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I know we didn’t get to see the feud between Jack and Miranda in this play-through, but let me say a bit about it…

If you remember, Jack went to the Cerberus School For Torturing Children in the Name of Lulz. Her warped mind, her rage, her savagery, and her criminal behavior are a result of the extreme abuse she suffered at their hands.

Then we have Miranda, who keeps telling us how smart she is while doing very little to convince us. She’s rude, short-sighted, and she can’t articulate any kind of reasonable defense for Cerberus. The one project she ran only had three people in it, and she still had somebody go rogue on her. And then she executed our only lead. I’d trust Grunt with managing a research project before I gave her another one.

Anyway. As soon as both Jack and Miranda become loyal, this happens:

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Full disclosure: This episode was recorded over a week ago. We got to the end of our usual four-episode session, but we were right in the middle of blowing up the Geth base. We couldn’t save the game and so we decided to roll forward and do the first episode of the next week. We were all a little tired and so we wound up with what you have here: Fifteen minutes of disjointed events, loveless angst, confusion, slurred speech, and bone-headed mistakes. For example, at about the three minute mark I talk about the feud between “Jack and Samara”, when I should have said “Jack and Miranda”.

The whole thing with the entire team getting on the shuttle was another great example of the clumsy writing that clings to the main plot of this game. Really, it’s not that hard to come up with a reasonable justification for this. To have the whole team pack up and fly away with no clear destination or goal is just lazy. It’s like starting a sentence and then not even bothering to

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Here is how I would have decided to handle the Heretic problem if this was a holodeck-style game of infinite possibilities:

First of all, I’d straighten out the question (in my mind, it might be explained in the game and I missed it) if the Heretics are the result of Hacking on the part of Sovereign, or if they are simply Geth who came to a different conclusion. I think they came to this conclusion on their own, but in my mind this mission is an amalgamation of conflicting spoilers from the comments, my play-through from a year ago, and the snatches of conversation I caught while recording the show.

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Every Vote Counts!”

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In this episode, I said that I really didn’t like how the difference between the two types of Geth boiled down to a math error. We got distracted talking about the Pentium problem. (1994? Seriously? Has it been that long already?) So let me expand a bit on what I wanted to say… Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Spoiler Warning S4E47: I am Spartacus”

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