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Well I'm not saying the Council aren't space racist, but two wrongs don't make a right.
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Don't forget:  Huh, ancient precursor technology. Horde that poo poo and use it to establish Asari superiority over all other races in the galaxy.I mean, lets face it, when one of your squadmates is a walking example of racial persecution for something that happened, what, hundreds of years ago, and another is a walking example of the fact that the Council races will use genetic engineering to turn your entire race into cannon fodder, then use more genetic engineering to put you back into your place, a healthy amount of 'lets make sure we're not next, guys' is probably the prudent and measured response.
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councillor, some quarian robotics scientists accidentally made some illegal AIs and there was a revolution
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Android Blues posted:Well I'm not saying the Council aren't space racist, but two wrongs don't make a right. That elusive fellow has some good points, I thought.
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NikkolasKing posted:That elusive fellow has some good points, I thought. It was a real disappointment that The Illusive Man wasn't a stage magician. "And now, Shepherd, prepare to be dazzled as I saw this Turian in half!" "...Ok, that's actually pretty cool. Are you going to put him back, or...?" "No."
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TheCenturion posted:Don't forget: This one is pretty realistic though.
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i find that fruits go well with gaming not for health reasons or dumb stuff like that but because you can eat them while you play and they dont get your hands all dusty or greasy or whatever. they need a minute or so to prepare but if youre a real gamer that shouldnt be a problem. i like oranges and strawberries
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whoops sorry i didnt see the carrots post
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TheCenturion posted:I mean, lets face it, when one of your squadmates is a walking example of racial persecution for something that happened, what, hundreds of years ago, and another is a walking example of the fact that the Council races will use genetic engineering to turn your entire race into cannon fodder, then use more genetic engineering to put you back into your place, a healthy amount of 'lets make sure we're not next, guys' is probably the prudent and measured response. that's why i think the the third game partially retroactively justifies a lot of human-centric renegade choices across the trilogy, two wrongs don't make a right of course, but generally galactic culture seems to have arranged itself under the premise that if every species just looks after itself and makes efforts to establish a place for themselves without upsetting anyone else (illegally) then water will find its own level and everyone will have somehow made themselves into an equal partner in the galaxy ... aliens that can't rise to the occasion will have to content themselves with the lesser roles they are actually capable of performing in society; there are def colonies that seem like liberal metropolitan utopias but it's also fair to say that certain major governments just look out strictly for their own interests that are processed in very species-centric terms and the citadel seems like it encourages that kind of thinking since it does a lot regulation as if there were a hierarchy of species, it's very explicit in the dreadnought treaty and who they actually franchise through the council - there's also a long galactic history of being quasi-assholes to client species is that a wrong? is letting the galaxy naturally organize itself under these terms bad? should we apply human morality to aliens? does humanity just accept that this is how the galaxy works and roll with it since everyone else accepts it? these are questions that andromeda could have addressed in a galaxy where there might be equal representation/participation of turians/quarians/elcor/etc since the old hierarchy might not be appropriate anymore, but it didn't 
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It's basic game theory; if anybody might screw you over, your best play is to screw first, screw often. Also, somebody needs to make Mass Effect: Diplomacy. Just a straight reskin.
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TheCenturion posted:It's basic game theory; if anybody might screw you over, your best play is to screw first, screw often. Id be down with that 
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Burgers to big for your mouf are bad
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orange juche posted:Id be down with that and a diet coke lol
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Hey some people actually just like diet coke
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No they are good, but you may need a friend to help.
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Android Blues posted:Well I'm not saying the Council aren't space racist, but two wrongs don't make a right. I cannot keep up with these shifting goalposts. hard counter posted:
Anyway, I just had a really good cheesburger. While I chewed, I mulled over the bit of ME lore where the quarians found a planet they could settle on and the Council was like 'lol you didn't fill out the forms so we're giving it to the Elcor'.
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Drell: Say, our planet is hosed. Can we have some space drellmatarian relief? Hanar: these ones will save a few of you. If you agree to be our SPHESS ASSASSINS!!!!! Drell: what are we going to say? No?
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By your power combined, we might actually have a decent burg.
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Norns posted:Flamebroil a burger or myself? yup
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They should have gone with the space global warming ending and the correct choice was to destroy the galactical elite along with the capital stock of the galaxy.
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Arglebargle III posted:They should have gone with the space global warming ending and the correct choice was to destroy the galactical elite along with the capital stock of the galaxy. my primitive have you tried synthesis???
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Synthesis is a bourgeois ending that merely postpones the self - destruction of consumer capitalism.
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Nah, synthesis is True Socialism. And that's why people who can remember the Cold War hate it.
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ODing on sugar makes it much harder to absorb fatty fats so it's a good idea to order a diet coke with a Diabeetus menu  That "burger" tho...
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in non-food related news, Casey Hudson is back and Aaryn Flynn is out at BioWare http://blog.bioware.com/2017/07/18/coming-home/
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Is he the good one?
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fruit on the bottom posted:Is he the good one? He is largely responsible for Mass Effect being a thing but is also at least half responsible for ME3's ending so mostly good!
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Pattonesque posted:He is largely responsible for Mass Effect being a thing but is also at least half responsible for ME3's ending https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i73-lpVV-Jo
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Pattonesque posted:He is largely responsible for Mass Effect being a thing but is also at least half responsible for ME3's ending I mean at least he's the reason there was an ending, since he locked Mac Walters in a room and wouldn't let him out till he finally wrote an ending (pretty sure this was late in production, hence the need to lock him in) but on the otherside he didn't let any of the good writers give input towards the ending
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Ekusukariba posted:I mean at least he's the reason there was an ending, since he locked Mac Walters in a room and wouldn't let him out till he finally wrote an ending (pretty sure this was late in production, hence the need to lock him in) but on the otherside he didn't let any of the good writers give input towards the ending If he locked all the writers in the room to come up with an ending, we'd still be waiting for ME3 to come out.
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Hudson was the managing director of ME3, he played a hand in the ending because the writing team didn't have a direction for it and they were on a 22-month cycle to produce a game.
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hudson's okay, it seems like was the reason they cut bi-romances from me2 was because they were just going to be lazy palette swaps of one another and hudson wanted a product with some real effort in it - in 2011 he was quoted as saying there'd be real focus there in me3 and in an interview back in 2012 patrick weekes mentioned that he went through a couple drafts when developing traynor, for example, because he originally wrote her backstory, personality and dialogue completely wrapped around the idea that she was a lesbian and hudson made him go through enough rewrites that she became an actual character, a bright young passionate grad with the odd quirk, who also just happened to be a lesbian wish he had brought that kind of rigor to the endings
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Casey Hudson is an excellent project manager and a ruthless editor of content that waters down a game, the kind of poo poo that makes up 90% of Andromeda, and knows when to cut losses when some game system is just not working or isn't fun. I don't blame him much at all for some of the actual writing decisions in Mass Effect.
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In conclusion, Casey Hudson is a land of contrasts but seriously he's p. good man
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But what is Casey Hudson's choice of lunch though Also wonder what he'll be on now that ME is iced to heck.
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why are you guys talking about mass effect in the food thread ?
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Maybe he was brought in as one last ditch effort to resurrect the franchise 
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widespread posted:But what is Casey Hudson's choice of lunch though He's now the GM of Bioware so he'll run the directors of Dragon Age, Anthem, Old Republic, and the two guys left at Bioware Montreal who recently quadrupled the item manifest in Andromeda multiplayer with chaff.
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Moola posted:why are you guys talking about mass effect in the food thread ? Someone ate a Mass Effect disc. (Still better than playing Andromeda.)
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Dragon Age inquisition as a rogue like would be interesting.
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More roguelikes, that's exactly what the world needs right now.
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