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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, and that it's totally out of character for there not to have been an option to tell the Reapers' creator-AI to fuck off. Even if it resulted in the ultimate loss of the cycle to the Reapers, I do not believe for a second that my Shepard wouldn't have refused to give in to the inevitable and let the AI determine the direction of the future. We've been fighting the Reapers this whole time--would Shepard really just give in to their options, in the end? Would she really let them, ultimately, win? I just don't think so.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

I mean, the child-AI bullshit thing. It was bullshit fuckwittery. Honestly. It was like "Shit, guys, we have run out of time! Quick, think of something we can slap in!"

[britmandelo.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

My partner was just shouting, "Why does Silent Hill 3 have more different endings than Mass Effect? Why?" and I have to agree. There was no excuse, whatsoever, for a game with such good writing otherwise to splat so badly at the end.

(Well, other than the corporate finagling and bureaucracy that supposedly resulted in the ending...)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

IT DOES NOT EXIST AND WE SHALL NEVER SPEAK OF IT AGAIN.

Ahem.

Somewhere in the alternate universe ending, Tali and Garrus are having awkward sexytimes on that beach, and Jack is teaching junior biotics how to curse. (Otherwise, the failwhale. It just beached itself slimily in Bioware's offices.)

[britmandelo.livejournal.com]

I'm down with this.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

*fistbump*