Mass Affection: Recent Episodes
Chris and Jaimie Krycho
A husband and wife play-through of the Mass Effect games. Laughter, romance, and hijinks ensue. Biweekly episodes discussing plot, character, gameplay—the whole gamut!
An abject failure of story-telling, in every possible way.
Jaimie makes bad puns and does a mean Kasumi impression. Chris rants about the horrible, no good, very bad ethics on display here. Both of them rant about the bad writing and the putting-the-characters-on-rails decisions the story team made.
…but hey, at least there's a Hackett appearance?
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Thor-Collector bug time! (This is a really weird crossover…)
In which we meet and fight Collectors, argue with a guy in a shed, and argue with Kaidan. Also, Chris cannot talk to save his life in this episode, and Jaimie is reveling in it.
Show Notes * The Incomparable + Episode I: The Phantom Menace - Part 1: We Waited 16 Years For This? - Part 2: Go Wash a Droid + Episode II: Attack of the Clones - Part 1: Full Fledged Force Mullet - Part 2: How I Sold Your Mother + Episode III: Revenge of the Sith - Part 1: Force Denier - Part 2: Caucus with the Sith
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Recruiting “The Convict”—or, Jaimie is sleepy and this mission was not well-written.
Grunt
Show Notes * The Expanse + books + TV series
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Recruiting “The Convict”—or, as Jaimie summarized it:
If you talk to people enough and steal their credits… everyone will love you.
Show Notes * Monologuing (TV Tropes) * I’m always angry * “SMH”: “shaking my head” * LBD (yes, again!) * headcanon + XKCD "headcannon"
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We talk about how Kasumi is bad at parties but is creepily good at knowing Shepard's measurements, and also about a gunfight and the problems with hoods.
Show Notes * Newton's First Law + the referenced sequence in the game * LBD (yes, again!) * Andromeda Strain by Michael Crighton * headcanon + XKCD "headcannon"
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We talk about the Normandy 2's crew, Omega and Aria, and recruiting Mordin and Garrus.
Show Notes
- “male gaze”
- Jayne Cobb's chain of command
- Hero of Canton
- Taylor Swift “Shake It Off”
- Trinity in The Matrix
- “Space opera”
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A ghost town with wolf noises, meeting Tali again, talking to TIM, and PLOT!!! reasons.
Show Notes
- Hamilton
- bionic: "having normal biological capability or performance enhanced by or as if by electronic or electromechanical devices"
- New Rustacean, Chris' other podcast
- blog post about moving to Colorado
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Cerberus between games, the prologue, and the opening.
Show Notes
- "retcon" -- "retroactive continuity"
- "new money"
- Chuck
- "little black dress"
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Show Notes * Shamus Young's Mass Effect Retrospective -- "A Chat With Vigil" * Marauder Shields * Faunts: "M4, Part II", from M4
Bonus "Screenshot"
Show Notes * Moronic Mako Driving * "Thanoptis" and "Thanopsis": Jaimie was thinking of "Thanatopsis", by William Cullen Bryant. * TVTropes on monologuing + Speeches and Monologues (the overview page for all the kinds of monologuing) + Evil gloating -- also a master list of specific kinds of evil gloating + You Have No Chance To Survive -- Sovereign's specific variation * "It's a trap" * Cutscene Incompetence (TVTropes) * Freeeeedoooooom (warning: a bit gruesome, though all offscreen) * "Hold the line!" speech
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Bad corporations and plant-based… body horror?
Show Notes * Paragon and Renegade earrings
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Show Notes * Shamus Young's retrospective * ME2 trailer: "We will fight for the lost…" :beat: \
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Show Notes * Towers of Hanoi * Ender series + Ender's Game – notably, itself originally a short story + Speaker for the Dead * "Named character" and Alestia: see Nominal Importance at TV Tropes * "Lampshade" from "hang a lampshade on it" (see TV Tropes)
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Finding our favorite delightfully awkward and nerdy blue alien woman.
Show Notes
- Chris kept saying "spaceography" because he couldn't remember the word astrography.
- Exoplanets
- Halo
- Cutscene Incompetence (TVTropes)
- Jaimie described meeting Rear Admiral Mikhailovich as "a little spice in the tasty stew that is Mass Effect"; she was referencing a post Chris wrote about art a few years ago: "And the Stew Tastes Good"
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The Council, meeting almost all the rest of our crew, and space fashion!
Show Notes
- Knights of the Old Republic
- Character alignment – as described on TVTropes.com, and originating in Dungeons and Dragons. Fair warning: if you click into TVTropes, you're apt to get sucked in for a while.
- Chaotic good
- Lawful good
- On villains monologuing: Evil Gloating (TVTropes again; you have been warned!)
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An introduction to the podcast, and the mission on Eden Prime!
Show Notes
- Media OS: our name (probably picked up from somewhere, but we don't know where) for the operating systems you see on television and in movies---which are nothing like real operating systems.
- Opening music
- Voice actors
- Seth Green (Joker)
- Raphael Sbarge (Kaidan)
- Jennifer Hale (FemShep)
- Keith David (Anderson)
- Doctor Who
- Companions
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