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Agreed on the Lego movie. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, and I went in expecting to like it.

 

While I only have a paltry 1,300 likes or so, I do have more likes than posts, which I consider very flattering.

Also, I concur with the praise of the Lego Movie. It is far better than it has any right to be; being the Batman fan I am, basically everything Will Arnett!Batman said made me laugh out loud in the theater. Too often, though, I found myself laughing alone.

 

Hate when that happens. I LOL at something that happens on a movie or TV show and my parents and siblings don't even crack a smile. And I'm like .

 

People be crazy. We got your back Jack.
I remember laughing a lot during Desolation of Smaug and others weren't. No problem.

 

Stabbing is too good for you.

 

Best option? (IMO)

THE CONSEQUENCE TRILOGY.

A full sequel for each ending. Everyone stops whinging about "canon" and then BioWare have three varied timelines with the same ME foundation in which to play, continuity wise.

I mean, there are "alternate realities" within the ME trilogy already (Wrex vs. Wreav, Kaidan vs. Ashley, etc) so it's not like it's without precedent. It would just be on a grander scale.

Indeed, one of the biggest issues ME had, I think, was that the consequences of Shepards actions could never really matter... because everything was being funnelled into the same basic plot skeleton. By doing the above for sequels, however, they can make that decision in the final battle actually make a huge difference.

The only paragon ending is REFUSAL: stupid optimism in the face of impossible odds.

Paragon Shepard really has no reason to think it won't work, given almost every other moment in the series is built around his ridiculously optimistic outlook being unrealistically rewarded.

Destroy/Control/Sythesis are all pragmatic, to some extent. Well, if you can look beyond the fact that we're given no reason to believe anything the Catalyst says.

Personally, I think it would have been funny if picking any of the options had been "GAME OVER" with Harby-Catalyst laughing at Shepard for allowing it to convince him to sabotage the Crucible while it powered up.

 

I'd say that Shepard's survival in the Destroy ending suggests that it does indeed happen- whereas the others may simply be indoctrination or a dying dream. I don't trust the starchild, but I can trust Shepard's post-ending experience. "Oh crap, someone made it this far. Uh, hey human, don't touch the Red button because it will, err, kill the geth! Yeah! Just throw yourself into that pillar of light! It will fix everything!"

I'd be down with a consequence trilogy, though. And that's an interesting perspective on Refusal- like I said, quixotic action at its finest.

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Man, you guys, this is a lot of really interesting insight into Mass Effect and I've seen a lot of good points raised and I just think that, IMO, if you read the developers' comments in oh look another Let It Go video.

 

Don't bother - it's a piece of crap.

 

No it isn't. It's joyful. Like a fun fanservice episode of a long running TV show that's soon to be over.

 

Nope, it was utter crap - and joy? Nope, definitely not a joyful experience.

Put it this way Uli: It was stop playing the pile of stinking crap or throw the pad into the wall, eject the disc and stab it death with a steak knife. I opted for stop playing.

 

Ugh. Apparently, I am not as young as I used to be. Night out with friends + whiskey + whisky + ??? = horrible hangover.

The admiral is down for the count today. And, unfortunately, supposed to go wine tasting in about 5 hours. Ugh.

--Adm. Nick

 

Ah, hair of the dog for Nick!

 

The artist have some more good Infinity images

Spoiler

 

Remember that Nick and I are in our thirties--you'll be amazed how much farther you can fall in the next five years or so.

 

Stay off our lawns.

 

When 900 years you reach...

Oh, you get the picture.

--Adm. Nick

 

Want so share the Star Wars art by comfortlove & adamwithers


More behind the spoiler

Spoiler

 

"I want more and I know shouldn't."

 

GrandAdmiralJello

Potential reason: Of all the factions, the Pact are the ones least interested in ruling the Empire and the most concerned about daedra. Given the damage the daedra have done to the Imperial City, perhaps a loyal imperial would want revenge on the demons and want to restore imperial rule - in which case, the Pact is the most attractive because they give him a chance to strike at the real threat and are less likely to usurp the place of Cyrodil.


I can spin motivations for the other factions as well.

Matter of fact, come at me with any race in any faction and I will try to come up with a good explanation why they would do so.

 

Spoiler: ?????

Needs more San Hill.