I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite podcast.

So dumb.

Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is.

Morning, September!

For August 27th, 2004, my name is Bernie Burns sitting right over there. She's my own personal Femm-Shep.

To Ashley, say hi to Ashley. Say hi to Ashley. You better hope I'm not doing a renegade run.

Why do they call it as Fem-Shep? Why isn't it just Shepard? I mean, I guess, you know, it is.

It's just different.

It's Fem-Sheb.

It's Fem-Shep.

Do you think there's a, do you think the male is the default? No, well, I've never played a male-shep run. I've only ever played a Fem-Sep run. I wonder how different, like, our experience with Mass Effect is as a result.

No way to be different.

What would be different about it?

I don't know.

Just like your female perspective.

Romance options or, yeah. our experience with Mass Effect is as a result. Why would it be different? What would be different about it?

I don't know.

Just like your female perspective.

Romance options or yeah, like your interactions with characters might just feel a little bit different. Why would the romance options be different? They're not different. You can romance anybody in that case. Really? Yeah. It was fairly progressive for the time. Oh, I was assumed that the, I don't know, the, the NPCs had their own preferences, if you know what I mean.

The MPCs, their own preferences,

if you know what I mean? The MPCs, male player, character? The, uh, yeah, so male Shep, M Shep, uh, could, uh, romance Garris, for instance, right? Yeah, look, and, and really, who didn't make that choice? Who didn't make that? I didn't understand the fascination with Garris in particular. Everyone's favorite spacebug. They said he looks like a, yeah,

he's supposed to be a bird. Did you, didn't make that choice. Who he didn't make that? I didn't understand the fascination with Garris in particular. Everyone's favorite space bug.

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