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I'm just here to have fun and stuff.
I'll admit, I'm with Tali on this. Don't peel the orange, just bite into it.
Distance Learning for fun and profit...
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MaskedCritic
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Please. Excessively large weaponry is something that a Tinker would make. Taylor is a Scientist, she'd come up with something far more elegant than a massive cannon or bomb!
I'm imagining something like a subspace-borne viral contagion that she initially delivers via dart gun, or perhaps a self-propagating memetic signal that lobotomizes Reapers.
FaerieKnight79
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*shudders*
Not that I'll likely ever get the chance, but I never want to see you doing that.
Taylor?
Killing the Reapers?
No.
She is more likely to look at them and say something like, "Wow. Whoever programmed you had no idea what they were doing.
Like seriously.
Right there, massive logical fallacy.
Do you even program bro?
Welp, give me a couple hours and I can fix these things right up!
HEY DAD!
WHAT DO YOU THINK BRENDAN COULD DO WITH A BUNCH OF GIANT TELEPATHIC SPACE CUTTLEFISH BIOSHIPS?
THINK HE WOULD BE INTERESTED, OR SHOULD I JUST PROGRAM THEM TO FLY INTO THE CLOSEST SINGULARITY?
Black holes are basically the universal garbage disposal afterall."
Danny yells down from the living room, "ARE THEY DANGEROUS?"
Taylor then yells out, "WELL, THEY ARE KINDA BIG, SO THEY MIGHT STEP ON SOMETHING IMPORTANT BY ACCIDENT.
OH!
THEY ALSO HAVE A SORT OF MEMETICINFECTIOUSPSUEDO-BIOLOGICALFORMOFAD/SHAREWARESPACEVIRUSTHING.
BUT I CAN FIX THAT...RIGHT...about...now.
NEVERMIND ABOUT THE SPACE VIRUS THING.
I FIXED IT.
SO?
THINK BRENDAN WOULD LIKE A FEW?"
Danny facepalms and says, "haaah.
LEMME GIVE HIM A CALL."
Danny reaches over and picks up the housephone, dialing a number he dials a lot more often than one would think is normal.
Once the dial tone starts ringing, he leans back in his seat and says to himself, "Here we go again.
What's next?
Giant smug lizards confusing everyone?
I mean we have cuttlefish, so why not?
Yeah, hey Brendan.
No.
She's done it again.
Yeah.
YeeeeP.
No, I think I will let her explain this one.
Come on over, and bring something alcoholic.
We'll need it again."
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FaerieKnight79
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Is anyone else curious just what sort of things Danny has walked in on while his daughter is working that... he's that chill about his daughter rescuing an alien woman from a derelict spaceship in another universe?
YuffieK
(Verified Ninja Princess)
Surprisingly, the peel and pith of most citrus fruits are as nutritious, if not more, than the actual fruit.
"I mean, really, think about it. You don't understand eezo. It lets you bend or break all sorts of normally inviolable physical laws. It even lets you manifest all sorts of exotic powers by thinking hard and waving your hands! Of course it's magic!"
"But-"
"You just assumed that 'It's real so of course it's not magic, obviously it's just some kind of exotic matter'. But any objective evaluation shows that isn't so; you've just been building magic FTL drives out of magical space dust and wielding space magic against each other while in denial about it".
Now why would she do that, when she could just ask her Sugarbaby crystal space whale conglomerate to Intervene?
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I'll admit to not having played Mass Effect, but weren't the Reapers mechanical?
Taylor will just reprogram them.
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BIOmechanical actually. Think akin to oversized cyborgs with a cuttlfish-like exosuit/Power Armor. If you watch a "Let's Play" of the games, you'll see what I mean in the SECOND Mass Effect game. Seriously. Nightmare Fuel for the unprepared when you first find out HOW they are actually MADE.
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FaerieKnight79
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Bio-mechanical, apparently. Each reaper is, apparently, made by liquifying (or smoething) the entire population of a planet and/or species. How this works, I have no idea. Don't think it ever actually gets explained either.
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Pretty sure X/Y/Z are measurements for the same thing, movement in 3D space. That and I'm also pretty sure Z is just the X axis rotated 180 degrees around the 0 X/Y point to simulate such. Supposedly the 4th dimension is passage of time, but I'm not entirely sure that's the case. But that's neither here nor there. The other dimensions are the big things, not sure what they're supposed to signify. According to my Physics/Calculus teacher in college, dimensions can go as high as you need them to in calculations. As for dictating language of aliens, BioWare did pretty much that, by saying Humans and aliens all share the same kinds of calculations. Since math is pretty much a universal language, I'm pretty sure that means they say pretty much the same things we do. Now excuse me whilst I go amuse myself reading some other fics, and trying to not stick my nose in it any further.
Edit: forgot about this:
Kinda like Blades in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. No way can they be anything other, with how Blades manifest, and how Husks in ME are made. And no, that's not spoilers for either game, you fight husks at the beginning of ME1, and get to see a Blade awakened from a Core Crystal within about an hour or two of gameplay. Plus the designs of both strongly hint at such.
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I'm gonna have to buy that guy a pint or two next time he drops by. Now to read!The Irish chap interrupted me again while I was working hard! How irritating...
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Actually, the Blades in XC2 are more like "Golems" while the Husks in the ME games are more akin to "Cybernetic Space Zombies".
Every time i get an email that this story has been updated i smile, and then going through the new post my grin only gets bigger and bigger. Thanks, great omake.
FaerieKnight79
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X axis: left/right (give or take)
Y axis: forward/back (give or take, again)
Z axis: up/down
Mind you, when doing 3d modeling left/right and forward/back is very subjective and depends on perspective. Same with up/down. In which case you decide which direction is 'down', and then X and Y axis are specific axis in relationship to each other. Personally, I favor placing the camera at 90 degree angles and only manipulating in 2 axis at ones instead of all 3. For example I'll first face the camera along the Y axis so I'm moving the object only in X and Z axis. Then I switch it so the X axis is my camera's PoV to do further adjustments.
Y axis: forward/back (give or take, again)
Z axis: up/down
Mind you, when doing 3d modeling left/right and forward/back is very subjective and depends on perspective. Same with up/down. In which case you decide which direction is 'down', and then X and Y axis are specific axis in relationship to each other. Personally, I favor placing the camera at 90 degree angles and only manipulating in 2 axis at ones instead of all 3. For example I'll first face the camera along the Y axis so I'm moving the object only in X and Z axis. Then I switch it so the X axis is my camera's PoV to do further adjustments.
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Thanks for another installment of this excellent omake. I just wish crossover parallel dimensions were actually a thing so you and your alternate selves would have the time to do full write-ups of all your ideas....
Just a nit, but isn't the language called Khelish?
Whatever it is, it'd probably be TayTay who'll have to deal with the Reaper mess (assuming the lizards haven't already butterflied them away). There doesn't seem to be a Shepard running around headbutting Krogans in this Tali's timeline, after all.
David DeLaney
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Not so much, really. It's tangled up with (so to speak) the structure of DNA, which it's common knowledge these days is? A double spiral, that's right. DNA is made of two chains of "nucleotides", which come in mirror varieties dextro- and levo-; the dextro- ones link into a spiral twisting one way, while their mirror-image levo- counterparts link, logically, into a spiral twisting the other way. Mixing the two in the same chain is ... not recommended if beautiful compact unzippable-and-replicatable spirals is your end goal. And once you're using only one variety of nucleotide, that also determines some (though not all) other two-mirror-versions substances' version you'll be using, notably most or all of the "amino acids" coded for in the DNA, which in turn get built into proteins.
--Dave, the exact repetitive processes and approximations that ended up here, yes, aren't really known. but "why" isn't as mysterious as it could be, given how these molecular LEGO bricks and toys fit together
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Evolution in general is just an entire mess to start with.
And most people have a completely wrong idea of how it works.
Evolution is not truely aimed. Our DNA does not start to spontaneously mutate as a reaction to a need. We adapt a bit, but that is mainly a state of 'getting used to it'.
When we have kids, half their DNA comes from the father, and half comes from the mother. Those halves are copied from their own DNA. And quite often, we fail to copy the DNA properly, and errors get in. On occasion, some of those errrors turn out beneficial. Those with beneficial traits are more succesfull than those with less beneficial traits, and the more succesful has a far higher chance to attract a partner to have kids of their own than others. This is the process known as 'survival of the fittest'.
In general, Evolution is an unholy hybrid of an 'Comedy of Errors' and 'Throwing Shit at a wall and see what sticks'
Humanity being badly designed?
No, we're not.
Because that would require humanity to have been designed in the first place.
We just got lucky with our errors.
How does the phrase go? Monkies on Typewriters or something?
Well eezo is their phlebotinum, it may or may not be 'real' science.
It's usually treated as 'real' in its own universe, but from an outside prespective, it's likely to be views with some.... skepticism.
Well. There was that time she was experimenting with her dimensional manipulation tech.
The kitchen never did quite shrink back all the way to before.
And the less told about the portal testing mess, the better. Nobody should need to run that long to get to a bathroom.
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The problem is that it's somewhat difficult to talk about evolution at the level that most people learn it without using words that imply design, which leads to people getting completely the wrong idea about it. Even the words 'errors', 'random' and 'getting lucky's can imply design to someone with a significant emotional desire to be more meaningful than a self perpetuating chemical reaction end result of millions of years of random changes.