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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DreadPirateMurphy" data-source="post: 5130050" data-attributes="member: 20715">Fridge logic describes those thoughts that you get after the TV show or movie is all over, and you're staring into your fridge looking for a snack, and you suddenly wonder about questions that seem obvious in retrospect.BioWare is generally very good at coming up with in-game justifications for changes -- just like they're very good at coming up with involved plots with dozens of characters.  This one just isn't very plausible if you look at the actual in-game performance of assault rifles, for example, in the first game, and think about the massive logistics burden you're adding by having to have all of these disposable thermal clips for your troops.  Add in the idea that every weapon everywhere has been modified in less than 3 years, that the collectors use the same standard sinks, and that you can find heat sinks in the Jacob loyalty mission on a freighter that disappeared ten years ago...Hmmm...still seems odd that after hundreds of 50K year extinction cycles, and recent active exploitation by the Council Races and others, there are so many untapped minerals lying around the galaxy.  The Progenitors were supposed to be more advanced than even the Asari -- yet they gave up on mining eezo on the Omega Asteroid because it was too hard?  Meh.Well, the Quarians definitely consider them criminals after the fleet invasion, and the Council makes it clear that they are not happy by this turn of events.  At a minimum, you would think the Asari Justicar would see a Cerberus affiliation as a sign of criminality, given their zero-tolerance attitude.  Naturally, the game would be unplayable if they tried to arrest you everywhere you went.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The ineffectiveness of C-Sec despite the attack by Sovereign is lampshaded so much that is has to be a jab at current events.Apparently, this is true even when the power is off?  Fine, eezo is the phlebotinum that makes the universe go...I'll live with it.</blockquote>

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