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If the indoctrination theory is true, then presumably Shepard never made it to the Citadel (seeing as how the fact that he/she wakes up in the rubble on Earth if you pick the right ending is such an important part of the theory), so he or she never opened it and the Reapers were never defeated. The Reapers probably destroyed the Crucible while Shepard was busy dreaming about Joker and some grandfather trying to get his grandson to pay for DLC. Eh, I guess it's not much worse than the real ending. Well, it's more things like making peace between the quarians and the geth so the quarians can finally return to Rannoch, and then stranding all/most of them on Earth.

Oh God, that would be hilarious. Now I don't know what to wish for.

The Matrix --> plenty of alcohol --> drunken scribblings --> wake up the next morning with the ending scrawled on a piece of paper.

At this point, all I want is an interview with Mac Walters explaining the thought process behind the the ending. I suspect the answer would be, "well, I'd watched The Matrix the night before...".

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is awesome (so says Coolness, so you know it's true), but I guess you need to to be amused by selfish jerks getting into awkward situations to enjoy it. It's probably not for everyone. If it helps, Danny DeVito joins at the beginning of season 2.

I will start mentally preparing for the inevitable cancellation immediately.

If all it takes to find out if someone is indoctrinated is looking at their eyes, the protheans must have felt pretty silly when they were betrayed from within by indoctrinated protheans. Honestly, people are giving Mac Walters way too much credit. Have you read his comic books?

Saren never implanted himself with Reaper technology in an effort to control the Reapers, either.

It's because the next sweeps period is from late April to late May. It makes more sense to air reruns now and air new episodes during sweeps.

I'm surprised it took this long for someone to rip off Pictionary successfully. I read that a lot of the harder words are celebrities. That would ruin it a bit for me. Sorry, I haven't played it.

Put some clothes on the main character, and that box art looks really nice.

Aimless always says exactly what I'm thinking in these discussions about the ending. Except a lot more eloquently. It's only ever not available if your effective military strength isn't high enough, so it's not really based on your choices, unless you count "only doing the bare minimum" as a choice.

Kasumi's loyalty mission makes more sense before the end of Mass Effect 2, but there's nothing in the ending that invalidates what you do during her mission. So no matter when you play it, you're still helping her out and she gets what she wants in the end, and the only thing you're missing out on is an extra party member during the main game.

But then how would I play Mass Effect? :p Maybe I should go back to the SNES and just play Yoshi's Island forever, though.

I think I would die if I couldn't download TV shows. :p Literally, I think my heart would stop and I'd slump over in my chair, and my family would only realize something is wrong when I don't come down for dinner the next day. Collecting video games was more fun back when I only owned one console and they still came with manuals. Then I could say, "these are all the games I think are worth owning on the GameCube". Now it's more, "these are some of the games I think are worth owning on the Xbox 360, and then there are some downloadable games that I had to delete because I didn't have enough space for them, and I own quite a few multi-platform titles on the PS3 or I played them on the PC", which isn't nearly as satisfying.

I hope you meant on the Mass Effect series, because here goes... It's an RPG/shooter hybrid about a space marine who travels around the galaxy in an attempt to save all life from being wiped out by a galactic threat. You've got a team of character that you can bring with you into combat, as well as talk to between missions. The first game suffers a bit from clumsy RPG gameplay, including an inventory that you end up having to purge every hour or so. It also has extremely repetitive sidequests, where you land on uncharted planets and drive around until you find find one of three or four copy-pasted buildings. Fortunately, it makes up for most of its flaws with a strong main story and well-written characters. The sequels fix most of the problems from the first game, though Mass Effect 2 has its own issues, including mind-numbingly boring planet scanning for resources and a weaker main story, but overall the sequels are a lot more polished. The third game really brings things to a head, and has a lot of great character moments. The biggest draw is probably that all of your decisions carry over from one game to the other, and while the differences are usually small (you helped someone out in one game -> you run into them again in the next game, someone died in one game -> a different character takes their place in the next game), it's still cool and makes it feel like you're really playing your story. It's a great series overall - it's just a shame that the last five minutes of the last game sucked so much.

Just watch them on YouTube. Seriously, they're not worth the trouble.

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I think my least favorite thing about the whole 'brony' subculture is how special it thinks it is. I imagine bronies spend most of their time verbally masturbating each other. I mean, all fandoms are obnoxious to some extent, but at least most of them are content with just reading homosexuality into anything two male characters say to each other. Things like this just put me off watching the show completely.

Just like Star Wars is all about Luke Skywalker, right? As much as I love (some of) the cast of Mass Effect, we've seen their stories now, and if I were BioWare, I'd love the chance the start over without having to keep a hundred different decisions and dozens of different characters in mind. Of course, the ending kind of soured the whole experience for me, so at the moment I have very little interest in the future of Mass Effect. Ask me again in a couple of years.

I just watched my brother finish the game. The best part was when...

It's cute. If you make anything else, you should post it in the General Gallery thread.

Too many. I count fourteen. Felt like more. Looks like I've got some competition, then! :p