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[Hi Tehk]

MassEffect762 wrote...

First thing I'd do is try and lick them all over and in between....mmm

LOL.

;D oh yeah...

[Mykel54]

Their function is to make asari more visually attractive to the player. If the asari were bald, they would be a lot less atractive, just look at Jack and how many people don´t like her look. I don´t think they have any other purpose than being the equivalent of hair, otherwise it would have been explained in more detail.

[Kid_SixXx]

Here is the reason that Asari have tentacles on their heads:



We are sci-fi nerds with the Captain Kirk complex. 

We don't care if it is head tentacles or green pigmentation, we will still ask them if they want to go out with us to have dinner at The Sizzler.

Modifié par Kid_SixXx, 04 août 2010 - 04:10 .

[Raizo]

It's funny how the Asari have this reputation for thier sexuality and how every single race in the ME Universe is obsessed with chasing after some Asari "tail" and yet with the excpetion of Aria I have yet to see a single Asari that I think passes for attractive. It's not the blue skin that bothers me, I don't mind that, it's the stupid "tentacles" on the thier heads.

[tonnactus]

What is the funtion of human hair?

[tonnactus]

bottledwater wrote...
 the asari are just stupid, aliens who look exactly like humans but with blue skin and tentacles? COME ON.

They could be an artifical race.The ability to mate with every race and that every asari has biotics...

This is not random.

[Siansonea]

I've always thought that asari head tentacles had something to do with generating biotic fields. They are directly adjacent to the brain, and their structure seems very 'intentional'. Perhaps they are a sense organ that detects and manipulates dark energy.

[brfritos]

tonnactus wrote...

What is the funtion of human hair?

Protect the major human sense organs and helps maintain internal temperature regulated.

[joriandrake]

the tentacles hide the real asari face on the backside of their head, they look in reality something like an illithid

[The Unfallen]

It is funny how many people find Aria attractive, I honestly... just... ew.

[Mondo47]

Since asari all have this ability to "touch" minds and nervous systems via the Joining, part of me has always wondered if, back in the prehistory of the asari, the tentacles formed a more practical part of the mating process and the asari would clasp one another's heads in some back-to-back seated (a'la tantra) position... over the eons the tentacles shrank as the ability no longer required prolonged contact of the crainium and could simply be done via skin-contact, and eventually as a projectable "force" no longer requiring any form of dermal conductivity of neuro-electrical impulses.

[joriandrake]

tentacles may not be used now because they stepped over it during evolution but their very existence points to asari having a weird way to consume food, or something similar, in the end it may be likely that they really have/had two faces on their head at one time, imagine all those tentacles open and you see lots of razor sharp teeth or something similar, quite the shock considering how different they normally look yes?

[tmk]

It wouldn't make much sense to have teeth on the back of your head where skull joins the spine. Eyes on the back of your head aren't much useful either.

Modifié par tmk, 05 août 2010 - 03:51 .

[joriandrake]

tmk wrote...

It wouldn't make much sense to have teeth on the back of your head where skull joins the spine. Eyes on the back of your head aren't much useful either.

We talk here about alien anatomy, "sense" is probably not the same for them as for you

[tmk]

Anatomy ends up what it is due to this process called evolution. It's not exactly intelligent, but it does tend to weed out downright ridiculous variants relatively well.



Unless of course you believe that anatomy is decided by some sort of god entity, then there's little point in trying to prove anything to you.

[joriandrake]

tmk wrote...

Anatomy ends up what it is due to this process called evolution. It's not exactly intelligent, but it does tend to weed out downright ridiculous variants relatively well.

Unless of course you believe that anatomy is decided by some sort of god entity, then there's little point in trying to prove anything to you.

humans have remnants of "hands" on their feet and a tail, it is obvious that if asari have tentacles on thei head there has to be a reason for it, that is, if one tries to reason and argue about a sci-fi, non-existing race

[Zatwu]

To keep their heads warm?

[tmk]

joriandrake wrote...
humans have remnants of "hands" on their feet and a tail, it is obvious that if asari have tentacles on thei head there has to be a reason for it, that is, if one tries to reason and argue about a sci-fi, non-existing race

Yea, but it's a bit of a stretch to say those "tentacles" indicate that the asari have second faces on the back of their heads.

[Matroska]

bottledwater wrote...

mass effect aliens are one major shortcoming imo. the hanar are an abomination to all that is scientific in nature, and the elcor could not have possibly developed intelligence without being able to use tools (the whole walking on all fours kinda gets in the way of holding stuff). the asari are just stupid, aliens who look exactly like humans but with blue skin and tentacles? COME ON.

To be fair, the "looks exacfly like a human but with some minor, superficial alteration" is an absolute standard of most sci-fi, at least American sci-fi such as Star Trek and its ilk. Star Wars often has pretty varied aliens but even then you have twi'leks who are the same deal as asari.

[Matroska]

tmk wrote...

Anatomy ends up what it is due to this process called evolution. It's not exactly intelligent, but it does tend to weed out downright ridiculous variants relatively well.

Unless of course you believe that anatomy is decided by some sort of god entity, then there's little point in trying to prove anything to you.

Agreed, other than to say that it's not that evolution weeds out "ridiculous" variants, it only weeds out things that are significantly detrimental. Evolution has no problem with things being pointless as long as it doesn't hold back the creature in a dangerous way. A creature wouldn't die just because it's a silly colour but it might die if that silly colour makes it incredibly obvious to predators in the environment it's in.

That said, if a trait isn't particular beneficial then enough creatures without it will survive and that trait may very well get bred out of the species. So it is technically possible asari may just totally randomly have a head like that, but unless it served some sort of purpose that gave people in possession of it a huge advantage, it'd just get bred out again.

[Zebron is reaL]

I always assumed that they were vestigial structures. They may have served some purpose way back in asari evolution but after a time they became useless and they are only still on asari as something cosmetic. I think if the series jumped ahead a few billion years the asari wouldn't even have them anymore.



as for how bendy/squishy they are, I haven't put a thought into it but there are some good ideas up already

[Khirzask]

thegreateski wrote...

I lol'd. And it reminded me of:
www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml

Modifié par Khirzask, 07 août 2010 - 12:31 .

[Matroska]

@Zebron: Yeah, kind of like how the cook on the Normandy (ME2) says that it seems kind of "cannibalistic" for the asari to eat squid.

Modifié par Teclo, 07 août 2010 - 12:49 .

[Hyper Cutter]

Symji wrote...

/threadjack

The thing that really bothers me is the Hanar. Sure, the Protheans gave them language and whatnot, but what they did NOT give them, and what they lack even now, is the ability to manipulate tools. For this reason, the Hanar would NEVER have become a technological civilization. They would have been stuck in the hunter/gatherer phase forever. Now hold on you say, the protheans could have given them advanced tools to skip them past that stage. Not so, if they had, then the Hanar would have been wiped out by the reapers right along with the protheans. The ability to create and use tools is the number one prerequisite for technological progression, even more important than intelligence. It doesn't matter how smart you are, if you can't hold a tool there's only so far you can go.

PS: I realize the hanar can use simple tools by wrapping their tentacles around them, but unless they have some heretofore unmentioned anatomical parts within those tentacles, they simply don't have the ability to manipulate the fine tools needed for advanced technology.

PSS: Or maybe the Hanar just make everything gigantic, you never know.

According to the wiki, hanar tentacles have "fingers" at the ends. And according to Thane, their grip is quite powerful (Zaeed also, iirc, relates a story to you about nearly getting strangled by one)...

I stand by my idea, that they're the vestigial remnant of functional tentacles possessed by something in their evolutionary history (and probably other extant Thessian species). Perhaps the first vertebrate on Thessia to colonize the land had them, or the first member of whatever group is to the asari what mammals are to us...

[Canned Bullets]

@wizardryforever



Hanar move around out of water by hovering with biotic amplifiers or something like that.