The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.
Whatever we do would likely happen before or during the events of Mass Effect 3, not after
It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.
History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.
The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.
The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed - Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the President at his word. He said the United States is simply trying to provoke. I mean, why Saddam Hussein doesn't pay commercial time for that advertisement for his policy, I do not know.
We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect ramification of the present.