Mass Effect

kebra, (edited )

Mass Effect et la Logique du G*nocide.

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Salut.

Au long de la saga, Mass Effect nous propose 4 fois de commettre un gnocide.
Il les justifie. Il ressuscite pour le 21ème siècle une logique coloniale et impérialiste, une logique g
nocidaire qui est plus vivante que jamais aujourd'hui.

🔴 yewtu.be/watch?v=LUyP_dGtOE4

Chapitres :
00:00 Début.
03:19 Intro.
17:06 1. G*nocide.
24:48 2. Racisme.
32:13 3. Savoir.
38:58 4. Peur de l'Inconnu.
50:09 interlude.
53:46 5. Etat d'exception.
1:06:50 6. Plaisir.
1:10:19 7. la fin.

Sources abordées / Conseils de lecture, visionnyage :

  • The Games Industry Must Not Stay Silent on Palestine, People Make Games. The Games Industry Must Not Stay Sile...
  • Exterminyate All The Brutes, Raoul Peck, HBO, 2021. (Et le livre de Sven Linqvidst)
  • Gaza, Pathologies de la Vengeance, Adam Shatz, Orient 21. https://orientxxi.info/lu-vu-entendu/...
  • Politiques de l'Inimitié, Achille Mbembé, 2016.
  • Necropolitics, Achille Mbembé, Public Culture, 2003.
  • Colonisation & Migration, François Héran, Collège de France, 2023. Migrations et sociétés François Héran
  • Les Origines du Totalitarisme, Hannyah Arendt, 1951.
  • Dialectique de la Raison, Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer, 1947.

Snoopy,
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Hésitez pas à lire les commentaires de youtube.

On peut etre d’accord ou non avec ses points avancés.

Ya des passages de jeu omis pour ma part, et je suis pas d’accord avec son parallèle jeu/irl mais ya des points pertinents où elle apporte un éclairage nottament la construction des races, de l’imaginaire collectif.

inanedirk, German
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lol ich guck' gerade die Serie von Videos, die über gemacht haben, und mir stellte sich die Frage: wurde im Spiel eigentlich jemals die Fragen und Probleme mit Masse, Trägheit und Beschleunigung adressiert?

Fiel mir schnell selbst wieder ein. Ja, wurde. Ist im Namen Mass Effect bereits versteckt 😂

https://youtube.com/@ResonantArc

inanedirk,
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@thomas ich hätte nicht gedacht dass ich das mal sagen würde, aber das Video ist mir zu doof 😂

thomas,
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@inanedirk 😂 richtige Reaktion. Ich dachte, ich muss da durch. Was für ein Trugschluss!

MaddyWaves, German
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🇩🇪 Es ist der 15. April - der Tag, an dem ich vor einem Jahr meinen Seelenverwandten aus getroffen habe: Legion. Eine kleine Geschichte unserer Beziehung, und wie zu fiktiven Charakteren überhaupt funktioniert.

🇬🇧 It's April 15th - the day when, one year ago, I met my soulmate from Mass Effect: Legion. A little history of our relationship, and how being in with fictional characters works, anyway.

:tumblr: (ENG) https://ideas-on-paper.tumblr.com/post/747856759440490497/legion-an-anniversary-of-love

hannu_ikonen,
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Anyone else romance Ashley in Mass Effect just to ditch her racist ass and never look back?

Fucking ethnocentrist.

sidereal,
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@hannu_ikonen Ha! To be honest when I was playing those games I just interacted with her character as little as possible. Just like when I've had to work with bigots IRL 😒

chgowiz,
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I've got a little playlist of ambient music that just puts me in the zone when I'm coding. And it just hit "Callista" by Saki Kaskas. AKA the music from Afterlife's Upper Level in Mass Effect 2.

Probably my favorite best "bar" music from a video game setting.

rivetgeek,
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@chgowiz Sometimes I just put on headphones, start up a neverending Cryochamber Records playlist, and barely barely stop the music all day.

chgowiz,
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@rivetgeek I get that way with the TRON 2.0 (videogame) soundtrack.

irunonprivacy, French
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Minute

J'ai officiellement fini les Mass Effect. Voilà.
Voilà voilà.
🥲

remidu,
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Bon retour sur terre @irunonprivacy

Andromeda également ? Est-ce qu'il vaut le coup même si on a bouclé la trilogie il y a plus de dix ans ?

Monsterlady, (edited )
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What type of power do you use the most in ? I personally love biotics. They're so cool it's like being a space mage!

apzpins,
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@Monsterlady It gets wild with full biotic squad. Lift+throw is always highly entertaining.

In ME1 biotic Shep, Kaidan and Liara made insanity run insanely easy.

Monsterlady,
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@apzpins I don't play on high difficulties so I cannot relate other than happy to see more biotic love.

JayJustice,
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Happy friends! I'd like y'all to keep in your hearts & minds all of the developers & actors who work hard to create these games we love so much. Give them your support & compassion as they fight for fair treatment & fair compensation in their industries. Truly, it is the LEAST we can do. ❤

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Genderqueerwolf,
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Genderqueerwolf,
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@MsHearthWitch I needed one but didn't have a dog and now there are four in my life 😭

MsHearthWitch,
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@Genderqueerwolf Awww. They've been sold out as long as I've been aware of them, which makes me sad. Don't they know ppl still love Mass Effect??

Nikkileah,
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TheSpaceshipper,
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Happy !
Mass Effect (2007): The Citadel, unused concept by Derek Watts
It shouldn't be long before we have news of the next Mass Effect, which has been in development for years now.

Karma_J,
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matzekult,
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N7_Spectre,

A very special Happy to all of my fellow fans around the world.

It seems like yesterday that I saw the commercial for the first Mass Effect around this time in 2007. Incredible to see how far the franchise has come.

Really excited and cautiously optimistic to see what they have in store for .

Black-haired, brown-eyed female Commander Shepard with her back facing Captain Bailey of Citadel Security inside the C-Sec Precinct at Zakera Ward on the Citadel.
Black-haired, brown-eyed Commander Shepard standing in front of Liara inside the Normandy.
Commander Shepard and Liara sharing her "gift" for Shepard during the final moments before the end of Mass Effect 3.

N7SeveranceDay,

We love , but this , we'd also like to remind of the importance of treating your crew right. So join us in having a little fun while expressing support for all the folks laid off this year: grab yourself a meme template (https://imgflip.com/memegenerator) or have some fun generating terrible AI images* (https://www.bing.com/images/create/) and use the hashtag to share your best creations!

  • EDI would like to note: no actual AI is involved in this process.

"Boardroom Meme" showing three main panels. In the top panel, a man is leaning on a boardroom table saying "We need a third round of layoffs this year. What can we do for them?" In the second (middle) panel, two regularly dressed people and one wearing a dark grey armor-like outfit with a red and white stripe down the sleeve armor are sitting behind a table speaking. The first one says "Withhold money unless they waive all rights to say anything to anyone!" The second person says "Thoughts and prayers!" and the third says "Offer them at least the legal minimum severance required in Alberta?" In the bottom panel, the left shows a close-up of the man from panel 1 looking angry, and the man in the striped armor looking deadpan. The final image on the right is the man in the dark armor being thrown out into space. At the very bottom is the hashtag .

dreadfulsanity,
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AHHHH! Happy from Germany, where it's already the 7th. 😏

aconito, Italian
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anniethebruce,
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Anyone have tips for good gaming mice?

Special features, basically anything that would require a special app in Windows, need Linux support to be part of my purchase decision. I'm ok with needing third party apps for this support, though first party would be ideal.

Gaming is mostly , , and similar games. Not a competitive FPS or RTS player.

My Corsair mouse is great but the mouse wheel button is dead. The wheel functionality works fine, but the button under it is dead. I would like it maybe slightly heavier(I find heavier mice easier to control)

the_skotts,
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@anniethebruce I've been using the Fenek Standard issue for a while and really enjoy it. It's not super fancy but its a well built, comfortable mouse. And it helps support @ward and Easymode

https://epicpants.com/products/fenek-standard-issue-mouse-3310-infrared-sensor-matte-black

ward,
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@the_skotts @anniethebruce Cheers! thanks for posting this. I love mine... and it does indeed help the site!

dreadfulsanity,
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I'm curious. It took me a couple of runs through all and games to settle on a "Yes, this is my head-canon" character. Though I do have 2 for DA:O, DA:I and ME these days. Wonder how many characters it will take in for me to find "my heart's desire". 😏

grrrr_shark,
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@dreadfulsanity Yeah, I'm sort of playing it like "well, I'm human and he's got another 350 years, so maybe he'll hang around until I drop dead?"

But since my IRL husband was like... supposedly eternally committed because it was on paper, but at no point indicated that he was so in love with me that he couldn't do without me (he never ever said anything even vaguely romantic), I think I look for a little vulnerability in my pixel men :)

dreadfulsanity,
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@grrrr_shark Oh, he's saying the sweetest things. He is in love with the Tav. I don't know about Wyll, but you'll get vulnerability in Astarion. It just takes a bit.

Monsterlady,
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Here's how much I love , enough to make this collage! A heart next to the ones I'm in love with. ❤️

L-R top - bottom:
Septimus Oraka
Lorik Qui'in
Adrien Victus ❤️
Tiran Kandros
Garrus Vakarian ❤️
Vetra Nyx
Tarquin Victus
Nyreen Kandros
Saren Arterius

apzpins,
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@Monsterlady My headcanon next ME game would have a young Turian, disgraced in the eyes of the hierarchy, but during the first contact war they learn about these odd creatures called humans and their odd concept of individualism.

Monsterlady,
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@apzpins a game about the First Contact War would have been interesting.

Monsterlady, (edited )
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It's time for a new and my third run of Mass Effect Andromeda. The more I play, the better my Ryder looks. It's easy for me to choose professional over casual (since casual is too sarcastic), but whenever I try to be logical, I end up switching back to being emotional before I even land on Eos!

This game didn't deserve the hate it got, and I certainly didn't deserve to be harassed on the Facebook page for expressing my enjoyment!

dreadfulsanity,
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@Monsterlady I love the game. It has a different vibe than the originals, but it's not as bad as people made it out to be.

Monsterlady,
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@dreadfulsanity Exactly. On Eos now, time to go to that vault.

aconito, Italian
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beelzerog,
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Gonna be streaming tonight on joystick.tv at 8pm MDT. Planning on playing Mass Effect Andromeda with nude mods.
https://joystick.tv/u/beelzerog

derek,
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A little guilty pleasure. I'm replaying the old trilogy.

Initial thoughts:

  • It is such a pleasure to play a Shepard-style character. Confidently confident is a nice change of pace.
  • The old game mostly holds up, except:
  • Ashley Williams is a straight up xenophobe

"I can't tell the aliens from the animals." Get this woman off my team.

soragrey,
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@derek Yeah, Ashley uhh didn't stay on my team long

derek,
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@nlovsund so looking forward to the Citadel DLC! I've only heard about it but I feel like playing it now means the nostalgia will hit really hard.

Halefa,
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I'm going to start my first ever blind playthrough of tonight and I haven't even started to think about what build I'm going to play. 🫠

Halefa,
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@killyourfm So many people have recommended this game to me, I'm super excited and ready to have my mind blown! 😁

killyourfm,
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@Halefa I wish I could experience it again for the first time. That trilogy was peak BioWare, peak sci-fi gaming, and peak world-building. What a gem.

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