Brain, why u no science?
Whiny, ranting writer-y bits, many f-bombs, CAPSLOCK, sentence fragments and run-on sentences to follow.
Bose-Einstein condensate.
Bose-Einstein condensate.
Bose-Einstein condensate.
Fucking hell. What is this shit?
Space magic. That's what it is.
SPAAAAAAAAAAACE MAAAAAAAAAAGIC
And not just the regular type of space magic that you can just hand wave into a golden cow mass relay or something. No. It's fucking voodoo hoodoo black blood magic that turns everyone into zombies and eats babies for breakfast.
With a side helping of devil worship and animal sacrifice. You know, for flavor.
And people are up in arms about the goddamn endings?
Fucking hell.
THE MASS EFFECT SERIES MASTERED NANOTECH, TELEKINESIS, FTL TRAVEL, CLONING FOR TISSUE REGROWTH, BRINGING A DEAD PERSON BACK FROM THE DEAD BY PLACING THE DEAD PERSON'S FUCKING MEMORY INTO A FUCKING COMPUTER, GRAVITY AND GODDAMN QUANTUM STATES.
SPAAAAAAAAAAACE MAAAAAAAAAAAGIC
Disclaimer: Contrary to the previous paragraphs, this is not a rant about the ending.
There are some things that I can go, "Ah, yes, science. We have dismissed that claim." And just make shit up that sounds good enough to maybe be plausible if you squint hard enough.
Then there's getting my panties into such a super wedgie of doom that my eyeballs pop out:
Fucking ME1 cryo rounds. I want to describe you and your freezing ability but cannot wrap my head around what the hell it looks like (outside game mechanics) when the cryo rounds impact or what the ammo block does in the mass accelerator chamber thing or if the mass accelerator chamber thing converts to some kind of laser cooling system or what happens when you shoot bose-einstein condensate at relativistic speeds through the use of a mass accelerator chamber thing in the goddamn gun. OR THE FACT THAT FUCKING BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE IS SUPER-COOLED SUBATOMIC PARTICLES IN A QUANTUM (GASEOUS-LIKE) STATE I wanted some hard science fiction goodness instead of game mechanics and I want Ashley to program her gun to do something to create Bose-Einstein condensate when the mass accelerator shaves off a piece of the ammo. OR want to describe that the ammo block is already made up of super-cooled subatomic particles - but! I have no clue if the ammo block would be 1) volatile, 2) hello absolute zero and therefore too dangerous to touch, 3) made of magical space gas and therefore not really an ammo block that can be shaved and shot at relativistic speeds, 4) akin to licking lampposts in winter without the sexual innuendo or maybe yes.
My penchant for fangirling science aside: Quantum physics, how I hate thee with the passion of a thousand space hamsters humping wildly in the night.
I've gotten most of the chapter done. Now I cannot go any further because I'm hung up on this shit.
Fucking hell.
Help me, Flist. You're my only hope. D:
public post is public in case someone smarter than I (which is everybody anyway) wants to add their input or just laugh at my inability to wrap my brain around something that should be very simple.
Bose-Einstein condensate.
Bose-Einstein condensate.
Bose-Einstein condensate.
Fucking hell. What is this shit?
Space magic. That's what it is.
SPAAAAAAAAAAACE MAAAAAAAAAAGIC
And not just the regular type of space magic that you can just hand wave into a golden cow mass relay or something. No. It's fucking voodoo hoodoo black blood magic that turns everyone into zombies and eats babies for breakfast.
With a side helping of devil worship and animal sacrifice. You know, for flavor.
And people are up in arms about the goddamn endings?
Fucking hell.
THE MASS EFFECT SERIES MASTERED NANOTECH, TELEKINESIS, FTL TRAVEL, CLONING FOR TISSUE REGROWTH, BRINGING A DEAD PERSON BACK FROM THE DEAD BY PLACING THE DEAD PERSON'S FUCKING MEMORY INTO A FUCKING COMPUTER, GRAVITY AND GODDAMN QUANTUM STATES.
SPAAAAAAAAAAACE MAAAAAAAAAAAGIC
Disclaimer: Contrary to the previous paragraphs, this is not a rant about the ending.
There are some things that I can go, "Ah, yes, science. We have dismissed that claim." And just make shit up that sounds good enough to maybe be plausible if you squint hard enough.
Then there's getting my panties into such a super wedgie of doom that my eyeballs pop out:
Fucking ME1 cryo rounds. I want to describe you and your freezing ability but cannot wrap my head around what the hell it looks like (outside game mechanics) when the cryo rounds impact or what the ammo block does in the mass accelerator chamber thing or if the mass accelerator chamber thing converts to some kind of laser cooling system or what happens when you shoot bose-einstein condensate at relativistic speeds through the use of a mass accelerator chamber thing in the goddamn gun. OR THE FACT THAT FUCKING BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE IS SUPER-COOLED SUBATOMIC PARTICLES IN A QUANTUM (GASEOUS-LIKE) STATE I wanted some hard science fiction goodness instead of game mechanics and I want Ashley to program her gun to do something to create Bose-Einstein condensate when the mass accelerator shaves off a piece of the ammo. OR want to describe that the ammo block is already made up of super-cooled subatomic particles - but! I have no clue if the ammo block would be 1) volatile, 2) hello absolute zero and therefore too dangerous to touch, 3) made of magical space gas and therefore not really an ammo block that can be shaved and shot at relativistic speeds, 4) akin to licking lampposts in winter without the sexual innuendo or maybe yes.
My penchant for fangirling science aside: Quantum physics, how I hate thee with the passion of a thousand space hamsters humping wildly in the night.
I've gotten most of the chapter done. Now I cannot go any further because I'm hung up on this shit.
Fucking hell.
Help me, Flist. You're my only hope. D:
public post is public in case someone smarter than I (which is everybody anyway) wants to add their input or just laugh at my inability to wrap my brain around something that should be very simple.