[quote name='Eviltude']I know I should probably wait until I have a job that I want to keep for at least a year, but I really want a new car. I'm thinking either a Subaru or Volvo. A manual transmission would be ideal, but since I have zero experience with one, I should probably get a clunker to burn out the clutch on first.[/QUOTE]
This is what I did. I ended up getting a 93 BMW 325i back in December 2003 to learn on; I drove it for about 15 months before I had a couple shitty experiences in the snow (since it was RWD). I traded it towards my current car in March 2005 (I now drive a 2002 Subaru Legacy L) and am actually thinking about upgrading, if I can find the right model of Subaru to do it with. If I didn't have the dogs and wasn't worried about the lack of space, should I need it, the Subaru dealership has a slammin' Audi A4 2.0T that I would *love* to drive.
[quote name='Maklershed']Anybody play the Mass Effect 2 DLC The Arrival? If so, a) how good is it? b) Is it necessary to play it before I play ME3?[/QUOTE]
It's a long Shepard "solo" mission, for the most part. There's a "stealth" section if you do what the mission asks, there's some okay combat areas, there's one place that's almost an arena... story is decent.
For the discounted price I paid and the low expectations I had going in, I was pleasantly surprised.
And while you don't *need* to do it, necessarily, as there's no choice that seems to affect the ME3 continuity, it's still a good experience. But since ME3 is out tomorrow and you're buying day 1, I believe, unless you plan to do the Arrival DLC tonight as a appetizer, you could probably skip it like #83 says.
I'm not sure how solid the recap is at the beginning of 3 though, so you might want to go read about the arrival DLC just so you kind of know what's going on if they reference it without really cluing you in.