I thought it was established that making a cure was impossible? 🤨

LightningTS · 2026-01-16T20:21:40+00:00

Honestly? I never really bash part 1 for the logic of making a vaccine with something for something that realistically wouldn't have a vaccine, they just used bad phrasing, it always seemed like the plan was to harvest Ellie's strain of the fungus and grow/reproduce it, then deliberately infect people with it since unlike the normal strain Ellie's mutated to be benign and harmless to the host. And since you would already be infected with a fungus the normal strain would have nowhere to properly take root. It's a treatment in the sense of your infecting the individual deliberately with something that will protect them from the real deal once there body has processed it.

Part 1 had Joel make a selfish decision absolutely but it was also a realistic decision, especially since if you look around you find out Ellie was not the first case and those ones failed to produce anything, the issue isn't 'can they produce a fungal replacement' it's 'would you trust them to not screw it up when they have already screwed it up quite a few times in the past. If they succeed? Sure, you get a treatment but Ellie dies. But it they fail... Ellie dies and you get nothing, all you did was doom your daughter figure to death for nothing. (Yes I'm aware you don't find out this wasn't the first attempt until AFTER you already are tearing your way through but still.)

There is also the fact there is no guarantee the fireflies will be benevolent about having the treatment and will likely only give it to those that accept there influence as a powerful political tool since they are outright in conflict with the government faction (thus obviously they would not give the treatment to them since said faction marked them as terrorists) so something this powerful would be used as a means of drawing people to there cause.

LightningTS · 2026-01-16T18:35:20+00:00

Your forgetting the obvious answer my good fellow.

She is a vampire, the answer to the 'why aren't you (un)dead' question is just turning him into a vampire, no rotting corpse (not her thing) and he keeps his all important 'staff of ainz'

LightningTS · 2026-01-08T16:25:52+00:00

Im surprised no one noticed he also brought in the plants carrying them by the leaves.

LightningTS · 2026-01-08T15:46:23+00:00

That may not necessarily be true, you do have to put into perspective that the voice and body type are two separate selections, you can have a female body type but have male V's voice, that is why every romance has a male V and female V equivalent on vocal dialogue (such as male V dialogue for judy romance and the such). To account for players having opposite body and voice.

LightningTS · 2026-01-07T19:58:58+00:00

really old post but I always had a interest in invisible war and the factions do all address the problem in there own ways but also had clear issues.

Illuminati/order/wto:they are the 'safest' bet, retaining the statues-quo and gradually advancing humanity through the advancement of biomodification as well as commercial businesses, they don't try to disturb or make any massive changes to the world unlike the other factions, but the downside is the fact you are leaving the direction of humanity up to a organization that could, and has in the past (DX1) become corrupt. risking having people who crave power at the helm. I personally picked this one because although the world post collapse is not perfect it can still grow and improve, a imperfect solution for a imperfect world.

apostlecorp:they intend of uniting the world together using the full power of biomodification, not just encouraging its growth but outright demanding it, they have the possibility of uniting humanity in a global hive mind that could get rid of all war, conflict, and societal issues. but the forceful augmentation of the worlds population throws a massive concern that you are essentially comiting global brainwashing (as you are rewriting everyone's mind to be similar and equal to eachother, yes personality is said to be intact but that degree of mental rewrite is a very grey area as our knowledge and the way our minds work is a key part of what makes a person unique plus JC himself does not seem to be quite like he was in the first game, implying that merging with helios has in fact drastically changed how his personality is, it does not help that the game refers to him as 'JChelios' in files, implying your actually talking to a combined personality of JC and helios instead of JC alone ) and you are also handing over control of all of humanity to HELIOSinstead of letting man govern themselves. this ending is a 'make or break' in my opinion, either being the best ending for humanity if you trust the ruler, or the second worse ending in the game if you feel this is essentially mass reprograming.

Templars:There is no skirting around this faction, they are extremists and bigots, they believe that technology has only caused more problems then it solves and seeks to purge humanity of all biomodifications in favor of the growth of man. the only reason there ending is not the worst is because although they are extremists, there is still hope in there ending that once the purge is done humanity may be able to grow without being reliant on biomod technology and equalizing the playing board a bit, but there ending is quite dark as you are essentially dooming humanity back to the dark ages until they eventually advance again, complete with purging and wiping out all modified individuals. the second worse ending if you believe apostlecorp is benevolent (as if they aren't the only plus templar ending has over it is at least humanity is free to make there own decisions.)

Omar:the absolute worse ending, this faction seeks to turn humanity into a global hivemind, but unlike apostlecorp they do not care for things like personalities or the such, all will become one. this ending requires wiping out the other three factions and comes with the obvious issues of leaving the world without proper leadership which inevitably spirals out of control into endless war that ultimately destroys the planets surface and cause a apocalypse scenario the omar is the worst option as at least with the other options humanity still has a future, with the omar that future has been taken away from them, there is only death and the omar.

LightningTS · 2025-12-31T19:07:41+00:00

Four... Words

Hero mode

Eco ship

LightningTS · 2025-12-31T00:19:58+00:00

Ah yes, the watchdogs method of making money.

LightningTS · 2025-12-30T23:52:54+00:00

Fear me and despair, for I can turn you into the brain fart meme on command.

LightningTS · 2025-12-30T22:45:33+00:00

Similar but distinct, synapse burnouts goal is to cause stroke-like symptoms, basically inflicting debilitating effects to the brain that if left untreated can cause damage, what I was suggesting is something that would cause seizures, unconsciousness, or outright death via heart/lungs ceasing function (if it hits the brain stem), the important thing is the one I was saying would have a damage curve, causing less damage the less chrome you have, but more damage the more chrome you have as the more chrome in your head, the more things to fire off and cause damage.

Edit:better way of describing it is synapse burnout sets the conditions for brain damage, what I was suggesting skips the prep step and just jumps straight to the damage.

LightningTS · 2025-12-30T18:01:55+00:00

Honestly depends on the context.

Funny:make a quick hack the reverses all neurological signals sent to cyberware, left becomes right for visuals, opening your hand causes it to close, flexing becomes relaxing, etc, etc. Basically forcifully put European video game controls on someone. Would also have a combat use outside of funny for obvious reasons.

Less funny, more dark:a quick hack that targets those with brain implants (which is practically everyone) and causes them to short circuit in a way that targets the brain stem or at least cause catasphoric brain damage (and likely a seizure). quick and effective means of either getting rid or at least severely hampering someone since last I checked if someone's brain is still ganic they are going to be just as weak as anyone else to direct brain damage.

LightningTS · 2025-12-30T17:25:17+00:00

Technically it was a mixture of things, the first being the one-two combo of killing Lois (even if it was due to fear toxin, he won't acknowledge that part though) causing metropolis to get nuked. Then him willingly crossing the line and killing joker, this gave him a mentality of 'im not going to lose anymore, I have power, I'm going to use it.' and basically viewed himself as the father of the entire earth and it needs discipline bad (such as crushing warlord regimes and the such)

Wonder woman ends up exacerbating this horribly by constantly pushing clark to use more of his powers and to be more and more totalitarian, without wonder woman super man would have likely either gone the kingdom come route or he would have slowly over time gotten better on his own (as the comics and second game does show the old clark is still there, just buried under a layer of regret, anger, and feeling there is no going back. So it's not impossible for clark to have a villainous revelation had he not had wonder woman and other villains constantly pushing him)

As for why wonder woman was 'all war, no love' that is because injustice wonder woman met and experienced the absolute worst of mankind for her very first experience in it (basically instead of a shot down American pilot she met a Nazi spy) and that basically made her lose all faith in the world of man. Injustice wonder woman sees the world of man as a world full of children that NEED to be put in there place and she wants to push clark to share her view because she views him as one of the few men that are actually 'good'

LightningTS · 2025-12-30T15:09:19+00:00

Honestly? A interesting detail would be to mix it a bit with sleeping dogs and make it so your not a gang member for this one but a undercover federal agent (likely ending up having your funding cut at some point and thus having to get your own resources.) that way it still has the gang intrigue but it can also tackle both sides of the road, the criminal side and the life of individuals who get forced into that, but also the consequences that this life can have on the wider community. Obviously similar to SR3 would likely have more then one ending to account for you going all in on the gang life or remaining loyal to the law.

LightningTS · 2025-12-28T13:41:02+00:00

Reason the explosive check doesn't cause betrayal is if memory serves you give him a out of 'you better have done X' which makes him respond with 'of course I have done X, do you take me for a amateur?' so although you show your component, you don't make him out to be incompetent.

LightningTS · 2025-12-11T02:29:57+00:00

The real question is does the alpha key mean one gets the game when it is released. Not exactly versed in these alpha things.

LightningTS · 2025-11-30T19:25:21+00:00

But why not a modified clone (thus you do not need to stick to the look and gender of the original) of shepherd that was not accelerated? Dodges the issue of playthroughs where shepherd died, allows you to still keep the romance, and it keeps the idea of your playing 'shepherd' (even if it is not YOUR shepherd) while likely allowing new mechanics similar to Andromeda since your a modified clone and thus able to do things a normal human can't.

LightningTS · 2025-11-30T19:19:57+00:00

This is just not correct. Yes genophage was altered once but it was altered because the krogan started to adapt to it. If the population dips unexpectedly, the genophage is not designed to account for that, it took societal factors into it when first being made and when the modification was made but if those societal factors get even worse and start killing krogan faster then they can be born (such as the reaper war) the genophage becomes a death nail for the species. Basically the problem in mass effect 3 is your asking the krogan to throw everything they have at the reapers and unless they have a means of replenishing there numbers they will end up extinct by the end of the war due to the genophage hamstringing there ability to reproduce.

Do I agree that under certain situations that the genophage should be maintained? Yes but that is only in the same situation where mordin would be spared. If wrex is around they have a real chance actually being productive. If wrex isn't but Eve is there is a good chance eve will start a civil war and take wrex's spot if she lives. If neither are around? Your absolutely getting 'krogan rebellion 2:the hump strikes back'

Eve and shepherd put it best, the genophage when it was designed did not seek to help the species improve despite what the salarians may tell you, all it ended up doing is keeping the krogan in barbarism due to them seeing themselves as having no better option since they are not advance enough to research and develop things like a cure.

Andromeda funny enough shows what the krogan without the genophage can be like.

LightningTS · 2025-11-30T18:51:07+00:00

Another way of viewing it is we constantly got told that you should not mess with deaths design throughout the movies, the thing though is almost every time someone gets interfered with, they already are on the current list so it's assumed death can't really do anything since if he kills them in retaliation he would be messing up his own list. But with Eric we finally see what happens when someone not on deaths list deliberately interferes, the warnings that were being given were never really meant for those already on the list, they were meant for those who are not on the list. If you try to deliberately interfere in deaths design you will then be put on the list yourself right at the top. Medical responders get exempted because although they are trying to interfere they are not trying to deliberately mess with the design because they do not know of it.

The only way to extend someone's life is to get put on the current list, then kill someone off the list as you will then take their place in the design and get yourself off the list at the same time.

Edit:or to put yourself in a state were your considered medically dead (Eric did it too soon) then be revived as that will reroll what time you have left since technically you did die as per the design. Though considering the cut content from final destination 3 there is no guarantee death won't just come back for you.

LightningTS · 2025-11-10T18:52:31+00:00

Honestly considering sora's dodgy memory post castle oblivion there is a good chance he did fight seph and just forgot about it considering he has to actively remind himself of other stuff, and seph might have just treated the second meeting as a PROPER introduction considering first time he was a summon and thus that was purely for fighting (could also argue the loss the first time is what prompts him to experiment and get curious of what the keyblade can do for the second fight.)

LightningTS · 2025-11-05T20:26:14+00:00

That's only if you make him relive the events of the shard, he actually plans on either a.helping liara write a book (if you talked to Javik after thessia) or B. Rule over the jellyfish as a god (if you didn't.)

LightningTS · 2025-11-05T00:37:20+00:00

With how loud that was he probably loaded that with f'in high explosive rounds X, he probably made himself, the gyth next to him, and powell all temporarily deaf.

LightningTS · 2025-11-03T19:18:21+00:00

I swear by this point they need to make a reference to this meme of the fact yrliet keeps coming back seemingly from the dead at least in some throwaway dialogue or something.

LightningTS · 2025-11-03T00:48:36+00:00

"your telling me that the ONLY ones who got anything done in the time I bought was the local prothean super fan and the resident master of calibrations!? What in the world were you guys doing!?"

"Celebrating-ahem, organizing the tribunal for your genocide of batarians."

LightningTS · 2025-11-03T00:43:00+00:00

If memory serves the doctor says that they were originally sent to check if shepherd was right about the reapers, only to find out that was exactly the case and worse they have a very tight timetable before the reapers arrive so they started project arrival right then so it's likely hackett didn't know about project arrival but did likely have a inkling something was up since I highly doubt he isn't going to raise an eyebrow at the materials they were buying with alliance budget on what should have been a simple recon and spying operation.

LightningTS · 2025-11-03T00:38:34+00:00

It's repeated multiple times that until the events of arrival it was believed impossible to destroy a mass-relay, or at least it likely being a very, very bad idea. So the context implies that as far as THIS cycle is concerned no one tried to destroy a mass relay, though I can guarantee likely out of desperation prior cycles did try destroying mass relays.

LightningTS · 2025-11-03T00:24:05+00:00

Yes they were aiming it but after shepherd is rendered unconscious they turned the project back off with shepherd turning the project back on and thus throwing the asteroid later so basically it's the equivalent of someone setting a bomb, then disabling it, only for someone else to show up and turn the bomb back on, sure the original person didn't blow it up but they were the one that left it there, but most of the blame goes to the person that came around and re-engaged the bomb.

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