Thank you for taking us on the Real-y Keighley experience!
6:56 A Wild SarahPodz appears. Something about seeing her in person at an event outside japan after years of her voice on the 8-4 podcast messes with my brain.
You're a good egg, ZP. I am so proud of you, especially for all the charity streaming. Even if I change which places I put effort to following, I'll always try to catch a bit of your GBCER streams <3
I finally uploaded my list (hopefully it's still within time). There are lots of games I haven't played yet that I definitely plan to however I'm happy to recommend these 10:
Inscryption
Metroid Dread
Sable
New Pokémon Snap
NieR Replicant Ver. 1.22474487139...
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond
Shin Megami Tensei V
Mario Party Superstars
Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania
Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
The Top 4 I've completed. 5-9 I have played a lot of but I'm not finished with. 10 House Of Ashes was experienced purely through streams if others playing.
Edit: Also, I still don't have a PS5, Xbox Series or high powered PC so there are a lot of games I was interested in that I couldn't play.
When Mass Effect 3 originally released, my Xbox hard drive died half way through the game and I never played the ending. I enjoyed watching Mass Alex but stopped before the end thinking I would eventually get to it myself. With the release of the the Mass Effect Legendary Editions, I've realised I don't have the motivation to replay the entire series again to finally see the ending so I returned to Mass Alex to finish the fight.
It was lovely to experience more videos with Alex, Vinny (plus bonus Brad) that I didn't see before their left. Thank you for allowing me to enjoy the parts of this game I never got to play myself.
As for the ending, I would have been very conflicted between the Synthesis and Destroy endings. Despite the moral issues of Synthesis forcing all biological and synthetic life to merge, it does allow all intelligent life to otherwise act with free will. Synthesis has the greatest logical leap and depressing unintended consequences, but as far as the literal depicted scenes, it appears to be the most prosperous. If believe that the Constant has truly acted with best intentions for its initial goal and wish to save every life (even the Reapers), this seems like the correct choice.
On the other hand, even with the Leviathan DLC, I struggle to believe anything the VI Child says. I can't help thinking: "why should I suddenly believe this convenient VI?" The VI seems to imply the Synthesis choice is best (and eventually inevitable after enough cycles) which makes me even more suspicious. I guess this is why fans actively sought out an alternative Indoctrination theory. The Destruction ending obviously kills many innocents (those with many cybernetics, VIs and Geth), but it is the only good option if the VI Child is lying to you.
Overall, I think the conceptual ideas at the heart of the ending - especially the moral uncertainty - is fascinating. The execution (even in this Extended Cut version), however, is extremely underwhelming. I agree with Vinny, I would probably have been happier had it ended with Shepard watching the Conduit fire, dying by Anderson, ambiguous of the result. I don't hate it though. Probably the most disappointing part is it showed enough promise that I now believe there was an execution of thier idea I would have liked. In the years I've avoided seeing the ending, I've always assumed nothing could be satisfying, it's bittersweet to learn they could have proved me wrong but didn't.
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