So, kindof like Starship Troopers, only more pretentious and more drawn out?BeanDip wrote:Its a series of video games with some tie in novels and (i think) a movie in the works. Plays like a space opera with a well done if fairly standard sci fi setting, fascinating writing and story arcs, interesting characters and good dialogue. I greatly enjoy it.
Now I can hear Admiral Hackett as Lt. Rasczak. Honestly the characters have an awful lot in common, aside from the fact that Hackett is smart enough not to do a grunt's job. Hah, and you know what, Mark Meer's voice acting would actually be a lot better than what we got with Johnny Rico.mnementh wrote:So, kindof like Starship Troopers, only more pretentious and more drawn out?BeanDip wrote:Its a series of video games with some tie in novels and (i think) a movie in the works. Plays like a space opera with a well done if fairly standard sci fi setting, fascinating writing and story arcs, interesting characters and good dialogue. I greatly enjoy it.
*Cackles and runs away*
mnem
*Instigating-ily*
I'll leave with you if it is. I've never even heard of it.Krulle wrote:I don't even know what Mass Effect is about. Whether it's a film, game, or book...
Is it wrong for me to be here?
That's not even possible.mnementh wrote:So, kindof like Starship Troopers, only more pretentious and more drawn out?
Is it? 
RocketScientist wrote:I'll leave with you if it is. I've never even heard of it.Krulle wrote:I don't even know what Mass Effect is about. Whether it's a film, game, or book...
Is it wrong for me to be here?
That's not even possible.mnementh wrote:So, kindof like Starship Troopers, only more pretentious and more drawn out?
Don't worry, no one else did.BeanDip wrote:Same. Thought that I was the only one.Arydra wrote:I actually liked the Mass Effect 3 ending
I'll have to agree with pretty much everything you said. The fact that it was so good. Like the best scifi universe I've every experienced... that's the tragedy. I must still be emotionally scared or something, because despite swearing off all the games forever, I can't help but love every rant I read on the internet about this subject. Looking back though, I know I put it up on a pedestal, and ignored flaws because I was just way too into it.Your.Master wrote: I've seen worse endings. But I don't think I've seen a worse ending to something that was so good before the ending, despite my earlier complaints.
That reminds me of the Peter F. Hamilton's Sci-Fi series (e.g. Night's Dawn trilogy)...Liesmith wrote:NO! BAD DWAGON! Turn in your badge and your gun. You can have them back after recess.
Here's a spoiler-free explanation of the ending for those who haven't played the game:
Imaging you're watching a truly epic three-part symphony, played by an immensely talented orchestra with a masterful conductor. The music makes you laugh and cry and, as it rises to a crescendo, the conductor pulls down his pants and takes a crap in front of everyone. The orchestra immediately peters to a stop. The conductor screams "ARTISTIC INTEGRITY!", and waddles off the stage, pants still around his ankles.
That sounds a little like Everworld, for the two of you out there who've read that series. The author, K A Applegate was writing a handful of young adult series at the time, and Everworld was still in its early stages. The basic plot is that all the old gods throughout human history decided that the universe was just too restrictive for them, so they got together and made their own universe, with hookers! And flapjacks! Within that pocket universe, they share a world they created, and each pantheon has their own section, with a population of devout humans they brought with them. The problem is that there's an uninvited god there; an alien god who feeds on other gods, and he's basically ruining everyone's day. To make matters worse, some gods *coughLokicough* are actively sabotaging their peers, because they want to be on the winning side. Eventually, things are at their lowest point, and there are dozens of Chekov's MacGuffins on the table which could be reasonable solutions at some point in the distant future...but instead all the traitor gods change their mind and decide to join their brethren to fight the alien god and the end.Krulle wrote: That reminds me of the Peter F. Hamilton's Sci-Fi series (e.g. Night's Dawn trilogy)...
A wonderful story, written to fascinate, great pace, immensely great and detailed background, logical, ....
Only a few hundred pages to go and no conclusion visible....
Only about a hundred (of the third book) pages to go and still no idea how this might resolve....
Gordon's Knot, a swipe with the ├â•ber-sword and all is resolved for a happy ending??!!!??
What a let-down.
Yet, I still buy all his books, they are that great, if you ignore the abrupt ending...
Just like the Elite Guards and real-life Nazis, that they were racist is a perfect reason to slaughter them as mooks. Promote pacifism all you like, but when Nazis try to feed you to a bear, are you going to take it like chump or are going to feed THEM to the bear?zennyrpg wrote:Goblins is the same way too. I don't agree with everything that's happened. I didn't like how the vipers were just mooks to be slaughtered. I thought that ran against the whole premise of the comic. I have issues with Biscuit in general. But despite that, imo, goblins is still a great comic.
he iz beink held kaptiff at Luftvaffles!Insane Kitty wrote:mmm, waffles and maple syrup!
Actually, a lot of real life nazis were just misguided suckers who ended up surrendering and living perfectly normal lives. You don't think everyone in Hilter's army was killed, right? Maybe by nazi you only mean upper level people, but again, there were lots of lower level people along for the ride. Murdering lots of racist nazis doesn't really qualify in my mind as great art- its a pretty simplistic storyline and not on par with most of Goblins. I've already discussed this in the last forum, and people view this in many different ways.BuildsLegos wrote:Just like the Elite Guards and real-life Nazis, that they were racist is a perfect reason to slaughter them as mooks. Promote pacifism all you like, but when Nazis try to feed you to a bear, are you going to take it like chump or are going to feed THEM to the bear?zennyrpg wrote:Goblins is the same way too. I don't agree with everything that's happened. I didn't like how the vipers were just mooks to be slaughtered. I thought that ran against the whole premise of the comic. I have issues with Biscuit in general. But despite that, imo, goblins is still a great comic.
Vy are vfee talkeeng liek zees? Eez eet zumseenk een zee vater?RedwoodElf wrote:he iz beink held kaptiff at Luftvaffles!Insane Kitty wrote:mmm, waffles and maple syrup!
With Mass Effect, it struck me wrong particularly because I thought it ran counter to the established themes. I could imagine a game with that ending and that ending at least sort of fitting but ME was not that game.BuildsLegos wrote:I'm sorry my jest went so poorly, I didn't mean to put words in your mouth. My point was that the Vipers started that fight and rightly suffered for it. If you want to insist that individuals from any of those 3 groups (and I'm sure there were such Nazis) didn't enjoy partaking in all the slavery and plotting of genocide, the fact that they contributed all the same is more important.
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As for the Mass Effect ending, it was simply a problem of giving the Reapers a self-defeating motive with the most pointlessly convoluted reveal possible. Casey Hudson should be ashamed of himself.
Thank and/or curse you...RedwoodElf wrote:he iz beink held kaptiff at Luftvaffles!Insane Kitty wrote:mmm, waffles and maple syrup!
My long-neglected blog.Glemp wrote:To some extent, you need to be arrogant - without it, you are vulnerable being made someone's tool...for Herbert's sake, have the stubbornness not to submit to what you see instantly, because you can only see some facts at a time.
As far as I can tell from the comic, no child Vipers were slain during the Biscuitastrophe. It was all adults, who made their decision to be White Terror supremacists. You could argue that this was due to their upbringing, but you'd have to apply that argument to the elite guards, as well. Not all Vipers are evil, as evidenced by Grem.zennyrpg wrote:The vipers rub me the wrong way because they are born vipers.
So do I, indeed!friedkitty wrote:Methinks Thunt has been reading posts and has found a way to give us fillerish goodness while getting caught up on his workload.
I like it.
Khaleesi Daenaris Stormborn likes to play a game called "Who's immune to fire" doesn't she?Liesmith wrote:
Here's a simple rhyme I use to help me determine whether something is moral or not:
If it's helpful,
If it's nice,
If it's happy,
Don't think twice.
If you own slaves, I'll happily burn your life down around you and dance in the ashes. Khaleesi OUT.
I think I read that in a Doctor Seuss book. Something about wibbily-wobbily ethics or somesuch.
i cant stop laughing at thisLiesmith wrote:NO! BAD DWAGON! Turn in your badge and your gun. You can have them back after recess.
Here's a spoiler-free explanation of the ending for those who haven't played the game:
Imaging you're watching a truly epic three-part symphony, played by an immensely talented orchestra with a masterful conductor. The music makes you laugh and cry and, as it rises to a crescendo, the conductor pulls down his pants and takes a crap in front of everyone. The orchestra immediately peters to a stop. The conductor screams "ARTISTIC INTEGRITY!", and waddles off the stage, pants still around his ankles.
Awww... I didn't mean for you to stop talking like that... I was just funnin' ya.RedwoodElf wrote:Khaleesi Daenaris Stormborn likes to play a game called "Who's immune to fire" doesn't she?
I walk around the house all the time talking like Capt. Kirk; it makes my wife howl. Especially if I randomly insert some Scotty or Picard or John Chricton... Yeah, same here. I can just SEE it happening. And I can think of at least a dozen pretentious wankers I'd love to see as they realize what they just spent $300 a ticket to experience...warwizard87 wrote:i cant stop laughing at thisLiesmith wrote:NO! BAD DWAGON! Turn in your badge and your gun. You can have them back after recess.
Here's a spoiler-free explanation of the ending for those who haven't played the game:
Imaging you're watching a truly epic three-part symphony, played by an immensely talented orchestra with a masterful conductor. The music makes you laugh and cry and, as it rises to a crescendo, the conductor pulls down his pants and takes a crap in front of everyone. The orchestra immediately peters to a stop. The conductor screams "ARTISTIC INTEGRITY!", and waddles off the stage, pants still around his ankles.
EDIT :yay i no longer remain silent
now i mumble inchoreantly
