TheMightyEthan

There are energy-efficiency tax incentives, but I'm pretty sure it's just a one-time deduction and not an ongoing thing. That said, I'm not a tax expert and I'm not 100% sure how it actually works.

Why do the good shows always get cancelled?

Yeah, you can do one mission after getting the IFF but before your crew is captured. It's the second mission after the IFF that triggers the crew capture.

I want a game like Catherine, but made by a Western company so it's less insane.

Yeah, I could see that phone app working. All it would have to do is constantly record video, saving the last few seconds, and then when you take the picture it uses the recorded frames to figure out what should be behind the things you want to remove. I do think it's obvious though that that specific video is fake. For one thing the software outlined all the people, but it didn't outline the subject girl of the shot.

Yeah, I didn't mean it's impossible, just it's difficult. Part of that is because it's important that they have a lot of time to socialize with bunches of other kids around their age, and that can be hard to arrange outside of school.

She's a random colonist from Horizon. And yes, you can do Legion's loyalty mission, you just have to do it before your crew is captured. I always do Legion's loyalty mission.

Send them to a private school if you can afford it. You might be able to give them a better formal education at home, but there are lots of important social skills that kids learn at school that are hard to teach in a home schooling environment. *Edit* - Re the Fox News thing, I think we can all pretty much agree that all the cable news networks are terrible. They're out to make money and more people will tune in to see conflict than will tune in to see a balanced reporting on all sides of the issue.

What, may I ask, does a state employee making a retarded decision based on a misreading of a state regulation have to do with Michelle Obama? Or the Federal government more generally, for that matter? *Edit* - Yes, the state program requires pre-K programs to provide meals that meet USDA guidelines, and the USDA is a Federal agency, but it's the state making it mandatory, not the feds.

If you do all the recruitment and loyalty missions before doing the Reaper IFF mission then you can actually do Legion's loyalty mission before your crew is nabbed and go straight through the relay without having to do any more missions. *Edit* - If you do any missions after the crew is captured the Kelly dies. If you do one mission you can save the rest of the crew beside Kelly, but the only way to save Kelly is to do no missions after the crew is captured. http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Collector_Base:_The_Long_Walk

I did not like the vehicle platforming. It seemed really silly and contrived.

Conversely, when Mordin talks to me over the radio he sounds EXACTLY like Mordin from ME2.

Legion's listed in the IMDb cast, so he must appear at least a little. Also, now that I'm playing the actual demo, I've decided I think the voices sounding different was mostly just the shitty sound from the live stream, because now only Mordin sounds much different and even he sounds more the same than he did in the video. Voice acting's still shitty as hell though, so I'm really hoping it's stand-in. *Edit* - I say that, and then Wrex starts talking to me over the radio and sounds absolutely NOTHING like himself.

So apparently Kansas is one of like 7 states with a ban on any device designed and marketed for the primary purpose of stimulating human genitals (though there is an exception for medical/psychological treatment). Yay?

I think you just invented a perpetual motion machine.

Hydroelectric, maybe? I know a lot of environmental groups don't like hydroelectric because it damages river ecosystems.

He's not on there for the Mass Effect 3 page, but his voice actor from Mass Effect 2 said he hasn't done any lines for ME3, so apparently they hired someone else.

I would have agreed with you before, but I just replayed Arrival and while it's not as good as Shadow Broker something about it really brought home the Reaper invasion, so that was cool. *Edit* - Forgot that the PS3 version comes with Overlord, Project Firewalker, Shadow Broker, Kasumi and Zaeed. The only one you'd actually have to buy (assuming you wanted it) was Arrival. For $7 I'd say it's worth it if you care about the story and want to see what happened to set up Mass Effect 3, but I would wait until after you'd played through Mass Effect 2 before deciding.

Downloading the 360 demo, which I won't be able to play until after work. The PC version doesn't appear to be up on Origin yet.

I've never had Steam auto-start uninstallation after beating a game. *Edit* - I'm fine with this as long as the cutscene is either skippable or there's a save after the cutscene.

Damnit, they changed Mordin's voice actor? I will stab someone... *Edit * - Checked IMDB, and apparently all the other voice actors that I could think of are the same, down to the Council members. I wonder why they just changed Mordin. Also I didn't know that Trinity played Aria.

I just started watching it, skipped to the second mission since I'd rather spoil some random mission than the beginning of the game. Based on the intro to that mission though, I'd guess (or at least hope) that the voice acting here is stand-in. It's all super monotone, like it's being delivered by robots (I know it's not actually synthetic voices), and the fact that it's the same as what was at PAX leads me to believe it's probably something slapped together to show off at the show rather than the final product. Also the animations are much simpler than in previous games. All-in-all it looks unfinished, which isn't surprising since the game just went gold today. *Edit* - Also, Wrex's, Garrus' and Mordin's voices all sound entirely different... *Edit 2* - Biotic powers also look stand-in. I really really hope this stuff is stand-in...

I didn't make it through ME2 on Insanity. Maybe I should try again, though I think if I did my wife might kill me...

Actually it probably does help that I'm not emotionally invested in the position, so it's easier for me to discuss it calmly and rationally. Also might have something to do with the fact that on here the left far outnumbers the right.