adam_grif wrote...
"Stupid" reasons? On what basis are you declaring them stupid?
On the basis that there is no real reason for decreeing them as wrong beyond the fact that the person says they are. There's nothing inherently wrong or impossible about a synthetic life form based on human DNA
looking like a human nor is there anything particularly crazy about a species that evolved from a similar primate-like species looking similar to us, barring the obvious monogendered nature (which, by the way, they'd have to appear female to our eyes as they physically wouldn't be able to reproduce otherwise).
I'm not saying that the person somehow *has to* find them completely acceptable, but we're discussing stuff that has such a catastrophic impact on their 'SoD' as you call it that it throws them out of the game. If you're honestly seeing that affect just because you come across an alien that looks like a blue woman with tentacles on their head then, ultimately, it becomes a question of whether your reaction is reasonable. It's not like you get attacked by a bloomin' Orc wielding a sword and shield or face a bunch of 1920s era gangsters.
They are so human that they wore human armor in ME1. Their body shape and portions are exactly that of modern, human, attractive, western females. Even our own human ancestors in the very recent evolutionary past looked less like humans than Asari did. No pallet swap changes this fact.
This is patently absurd logic. There is no such thing as an 'exact' body shape and portion of any group of people across the entire damn world - it's total nonsense. They happen to be similar enough to fit into armour designed to fit females
of the entire bloody human species, that's all. Assuming they evolved from a similar creature to us (i.e. a mammalian, primate-like creature on a planet similar to ours), the idea that they're roughly similar to us in terms of body shape isn't
that hard to accept. Hell, the similarities between human and squid eyes are startling, despite the fact that the two species are virtual polar opposites - and that's just on our own planet, and more imprortantly, non-fiction.
Or maybe they're complaining because it is a GIANT HUMANOID ROBOT when Reapers are STARSHIPS.
Actually, Reapers are synthetic life forms. That's all. The fact that you've decided a starship has to look like something that isn't humanoid is your own problem, and not something the story has to cater for. It's made blatantly clear why it looks humanoid.
Have you actually considered where your logic is going, here? That it's gotten so silly that you're content for a starship to look like a giant squid, but you draw the line at it looking like a giant human? And you expect reasoning such as this to be taken seriously?
See, I think those are less bad than thige things you are complaining about people complaining about. Because Jack's bulletproof nipples I can always just imagine away as "oh she never 'really' got hit!" I can recognize that its some sort of gameplay conceit in most cases, or a bug or a programming oversight that I can realize isn't canonical. Shepard can't really drink through his helmet, it's just a minor design oversight. Big deal.
Oh, yeah, you have a problem with the idea of an alien looking a certain way, but when liquid magically phases through solid matter you call it an 'oversight'? So if Darth Vader suddenly walked into a bar and through a drink into his own masked face, you'd ignore it? Give me a break. As for Jack's nipple-straps - it isn't even clear that kind of thing would physically work let alone be an actual realistic choice. It may fit into something like the 5th element, but no-one else in the entire game barring strippers wears stuff like that. I can fully understand someone questioning them on a supposed criminal.
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