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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Issues with Mass Effect 3 endings

I am a big fan of Mass Effect games because it is choice driven.  That being said I was shocked that Mass Effect 3's end that no mater what choice you made the outcome was basically the same.  That no matter the choice Shepard dies.  Also the Cinematic after the fake choice there was no closure with the characters you become attached to and there is no clear choice that has only the Reapers destroyed and the Mass Relays are still fully functional.  There needs to be a way where Shepard survives and has only the Reapers destroyed and the Mass Relays are still fully functional. Then a Cinematic with friends reuniting and if Shepard had a love interest a scene or to with them reuniting and celebrating.

The apparent destruction of the Citadel  is a potential problem in the Story.  The Citadel is part of the catalyst and in Scientific terms catalyst is something that causes activity between two or more forces without itself being affected.

Bioware to change ‘Mass Effect 3′ ending 


Thursday, March 15, 2012

My Thoughts on God

Wednesdays at church, we have been talking about the reason for God.  With questions like why God allows suffering in the world and allow evil.  I look at it all like this.  Science and Religion have battled many times throughout recorded history mostly because religious figures feel there authority threatened by the knowledge science brings.  I think science reveals God's awesomeness.  Every branch of science that I can think of shows us His work and how thing did not come together by accident or by chance.
When it comes to creation vs. evolution, I do not think they clash at all.  Every evolution theories about how it all started need the existence of God to work.  For an example the Big Bang theory (not the TV show) the Universe was once in an extremely hot and dense state that expanded rapidly.  Let us assume this is true where the hot dense universe came from.  I believe this is how it all started that God started the big bang setting His plan into motion.  Genius says the world was created in just 6 days with God resting on the seventh.  How long is a day for God?  24 of our hours or billions of our years?  Is the story in Genius just to help us to be able to even grasp what God did to bring the universe or just planet Earth into being?

With all that said it brings me to why there is evil and suffering.  God gave us free will.  God did not create "evil" it is the decisions of us the created.  Suffering can be due to people’s choices or the choices of others that affect others.

Now why does God allow it if his loves use and is all-powerful?  Well, God put a system in place that depend on one thing God is never wrong, God's word is a law, and there is no a loopholes.  It is like in the movie Dogma even though it is meant to be funny and not to be taken seriously I think it sparked a thought.  They makers of the movie hit on a truth maybe by accident.  In the movie, two angels that God decreed for their punishment had to live on earth until the end of time and then have to sit outside heaven’s gate for eternity.  In this movie, these angels found a loophole created by the Catholic Church at a re-dedication of a century-old church.  With a Papal sanction, anybody who enters the church on the day of the re-dedication ceremony will have all their sins forgiven, and be given a morally clean slate.  Well these two angels make the journey to a church where before entering they clip their wings off becoming human, enter the church, come out clean, and die and go to heaven.  There by negating God's decree and in so doing all creation is winked out of existence.

All that said the reason God would allow suffering is because of rules He set in place at creation at to step in would throw the system out of wack or fall apart in some way.  God did give us a way out by sending His Son to us and allowing Him to suffer and let us kill him because he loved us that much.
God created the universe and set it all up with the desired outcome when it is all said and done.

Friday, March 9, 2012

Mass Effect 3 Review *possible spoilers*

I really like the game and the challenges it presented.  It was a great end for the trilogy of games except Shepard dies at the end no matter which option you choose at the end .  I also like that the added the possibility for a gay romance for the male Shepard (which made the giddy as a school girl grinning from ear to ear with happines)  plus had a new character that was gay and unfortunately lost his Husband.  Liara who was my romance from Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 for Kaiden who I myself was crushing on in ME1 and his brief appearance in ME2.  Liara did have a bitchy one liner after I went with Kaiden.  I also liked how they did the sex scene and then comes back to us asleep with them on their side and Kaiden's arm draped over Shepard and when Shepard woke from another disturbing dream Kaiden woke and ask what was up.  Before the final series of battles at a base the resistance just set up Kaiden and Shepard have a moment and the they kiss.  That was so sweet.  Over all a really good game and if in ME2 everyone survived the final mission you will see them again in ME3. 

Friday, March 2, 2012

Constitutional Marriage Amendments

Every time I hear about a Marriage amendment to a states constitution or to the US Constitution that seeks to define marriage as between one man and one woman it baffles me that anyone would be for it.  While some people believe that marriage is between one man and one woman that is their right.

 Let us look at the reason for the states constitutions, the US Constitution, and their amendments.  In the USA the constitution and every amendment has had one main purpose.  That purpose is to give and protect the rights of minority from being overridden or made second-class citizens by the majority
Now with that in mind re-examine marriage amendments and tell me how it does what our states constitutions, the US Constitution, and their amendments were meant to do.

I think you will find that these proposed Marriage Amendments do not do what states constitutions, the US Constitution, and their amendments were meant to that in fact they would do the exact opposite.