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[hawkwing_lb]

So, after several days finishing Mass Effect 3 - which is a great game, right up until the final mission: all the emotional impact falls apart at the final choice (and if I have to play co-op to get a FOR REALS HAPPY ENDING [as spoilers tell me now I'm done], SCREW THAT) - I finally went to the gym.

Dear friends, pathetic isn't in it.

I managed 0.5 miles on the treadmill in 5 minutes before my wind went completely. 15 minutes on the exercise bike, for 3.5 miles. Some weights, heavy ones, but not many sets. I suck.

But hey, two weeks of consistent work, and I should be back to sucking less.

Comments

[britmandelo.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was a brilliant game! We just pretend the last ten minutes didn't happen, in this household.

Worse, there's no logic in the three choices all resulting in the same ending. How the flying fuck do we end up with the same end result from synthesis, which is supposed to create a whole new path out of the cycle, as we do if we chose to destroy all synthetic life or control it? HOW.

I, er, wrote an essay on my blog right after finishing. Chuck Wendig has a good take on it, too.

(Also, the plot holes, they burn me. Remember what happened last time we blew up a mass relay? You know, it wiped out the whole system it was in? So. How does that not happen this time, during the ending? And then there's the fact that, in synthesis, we've just created a whole new form of life. And all of the top scientists and soldiers are trapped in the Sol system. And we know that the Protheans once built a mass relay on their own. So... How, exactly, am I supposed to believe that these folks wouldn't rebuild the mass relays? That, with the synthesis option, we have entirely destroyed the possibilities of space travel and galactic civilization in the same way the other two options do? MAKES NO SENSE. BURNS.)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I would like to read that essay. *finds them both and means to read*

There is no logic. (My headcanon says Shepard blows the Reapers' controlling AI up, all death!sacrifice like, most Reapers go insane and attack each other. Galactic civilisation survives. This way I can still enjoy the game and ignore the ending.)

Because thinking about that ending - any of those (hah!) endings - at all HURTS MY BRAIN.