Recent content by Leodiensian

We're talking about boss battles here but something that I think a lot of people forget is that while most of the time boss battles are designed to be hard, sometimes they are meant to be easy. Maybe easier than you expect, I suppose, but expectations are so subjective that it's basically...

I have to say, I was extremely lucky being gay with the parents I have. My mother works in sexual health, meaning she sees a lot of what we'll diplomatically call non-normative sexual activity and the potential consequences thereof. She's also extremely aware of STI's and how to avoid being...

For everyone that was asking: pansexuals are just sluts with better PR. *ba-dum-tish* In all seriousness, I find the differentiation between bisexual and pansexual pretentious at best, and utterly arbitrary even then, because in practice they mean the same thing in a species that only has...

I get that you're not attacking gay people, and I don't want this to seem like me launching a counter-offensive, but I do disagree with some of your statements. I think you're over-simplifying a pretty complex issue rather drastically. I'm not trying to call you a homophobe or anything like...

I'm gay. Actually, I'm an MSM - that's the medical term, a man who has sex with men either occasionally or solely - since 'gay' is actually a sociological term that refers to a sub-culture I frankly find seedy and surprisingly narrow-minded for a group ostensibly founded on the basis of a common...

It's not incomprehensible; it's postmodern! *ba-dum-tish* (I'm not disagreeing with you, by the way; that's basically the point I made earlier about the misconception that it can't be comprehensible and artistic/literary at the same time) Yeah, as a story I really don't like House of...

David Foster Wallace's "Oblivion: Stories". It's a collection of short stories written by someone who decided that it's not literature if you can actually read it. The writer is explicitly anti-plot, which is the functional same as a doctor being anti-medicine. And he's definitely anti-reader...

Oh yes, one fairly important footnote: while I took Taggart's ending, I killed him first.

The first time I played it through, I went with the Regulation ending. The consequences of rampant laissez-faire capitalism can be seen through almost every section of the game - Heng-sha especially. Zeke Sander's backstory and the pro-aug criminal organisations shows us that augmentation...

It's definitely not the climax the series deserves, but it's overall a very good game. The ending is sloppy and poorly executed, which is understandable in context; the script for the original ending was leaked, forcing Bioware to change it to something else which simply couldn't possibly fit in...

Initial publicity stated pretty clearly there would be sixteen, drastically different endings based on what you did over not just this specific game, but the last two games. What there was delivered were three different colour filters played over a handful short and 98% identical ending...

Except the Reaper's whole MO is to turn the galaxy against itself precisely to PREVENT unity from occuring - that's what indoctrination is for.

That makes WAAAY more sense than what actually happened and has the added bonus of making War Assets matter in the same way that ship upgrades mattered in 2. The best ending is getting the Crucible to the Citadel and Harbinger going "Oh hey, you guys finished it? Okay, we're cool. Sorry about...

Well, if we accept the original scripts motivation for the Reapers (seed the progress of organic life, then harvest when it reaches a pinnacle to make Reaper babies) you could interpret the whole Mass Relay thing as a necessary evil in order to speed along the progression of the civilisations...

Actually, that's something that kind of struck me as weird about romancing aliens in Mass Effect - surely they wouldn't particularly care about your character's gender? Or at least they'd have different conceptions of sexuality. If they were willing to get romanced by someone not of their...