I think we did save the Mass Effect discussion for the latter half, the only exception being Ricky’s sound segment which was tacked on the very end (thank you, Todd Stallkamp, for that excellent suggestion). But maybe the outline notes didn’t make that clear enough. In any case, rest assured that it will be rare that we devote an entire episode to talking about one video game. This just happened to be an exceptional video game, with exceptional machinima made by some very talented machinima folks many of whom we also happen to know personally.

Thanks for the feedback!

@Xanatos - Thanks for your comment! It’s great to have you as a listener.

@Johnnie - Yes, I highly expect that you’ll experience Mass Effect Witness Protection. See you on the other side!

You misunderstand, Mu.

And fighting hardly ever helps to clear up misconceptions.

btw, “Bring Down the Sky,” the DLC for ME, is now available for free for PC version owners. I imagine you can get it at the usual sites. This is the module Paul and I worked on.

Actually, judging from the reaction of those who’ve played the game so far, you can expect me to disappear from the face of the earth for a month while I lock myself in my room and play ME until my eyes bleed.

I’m not that interested in Mass Effect, apart from the occasional passing glance, so the amount of time spent on that discussion was a bit off putting when waiting for more machinima related topics.

I hate to sound negative when you guys are doing this for us (for free), so to try and be constructive - maybe if you are going to have such a lengthy game discussion then perhaps that could go at the end of the podcast so those interested could continue to listen, while those not so interested can end it at that point?

There was mention of some sort of collection of mdot strange’s clips for remixing? I would LOVE to get my hands on those! Google will not easily give up the goods, do you have a link handy?

Peace!

- Admiral Hackett was done by Lance Henriksen (Alien movies)
- Matriarch Benezia was Marina Sirtis (Councilor Troi from ST: TNG)

There’s about an hour of work from the Cinematic Animators in the game. All space scenes, plus planet arrivals, party member intros (except Liara) and the stuff that’s generally more difficult to animate.

I did Feros, the planet with the Thorian. You got Ken’s planet right, though, with the Matriarch (those aliens are called Rachnids, the one in the cage was the Queen), and the planet is called Noveria.

Also kudo’s on the Monkey piece as well… it was actually mailed out to the whole Edmonton studio by marketing… a very rare occurrence outside our internal newsgroups!

I’ll keep my eye on this thread for a few days in case there are any pressing questions anyone would like answered. Otherwise, thank you for your ongoing support!!

Ken

There’s one section I’d recommend avoiding in particular for spoiler’s sake, Johnnie: timecode 38:45 to 40:30. That bit is fairly spoilerific. Other than that, I think you should be safe.

If you’re a purist, though, then like Ricky said the News section is clearly sectioned off from the Mass Effect discussion with an audio clip of a scene from the game; and on the back end of that, I’m pretty sure 1:19:15 to the end is very safe - that consists of Securom discussion, wrap up, and closes with Ricky’s Wonderful World of Sound.