Vincent Van Goatse posted:

OK BiowasteEntoileted.

CelticPredator posted:

Midnight Voyager posted:

...I don't think every single "mangle a guy's name" joke stemmed from a joke about Shyamalan.

IncredibleIgloo posted:

So what did the thread think of Benedict Cumberbatch playing Khan in the latest Star Trek franchise?

Cleretic posted:

EDIT: It should be noted that the Paragon/Renegade approach is supposed to be somewhat similar to Jade Empire's; Shepard is always going to be a hero, you're basically just choosing if you want Shepard to be a by-the-books diplomatic hero or a loose-cannon cop who doesn't play by the rules but gets results damnit. Unfortunately, most of the major choices sucked at that and did boil down to good or evil pretty quickly, and a lot of the Paragon choices were just materially better to take. The reporter might stand out because it's one of the few times (at least, that they were tracking and reporting) where Renegade actually is getting close to the stated mission statement of Renegade.

Douche Wolf 89 posted:

they really didn't know what they were doing considering no renegade punch option during mordin's performance scientist salarian

Neito posted:

I think Cumberbatch is a good actor, but for me my favorite role of his will always be Martin Crieff from Cabin Pressure.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Excellent choice.

Light Gun Man posted:

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Neito posted:

Seven years after first hearing it, I'm still playing Yellow Car.

NorgLyle posted:

One of the phenomenal things about Mass Effect is how they tried to sell the Paragon/Renegade thing as 'Your Choices Will Matter' when, of course, they did not matter at all. I think it was HBomberguy's video that points out that choosing to allow the Council to die in the climax to Mass Effect 1 results in... a new council of the exact same alien makeup but wearing different clothes taking power in Mass Effect 3 but my absolute favorite Paragon/Renegade cheat was again from ME1 with the last Rachni Queen.

Everything that you're told as a player about the Rachni and that Shepard learns from talking to people through the game make it seem like the Rachni are literally the worst; the British Empire if they were also the xenomorphs from Aliens. So Shepard finds out that Evil (In This Game) Cerberus has somehow found, saved and spawned a Rachni hive and trapped the very very last Rachni Queen on a planet to use as a weapon against the non-human races. Shepard clears out the base and has the queen at her mercy and the queen says that all she wants is to live peacefully on a farm upstate somewhere with her babies. You can choose to let the Rachni go as the Paragon option or exterminate them as the Renegade.

When the game came out, basically everyone that I knew who was playing was shocked that my Shepard very easily chose to drown the queen in acid because she had no idea if the queen was lying and because having just fought through an entire hive of the things she knew firsthand how awful they could be as enemies. One of the things I heard repeatedly was 'well you're going to miss out on whatever cool scenes and events I'm going to get when the Rachni come back in the later games!'

So in Mass Effect 3 the Rachni do come back -- only it doesn't matter at all which choice the player made in Mass Effect 1; if you chose to destroy them then the evil space robots brought the Rachni back with dark science, cloning, secrets on the Reapers know. If you chose to spare the queen then they all just got corrupted by the evil space robots and either way you get to fight through another hive of Rachni.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

There's a Lego model of this, with functioning tracks.

Neito posted:

I think Cumberbatch is a good actor, but for me my favorite role of his will always be the hostage negotiator in Four Lions.

Mister Speaker posted:

He was loving awesome at it. The plot gave up so little about the character's nature that when he finally had a chance to drop some dialogue, it was some real poo poo. The movie meandered from there and the ending kinda sucked but his performance as Khan was not at all why it suffered.

IncredibleIgloo posted:

So what did the thread think of Benedict Cumberbatch playing Khan in the latest Star Trek franchise?

Philippe posted:

I'm throwing my money at the screen but nothing is happening!

Also the funny part of Shyamalan's name is that he willingly calls himself Night.

Nebrilos posted:

Renegade was supposed to be "making the hard choices that are necessary", while paragon was supposed to be "being the naive nice guy space hero." The trouble was that the writers never wanted to put you in a situation where you are punished for being a naive nice guy space hero, because that feels bad. And since there's no penalty for always being the naive nice guy, the hard choices are never actually necessary, so why would you ever make them?

NorgLyle posted:

One of the phenomenal things about Mass Effect is how they tried to sell the Paragon/Renegade thing as 'Your Choices Will Matter' when, of course, they did not matter at all. I think it was HBomberguy's video that points out that choosing to allow the Council to die in the climax to Mass Effect 1 results in... a new council of the exact same alien makeup but wearing different clothes taking power in Mass Effect 3 but my absolute favorite Paragon/Renegade cheat was again from ME1 with the last Rachni Queen.

Everything that you're told as a player about the Rachni and that Shepard learns from talking to people through the game make it seem like the Rachni are literally the worst; the British Empire if they were also the xenomorphs from Aliens. So Shepard finds out that Evil (In This Game) Cerberus has somehow found, saved and spawned a Rachni hive and trapped the very very last Rachni Queen on a planet to use as a weapon against the non-human races. Shepard clears out the base and has the queen at her mercy and the queen says that all she wants is to live peacefully on a farm upstate somewhere with her babies. You can choose to let the Rachni go as the Paragon option or exterminate them as the Renegade.

When the game came out, basically everyone that I knew who was playing was shocked that my Shepard very easily chose to drown the queen in acid because she had no idea if the queen was lying and because having just fought through an entire hive of the things she knew firsthand how awful they could be as enemies. One of the things I heard repeatedly was 'well you're going to miss out on whatever cool scenes and events I'm going to get when the Rachni come back in the later games!'

So in Mass Effect 3 the Rachni do come back -- only it doesn't matter at all which choice the player made in Mass Effect 1; if you chose to destroy them then the evil space robots brought the Rachni back with dark science, cloning, secrets on the Reapers know. If you chose to spare the queen then they all just got corrupted by the evil space robots and either way you get to fight through another hive of Rachni.

Ratoslov posted:

And, contrariwise, they never want your Hard Man Making Hard Decisions' actions have repercussions, especially repercussions that would prevent you from having essentially the same adventures as the nice guy space hero.

Pththya-lyi posted:

You shouldn't meme on Benedict Cumberbatch's name for the same reason that you shouldn't call things "[Thing] 2: Electric Boogaloo." The joke is played out.

Pththya-lyi posted:

You shouldn't meme on Benedict Cumberbatch's name for the same reason that you shouldn't call things "[Thing] 2: Electric Boogaloo." The joke is played out.

SimonChris posted:

More people should watch the actual Electric Boogaloo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsaA903oxvc

Skwirl posted:

https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1541102529483640832?s=20&t=pmUeBU9gl9ZuBzJE6SkhDw

Skwirl posted:

https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1541102529483640832?s=20&t=pmUeBU9gl9ZuBzJE6SkhDw