2001? The monolith in the books was a pyramid. The monolith in the movies is the movie screen (rectangle). Kubrick is laughing at his audience, by saying that he is basically indoctrinating you.
If the monolith was a pyramid, why not call it a pyramid instead of calling it a monolith?
You might want to go back and read the book again.
2001? The monolith in the books was a pyramid. The monolith in the movies is the movie screen (rectangle)....
No it wasn't it was an obelisk, or obelisks depending on exactly which monolith you're referring to, differing sizes but all with the dimensional ratio of 1 : 4 : 9
I'm just going to assume the entirety of the OP is just as much of an asspull now.
If the monolith was a pyramid, why not call it a pyramid instead of calling it a monolith?
You might want to go back and read the book again.
Obelisk, pyramid. Both phallic symbols that mean the same thing and that is exactly what they represented in the books as well. Not the dimensions of a movie screen like in the movie. The entire series was just "esoteric" symbolism, masquerading as science.
Example.
http://2001.wikia.com/wiki/Lucifer
Also? I have no interest in rereading a series written by a pedophile occultist.
@DeathJester
You start a topic titled "Predicted Andromeda Plot" and go on a hate rant that doesn't address plot at all. Your rant (and replies to other members) is also borderline rude and certainly disrespectful not only of people who spend the time to make games that we all enjoy (regardless of what you may believe) but to other members here as well. If you are unable to have a critical opinion without backing it up and without bashing other members to do it then my suggestion to you is to... (meh... probably a waste of breath...)
Kabooooom nailed it!
Cool story, bro. Ur so smurt.
But yes, see you in a year. I'll still be here, enjoying Mass Effect. And you'll be...what, 14 years old, I'm guessing?
See you in a year when this is the plot.
You should have promoted Dombrow (Tuchanka) or Weekes (Rannoch) EA. Mac Walters...
I felt that like all of major points within the ME3 were somehow mediocre in comparison with any of the previous installments, even if I liked some of them - it didn´t work for me as with the any other previous games (I was missing those great parts like Harbinger, Sovereign, Saren, TIM ME2... conversations), but as you said that the last part was total f*ck up I totally agree with that. If you look on the DA:I it´s exactly where BioWare is probably heading, and that´s what bothers me most, plot that not just made some sense, but felt coherent is going away pushed behind a lot of phew phew and grind quests + character´s seg/gender issues. When I first heard about the DA:I and its goals, I was very impressed, especialy in way where they said that there will be parts in map that will include something with choices as much as new locations, but in the end they pariatly scraped that idea and went just with locations part. (if you remember part with burned villagers that was pressented at E3)
TL;DR: I am missing those great quests and sidequests that were filled with conversations and animations which helped add some value, instead of it we are getting more of fetchquests and other thíngs that I am not interested in the RPG fantasy/scifi game.
OP confirmed troll. Move along. Stop feeding the trolls.
Damnit! I want to post a crybaby gif, but don't know how! First time I have ever really wanted to post one. Crap!
Oh well...I guess I'll have to go back to chatting with more well-balanced folks. Or at least folks who can fake being well-balanced on the forums.
Oh...and I liked the ME series. Not a fan of snythesis either, but it is just an ending. Nothing to get distraught over...
EDIT - Yay! I did it! That was fun! 
lol I love the post! Especially the second part of it. 
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He even used cheap plot devices like "Geth have to die" to make you choose that option. The color scheme also pushed you towards synthesis.
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Interesting.
I keep choosing destroy for some reason... Perhaps my way of giving the Star Child the finger.
OP confirmed troll. Move along. Stop feeding the trolls.
But I wanted to talk about a trip to visit the great obelisks of Egypt.
Or maybe visit the pyramid in Paris.
OP confirmed troll. Move along. Stop feeding the trolls.
you are no fun.........
lol I love the post! Especially the second part of it.
yeah i know. so Nice Avatar picture.........
2001? The monolith in the books was a pyramid. The monolith in the movies is the movie screen (rectangle). Kubrick is laughing at his audience, by saying that he is basically indoctrinating you.
Matrix? Neo is at the end of the series. What are the oracle and the kid looking at? The sun. You will see references to Sol and the sun around Neo often in the trilogy.
Oh and most people disliked all the Matrix movies after 1, just like they disliked ME 3. Go ahead and try to argue with it's USER metacritic rating compared to ME 1 and ME 2). You would be arguing empirical evidence, but go for it. You can do the same thing with the Matrix movies after 1.
Casey Hudson produced solid gold until ME 3. Mac Walters was the problem. Funny that you bring up Matrix, when that movie was stolen from a female writer. Seems the Wachowski brothers also tried to fit a square peg into a round hole as the trilogy went on. It also failed.
Like the Wachowski brothers, I expect Walter's Andromeda to end up like Jupiter Ascending. Complete trash. Walters could not even continue solid gold (as far as gaming). You really expect him to be able to produce a great game in Casey Hudson's role, given the only solo lead writing project he has ever done was ME 3, and the only universally liked parts of the games were from other writers?
Good luck with that.
Dear OP/Troll Who Needs to Work on His Reading Comprehension Skills,
You might notice that I only said I was a fan of The Matrix - the first movie - and that I stated that I was meh on the rest of the films, implying that I was disappointed with the remainder of the trilogy. I also stated that the remaining films ended up going in a direction that I felt tilted towards religious mumbo-jumbo, which was not what ME3 did at all (hard sci-fi-style explanations might have been lacking, but man, at least there wasn't any of that heavily mystical crap a la Neo). I care not one single whit about Metacritic user ratings, but I am most definitely among the ranks of those people who thought the latter two Matrix films weren't that great. Therefore, I'm not sure what the hell your point was there. That I should go look at Metacritic and see other people who AGREE with me that the latter two Matrix films were meh?
Since you're a troll, OP, I guess I shouldn't have expected you to actually address my points about the differences between the respective films and ME3, OR the ending of the film version of 2001 versus the ending of the book version. As for the issue of the shape of the Monolith vis-a-vis the book and the film, so what? I'm aware that in the short story The Sentinel that it's specifically described as a tetrahedron (Clarke evidently wasn't a fan of people saying that this short story was the genesis of 2001, but still, it's the first story in which we see what people refer to as the Monolith) and that Kubrick decided to go with a rectangular form.
The fact that Kubrick wanted to go with a rectangle is an aesthetic/design issue and isn't as big of a deal as the difference between the enigmatic film ending versus the somewhat more explicative ending in the novel that I was talking about. By the way, since we're going on random movie and book tangents now, I'll point out that Stephen King wasn't exactly thrilled with Kubrick's version of The Shining and that instead of a croquet mallet like in the novel, Jack Torrance goes on his rampage with an axe in the movie. But hey, you keep it up with trolling about the Wachowskis' body of work and Neo and the sun and tetrahedrons and whatever else you want to try throwing at the wall next.
Though I considered you a troll from the start, I'm just going to point out that there are other writers besides Mac Walters working on ME:A and that even decent writers can whiff once in a while and make missteps, sometimes major, sometimes minor. I - unlike you - am not going to predict anything about ME:A since we still have little to no truly meaningful information about it. I'm currently keeping an open mind about it and hoping that the writers collectively do a decent job with the game.
P.S. You keep saying you're leaving and not going to write anything else, but you keep writing. Maybe you could stick to your word and stop using your keyboard now, thanks!
ME:A is going to start a 1,000 years after destroy.
Dear OP/Troll Who Needs to Work on His Reading Comprehension Skills,
You might notice that I only said I was a fan of The Matrix - the first movie - and that I stated that I was meh on the rest of the films, implying that I was disappointed with the remainder of the trilogy. I also stated that the remaining films ended up going in a direction that I felt tilted towards religious mumbo-jumbo, which was not what ME3 did at all (hard sci-fi-style explanations might have been lacking, but man, at least there wasn't any of that heavily mystical crap a la Neo). I care not one single whit about Metacritic user ratings, but I am most definitely among the ranks of those people who thought the latter two Matrix films weren't that great. Therefore, I'm not sure what the hell your point was there. That I should go look at Metacritic and see other people who AGREE with me that the latter two Matrix films were meh?
Since you're a troll, OP, I guess I shouldn't have expected you to actually address my points about the differences between the respective films and ME3, OR the ending of the film version of 2001 versus the ending of the book version. As for the issue of the shape of the Monolith vis-a-vis the book and the film, so what? I'm aware that in the short story The Sentinel that it's specifically described as a tetrahedron (Clarke evidently wasn't a fan of people saying that this short story was the genesis of 2001, but still, it's the first story in which we see what people refer to as the Monolith) and that Kubrick decided to go with a rectangular form.
The fact that Kubrick wanted to go with a rectangle is an aesthetic/design issue and isn't as big of a deal as the difference between the enigmatic film ending versus the somewhat more explicative ending in the novel that I was talking about. By the way, since we're going on random movie and book tangents now, I'll point out that Stephen King wasn't exactly thrilled with Kubrick's version of The Shining and that instead of a croquet mallet like in the novel, Jack Torrance goes on his rampage with an axe in the movie. But hey, you keep it up with trolling about the Wachowskis' body of work and Neo and the sun and tetrahedrons and whatever else you want to try throwing at the wall next.
Though I considered you a troll from the start, I'm just going to point out that there are other writers besides Mac Walters working on ME:A and that even decent writers can whiff once in a while and make missteps, sometimes major, sometimes minor. I - unlike you - am not going to predict anything about ME:A since we still have little to no truly meaningful information about it. I'm currently keeping an open mind about it and hoping that the writers collectively do a decent job with the game.
P.S. You keep saying you're leaving and not going to write anything else, but you keep writing. Maybe you could stick to your word and stop using your keyboard now, thanks!
Again you just don't get it. The movie is not the same as the book series. In the book the monolith represented change or evolution, ascension, a new beginning etc and that is WHY the author used a phallic symbol. In the movie, it was not about change or ascension like in the book. He breaks free when he touches the monolith/movie screen when he realizes that he is part of a movie and illusion.
Kubrick even broke the fourth wall to show you that in the scene. He was telling you that you are idiots for believing any of this or any illusion. You only need walk up to the movie screen and touch it, to realize it is not real. It is illusion.
It was NOT an aesthetic change. Now as far as the Egyptian pyramids...There is nothing fancy going on there. They are a phallic symbol pointing at the sky and the shafts in the pyramid point at specific locations in the sky. They were big tombs that the buried thought would help with what should be obvious...Ascension to a higher form of existence, which is why the AUTHOR used a phallic symbol for the monolith in 2001 (not Kubrick). Remember ME 1? Remember the Prothean PYRAMIDS? Those Bioware employees got 2001. Sorry you didn't. An obelisk means the same thing.
ME:A is going to start a 1,000 years after destroy.
Or control, or synthesis.
There will most likely be a pre-load option to make your decisions.
...and that is WHY the author used a phallic symbol.
...They are a phallic symbol pointing at the sky and the shafts in ...
Somebody has a winky fixation - paging Dr. Freud.
Somebody has a winky fixation - paging Dr. Freud.
Someone has no concept of history or architecture. Been watching History channel with clowns telling you that the pyramids were nuclear reactors or something that were built by ancient assonauts? Reach out and touch the TV like the monolith. It is illusion. Works on the weak minded. It amazes me just how ignorant people are of basic facts and things they could easily look at, but don't. I mean most of you probably think the Egyptians who depicted themselves as this? Were the Arabs living there today. A country that was literally named "The Black Land". Egypt was a name another people gave it. It meant bondage. Can't have you knowing that though. Why? Because the people who wrote the book that called that land "bondage" wrote a really popular book and said they looked just like them. They looked like Jacob from Mass Effect, which just happened to be a guy who changed his name to Israel in that same book. Anyways that is enough explaining of esoteric shenanigans and inside jokes to you guys. Hope you better understand Mass Effect, and 2001 now. Enjoy the monolith, the memes and being oblivious to the concrete and reality. This really is my last post, and I have a feeling this post will go away. Call it a hunch. People that fly the Star of Saturn or Chiun as Amos called it, will not be happy with it.
Nice theory but it´s only an interpretation, some dude made on You Tube, trying to connect some dots to fit his initial assumption.
You just don't get it! I'm smarter than everybody here! - OP
Guys, the OP thinks penises look like pyramids. Move along. Stop feeding the trolls.
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