I guess I’m just a cylon-lover. I find Six and Boomer to be the hottest people in the cast. I only find Starbuck moderately attractive, and I think most of that is because she has short hair for most of the series and I lurvs short haired girls. I personally find very very little attractive about Dee. She’s a thin woman with a good body, but her face doesn’t really suit my taste. To be fair, my body/face would not suit any of their tastes either. 
Right there with you, Phoenix. And I was astounded at how chuck was able to connect virtually any topic back to it. (but we love him anyway)
For those that have mass effect and knew about the fox issue. here is a good article to read.
http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200801/N08.0123.1614.36600.htm
- Jadzia v. Ezri…yeah, what was up with that? I mean Ezri was cute and stuff, but she wasn’t Jadzia. At all. WTF???
I gotta show some love and support for Ezri. She is totally cute and I’m down with Chuck and Sean on the whole pixie thing. I guess it was a deliberate plan to show her nowhere near as capable of being a suitable recipient for the Dax symbiont. If I recall correctly it was an emergency situation that forced her to become the recipient so if things hadn’t gone that way she wouldn’t have ever been in that situation. So I guess the comparisons to Jadzia in that respect are a little unfair.
By the way if anyone who knows her wants to tell her she’s way hot from me then please go ahead !!!
I hear about it on the cast, then i hear my friends gush about it.
When i am out of this busy period at work i am getting a 360, buying Mass Effect, shutting the blinds, and taking a day off work.
S
A “disproportionate” number of artists in the West, can indeed be catergorized as troubled. Not all of them, but a goodly number. The argument can be made that great art doesn’t come from pain, but the self-destructive behavior of those artistically inclined (as a good deal of people with mood and thought disorders are) creates an aura of drama that colors their work and the recollection of their lives.
Kay Redfield Jamison, the authority on bipolar disorder, actually wrote a book surveying the psychological maladies of artists. It’s called “Touched by Fire,” and I recommend it, not only because she’s an excellent writer, but she makes somewhat boring facets of gripping. It looks mostly at poets, but she does have diversions into other case studies of practitioners in other artistic disciplines.
Not scifi, but I lurk a lot and thought some of the BSG community, well read and informed in so many areas, might be interested.
on another note - “Actually Audra was right”??? DUH!! It’s frakkin’ Audra. That was a given! 
I found myself repeating, “OK It’s a game. It’s great. Blue boobies. I get it. Move along. Move along.”
All these other topics would come up (e.g. Heroes, BSG, Firefly) and as mentioned above Mass Effect would rear it’s ugly head. I ain’t trying to be a hater here. I want to make that abundantly clear. It’s just let’s take the time to give other subjects enough ramble factor. 'K? 'K.
I totally sympathized. You should have seen me after I got my iPhone. For a week every third sentence out of my mouth was something like, “Have you seen this youtube vid on my iPhone?”
Honestly after you said blue boobies…I lost my train of thought…
I know for a fact that there are more Puerto Ricans living in New York (close to four or five million, I think) than in Puerto Rico, where I grew up (where the population has remained relatively steady at around 3 million–though it was creeping up to nearly 4 as of last July-- since I was a child).
On another matter, the discussion of stereotypes of tortured artists piqued me as it’s something I’ve thought about a lot. While I’d venture that, indeed, many artists tend to be moody and a number of truly troubled people have been drawn to creative activity (it is, after all, a good way to exorcize demons), the stereotype of artists as struggling, distrubed geniuses is a purely Romantic construct popularized in the 19th century by the likes of Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Dante Rosetti, Vincent Van Gogh and Hector Berlioz (justifiably. These people had some SERIOUS problems) as well as, less justifiably, Beethoven (who was an excentric, sure, but not really psychologically troubled) and Paganini (who exploited a legend that he had sold his soul to the devil in order to gain his incredible violin skills as a way to promote his career). Musicians in particular have never fully outgrown the stereotype, thanks in no small part to some early jazz and especially rock musicians taking up the Romantic mantle of excess and troubled behavior (see Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Keith Moon, Sid Vicious, Stevie Ray Vaughann, through the current crop of “celebutards” more famous for being famous than for any inherent musical or theatrical talent).
I am right there with you Pike… I just finally enter the iPhone club, and I think most of my friends are about ready to take the damn thing and hurl into traffic…
I have to continually remind myself not to talk about how great it is… LOL
As far as Mass Effect goes… I am in the middle of a couple of large projects at work, and I have intentionally not started playing since I know I will be MIA for about 2 weeks once I start.
OH, and for the “Mass Effect discussion haters” out there (said in jest), I think we all know what we are getting into when we hit that play button each monday…
I don’t get what’s the big deal? They are cute and all…
Hey Chuck,
I haven’t seen the green ones yet, but did find some red boobies:
I’m with you Chuck, I prefer blue too…
Great podcast as usual. I am too spending waaayyyy too much time on Mass Effect, but it’s frakking cold right now in Manhattan so… I have to turn my xbox 360 on to warm the room… ?
Anyway interesting talk about celtic culture. I was born in Paris but family is coming from Brittany so I spent most of my summers as a kid there playing in the forest of Broceliande looking for Merlin’s tomb, Excalibur, the Fountain of Youth, … 
Went to a real celtic wedding last year and while I enjoy celtic music, 5 hours in a row of bagpipes can be a real toll on the nervous system… wished I had some biotics at the time to warp the orchestra off the stage.
I remember the old saying that there are more Irish in Boston than in Ireland. Looks like it may be close to truth:
“According to the 2000 US Census, there are nearly 35 million Americans who claim Irish ancestry, almost nine times the number of people in Ireland. Nearly 25 percent of Massachusetts residents make that claim, the highest of any state and double the national average.”
OK, we need an objective test. Which are the BEST Boobies, red green or blue?
I must admit, I can’t decide, I love Boobies of all colors!
You should see them on my iPhone!
LOL - well played, sir!
And just to follow up on the Mass Effect discussion, I really can’t express how interesting and enjoyable the game is. Sure, it took a front seat in this podcast, but as anyone who’s played can attest, it has that effect on you.
re: blue boobies
Yes, there are blue boobies in Mass Effect. They’re nice blue boobies. And while I’m certainly a fan of said boobies, it’s the rest of the game that’s so thought-provoking – and why it keeps making its way into the 'cast. For example, While I raised the green vs. blue Asari bit somewhat in jest, the thought did occur to me: while I’ve seen many attractive (to me) light and dark skinned women, I experienced an unexpected strong preference of blue over green. Sean admits to the opposite – and wonders if maybe it has something to do with the Orions – but it surprised me.
There’s much more in the game that’s even more thought-provoking, like ME’s 'verse politics. The concept of short-lived and long-lived species interacting in government is a concept that’d scare anyone, and it’s certainly an issue in the game world. And does a race have a “right” to procreate? This is a major theme in the game, and one that your play actions can affect dramatically.
I realize that not all of you are fans – or even know a lot about the game – and I’ll take the heat for maybe not providing enough background in the 'cast for those of you who haven’t played to understand and enjoy the conversation. But I’ll definitely deny the heat for bringing up the subject. This game is supported by a great sci-fi story, and the way the game works gives players an incredible insight into the issues behind the story. Great stuff!
And for those of you who stopped reading a few paragraphs back…
Blue boobies!
j/k