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As long as it's Unbreakable Shymalan and not the other guy, it might be good. I still hold Unbreakable as one of my favorite movies.

Well, at least if he's no longer working for Obsidian he's going from one great RPG studio to another. I haven't seen him around the office, well that doesn't mean he isn't here mind... Just don't recall having seen that face around these parts. I'm in a corner, with programmers... We don't get out much.... Potatoes. I was wondering where you ended up.

No. On previous talk, Steve can die. I believe it's based on readiness score.

Because they need an excuse for humans to be special. I think there's a bizarre tendency among genre writers to justify the real world when writing their speculative ones. Which is how sci-fi and fantasy get their unintended fascist tendencies. I used to be a fan of the Drizzt books, for example. And there was this whole running thing in the Drizzt journal entries during the Time of Troubles events, where Drizzt tried painting having "faith" and never meeting your god as inherently superior to how the gods of FR were prancing around at the time, having tea parties with their followers. Made funnier by the fact that Drizzt had met his god, but then started dancing around it by claiming it wasn't his real god, he just imagined it, so his faith could be pure. Then there's also the standard trope in fantasy, that I think Mass Effect 1 used, where humans have comparatively shorter lifespans than the species surrounding them, so this means that humans are eager to prove themselves and live life to the fullest! Most science-fiction/fantasy seem to either paint humanity as the "eager/innovative" race or as the jack-of-all-trades race. Mass Effect tried doing both. I actually find it kind of disturbing when you think about it, because the bottlenecks that aliens, elves, and dwarves are faced with imply either cataclysm or eugenics.

This .... makes total sense. And that would be the awesome, actually. I mean, the whole Khan thing was never completely officially confirmed, was it? Even on IMDB it says (rumored). So they could be thinking "everyone thinks it's Khan? Great, let them think that." Note: the character also wears a black shirt with the Federation emblem on it. I suppose he could have stolen the shirt to wear, but if not, that would make Mitchell even more likely (Khan was never originally in Starfleet...). Regardless, I love Benedict, and he's the main reason I'd go see this new ST....in the theater. Even if he is Khan, I bet he'll surprise people and make a decent one for an alternate-reality backstory-Khan. He won't be Ricardo, but no one could be. I'm betting on Note that I was completely wrong about the last Star Trek movie. In pretty much every way.

I'm hopeful for the robot uprising.

Vega was boring. In his defense, almost everyone in Mass Effect 3 was boring. My second biggest complaint about Mass Effect 3 is that nobody has any character development but EDI and Javik for companions. And then Mordin and Steve for the entire rest of the cast. I guess an argument could be made for the VS, but it doesn't seem an appreciable development. Jack is a fun example of the problem in that she is the most notably evolved character from Mass Effect 2, but every single bit of it happened off screen.

How's the multiplayer population? I heard it's pretty dead. No clue, I don't do MP.

I'm playing Grand Theft Auto 4. Overall, I much prefer Saint's Row 3. The car handling is better. But I'm strangely curious about what will happen to Nico next. He has a measure more morality than I expected from a GTA protagonist.

*insert trend bucking here* I was ok with Mordin. He went out well, and we'd gotten to know him fairly well. However LEGION I was kind of pissed about. Not because he died, but because we basically didn't get to interact with him all that much. He shows up on one mission, then you have just enough time to get his loyalty up and do that before you end the game in ME2. And ME3 has him pop up only as a non-squaddie who WILL die (in one form or another). Legion is, overall, my favorite character, and showing my bias I am annoyed that he gets so little screen time... especially in comparison to Tali. I don't mind that he went out overall... it's just that in comparison to MANY of the other characters in 2 and 3, he wasn't allowed to visit with the players nearly as much as any other squad member in the game. I was okay with Legion at first. But it's one of those "until you sit down and start thinking about it" scenarios. Which probably would not have happened if the ending wasn't terrible. Legion's death doesn't make any sense. I don't even know how to explain it to rebuke it. It just fails me fundamentally. And his entire character is a 180 from the Mass Effect 2 presentation. We will make our own way without any shortcuts from the old machines (ME2)... unless they're really cool (ME3) All must be judged on their own merits. Treating every species like one's own is racist. Even benign anthropomorphism.(ME2) I want to be a real individual. (ME3) And I think one of the reasons I will forever refuse to play the Extended Cut is EDI's "Now I am alive" line for that version of synthesis. What was she before? He was a bit of a fan favorite and it's sad he didn't get a better part.

I've got medication for my mental state, too. Just need to fill it and subsequently be terrified of actually taking it.

I have it. Got really bored with it. I blame the narrative.

Yay. The lump on my head isn't cancer, it's a cherry angioma. Which I saw on google, but that's not proper medical diagnosis. My blood pressure is fine. My heart rate is fine. My liver and kidney function are fine. No sign of diabetes. But I'm overweight and you could use my blood to deep fry chicken. You'll have to excuse my excitement over the mundane. I had not been to a doctor in maybe 7 years.

Mark of Chaos was on consoles, yes. But it wasn't particularly story-driven.

Using DLC to shore up weaknesses in a title is a valued function for them to serve. And people who see it as that are accepting of that. DLC that sacrifices the main game to justify its existence will always be publicly rejected. The distinction is in perception. And making it a common thing would be a short track from being perceived as the former for the latter. I guess another way to put it is that if publishers thought they could get away with it, Mass Effect 3 wouldn't need to get the ball rolling. They would already be doing it. Mass Effect 3 could have been a special exception, because people trusted that Bioware didn't do it on purpose.

yay.... or something? Endless string of yet another RTS games? Some day, somebody is going to make strategy and crpg games instead of third rate action games out of those franchises. Probably be similar to the Total War titles. I like the Mark of Chaos game, but it never really hit its stride in the campaign.

Same place Nasa filmed the Moon Landing. Check and mate. There is nowhere near enough room in that basement for an X-wing.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Gary_Mitchell Note his sidekick. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Dehner

It might be Gary Mitchell, not Khan.

If space isn't real, then where was Star Wars filmed? Check and mate.

Went to the doctor. Still tests to run, but everything else seems fine except my weight. And maybe an infection. My arms still hurt though. Overworked them on Monday.

Did you finish Dawnguard with both sides? On my second playthrough of Skyrim, this time as a vampire backstabbing stabby stab type (pickpocketing poisons onto people is fun!) rather than the stealthy archer type. (guess in the end they're not that different, though sneaking around sneak attacking stuff in broad daylight definitely is harder with daggers than with a bow Anyway, was wondering if the Vampire side was worth it (at the very least story wise), apparently you lose (easy) access to crossbows (which I sort of liked) with really no other toys to play with instead (and toys are good!) Personally I ended up playing EVE after a WoW raid, because aside from the raids there's really nothing worthwhile to do in the game anymore. I only finished it as Dawnguard. The lack of toys ruins any interest I have playing it vampire side. You can still get Vampire Lord without doing that, anyway. I actually gave Vampire Lord a try and it was boring. So I didn't even bother raising that tree. Kind of disappointed that it's limited to the form.

The need to justify alignment I don't understand. There's the "perception" idea here that's a reputation system, but alignment itself still doesn't seem to do anything. I mean, NPCs react to what they see you do. Alignment isn't that. Alignment is the quiet ideas that only exist in your head and no other NPC will know to react to. So why does it need formalizing as a system?

After I finished Dawnguard stuff in Skyrim yesterday I decided to write. This lasted until 2 AM. As I wasn't completely ruined for the day, I feel as if I'm still young for managing that feat. Received my external HDD today, so I'm doing a backup of important files. By which I mean my GOG.com downloads and what little music collection I have.