{"id":7769,"date":"2010-04-15T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T16:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2010-04-15T11:14:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T16:14:08","slug":"spoiler-warning-episode-18-bow-chicka-wow-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7769","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning Episode 18: Bow Chicka Wow Wow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: For reasons we still don&#8217;t understand, this episode contains Mass Effect&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/comic\/2008\/1\/16\/\">infamous<\/a> XXX hard core porno sex simulation*.<\/p>\n<p><center><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"437\" height=\"370\" id=\"viddler_ca275536\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.viddler.com\/player\/ca275536\/\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.viddler.com\/player\/ca275536\/\" width=\"437\" height=\"370\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" name=\"viddler_ca275536\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We joke about wanting to romance Tali, but I have the sense that this is a pretty common preference among male gamers.  Tali seems to be a lot more popular than either Liara or Ashley. And I think she&#8217;s more popular because she&#8217;s simply more interesting. Liara is smart, Ashley is capable, but Tali is both.  Yes, she has a skin-tight body suit, but so does just about everyone else in the game. More importantly, she&#8217;s got <em>chicken feet<\/em> and you never see her face. So I think her popularity is due to her personality far more than sex appeal.  <\/p>\n<p>Having said that, there seems to be no end of speculation (and photoshopping) concerning what we would find under the mask: <\/p>\n<p><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><a href='http:\/\/cerberus-network.xf.cz\/web\/tali_cz_big.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/tali.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Heresy!' title='Heresy!'\/><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>(The real Tali model is actually pretty ugly under the mask.  Her face is just there to hint at the shape with faux-lighting. I can&#8217;t find it now, but someone managed to move the camera close enough to look through her helmet using the clipping plane. They showed that her head is low-poly and sort of mannish. EDIT: <a href=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v433\/johnny_nocturnal\/Mass%20Effect\/tali1.jpg\">Found it<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not ready to announce the next series, but I will say it&#8217;s not going to be Mass Effect 2.  Not right away, anyway.  We don&#8217;t want this to turn into &#8220;The Mass Effect Show&#8221;. We&#8217;re going to do one or two other games before we head into <em>Mass Effect 2: Cerberus Goes Bananas<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p><small>* And by &#8220;XXX porno&#8221; we mean, &#8220;a side view of a bare female bottom&#8221;.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: For reasons we still don&#8217;t understand, this episode contains Mass Effect&#8217;s infamous XXX hard core porno sex simulation*. We joke about wanting to romance Tali, but I have the sense that this is a pretty common preference among male gamers. Tali seems to be a lot more popular than either Liara or Ashley. 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