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Modern *technology* has NOT existed, ever before in at least 160,000 years. World peace is possible through the intelligent application of these technologies, even if the invention of them had been powered almost entirely by non-intelligent and non-peaceful motives.

Trying to take the capability for violence away from human beings is like trying to design a less explosive version of gasoline to put in your car. Not only is it probably impossible, but it entirely misses the point to even try in the first place. We don't need "world peace". We need human beings smart enough to recognize when it is or isn't the appropriate time to engage in violence. People who get emotionally upset and lash out? They'll use any tool they can get their hand on as a weapon, so it's pointless trying to disarm them; we should instead be teaching them to calm themselves and seek a more constructive solution. But law enforcement preventing those who refuse to be calm from harming people who are just minding their own business? That's absolutely a correct use of force. And equipping a citizen militia to oppose government military forces in the event of tyranny or a coup or something? That's also correct. Violence is not bad. Violence that's evil in purpose or indiscriminate in application, that's what's bad. We don't need fewer weapons. We need responsible weapon-users.

I don't really understand the whole concept of "game communities" as shown here; a forum makes sense to me, but having a different forum that's separate from the actual forum confuses me more than a little. Still, I tried to play along, and posted my question there: https://forums.nexusmods.com/topic/13498921-mass-effect-downgrade-can-files-be-fixed/#comment-130467754 my response has been silence. when I've asked questions on the actual forum, they at least got SOME acknowledgement. Did I do something wrong, or was it wrong of me to try and do something right?

Not exactly a modding question, but technical enough that I hope you'll indulge my request. For several months I happily played only the Mass Effect 1 section of the Mass Effect Legendary Edition, creating five characters plus one for a friend, but then disaster struck. First I forgot my password to the EA app which the LE requires you to log into before you can play; thankfully I was still able to play even without being logged in for a while. But recently some new glitch developed where I could start the game playing, but it wouldn't actually launch the program after waiting several minutes. Disgusted with this problem and seeing no hope I could ever fix it without access to the company's app (whose password recovery was tied to an email account I'd lost access to), I gave up on playing the LE ever again and deleted it to free up hard drive space. Even if I thought it would work again and I could spare the space to reinstall it, I literally don't feel like spending another six hours or so not using my computer while it redownloads this enormous three-games-in-one Steam Pack, given that I have little desire to ever play the other two games. So instead I bought the original 2007 Mass Effect as a standalone Steam game, which doesn't have any EA busybody interference preventing me from playing it. Alas, having created a new character to test it, there's a completely different file format for save games, and while I'm capable of copying one of my old save files from MELE and editing the filename to have the same extension as the new save I made within ME07, this unsurprisingly failed to make the file detectable, let alone interpretable, by a program older than the one with which it was made. I'll never have any "hacking" knowledge much more sophisticated than what I'm just asking, so as a humble servant of the Imperium who can't appease a machine spirit to save his life, I ask the local Tech Priests to simply tell me whether it's *theoretically* possible to get the old save files rejiggered to work in the earlier, less f*#@ed-by-EA program, or if I'm boned and will have to manually reconstruct those characters as best my memory can manage. If the answer is that the old characters are gone forever, well I'm no worse off than I was before posting. But if there's a way of making it happen, then I'd probably be willing to pay another $5 or $10 to some tech-savvy person just for the service of editing the LE save files so they'll work on 07. Maybe more if it's such a big "hacking" job that such a low price in an insult, but I already paid $30 for the game in addition to whatever MELE cost me (I think I got that on sale, as with every other game I ever buy off Steam, but 07 was an exception because I knew it would be worth fully $30, even if I had to play it all over from scratch). It sucks if those characters are gone, but I wasn't that far into the game (one and only one of my 7 total characters had progressed far enough to land the Mako on Liara's planet, the others had never yet moved past the Citadel), so it isn't the biggest of deals, and only my deep affection for "my Shepherd" makes me even consider throwing more money into what is already my far and away most expensive game.

I didn't see anything about this on the Fallout Wiki (the non-Fandom one, since I like not being bombarded with ads), so I'm asking if anyone happens to know. Most of the time, when I recruit Fawkes, he uses the standard Super Mutant voice, more or less, especially for his battle cries and the like. But a couple of my numerous characters get a different Fawkes, with a much more unique voice and different lines which the standard SM Fawkes never says, such as "I only kill to know I'm alive!" and "I release you!". It seems obvious that the latter is intended to be "the" Fawkes, so I don't know why it is that I usually get stuck with the more generic version. Anybody able to provide some info about this?

Apparently I can't LIKE a post by a deleted user so I'll do this instead. His comment about a vintage DOS game makes me think of NALAKH, which I barely played but which really impressed me while also frustrating the crap out of me.

Honestly, while it does have flaws, I vote Fallout 3 for best game I've ever played. Before that I never picked a single favorite, but for the title of "greatest" I'd probably pick Diablo 2, which frustrated the crap of me but was astonishingly compelling and *frequently*, not always, rewarding to play for a huge number of hours, compared to more perfect but smaller and shallower games (the two that immediately come to mind are Metroid Fusion and Castlevania AOS). Also honorable mention to Final Fantasy V, specifically the fan translation for SNES emulators. All three (non-parenthetical) of these are games that I've made literally thousands of playthroughs of, except Diablo 2 where it was only a few hundred, but I played them for longer because it's far and away the grindiest of the three.

For several months I happily played only the Mass Effect 1 section of the Mass Effect Legendary Edition, creating five characters plus one for a friend, but then disaster struck. First I forgot my password to the EA app which the LE requires you to log into before you can play; thankfully I was still able to play even without being logged in for a while. But recently some new glitch developed where I could start the game playing, but it wouldn't actually launch the program after waiting several minutes. Disgusted with this problem and seeing no hope I could ever fix it without access to the company's app (whose password recovery was tied to an email account I'd lost access to), I gave up on playing the LE ever again and deleted it to free up hard drive space. Even if I thought it would work again and I could spare the space to reinstall it, I literally don't feel like spending another six hours or so not using my computer while it redownloads this enormous three-games-in-one Steam Pack, given that I have little desire to ever play the other two games. So instead I bought the original 2007 Mass Effect as a standalone Steam game, which doesn't have any EA busybody interference preventing me from playing it. Alas, having created a new character to test it, there's a completely different file format for save games, and while I'm capable of copying one of my old save files from MELE and editing the filename to have the same extension as the new save I made within ME07, this unsurprisingly failed to make the file detectable, let alone interpretable, by a program older than the one with which it was made. I'll never have any "hacking" knowledge much more sophisticated than what I'm just asking, so as a humble servant of the Imperium who can't appease a machine spirit to save his life, I ask the local Tech Priests to simply tell me whether it's *theoretically* possible to get the old save files rejiggered to work in the earlier, less f*#@ed-by-EA program, or if I'm boned and will have to manually reconstruct those characters as best my memory can manage. If the answer is that the old characters are gone forever, well I'm no worse off than I was before posting. But if there's a way of making it happen, then I'd probably be willing to pay another $5 or $10 to some tech-savvy person just for the service of editing the LE save files so they'll work on 07. Maybe more if it's such a big "hacking" job that such a low price in an insult, but I already paid $30 for the game in addition to whatever MELE cost me (I think I got that on sale, as with every other game I ever buy off Steam, but 07 was an exception because I knew it would be worth fully $30, even if I had to play it all over from scratch). It sucks if those characters are gone, but I wasn't that far into the game (one and only one of my 7 total characters had progressed far enough to land the Mako on Liara's planet, the others had never yet moved past the Citadel), so it isn't the biggest of deals, and only my deep affection for "my Shepherd" makes me even consider throwing more money into what is already my far and away most expensive game.

I'm banning literally everyone for having failed to inform me that this topic existed the moment I joined the forum.

I'm guessing that thing about flutter development, despite appearing in my quoted text, came from you, as I have no idea what it is and have certainly never done it.

I need to replace several items that were lost due to a glitch. The cheat code I looked up said I should enter into the console "player.additem [#][desired condition (1-100)]". So, to try and test this out, I figured I'd start by replacing two 25% condition 10mm Pistols; I entered "player.additem [0000434f][2][25]". Then I figured I'd go for something simpler, an undamaged Dirty Pre-War Business Suit; I typed in "player.additem [0005c682][1][desired condition (100)]." And finally I figured I'd try something really simple, and just asked for a Beer: "player.additem [00015197][1]". In all cases, the response was the same: "SCRIPTS: Script 'SysWindowCompileAndRun', line 1: Missing parameter ObjectID. Compiled script not saved!" So obviously there's something I missed; what exactly was it?

Well it's moot now. Thanks to everyone here who tried to help me, even though it ended up not mattering.

what's a UAC?

First off I have gotten the game working again; one of the Steam users managed to find the mod I needed, something about a Graphics Bypass. I have a few other things like FOSE and the Anniversary Patcher in there which may or may not cause issues later, but for now the game is working, albeit looking a little different. You are right that the German Low Gore version is not the one I had (although I didn't have blood splashes on normal hits before and I do now; I'm guessing if I poked around in the graphics settings I'd find out why it's different, as I was changed from High Quality to Medium and there may have been other alterations). I do still think the change seems unnecessary, and I'm annoyed that it ever happened, but what's done is done. I do think the bad advice from assuming I have more than I do was a common issue with people answering on Steam; they also couldn't figure out that I couldn't post replies to my topics because I don't have Steam Guard (and never will; it's Orwellian crap that has no business existing). I'm glad the whole thing is behind me for now. When I click on Steam's Fallout 3 link (either on the website or on my desktop), a window pops up that contains the options "Play", "Data Files", "Graphics Settings", and a couple others I never use. I used the Data Files to turn on the Pitt and Zeta expansions when I was bored with the base game, and the rest of the time I just press Play; this then launches the actual game, which loads for several seconds before reaching the menu, from which I can actually launch a New Game or Load an existing file. But in between those steps, Windows 11 has a window that says "Do you want to let this executable file run? Executable files can harm your computer" (not an exact quote). If I click "no", the game doesn't launch; I have to pick "yes" in order to get the game to play. I can't recall whether this has stopped happening since I did the graphics bypass.

I have now gotten Fallout 3 working, so I guess I gave Bethesda my information for nothing....