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Published: 2012-07-02 07:28:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 13789; Favourites: 147; Downloads: 38
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So. I decided to replay the Mass Effect series. Despite the ending. Because I really wanted to do a 'black widow' run. Ie, everyone around me dies (especially my romances). In retrospect I should have played dudeShep (romance Ashley, let her die, romance someone else in ME2, let her die, romance Kaidan, kill him) but I shall have to press on as this, because Shepard is and will always be female to me. I've had moments looking at pictures of the entire squad and going "someone is missing... oh. Oh, it's missing femShep. That's why that dude looked so out of place..."Well, point being, an hour or two into ME1, I set foot on the Citadel together with Kaidan and Ashley and... this pops out of Ashley's mouth. We are standing right next to a pair of salarians. I just... Ashley... this is why people think you're racist/whateveryouwanttocallitwhenit'saliens.
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I so wanted to blow up both Ashley AND Kaiden or Virmire.Β Hated both characters.
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Important lesson always turn off your galactic translator
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Part of me hopes that Turian turns up in Andromeda
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h_u3-β¦
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Oh, wow, I didn't know there were more than one version of that convo XD
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What cracked me up about this is how randomly she says it. I think it was supposed to be triggered by the keepers or something? But it pops up EVERYWHERE on the presidium. If she said it in the wards, she'd get shanked.
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Haha yes, I am also pretty sure it was meant to be triggered by the keepers but... nope. Anything. Anyone. Any random place. Thanks, Ashley, we got it the first time. Please stop, you are embarrassing us.
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To be fair, some of those races have a really confusing appearance to them. First time I saw the floating pink things, I didn't think they intelligent until they started talking at me.
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True, but all the more reason to keep such opinions to yourself? Or, at least, on the ship in private... well away from aliens...
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It was: "I can't tell the difference between THOSE aliens and the animals", not "THE aliens". 'Those' means some specific kind of them. It was line reserved for the Keepers, but the glitch made her tell it everytime. It has been explained by her writers on BSN years ago. Check her support thread.
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Is that true? Because Ash!Haters love to refer to that line.Β
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No. masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Ashl⦠it's 'the' not 'those'. Frankly, 'those aliens' would be far worse.
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I have no idea why my comment appeared on the fourth page in the middle of different conversation...
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When she first said this, I remember stopping, turning the camera to look at her and just stared at her for a good few minutes. "β¦ You better prove yourself worthy of being saved from Eden and that there isn't a choice to kill one of you off." Once I got Garrus, Tali, and Wrex though β¦ she wasn't worth much as a squad member to me the further I got. Kaiden just barely scrapped by by being puppy cute, though there was no romance.
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The first time I played ME1 I saved Kaidan... because I had just upgraded his armor and it had an expensive regeneration boost on it :I I wish I had a better reasoning behind my decision, but alas it was all about that armor.Β
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There was a betting pool that I'd do something like that. I have such ~*~lovely~*~ friends. My best friend won most of those, including my preference to Garrus.
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I had a similar thing happen to me when I borrowed a book from a friend. She and another friend, without knowing the other said the same thing, informed me that I would love a specific character. I firmly denied I was that predictable. I adored him one paragraph into his introduction and he remained my baby throughout six books :I
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That is me in everything. Unfortunately for me, I always adore the one who will die horribly either immediately or in the next sequel (Carlos and Gat from Saints Row, Marco from SnK/Attack on Titan, the list is endless). It is rare for my "baby" to be the fan favorite. In Fable 3 after finding out that neither "Love interest or Villagers?" save option yield a difference to the game I just waited it out so that both groups would die. My ME friend who got me to play it fears for when a similar scenario will rear its head.
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My favorites tend to hang in the for a while and THEN die, giving me ample time to get very attached :I
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I do not suggest investing in a web comic called "Homestuck". Everyone dies at least once, some at least twice or start off dead.
The Author also likes to sinks ships for insane shits and giggles.
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To be fair, everyone in there is an animal, as long as you are in the animalia kingdom.
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Well yes, but when you make a difference between animals and people that's sort of not really an excuse anymore.
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Pretty much all of your companions are idiots sometimes XD
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To be fair, several of your companions (especially in ME1) express some rather xenophobic things. It's just that Ashley... well... she's human, and she's got bad timing as all hell XD
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Yeah... abd timing is true.
And you are more than right, not only ash and not only humans are xenophobic
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I'll give you a hint Ashley. There AREN"T any animals.
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There are animals on the Citadel though I didn't notice them until an article pointed them out -Β kotaku.com/5893561/pigeon-pionβ¦
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Β Naw mate, that's a space kookaburra!Β We imported them from Space Australia!
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Mainly because there are very few animals in Mass Effect though. But yeah... awkward...
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I hated her so much so I always let her die... Racist bitch...
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*Claps*
I love what you did there. 
Now that I think about it, whenever I brought anyone onto the Citadel, I always avoided Ash. Not sure why, I know it was unintentional. But it has me thinking, that's for sure.
A shame that the ending didn't live up to the series. My music teacher said once that when playing a solo piece, people tend to remember the beginning and the ending of the song more then the inbetween. I guess that applies to video games too.
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First time I played ME1, Garrus and Tali were my team most of the game XD Second time, I made a point in having some variation, so Ashley got to leave the ship once in a while. Ended up getting stuck with Liara and Ashley during end game though, because I wasn't thinking XD
I think that's true for a lot of storytelling, as well as music. Though I tend to be rather forgiving if the beginning isn't great (ME1 didn't start all that well in my opinion) provided the in-between sucks me in.
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I ended up with Garrus and Kaidan as my end-team. 
I remember thinking that it'll be fine. That was until Kaidan started dropping like there was no tomorrow, and Garrus just wouldn't FOLLOW ME.
I hate when that happens.
On the other note, I agree with you. But I played ME2 first before ME1, so when I started ME1 I was a bit disappointed.
I was also a bit put out about the elevator conversations. Whenever I bring my team into an elevator, THEY REFUSE TO TALK.
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Haha, I've only really had problems with the aliens (that's a comic waiting to get finished...) but it's nice to see the humans have their issues too XD
Gasp! No elevator convos? ... did you perhaps bring the same team too often? They do run out of convos after all (I should know, dragging Garrus and Tali around everywhere...)
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I'm not sure. There was that one time I brought Tali and Garrus and they didn't talk. Then, when I brought Kaidan and Ashley into THE SAME ELEVATOR they started talking.
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Huh. Maybe it comes and goes? I don't know XD
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Something to think about, at least!
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can i say to female character, that she acting as an asshole?
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Ashley... had her moments of 'what the hell?!' indeed...
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It's funny because after playing 2 and 3, i finally got to get mass effect 1 and realized how Racist Ashley is. Then I remembered that one Turian giving that female C-Sec officer a hard time and calling all humans racist and it makes sense now. It's all Ashley's fault.
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OF COURSE!! Although, it could stem from her arrogance of having the same name as Bruce Cambell's character in "Evil Dead"
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Yeah, Ash does have a big mouth. She learns to keep shut around aliens, but I wished I seen that in the game.
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