Well put. I think Meer's delivery is just more deadpan.

It does seem that we are in the minority sometimes. I've played as both and have them saved and ready for ME3, but DudeShep is always my first playthrough. I also think that MaleShep sounds better as Paragon and FemShep sounds better as a Renegade, personally, and that's mostly how I play them.

As soon as I saw the screenshot I had Sim Tower flashbacks.

As someone who was initially put off by the anatomical aesthetic of the game, I think I've finally come up with a plausible explanation about why the Gears are so huge (aside from the fact that the game's target demo of adolescent boys expect juiced up heroes): the COG soldiers are 'roided up like nobody's business…

Bonus points for the Gallus reference.

Oh yeah, I remember that one.

I bet it's a pain in the ass to pull off an active reload on that.

It's all fun now, but eventually someone will do Custer's Revenge, and then we'll be sorry.

So is there any particular reason why it's called "Without Delay"?

I'm with you. I've played both genders in ME, and both are fine voices; but I just don't understand the passionate enraptured devotion to Femshep.

Shore Leave on Golden Pond?

Killing Reapers makes for a rough night.

Correct. Sitting can constrict the blood vessels, which makes the platelets in your blood more likely to clump together, which is the recipe for a clot.

Nope, although in this case that's probably what happened to him: the thrombus (clot), which formed due to his lengthy periods of inactivity, broke loose and floated into his heart or lungs (pulmonary embolism) and killed him by getting caught and interrupting blood flow there; when this happens in your brain it's a…

Let this be a lesson to us all to be less sedentary. I for one have the sudden urge to go for a brisk walk.

Short answer, yes. Circulatory problems are serious issues for para- and quadriplegics.

I must admit, when I read that this guy was a conservative ultra-nationalist nutjob who liked MW2, I immediately had thoughts of "No Russian," if only because of the similarities in modus operandi.

Must admit I'm lukewarm to this game. Dialogue system good, strict moral dichotomy bad. (And flushing the crew out the airlock, ugly.) Strange, because I'm full steam ahead for Mass Effect 3.

Your third mate can be a sumo wrestler when all the corridors in your ship are apparently 30 feet wide.

And Pancho Villa. In happier times, of course.