 9 to 5 where I'll have weekends, evenings, and holidays off and very little to zero risk of bringing a contagious and deadly or debilitating virus home to my family.

IMO you nailed it. It's not a bad game per se, especially after they fixed some things, but it's no where near the quality of the original ME trilogy.

I don't know if you consider this a spoiler or not, so maybe stop reading here if you're concerned about that... But the thing that bothered me the most was the lack of alien diversity. They went to a whole other GALAXY and both of the new sentient alien species they encounter are bipedal carbon-based lifeforms. To add to the disappointment every race that came to Andromeda is also bipedal and mostly carbon based, so it's actively less alien than the original games even though we're in a whole new galaxy. No hanar. No Volus. No elcor.

And every Asari face is literally the same model except for the crew member you have with you. They all have literally the same face. Idk. It really bothered me.

Another thing that's annoying is you have less control over your squad mates in combat. I really enjoyed the way combat sometimes felt like a puzzle in the OT, bringing certain people for certain enemies and combining powers so each of you are stronger together. It felt like teamwork even though it's really all you. In Andromeda they basically just made the main character OP instead and that's the only one you control.

With that said, it's still fun! And I think it's worth a playthrough or even two. Just don't expect it to be Mass Effect.

You know it!

I'm finding that a lot of it was just habit for me. I kept opening Reddit without making any conscious decision to, so I moved my new Jerboa app where my rif app used to be and now my finger hits Jerboa when I'm feeling bored instead.

I would've guessed Rimworld. I once had a cat that kept getting into my alcohol and passing out in the freezer. It kept losing limbs to frostbite until it was finally just a stump that couldn't leave its pet bed...

Could've also gone with "war crimes for new hats" 🤠

Buggy survival dino pokemon

Deep Rock Galactic!

This is exactly how I feel about the Lemmy app Jerboa. Is it perfect? No. But it'll only improve as time goes on.

I love that you're sharing these other fediverses. This is really interesting AND helpful, but...

I love the simplicity of Paper.wf for blogging. It's truly elegant; I just click the link and start typing.

Creed? Is that you?

The irony of the man choosing to use the name Tesla when he's just another Edison.

Actually, even that is probably giving him too much credit...