Is it possible that the sweat analysis is merely a very elaborate joke? I mean, no one, no one, could have seriously put that much thought into how a fictional character sweats, and what it would smell like.
You underestimate the power the internet.
There was that time someone wrote an analysis on which of the Sailor Scouts were the most bangable.
That's not thaaaat creepy, that's just people fucking around
what's creepy is the number of people that decided that the kid was the answer to that question
How about Shepard gets cloned so you have a squad consisting of just him/her. In fact, one of the clones should be the opposite of your gender, so we can have both the voice actors. and each clone can be a different class. I mean, it's not like any of your squad is better at their specific class than Shepard can be anyway. Also, this allows some freaky self romance subplot, and then the creepy internet will be happy.
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Your squadmates are there to help. I don't want to be able to throw around a combat drone but shit is it useful.
Edit: Wait. Can you set off warp bombs with just Shepard?
I'm not an geneticist but I don't think you can just swap gender in a clone like that
oh well, a scientist did it
It's the future, we can have whatever we want. Hell, if the people at Bioware really wanted to, they could make all the ships be constructed out of fortune cookies and the guns be gelatin bowls that shoot flaming chocolate.
I'm not an geneticist but I don't think you can just swap gender in a clone like that
oh well, a scientist did it
Dr. Ian Malcolm:But again, how do you know they're all female? Does someone go into the park and, uh... lift up the dinosaurs' skirts? Henry Wu:No, we control their chromosomes. It's really not that difficult. It just takes an extra chromosome developed at the right hormonal stage to make them male. We simply deny them that.
And of course, the quote that defines Cerberus...
Dr. Ian Malcolm:Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming.
Cerberus brought Shepard back to life after he was turned into Gazpacho, I don't think they would have any trouble making an opposite sex clone of Shepard. I mean, at this point, science in the ME universe is basically magic.
Cerberus brought Shepard back to life after he was turned into Gazpacho, I don't think they would have any trouble making an opposite sex clone of Shepard. I mean, at this point, science in the ME universe is basically magic.
I think at one point they refer to Shepard as little more than meat with tubes in it and Cerberus produced a fully functional rhythmless killing machine from that so I think they could easily crank out a couple of clones of Shepard, give them a whole host of memory implants and send out their Neo-Shepard to work towards their own goal when the real Shepard inevitably blows Cerberus off. Changing the gender would be a piece of cake and then Shepard could have a squadmate that would be assured to be as competant as herself and the players would get to hear both Meer and Hale at the same time.
Cerberus brought Shepard back to life after he was turned into Gazpacho, I don't think they would have any trouble making an opposite sex clone of Shepard. I mean, at this point, science in the ME universe is basically magic.
I think at one point they refer to Shepard as little more than meat with tubes in it and Cerberus produced a fully functional rhythmless killing machine from that so I think they could easily crank out a couple of clones of Shepard, give them a whole host of memory implants and send out their Neo-Shepard to work towards their own goal when the real Shepard inevitably blows Cerberus off. Changing the gender would be a piece of cake and then Shepard could have a squadmate that would be assured to be as competant as herself and the players would get to hear both Meer and Hale at the same time.
The fact that no one seems all that amazed by Cerberus bringing you back from the dead seriously suggests that they're not the first people to do it, or even the first humans.
They're a lot less "HOLY SHIT, CERBERUS IS JESUS?!" and a lot more "....did they put anything your head? Are you sure?"
I think that's more bad writing, if something as huge as resurrection was normal we would know about it. Everyone was already freaking out about the President copying his brain to a computer.
Cerberus brought Shepard back to life after he was turned into Gazpacho, I don't think they would have any trouble making an opposite sex clone of Shepard. I mean, at this point, science in the ME universe is basically magic.
I think at one point they refer to Shepard as little more than meat with tubes in it and Cerberus produced a fully functional rhythmless killing machine from that so I think they could easily crank out a couple of clones of Shepard, give them a whole host of memory implants and send out their Neo-Shepard to work towards their own goal when the real Shepard inevitably blows Cerberus off. Changing the gender would be a piece of cake and then Shepard could have a squadmate that would be assured to be as competant as herself and the players would get to hear both Meer and Hale at the same time.
The fact that no one seems all that amazed by Cerberus bringing you back from the dead seriously suggests that they're not the first people to do it, or even the first humans.
They're a lot less "HOLY SHIT, CERBERUS IS JESUS?!" and a lot more "....did they put anything your head? Are you sure?"
The fact that no one is amazed by it is simply terrible writing on Bioware's part. I don't recall anything that says death is only an inconvenience if you have money, it was just a shitty plot device that Bioware used to reset your character. And then they glossed over it, you don't do that, you don't kill the main character, then bring them back to life, with only a few lame jokes acknowledging it.
EDIT: If they were dead set on having Shepard die, then they should have used that to make the story more interesting, characters should have been losing there shit at the sight of you, someone should have asked Shepard about it, Shepard should have shown some sort, any sort! Of emotion about it, but we get nothing
Well, they had that one scene in Overlord where Shepard got hacked! And Liara gets emotional about your death that actually happened. So maybe they will explore the implications further in ME3?
Well, they had that one scene in Overlord where Shepard got hacked! And Liara gets emotional about your death that actually happened. So maybe they will explore the implications further in ME3?
Shamefully I have not yet played overlord, or Shadow Broker, but if that's true then it's a step, however small, in the right direction.
Is it bad writing? Yes, like the shuttle excuse. Or the cure-all from the answering machine on Ilos. But that honestly seems to be the direction Bioware went. You can clone an army into adulthood, you can go faster than the speed of light, you can bring back people if you have the right doctors and an unending mountains of money.
People are upset, but they don't seem that surprised. And if you really can clone someone from scratch, I would assume that same science could be very easily applied to repair almost the entire body by replacing each tissue layer, one by one. Or some easier scientific magic.
Even Shepard herself doesn't fully appreciate it. She just says things like "I noticed a few upgrades" and tells TIM to shut up when he reminds her that Cerberus resurrected her. I would definitely not be hostile to the people that literally gave me life.
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Tal wouldn't be hostile to Cerberus if they mugged him in an alley and ran his mother over with his car after they stole it.
It's not what they did, it's who. As for Shepard, since she wasn't privy to the cinematic the audience got to watch, I don't see why she wouldn't recognize the possibility of Cerberus lying, which is sort of their thing, and her just being a hyped-up (and highly effective) clone. Since everyone and their grandmother owns cloning labs.
Then again, have we encountered human clones yet? Maybe the Krogans are just really easy to clone.
Ah, right. She herself is the product of genetic engineering, which is more or less just a less efficient version of the quick cloning that you get left and right.
My stance on science-resurrection is that I have no problem with it...as long as the brain's still relatively intact. I don't care how many spleens get regrown or spare hearts you got in your tubes, but if if the mind is lost, so is my suspension of disbelief.
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You know what? Nanowrimo's cancelled on account of the world is stupid.
In fairness to everyone except Shepard's reaction - when the badass in an action flick shows up and you say "YOU'RE DEAD" and they say "I got better!" the implication is that they were not in fact ever dead
In defense of Shepard not giving a shit and acting nonchalant about it, you really think femshep would give TIM the satisfaction of anything more than sarcastic quips?
"Yea you brought me back from the dead. How's your Rachni project going?"
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That....that actually exists.
I mean, I'd heard secondhand through these threads that people were into Tali. But I had no idea it was like that.
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Of course, in order to scare you first you'd have to be someone that isn't Commander Shepard.
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That's not thaaaat creepy, that's just people fucking around
There is actually, but now the moment is gone. *sigh*
or weapons! oh god yes.
shepard pulls the javelin gun off his back
krogan approaches
PCHUNK PCHUNK PCHUNK
FZZZZZZZZT-FWOOSH
BLAM
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Edit: Wait. Can you set off warp bombs with just Shepard?
oh well, a scientist did it
It's the future, we can have whatever we want. Hell, if the people at Bioware really wanted to, they could make all the ships be constructed out of fortune cookies and the guns be gelatin bowls that shoot flaming chocolate.
Man i'm hungry...
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Dr. Ian Malcolm: But again, how do you know they're all female? Does someone go into the park and, uh... lift up the dinosaurs' skirts?
Henry Wu: No, we control their chromosomes. It's really not that difficult. It just takes an extra chromosome developed at the right hormonal stage to make them male. We simply deny them that.
And of course, the quote that defines Cerberus...
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming.
Problem solved.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
I think at one point they refer to Shepard as little more than meat with tubes in it and Cerberus produced a fully functional rhythmless killing machine from that so I think they could easily crank out a couple of clones of Shepard, give them a whole host of memory implants and send out their Neo-Shepard to work towards their own goal when the real Shepard inevitably blows Cerberus off. Changing the gender would be a piece of cake and then Shepard could have a squadmate that would be assured to be as competant as herself and the players would get to hear both Meer and Hale at the same time.
And screwing around with gender would be a pain in the ass
Want to play co-op games? Feel free to hit me up!
Especially if the female one wears a strap-on.
BA DUM PSSH
especially if the subject was Male
get your sex jokes right Trippy, jeez
hey
shut up
INCRIMINATION
The fact that no one seems all that amazed by Cerberus bringing you back from the dead seriously suggests that they're not the first people to do it, or even the first humans.
They're a lot less "HOLY SHIT, CERBERUS IS JESUS?!" and a lot more "....did they put anything your head? Are you sure?"
The fact that no one is amazed by it is simply terrible writing on Bioware's part. I don't recall anything that says death is only an inconvenience if you have money, it was just a shitty plot device that Bioware used to reset your character. And then they glossed over it, you don't do that, you don't kill the main character, then bring them back to life, with only a few lame jokes acknowledging it.
EDIT: If they were dead set on having Shepard die, then they should have used that to make the story more interesting, characters should have been losing there shit at the sight of you, someone should have asked Shepard about it, Shepard should have shown some sort, any sort! Of emotion about it, but we get nothing
Shamefully I have not yet played overlord, or Shadow Broker, but if that's true then it's a step, however small, in the right direction.
People are upset, but they don't seem that surprised. And if you really can clone someone from scratch, I would assume that same science could be very easily applied to repair almost the entire body by replacing each tissue layer, one by one. Or some easier scientific magic.
Or the batarians?
It's not what they did, it's who. As for Shepard, since she wasn't privy to the cinematic the audience got to watch, I don't see why she wouldn't recognize the possibility of Cerberus lying, which is sort of their thing, and her just being a hyped-up (and highly effective) clone. Since everyone and their grandmother owns cloning labs.
Then again, have we encountered human clones yet? Maybe the Krogans are just really easy to clone.
In defense of Shepard not giving a shit and acting nonchalant about it, you really think femshep would give TIM the satisfaction of anything more than sarcastic quips?
"Yea you brought me back from the dead. How's your Rachni project going?"
Shirow Masamune covered that ages ago with Ghost in the Shell.