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I think I need to fix this lighting. I love Liara but her...

andtheniwaskilled — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:44:36 +0000

I think I need to fix this lighting.

I love Liara but her dialogue was so awkward in ME1.

Shep just told her she was romantically interested in her and it was nearly physically painful.

Lt Alenko has some concerns to voice after the Luna mission,...

andtheniwaskilled — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:07:34 +0000

Lt Alenko has some concerns to voice after the Luna mission, where Katherine became a Medic.

Screw the livevlog, let’s just get back on track. Bring...

andtheniwaskilled — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:50:00 +0000

Screw the livevlog, let’s just get back on track.

Bring Down The Sky was ok. I can see that it was an experiment, and probably the precursor to Overlord in terms of complexity and plot relevance. The Batarians are evil, as expected, though some of the end-dlc dialogue was evidently later retconned, the environments are pretty much all that same crate-packed in-universe-justified prefab unit the base game spent its time showing you up until the end, and there’s some jeopardy for the Mako in the form of a decently programmed minefield.

It was fun, I guess.

Problems

andtheniwaskilled — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:52:44 +0000

I haven’t given up on the liveblog, I’ve just run into a problem of motivation.

I recorded an Alexlivevlogs episode. In it I do the mission with the misplaced First Contact War bomb and start Bring down the sky. The problem I have encountered is that all of the audio is overlaid by a regular and very distracting scraping noise. I have no idea what the source of the noise was but before posting the video I would have to edit the audio to remove it.

I can’t do that. I do not have the technology. So I’m a bit stuck. What do I do now?

Yeah guys Alexlivevlogs isn’t happening today. I’m so fucking angry rn.

andtheniwaskilled — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 23:35:05 +0100

Yeah guys Alexlivevlogs isn’t happening today.

I’m so fucking angry rn.

It is decided

andtheniwaskilled — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:12:00 +0100

Tomorrow I will record episode two of Alex livevlogs

And here my internet connection is not shit so it might actually upload at reasonable quality.

I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN SCREENSHOTS OF THINGS OTHER THAN KATHERINE...

andtheniwaskilled — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 22:35:36 +0100

I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN SCREENSHOTS OF THINGS OTHER THAN KATHERINE BUT I DIDN’T THINK I WAS GOING TO BOTHER POSTING ABOUT THIS QUEST.

Hackett said “L2 biotic terrorists kidnapped a guy kill them” and Shepard was not happy because she is a biotic and she agreed with the L2s except the terrorist bit so she went and shouted at them and they said sorry and let the guy go and he said I’m sorry too I’ll make sure u get benefits from the government and Shepard said oh yeah hostage guy ur a butt.

I am compiling a list of planets I need to revisit at a later date. It goes something like...

andtheniwaskilled — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 20:49:35 +0100

I am compiling a list of planets I need to revisit at a later date.

It goes something like this:

Edolus, Sparta system, Artemis Tau cluster- discovered crashed probe, but had insufficient electronics skill to open.
Sharjila, Macedon system, Artemis Tau cluster- discovered crashed probe, but had insufficient electronics skill to open.
Trebin, Antaeus system, Hades Gamma cluster- discovered crashed probe, but had insufficient electronics skill to open.

GDI ME1.

The soothing touch of the rejection of truth- or why I'm romancing Liara again.

andtheniwaskilled — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:26:35 +0100

Some people who have seen my previous Mass Effect playthrough as Xander Shepard might say “Alex, why are you romancing Liara again? Why not somebody different this time, like Kaidan, or Thane, or Garrus, or Traynor?”

Okay, I would never ever romance Garrus, it would be too weird; Traynor’s a proper sweetie but her voice is way too annoying and Thane’s romance is a guaranteed spiral into melancholy but you get the point. Why am I romancing Liara again?

Because this is a liveblog, and I feel in a liveblog I should do all the parts of all the games. That’s why I’m doing Bring Down The Sky in this ME1 playthrough.

How is that relevant? Because for me, romancing Liara is a prerequisite condition to playing Lair of the Shadow Broker.

Post ME1, Bioware made a lot of foolish and reckless decisions about Liara. One of them was the fact that their own colossal throbbing hardon for the character apparently prevented them from seeing they were fucking up both her character and the rest of the narrative. One of the ‘mistakes’ they made was not giving Liara different friendship/romance dialogue, especially in LotSB.

I prefer to pretend this didn’t happen. LotSB is my Favourite, FAVOURITE DLC and I’d prefer it if Liara’s sly, flirtatious jokes were reserved for Liaramancer Shepard (as they should be) and not spattered across the whole ME2 spectrum like the remains of a careless driver. I cannot do LotSB without romancing Liara. It’s too painful. It reminds me of Bioware’s every fuck-up before the travesty of the ME3 endings.

To summarise: Shadow Broker requires Liaramance. Liveblog requires Shadow Broker. Therefore Liveblog requires Liaramance.

AND ALSO TALI AND SHE WAS ADORABLE AND BADASS AND SHE’S...

andtheniwaskilled — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:58:37 +0100

AND ALSO TALI AND SHE WAS ADORABLE AND BADASS AND SHE’S GOING TO GROW UP TO FUCK A CERTAIN TURIAN SNIPER OKAY I’M GOING TO BED

AND ALSO SOME MORE PEOPLE WERE TALKED TO I HAVE FRESHERS FLU OK

andtheniwaskilled — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:52:11 +0100

AND ALSO SOME MORE PEOPLE WERE TALKED TO I HAVE FRESHERS FLU OK

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andtheniwaskilled — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:46:04 +0100

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Somehow not feeling it between these two. Might save Ash...

andtheniwaskilled — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:42:42 +0100

Somehow not feeling it between these two. Might save Ash instead, give that a go. I mean, since I’m romancing Liara anyway.

Let’s just fix Pressly’s racism here… there we...

andtheniwaskilled — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:37:40 +0100

Let’s just fix Pressly’s racism here… there we go…

There was also this bit and Shepard got angry and cut the...

andtheniwaskilled — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:29:36 +0100

There was also this bit and Shepard got angry and cut the council off the end.

“Commander-san, you make my”- no I can’t do...

andtheniwaskilled — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:20:53 +0100

“Commander-san, you make my”- no I can’t do that.

1, 2, 3, 4, everybody eyefuck!

andtheniwaskilled — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:17:58 +0100

1, 2, 3, 4, everybody eyefuck!

Honestly this is probably going to make Liara’s...

andtheniwaskilled — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:15:53 +0100

Honestly this is probably going to make Liara’s archaeology pals pretty pissed.

Didn’t get stuck on this fight like last time I played,...

andtheniwaskilled — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:02:34 +0100

Didn’t get stuck on this fight like last time I played, but it was still pretty hard. The Krogan is very OP.

Shep: dontlookatherdontlookatherdontlookatherdammit

andtheniwaskilled — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:01:19 +0100

Shep: dontlookatherdontlookatherdontlookatherdammit