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How to use upgrades in Mass Effect (PC)

Open the inventory and click the box(es) to the left of the item’s coloured icon. This will show all the upgrades in your inventory for that item.

Mass Effect inventory screen

Maybe I just missed the relevant part of the Inventory tutorial (was there one?) but it wasn’t immediately obvious to me how to use weapon and armour upgrades.

I knew I was looting items I could use and was wondering where they went. After some unsuccessful googling I finally figured it out so I thought it deserved a post.

Dear postie…

Thankyou for waiting for the one day when you know it’s going to rain to leave my mail sticking out of my letterbox. (more…)

5 things I won’t miss about where I used to live

I’ve just moved from a modest sized unit to a modest sized house. Things are very different and these are some of the things I won’t miss: (more…)

10 things I’ve learned about painting*

I’ve recently bought an established home and have decided to “make it my own”. That was the first bad move. Here are some things I’ve learnt: (more…)

Trying Windows Live Writer

So, I’ve taken the plunge and let Micro$oft install a bunch of Windows Live stuff on my PC. Include is Windows Live Writer which proposes to be able to write posts on my blog.

Let’s see if it works.

Hottest day of the year (so far)

Of course the day that the power decides to go out in my neighborhood is also the hottest day of the year. (more…)

Finally, a Home

So, after 3 years of floating around various sites on the ‘net, my blog(s) have finally arrived at their intended home, seanys.com. I bought the domain a couple of weeks ago but I’ve only just got around to tranferring my blog across from it’s previous ‘temporary’ home at seanys.kicks-ass.net.

Thankyou’s go to WordPress, MySQL and phpMyAdmin for making the moving process relatively easy.

+dmg ftw

Spent the night in LBRS and got to bed waaaay too late. Was a prety good run and scored myself the [item]Hands of Power[/item] and the [item]Trindlehaven Staff[/item].

Also finished Warlord’s Command. Ony here we come.

Time Travel

Like it or not we are all travelling through time. Professor Stephen Hawking may have somewhat more to say on this subject but this is my view. (more…)

Palm’ed off

So. I turns out that the more stuff you have, the more complicated your life becomes. I wish someone had had the decency to tell me this before I became a computer nerd. Before my obsession for gadgetry had become an obsessive compulsion. (more…)