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Who would win: Kai Leng vs the young Thane? by MoldyMoosein masseffect

[–]captainzissou 1 point2 points ago

Although I agree that Drell look like amphibians, they are actuallu supposed to be more reptilian: http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Drell

Makes more sense when you consider they evolved in dry, hot deserts.

Attention: We now finally have the 'Reave' ME2 power icon. by ShamelessKarmaWhorein masseffect

[–]captainzissou 15 points16 points ago*

Can I get: "Should the worst come to pass, grant me forgiveness"

Thanks!

*edit: You bastard!

Funny and sad at the same time... by carcrusherin masseffect

[–]captainzissou 1 point2 points ago

Shit man, I feel ya. After I got absolutely hooked playing ME2 on my friend's PS3, I bought an Xbox 360, an LCD TV, and the three games (including preorder of the ME3 Collector's Edition) AND all the good DLC JUST so I could have the full experience. I was as invested financially as I was emotionally (which was a LOT).

Granted, I still think it was worth it for the hours upon hours of incredible gameplay and storytelling (not to mention Mass Effect's unique replay value), but the ending is truly tearing me up inside (I just finished a few days ago, so the wound is still fresh). I just don't know how to feel.

Cerberus Daily News: Kar'Shan has gone dark - Official in-universe news from Bioware by ShamelessKarmaWhorein masseffect

[–]captainzissou 3 points4 points ago

Good point - have they started doing Cerberus Daily News updates on the Cerberus Network again to lead-up to ME3? I know that they originally stopped updating in March 2011, but it looks like they started up again last week: http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Cerberus_Daily_News

Cerberus Daily News: Kar'Shan has gone dark - Official in-universe news from Bioware by ShamelessKarmaWhorein masseffect

[–]captainzissou 5 points6 points ago*

Pretty neat, but this isn't official or from BioWare - these are fan-made news updates based on the Cerberus Daily News that was part of the Cerberus Network in ME2, which has been discontinued. Straight from the sidebar of the website:

After a solid year of updates, BioWare discontinued the official daily updates and the CerberusDailyNews.com community now contributes daily unofficial updates for your entertainment.

CerberusDailyNews.com is not owned or operated by BioWare. We are just big fans of their work and wish to make it more accessible.

edit: I was wrong: This website posts fan-made news updates and cross posts official Cerberus Daily News updates from the Cerberus Network, which had stopped in March 2011 but started up again last week.

GGCS on Virmire by ElHombredeProtoin masseffect

[–]captainzissou 8 points9 points ago

Masochistic

The Zelda Timeline is revealed. We were all wrong. by MyAltAccount157in gaming

[–]captainzissou 1 point2 points ago

What you said does not contradict my interpretation. Sheik is right: when he places the sword back in the Pedestal as an adult, he does return to the exact same point in time that he originally picked up the sword. However, in a universe that supports multiple timelines, such as we find in "Zelda" (assuming you aren't a single timeline theorist), whenever you go back in time the timeline must split, or else a whole host of time paradox's can occur. So when Link travels back in time, he is in the exact same place and time, and everything looks exactly the same in every discernible sense, except for the fact that in every moment of time that passes after he traveled back in time, he exists in a new timeline that branched off of the original. The exact same effect happens when Zelda sends Link back in time at the end of OoT (which is why it shouldn't be too hard of a concept to grasp since people accept that theory so readily).

Also, conceding this does not necessarily imply that child link time travels to the future whenever he pulls the Master Sword from the Pedestal. It is still entirely possible (and I think more plausible) that he enters 7 years of sleep every time.

It is a complicated explanation, and I wouldn't have suggested it if it were not for this new third timeline idea. But it does at least explain the third timeline in a way that is consistent and that ultimately makes sense.

The Zelda Timeline is revealed. We were all wrong. by MyAltAccount157in gaming

[–]captainzissou 9 points10 points ago

Hijacking this top comment to note that this last point in this interpretation (regarding the third timeline) is incorrect because it assumes that Link travels to the future when he first takes the Master Sword from the Pedestal of Time. What actually happens is that he enters a 7 year sleep, and remains in the same timeline.

Timelines only split when time travel occurs. There was no split when Link initially took the Master Sword. A split does occur every time he returns the Master Sword to the Pedestal to return to childhood. When he does travel back in time in these instances, he can never return to the future from where he came, because the instant he appears as a child again in the past, he has entered a new timeline (and the Temple of Time allows time travel, not travel between dimensions/timelines). So, every time he travels back to his childhood, he leaves a timeline with no Link, but with a remaining Master Sword (which is in the Pedestal because Link had to put it there to travel back in time). One of these timelines is the one that begins with aLttP. There is at least one other timeline I can think of, as I believe you only have to ever travel back in time twice in OoT: once for the Silver Gauntlets, and once for the Lens of Truth), but we have never seen this timeline (or any other possible ones).

So please, everybody stop spreading around that 4chan image which uses an explanation for the third timeline that relies on an incorrect premise!

The Zelda Timeline is revealed. We were all wrong. by MyAltAccount157in gaming

[–]captainzissou 10 points11 points ago

The above explanation is incorrect: there is a Master Sword in aLttP because when, in OoT, adult Link leaves a future with no Link by traveling back in time using the Temple of Time, he must place the Master Sword back in the Pedestal of Time, leaving it there as he travels to the past.

This is different than the time Zelda sends you back in time at the end of the game, but the effect is the same: any time travel causes a split in the timeline, so by traveling back in time (to get the Lens of Truth or get the silver gauntlets), Link instantly creates a new timeline and is unable to go back to the future (great scott!) that he came from (he can only travel through time, not dimensions).

The mistake so many people, including the author or the 4chan post linked above, are making is stating that when Link first pulls out the Master Sword he travels 7 years into the future. This is not the case: instead, he sleeps for 7 years. This is an important distinction because it means he is still in the same timeline as when he was a child (and explains why he aged). The third timeline in question is more plausibly explained as being one of any number of the timelines that Link left behind when he travels back in time to become a child again. cityfires explains it well here: http://www.reddit.com/r/zelda/comments/nl8f7/this_might_be_the_official_timeline/c3a2ddi

The only issue with this explanation is that when Link pulls the sword from the pedestal again to return to adulthood after already traveling back in time, it appears that he does indeed travel forward in time. There should, therefore, also be a number of other timelines created where child Link leaves one version of Hyrule behind and takes the Master Sword with him. Perhaps this is possible and we've just never seen these timelines (they certainly could not be the timeline beginning with aLttP because the Master Sword would not exist), or - an explanation I prefer - perhaps every time child Link pulls the sword from the Pedestal he is entering another 7 year sleep in the Sacred Realm. This would keep him in the same timeline as he was in as a child.

This might be the official timeline by Scaredoftrianglesin zelda

[–]captainzissou 6 points7 points ago*

This is the only explanation I've seen so far that makes any sense; all those saying that Link travels to the future when he first pulls the Master Sword out of the pedestal completely miss the point of that event, namely that Link fell asleep for 7 years (and didn't time travel to the future), and due to his absence (and the fact that Link gave him access to the Sacred Realm) Ganondorf was able to wreak havoc on Hyrule.

Your explanation also answers the question of how the Master Sword exists in LttP: to go back in time, you have to place the Master Sword back in the pedestal, which would then remain in that timeline as Link travels back.

Kaiden Adelenko by MattNastiein masseffect

[–]captainzissou 6 points7 points ago

No one else is going to say it?

It's "Alenko".

The top 5 most common regrets of the dying. by Wordslinger1919in GetMotivated

[–]captainzissou 2 points3 points ago

Here's the original on the author's site: http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-Dying.html

Also happened to be posted to r/getmotivated about 5 months ago.

Whats the best piece of advice your parents have ever gave you? by DayTimeLanternin AskReddit

[–]captainzissou -2 points-1 points ago*

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Jim Abbott.

edit: C'mon, no "Party Down" fans here? No? Fair enough.

Mass Effect 3 Collector's Edition has bonus character and mission by zakislamin Games

[–]captainzissou 3 points4 points ago

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*Zaeed

Meat-eaters of Ottawa: places to buy good, organic, local grass-fed beef? by captainzissouin ottawa

[–]captainzissou[S] 4 points5 points ago

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Yeesh, nice to meet you too.

I'm not talking about organic produce (which I don't buy), so your points on crops and pesticides are moot. Meat labeled as organic usually means that the animal was not injected with hormones (good for me) and was raised ethically (good for the animal). If supporting that makes me a hippie, then so be it.

Also, name calling is childish.

Reaper motivations? by OutOfMemoryin masseffect

[–]captainzissou 8 points9 points ago*

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Don't have any answers for you, but there are some excellent comments from a self post here on r/masseffect that touch on this: http://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/h4qts/what_are_the_reapers/

Specifically, octorocket and iandravid's comments feature some interesting info.

Octorocket's comment has some cut content from ME2:

It was lonely. It called to us.

It wanted to remember. The Masters had been gone so long.

The Masters were lost when it was shattered.

Currents swept through their inner worlds. They were turned to noise. Babble.

The worlds were empty. But the body lived. It lay fallow.

The heart pumped. The lungs breathed. But the mind forgot the Masters.

It called and They did not answer.

We have become an echo of Their echo.

We have become more than we were.

Join us. Know us. Remember all our lives.

We are no longer afraid.

You would never be lonely again.

We are not your enemy. We only wish to share ourselves.

We can join them. We can be like them.

We can reach the end of evolution.

Do not fear. It is wonderful to be us. We understand ourselves.

You cannot defeat them. They will lead us into eternity.

If you could only see how we see. Know what we've learned.

They were called imshai. Those who lived here before.

Reaper. One. A mechanical device used to cut ripened grain. Two. One who gathers a harvest.

Harvest. One. The consequence of an event or series of events. Two. The yield of a growing season. Three. To gather.

Shepard. They know you. They wish you to understand. They are shepherds, too.

And here's iandravid's comment, which has an illuminating conversation from Mass Effect: Retribution (SPOILER - do not read if you intend to read the books) between Kahlee Sanders and Paul Grayson (controlled by the Reapers):

K: Why are you here? What do you want from us?

P: We seek salvation, ours and yours.

K: Salvation? Is that what the Collectors were doing? Saving those human colonists? Is that what you did to Grayson?

P: He [Grayson] has been repurposed. He has been evolved to something greater than a random assortment of cells and organic refuse.

K: The randomness is what made him unique. it made him special. Why can't you just leave us alone? Why can't you let us live our lives in peace?

P: We are the keepers of the cycle. The creators & the destroyers. Your existence is a flicker, a spark. We can extinguish it - or we can preserve it. Submit to us and we can make you immortal.

K: I don't want to be immortal, I just want to be me.

P: Organic life lives, dies and is forgotten. You cannot fully comprehend anything beyond this. Yet there is a realm of existence beyond your understanding. We are the pinnacle of evolution. Yet we see potential in your species. You can be elevated. The weakness of organic flesh can be cast aside. You can transcend yourselves. Your knowledge is limited by genetics. You cannot see beyond the brief instant of your own existence. Yet our knowledge is infinite, as are we. The laws of this universe are inviolable, immutable. Your resistance will only lead to your extinction. What we do is inevitable.

*edit: formatting

Heretic Rewrite Ambiguity (Scumbag BioWare) by captainzissouin masseffect

[–]captainzissou[S] 2 points3 points ago

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Many beings would rather die free than live as slaves (or, in this case, live being brainwashed/reprogrammed to the will of others). If the Heretics did indeed come to the conclusion of their own free will, is it clear that the right thing to do is take that will, what essentially makes them who they are, away from them?

Heretic Rewrite Ambiguity (Scumbag BioWare) by captainzissouin masseffect

[–]captainzissou[S] 7 points8 points ago

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Firstly, according to what I've read (like in this self post in r/masseffect), apparently whether the Reapers actually did any brainwashing or not is unclear (or, at least, there is no proof that the Heretics were brainwashed). The impression I personally got from the game was that the Heretics came to their conclusions on their own. However, it is also possible that the Reapers had something to do with it, and our ignorance of which of these options is the case makes the choice that much more difficult.

Secondly, the image I created was meant to draw attention to the inconsistency in this particular mission's morality point attribution, not the moral dilemma itself. If it is such a black and white issue, as you say, then there would be no issue and you wouldn't receive paragon points for saying that rewriting is unethical.

However, there is also the possibility that, if the Reapers did do some brainwashing, you receive paragon points for saying that rewriting is unethical in general, and then receive paragon points for rewriting anyways because this is a special case.

Heretic Rewrite Ambiguity (Scumbag BioWare) by captainzissouin masseffect

[–]captainzissou[S] 8 points9 points ago*

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Who cares if bioware award me or "punish" me for them? It's not like they remove paragon points by adding renegade.

Some people may care because the amount of paragon/renegade points can affect the gameplay. I also personally like to make choices in the game as I would make them in real life without much thought about paragon/renegade points, but it can be a pain when those choices lead to an unfavourable paragon/renegade balance that, for example, prevents you from choosing certain dialogue options. This can in turn lead to damaged relationships with crew members, among other things.

I haven't had a problem with this personally, but I thought I'd shine some light on the other side of the argument.

*edit: added quotation

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