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DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

exquisite tea posted:

The Asari contracted some sort of genetic disease that morphed all their faces to be the same.

Their faces were all tired. From the sleep and everything.

*assumes T pose, spins 360 degrees and vanishes through ceiling*

DancingShade fucked around with this message at 08:35 on Dec 15, 2020

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orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Gotta T pose first though

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

orange juche posted:

Gotta T pose first though

Now fixed!

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

kilus aof posted:

And if Kirrahe is also dead the councillor dies. Which gives -2 to the Virmire Survivor confrontation which depending on other attacks means you might have to kill them. So you can have a situation where Ashley kills Wrex in 1 and then Garrus/Liara kills Ashley in 3.


Or if you beat the game then do Zaeed's loyalty mission and have 2 more squadmates alive you can do the paragon/save the workers path then leave Zaeed to die.

ME2 was good.

Toxic Fart Syndrome
Jul 2, 2006

*hits A-THREAD-5*

Only 3.6 Roentgoons per hour ... not great, not terrible.




...the meter only goes to 3.6...

Pork Pro

orange juche posted:

Gotta T pose first though

stolen from the cyberpunk thread

AlternateAccount posted:

Remember the t-posing on a motorcycle bug back in 2006??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI7HLtMfq34&t=28s

NSFW for man-crack?

kilus aof
Mar 24, 2001

womb with a view posted:

^^ Oh right I forgot you could ask for her forgiveness. Yet another path to not getting Miranda killed!!

My first run I deliberately killed Miranda on the suicide mission and no one else. Do you know how hard it is to kill Miranda and no one else? There's basically only one path. You make sure she's not loyal and then bring her on the final terminator babby run. If you did her mission and didn't side with Jack when they're arguing you're hosed, you're gonna have to try to mow down like 6 other crew members to get her killed in the final push.

You can also send her to escort the crew if she isn't loyal. Also if she is unloyal(and only her) in the hold the line and your defender score is just low enough she will die(just have 1 of Grunt/Garrus/Zaeed and all of Jack/Tali/Kasumi/Mordin hold the line). You can also kill loyal Miranda with just one causality, at least one of Jack/Tali/Kasumi/Mordin has to die in hold the line for loyal Miranda to die.

Now Morinth has only one way for her to die and no one else, make her the second fireteam leader.

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


It's funny how Miranda has a lower chance of surviving in ME3 if you broke up with her, like in running away from Kai Leng she thought about getting dumped by Shepard and that moment of hesitation proved to be fatal.

kilus aof
Mar 24, 2001

exquisite tea posted:

It's funny how Miranda has a lower chance of surviving in ME3 if you broke up with her, like in running away from Kai Leng she thought about getting dumped by Shepard and that moment of hesitation proved to be fatal.

Miranda has to be loyal, warned about Kai Leng, and given Alliance resources to survive. If you break up with her she loses loyalty and dies. You either have to break up with her in Mass effect 2 or talk to her at the docks and then lock in a another romance. But yeah she goes from being hard to kill in 2 to hard to keep alive in 3.

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


What happens in Elysium if Miranda is dead before ME3? Do you just save her sister?

womb with a view
Sep 8, 2007

kilus aof posted:

You can also send her to escort the crew if she isn't loyal. Also if she is unloyal(and only her) in the hold the line and your defender score is just low enough she will die(just have 1 of Grunt/Garrus/Zaeed and all of Jack/Tali/Kasumi/Mordin hold the line). You can also kill loyal Miranda with just one causality, at least one of Jack/Tali/Kasumi/Mordin has to die in hold the line for loyal Miranda to die.

Now Morinth has only one way for her to die and no one else, make her the second fireteam leader.

Dang now this guy knows how to kill off Miranda. I didn't realise it gave priority to non-loyal to die first in hold the line.

Lest we forget, your reward in ME3 for passing the absurd paragon/renegade check required to get Morinth on your team in the first place: one of the banshees in the game will have "Morinth" as their name tag instead of "Banshee".

exquisite tea posted:

What happens in Elysium if Miranda is dead before ME3? Do you just save her sister?

Yeah I think Oriana just takes over any plot critical roles for her and you save her yourself. I seem to remember her dying in my Miranda-less playthrough though so maybe she always dies if Miranda isn't there.

kilus aof
Mar 24, 2001

exquisite tea posted:

What happens in Elysium if Miranda is dead before ME3? Do you just save her sister?

Oriana takes much of the role Miranda does in the mission, sending a warning about Sanctuary and taking Miranda's role on videos you find. And you can just not save her, you have to pass a reputation check or do a renegade interrupt to save her.

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Recruiting Morinth is one of those renegade decisions that's just so pointlessly stupid I can never bring myself to do it even in 100% redbar runs. I always thought it would have been way more interesting if Morinth only kills Samara IF you attempt to stop Samara from killing her, and then you're forced to accept her aid or admit your tremendous fuckup. Would have been an interesting inversion where the paragon action makes things decidedly worse.

kilus aof
Mar 24, 2001
Morinth does allow a non-standard game over if you meld with her after the Suicide Mission. Apparently trusting the space vampire that you are special is a bad idea.

Moola
Aug 16, 2006

exquisite tea posted:

It's funny how Miranda has a lower chance of surviving in ME3 if you broke up with her, like in running away from Kai Leng she thought about getting dumped by Shepard and that moment of hesitation proved to be fatal.

Shepard's magical healing dick is also a magical murdering dick if you think about it

kilus aof
Mar 24, 2001

Moola posted:

Shepard's magical healing dick is also a magical murdering dick if you think about it

Poor Tali.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

kilus aof posted:

Morinth does allow a non-standard game over if you meld with her after the Suicide Mission. Apparently trusting the space vampire that you are special is a bad idea.

That was so loving funny.

Samara: Her literal biology kills people when she melds with them, it cannot be overcome. Every nerve in your body will decay and wither instantly, your brain will explode, and your heart will rupture.

Shepherd: Lol she just ain't had this pussy. :smuggo:

Morinth: No you'll be fine, my mom was just jealous of us.

Shepherd: gently caress yeah, let's do this.

*dies*

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule
https://lyricsaboutcats.tumblr.com/post/627664140518981632/asari-000-turian-000-salarian-000

lmao this rocks

Moola
Aug 16, 2006

Admiral Ray posted:

That was so loving funny.

Samara: Her literal biology kills people when she melds with them, it cannot be overcome. Every nerve in your body will decay and wither instantly, your brain will explode, and your heart will rupture.

Shepherd: Lol she just ain't had this pussy. :smuggo:

Morinth: No you'll be fine, my mom was just jealous of us.

Shepherd: gently caress yeah, let's do this.

*dies*

I hope this is the ending they pick for ME4

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
Isn't there an Easter egg where if you don't kill Morinth, she gets turned into a Banshee anyway?

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


This has bothered me since their introduction. Does anyone else find the portrayal of the Vorcha to be disturbing in that it's an entire species of sentient beings that are regarded as nothing but dumb, violent laborers? They really feel like a poor writing choice.

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
That's what people who hire laborers think of laborers. What's the problem?

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

Nichael posted:

This has bothered me since their introduction. Does anyone else find the portrayal of the Vorcha to be disturbing in that it's an entire species of sentient beings that are regarded as nothing but dumb, violent laborers? They really feel like a poor writing choice.

One of the DLCs, I don't know if it's Leviathan or Citadel, adds a couple war assets that are educated and valued vorcha - a task force of vorcha fighter pilots, and a vorcha construction company that makes full use of their biological adaptability.

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

Halloween Jack posted:

Isn't there an Easter egg where if you don't kill Morinth, she gets turned into a Banshee anyway?

yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqdduCg9N_s

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

Cythereal posted:

One of the DLCs, I don't know if it's Leviathan or Citadel, adds a couple war assets that are educated and valued vorcha - a task force of vorcha fighter pilots, and a vorcha construction company that makes full use of their biological adaptability.

Citadel DLC also had a Vorcha hanging around the horde mode minigame talking to other soldiers and chatting about vorcha adaptability and how they're happy fighting alongside other species against the reapers.

Moola
Aug 16, 2006

lol that this literally amounts to

If "Morinth" = NotDead Then Rename "Banshee25" to "Morinth"

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

Moola posted:

lol that this literally amounts to

If "Morinth" = NotDead Then Rename "Banshee25" to "Morinth"

yup! not even an email

they also make Jack a Phantom named "Jack" if you ignore Grissom Academy

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

Pattonesque posted:

yup! not even an email

they also make Jack a Phantom named "Jack" if you ignore Grissom Academy

And Legion a 'geth assassin' in Cerberus HQ if you gave him to Cerberus in ME2 rather than reactivating him.

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

Cythereal posted:

And Legion a 'geth assassin' in Cerberus HQ if you gave him to Cerberus in ME2 rather than reactivating him.

consequences!

although to be fair I'm fine with them going a little low-effort on poo poo like .5% of the playerbase did

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
This is how you know Cerberus is poo poo; if I had Jack, Legion, and Morinth I could do something better with them than make mid-level goons.

They probably stopped trying after they turned an N7 veteran into Kai Leng

Kurieg
Jul 19, 2012

RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20
:blizz::gamefreak:

Nichael posted:

This has bothered me since their introduction. Does anyone else find the portrayal of the Vorcha to be disturbing in that it's an entire species of sentient beings that are regarded as nothing but dumb, violent laborers? They really feel like a poor writing choice.

TBF those vorcha you're running into are either members of the blood pack, or stuck on a space station where crime is functionally legal, so they're turned into an underclass and treated like vermin.

Looks like they do fine elsewhere. Also I think there are some asari who talk about having a vorcha dad or something?

Moola
Aug 16, 2006

Halloween Jack posted:

They probably stopped trying after they turned an N7 veteran into Kai Leng

I must apologize for Kai Leng. He is an idiot. We purposely trained him wrong, as a joke

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

Kurieg posted:

TBF those vorcha you're running into are either members of the blood pack, or stuck on a space station where crime is functionally legal, so they're turned into an underclass and treated like vermin.

Looks like they do fine elsewhere. Also I think there are some asari who talk about having a vorcha dad or something?

Asari-vorcha offspring have an allergy to dairy and

womb with a view
Sep 8, 2007

Cythereal posted:

And Legion a 'geth assassin' in Cerberus HQ if you gave him to Cerberus in ME2 rather than reactivating him.

But... Legion only got his name from a conversation with Shepard and EDI...

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

womb with a view posted:

But... Legion only got his name from a conversation with Shepard and EDI...

Which is why he's only identified as 'Geth Assassin' in ME3 in that situation, yes.

womb with a view
Sep 8, 2007

Oh, so they use his model for one enemy and call it Geth Assassin?

kilus aof
Mar 24, 2001
He is actually called Legion Assassin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eln_8EN6Bz0

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


Renewed interest in the series had me looking at the Mass Effect wiki today, and I stumbled across this for the Kelly Chambers entry:

quote:

Kelly started out in concept as two separate characters, codenamed ensign_cutie and ensign_threesome.[2]

:yikes:

hard counter
Jan 2, 2015





rip in peace shepard, you beat the collectors, the reapers and even death itself couldn't hold you but not even you can stand against workplace harassment and #metoo

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Nichael posted:

Renewed interest in the series had me looking at the Mass Effect wiki today, and I stumbled across this for the Kelly Chambers entry:


:yikes:



loving lol

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Nichael
Mar 30, 2011



why would he post that?

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