As with most link-worthy quasi-controversies, some of the best commentary happens in the meta-snark, e.g.:

"What were we supposed to do? Just let those 20 achievement points for sleeping with zevran go to waste? If I can side with Caesar's Legion over the New California Republic for 50 points, I can damn well sleep with an effeminate elf and then immediately load my last save, proudly!"

Or, more to the point:

Or, really, maybe we should all trust Joystiq commenter finnith, who says, "I wouldn't take anything on the Bioware Social Forums seriously, though," when linking to a chemical deconstruction of why the sweat of Mass Effect 2's Tali might be both a drug and a natural performance enhancer.

The Stranger Testing Department is Rob Lightner and Paul Hughes.