Jason Byrne
@geekwithsoul.bsky.social
I coalesce the vapors of human experience into a viable and meaningful comprehension.…
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Also on Mastodon at https://c.im/@geekwithsoul
Archive of @geekwithsoul on Twitter is at @geekwithsoul-old.bsky.social
Man, Fairfax County Public Schools #FCPS in Virginia, has totally bought in to the AI hype. One of the best school systems in the country has sold out the kids it's supposed to be educating.
November 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Man, Fairfax County Public Schools #FCPS in Virginia, has totally bought in to the AI hype. One of the best school systems in the country has sold out the kids it's supposed to be educating.
Actually found a neat #OuterWorlds2 pacifist choice not covered in any of the walkthroughs I could find. On the 'Do More Harm' quest, you can keep Curator Arnaux alive and stop him calling in Protectorate reinforcements. Explanation in the alt text to avoid spoilers.
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Actually found a neat #OuterWorlds2 pacifist choice not covered in any of the walkthroughs I could find. On the 'Do More Harm' quest, you can keep Curator Arnaux alive and stop him calling in Protectorate reinforcements. Explanation in the alt text to avoid spoilers.
Video game spaceships are always supposed to look cool. It's practically baked into the genre. But #OuterWorlds2 gives you this *thing* and I can't think of a more on-point bit of storytelling. Humanity can fly across the stars, but dystopically, it's in about the ugliest ship imaginable. Love it.
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Video game spaceships are always supposed to look cool. It's practically baked into the genre. But #OuterWorlds2 gives you this *thing* and I can't think of a more on-point bit of storytelling. Humanity can fly across the stars, but dystopically, it's in about the ugliest ship imaginable. Love it.
Right here is why I love @obsidianent.bsky.social - wondering across a planet and run across a guy with an animal antenna stapled onto his head. And he's scammed other soldiers into making his pet mantisaur the ranking officer. And it gracefully handles you already having the object of the quest. 😍
November 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Right here is why I love @obsidianent.bsky.social - wondering across a planet and run across a guy with an animal antenna stapled onto his head. And he's scammed other soldiers into making his pet mantisaur the ranking officer. And it gracefully handles you already having the object of the quest. 😍
I hadn't seen a lot of discussion of it, but actually really enjoying @obsidianent.bsky.social doing something different with the main menu in Outer Worlds 2 and turning it into a conversation with Moon Man. It's hard to make menus fun, and this seems the best example I've seen.
November 2, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I hadn't seen a lot of discussion of it, but actually really enjoying @obsidianent.bsky.social doing something different with the main menu in Outer Worlds 2 and turning it into a conversation with Moon Man. It's hard to make menus fun, and this seems the best example I've seen.
It was someone who really likes hot air balloons
October 15, 2025 at 2:29 AM
It was someone who really likes hot air balloons
Ah, I see Ancestry finally updated their "DNA Origins" info again. Having a well-built out tree over decades, it's always interesting to see what they get right and what they get wrong.
Also, that's a lot of colors to basically say "Yes, you're a very, very white boy"
#genealogy #dna
Also, that's a lot of colors to basically say "Yes, you're a very, very white boy"
#genealogy #dna
October 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Ah, I see Ancestry finally updated their "DNA Origins" info again. Having a well-built out tree over decades, it's always interesting to see what they get right and what they get wrong.
Also, that's a lot of colors to basically say "Yes, you're a very, very white boy"
#genealogy #dna
Also, that's a lot of colors to basically say "Yes, you're a very, very white boy"
#genealogy #dna
September 18, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Waffles! 🧇 (specifically Sourdough Waffles 😋)
September 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Waffles! 🧇 (specifically Sourdough Waffles 😋)
Picked up an ebook version of Asimov's 'The Gods Themselves' from 1972 for a reread and was struck by the opening page. Damn, he nailed it, didn't he? 😕
September 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Picked up an ebook version of Asimov's 'The Gods Themselves' from 1972 for a reread and was struck by the opening page. Damn, he nailed it, didn't he? 😕
@artologica.net You probably have already seen this, but I had to make sure 😄
August 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM
@artologica.net You probably have already seen this, but I had to make sure 😄
More Andromeda weirdness. Don't give one of your NPCs a cloak if you can't stop it from clipping into his clothes. And evidently sometimes your NPCs are ghosts that you can see the plant life through. 🤷♂️
August 14, 2025 at 7:13 AM
More Andromeda weirdness. Don't give one of your NPCs a cloak if you can't stop it from clipping into his clothes. And evidently sometimes your NPCs are ghosts that you can see the plant life through. 🤷♂️
Throw in some so-so writing, bad voice direction, and baffling choices regarding gameplay, and this is going to be a bit of a slog. The trilogy was far from perfect, but it was sorta cohesive in its dysfunction. This is just sort of all over the place. I'm happy w/ my created character at least.
August 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Throw in some so-so writing, bad voice direction, and baffling choices regarding gameplay, and this is going to be a bit of a slog. The trilogy was far from perfect, but it was sorta cohesive in its dysfunction. This is just sort of all over the place. I'm happy w/ my created character at least.
After my Legacy Edition replay, finally cracked the seal on Mass Effect: Andromeda. It came out in 2017, I didn't buy it until 2022 (thank you Steam sales!), and just installed it for the first time. It's…rough. The general graphic improvements are fine, but pretty glitchy. The controls are dumb.
August 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
After my Legacy Edition replay, finally cracked the seal on Mass Effect: Andromeda. It came out in 2017, I didn't buy it until 2022 (thank you Steam sales!), and just installed it for the first time. It's…rough. The general graphic improvements are fine, but pretty glitchy. The controls are dumb.
@scottleibrand.bsky.social I was amused by running across this on Lemmy 😀 Did a double take and went "Wait, I know him!"
August 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
@scottleibrand.bsky.social I was amused by running across this on Lemmy 😀 Did a double take and went "Wait, I know him!"
So bye for now Shepard. Despite the janky Mako, the interminable minigames, and the weak ending, you're still one of my favorite characters in any media.
August 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So bye for now Shepard. Despite the janky Mako, the interminable minigames, and the weak ending, you're still one of my favorite characters in any media.
And hands down, some of the best voice acting in any game ever. Even when silly, or over the top, the voice performances carry so much of the emotional impact of the game. No one would care about any of these characters without them - certainly no AI would be able to deliver these performances.
August 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
And hands down, some of the best voice acting in any game ever. Even when silly, or over the top, the voice performances carry so much of the emotional impact of the game. No one would care about any of these characters without them - certainly no AI would be able to deliver these performances.
I mean it's not every game that has you fight your evil clone and swear vengeance because they messed with your space hamster. "She messed with my hamster, guys. Now it's personal." may be my favorite line in all three games.
August 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I mean it's not every game that has you fight your evil clone and swear vengeance because they messed with your space hamster. "She messed with my hamster, guys. Now it's personal." may be my favorite line in all three games.
Done w/ Mass Effect 3, ending my replay of the trilogy. They certainly didn't stick the landing, did they? Even played through all four options to remind myself of the different endings and they're all pretty weak. Still a masterpiece, even though flawed in places. Some of the best writing ever.
August 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Done w/ Mass Effect 3, ending my replay of the trilogy. They certainly didn't stick the landing, did they? Even played through all four options to remind myself of the different endings and they're all pretty weak. Still a masterpiece, even though flawed in places. Some of the best writing ever.
Planning on finishing up my Mass Effect 3 replay tonight. Probably could have finished it days ago, but especially with video games, I always drag my feet for the ending because I'm never ready for it. 😄 Meanwhile with a book, I'll sprint to the finish because I can't wait to get to the end.
August 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Planning on finishing up my Mass Effect 3 replay tonight. Probably could have finished it days ago, but especially with video games, I always drag my feet for the ending because I'm never ready for it. 😄 Meanwhile with a book, I'll sprint to the finish because I can't wait to get to the end.
And while I am sure things have been updated since then, the core functions are built on systems that are as old as I am. To put that in perspective, this was the type of terminal used to access Unimatic when it first launched.
Can't wait to find out someone asked ChatGPT or Co-Pilot to fix code 😆
Can't wait to find out someone asked ChatGPT or Co-Pilot to fix code 😆
August 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
And while I am sure things have been updated since then, the core functions are built on systems that are as old as I am. To put that in perspective, this was the type of terminal used to access Unimatic when it first launched.
Can't wait to find out someone asked ChatGPT or Co-Pilot to fix code 😆
Can't wait to find out someone asked ChatGPT or Co-Pilot to fix code 😆
Mass Effect 3 replay update: killed a reaper, ended a war, and saved both the Geth and the Quarians. I'm kind of a big deal 😆 (honestly this is probably the hardest thing to do in the game as it takes making certain choices over all three games).
August 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Mass Effect 3 replay update: killed a reaper, ended a war, and saved both the Geth and the Quarians. I'm kind of a big deal 😆 (honestly this is probably the hardest thing to do in the game as it takes making certain choices over all three games).
Also, I'd forgotten how stupid the quest handling is in Mass Effect 3. Way to easy to have a quest ready to hand in, do a priority mission, and then lose the ability to turn in the other, totally unrelated quest. And absolutely no indication in the UI that's the case. Grrrrr. 😡
August 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Also, I'd forgotten how stupid the quest handling is in Mass Effect 3. Way to easy to have a quest ready to hand in, do a priority mission, and then lose the ability to turn in the other, totally unrelated quest. And absolutely no indication in the UI that's the case. Grrrrr. 😡
I'd forgotten that Mass Effect 3 has "space pigeons"!
August 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I'd forgotten that Mass Effect 3 has "space pigeons"!
And that's how you play Infiltrator class in Mass Effect (And yes, whenever given the opportunity, I always play the Skyrim-esque "Sneaky Archer") 😆
August 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
And that's how you play Infiltrator class in Mass Effect (And yes, whenever given the opportunity, I always play the Skyrim-esque "Sneaky Archer") 😆