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I have to admit, the whole conversation between Liara and her "father" made me chuckle. The conversations between folks in the background are usually quite well done, even (or especially) when they aren't related to any quests, just.. background noise.

Well, after hosting a most non-productive afternoon and evening making my way into the game... I have to say it's pretty much fun. Sure, it takes about 2-3 hours of "intro-cinematics and pseudo-tutorial gaming" before it actually opens up and lets you flit around at will, and there are the odd glitches, but mostly it seems to be fun space opera (even with all the war horror/depression going on) Have minor annoyances with a few things, kept having a jerky-graphics-twitch going on, until I realised they have a "mouse blending" option set to automatically on. Turn that off and everything smoothed down properly. Still, onwards and see how much I can poke at it today...

So my ME3 finally arrived, I get to do my snoopy happy dance and see how it actually turns out when I get into it...

And I can say I watched Babylon 5 and thoroughly enjoyed the majority of it. And yeah, I've got the dvd's of the whole series... Anyhow, my CE arrived today so currently installing it all, and shall cheerfully spend a non-productive afternoon getting to see what it's all about..

I do have to admit.. One of the things that has me mildly puzzled is just how Ashley has gone from Gunnery Chief (a nice NCO post) to being a Lieutenant Commander (a fairly senior officer). I mean, Lieutenant Commanders are XO's to the frigates and such.... I know the whole Saren/Geth/Sovereign thing probably got her a promotion, but damn, only three years have passed.... One of those mild mental niggles that has me curious to see just how (or if) it'll be explained.

Unfortunately, after the runaway giant of WoW, that's not going to be something anyone can do if they're trying to get people to sink money into game development. Any mmo is judged against it, not how it was when it started, but against it as it is right now after years of development, tweaks, patches, and expansions....

So from my understanding, you get a whole batch of assorted side-quests by overhearing conversations on the citadel, and a lot of these get solved by finding things either via scanning planets, or something you can pick up during other missions. So does that mean the items can be found before you get the side-quest, and then get stocked up until you happen to encounter it. Or do they only show up after you get the side-quest?

Heh, not quite a film, but they've decided to return "Breaking In", and give it a second season. A nice twist on the "office comedy", with Christian Slater as "Oz" the machiavellian and twisted owner/director of a high tech security firm who runs a crew of oddballs to check their clients security. Often going to extreme and strange places in their methods to both get the clients and then test their security.. But yes, the first season got 7 episodes before Fox decided to cancel it. Only to have them bring it back for a 2nd season about 9 months on. The first episode of which opens up to a close shot of Slater looking at the camera and doing a "I'd like to thank you for bringing us back..." , zoom out to find he's talking to a client doing the "Well, we went with another company and then we got robbed." The client then gets introduced as a "Mr.Fox". Cheap , easy in-humour. But generally entertaining.

Well my sister's back from a doctors visit, she's been given a 5 day course of steroids and told to get as much time off work for the next week as she can and to take as little exercise as possible. Chest infection that had led to some lung issues. So she's like "well, that's a good reason to lay in bed and play TOR for the next few days". I wonder if she'll still be saying that if I keep pushing her dogs into her room over the next few days...

And I heard you even catch Tali and Garrus making out in the main battery.. Something for the in-jokes..

I'd heard you have to aim at the ****pit glass, enough to break it, then you can kill the pilot.. leaving it empty for you to run up and jump into.

I have to say, I'm still going strong as it were. Although I'm only dabbling with my max'd SI, rather then get in on operations I've just been playing a bit of warzones, actually starting to use my Artifice skill, and cleaning up some world missions I have left over.. My Smuggler is on Hoth, wrapping that world arc over.. still plowing through Chapter 2... Had a surge on my Jedi Knight having got him to start Chapter 1, but that's because I've been using that character to help out my sister as she's started playing a Consular. Still got a Bounty Hunter in the Prologue that I've only poked at the last month or so... Pretty much have to say it's interesting seeing how the class stories intersect at different angles, and I'm still picking up different aspects of the game and enjoying it all. Going through a bunch of days of not playing, then several of catching up with an hour here and there... Kind of in the mood to poke at it more before I get to enjoy ME3...

So for the random question; How easy is it to hijack the Cerberus mech doohickies, and is it worthwhile? Or is it just simpler and better to just blow the crud out of them?

Just to highlight how non-operating my brain is today..

http://youtu.be/zdTpIfDWyr4

Urg, just spent half the day in bed with a grinding headache. It seems to be settling , so I'm making my way out into real life again to deal with food and drink and assorted tasks..

Has anyone actually stated that Asari are actually mammalian? They're blue skinned, monogender aliens who mystically/telepathically attune nervous systems to scan your dna, then shift their own genes in a weird map to copy traits, whilst still keeping purely Asari dna, looks and biology.... And is it odd how focused this conversation is on sci-fi biology?.....

Isn't it more that Asari don't actually have a "sex" per se. They are a mono-gender/neuter race that just happens to look feminine, but they don't actually use any sexual techniques as we know it. They are considered to have "maternal" instincts tho, so they tend to associate with being considered female in general. Biologically, they "attune" their nervous systems to that of whoever they want to have a kid with. They don't take/give genetic material back and forth like male/female sexes do, but the asari dna is altered in mimicry of the parents map.. (its some really weird sci-fi biology). An asari child is purely Asari, they have no genetics from their non-asari parent. But something in the way they think is from both parents. Or something weird along those lines. In purely writers terms.. The Asari are meant to represent the collective "green skinned hot alien chick" from Star Trek/Star Wars and the mystical long-lived elves from most fantasy..

Of course, I was half wondering if the end sequence was going to be the big reveal that it's been a "last gasp, dying dream" of Shephard after being exposed to the Prothean Beacon in ME1 and he never actually made it off Eden Prime...

Yeah, I find it a little unbelievable that ign have pretty much put the entire game up on video already. "You too can watch every section of every mission, as desired via our IGN YouTube connection!!" Edit: And dammit, I still have to wait till Friday for the UK release. Bloody hell, even Russia gets the game before us. Where's the logic?

The one I liked was the

It's all about the Avon-Love... How many ways is that a magnificent bastard?

.. Oh I love it when you spend an hour working on time sensitive work, and then the document gets corrupted and crashes out word whenever you try to load it. Now back to the beginning. Although hopefully it will go faster since I've gone through the thought processes already.

Blasto 6 - Partners in Crime... http://uk.ign.com/vi...to-6-easter-egg 10 minutes of audio clips from Blasto 6...

And indeed, it looks like Emily Wong won't be seen in game for ME3 now... And of course the reviews are now out.. http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-mass-effect/727641 IGN ME3 Review Gamespot ME3 Review