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  1. Les effectifs de police sont "à bout", selon le syndicat des commissaires de la Police nationale
    Article France Info du 23/10/2026

    Hurwitt propose, il y a déjà longtemps, de quoi aider chacun à réfléchir à son engagement...

    #Police #Riches #Milliardaires #Répression #Peuple #ViolencesPolicières

  2. Mass Effect: Universe Would Have Mixed James Bond, John Wick and Hitman, Claims Community Adviser

    With BioWare being shuttered by the now Saudi-owned EA, we’re starting to get more details about the Mass Effect game that the team was working on. A leaked internal trailer gave us a look at the visual style and tone, and now we have people who were involved with BioWare giving us insights into what Mass Effect: Universe was going to be.

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    Dantics is an Australian YouTuber who claims he was a member of the Mass Effect council. In his video discussing the cancelled game, he explains: “They would send me what they were working on and I would provide feedback.”

    In other words, his involvement was advisory, but assuming his claims are true, he would have had access to a lot of information. There is indeed such a thing as the Mass Effect council — it popped up in the credits of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, for example — and council members have previously discussed providing feedback on marketing and development on other BioWare games. What I can’t verify is whether Dantics was actually a member, but my gut instinct is that he’s telling the truth.

    According to Dantics, Universe was going to take place more than 600 years after the original trilogy. The galaxy has split into three main factions: an alliance led by the humans that also includes the batarians and krogan; another alliance made up of the Council races; and a third faction in the rising geth superpower, which has also been making megastructures.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOWrTNazZxM&t=1s

    “Now, the three factions aren’t in open war,” he says. “Rather, it’s a cold war situation with an unknown enemy seemingly pulling the strings, which you are sent out to investigate.”

    Shepard and crew were fairly straightforward operatives, but Dantics describes the new protagonist as more of a secret agent/spy. Like Shepard, this customisable lead character is an N7 agent, although the developers apparently had a different style of action in mind.

    “They wanted the gameplay to feel more like James Bond meets John Wick,” Dantics explains. “You’re a super spy, an agent, being tactful if you want and forceful when you need.”

    The character would also have “experimental tech in your head that uniquely interacts with your physiology.” Dantics compares its abilities to Cyberpunk 2077’s hacking, including looking through walls and remotely exploding pipes behind enemies.

    Missions would use handcrafted maps like the original trilogy, but offer something closer to Hitman’s freedom of approach.

    “Your missions would be similar to Mass Effect 1, 2, and 3’s traditional handcrafted maps, but you can approach them freeform, similar to the Hitman series or the start of Noveria. You can talk to people, assess, analyse, and execute with more freedom. But if you wanted, you could go in guns blazing.”

    Liara would return as a powerful asari matriarch, which we glimpsed in the leaked trailer. Other companions included a krogan, a quarian and a human woman available to romance. Again, we caught some glimpses of them in the trailer.

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    The setting would also attempt to accommodate Mass Effect 3’s three main endings. After six centuries of technological progress, Reapers would be outdated and people would already be partly synthetic, reducing the differences between Control and Synthesis.

    “Reapers are outdated tech, so if you chose Control, they’re not going to be as impactful as they were,” Dantics says. “Everyone at this stage is part synthetic, so picking Synthesis works out a similar way.”

    Shepard would be long dead even if they survived Destroy, but their legacy would remain. Exactly how earlier decisions would be represented isn’t clear. Dantics says “your choices might even come up,” which suggests references to the trilogy rather than establishing how much those decisions would affect Universe.

    As for how much of this BioWare had actually made, Dantics claims: “Not to rub salt in the wound, but they were a lot further in development than their statement suggested.” Insider Shinobi602 has offered a similar account, although neither has supplied a completion percentage or demonstrated a near-finished game.

    In ResetEra comments reported by TwistedVoxel, Shinobi602 says the story was established, squadmates were implemented, hubs had been built and new combat and quest systems were being developed. He also claims development was progressing well, rather than suffering the problems associated with Andromeda and The Veilguard.

    Shinobi602 describes the leaked trailer as an internal mood piece made for leadership, using placeholder assets to communicate the game’s direction. He says the team had been diverted to help finish The Veilguard before returning to Mass Effect following its release. His account is that EA leadership had been enthusiastic about the project, with the cancellation reflecting changing priorities at the publisher.

    There is some first-hand support for the team’s ambitions. Former BioWare cinematic supervisor Tony de Waal wrote on LinkedIn that the project aimed for “a level of autonomy and choice that no other game has been able to match.” He cited Larian and CD Projekt as inspirations while stressing the team’s desire to stay true to the trilogy. De Waal also said he was among roughly 50 remaining BioWare employees who lost their jobs, a number which was also mentioned by Jason Schreier in his reporting.

    However, ambition and progress don’t tell us how much work remained. Jason Schreier confirmed the leaked trailer was authentic, which establishes its origin rather than how representative it was of the wider game. BioWare’s closure statement still described the project as being in early development, and the footage itself uses pre-production assets.

    Regardless of how close the game may or may not have been to release, Dantics’ details paint a pretty interesting picture. The idea of a Mass Effect game with more freedom to tackle objectives and the option to approach situations more like a secret agent than a soldier sounds awesome. But of course, it’s also easy to make a game sound good on paper — most cancelled games can be made to sound like they would have been spectacular. It looks like we will never know, unless this version of Universe gets handed off to a different team.

    #bioware #ea #MassEffect #News #PC #PlayStation #Xbox
  3. Network Effect: Ketika Nilai Produk Bertambah karena Jumlah Pengguna

    Iklans - #Network Effect: Ketika #Nilai Produk Bertambah karena Jumlah Pengguna - Dalam dunia #bisnis digital, jumlah pengguna tidak hanya menjadi ukuran popularitas sebuah produk. Pada beberapa jenis layanan, semakin banyak orang yang bergabung dan menggunakannya, semakin besar pula manfaat yang diperoleh pengguna lain. Fenomena ini dikenal sebagai network effect atau efek jaringan. Network effect…

    iklans.com/blog/network-effect

  4. „Mass Effect: Universe“: Trailer zum gestrichenen Rollenspiel geleakt

    Einen Tag nach der Schließung von BioWare ist ein Trailer zum eingestellten „Mass Effect“ aufgetaucht. Er zeigt einen Spionage-Thriller – Fans sind enttäuscht.

    heise.de/news/Mass-Effect-Univ

    #ElectronicArts #Entertainment #Spiele #news

  5. Kotaku just posted:

    Mass Effect: Universe Would Have Allowed Players To ‘Generate’ Timelines That Acknowledged Multiple Choices From The Trilogy

    Now that the leaks are out there, some ex-BioWare devs are chatting about what they were working on before EA canceled the game

    kotaku.com/mass-effect-univers

    #gamingNews #Kotaku

  6. One side effect of church services being held in Latin, is that a number of small village priest did not actually speak Latin. They learned how to be a priest from a neighboring village. In a TTRPG game world this opens up some interesting possibilities. Perhaps a local deity has stepped in and his masquerading as the actual God. The heretical practices of the poorly trained priest work for it. How will the players interact with this if they even discover it. #TTRPG.

  7. Eurogamer just posted:

    Mass Effect Universe "looked incredible" says creator who claims he advised BioWare

    A content creator who claims to have served on a BioWare community council has shared alleged details about the cancelled next Mass Effect game, titled Mass Effect Universe. Read more
    eurogamer.net/mass-effect-univ

    #gamingNews #Eurogamer

  8. A funny side effect of enshittification is that big tech apps are becoming worse than their low budget competitors

    Best example is Ling, people used to see it as a cheap made-in-thailand Duolingo knockoff. But now that Duolingo is basically slopware, Ling is 100% becoming the better alternative

  9. The threshold effect of green space-urban expansion allometric growth on healthy cities: A multi-city panel analysis sciencedirect.com/science/arti

  10. Insider Gaming just posted:

    ‘Mass Effect 5’ Starred a Customizable ‘John Wick’ N7 Agent 600 Years After the Reaper War

    In a post on social media, the length and breadth of Mass Effect Universe (Mass Effect 5) was revealed, and it sounded fantastic.

    insider-gaming.com/mass-effect

    #gamingNews #InsiderGaming

  11. "Reducing methane emissions is an effective tool to curb warming in the short term. One way of doing that is producing and eating less meat. Shifting toward more plant-based diets could make a meaningful difference.

    Raising cattle for human consumption is also one of the main drivers of deforestation, which contributes to warming by eliminating carbon sinks."

    grist.org/food-and-agriculture

    #GlobalWarming #environment #ClimateChange #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #pollution #nature #science

  12. Garantir à chaque citoyen un accès effectif aux soins médicaux, sur tout le territoire :

    petitions.assemblee-nationale.

    Rappel : moins on soigne les symptômes, plus la maladie s'aggrave, plus on perd en productivité (pour ceux qui sont de droite ...)

    #sante #politique #economie #vie #initiatives_citoyennes

  13. "In the Woods" demonstrates a simple but effective character feature that makes the protagonist move cell by cell, thereby reducing or eliminating attribute clash problems. Look how it works here against rich backgrounds.

    #zenplay #ZXSpectrum #Speccy #Spectrum #retrogaming #pixelart #golang #foss #retrocomputing
    #indiedev #indiegamedev #gamedev #Z80

  14. @ebbot 2/2 machines will be in effective control. People won%27t be able to just turn the machines off, because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide. --Ted Kaczynki, Technological Slavery (2010) #technology #dystopia

  15. Daily Prompt: What's the most effective way you've found to mentor junior developers?

    kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-10-23/

    #prompt #writing #tech

  16. CW: Alcohol mention. Pagers. On call.

    “Who do think is least effective”
    ^
    you

    Maybe shitposting on Mastodon Jim

  17. I think I may be able to produce an effect similar to Simon Owen's amazing Tilemap, but for games built using Zenplay. Just an idea for now, may not happen until next year.

    Regular .tap tape, .sna, or .z80 snapshot for ZX Spectrum 48k or 128k, and cross-platform binaries for modern desktops. What's not to like?

    #zenplay #ZXSpectrum #Speccy #Spectrum #retrogaming #pixelart #golang #foss #retrocomputing
    #indiedev #indiegamedev #gamedev

  18. Cognition Dissemination: Of COURSE They Came for Mass Effect First
    It’s a real shame the new game in the franchise, and its developer Bioware, are now no more. But it was likely always doomed.
    dcgameblog.com/2026/10/cogniti
    #Bioware #CognitionDissemination #EA #MassEffectseries #PublicInvestmentFund #VideoGames

  19. Google's privacy policy, effective Oct 16, now says it won't show personalized ads based on Drive, Gmail or Photos content "unless you choose to make data from these services available to other Google services that support personalized ads." The Oct 1 version had no exception. Google says ads won't be "based directly" on your inbox. Android Authority: disconnecting may not erase data already saved in Search Services History.

    theverge.com/tech/1017600/goog

    #Privacy #Google #Gmail #InfoSec

  20. Movie TV Tech Geeks #TVNews #MassEffect #MassEffect #BioWare Mass Effect Will Reportedly Return Despite BioWare’s Closure dlvr.it/TW2D5l

  21. EA shut BioWare—and a trailer for its cancelled Mass Effect has surfaced. The leak’s source and the game’s fate remain uncertain. #MassEffect #BioWare #GamingNews

    cryovex.com/mass-effect-leak-t

  22. #FLwx #NWSJacksonville ⚠️ Gale Watches will go into effect for all Atlantic waters adjacent to southeast GA and northeast FL on Saturday afternoon.

    🌬️ This will be a long duration northeasterly wind event, with Gale conditions possibly continuing into early portions of next week.

    🌊 Seas will build to 10-16 feet across our local Atlantic waters by late Saturday night and Sunday.

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