The Little Things 2.0

Kahlee wasn't with you, though.

ME1, Ontarom - After interacting with Corporal Toombs, the mission automatically returns you outside the facility.  Before now, I've always just left the planet at that point, but this time I decided to go back into the facility and look around in the room that Toombs was in.  I discovered a monitor that you can click on.  The monitor opens, but it didn't appear to to anything.  However, in this playthrough Shepard has already finished the Hades Dogs mission.  I'm wondering if you do the Ontarom mission first (UNC: Dead Scientists) before doing the string of Cerberus mission regarding Kohoku if the monitor provides information on Cerberus. 

I don't see this monitor mentioned on the Wiki page for the UNC: Dead Scientists mission.  Does anyone here know what this monitor is for?

Thanks.
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I never considered that, but it makes perfect sense. Samara becoming a Justicar just to stop Morinth, as well as Falere rooting for Samara to kill her own sister, totally fits with Morinth having killed Samara's bondmate / Falere's other parent.

Head canon borrowed!

One that hasn't been mentioned so far is that Manuel, the mentally ill scientist that Shepard can falcon punch on Eden Prime, has a cameo (sort of) in ME2's Firewalker DLC. One of the two Cerberus scientists you're supposed to be tracking down is named Dr. Manuel Cayce. By the end of the DLC you find out he's killed himself to avoid succumbing to indoctrination, and you never encounter him directly, but in the voice recording you can play it is clearly the same voice actor for ME1 Manuel. 

I'd kind of assumed Manuel in ME1 had been in contact with the beacon but he didn't have the mental fortitude of someone like Commander Shepard.  Hence, while Shepard was fine, the already unstable Manuel got worse.  Indoctrination was another possibility but I think contact with the beacon fits better.

Depending on the playthrough,

James is the first squadmate Shepard meets and could be the last squadmate Shepard talks with before going up the beam
edibot could be the last squadmate Shepard meets and the last to talk with before going up the beam. the same could be said about Tali and Javik.
 Liara, Garrus, Ashley and Kaidan could be the last squadmate Shepard talks with before going up the beam

Miranda is the first squadmate seen in ME2 and could be the last one seen in ME2.

I was focusing on ME3 when I made my post

Pyjaks, at least on Zorya in ME2, seem to be chameleons. They shift color to blend in with their background.

In ME1 - If one waits to acquire the Citadel:  Asari Consort assignment until after locking in Shepard's romance partner and then take that partner when first meeting Sha'ira AND using all the paragon options when talking with Sha'ira, the LI will butt in with a jealous sounding remark when Sha'ira is telling Shepard what it is she does along the lines of "That's fasinteresting, but you wanted to speak with the commander."  (At least Ashley and Liara do it.  I haven't actually tried it with Kaidan yet but I'm assuming he would also comment along the same lines if he is Shep's LI at that point in time.)

I'm not there yet (with either MaleShep playthrough I'm doing simultaneously right now)... I'll have to check it out with both Liara and Ashley when I can get back to playing later tonight. 

ETA:  No reaction from Ashley, so I think there will probably be no reaction from Liara either.  I guess I could also now add this to the "Things that don't make sense" thread.  I guess they never thought that even a ruthless renegade Shepard would ever do the consort with his girlfriend watching... and I have to admit that it just felt really wrong. 

Now that i remembered, the hacking mini-game in ME2 reminded me of the old card matching one from super mario bros 3 and that's.... pretty cool actually. That and i dug the frogger inspired hacking mini-game on the PC version of ME1(it was something else on the console version afaik).

Vasir boss fight in ME2 Lotsb. If you can find a way to fling her over the railing, the boss fight will immediately end.