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[MassivelyEffective0730]

10% of Earth's population in ME3 is something like 1.1. billion people.

 

That actually might be about right.

 

I was protesting the improper use of the word more than anything. 

[von uber]

Funnily enough I'd be able to see the beam location from our lounge window, It's about 2 miles away.

[Ryuzetsu]

The Southern U.S. would do well during a reaper invasion because the never would have let anyone take away their ME1 guns, so no ammo shortages. Plus guerrilla warfare comes natural to us. Now this is not a slam to anyone else or some kind of chest thump, I just know that we would fair well. Plus not a lot to destroy down here.

[SwobyJ]

You would all die. They're Reapers. Even Shepard cannot handle one without a mother thresher maw/quarian fleet/sustained support, and the victory on Palaven was of much different scale and also short lived.

 

You'd probably have more surviving small resistance groups for a while though. I think that could happen.

[Derpy]

I am going to make a Fallout style vault and hide while you guys all get harvested by reapurz.

[Steelcan]

Yeah, the South would be left alone entirely. Hopefully, the 2nd Amendment wouldn't exist in 2186, but otherwise, the Reapers would believe the people of the South to be an underdeveloped species that hasn't evolved yet.

 

hey now...

[justafan]

I've lived in the midwest. It's really not as back-asswards as many on the coasts seem to believe. There's electricity, smart phones, cable/satellite TV, Internet, indoor plumbing, all the fixtures at a fraction of the cost of living.

I remember Allers had another blurb suggesting that just about everyone in the highly-rural Taiga region was harvested. We're talking about a widely-dispersed population. I don't think they ever explained how exactly the Reapers managed that, or put much thought into how they could manage that.

 

I meant no disrespect to the midwest, I actually grew up next to a farm myself, and am aware phone service, internet access, and all other creature comforts are pretty ubiquitous these days.  All I was trying to say was that in driving through this vast country I have passed homesteads straight out of the Courage the Cowardly Dog, and there are only so many reapers that a farmer miles upon miles from the nearest population center is probably OK in the short term during a planetary invasion.

[SwobyJ]

One Banshee would rip apart any gun owner I know in seconds.

 

We could survive against Husks, Cannibals, and Marauders. Sure. But they're like the more disposable of the troops anyway, with 1000s more just sitting behind them.

[Eterna]

I live in Vancouver. So I'm pretty fucked. 

[Bob from Accounting]

Also, something here that's been bothering me: If you think you're city or town got 'decimated', you got off very lucky.

 

Decimation is to reduce by a tenth. Whenever you say something got decimated, you're saying that ten percent was destroyed. 

 

The human race got decimated: Ten percent of the human race was destroyed. Ninety person are fine.

 

Just a pet peeve of mine.

 

Wrong.

 

That's the historical definition. But that's entirely irrelevant, since we all know words change over time.

 

Any modern dictionary will acknowledge that as least one definition of 'decimate' is to reduce or destroy drastically. And so long as that one definition is there, that common usage of 'decimate' is completely correct.

[shodiswe]

Sweden, as a non militaristic country far to the north I doubt it would be a huge priority to pacify.

Sweden has pretty much avoided two worldwars by being at the periphery and avoided confrontation. The Reapers would likely go for other more militaristic countries first.... Unless the industry and being one of the larger weaponsexporters in the world would attract their attention...

Industry and the weapons manufacturing and export might draw some attention.. who knows... Or maybe Sweden got away with it by not beign the largest, and the large swedish arms factories were produsing weapons and making a killing distributing weapons and collecting warprofit.

It wouldn't surprise me if the Cobra missilelauncer used in multiplayer, which you can also fnd a variant of in Singleplayer all over the galaxy, turned out to be a swedish made weapon, distributed by a company with it's history and headquarters in sweden. It reminds me of the most well known infantry antiarmor weapons in the world today.

Either the industry got targeted or they got out of it as one of the riches and least damaged nations in the world. That was the result of previous worldwars. Stalling threats would be a national skill, avoiding unavoidable wars and profiteerign from it seems to be another. Missinformation, shaking hands with one hand and backstabbing with the other.

Sweden could be the Surkesh of Earth. Seriously, salarians? Stop being amateurs!

But, really, a reaperwar suddenly required massive amounts of infantry antiarmor weapons, whoever owns patents and factories produsing those would have made lots of money. It's apparently a weapon made from a manufacturer in the Human Alliance, but we never learn "who" made them... Maybe they wanted to avoid the attention, which seems like a good idea if the Reapers are trying to track down industrial centeres and armsprodusers. The General design not visualy but the concept seems very swedish.

Either burnt to a crisp, or sneaky enough to get away with it while the Reapers are fighting others, and supplying the peopel fighting with weapons. Who in turn shut up because they need the supplies.

If the next game is set in a post Reaper era then the game could explore non-Shepard angles of the war.

In the mass effect trilogy it's all about Shepard, but to other people there was a lot of other things going on in the universe.

You even find those weapons with the same Alliance logos and design on Thessia and other weird places... Meaning it's a major manufacturer whose name we're never told. Advanced, portable, disposable.

Who ever prodused those things must have gotten rich, as soon as they got a batch to sell someone wants it, and people always wants more of them because they are disposable weapons and they have to buy new ones all the time.
Disposable "I win buttons".

[shodiswe]

Wrong.
 
That's the historical definition. But that's entirely irrelevant, since we all know words change over time.
 
Any modern dictionary will acknowledge that as least one definition of 'decimate' is to reduce or destroy drastically. And so long as that one definition is there, that common usage of 'decimate' is completely correct.

I agree, there is a difference between decimating your own or someone else decimating you.
The Romans used it as a punishment for people who broke down under preasure and failed their military commanders. Killing of one tenth.
But if you get completely wiped out or there are only a few survivors then you could be decimated, brought down to one tenth "loosely used".

Words can have more than one meaning, it's the context that makes the difference here. I keep seeing this on different forums and it all commes down to readingcomprehension.
Just because you know one possible meaning doesnt make it impossible that that same "word" can have a different meaning in a different circumstance.

There are even words that spells exactly the same but means completely different things depending on the context.

In swedish "sex" could be the number 6 or having something to do with sex.

"Gift" could mean Married, or could mean poison. Depeding on context.

There are plenty of english words like that aswell.

So if a swede gives you a bottle with the word "Gift" on it, the it might not mean Gift as in it's english meaning buth rather "poison" as in rat poison or something... It's crazy how words can have very different meaning.

[Farangbaa]

So if a swede gives you a bottle with the word "Gift" on it, the it might not mean Gift as in it's english meaning buth rather "poison" as in rat poison or something... It's crazy how words can have very different meaning.

 

The word '******'.

 

Which, somehow, over time, changed from being 'a bundle of sticks' into a derogatory word for homosexual.... but not before changing into a cigarette.

 

edit:

 

context should make clear what I tried to type there 

[shodiswe]

I know the US would put up a better fight than the Alliance did on the ground. We have leaders that know what there doing.

Sounds good, I'll sell you all the weapons you need to keep the Reapers occupied while I atempt to convince them I'm not there at all Then when shepard sets of the Crusible I can build a few more summercabins with differet focus for different cravings and a larger villa.
And the kids can go to school where they tell them about other people dying elsewhere!
And because we're experts at weapons we will provide weapons inspectors when needed!

[MassivelyEffective0730]

Wrong.

 

That's the historical definition. But that's entirely irrelevant, since we all know words change over time.

 

Any modern dictionary will acknowledge that as least one definition of 'decimate' is to reduce or destroy drastically. And so long as that one definition is there, that common usage of 'decimate' is completely correct.

 

Then it's not wrong if it's still the definition. I'm going to follow the U.S. Army's Regulation, which includes the word in terms to know in communication, defined exactly the way as I said it was. Reference: AR 25-50.

 

Otherwise, you're claiming I'm wrong and then affirming I'm right and launching into semantics.

[Catastrophy]

Actually, I do have a bigass poster of the Reapers landing in Cologne back from GamesCom before ME3 launched.

 

 

So yeah, there's that. Reapers don't like the Dome.

Damn them, this makes me ANGRY! They must be from Düsseldorf, I suppose!

[TheTurtle]

Also, something here that's been bothering me: If you think you're city or town got 'decimated', you got off very lucky.

Decimation is to reduce by a tenth. Whenever you say something got decimated, you're saying that ten percent was destroyed.

The human race got decimated: Ten percent of the human race was destroyed. Ninety person are fine.

Just a pet peeve of mine.

Eh what's it matter. The way I grew up learning and reading it the word has always been used as destroying a large part of something. Words meanings can often change from place to place. For example the word ‛chalked' literally means drew or wrote with chalk. The way it's used where I'm from it means forget it, its done I can't do anything about it (e.g . "That test was chalked")

[shodiswe]

A Nuclear explosion produces extreme heat. KBs don't stop heat or slow-moving particles. The heat would easily transfer through the air onto the Reaper. 

The temperature of the fireball goes from around 300,000 degrees Celsius at the epicenter to 6,000 degrees at the outer edge. Tungsten, which is the most heat-resistant metal in existence, has a melting point of around 3,400 degrees Celsius. 

The Reapers would melt. Why they don't just shoot nuclear warheads with those mass accelerators in space is beyond me. Sure, the kinetic impact of a dreadnought's main gun can equate to a 38 kiloton nuke when transferring it's kinetic energy into heat in atmosphere, but in a vacuum this wouldn't happen; a KB would absorb all the kinetic energy, so no extreme heat.

I have a feeling that the missiles wouldn't reach the Reapers, their point defence lasers or Occuli would slice them into pieces and then the debris would fall down fairly harmlessly.

 

The reapers were made in Leviathan's form. They may not have all their capabilities. Leviathan doesn't have the laser and they can't fly. We don't know the full capabilities of a reaper.

Correction, we havn't been told if leviathans can fly or not.
We havn't been told if they can or can't wear pointdefence bodyarmor.

[Farangbaa]

Correction, we havn't been told if leviathans can fly or not.

 

I don't have to be told that those things can't fly. Physics just won't allow them to fly.

 

Unless they have an eezo core... cause... physics.

[KaiserShep]

I live in NYC, so if it's not yet underwater by the 2180's, it's all a smoldering pile of rubble overrun with husks. I'm not sure what the rest of the country would even look like by then, but I imagine there would be a hell of a lot more cityscape than we have now.

[shodiswe]

I don't have to be told that those things can't fly. Physics just won't allow them to fly.
 
Unless they have an eezo core... cause... physics.

Asari can fly.... Why wouldn't the "Apex race" that enslaved the galaxy a billion years ago, who's still around and who cleary has plenty of freaky power not be able to fly?

Secondly.... If they can't fly, how coudl they then have been soptted in space, and killed a Reaper in space?

I would think that they can fly, and they might be able to use spaceship sized biotics....

They are the ridiculously overpowered Aliens that created the Reapers and they are still around to tell the story, and the Catalyst doesn't seem to be that interested in engaging them other than probing them from a distance.

Unless ofcourse they used a spacehip that looked like a seamonster and killed the Reaper with that thign instead...

Either they are "Giant telepathic Super squids" or they are Giant telepathic squids with deadly spaceships that kills Reapers.

[Derpy]

Well if anyone feels unsafe with the threat of reapurz, if you make 9 easy payments of $999.99 I can hook you up with a fancy high-tech vault that will protect you from everything from nuclear warfare to a reapurz invasion.

[TheTurtle]

Asari can fly.... Why wouldn't the "Apex race" that enslaved the galaxy a billion years ago, who's still around and who cleary has plenty of freaky power not be able to fly?

Secondly.... If they can't fly, how coudl they then have been soptted in space, and killed a Reaper in space?

I would think that they can fly, and they might be able to use spaceship sized biotics....

They are the ridiculously overpowered Aliens that created the Reapers and they are still around to tell the story, and the Catalyst doesn't seem to be that interested in engaging them other than probing them from a distance.

What?

[Derpy]

Asari do not have wings. That's birds and dragons.

[Stigweird85]

Well my hometown would probably be gone, as I believe that The Reapers attacked and detonated nuclear weapons and I live/work within range to the Faslane naval base which holds the UKs nuclear arsenal(although hopefully not for long)