In the Mass Effect universe, quarians and turians have DNA based on dextro-amino acids, versus our levo-amino acids. So says the writers, dextro and levo folk can't eat the same foods, lest they risk an allergic reaction. (Such is the root of Mordin's semen swallowing joke.)
In real life, whatever they were ingesting would just pass through and be gleefully shit out.
Today, let us visit the DLC Project Overlord, which I keep misspelling as Project Overloard. I'd actually never played it before! I did it just for you all, because I love you dearly.
... and, to be quite frank, if it weren't for MSPixel, I'm not sure it would be worth it. I wouldn't be doing this at all if it weren't DLC, this plot is some thin shit. It plays a lot like a Mass Effect 1 sidequest. I got it for free, though, true story! It's like the best kept secret on the Internet that Bing Rewards will give you free XBox Live points. You can use my referral link or not, either way's fine. ... sorry PC and PS3 folk, I have no idea how to get you all free DLC.
Okay! So! Overlord! Allegedly, this DLC starts with an email, but I got no such document. I just rolled up to the site and hit A. ... sorry, PC and PS3 folk, I have no idea what button you all would hit.
Surprise, a Cerberus project went haywire. This guy, who goes by the name of Dr. Archer, sounds pretty srs business, so maybe we ought to look into --
WOW. FUCK. That's loud! Is that the VI? With all Cerberus' funding, y'all couldn't find a way to put a volume control on that thing?
So, let's go along --
-- why are there geth in this facility? Why would Cerberus have a bunch of cray ass geth running around?
When Shepard rolls up to the dish, the controls are behind some explosive crates. The hell kind of safety measure is that?
Okay, check this. Shepard blows up all the crates, thus busting the satellite and interrupting the VI from uploading itself somewhere. So shit's all falling all over, exploding, it is totally a Michael Bay movie.
This beam falls behind Shepard, right?
Shepard pulls her gun on it! SHEPARD FUCKING PULLS HEAT ON IT. It's a fucking beam, damn! Have I mentioned Shepard's my favorite character? She is.
So once Shepard's done threatening the infrastructure, everyone leaps on the catwalks to safety.
Full disclosure: if we're going to keep going on this, you probably need to know that part of my job involves working with children with autism, sooooooo this kind of hits a little close for me. Some of my best little bros and little broettes live with autism.
Ahem, I only know one response.
The correct terminology, by the way, is "[subject] with autism," in this case, "brother with autism", instead of "autistic brother". I promise I won't get mad if you forget, because I don't think someone saying "autistic brother" means anything mean by it, but the game keeps using the terminology "brother's autistic mind." That's so totally weird that I'm not even sure it's offensive. Then again, Dr. Archer doesn't strike me as Mr. Totally Caring Brother, so maybe we'll throw Bioware a bone.
Kinda sitting here wondering why the poor kid with autism is the one we're picking out to interface with a robot, though! Pretty sure that one's not okay!
That one doesn't really happen, but I can dream.
NEXT TIME: I take it down a notch, I promise
oh my god you have no idea how grateful I am to see someone else taking issue with Project Overlord.
ReplyDelete(Given your line of work, I don't recommend reading the novels [I mean, I don't recommend reading them anyway, but especially not if you have even the vaguest knowledge of what autism is]...)
I'm autistic, so Overlord was, uh, really not fun. Particularly the end bits. But if anything can redeem it for me, you and your awesome Shepard can!
Wow, I'm glad I can help!
DeleteOverlord has the one choice that I remember telling my husband (before we got married) that there is only one correct choice and if he chooses to not rescue David we weren't getting married. XD I love my renegade Shep to death but there is a difference between "renegade" and "scum" and saying "here of course you can keep him!" puts you firmly in Scum Camp.
ReplyDeleteArcher's fixation with "his autistic mind" just really drove home the fact that he couldn't even be bothered to see his brother as an actual person. The fact that I didn't have an option to punt him off a catwalk made me very angry.
An evil insensitive bastard with the surname Archer...huh. Maybe a descendant of this... person: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Archer
ReplyDeleteI know this is a way old post, but most of autistics actually prefer to use identity first language, e.g. "autistic" not person with autism. This post has some good links about why: http://neurowonderful.tumblr.com/post/96198665556/just-curious-why-do-you-identify-yourself-as
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