TheMightyEthan

Yeah, Japanese stories often don't follow the same kind of progression that Westerners are accustomed to, you can see the effect in more than just video games. I honestly can't think of a game that I thought had a good story. Lots of games that had good story-modes, but that's an entirely different question.

Also there's the practical problem that women only lactate during/shortly after pregnancy, whereas dairy cows lactate all the time.

Oh yeah, I actually meant to end that by saying that you quickly recapture that lost credibility, it was just right at the beginning that I had a negative reaction to that comment. Overall it's a good article.

I wouldn't have any trouble drinking human-cow GM milk, though I would have a hard time if there were actual human milk from human breasts on the shelves.

Good article, though at the beginning you lose some credibility (at least with me) for saying that it's the same as walking into a store and taking something off the shelf. It may be just as morally unacceptable, but it's not "the same" any more than murder and rape are the same.

Suggestion: due to the month/day/year - day/month/year dichotomy across the Atlantic, maybe we should write out the date. For instance Chronixal at first I thought you were saying it expired on January 7, 2011 (the past), when actually it expires on August 1, 2011. You guys would have the same problem if I'd written out that date as 7/1/11. Something like 1/aug/11 or August 1, 2011 would be less confusing. Just a suggestion.

Tying it to difficulty is a really good idea, actually. I've always been more for underground lairs myself, though, so it doesn't really matter all that much to me personally one way or the other. That and the fact that I like how overhanging ramparts look anyway.

Honestly I think the only thing I didn't like about it was the end narration, but since it's only like 30 seconds of the movie I can overlook it.

RPGs, followed closely by action/action-adventure games (or whatever you'd call stuff like Assassin's Creed).

Saying "they're not terrorists" is not defending them. I haven't seen anyone defending Cerberus, just discussion of whether or not the word "terrorist" can be accurately applied to them.

lmao, at first I thought you were talking about this website and I was like "what the hell?" I had never heard of the other Weather Underground.

Your initial post makes it sound like terrorist organizations are some G.I. Joe villains. Cerberus uses radical and terrorist means to achieve whatever goal they have set. Can you name a single act of Cerberus' that meets that definition, though? Sure they're trying to advance human interests at the expense of other races, but that doesn't make them terrorists. I can't think of they've done that would "demoralize a civilian population" so they could "use its discontent as leverage" on anyone.

Yeah, that's definitely not Black and White, it's one of the GBA ones.

I thought black and white were 3D.

Yeah, I think I might have to third Pokemon. Which game is that screen from, btw?

I called them a terrorist organization without really thinking about it because that's how they're described in the games and books. However, putting aside your dislike for the label generally, I would agree that it doesn't really apply to Cerberus; I can't think of anything they've done that really seems like terrorist activity.

This hardly coincides with what they usually say. Male default Shepard is on all advertising and they specifically say your Shepard dying in ME2 is not canon. So yes, there certainly is a canon play-through. The only canon is the stuff that happens no matter what (like becoming a Spectre, joining Cerberus, etc), and the not-dying-in-the-suicide-mission thing. Outside of that there's no "canon" as far as game events go. I've read/heard that in numerous Bioware interviews (having trouble finding a link atm, will follow up when I do). Default Shep != canon Shep.

Paragon isn't the "nice" route, and Renegade isn't the "mean" route. I think the best way to think of Paragon and Renegade is like lawful/chaotic in D&D.

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So I just saw Sucker Punch. Wasn't what I was expecting, but I liked it a lot.

@Agamemnon: There's no such thing as a "canon" Shepard. All Shepards are equally canonical/non-canonical. Bioware has put forward a lot of effort to make sure that none of the extended universe stuff (books, comics, etc) contradicts any possible playthrough.

Fallout 3 and New Vegas had this problem too, where characters would change voice actors mid-conversation.

Oooooh! Good one. I almost seconded it, but then it made me think of my actual favorite antagonist: GLaDOS.

Day 17 - Still can't decide Day 18 - I think I'm going to have to go with Link.