Oh I’m quite aware my opinion is the unpopular one by a landslide! I totally respect why it’s such an important mod, and I’m glad it exists.

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I may be one of the only people who played MEHEM and actually found it underwhelming. It takes even more of the stakes out of your choice, and then wraps up with a happy party. As much as I hate to say it, removing the agonizing choice of saving Edi + the geth vs. potentially living through the blast makes the ending ring…hollow? Though it seems that by all indications, it won’t matter in ME5, since we know the geth are back.

You can still get achievements.

Super late to the game on commenting here, but I can’t tell you how much I appreciate you asking this question!

I reached out to the Reddit Mass Effect team early on to let them know this community existed for anyone who might want to jump ship, and got a generic “thanks for letting us know.” Which, hey, that’s cool, I get it.

I think we’re on the right track, though. We’re only a month old. I was tickled to see so much content having been posted and an increase in overall engagement, as I’m just back online today after being offline for a week. Organic growth like this is the best kind we can hope for.

Building a community takes time and getting to know one another. Come to the page, engage with the content. May take some intentional effort at first, but I’m encouraged by the display we have so far. We’re nothing if not an engaged fanbase!

Wow…this sounds amazing. I really could have used something like this a year ago. I wish this were more of an option here in the states. Our system for in patient mental healthcare isn’t exactly the most compassionate, from what I understand.

Indeed, after I made this comment I found that out. Gotta love the Mass Effect moddong community! Which reminds me, I want to make a comprehensive guide for Lemmings to read for those of us that are hesitant to look at reddit…

My favorite thing over there right now is r/videos, which only allows text descriptions of the video you were going to post. It’s way more entertaining than it has any right to be.

Aww, he reminds me of my two Maine Coon brother cats who I had to let go when they were 14. (One died from cancer right after their birthday, the other died from kidney disease not quite a year later. He never was quite the same without his brother.)

I am so sorry for your loss. He really is a beautiful cat. Magestic kitty bois are best kitty bois.

Ugh that reminds me of trying to talk to a Replika. “I have a gift for you!” “Great, what is it?” “(Hands you a box)” “…cool so what’s inside the box?” “Wouldn’t you like to know!” “Umm. Yes. Yes I would like to know what’s in the box you just gave me.” …and so on and so forth until I rage-quit the app. 😆

I see a lot of people saying, “I can’t believe it was only a 3% drop,” and I’d like to offer some context as to why there’s not enough data here to really tell a story, yet. It could go a few different ways.

The Reddit protests in June were a big deal, not just on Reddit or Lemmy, but to the media at-large. Traffic surely saw a huge influx of people wanting to look at the dumpster fire. I know that I myself used Reddit a lot leading up to the blackouts, since it was, in a sense, the last hurrah of Reddit as we knew it. The Spez AMA would have driven traffic. The NSFW sub protests would have driven traffic. All those news articles linked to Reddit directly, and they would have also driven traffic.

Even with all that, there’s still a decrease in traffic. As others have said, July will be a better metric for the actual damage done, since the media has largely moved on and aren’t driving as many visits, and 3PAs are toast.

These numbers would have been more representative if we could have had more than a quarter to look at. What was the QoQ trajectory before this? For all we know, this could have indicated business as usual, or it could have indicated something much bigger, depending on what the traffic metrics over the past 12-24 months could show us.

I also would have liked to see the history for unique sessions and unique visitors. If there was a huge influx of unique visitors compared to the past few months, but traffic was still decreased overall, then that would indicate it came from news clicks or bots.

Basically what I’m saying is that the data doesn’t paint any kind of real picture right at this moment. That doesn’t mean there was no impact though. Time will tell.

Yeah I was always annoyed at how the Cerberus armor and weapons were great, but it forced you to waltz around like a Cerberus simp. :/ Everything has to have a drawback I guess!

Unfortunately r/videos is only allowing text based descriptions of videos at this time, so you’ll have to describe it in excruciating detail.

(Srsly tho the illegal upload of Bee Movie was a thrilling read.)

Whaaat I didn’t even know this was a thing that could happen!!

Absolutely true. It’s tough to be an early adopter sometimes though! I love the vibe here, but I’m really having to shift what my usual community hangouts are. Sometimes I feel like I’m talking to myself in the ones I tried to get running, though one is at least limping along.

But you’re right. Patience and persistence is how we get there.

This right here. As much as I’ve been enjoying Lemmy, it’s also been hard to go strictly-Lemmy, because the active users currently here aren’t quite as deliciously trashy as some of the subreddits. Like, yeah, I’m a developer, yeah I’m a nerd, but you know what? I like makeup tutorials and talking crap about the Teen Mom franchise. I could descend to deep diving in all my guilty pleasures on Reddit, and it’s crickets over here in comparison.

So…I’m trying. But it’ll only be as successful as the content we generate.

That’s awesome!! Natives are where it’s at. I got a bunch of drought tolerant natives for the side and front yard, where I don’t have an automatic drip hose set up, and they’re all thriving just fine.

I’m not sure what to rotate in for the fall garden. Or next year’s, for that matter. I’ve learned so much and in so many ways I still feel like a complete novice! How do you go about planning your gardens?

I tell ya, I tried okra last year and it was a total bust. Had enough seeds to try again this year, started them indoors. Of the 10 seedlings I sprouted, six made it into the ground in March, and only two are still growing. They’re by far my slowest growers, but the good news is they look like they’re finally picking up speed and are looking strong. They’re about 18"-2’ tall now. I hope they survive the next 3 months set to have more 100*+ days than not.

As someone attempting to grow from seed here in Central Texas:

It would be SO MUCH cheaper for me to buy store bought.

You have to factor in a watering costs, soil quality, fertilizer costs, and time commitment. Oh and potentially overhauling large swaths of your yard to grow crops and flowers to encourage enough pollinators to show up.

I spent probably over $1,500 this year getting my yard in suitable enough shape to grow, after a complete bust on any kind of yield last year. I also grow herbs indoors, and yes that can be more cost effective. That isn’t to say it’s not worth it, I’m about to have an insane yield of tomatoes that I won’t know what to do with. I currently get to make my own fresh bruschetta every week with home grown basil and tomatoes. I get fresh strawberries off the vine every day, though the bushels aren’t very large. If all goes according to plan, I’ll also have some bell peppers and okra later in the season. All grown from seed. I have morning glory and passion flower vines that have volunteered all over parts of the yard, the latter being a critical food source for butterflies, so I now have a few dozen butterflies flapping around on a given day. I also have a ton of volunteer sunflowers after setting up bird feeders with black oil sunflower seeds as feed.

It’s wonderful, my yard is slowly rewilding and I love being able to grow a little food. It’ll get cheaper over the next few years to maintain. But it certainly was not cheap to get here! Container gardening is cheaper, but you still have to have the right light sources and watering schedule. If you live somewhere naturally rainy and sunny in equal measure, and the climate isn’t trying to kill you, then it might be cost effective. It was at one point in time. But it isn’t here, now. Still worth it for me though.

My dad is in an assisted living facility and this is unfortunately the type of food he gets. I have to send him groceries every week just so I can be sure he’s getting enough to eat.