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Lovely to see a brand new Big Eyes Family Players album and this time it's a stunner. Whilst flipping through this morning's Guardian (alfresco with coffee and croissant, natch - actually I was in Tesco getting a Mars bar), I was delighted to see a glowing review of this album. It's one of the most heartwarming tales that James Green's fluid outfit has gained some kind of cult success over the last few years and this could be the album to tip them over into more mainstream acceptance. The Big Eyes started out as a kind of orch-pop band with nods towards Love and The Left Banke, basically people from Yorkshire who sounded a bit French. But they've delved pretty full on into a folky world over the last few years most notably collaborating with James Yorkston on the predecessor to this album. Yorkston returns here but is joined by several other guest vocalists including the excellent Adrian Crowley, Nancy Elizabeth and Alasdair Roberts.
All the songs are traditional and there are highlights aplenty. 'A Man Indeed' is notable for lovely intertwining vocals from Mary Hampton and Sharron Kraus and it's great to hear Alasdair Roberts again on 'The Coast O' Spain' somehow sounding 60 years older than his actual age, battling with some lovely clattering zither type instrument. Just brilliant. Modern day folk music can sometimes come across as contrived, convoluted, more made in music college than in a bleak Scottish hideaway but this stuff is so natural, the sounds flow from the musicians as if they were born to play this kind of music and each vocalist has empathy for the material and for the way it's played which is sometimes wonderfully dishevelled. If that is not enough this comes with a limited (to 100) bonus CD containing three extra tracks all enclosed in a handmade envelope. Highly, highly recommended.
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Our first Christmas after we were married I was introduced to a Christmas fruitcake by my Irish-born wife.
Thus began a 38-year tradition which even now strains our wedded bliss.
Friends who have partaken of her fruitcakes, or received them as a gift, no longer visit and invites to gather are fewer and fewer – this despite my entreaties to these friends that the gift…barely edible…could also serve as a doorstop, a bookend, or a paperweight.
I claim it is the fruitcake which has caused this disharmony but, alas, like the postman, there is nothing that will deter my Kildare Queen from her appointed duty to make them.
I am convinced that in ancient times the fruitcake was used to "prep" victims for Druidic human sacrifices, or were linked somehow to exorcism rites.
The bride claims otherwise. She insists that the tradition dates from biblical times. This, it appears, is true. The Hebrew scriptures in earlier bibles included references in Exodus to a plague which would put a fruitcake in the home of every one of Pharaoh's soldiers.
Locusts and first born males were one thing, but rather than lose his army, Pharaoh freed the Jewish people from their bondage.
Elsewhere, I learned that a chapter from Luke in the Christian scriptures that was found on the cutting room floor was an apocryphal reference to a treacherous fourth king who was bearing the gift of a fruitcake to the infant Jesus.
Angels were dispatched to abduct this evil king who was then spirited away to a distant land now called England.
The fruitcake? It was buried in a place now known as the Sahara Desert.
As for Lot? His misfortune was far worse than now portrayed in scripture. Yes, he was not turned only into a pillar of salt…a necessity and life sustaining… but a fruitcake.
The most intriguing of these biblical references is actually a misinterpretation of the words ascribed by the apostle Matthew as spoken to Jesus.
When Christ said "I will be with you until the end of time," he was actually referring to the effects of a fruitcake placed by the Devil on the table at the Last Supper and shared by all.
The venomous vapors now emanating from our kitchen are the first warning that the fruitcake is now ready for consumption.
A sense of panic now grips our children. They scatter to closets, the comforting shelter of frigid weather, and to the child abuse hotline.
I, on the other hand, have a husbandly duty to perform. Not even my pained expression deters my wife from extending me the privilege of having the first slice.
I have developed a certain immunity, perhaps due to antibodies, to the most egregious effects of this confectionary concoction, but, unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the birds and squirrels with whom I gladly share pieces.
All you young men who think of taking an Irishwoman for a wife heed this warning!
In modern times wonders have been achieved in medicine, psychiatry, and modern warfare so that in time a cure for the fruitcake-making syndrome may be found.
Until then, you owe it to yourself and to future generations to record the Mrs. with the web-based registry of fruitcake makers so that proper precautions can be taken and antidotes prepared.
As for me, as I lift a piece to my trembling lips, I recall the words from an Irish song: "What cannot be cured love, must be endured love.." And I pray. A blessed Christmas to all.


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So, who cares! I was a T-mobile Customer and I got texted from them telling to upgrade or else. Okay in so many words. It kind of went like this...
I think T and VZN will indeed be affected, but just like Phillip Morris, they will always have a certain addicted customer and they will savage them.
Are you kidding me? T-Mobile decides to offer unlimited data with no iphone in sight, and everyone backs off of Sprint? But when Sprint was having troubles they could do no right! They get the iPhone- have the best value in wireless- fix customer support- and still no one gives them a break!
Really? If Sprint has good coverage where you live and you don't spend a lot of time traveling the country in far out of the way places, why would give a flying f..k about the coverage claims of ATT and Verizon? I wouldn't! I'll pay way less and get a he!! of a lot more from Sprint. Thank you very much!
What good is "coverage" if you can use the phone because you are getting throttled to death.
I've never used their service, so I can't speak from personal experience, but I've NEVER HEARD ANYONE speak well of T-Mobile's service. I don't think it will matter what they do at this point. Sprint doesn't need them and T and VZ can't have them. Anyone leaving them will probably end up at Sprint by default, with T and VZ currently charging for data.
Lost my iPhone 4s last week and I had no insurance so I had a choice to make. With 15 months till my contract with Verizon was up I could pay full retail to replace it, take a cheap $10 dumb phone, or pay the early termination fee and get out. After a few days of consideration I choose to pay the early termination fee and leave Verizon...for good! After looking at alternatives I've decided to wait to see what the iPhone 5 has to offer. I'll be moving over to a Sprint monthly pre-pay plan using either an iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy s 3. Sprint works fine where I live and since I don't travel a lot the coverage claims of ATT and Verizon are not a factor. I'll pay retail for the phone, have no contract and for about $35 or $45/mo have all the texting and data (with no throttling) I can download. The primary reason I'm going this route is the INCREASE in data cost at VZ. Their new "Family Share" plan is nothing but a price increase in disguise...and a poor one at that! My wife has an iPhone 4s under my old verizon plan but as soon as she completes her contract, We'll be switching her over to the same Sprint plan. Sorry Verizon but you've just gotten to dam expensive!
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Although it has been shown off in Honda's native land of Japan, this is the first time that the "personal mobility" device is being demonstrated in the United States. More specifically, they're showing off the device (which was introduced at the Tokyo Motor Show last year) over at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel until April 8. They'll also be demoing the U3-X in Michigan next week.


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Mass Effect 3 Ending Gets Expanded in Upcoming DLC
Fan complaints to be addressed to some extent this summer with free DLC.
Following an incredible backlash over the ending of Mass Effect 3, BioWare promised last month that it would address the complaints of those who were displeased with the way Commander Shepard's story came to an end. The way in which it plans to do that was briefly outlined today, although we won't be getting our hands on the solution for another few months.
Put simply, there were two sides that most people could fall on in this debate: Those who are upset with the ending and want a new one (or at least more content) and those who believe BioWare should be free to do what they want with their game's story (and therefore don't want a new ending). As intimated last month, BioWare is going for a middle ground between the two. It today announced plans to release a downloadable content pack called Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut. The goal of it is to provide additional closure for fans who are seeking it after pouring in dozens of hours across the Mass Effect games.
It's important to make clear that this is not a new ending for the game. Instead, the DLC is described as being comprised of "additional cinematic sequences and epilogue scenes" meant to "give fans seeking further clarity to the ending of Mass Effect 3 deeper insights into how their personal journey concludes." That's as specific as BioWare would get, and that is probably for the best as saying any more could potentially spoil the game for those who have yet to finish it or could be cause for further complaints. The best way to evaluate this solution is undoubtedly going to be experiencing it for yourself.
"We are all incredibly proud of Mass Effect 3 and the work done by Casey Hudson and team," said BioWare co-founder Dr. Ray Muzyka in a press release sent out today. "Since launch, we have had time to listen to the feedback from our most passionate fans and we are responding. With the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut we think we have struck a good balance in delivering the answers players are looking for while maintaining the team's artistic vision for the end of this story arc in the Mass Effect universe."
"Are we proud of the game we made and the team that made it?" reads part of an FAQ on BioWare's website. "Hell yes. Are we going to change the ending of the game? No. Do we appreciate the passion and listen to the feedback delivered to us by our fans? Very much so and we are responding."
Checking out the new content won't cost you a dime; the DLC is going to be made available for free upon release this summer. There were cynics who believed publisher Electronic Arts (you know, the Worst Company in America) deliberately released an incomplete ending so that the real deal could be sold to gamers as DLC later. This would appear to shoot down that notion, although there is one unfortunate group that will be unable to take in the Extended Cut even with it being free, and that is those who are without an Internet console.
As far as we know, the only way this DLC will be distributed is through Origin/Xbox Live/PlayStation Network, something that not everyone who purchased Mass Effect 3 has access to. And since the game's story is not especially linear, simply looking up video of the DLC on YouTube would prove to be an ineffective way of consuming it. Besides how jarring it would be to do so given how the other 100-plus hours of Mass Effect's story unfolded for that player, a video on YouTube would more than likely not reflect the decisions that person's Shepard made over the course of the series.
Unfortunate as that may be, would it be preferable that no one gets the new content? In previous console generations, doing something like this would not have been possible outside the release of an expansion pack, and even that would have been less effective due to the cost and inability to transfer your save game. At least now a significant chunk of the audience can be catered to (for free) in a way meant to address fan complaints. Chances are there will still be those who are unsatisfied with the answers provided in the Extended Cut, but once again, surely this is better than nothing?
See Also
OP-ED: Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut Strikes a Satisfying Balance
Mass Effect 3 Review: An Extraordinary Conclusion to a Great Trilogy
Comments (70)
herePosted: Apr 13, 2012 12:00AM PST by smile_kill
to bioware for giving what the players wanted
Title Of CommentPosted: Apr 07, 2012 12:00AM PST by Bangohr
I believe the lackluster ending was due to Drew Karpyshyn's departure from BioWare. I get the ending, I don't like it and I am excited for a more fleshed out or expanded ending, or a frakking codex entry explaining something. I have begun to view the whole game as an ending to the series but that only gets it so far. I have played the first 2 games soooo many times but only once have I played 3 and I haven't gone back and have no desire to and that hurts me kinda to say. Any DLC wil rectify that quickly though!
possibruPosted: Apr 10, 2012 12:00AM PST by Keefman -X-
However, he was in fact only responsible for half of Mass Effect 2, if I recall correctly. And people seemed to think that ending was a'ight.
I feel differently from all of youPosted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by TheHamsterplan
My feeling: the entire story isn't that good in the first place, so you really shoundn't be so up in arms that the ending didn't live up to your expectations.
The rich environment and well-written characters and myriad choices doesn't make a good story. Sure there are many many plotlines, but they aren't woven together in interesting ways at all. They are just parallel, until the end. It's not about people who grow and change, just characters who are struggling. That doesn't make for an interesting story. But that's ok, cause it makes for a very compelling video game, even though the story itself isn't very strong.
In fact, I actually thought the ending was pretty cool, interesting, and satisfying. Even though it was indeed convoluded and had at least one logical flaw that I saw.
Red Dead Redemption, there's a good story. Simple and strong. A man struggling with his demons due to his outlaw past, being extorted by the government, trying to protect his estranged family. That's real drama.
Put another way,Posted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by TheHamsterplan
there's a difference between "story" and "plot".
And just preemptivelyPosted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by TheHamsterplan
characters from disparate races putting aside their past differences and coming together for a common goal doesn't count as interesting character growth. That's pretty standard fare.
Now I'll shut up.
uh ohPosted: Apr 10, 2012 12:00AM PST by Keefman -X-
the mass effect 3 endingPosted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by the_last_mandalore
absolutely bloody awful ...... did they stop smoking ganja or something when they wrote out the ending .... stupid bejesus a.i trying to make me sympathetic towards those damned reapers .... same dialogue from the conversation with saren in mass effect recycled for the illusive man the only cool thing from the mass effect 3 ending was finding out the illusive man was a human i thought he was a robot ..heartless basterd ... here illusive man do the right thing shoot yourself in the head ...
i noticed on EA'S release page there was a time limit in getting this.Posted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by nsonic79
do they still plan to offer this for free after april 12th or will they charge/pull it after the date? and do you need online pass to get it at all?
it about 2 yearsPosted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by V4Viewtiful
till 2014 if i'm correct, buy then a complete edition will be released
Wah wah wahPosted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by Keefman -X-
BioWare should have let the babies cry, they're just encouraging them now. Still, a solid move on their part. If I was Casey Hudson, it would have taken every molecule of will in my body not to tell the vicious haters to suck my tri-colored dick.
You don't get how business/consumer relationships work do you?Posted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by ActivisionStoleMy360
I like people like you, really! I can sell you a pack of bullshit and make money. Consumers like you who pay little to no attention to the media surrounding a product nor statements made and simply accept what you're given as opposed to what a product is represented to be is just a fantastic consumer for any company/merchant.
Oh, btw, I have a rock that comes to life and dances, plays music and turns into an Ipod, would you buy it? oh! and I have no responsibility if it does none of that stuff, just saying :-)
Um...Posted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by Keefman -X-
Okay. What was that about the rock, and media and statements... You know what, forget it. Whatever guy. Keep fighting the good fight.
Meanwhile I'll be busy actually enjoying video games. And I can pretty much guarantee that I've paid more attention to - and spent more time playing - the Mass Effect franchise than 99% of people out there. But why bother defending myself to you, you've apparently got me all figured out.
edit: Oh, and that wasn't targetted at you, latch. Unless you were talking about me.
...Posted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by Latch43
I was talking about you...
The only reason I assumed you didn't play the games is I don't know how anyone could play the games and not be offended by the myriad of plot holes and how it negated the previous 100+ hours of the game in the last 10 minutes. That isn't art. That's shitty story-telling.
Well then I don't know.Posted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by Keefman -X-
I guess I'm weird like that. Hopefully all those alleged plot holes people see in the ending will get resolved by the Extended Cut. Until then, I'll save my strength and refrain from beating this dead horse of an argument.
Keep On PolishingPosted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by Dies-Frequently
that turd of an ending Bioware.
I can't believe what I'm reading.Posted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by Symmetric
I love hearing all these people complain about the ending. It really makes me feel good to know that if all these people have nothing worse in their lives than an ending to a video game, then things are looking pretty good for them. To all the ppl who keep trying to make realistic scientific claims on why the ending is absurd, I've got two words for you SCIENCE FICTION. A false reality is what you are playing, false being the key word here. Ok so do you hear people complaining about the physical reality of other science fiction games? What about Halo? lol seriously, find some more important cause to rally behind b/c in this world a foreclosed home is worse than a bad video game ending. So I guess the moral of the story is if you don't like how a fictional character's story ends in a video game, then cry and scream and complain all over the internet until, like a 5 year old tantrum, you get something from your parents to shut you up. I enjoyed the story and the ending of ME3, and thats maybe because I understood the artistic intent of the story and applied that knowledge to the fact that this is a SCIENCE FICTION VIDEO GAME.
What?Posted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by jgusw
You love hearing all these people complain about the ending, but you try to convince them to stop? Are you not entertained?
Just because something is science fiction doesn't mean it shouldn't hold up to a standard. You've obviously played the games. Doesn't it bother you a little that the ending doesn't even hold up to Mass Effect's own science fiction? Bioware put all that detail into the ME universe only to drop the ball so sloppily at the end? I guess that could happen. Or maybe it did.
If you like the ending, then fine. You should continue to love the ending. No one is telling you not to like it, but you feel the need to insult the people that don't agree with you. Here you are throwing your own little tantrum (like a 5 year old) as if through your complaining on the internet, people will wake up and say, "Symmetric, you are right. What were we thinking? We've wasted our lives on this damn ending. We should listen to you." Well..., it's not going to happen. If the subject bothers you, avoid it.
Artistic integrity?Posted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by Notlogical
Games arent art.
Especially THIS game.
Dont fancy any new endings tho, it paves the way for DLC endings by EA.
...Posted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by Reznik00
Did it never occur to anyone that the game itself, in its entirety, was the ending? I saw a lot of things come to a close, all by my choices of course, and felt very good about the way my saga ended. I mean hell, I even got Al-Jilani on my side after punching her twice! lol. Anyway, that's the way I viewed the game as a whole and that led to not 1 disappointing segment. Call it what you will but I fully enjoyed my time invested in Mass Effect and I cannot wait to see what they do next.
Also, and this is a nitpick about the community itself rather than the game; If the game offers multiple endings, can't they only be described as an A, B, or C ending? or would you rather a 1, 2, or 3? Granted, the way they went about doing it kind of narrows it down but hasn't it been proven that there are around 16 variations of the ending?
YeahPosted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by Keefman -X-
I agree (about the entire game being the ending); this has been pointed out before but reasonable perspectives tend to get drowned out in the shitstorm.
NopePosted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by Latch43
The entire game was the ending?
During the game I spent a good deal of time dealing with the Quarian/Geth war. As a result of my actions and choices I brought peace to the two races. The result was a bright, but open-ended new world where the races share the homeworld peacefully.
The result after the ending? None of that mattered. They all die.
During the game I brought an end to the genophage that was a major plot issue throughout all three games. The results of this decision promised to have major consequences for future generations. Only time would tell whether this would be a positive or negative issue- except in the ending they all die anyway meaning all that was for nothing.
I could go on and on, I spent time, blood, sweat and tears mending relationships and seeing how things would play out in the future. All these decisions and the path my game set the galaxy on were all made. It was all set to be wrapped up, but the final 10 minutes made all of that insignificant. All that would be bad enough, but to make things worse the ending was filled with obvious plot-holes and a complete lack of explanation.
One problem with this article...Posted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by Eldritch_Eric
You state that not everyone has access to the internet so they can download the DLC, but then pose that they could watch it on Youtube? Last I checked, Youtube required internet access, so if someone could get on that...why wouldn't they have access to the DLC?
Other methodsPosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by V4Viewtiful
Library, a friends house, school, phone with free internet. You thinking too linearly, mate
RightPosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by TheSmokingManX
It's also not a matter of having no internet conncetion at all; it could just be that their 360 or PS3 is not connected to it. I know a handful of people who would fall into that category.
NowPosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by sepewrath
that BioWare has learned to roll over. They can learn to sit and then eventually play dead.
Well, EAPosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by V4Viewtiful
would have taken care of that anyway
...Posted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by Fall_Guy3
I'm glad they are adding content to provide more depth to the ending. My biggest complaint was that after everything was over you end up back in your ship and it tells you something like keep playing by getting dlc. After that ending I really had no desire to keep playing because it was OVER and DONE.
I had the same problem with LA Noire. Because of what happened to Cole the game was completely over and it didn't make too much sense to buy any dlc.
Uh-oh... *SPOILER ALERT*Posted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by learningKnight
After hearing all the hate for the ending I was expecting some really horrible crap. Actually, I thought the ending for ME3 was one of the best of all time-- especially if you consider that final mission, where you have time to talk to everyone you've fought with and say goodbye, part of the ending, which I do. Really great, classic sci-fi and the choice you have to make at the end is appropriately agonizing. The ONLY thing I would have liked is a longer conversation with the Catalyst, just because I was quite curious about it, but that's a nitpick.
As for an epilogue? The game ends when Shepard dies, as it should. Do I really need "And Garrus went on to pursue a career in music"? Honestly, it can only cheapen the game. At the end of the game, a brave new world is created, full of uncertainty. Trying to fill in too many of the blanks will only upset fans who pictured it differently in their heads... the very people BioWare is trying to appease.
And that's the other thing. BioWare, if you think the angry fans are going to be happy when they play your extended cut, think again. Undoubtably, it will fail to meet their impossible standards. You've really opened a can of worms with this one, B-Dubs. Good luck.
Or maybePosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by fatestninjaever
Explaining how Shepard survives the Citadel shattering and falling to the Earth. Between falling from orbit (already shown to kill Shepard just fine in ME2) and the fact that a 44.7 km long, 7.11 billion ton chunk of metal would hit the Earth with enough force to pretty much kill everything in the immediate vicinity.
Or maybe explain how the Normandy crashed from FTL speeds on a planet and didn't get completely obliterated, and how not even the brittle boned pilot was injured.
Or maybe explain why Joker and the entire Normandy crew, several of whom promised to be with you until the end fled (alone) from the battle at Earth. How did my squadmates on the ground (who were presumably hit by Harbinger's laser) get on the Normandy anyway? Unharmed at that.
Or maybe- Actually, I don't have time to point out all of the plotholes in ME3's ending, much less the complete abandoning of the player's decisions throughout all 3 of the games. If writing that isn't loaded with these kinds of holes is considered an impossible standard, then yes. Bioware should just call it quits now.
Many of the endings problems can be explainedPosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by V4Viewtiful
by Indoctrination, however unless you get the ending when *slight spoiler* shepard is alive and breathes why show the reprocusions of his decision technically it never happened but if it never happened then from whos perspective are we seeing these scenes that clearly don't make sense?
I would have prefered Shepard died but we didn't see what happened after he chose ABC (I swear they said that wouldn't be the case), and maybe do a Metal Gear solid and have the bad guys talk at the end or the good guys.
@fastestninjaever... sigh.Posted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by learningKnight
1. The Citadel is never shown falling to earth. It breaks into pieces, but those could remain in orbit (even an unstable one) for a long time. Go to youtube and rewatch it.
2. Shepard didn't die by "falling from orbit" in ME2, she died from a leak in her suit. Again, check youtube if you don't believe me.
3. Joker didn't die because he's an awesome pilot who knows how to crash-land, and because the Normandy is the best ship in the galaxy, with awesome shields and armor and internal mass effect fields and stuff. Jeez, getting a bit nitpicky there...
4. I assumed the planet the Normandy crash-landed on was Earth. What makes you think it isn't?
5. I suppose the fact that your squadmates are presumably (though you don't see it) wiped out during the rush on the beam elevator thingy, and then (potentially) show up on the Normandy afterwards is a very minor plot hole. Personally I was happy to see my love interest alive and well. Let me make a prediction that they were merely knocked unconcious by an explosion and then returned to the Normandy when they woke up and realized Shepard left without them.
Now that I've addressed all your concerns, do you love the ending now? Let me guess: you don't. Point proven.
@LearningKnightPosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by V4Viewtiful
4. it most likely wasn't earth because most of it was in pretty bad shape when you leave and i'm not talking about the cities
5. it can most likely be explained by Indoctrination, it was all a dream as it were Shepard never left Earth.
@learningKnightPosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by Diclonious27
1. Ok, say it didn't, how did Shephard get back there then? He definitely didn't get picked up by someone, otherwise they wouldn't have left him in the rubble.
2. True.
3. Ok, fair enough, we'll play your way. Still doesn't explain why Joker was running away from the battle in the first place though.
4. Wow, really? I thought the two moons in the sky coupled with the lack of civilisation and destruction were a pretty clear indication that that planet was not Earth.
5. I'd hardly call that a minor plot hole, seems pretty damn big to me.
Plus, judging by Arrival, shouldn't the vast majority of the universe be dead from the Relays exploding? Even if not, what about all the aliens trapped around the burned husk of Earth? Won't they all starve to death and fight over the meagre remains of the planet? Not to mention that the Turians and Quarians will all die of starvation as they're unable to eat human food. I'd hardly call that addressing all my concerns.
@Diclonious27Posted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by learningKnight
Thanks for the reasonable responses... on Gamespy they just yell at you.
3. He wasn't running away from the battle, the catalyst was activated, the battle was done, and he was avoiding the massive wave of death energy screaming towards him.
4. Haha, you got me here, I didn't remember the two moons. So they crash-landed on a nearby system. Why is this a problem, again?
5. It's minor because you don't actually see them die, and therefore it's not hard to come up with a simple explanation for what happened instead, as I did. Making it explicit might be a nice bonus, and I'm sure BioWare will do that in their DLC, but it doesn't really add anything.
6. As for Arrival, the way the relays were destroyed at the end of ME3 is very different than the way the relay went down in arrival (giant rock slamming into it), so I'd chalk it up to that. And yes, the Turians and Quarians will likely starve to death on Earth, along with all kinds of other calamities (after brokering the Geth-Quarian peace, I chose the Destroy ending, meaning all the Geth died. That's sad). The decision wouldn't be so agonizing if it was an easy "well, I choose the ending where everbody lives happily ever after". If defeating the Reapers was that clean and neat I would have felt cheated.
And stop saying it's indoctrinationPosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by learningKnight
It's not indoctrination. Indoctrination doesn't work by creating a 100% false fantasy world in your mind. The Illusive Man and Saren, for example, didn't hallucinate that they were by a swimming pool sipping drinks... instead they simply started thinking that helping out the reapers was a really good idea. This has been well-established.
Besides, using indoctrination as a reason to throw away the ending is just a way of doing "it was all a dream"... that would be wayyyyyy more of a letdown than the ending we got. Which I thought was awesome.
As far as number 4 goesPosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by Epic Greenman
That's a problem because it means either Garrus and Tali are going to starve or everyone else on the ship will. They have different amino acids, so one planet can't support all of them. And they won't be saved either because the Mass Effect relays are destroyed, which are the only way ships could move faster than the speed of light. Meaning the Turians and Quarians on Earth are going to starve as well while everyone else fights for the last resources of whatever planet they're on until they die off just like the Drell.
If you think about it we would have been much better off without the Crucible. That was probably the most the Reapers faced, an entire galaxy united. Who knows, we may have stood a chance against them, and had the relays to help us rebuild. At the very least we would have given the Yahg more hope than the Protheans gave us with since there would be less Reapers.
I didn't say I agreed with itPosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by V4Viewtiful
I sad it could explain it, I don't like the ending and the Theory still raises questions like "if this is indoctination why let us see the result of you choice" how ever it ecplains shepards injuries that go back and forth and if you choose synth or the reapers his eyes show Indoctrination. or even why they would give you the option of destroying the reapers?
The elusive man did show signs of indoctrination his eyes for example you also forgot when he thought using a human reaper was a good idea it maybe small and can be ignored as typcal bad guy stuff but he did still have a clear interest. Also if you are comparing the elusive man on the citadel to how he usually is, again he was an illusion as pro reapers at some point he even abandons the console you need to use to stop the reapers (the thing before you accend to the star child). Unlimited ammo after Harbringer blasts you, really? and if someone was alive why leave the conduit unprotected? Because it's not real.
Indoctrination is different for all but have curtain trates, hullucinations aren't specified in ME2 it shows early stages of symtoms in that place where you find legion. Shepard kept seeing a boy no one could here or see, how does a little boy walk through a seemingly locked door and survive after the explosion, that dream sequnce in that forest the Rachni explained dreams of oilly shadow figures in ME1, he had headaches and heard things all are well documented sypmtoms.
The theory doesn't explain important plot holes but it gets rid of some big ones and it lessens the like if the reapers take out only advanced form of life why use the Rachni. It's not the best fit but it's close
@learningknightPosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by fatestninjaever
1. You could be right. The fact that it explodes, forcing pieces in different directions makes me extremely skeptical that they remained in orbit. But I'll grant that it is possible.
2. I might have to brush up on my Mass Effect lore, but I don't know when it was established what exactly caused Shepards death. (S)he does catch fire as she enters the atmosphere. But that impact from orbit is going to kill Shepard either way.
3. I am again highly skeptical. The Normandy's internal systems are frying (before the wave even hits actually). Its a pretty big jump for me to believe that Joker is going to glide a ship into safe entry when the ships components are fried, parts of it are exploding and its moving in a best case scenario at hundreds of thousands of meters per second. Shields do not matter in these kinds of impact. I'll concede that its nit-picky, but Bioware hasn't had a problem with that kind of consistency previously. I'm more than happy to admit that Bioware is victim to high standards, but those standards are derived by their previous narrative quality.
4. Addressed by others.
5. Can't say I was thrilled that they all abandoned me on Earth. This is at least the kind of hole that I agree will be fixed in the DLC.
6. The thing with the relays is that they give no indication of the explosions being different. I'm sure they'll fix that in DLC, but going off of prior game experience and the codex, I don't think the ending should ever have players assuming things that run contrary to the ingame evidence and lore.
The problem for me (and this isn't a plot hole, this is a narrative dissatisfaction that is entirely open to differing interpretation) is that the ending mutilates the galaxy we spent a trilogy trying to save. Unless you picked Control, you blew up the Citadel. That's the center of galactic civilization and another 13 million lives, hope you didn't care about Bailey or anyone. Then there is no way out of the Sol system for the Fleet. Which means they're left with Earth. An Earth that's so decimated that the Krogan offer to give your people a place to live. On Tuchanka. A radioactive deathtrap. An Earth that likely cannot support its own people, and especially not the galactic army. Conventional FTL is not sufficient for getting anyone home. The rest of galactic civilization crumbles without the relays. No interstellar commerce. None of that fleet will ever see their homes again. You got the Quarians their homeworld back? Doesn't really matter. Cured the genophage? None of those Krogans will ever see their children. It doesn't matter if your motivation for saving the galaxy was for the galaxy and the civilizations or the characters you cared about for 3 games. You've screwed either. If your motivation and emotional attachment extends beyond "I want to beat the Reapers because of Reapers", then the ending doesn't feel like a victory. I can live with it if Shepard dies. Its fitting even. If the whole Normandy crew goes down. Gotta sacrifice a race or two. Well, that's war. But by the time you really think and create a tally, it doesn't even feel like a victory, even though it is.
There's so many other narrative issues and holes (Catalyst is a walking series of contradictions and poor logic) but you're right. Bioware probably cannot hope to fix them all, and I probably will continue to bitch unless they fix a large majority. They won't. I should just cut my losses and walk away, but I can't. I've built such a love and attachment for this universe and its characters that the fact it ends that way guts me. So I'll persist anyway. Hopefully this clarification DLC pleasantly surprises me. For what its worth, I'm glad you enjoyed the ending. I just wish I could feel the same.
My only beef with the "O NOES NO MORE FTL TRAVEL!!!" peepsPosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by Nachtritter
Is this:
Everyone assumes that civilisation is fucked beyond hope because of the lack of relays.
Your very own ship goes between various solar systems within each clusters that you visit, USING THEIR VERY OWN FTL DRIVES AND NOT JUMPING BETWEEN RELAYS.
How else do you get from Mercury to the SOL Relay in just a few hours???
There will still be FTL travel, just no instant hopping around the galaxy using Mass Relays.
@NachtritterPosted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by V4Viewtiful
Civilsation is F***ed because it was told that blast from the crucible f'd up technology in the Universe whether or no this is permanant is unknown but it doesn't change that almost everyone in a space ship is floating with out power for a time. Plus Joker landed on a planet which we have no Idea can repair their ship but you also have to ask WHY JOKER WAS RIDING THE SHOCK WAVE IN THE FIRST PLACE, wasn't he fighting?
But not only that it is catagorically stated that if the Mass Relays are destroyed they are taking a large chunk of the universe (a surronding area) with them I can't remember the size but it is rather large.
I'd rather Bioware made this all a dream (indicated by shepard waking on Earth) than inept writting.
@V4ViewtifulPosted: Apr 08, 2012 12:00AM PST by Nachtritter
Civ isn't fucked. The Crucible UNLEASHES the energy from the Mass Relays, and they then explode. Depending on the ending you pick, you can Control Reaper Tech, Merge with Reaper Tech, or Destroy Reaper Tech. If you destroy Reaper Tech, you do not destroy regular technology --- only Reaper-based tech. Any ship with tech NOT based on it will be fine. The Mass Relays did not blow up as they did in 'Arrival', rather, they overloaded and unleashed their energy and THEN they blew up. The energy having been released implies that the explosion from the Mass Relay is small. It's a ray, not an expanding explosion as in Arrival. The explosion we get is just the material around the core, it's not an explosion of the core itself.
Also, go read http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/11154234
The guy from BW basically tells people exactly what I've been saying above:
-Will long-distance superluminal travel still be possible post-Ending? (will Tali or Wrex or Garrus see their homeworlds again? Will everyone starve?)
Galactic civilization will rebuild. The mass relays were not necessary for interstellar flight. Remember, what does it say in the Codex about the speed of ships? That's right, 12 lightyears per (day? hour? minute?). And that's only the cruising speed, not the maximum speed.
People have never needed to research basic FTL improvements before because they have mass relays. With the relays gone, new technology will increase that speed. Additionally, the element zero cores of the dead/controlled Reapers can be used to improve FTL drives. Starflight will continue using conventional FTL.
This is good bcPosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by JOYFUL_NOISE
Gamers do have a voice and the developers are listening. It may be pretty strange/"dumb" thing to complain about but at least they took time and money to remake an ending for free. They had every reason to not remake, so It shows they care IMO.
Only they aren't remaking.Posted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by fatestninjaever
They're "extending" and "clarifying". As explained a few posts above, the ending is bad and clarification is highly unlikely to salvage it.
Bioware finds out how to piss off nerds AND take their money.Posted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by commiecatgirl
Not since black people stealing your iPod on the bus has there ever been had such an insidious and effective business plan.
Except it's free.Posted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by Totalninja
Maybe read the article before commenting next time.
This is perfect.Posted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by Totalninja
The ending was ballsy, and if it's the ending they wanted they shouldn't have to change it to pander to fans. The core ending itself wasn't inherently flawed, it was the vagueness and severe lack of resolution that really hurt it for me. This is an absolutely perfect way to address those issues without sacrificing artistic vision, and making it free is an incredibly smart PR move.
Moments like these make me ashamed to be a gamerPosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by CuteIgor2
Talk about an inflated sense of entitlement!
The Entitlement thingPosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by frankiehorrigan
is a fucking buzzword used constantly and to the point where it's become meaningless during this whole mess.
lolPosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by haonetat01
You mean all the people that spent upwards of $200 or possibly more, and invested God knows how many hours into the game, feel entitled? They WANT to please their fans. This calling gamers "entitled" bullshit has gotten out of hand. People need to remember who pays for these games.
He's right.Posted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by Hellslinger1
Gamers have this horrible sense of entitlement simply because they bought the game.
Just because you bought the game doesn't mean they owe you every dlc free of charge, they don't owe you the ending you want, they don't owe you a damn thing. Yet more and more gamers keep thinking if they spend 60 dollars on a game they own the dev/publisher.
OH HEY!Posted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by Nachtritter
...and thus, the word "entitlement" came to mean nothing at all.
It's a generational thingPosted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by skornenicholas
I grew up with the older consoles, no dlc, closed experience. Didn't like the ending? Too bad. If you spent $200+ & countless hours on a game & enjoyed it, there's your value, right there. It's asinine to assume that endings should be retconned because the fan base didn't enjoy it. Game companies are willing to lie to you to make money...this is a shock to people here? Large corporations want your money, period. If it takes them pretending you are part of the creative process, offering them your ideas for free with no actual compensation, sure, I'd do that as well. Maybe I'm cynical, maybe some people do have an actual sense of entitlement, or maybe it's kind of insane that we as a species invest time arguing about an intangible time-sink instead of making the world a better place, which obviously I am now guilty of as well. Just a thought.
AgainPosted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by frankiehorrigan
People seem to assume that the folk who were mad at the Mass Effect 3 endings were entirely because they sucked. That was a huge portion of the hate for sure but there's also all the lies Bioware and EA told about the game before it was released that garnered a lot of the rage. Is that entitlement, or holding them accountable for their bullshit?
The other excuse thrown around is that it's their right as artists to do what they want. I'm pretty sure Bioware turned in their artist cards when they made the Dragon Age Felicia Day DLC and cast IGN (surprisingly the most fervent defender) employee Jessica Chobot in Mass Effect 3.
Even if it doesn't change the ending...Posted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by Hellslinger1
I think we're going into dangerous territory. Now if someone doesn't like the ending to another game all they have to do is get enough support to change something which shouldn't be done regardless of how crappy it is.
There are plenty of games (and movies, books, shows) were I've hated the ending but it was the choice of the creators to do it that way and bitching about changing it just shows you are immature and wants things "your way"
Couldn't agree morePosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by learningKnight
It seems that for a vocal minority, videogames and the internet have become nothing more than a conduit for their rage and aggression. If you're seriously angry and frustrated over the ending of a videogame, I'd wager a whole lot of dollars that you're just an angry and frustrated person in general. All the free DLC in the world isn't going to make you happier.
Hey look!Posted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by Nachtritter
It's a Colin Moriarty clone!
When does it start making lame videos spouting self-important faggotry on the streets, trying its hardest to look cool??
I don't thinkPosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by Metroidvaniac
this is really addressing the complaints... I haven't played the game, but it's impossible to miss the controversy, and the complaints haven't really centered around "the ending was ambiguous and didn't provide closure" as much as "there isn't nearly as much variety to the endings as the developers said there would be." A series full of choices, and the ending only really depends on a few near the end, and only really changes with regard to the color explosions you get and a few other things? I can understand why fans are upset, and I don't think this is going to help that much. Unless these extra cinematics do make the endings more varied, of course.
ActuallyPosted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by Epic Greenman
If you check the more spoiler filled complaints, that's the exact complaint from the ending. ME never had your choices make too big of a difference, the basic plot remained the same, it was more about how the little details changed. Even if there were many endings, if they were all that bad, it would still be a problem.
I dunno, man...Posted: Apr 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by Metroidvaniac
Yeah, I've heard a few complaints about the content of the ending, but what most of what I've read has focused on is the idea that the devs reneged on their promises. People were quoted as saying stuff like "there's not going to be an A, B, or C ending," or "The choices you've been making for the entire series will affect the ending you get," and not only were neither of those true, they were so not true it could have given me whiplash. There was almost exactly an "A, B, or C ending," that depended on which of three options you picked almost at the end of the last game game. And the endings themselves weren't even all that different.
Still, you're right; the complaints I've read also included a few plotholes that could be filled in, and this seems like a good opportunity to do so. They also complained about the open nature of the ending (and, to be fair, the devs also appear to have said that the ending would be concrete and provide closure), but I don't really mind that as much. I like open endings, especially in sci-fi, as long as they're not too depressing.
That's the thingPosted: Apr 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by Epic Greenman
This ending is depressing and for the wrong reasons, mainly because of the developers clearly not thinking things through. It's the kind of thing where only when you think about it do you realize how poorly thought out it was. That's where I think the bulk of the criticisms were, everything else like the few number of endings was just another point to add to their argument.


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LORETTO - The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Loretto will open its latest exhibition, "Arriving in Style: Recent Acquisitions of the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art" on April 25. The exhibition, on view through June 14, features 76 paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture by artists of regional and national stature.
Enriched through the generous gifts of artists and collectors, SAMA's permanent collection has grown steadily since the Museum's founding in 1976. From a core collection of 67 objects, SAMA's holdings now number nearly 4,500 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures, as well as art objects in glass and other media. Highlights of the exhibit include a selection of Old Master prints and drawings, early paintings by Colleen Browning, Tibetan thangkas and contemporary art glass. In addition, there are new works by prominent regional artists including Daniel Burke, Cliff McGuire, Donald M. Robinson and Aileen Zollweg.
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HUNTINGDON - Melding the painterly, well-lit realism of 17th century Dutch still-life masters with today's obsession with nutrition and food, artist Mia Brownell will have a solo exhibition at the Juniata College Museum of Art. "Mia Brownell: Delightful, Delicious, Disgusting" is open now through Sept. 13.
Using almost photo-realistic techniques, Brownell paints grapes, apples, pears and other foodstuffs, but places the luscious-looking fruit in science-inspired structures resembling the DNA double-helix, or strands of chromosomes or amino acid chains. In addition to many solo and group art exhibitions, Brownell's work has been published in a variety of food-related publications, including Gastronomica, The Journal of Food and Culture and Hi-Fructose.
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Morgan Nick was only 6 years old when she vanished from a Little League game. Colleen Nick, 44, her mother, has moved into a new house since then but still has a room waiting for her daughter. "Over the door is painted, 'Each heart is whispering home, home at last,'" she says.
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The day she vanished without a trace, 7-year-old Karen Grajeda went roller-skating in the courtyard of her apartment building. She took her skates home about 6 p.m., then went back out to play. "I believe she's alive," her mother, Rosalba Lozoya, told the Tucson Citizen in 1999.
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Over the weekend, the U.S Army Corps of Engineers opened a major spillway to ease the pressure on levees in the cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said the Corps' plan is working. Many rural areas have been flooded, but projected crests along the Mississippi have now been lowered in a number of places.
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Why Miss Gustafson
It's so strange to me the old stray thoughts that pop into my mind for no reason. Suddenly, I find myself thinking of someone I haven't thought of in thirty or forty years. Why, for instance, did I wake up this morning thinking of Miss Gustafson?
Miss Gustafson was a high school teacher at Classical High School in Springfield, Massachusetts. She was the only teacher of the German language. She knew German perfectly, and yearned to teach it to us. Regretfully, no one had any respect for her. What makes that so? Why didn't we have respect for her? I can't think of a reason why except that we didn't. No one did. No one.
Top students were in her class, and we all behaved abominably. We talked among ourselves the whole time. We certainly talked when she was talking. There were probably even spitballs thrown. Everyone laughed at her, mocked her in front of her. We didn't behave that way anywhere else.
Believe me, when I became a teacher and had an unruly class, it was nothing compared to how we acted in Miss Gustafson's class.
I don't really know what made us so disrespectful in Miss Gustafson's class. She knew her stuff. She so wanted us to learn. And, despite our poor behavior, we did learn.
You wouldn't think I would ever behave the way I did in Miss Gustafson's class. I didn't fully join in the mayhem, but I laughed at her etc. , so strong was I under the influence of peer pressure. Because I so craved to be liked and to be like everyone else, I became part of a mob.
In contrast to Miss Gustafson, I had a French teacher in junior high school. She was wonderful, and everyone loved being in her class. Why was the French teacher respected and loved, and Miss Gustafson wasn't? Why do I remember Miss Gustafson's name like yesterday and, for the life of me, not the French teacher's name?
I bring up the French teacher because once she went to my mother and father's grocery store and introduced herself to my mother. She told my mother that I was special and not like the other girls.
The thing was that in Miss Gustafson's class, in this case, to my shame, I was just like the other girls.
But that is not the end of the story.
Apparently, Miss Gustafson did not see that I was like everyone else. I suspect that, despite my joining in with the crowd, I must have had some faint awareness of what it must have been like for her, and I felt bad. I was sorry, yet that didn't stop me.
For me at that time in my life when I was trying so hard to fit in, the worst thing that could happen happened. Miss Gustafson liked me.
Once, she invited me to a concert. I didn't know how to say no to her. I didn't know how to say no to anybody. I went to the concert, and I suffered, and I hoped that no one would see me.
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ISAAC NEWTON was so right. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. And this certainly holds weight when referring to the science of sports.
Here's a few examples of Newton's theory within the local sports realm this week alone - and it's only Thursday.
Pro: Penn State's new football coach, Bill O'Brien, has 19 verbal commitments,the most recent from a top high school lineman from New Jersey, despite the child abuse scandal that has rocked the school since November.
Con: The Penn State family has been in mourning since Sunday after legendary football coach Joe Paterno died at age 85. Paterno's funeral services are today in a region known as Happy Valley.