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[Brian619]

Cerrydd wrote...

Liara is going to kill Garrus because he stole her favourite colour: blue.

Oh well, there's no hope anymore. So, what were we talking about before this? Oh right, Garrus' C-Sec history. I don't have anything to add, because there's just not enough information. I wonder when BW will finally take away those 'classified' slots.

You're right...Garrus' slot is still remains 'classified', what the heck? its been like almost 3 months since the release of ME2, can't BW just updates the freaking list for the sake of Garrus' fans?

[Ray Joel Oh]

And considering how nonsensical the ages listed are (Mordin is supernaturally old, Grunt is 22, Zaeed started the Blue Suns as a teenager?), even that bit of info would be unreliable.

[Xsause]

siltsonata wrote...


Why Mountain Dew and Cupcakes? Mountain Dew is a liquid sugar reference I assume...but when did the cupcake thing come up?)

The cupcake thing started with this quote from Flammie after a Fight Club reference was made. We joked that Garrus might just be a figment of Shepard's imagination, and this came up:

Flammie wrote...

Ray Joel Oh wrote...

Shepard has actually just been masturbating while thinking of beetles.

Garrus has actually just been masturbating while thinking of cupcakes.

...and then somehow evolved into this:

Modifié par Xsause, 21 avril 2010 - 06:08 .

[Ray Joel Oh]

siltsonata wrote...

(All right, that's it. I was sort of going along with it but I'm tied of not knowing; I knew not catching up to every post would bite me in the ass one day...

Why Mountain Dew and Cupcakes? Mountain Dew is a liquid sugar reference I assume...but when did the cupcake thing come up?)

Just... a very odd conversation.  Also everybody likes cupcakes.  I like the latter as an explanation better.

[Ray Joel Oh]

Worst. Meme. Ever.

[Xsause]

Ray Joel Oh wrote...

Worst. Meme. Ever.

Agreed.

[silentstephi]

And this...

[Lemonwizard]

My film professor just returned my graded paper to me today. This paper was discussing how the western genre is slowly becoming more dated the farther in the past the "untamed" wild west becomes, and now more and more science fiction works are serving to fill the void because audiences are more easily able to identify with a frontier that remains almost entirely unexplored to this day and it serves as a more appealing setting for an adventure.





This paper had a paragraph that was largely about Garrus in it.





Not only did I get an A, but the professor wrote "Impressive!" in the margins next to the Garrus paragraph.





I love my life sometimes.

[Cerrydd]

Lemonwizard wrote...

This paper had a paragraph that was largely about Garrus in it.


Not only did I get an A, but the professor wrote "Impressive!" in the margins next to the Garrus paragraph.

SUPERWIN! Is he a ME player or was it just coincidence?

[Ray Joel Oh]

Oh my god do you think he appreciates the association? Because that would be awesome.



And yeah, scifi is the new western.

[silentstephi]

Lemonwizard wrote...

My film professor just returned my graded paper to me today. This paper was discussing how the western genre is slowly becoming more dated the farther in the past the "untamed" wild west becomes, and now more and more science fiction works are serving to fill the void because audiences are more easily able to identify with a frontier that remains almost entirely unexplored to this day and it serves as a more appealing setting for an adventure.

This paper had a paragraph that was largely about Garrus in it.


Not only did I get an A, but the professor wrote "Impressive!" in the margins next to the Garrus paragraph.

I love my life sometimes.

Your professor wins the internet.

[siltsonata]

I see.



Well. I am not a huge fan of cupcakes (The frosting is only there to cover the FAIL and the LIE...it tries to be as delicious as a muffin but doesn't succeed.).



But I do love me some Mountain Dew.



MMMMmmm.



That I can get on board with. I think. (Mmmm...?)

[Lemonwizard]

Cerrydd wrote...

Lemonwizard wrote...

This paper had a paragraph that was largely about Garrus in it.


Not only did I get an A, but the professor wrote "Impressive!" in the margins next to the Garrus paragraph.

SUPERWIN! Is he a ME player or was it just coincidence?

I don't know, but I think it's too awesome to be a mere coincidence. I intend to ask next time I see him.

[blueL]

Flammie wrote...

Ray Joel Oh wrote...

Shepard has actually just been masturbating while thinking of beetles.

Garrus has actually just been masturbating while thinking of cupcakes.

I'm not sure if I wanted to know...

[siltsonata]

Lemonwizard wrote...

I don't know, but I think it's too awesome to be a mere coincidence. I intend to ask next time I see him.

I agree. Let us know what he says.

[Ray Joel Oh]

I swear it made sense in context! See, people were talking about how it's like Fight Club and Garrus doesn't actually exist so instead of "Jack" beating up "Tyler" when he's really beating himself up it's Shepard being in a relationship with Garrus when it's really...
just...

yeah.

I'm so sorry, world.

Modifié par Ray Joel Oh, 21 avril 2010 - 06:19 .

[Lemonwizard]

Ray Joel Oh wrote...

I swear it made sense in context! See, people were talking about how it's like Fight Club and Garrus doesn't actually exist so instead of "Jack" beating up "Tyler" when he's really beating himself up it's Shepard being in a relationship with Garrus when it's really...
just...

yeah.

Come now, if the badass gunslinger who's not afraid to break the rules to get the bad guys isn't a standard archetype for a western hero I don't know what is.


Just now he's IN SPACE!

[Ray Joel Oh]

Except aliens are like the equivalent of the natives. So he'd be like a cooler version of Tonto to Shepard's Lone Ranger.

[Evander]

Lemonwizard wrote...

My film professor just returned my graded paper to me today. This paper was discussing how the western genre is slowly becoming more dated the farther in the past the "untamed" wild west becomes, and now more and more science fiction works are serving to fill the void because audiences are more easily able to identify with a frontier that remains almost entirely unexplored to this day and it serves as a more appealing setting for an adventure.


This paper had a paragraph that was largely about Garrus in it.


Not only did I get an A, but the professor wrote "Impressive!" in the margins next to the Garrus paragraph.


I love my life sometimes.

Hot damn.  I pretty much have a mega-crush on Clint Eastwood's character from the Man With No Name films.  With all of the snark and badass of Garrus (well, at least in comparable quantities), but without any sense of civic duty.

That, and you find him randomly playing with a kitten in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.  The best.

Anyway, your film professor is kind of awesome.

[Ray Joel Oh]

I like the Clint Eastwood comparison better than mine.

[Collider]

 New group made for Character analysis and discussion. There is a Garrus thread as well. 

social.bioware.com/group/2009/

[silentstephi]

Woot! Ok, so Riot is the awesome for all those Garrus!Effect screenshots, and if you're like me and have a rabid hatred of Megaupload, here's a directory I made on my site that you guys can cherry pick and choose to DL the files from.



Riot's Screen Shots of AWESOME!



And for those of you not skittish to torrent them, I've also set up a demoniod torrent.

Some people don't like Demoniod, but I've not had an issue with them to date.

Wheee!

[siltsonata]

 If S/he plays video games, I wonder what Lemonwizard's film professor thought about that argument Ebert wrote about how video games can't be art.

Aside from art being such a hard thing to define....Lemme tell you what, if you find a movie that makes me care about characters as much as I care about my squad in ME2, then perhaps we'll talk.

[Lemonwizard]

Ray Joel Oh wrote...

Except aliens are like the equivalent of the natives. So he'd be like a cooler version of Tonto to Shepard's Lone Ranger.

That's can be true but is not necessarily the case, depending on the work in question. Science fiction does have a tendency to have more complicated allegiance systems than just settlers and natives, and Mass Effect does not seem very much like a "Humans vs. everybody else" sort of work. Especially considering that westerns which take the Native American POV as the protagonist POV do exist.


ME isn't so much a "cowboys and indians" sort of western as it is an inevitability of change sort of western. The idea that this untamed frontier country is ultimately doomed to become either absorbed by civilization or left as wilderness (which force the reapers represent isn't really apparent right now but I assume it will be in ME3).



I'm....super simplifying, but I think the point is clear enough.

[Collider]

siltsonata wrote...

 If S/he plays video games, I wonder what Lemonwizard's film professor thought about that argument Ebert wrote about how video games can't be art.

Aside from art being such a hard thing to define....Lemme tell you what, if you find a movie that makes me care about characters as much as I care about my squad in ME2, then perhaps we'll talk.

Pretty much.

Also the word art is so ill defined that it's ridiculous to be calling creative media like video games unable to be art.