I know.
Still doesn't make them any less of a potential couple though.

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EPIC FAIL art thread | Updated 09/30/2009 | Rawbawtz
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I shot that down so hard. My gruff, realist Shepard don't want Joker to date a fucking computer. She pretty much made the point herself: Just because she has a physical avatar now, people treat her like a real person. Just because she has a physical avatar, we must now sex her up. Really?

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Time for more [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fp1H-FYPmY"]unnecessary censorship[/url].
Again, spoilers. Not a lot though.

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Love the Jack one.

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Hahaha the EDI one xD

Speaking of Jack,    I just read that if you don't do the Grissom Academy mission, you'll encounter her again in the Cerberus base as a Phantom.   

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So I'm done. Completed it. With all side-quest done too, to boot, except for a couple that were locked a way in my haste to get booty tali.

And I must say, I really don't mind the ending. I guess I can imagine you could make a better one, but I thought it was good in it's own right. The build-up was fucking fantastic (   nearly shed a tear when Garrus talked about storming the heavens   ) and the ending itself was... Weird, but interesting.    It's sorta more abstract and less science-fictiony than the rest of the game, at least the Synthesis option, but that didn't feel unappropriate given how epic the ending was scaled up to be. As pointed out, it isn't unlike the Neon Genesis Evangelion, or anime in general for that matter, so I'm already accustomed to endings were a seemingly supernatural force changes all of existence on the spot. I think it might even seem a bit too mundane for me if it simply ended with "woo, we took back earth, Shepards a hero, woo". Watching the video on the page, I guess the general problem is that the endings are to similar, and is only decided at the end. I dunno, I guess I didn't necessarily expect anything else. I guess I wasn't super hyped to see how my choices affected the ending. I'm pretty content with how they affected the game along the way.   

Either way, it was a blast to play, and a climatic experience without compare.

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Which ending did you go for, bro?

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   Synthesis. Orange goo indeed.    With max galatic readiness. Though according to what I hear, the difference is minimal.

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Far as I've seen, readiness just affects whether Destruction gets a small teaser clip of    someone in N7 armor breathing    after the credits... Feels stupid to tag that, really.

Oh, and maybe decides whether you actually get to that point, or not. Heard that lesser amounts of readiness causes it to finish off at several different points leading to the Deux Ex Machina kid.    Mainly around the convo with Anderson and Timmy.   

Edit: Oh, wait. Also changes which of those three choices are even available. And whether soldiers, buildings, and/or ships are destroyed in the cutscene.

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Finally finished the game... While I think the last 5 or so minutes could've been done better, I actually liked my ending    destroy all synthetics! DEATH TO THE COMPUTERS!   ...

If I can name one glaring wrong with this game, its that BIOWARE SHOULD USE HIGHER RESOLUTION BACKGROUNDS IF THEY'RE GOING TO PUT A FOCUS ON IT.... Sheesh, those pictures of earth and whatever that planet was afterwards look atrocious.

Also,    why on earth is my team smiling at the end, when they emerge from the crashed ship? For gods sake, you just crash landed on an alien planet with absolutely no means of getting off of it again!   

But fun game, will probably play again, but now with all the other options...

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Because it's a pretty jungle planet! Always brings a smile to the face.

And I didn't notice the background thing. But I DID notice a lot of horribly low-res clothe textures. Which is bad because I keep staring at the damn things during conversations.

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Shepard's Indoctrination

That was bloody amazing...

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Yeah, no, find it really stupid. It's the same rhetoric and presentation as your average "BUSH DID 9/11!" conspiracy. I don't mind the Indoctrination theory, if that's an interpretation people like, cool. But I don't care for spooky subtitles & cutting for effect, or statements like "The next scenes can't be real. This is a fact". Way to be condescending to everyone who accepts the literal ending rather than the speculative.

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I personally dont believe it either. I mean, with all the bad press Bioware is getting about the ending, you'd think they would've dropped a few hints about this... But its still pretty damn amazing in my book

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What part was amazing? The theory itself, or the video, with it's gloomy fade-cuts?

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The theory... Nothing about it is real, but I still find it to be a pretty amazing find.

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If you don't like that video, there's quite a few others.

And a couple dozen threads.

The indoctrination theory has really taken root in the community, at least until an actual change is proposed by Bioware/EA.

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