H'oohoohoo

RIP BioWare.

First, fuck EA, truly.

Second, this is awful news for a multitude of reasons. While BW was never the same after a lot of the heavy hitters left and EA ruining ME:A, it still breaks my heart to see this happen.

Mass Effect was a huge part of my life for a few years; co-ran an online community for it (protip: don't run a large LiveJournal community when you are mentally sick and unmedicated), made lots of hilariously terrible art and fic… it was basically my monofandom experience up until ME3, which I never finished and never will. Hell, I didn’t even mind Andromeda, flawed as it was. Can't remember a single thing about it but I don't remember it being as terrible as Gamers(TM) were saying it was.

Strictly IMHO, it might be for the best that the next ME game is cancelled seeing how certain other games turned out due to a pileup of changes, shakeups, and publisher meddling. Just have to look at DA:V and I'm like, yeah, probably for the best. Surprised EA didn't hand off the IP to Respawn or one of their subsidiaries though they're all saddled with Star Wars shit ATP. Don't count on EA selling off the IP either: they're gonna cling to it until the heat death of the universe and license it out to other developers/companies.

(I fear for a day when I wake up and find out that EA is letting BitBot do a Mass Effect comic continuation and/or a 2D sidescroller game through their shell company that made the RHPS game and LoK: Ascendance. IYKYK.)

That said, I loved ME and part of me still does, not to mention all the fond memories... but I burned myself out so hard and so bad that I couldn't even bring myself to buy the Legendary Edition.

Regardless, the whole thing absolutely sucks no matter which way you slice it.

Just… damn. RIP to one of the greats.

So, the enshittification of Bluesky has led to people complaining and whining about how there's nothing left for creatives and/or that there's nowhere else to go.

Never mind the fact that they're given suggestions and -gasp- suggested they make something themselves (like a personal site or blog), it's advice that goes ignored. Because apparently, most people would prefer to bitch and moan about how terrible things are but they'd rather sit around and wait with their fingers up their asscracks for someone else to do the heavy lifting in making a site or platform.

Sometimes, I wonder if these people think it's easier to whine and complain than, yanno, actually doing something about it.

Plus, when they're told about sites like Cara, Dreamwidth, etc, they give a litany of responses about how it's "too difficult" or "not enough eyes on my work" which, to be fair, I get if this is a living. But that didn't stop the person who created Cara, it didn't stop the people who made Dreamwidth way back when, and it certainly didn't stop the founders of AO3.

Nothing is going to change if people don't even attempt to lift a goddamn finger. Or try to break the addiction and dopamine rush they get when it comes to likes/reposts/etc on socmed.

Maybe it's just me having been raised by a firmly blue collar Michigander mom, but I was always told that if you want something done, you do it yourself. She also taught me to suffer absolutely no fools, which might be why I'm far more agitated at these people than I probably should be.

I get it. It's hard to create a website that isn't vibe coded slop, start up a Fediverse instance (though I have my own issues with Fedi that are best saved for another time), and go out and make a blog/personal website that likely won't be seen by very many people, if any. It's scary. But people have forgotten that's exactly what the old internet -the one Zoomers venerate by trying to mimic Y2K Geocities aesthetics and doing a shitty job of it 95% of the time- was like. There wasn't Twitter, there wasn't BlueSky...

idk. Think I've just lost my patience for everyone and everything after a week of dealing with visiting hospice nurses almost every day. That kinda shit really puts things into perspective.