You're not alone. And as far as I'm aware, there's no way to get them cheaper as their price hasn't dropped and they've never gone on sale.

https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/3gdzbs/lets_talk_about_mass_effect_dlcs_cost/
https://www.amazon.com/Mass-Effect-Collection-Online-Game/dp/B00HQLEITK

Sounds like the pirating method is also a gigantic pain in the ass, too. I'd even be willing to pay if they just charged directly for it, rather than using bioware points.

Oh really though, check out Lucky Number Sleven.

Ooh, and The Men Who Stare at Goats, Pulp Fiction, and The Social Network.

I've seen (and really liked) the latter three. I'll add Lucky Number Slevin to the list.

And Mechwarrior obvi

Got kicked, can someone invite me back?

Inv pls

Sherlock Holmes RD jr.

Solid choice, but I've seen those a few times.

http://faculty.washington.edu/mpurcell/jper.pdf

I've got a lot of very liberal friends who are highly supportive of local business. They regard it as the purest, best form of economy, and that widespread localization rather than national or global business is better for everyone. The comment that prompted this:

" "Local" won't save the world until it has a meaningful alternative to the dollar menu and Wal Mart. When you have the choice, choose the just option; where you can't, let's think about how we create more and better options for EVERYONE.
Blessed to be in a position of enough privilege to think about these issues every day."

Here's the abstract of the above link (though I recommend you open it and read at least the first two pages):

A strong current of food-systems research holds that local food systems are preferable to systems at larger scales. Many assume that eating local food is more ecologically sustainable and socially just. We term this the local trap and argue strongly against it. We draw on current scale theory in political and economic geography to argue that local food systems are no more likely to be sustainable or just than systems at other scales. The theory argues that scale is socially produced: scales (and their interrelations) are not independent entities with inherent qualities but strategies pursued by social actors with a particular agenda. It is the content of that agenda, not the scales themselves, that produces outcomes such as sustainability or justice. As planners move increasingly into food-systems research, we argue it is critical to avoid the local trap. The article’s theoretical approach to scale offers one way to do so.

Expounding on the 'local trap' idea:

The local trap refers to the tendency of food activists and researchers to assume something inherent about the local scale. The local is assumed to be desirable; it is preferred a priori to larger scales. What is desired varies and can include ecological sustainability, social justice, democracy, better nutrition, and food security, freshness, and quality. For example, the local trap assumes that a local-scale food system will be inherently more socially just than a national-scale or global-scale food system. This article argues that the local trap is misguided and poses significant intellectual and political dangers to foodsystems research. To be clear, the concept of the local trap is not an argument against the local scale per se. We are not suggesting that the local scale is inherently undesirable. Rather, the local trap is the assumption that local is inherently good. Far from claiming that the local is inherently bad, the article argues that there is nothing inherent about any scale. Local-scale food systems are equally likely to be just or unjust, sustainable or unsustainable, secure or insecure. No matter what its scale, the outcomes produced by a food system are contextual: they depend on the actors and agendas that are empowered by the particular social relations in a given food system.

Living and studying in the West for a period of time doesnt make you Westernised, supporting Western ideals does.

I agree, and frankly I'm basing the idea on cursory knowledge of him and a few op ed articles about the situation.

I'd still believe the theory that he's just a figurehead for his family. You don't go from being a mild-mannered, westernized optometrist to a tyrant overnight. He was next in line, so he had to do it. Still complicit, but I don't he's the boogeyman he's made out to be.

It would've been cool for combat to have been more viable for a career, or at least more varied. As it stands now it's just flying in a circle until you can point and click enemies to death.

High-stakes smuggling was actually pretty damn fun though, and I wish there was some combat built into that field rather than just immediately losing your money after a scan--like an option to fight the security ships, or something.

Prisoners, as previously mentioned, is a great movie. Would definitely recommend it.

Gonna check it out tonight, probably. I watched the trailer and got a Gone Girl vibe from it; I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Edit: Finished it about an hour ago. That was some good shit. Felt a bit long though.

Do you like psychological thrillers?

The Gift
Gone Girl
Nightcrawler
Fight Club on the offchance that you haven't already seen that shit

and yeah, Prisoners--that's been mentioned three times, so you're probably gonna go with that--it's a good choice

I've seen all four of those, but good choices. Nightcrawler was incredible.

Jeremy Jahns loved it so I don't know what to believe.

Any Medea film

Still waiting for the uncut box set to come out.

tfw you'll never run a global conspiracy to overthrow an impending alien invasion