I agree, but I hope you're not suggesting that this is the immoral, intolerable thing that the people behind the Sony corporation are guilty of.

In poor taste? Very much so.

Immoral? Intolerable? Meh. Not so much.

I could easily imagine that Microosoft's QC is more focused on "does this damage our hardware/OS/reputation" than "does this do what the game designer intended".

One thing Mass Effect has going for it is that unlike in a Final Fantasy game, the player drives the cut scenes. The interactive conversations were really what did it for me. They finally managed to create a real role playing game on the computer (or xbox or whatever).

So many CRPGs seem to think "role playing" means "stat advancement", and ME (and even more ME2) threw that out the window in favor of defining who Shepard really was.

Because the alternative is the system we have now.

Oooooooh.

Yes, now I remember. Thanks. I wish I hadn't required the explanation.

I feel like there must be something to your comment, and I wish I'd seen that movie recently enough to remember anything about it.

[Note: This post is utterly sincere. I have seen that movie, but probably not within the last 20 years, so I have no idea what the context is.]

Perhaps these hypothetical aliens captured a comet, send their ships into orbit unmanned, and then thaw the comet's water, adding it to their ships in an environment of minimal gravity.

Or perhaps they're massively technologically advanced, and they have technology to defy gravity, so getting tons of water into orbit is trivial.

Hunt and peck? That would be an improvement. I've known several "creative" types who refused to touch a 2 button mouse.

Or what? Throw people in jail?

Support a corrupt Republican, support a corrupt Democrat, or a rot in a prison cell. Sounds like an awesome deal to me.

You have a shitty job.