Top 10 Reasons you shouldn't read Internet Top 10 lists.

I try to be relaxed and understanding, but I'm prone to geeky "you're wrong!" and such now and then, but i'm really getting annoyed/sick of the lists i keep seeing. Take a TV show/comic/movie that's pretty universally liked and then make a top 10 list about how it's got bad moments. I just read one that was "the 10 worst episodes of Batman: the Animated series" and i nearly did a spit take.

You know what happens when I find myself watching one of the "bad" episodes of B:TAS? I thank the light that i found a good show on so i don't have to all the other dreck out there.

Beyond that, it seems like so many of the lists Cracked.com or other sites do are purely opinion. You're entitled to your opinion, but using that opinion as if it's self evident that it's factual is pretty presumptuous to say the least. And assuming everyone else is just nodding along at home with your list is hubris at an obvious level.

So basically, if you're gonna make a top 10 list, assume what you're actually doing is trying to convince other people that what you're putting out there is true, and not that you're the long prophecized geek messiah and your word is law for the rest of us.

*Salute*
I'm BATMAN!

MASS EFFECT 3 ENDING SPOILERS

SPOILERS FOR ME3, you've been warned.

I'm having kind of a hard time wrapping my head around the ending of ME3. I mean, I know what happened but that ending kind of came out of no-where and blindsided me. I made my choice, and I stand by it, but I was so utterly devastated by Shepard's death. And not because he's me, and i've been playing this character for three games now, through every moment. That's a part of my feelings but a small one. I'm sort of grieving for Liara and Shepard's children. Those little blue girls he'll never have now, and I am just devastated by their loss.

I've played my Shepard that he truly fell in love with Liara in ME1 and remained with her in ME2, that their relationship was a large part of the reason he had to save the universe, was to be with her. Hell, after Lair of the Shadowbroker when he reunites with her, he mentioned having children with her and i just sort of assumed Bioware inteded that to be a possible outcome.

So the moment I made my choice and sealed his fate. making all life in the universe both organic and synthetic, saving EDI, the geth, everyone... I thought I'd done something wrong. I immediately scoured the internet. Surely, there's an ending that feels right, and Shepard lives. My Shepard would never sacrifice the synthetics just for the chance at life.

But there isn't. There is no way to save them all, and have Shepard and Liara have that future with those children and just live their lives. And frankly, that is just heartbreaking to me.

The universe is saved for the billions of other lives, but there is a hole in it in the shape of a Hero.

/melodrama over. I think i'm gonna have a good well deserved cry.