I'm still coping with the fact that I've allowed myself to temporarily remember my favorite game franchise is basically STUFF HAPPENS
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Like, yes "Mass Effect" has an in universe meaning. Which is also ridiculous. "In 2270 mankind discovered the Do Stuff Device."
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I'm going to be fair to them and say this trope didn't start with them
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and that yes from a science standpoint arbitrarily screwing the "mass" part of an equation is how you'd make magic happen
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like, all kinds of bizarre counterintuitive stuff like FTL becoming possible if mass can be negative
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the part where psychic powers become real bc the "mass effect" has a special relationship w biology is bullshit though
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ironically their original plan for the ending would've made that conceit central to the plot but they dropped it
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the Reapers would've been emissaries of the godlike beings who live in the dark matter universe invisible to us
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who hate conscious life bc it's how normal matter impinges on and interacts with their world
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so they try to squash consciousness when it arises but bc physical existence is hateful to them they're clumsy and slow at it
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it fits more neatly IMO with the reveal from ME1, like that they made the mass relays
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every use of FTL is us scraping our nails into their skin, each mass relay a bleeding wound
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