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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so they built the existing relays to contain the damage and keep us from doing any new construction
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part of the deal is that Sovereign was a way cooler bad guy than the rest of the Reapers
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the canon explanation makes his whole deal of holding all life period in contempt to be a retcon
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I prefer the idea that the Reaper ships themselves are just hand puppets used by incomprehensible beings to interact with scum
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the idea that the Reapers are their ship bodies and that once killed are irreplaceable really softened their menace
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