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As I said, I finished my "perfect" playthrough of ME this afternoon. I did everything except for the Schells mission- I'm annoyed its stays in your journal. The Opold smuggling one, if you don't choose to help him (and why would I, smuggling is illegal! Plus, I respect Matsuo, I told her upfront when I killed her crooked officers in self defense- I wouldn't have killed them if they didn't attack me first, and I'm not going go behind her back and bring in illegal contraband!), it doesn't show up in the journal, why should the Schells one? Because while I'm not going to help him cheat Doran, I'm also not going to lie to him and say I'll do it and then give his device to Doran, that's a total dick move. Maybe I'm a little too nice.

I did make sure every NPC that could survive did. Well, except for Fist. But that's only because I feel obligated to take Wrex along when we're taking him down. I mean, it just seems weird to be all, "Oh, you're looking for Fist? Hey, we should team up!" and then not actually take him along. But yeah, I convinced Helena Blake to disband her organization, talked Jeong down, talked Toombs down, saved all the Zhu's Hope colonists, saved Katie Bowman and let Balak escape. So I do kinda feel bad that I let everyone live but Fist, even if he is an a-hole criminal.

Anyways, started on ME2 after dinner. I'm a little surprised they drop "shit" so many times so far. I mean, I get its for mature audiences, and obviously I'm know stranger to cursing, but its still disconcerting. The combat does feel different. Like I said, I no longer have immunity, so I have to be paying attention to cover. I do like the Adrenaline Rush ability, I can pop out of cover and things turn all matrix bullet-time, allowing me to quickly line up shots. The fact that you can do head shots is bad for me though, because I've always had the habit of aiming for enemies' heads instead of center of mass. In the previous game, since it didn't matter, I didn't have to be as selective with where I shot them. I'm also a little freaked out about having ammo (well, thermal clips) now instead of the ME overheating system. It has me worried that I might run out of ammo. So I might end up saving often and reloading if I'm too inefficient with my shots.

The new Normandy is nice, bigger and better than the first one. Now that I've finally met Jacob, he's okay. Still very boring seeming, but he seems like a nice enough guy. Oh weird, the cook, Gardener, who kinda sounds like Bill Murray's brother, is voice by the same guy who voices Udina. Its weird because they couldn't sound more opposite. Oh, and the VA is also Flint in the old GIJoe cartoon!? Speaking of voices, I'm amused the engineers have thick accents, with Donnelly being all Scottish or Irish or whatever, and Gabby sounding all Minnesotan. But I guess that makes them memorable.

As for the romantic interests, Kelly sure is flirty, and you know I like the short haired girls. But seriously, Miranda has the sexy Aussie accent, and that ass! Its totally ridic! I'd like to stay loyal to Ashley but these other girls are making it hard! (That's what she said, ha!)

I do like you have an armory with all sorts of weapons you can collect, but it doesn't actually give you their stats! How am I supposed to know which weapon is better than the other? I also like you can change outfits, because you know how I like playing dress up in these games. I'm not sure which is the best armor for my purposes though. I mean, I do know which ones aren't good for me, obviously the ones that give bonuses to tech and biotics are useless to me. The Terminus and Cerberus armors look cool, but they're all one package, I can't mix and match like the standard armor. I've been sticking with the Kestrel pieces so far, not sure if I'm better of mixing stuff around. I do know the Kestrel helmet does let me do more damage with head shots.

But you can also change your "non-combat" attire. I know sparkyboy chose the off duty spacer outfit, with the vest and stuff. But that looks way too informal for me. The officer and science outfits look lame, so I'm sticking with the default crew outfit, though I'm not keen on the color scheme. But its the look that I find most preferable.

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Okay, I think I officially follow too many lesbians on tumblr if I have a dream about Chicago Fire even though I've never seen an episode of the show. Anyways, in the dream, instead of firemen (firepeople?) they were on a SWAT team. And some terrorists or something took over some private fancy school but everyone disappeared and they were searching the building. Only they (or at least Gabby) had been out at some party beforehand, so they didn't have a chance to really change. So she was in this pretty yellow dress, and Shay was distracted by hot Gaby looked in it.

Anyways, the team was having the janitor show them around. Only, he was secretly with the bad guys, and when he saw Shay was too busy staring at Gaby, he tried to quickly attack her and get her gun. Only Gaby noticed and she quickly stopped the guy, but she got wounded in the process and Shay was horrified and felt ultra guilty. There was also something in the dream about a giant Demon/Transformer, and a small town that had been taken over by the devil and his cultists. And Sofia Vergara was married to the mayor (I couldn't remember if there was a Modern Family thing going on and her husband was Jay Pritchett) but he was really the devil in disguise.

Like I was in church helping someone investigate this devil cult, and everyone in town was at mass, and it seemed like a normal mass, even though almost everyone were secret devil worshippers. But I digress, I guess I was working with Angel (or maybe Booth? David Boreanaz) and one of the townspeople who wasn't a cultist was all, "if this is a fake mass, why are we here?" to Angel, and they left to investigate. I didn't want them to go, because it was disrespectful (even though it was a fake mass), so I stayed. And their presence (or lack thereof) was noticed and the devil-mayor started mobilizing the townspeople against them. So I tried sending a text to warn them, but Sofia saw my phone was working and wanted to use it to text one of her loved ones (I guess there was a bunch of chaos that started after Angel and the other guy left?) and she saw my text warning the others. So I was trying to convince her her husband was the devil.

I'm just amused that I'm such a TV-addicted loser that TV and movie characters show up more than people I actually know. Well, not necessarily characters. I had a dream the other day I did a movie with Heather Mattazaro and Sasha Grey. Oh not one of those movies! And how random a pair is that?

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Since I had that ticket for a free AMC showing and that free $25 AMC card from Christmas, I decided to see Django Unchained this morning. It was a pretty entertaining film!

ME blather- So I had heard conflicting sources regarding loyalty of your squad members. Some said the paragon meter worked like the old one, and the higher it is the higher your paragon rating, and the more charm options available. So for "hard choices", they suggested leaving things like Zaeed's mission (if you wanted to go paragon) or conflicts between Miranda/Jack and Legion/Tali, you should save those until the end, when your meter is high.

But other said those meters were BS, and the availability of charm options is actually dependent on the number of paragon choices you make compared to the number of paragon choices available. So, by that mark, as long as you stick with paragon choices, you're good. Since Zaeed was right there when I entered Omega, picked him up and immediately did his loyalty mission. Chose to save the refinery workers instead of letting them all die so Zaeed could get his revenge. I mean, Vido is a bad guy, but I'm not going to let of bunch of civvies fry to take him down! So, Vido gets away, and Zaeed is pissed, but I did end up getting the charm option to gain his loyalty. So I guess the latter people were right.

In any case, Zaeed is pretty bad-ass, so I've been taking him in lieu of Jacob. I can't not take Miranda and her hot genetically engineered Aussie ass! But since I just got on Omega, I just met Aria and am getting ready to get Mordin and Garrus. In any case, like I said, I'm a little intimidated by the move to ammo over overheating, and fuel to move between systems within a cluster in the Normandy. Given my paranoia, I'm totally worried about getting into a situation where I run out of one or the other and being "stuck".