{"id":17175,"date":"2012-09-11T17:28:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T22:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=17175"},"modified":"2012-09-11T17:33:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T22:33:59","slug":"mass-effect-3-ep12-space-magic-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=17175","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect 3 EP12: Space Magic Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BwPiLD20mDQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BwPiLD20mDQ'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure why BioWare has so much trouble with translating real-world ladyfaces to their game. They based Commander Shepard on model Mark Vanderloo, and I think they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Mark+Vanderloo&#038;hl=en&#038;prmd=imvnso&#038;tbm=isch&#038;tbo=u&#038;source=univ&#038;sa=X&#038;ei=frVPUMeCFq280AHtmICoDw&#038;ved=0CCgQsAQ&#038;biw=1807&#038;bih=1096\" title=\"Google Image Search for Mark Vanderloo\">nailed it<\/a>. But the in-game versions of Yvonne Strahovski (Miranda) and Jessica Chobot (Diana Allers) seem to come from a deep crevice at the bottom of the uncanny valley. For the record, here is the real Chobot:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/me3_chobot.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='me3_chobot.jpg' title='me3_chobot.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I forget where I stole this image from. If only there was some sort of way to tell by looking at it. <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know anything about her before the game came out. Now that the game is out, the only things I know are that:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>She worked at IGN.\n<\/li>\n<li>She was in the game.\n<\/li>\n<li>Some people had strong opinions about her.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know. It was certainly an odd move. As I understand it, she&#8217;s a journalist. What was the motivation for putting specifically her in the game? Was this a publicity stunt? Were the developers fans and looking for an excuse to bring her in on a project? Did they have a &#8220;Warfront Reporter&#8221; character idea and were looking for a personality to use? <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know. Even after interacting with the character, I&#8217;m still not sure why she&#8217;s in the game. She&#8217;s not bad or offensive. She&#8217;s just incongruously conspicuous. I spoke to Allers a few times looking for a new vector for lore, worldbuilding, exposition, or roleplaying. There might have been some paragon and renegade notes in there, but for the most part I just couldn&#8217;t understand what purpose was served by having her in the game. <\/p>\n<p>At the end of this episode&#8230; I have no idea why Cerberus would take over Omega. To save time, can we just make a list of the stuff TIM <em>hasn&#8217;t<\/em> invaded?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I&#8217;m not sure why BioWare has so much trouble with translating real-world ladyfaces to their game. They based Commander Shepard on model Mark Vanderloo, and I think they nailed it. But the in-game versions of Yvonne Strahovski (Miranda) and Jessica Chobot (Diana Allers) seem to come from a deep crevice at the bottom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[71,208],"class_list":["post-17175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-mass-effect","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}