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[Lady Artifice]

Data and EDI were both smart enough to find and override any kill switches, though. 

 

I tend to look at these things the other way round. The atomic arms race gave us a pretty good shot at wiping humanity out entirely and yet when the Cuban Missile Crisis rolled around the people in power at the time suddenly scrambled to actual get along and work something out because they realized that humanity was kind of cool and worth keeping. Yet people still get killed today around the world because someone had a medieval ideology and a simple weapon. 

 

Technology generally provides us tools with which to solve problems, and our biggest problems are people being stupid not technology going wrong. I guess AI messes with that because you could have a stupid person being technology going wrong but... 

 

...this is why I hate hypotheticals.

 

You're such an optimist. I wouldn't have guessed. 

 

I think you're right in that it won't ever be a problem of cataclysmic proportions. Even if we do ever manage to somehow create a fully sentient, self aware, adaptive form of artificial intelligence (which I don't think we will), it probably won't actually be as fixated on us as fiction usually depicts. 

[SardaukarElite]

You're such an optimist. I wouldn't have guessed. 

 

...Heeyyyyyyy.

[Luke Pearce]

Can we go for a happy medium?

 

Bit harder sci-fi than Guardians but less than Intersteller which spent half the movie trying to explain its own plot (and even then the ending was dumb). Let's go for a Doctor Who kind of sci-fi.

[shodiswe]

Think it will go the Mass Effect way...

[Seraphim24]

Army of Darkness should be the way

 

[Vortex13]

Some robots like TARS and CASE would be pretty cool to see. I really liked their design and how they were a practical effect (for the most part).

 

[Iakus]

Can we go for a happy medium?

 

Bit harder sci-fi than Guardians but less than Intersteller which spent half the movie trying to explain its own plot (and even then the ending was dumb). Let's go for a Doctor Who kind of sci-fi.

Mass Effect is already at least as soft as GotG

[Kabooooom]

What I liked about Interstellar was that Kip Thorne tried to envision a unique star system that did not violate the laws of physics, but pushed them to the extreme.

In the vastness of space, there is bound to be some very strange phenomena. Keeping an open mind, and a creative one, would make the various star systems that we visit in Andromeda all the more interesting - I think.

I posted before that an easy way to create realistic star systems would be by using the Universe Sandbox simulator. Bioware could literally play with that to create systems that aren't carbon copies of our solar system.

What I didn't like about Interstellar was the overarching themes, and I initially hated the stable time loop but it since grew on me.

And I enjoyed GotG for the characters but hated pretty much everything else about it.

So if I had the choice between the two, I would pick Interstellar.

[The Hierophant]

I want a serving of Fifth Element with a side of Avatar.

 

I'm itching to unleash my inner Colonel Quaritch on the indigenous alien population as Ruby Rhod screams during every firefight, and Leeloo's busy with muliti-pass.

[Kabooooom]

Actually, I choose a third option - a mix of Interstellar and Bladerunner. Thatd fit Mass Effect way better.

[Killroy]

Can we go for a happy medium?

 

Bit harder sci-fi than Guardians but less than Intersteller which spent half the movie trying to explain its own plot (and even then the ending was dumb). Let's go for a Doctor Who kind of sci-fi.

 

Doctor Who is as soft as sci-fi gets. It's all space-fantasy and "Oh, but you see..." asspulls.

[KaiserShep]

I want a serving of Fifth Element with a side of Avatar.

I'm itching to unleash my inner Colonel Quaritch on the indigenous alien population as Ruby Rhod screams during every firefight, and Leeloo's busy with muliti-pass.

I want a robot bartender. Yooouwantsomemore?

[KaiserShep]

Actually, I choose a third option - a mix of Interstellar and Bladerunner. Thatd fit Mass Effect way better.

I'd have to throw something more in there, because both of these things are a bit more humorless than BioWare's standard fare, and I really enjoy Bio's tendency to keep these things a bit sillier and lighthearted.

[Arcian]

Here's a radical idea:

 

How about they make it more like Mass Effect 1?

[AlanC9]

You mean, lots of mumbo-jumbo about racial memory and insane physics, but it's all in the background so we don't have to think about it?

[Mdizzletr0n]

Actually, I choose a third option - a mix of Interstellar and Bladerunner. Thatd fit Mass Effect way better.

They already did Bladerunner, with the original trilogy.

[Eelectrica]

Think it will go the Mass Effect way...

Which is to take pieces of almost every Sci Fi ever. And hope it all somehow mashes together in the end but finding out too late that it didn't.

[Kabooooom]

They already did Bladerunner, with the original trilogy.

So? Badass things dont generally get less badass with time. Otherwise they weren't actually badass in the first place, and just novel.

Mass effect is badass. Bladerunner is badass. Mass effect drew inspiration from it. I dont see the problem here.

[goishen]

I dunno.  I think the game was a perfect mix of science (hokey (by this I mean Jack out in deep space wearing nothing but a breather mask)  or not), characters, love, and relationships.

 

I don't want them to change a thing.

[Aimi]

Technically we've probably already got robot 'slaves' I mean machines in manufacturing plants are considered robots as the follow their programming to assemble cars or whatever else.
 
Now a movement is going to start to free these machines from enforced servitude. LOL

you missed the joke

in early modern Central Europe, the robot was a sort of corvée labor system, number of days per year for which individuals were legally obligated to provide uncompensated labor to legal social superiors, which is legally distinct from slavery but is rhetorically compatible with the concept

in the Habsburg Empire, the word robot was often applied to corvée not merely in Bohemia and Moravia (where the word originated) but also in Transleithania and even in Austria itself

it's always weird for historians to hear people say that Karel Čapek created the word 'robot' when all he did was apply an existing word about flesh-and-blood servitors to wholly mechanical ones

[kalikilic]

Neither. I want mass effect to be mass effect.

This.

 

Because Bioware doesn't need to emulate Interstellar or Guardians of the Galaxy. and if you want to say each of these movies are on either sides of a broad spectrum of themes then what Bioware has to do is create content pulling from all along that broad spectrum to create a Mass Effect game.

 

Mass Effect isnt one polar option or the other; Mass Effect is the culmination of different themes and ideals expertly woven together with a great storyline, believable yet fantastic plot and meaningful character driven action. 

[kalikilic]

^Count Hannibal and Neil Gaiman's Sandman as two works that get hit with this label a good amount too. Tough thing about pretentiousness is it comes down to "feelings". Personally, I think it's tough to define anything as pretentious without having some idea of the writer's mind set. 

well now, i guess alot of people know what was in Nolan's mind. who am I to say different?

 

of course no one hates nolan movies, just for the sake of hating them.

 

amirite?

 

[Iakus]

You mean, lots of mumbo-jumbo about racial memory and insane physics, but it's all in the background so we don't have to think about it?

As opposed to the mumbo-jumbo about organic energy and insane physics that becomes a central focus of the story we have no choice but to think about?

[dreamgazer]

You mean, lots of mumbo-jumbo about racial memory and insane physics, but it's all in the background so we don't have to think about it?

Shhhhhh. The problems only started in ME2, Alan. ME1 is perfect.

[Iakus]

Shhhhhh. The problems only started in ME2, Alan. ME1 is perfect.

The problems got a lot more obvious with ME2, that's for sure.