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[thedarlingone]

memed from thisbluespirit I have made a list of 50 foundational media things of mine... it's quite a mixed bag and I don't know that I'd say I recommend all of them at this remove but they all certainly left a mark on me. I have a massive sinus headache due to changing weather so I'm sure there are a lot of things I've forgotten all about. Also most of them really ought to be "this entire series or this author's entire oeuvre" but we make do. Anyway consider letting me know which ones you've experienced or whatever. (It's got everything from music to video games as well as the expected books and movies so who knows.)

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[thedarlingone]

Gordon Lightfoot was not on there, but Stan Rogers was! Different sometimes-morose Canadian folk singer whose most famous song is about a shipwreck on the Great Lakes -- it's just a cheerful song about a shipwreck. XD

Mass Effect is a series of video games! (I do play them on computer but I feel like "computer game" is to be contradistinguished from a game also available on console? Which they are.) The ones I've played are a trilogy that tells a single story, an epic nearish-future space opera spanning about 260 hours per playthrough if I do everything thoroughly.

There's also a... another game, which I haven't played, Mass Effect: Andromeda. Spinoff sounds odd because to my ear it implies some change in genre or format rather than just "here's a similar story in a related setting" (maybe I'm too picky there), but it's not a sequel because Mass Effect 3 famously fucked up their ending so badly that they had to take the fourth game to another galaxy and leave the Milky Way before the events of the ME3 ending to avoid dealing with continuity from it. (That was not the official reason, but when a company has to release a canon story patch for the ending of their own game based on player backlash, and ending changes are still one of the most popular categories of story mod, it's not surprising they'd be quite concerned with not bringing that controversy into the next game.)

[fred_mouse]

D'oh, Stan Rogers, who I would have discovered about the same time as Gordon Lightfoot, possibly from the same person. Did you see the Yuletide story about "Barrett's Privateers"?

Thank you for the info on Mass Effect. That bit about the ending of the third one is fascinating, and concerning.