Adam Holmberg

@adaell.bsky.social

Former game reviewer, current couch potato, dumber than a bag och bricks according to Martin O'Donnell.

Finished Star Trek Resurgence. It’s a Telltale-esque game and it’s fine. As a Star Trek story I enjoyes it, even if it slipped over to the movie ”grand scale and action” territory and a plot that reminded me of that GoTG game.

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Finished the Remnant vault on Eos yesterday and I forgot how much Mass Effect: Andromeda feels like it's covered in sticky notes saying "Placeholder fix later." Everything is a bit awkward and feels like it needs another pass. The dialogue feels off, the animations feels off, cutscenes feels off.

I like the Tempest in ME: Andromeda. I manages to not be a complete copy of the Normandy and I think it looks cool. The Pathfinder's cabin is a bit too big and luxurious though. So was Shepard's on the SR-1 but that's a Cerberus design and this is almost even more extravagant.

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(Spoilers, video clips) I love the Mass Effect 3 Citadel DLC. It’s completely stupid and self-indulgent but it’s just a treat of levity in an overall very bleak game. I don’t even care about some characters being a bit flanderized, I just like to spend more time with them.

I still think Wrex’s character model in ME1 looks fantastic. He might be kinda low poly by modern standards but the art and animations make him look amazing compared to all other squadmates in the game.

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Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

Tried some Big Walk yesterday and it’s cute. Got my hands on a megaphone and annoyed everyone with it. It’s a bit like The Witness but it’s not made by an asshole and you get to be an idiot with your friends instead.

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Rumors of Bioware being sold by EA after the acquisition. Real question, who in the world would be the prefered owners and custodians of those IPs (if they are a packaged deal with Bioware) to begin with?

Got an email from Netflix begging me to subscribe again, but it's 20+ frickin' dollars for the 4K subscription? Hell naw, return when you have enough stuff for me to binge in a month.

The Samsung Galaxy Fold8 (not Ultra) is probably the first foldable phone I'd actually be interested in, ignoring the price and that it's... Samsung. But the size and dimensions look great and the design is pretty cool. It's way too expensive and it's still not reliable enough, but soon?

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I always forget how beyond awful the journal was in Mass Effect 3. It should have been illegal with how poor it is at tracking what you’re actually supposed to do.