Sunday, September 27, 2015

Saturday Post: YOU GUYS! Amiibo Card Coolness

Okay, so Amiibo cards, right? I'm not that interested in Happy Home Designer, but I will show up any day of the week for bunnies. I'm'a need all them bunnies, tia.

Husbando~ kindly brought me some cards last night. I thought I might put them in my old Nintendo Power card album -- 


That's a thing, get jealous, but I don't think I've got enough space. So I was googling around for solutions last night when I found this: Nintendo will let you design your own card holder!

You guys. So rad. Here's mine:


See, and you open the top, and all your cards are inside!


Got Isabelle in my first pack, get jealous. No bunnies though!

Friday, September 25, 2015

Foundations: Hindsight

Holy crap. Okay, so I thought I had this comic, right? I did not. Comixology wouldn't let me buy a copy on my iPad, because apparently if you have an iPad 1 then your money's no good. I called local comic shops, and they didn't have it. Some of them didn't pick up the phone even, so that was awesome. I tried so many ways to buy this stupid thing. You know how I had to wind up getting it?

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We don't have to discuss how I wound up getting it.

Mass Effect Foundation #13 is the last comic in the Foundation series, released July 23rd, 2014. It has Kai Leng on the cover, and then also nowhere else.

It starts out with Brooks (Rasa, really) remembering being a little girl and getting her head shaven to look like a little boy before we cut to this idyllic scene in a laboratory:

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Turns out they don't need the clone, see, so it's murderin' time.

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Oh shit! If only there were a Cerberus higher up that could help us!

I can think of one.

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"Wow Bean, that's a funny joke!" No, see, that actually happens in the comics, Brooks hacks the station and puts some Blasto on.

Anyway, Brooks makes off with the clone. The art is really unclear, so I guess she's all like:

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Thankfully, Miranda's on the case.

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They fight for pages, probably. Here's the thing: the art is super unclear as to what's going on. You're getting more out of MSPixel right now. They beat each other up inside the station, and then outside the station again I guess?

To make it better, Miranda's wearing a black Cerberus uniform with white accents, and Rasa's got on a white Cerberus uniform with black accents, and when they're lit, you're not going to tell them apart. Also, Rasa is drawn with considerably lighter skin in the comic books because comic books are bad. Overall, it's usually pretty hard to tell who you're even looking at.

It's implied somehow that Kai Leng and Rasa are working on this together, but why? Kai Leng is with The Illusive Man. Is Brother TIM just jacking the clone from himself?!

Also that one little sad LOKI mech wastes, like, everybody.

Rasa eventually chucks Clone Shep in a shuttle and nopes out of ... you know, I'm assuming it's Lazarus Station because Miranda's around, but I don't have hard proof of that.

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Shit, we'd better go tell Brother TIM.

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... okay, so, hindsight is 20 20 and all, but ...

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Is anyone else amazed that he's just all Let It Go on this? Like, he spent money on that clone. Shepard isn't alive yet, she might need those organs. Also, oh, I don't know, A ROGUE AGENT HAS HIS CLONE AND SHIT!?

Cerberus is about the worst terrorist organization ever.

Saturday, September 19, 2015

SATURDAY POST: N7 Elite at DragonCon!

I was fortunate this year to see both the N7 Elite photoshoot AND the Big Bioware photoshoot. I thought I'd miss the latter! Anyway, I took as many individual photos as I could. Enjoy them!

Actually, let's start back at the parade. I always march Star Trek, but I snuck over to the N7 Elite area:

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That is, if you were wondering, Marauder Shields.

Now, the photo shoot:

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double garrus all the way across the sky

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Sailor Kasumi.

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A Cerberus cheerleader. I like that Mass Effect is old enough that we can start to see these jokes.

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This was my view during the big Bioware shoot. Hats.

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No, really, that's General Victus. He says there's one other dude in Canada with a General Victus costume.

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This is the best shot I could get of Kalross. Hell yes there was a Kalross.

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See you next year, N7s! Especially since I already had to book my hotel room because DragonCon is too fucking big!

Friday, September 18, 2015

Mass Effect Foundations: Say WHO?

Y'all know how we do here at MSPixel headquarters: game, dlc, comic. Game, dlc, comic. Guess what it's time for!

Since I get to pick, I'm picking Foundations 1, released on July 24th, 2013. You can read more of the Foundations MSPixels here.

Foundations 1 doesn't actually start with a squad member. Instead, it starts on a mining colony, three years after the First Contact War.

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I am not actually sure why there's a mining colony where little kids just, like grab rocks and move them around.

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Meet the protagonist of our story. I'm not actually sure she has a name! They never mention it. But she sure does punch a lot. She asks the foreman about a mysterious figure named Roth before kicking his ass.

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She takes the kid to a hospital and tells him to play sick.

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While there, she shuffles through some files and picks up ... a box. It's full of ... I don't know, progressively tinier boxes. She then dresses up like a doctor.

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I am super unsure about, say, the first third of this story. Like, okay, she's looking for a guy named Roth. So she asks the foreman. Cool. Then she takes this random ass kid, goes to a hospital, grabs a box full of question marks, and then asks ANOTHER guy where Roth lives? And he knows? Why didn't the story start right here, with her asking the guy where Roth was? If we still had to have the kid in tow, he could have just been, like, chilling with the guy. But she ditched the kid at the hospital. Holy hell this story could have used a second draft.

I mean, I know the answer, the answer is "they had twenty five pages to fill," but come on.

Anyway, she goes to Roth's place and encounters a guard.

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whoops

Remember that this is before the events of ME1, even, so she means that big old Yahg dude, not Liara.

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... wait, is this about the creation of Cerberus?

Either way, they start to beat each other up.

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I have one "beat up" pose I can draw and by fuck I'm'a draw it.

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Shit, looks like we're off to Earth again. Our mystery lady boards a space ship.

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Oh fuck.

"Bean, this is all very well and good," you say, sighing at your monitor, or in some cases according to Google Analytics your android, "but why the hell are you telling us this story about two characters we don't know nor give a fuck about?"

Let us go to the last panels of the comic:

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That little girl grew up to be Brooks, yo.

Brooks actually pops up in all the Foundations comics. I've written her out of all the other Foundation comics. See? Read here and see if you can tell where.

Hey, choice time for you, dear readers: would you prefer another comic on Wednesday, or purestrain Mass Effect? I know what I want, but I figured I'd leave it to you. Let me know in the comments.