Kids:
A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know. Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because…
NBC strikes again!
Well I can take it! And now I can give it back! Come on! Strike me!
One of the most emotional moments in the series
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Tom Hiddleston interview (x)
I WOULD WATCH THIS SHOW FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE.
Now it just needs a corny theme.
I would totally watch it :D
YES. WHY IS THIS NOT A THING ALREADY?
So while I look at this, that song plays in my head HAHAHAHAHAHA
So after an hour of debating with myself (and the occasional badgering of my girlfriend) I have finally bought Persona 3 FES on the PSN. It was after much thought that I picked to download Persona since I have very very limited PSN creds on my fucking wallet
Now you might ask “Obie, Persona 3? But haven’t you played it on the PS2?”. Well my dear friends, I will shamefully tell you that I have not played Persona 3… or any Persona at that! But before you spam this blog with flames and shit (or maybe even flaming shit), let me defend myself that I never had a PS2. Yes, I never had one! All the PS2 gaming I had was at one of my bestfriend’s house and because of that I had limited time and resources! I’m sorry that I’m no Steve Jobs okay?!
But I have a job now. I’m not the sad and poor gaming student I was. I earn my own money and I got my own console now! And like they say, its better late than never!
I feel like a throw back. How about some stunning art from Squaresoft’s 1999 title, Vagrant Story?
Great art from a great game! Currently playing this on thmy PS3! Sweet!!
Kalahira, mistress of inscrutable depths, I ask forgiveness.
Kalahira, whose waves wear down stone and sand.
Kalahira, wash the sins from this one and set him on a distant shore of the infinite spirit.
Kalahira, this one’s heart is pure, but beset by wickedness and contention.
Guide this one to where the traveller never tires,
The lover never leaves, The hungry never starve.
Guide this one, Kalahira, and he will be a companion to you as he was to me
“Excluding the ending, Mass Effect 3 is, without a doubt, the greatest gaming experience I’ve ever had.”
FINALLY
BLESS THIS CONFESSIONI thought it was obvious that ME3 is a great game. Besides the ending.
Joker: About the ones you went out with last..
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Bioware’s Mass Effect franchise has garnered thousands of fans and sold millions of copies. Its latest game, Mass Effect 3, was easily the most anticipated game of the year, is easily the most dynamic and most engrossing one in the series. It also became one of the most hated recently because of its baffling ending which had fans flipping tables and flipping birds all throughout the world
But bioware fans are gamers, TRUE gamers and not just the hipster plague spreading around (more on that on future posts). Their passion for the game were not deterred in any way. That is probably why they had come up with an explanation of their own, or rather a theory about the ending. They called it the Indoctrination theory
I won’t go explaining it because I haven’t fully explored it myself. I believe people should go and look it up and think about it themselves. Also, I’m a lazy SOB to explain it LOL. With that in mind I want to state that this post isn’t an explanation of the Indoctrination theory but why its getting so much recognition
I can understand why the Indoctrination theory would be so popular. First thing about it is that it follows the feel of ME3. The strange thing I noticed about ME3 was how meta and trippy it was. Dream sequences, all the impossibilities that happened and creepy creepy kids. It is so far from ME1 and 2 where everything is straight forward. Got an enemy, kill the enemy, go home. That’s not the case with ME3. You go on these missions and in each mission you get your victory or you bruise your ego. Either way you are treated with clips of Shepard’s internal struggle and how he deals with his own demons
One of those impossibilities mentioned above is extra scene in the RED ending. Shepard’s body taking in air on a pile of rubble almost seems ludicrous. I mean, the rubble did not look like any part of the Citadel but more like rubble from London. I find it difficult to believe that Shepard’s ass got away from the Citadel before it explodes, went through the Earth’s atmosphere, landed on the planet and lived! That shit crazy, man!
Then there is also the matter of the indoctrination symptoms. If you would check your Codex there is an entry there regarding indoctrination and its characteristics. If you can sit through the monotonous voice of whoever that dude is you’ll find that a lot of chars of indoctrination can be seen on Shepard as you play the game. Some can be seen as early as the tutorial and some can be seen during your “fight” with the Illusive Man
Whether you believe in the Indoctrination theory or not, on thing remains clear, fans will keep guessing and thinking about what the ending actually meant until Bioware releases the extended ending.
Ridiculously Photogenic Guy on Good Morning America (now that’s what I call news)
Tumblr is now the best agent you could possibly have.
oh man this is awesome
HIS VOICE IS LIKE A MILLION ANGELS SINGING. HE IS SO ADORABLE I WANT TO DIE.
this man. lol
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Accusing BioWare of letting you down — you personally, you the most important person in the universe — is ridiculous.
Mass Effect was their story.
This is how they chose to end it.
Saying that you were let down is justified.
Arguing that you deserve more is just entitlement.
If you made it to the end of Mass Effect 3, then BioWare supplied you with over a hundred hours of videogame amusement, and you experienced a franchise which — in small ways and large — pushed the whole notion of videogame storytelling forward.
If you feel like all that time spent with the game was wasted because you didn’t like the last few minutes…
Well, no offense, but your perspective on art and the human experience kind of stinks.
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Darren Franich, EW.com: In defense of the Mass Effect 3 ending.
I’ve never played Mass Effect (though everyone tells me I should,) so I can’t vouch for the quality of the ending.
Yet, the writer’s point remains, despite my lack of experience with the specific subject:
It’s BioWare’s ending, not yours.
Not liking how something ends is fine, but demanding that it be changed because you didn’t like it? That’s ridiculous.
As the audience, you cannot take the right to tell a story however they deem fit away from the creator(s.)
You have the right to criticize it, sure, just like the creator has the right to laugh at you and tell you to go fuck yourself.
I understand that with long-form storytelling, an emotional investment is made. That emotional investment, however, does not give you any say in a story’s outcome. NONE WHATSOEVER.
If you don’t like how a story ends, write your own. Then, when someone is let down by it and demands a new ending, assert your right as a creator to laugh at them and tell them to go fuck themselves.
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