I don’t think common sense is that significant a factor in screening for potential cops.

They aren’t? I’ve always heard of severe weather situations as being very much “acts of god.”

Noom is basically calorie tracking from a perspective that looks at the caloric density of the food you’re eating. (Red/Yellow/Green color coding based on density).

Games should just be what they are, and people can choose to play them or not play them.

Well, we know that this cycle has a robust extranet that has allowed the Geth to learn an extraordinary amount about the galaxy, and Sovereign was also tuned into that ahead of time. The actions of the reapers suggest they’re extremely well informed (they found the Rachni queen, and were tracking the Leviathans, etc.)

The plot reason is that the Citadel is an immensely defensible position in the galaxy, being a nearly indestructible fortress (since the Reapers created it to last millennia), and it’s surrounded by nebulae that extremely difficult to traverse. Now that they know the reapers are coming, the Citadel fleets have their…

Also, there’s a huge difference between something becoming a meme and people actually caring.

This is the thing.

Yeah, that’s how I make the choice, too. Shepard didn’t know about indoctrination, so it would just be cold blooded to kill her there. Sure, it’s the “wrong” choice from a utilitarian perspective, but Shepard couldn’t have known that.

It doesn’t define itself by the core narrative being shaped by your choices, per se. The context of the story, and aspects of it, are so defined. But the story itself is not.

Of course it has repercussions. The problem is you’re thinking of it in terms of how player choices have repercussions - did you save that random NPC, or punch Al-Jilani, etc. - when it was not a choice.

It isn’t that they were going directly to Earth, it’s that they could. Entering the galaxy in a system with a mass relay gave them essentially instant access to the rest of the galaxy.

According to google, 2% of high school athletes get some form of athletic scholarship for college. No clue for what percentage that award is a substantial impact to their ability to afford it, but it looks like the total awarded for D1/2 athletes is 3.1b and there are about 110k scholarships awarded across D1/2. So an…

I thought there was ambient dialogue from your squadmates in that room that you couldn’t help any of the Salarians, because they’re all lost causes now?

The spoiler is the actual set of story events which unfold on Virmire. The fact that there is a mission that happens on Virmire, and some random Salarian dies during it, is hardly a spoiler.

I just played through it, and whether or not to slam the asteroid into the relay isn’t presented as a choice. (The relay then explodes, destroying the colony)

It always was weird to have the monogender option, because they knew that people disliked Mithra (Miqote, cat people) and Galka (Roegadyn, big people) being gender locked in FFXI. So when they put them in XIV, they made sure both genders were available. (And they both look great).

Virtue signaling is only benign insofar as it aligns to a company’s behavior. Most companies that put up that pride icon actively lobby against LGBTQ+ protections, because it hurts their bottom line, avoid offering health insurance that includes queer health concerns, avoid strengthening or enforcing…

This is really the thing. As a queer person, it’s so incredibly frustrating to see companies put on a rainbow outfit for a month to drive up revenue from virtue signaling, while doing absolutely nothing of tangible value for their LGBTQ employees or consumers.

This is the thing. If you have canonically queer playable characters, then you make the event based on USING those characters, not fighting them.