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[CrutchCricket]

Good thing that Shepard is female then? I think Liara would need to mind-meld for that, and a dead Shepard would not have a working mind, but a living Shepard would be strong-willed enough to resist. All right, my FemShep is saved!

 

But now the already paranoid MaleShep I was eventually going to play next will never want to be imported into ME3. Liara already tried to ninjamance him in ME1. 

 

Don't be confused by my disinterest in accounting for femShep in my replies. Liara wants all the Shepards. And as Bioware has decreed, what Liara wants, Liara gets.

 

She's pretty much the ME hypnotoad dude.

[The Sarendoctrinator]

Don't be confused by my disinterest in accounting for femShep in my replies. Liara wants all the Shepards. And as Bioware has decreed, what Liara wants, Liara gets.

 

She's pretty much the ME hypnotoad dude.

 

It's enough to make Shepard seriously consider the Control ending. 

 

Shepard: She'll never take me alive... or dead! I'll be safe inside this Reaper shell forever, and ever, and ever. 

 

I don't actually play through the endings though, so it would be more accurate to say they're "safe" inside that room with Anderson and TIM forever. 

[CrutchCricket]

I don't actually play through the endings though, so it would be more accurate to say they're "safe" inside that room with Anderson and TIM forever. 

 

lol do you Alt-F4 after Anderson dies?

 

I respect that. Having no ending > "art".

[The Sarendoctrinator]

lol do you Alt-F4 after Anderson dies?

 

I respect that. Having no ending > "art".

 

I play on consoles, so I have to protect my Shepards the old fashioned way - by taking the disc out of my Xbox. 

[Sir DeLoria]

Dead or alive.....we'll bang okay?
 

I'd buy that for a credit!

[congokong]

Who's going to pay for it? The Alliance would just give Shepard a televised funeral to boost recruiting. And what you're asking also assume Miranda survives ME3. She needs 9 lives or the art of meta-gaming to usually pull that off.

[Nightwriter]

Who's going to pay for it? The Alliance would just give Shepard a televised funeral to boost recruiting. And what you're asking also assume Miranda survives ME3. She needs 9 lives or the art of meta-gaming to usually pull that off.

 

The game wanted her to die so bad.

 

So bad.

[congokong]

The game wanted her to die so bad.

 

So bad.

I became convinced of that when merely breaking up with her gives her a death sentence.

[BioWareM0d13]

The game wanted her to die so bad.

 

So bad.

 

If you wear a cat suit into battle you probably deserve to die. The Darwin Award will look lovely on Orianna's shelf.

[CrutchCricket]

If you wear a cat suit into battle you probably deserve to die. The Darwin Award will look lovely on Orianna's shelf.

 

Mass Effect fields.

[N0rke]

I like to think it's because Shepard got a restraining order for Liara and attached it to his will.

[SHEPARD 38]

Miranda dislikes this thread.

[Nightwriter]

If you wear a cat suit into battle you probably deserve to die. The Darwin Award will look lovely on Orianna's shelf.

 

Remember when Casey Hudson tried to justify the catsuit by saying Miranda was supposed to be a "femme fatale" who used her looks to manipulate people? Lulz.

 

I was like "Oh yeah! Like that time when she uses her body to get useful results in that mission with OH WAIT NEVER."

[Bob from Accounting]

Remember when Casey Hudson tried to justify the catsuit by saying Miranda was supposed to be a "femme fatale" who used her looks to manipulate people? Lulz.

 

I was like "Oh yeah! Like that time when she uses her body to get useful results in that mission with OH WAIT NEVER."

This seems like a bit of a silly comment.

 

Is Miranda somehow the first person in fiction to dress in a way that demonstrates her character instead of what might be strictly practical during combat?

 

I'm thinking to myself the list of characters in non-military fiction I can think of that dress strictly in the most practical clothing possible during combat. It's a short list.

[von uber]

Miranda's outfit and associated arse shots is more of a function of how female characters are portrayed in general in computer games.

[Bob from Accounting]

Is that right? And how is that?

[MassivelyEffective0730]

Remember when Casey Hudson tried to justify the catsuit by saying Miranda was supposed to be a "femme fatale" who used her looks to manipulate people? Lulz.

 

I was like "Oh yeah! Like that time when she uses her body to get useful results in that mission with OH WAIT NEVER."

 

To be honest, as a combat veteran myself, I wouldn't want to be wearing something bigger and bulkier for the kinds of missions that Miranda typically performs. I'd want to be wearing something that gives me maximum ease of mobility and agility, and in the kind of area's that she typically operates in, bulkier armor would slow me down and be largely redundant. It would present me as a greater size target that is much slower, and and isn't as agile or mobile. And at those ranges, one hit from a gunshot would still knock me on the ground, no matter the body armor. It won't kill me, but you're still getting hit by a small projectile traveling at hyper-sonic velocity and the impact of the round is going to knock you down. And in close quarters, that'd be fatal, since it gives them time to come even closer and finish me off. I'd rather dispense with the armor, keep my mass smaller and lighter, have higher agility and speed and freedom of movement, and rely on my kinetic barriers.

 

She's not an infantry combatant, she's an operative and field agent, possibly a spy. She'd be better served by inbuilt kinetic barriers on her uniform, since they're more appropriate for her types of missions. So I'm fine with the catsuit, and I will defend it in certain contexts.

 

Now when it comes to vacuum or toxic environments, simply put, yeah its impractical and downright impossible in some cases. But that's what the heavier armor is for, and Miranda can wear it when she needs to.

[MassivelyEffective0730]

This seems like a bit of a silly comment.

 

Is Miranda somehow the first person in fiction to dress in a way that demonstrates her character instead of what might be strictly practical during combat?

 

I'm thinking to myself the list of characters in non-military fiction I can think of that dress strictly in the most practical clothing possible during combat. It's a short list.

 

Wow, you just completely undercut what I was saying. Brilliant job David.

[Nightwriter]

To be honest, as a combat veteran myself, I wouldn't want to be wearing something bigger and bulkier for the kinds of missions that Miranda typically performs. I'd want to be wearing something that gives me maximum ease of mobility and agility, and in the kind of area's that she typically operates in, bulkier armor would slow me down and be largely redundant. It would present me as a greater size target that is much slower, and and isn't as agile or mobile. And at those ranges, one hit from a gunshot would still knock me on the ground, no matter the body armor. It won't kill me, but you're still getting hit by a small projectile traveling at hyper-sonic velocity and the impact of the round is going to knock you down. And in close quarters, that'd be fatal, since it gives them time to come even closer and finish me off. I'd rather dispense with the armor, keep my mass smaller and lighter, have higher agility and speed and freedom of movement, and rely on my kinetic barriers.

 

She's not an infantry combatant, she's an operative and field agent, possibly a spy. She'd be better served by inbuilt kinetic barriers on her uniform, since they're more appropriate for her types of missions. So I'm fine with the catsuit, and I will defend it in certain contexts.

 

Now when it comes to vacuum or toxic environments, simply put, yeah its impractical and downright impossible in some cases. But that's what the heavier armor is for, and Miranda can wear it when she needs to.

 

There is a difference between practical mobility and skimpy catsuit.

 

The first is her DLC outfit. The second is her default outfit.

[Nightwriter]

This seems like a bit of a silly comment.

 

Is Miranda somehow the first person in fiction to dress in a way that demonstrates her character instead of what might be strictly practical during combat?

 

I'm thinking to myself the list of characters in non-military fiction I can think of that dress strictly in the most practical clothing possible during combat. It's a short list.

 

Hey that's true. I had forgotten we can't criticize a problem if it also occurs elsewhere. Good catch man.

[MassivelyEffective0730]

There is a difference between practical mobility and skimpy catsuit.

 

The first is her DLC outfit. The second is her default outfit.

 

I'll be honest, I really don't mind the catsuit concept. In this case, I'll say that it is stylistic, if a bit impractical, but I can handwaive it with mass effect fields providing extra-mobility, combined with reliance on kinetic barriers. Otherwise, it does follow the basic parameters of what I'm saying. Minus the high heels, I'd rather be fighting in CQC with a black turtleneck and trousers than in my Interceptor Body Armor with full Sapi plates and ASU underneath.

[CrutchCricket]

This seems like a bit of a silly comment.

 

Is Miranda somehow the first person in fiction to dress in a way that demonstrates her character instead of what might be strictly practical during combat?

 

Did you just say appearance=characterization?

 

Your mask of lies is cracking... David.

[Bob from Accounting]

That's not obvious? That appearance is a great indicator of character in fiction?

[Nightwriter]

I'll be honest, I really don't mind the catsuit concept. In this case, I'll say that it is stylistic, if a bit impractical, but I can handwaive it with mass effect fields providing extra-mobility, combined with reliance on kinetic barriers. Otherwise, it does follow the basic parameters of what I'm saying. Minus the high heels, I'd rather be fighting in CQC with a black turtleneck and trousers than in my Interceptor Body Armor with full Sapi plates and ASU underneath.

 

I actually like the white/black design, just not the skintight, liquid latex, "God that looks like a painful wedgie, Miranda," ass-in-your-face-look-at-the-ass-look-look, mysteriously vacuum-safe... stuff. Thingies.