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I've said all I care to about Mass Effect, threatening me with Braid by isn't going to change that. 10/18/2009, 4:48pm PDT
I was hoping someone who loved Mass Effect would do a point-by-point rebuttal of my review, highlighting all my logical fallacies and completely destroying me in the process, but it looks like that isn't going to happen :(

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

A buddy of mine was on some kind of beta test team for it and was disappointed in how much got cut from the final game. I'm mentioning this because it lets me paint the publisher in a bad light for shipping the game too soon.


That's funny, because I couldn't believe they never came back to the mystery of the Shadow Broker after all that setup. I was sure at some point they were going to reveal his identity, and it would be... an AI! And not just any AI, but the virtual tour guide from citadel station. Like, somehow she grew beyond her programming and was no longer just informing people about popular places to eat space lunch, but was in fact disseminating ALL information, even the highly classified stuff. I expected that because it would have fit perfectly with what I identified as the two main themes of Mass Effect:

1) no matter how unlikely it may seem, all computers will eventually achieve sentience, and
2) underneath their chitinous shells and digitigrade limbs, every sentient being is just like you and me.

As it stands, all the biological lifeforms in Mass Effect (even the Arachnoi-Spiderians and the Vikingsauruses) are presented as waking up every day having to make the tantalizing choice between Paragon and Renegade life-paths, whereas every synthetic lifeform is depicted as an inhuman killing machine. No one who spends their life orchestrating beautiful romances between human gamers and creepy CGI marionettes could really believe that, could they?
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Click to see what I thought of stupid Mass Effect in this Negative Review by Jerry Whorebach 10/16/2009, 4:59pm PDT NEW
    75% of your review is meaningless, the other 25% maybe less meaningless NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/16/2009, 5:57pm PDT NEW
        Under the Troll mask hides a fanboy. NT by Mischief Maker 10/16/2009, 7:14pm PDT NEW
            extremely HOMOtional people call everyone else trolls NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/16/2009, 8:04pm PDT NEW
                I pull Jsoh out of the fanboy closet and now he's making freudian slips. NT by Mischief Maker 10/16/2009, 8:25pm PDT NEW
                    I could never admit that I was a fanboy about games I love by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/16/2009, 9:48pm PDT NEW
                        Cue faggy spazzing out ... oh wait it already happened NT by Worm 10/17/2009, 6:41am PDT NEW
                            Looks like wrom just came in from downtown. NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 10/17/2009, 9:36am PDT NEW
                            wrom is reading off his own cues to us, that's so interesting NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/17/2009, 7:13pm PDT NEW
                                fag NT by Worm 10/18/2009, 10:23am PDT NEW
                        Watch your tone. NT by Dick Clownshoes 01/07/2020, 1:27pm PST NEW
    If Jerry can't lose his virginity in Mass Effect, what's left? by FABIO 10/16/2009, 6:52pm PDT NEW
        I thought I came pretty close with Dr. Chakwas by Jerry Whorebach 10/16/2009, 8:07pm PDT NEW
            I quit the FBI to get back to the medicine field NT by Dr. Chakwas 10/16/2009, 9:54pm PDT NEW
            Actually, Jerry, I think you did just lose your virginity! by Mr. Helper 10/17/2009, 7:55am PDT NEW
    This game is rated NF for NOT FOR FAGGOTS NT by You missed that on the box :( 10/16/2009, 8:55pm PDT NEW
    it's still better than MMOs. *plays MMOs* NT by up with pod people 10/17/2009, 9:23am PDT NEW
        Hey pod people I quit Aion =( It's not Aion, it's me by Fortinbras 10/17/2009, 9:38am PDT NEW
            you quitter you (still level 15, puttering intermittently) NT by up with pod people 10/17/2009, 7:01pm PDT NEW
                I once played lineage 2 for about 15 million hours in perceptual time by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/17/2009, 7:12pm PDT NEW
    Caltrops' worst posters badmouthing the best. ICJ front page this great review NT by Laslo 10/18/2009, 1:40pm PDT NEW
        It's got something for everyone. by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/18/2009, 2:06pm PDT NEW
        jw does a lot of pointless badmouthing, yes by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/18/2009, 11:01pm PDT NEW
    Re: Click to see what I thought of stupid Mass Effect in this Negative Review by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/18/2009, 1:49pm PDT NEW
        I've said all I care to about Mass Effect, threatening me with Braid by isn't going to change that. 10/18/2009, 4:48pm PDT NEW
            I can love things without caring necessarily whether other people love them. by up with pod people 10/18/2009, 7:13pm PDT NEW
            Re: I've said all I care to about Mass Effect, threatening me with Braid by FABIO 10/18/2009, 8:38pm PDT NEW
                I went ahead and looked him up on the Star Wars wikipedia. by Jerry Whorebach 10/19/2009, 1:48am PDT NEW
            pod people's review is better. NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 10/19/2009, 7:11am PDT NEW
                it was less a review and more a deep examination of my zombie problem. ;( by up with pod people 10/19/2009, 8:56am PDT NEW
 
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