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I found the Citadel IRL :)

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Alphax45
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-01-14 02:50:15 UTC
My wife just got back from LA and I couldn't help but notice something familiar on the receipt:

http://i1356.photobucket.com/albums/q734/Alphax45/Citadel_zps639f6233.jpg

Is this a sign I play too much EVE?
Do I need help?
Rain6639
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#2 - 2013-01-14 03:22:53 UTC
u mena mass effect?
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#3 - 2013-01-14 03:29:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Mara Rinn
“The Citadel” is a region in EVE, or an actual location in Mass Effect. I suspect that if you're paying for parking, that most closely correlates to the docking fees at The Citadel in Mass Effect.

But yes, if you associated Citadel with the region in EVE rather than a parking station where you wife left her car, you probably play too much EVE. Assuming, of course, that there is such thing as too much EVE Big smile

And Mass Effect 1-3 is an awesome story. You should play it!

PS: Mass Effect actually has exotic dancers, dancing exotically. As opposed to EVE Online where "Exotic Dancers" are just a little square with a picture of a scantily clad (wo)man. And Mass Effect has Asari exotic dancers, who are not just dancing exotically, they are exotic (and very appealing to the furries, who are very likely to play the whole series through with Liara T'soni as their romantic partner, burning Ashley/Kaidan in the process, and ignoring the simple delights of Kelly or Samantha … though at this stage I worry that I've spent too much time playing Mass Effect).

And yes, I did play the whole game through with her as my femshep's romantic interest.

Which you can't do in EVE because we don't have exotic dancers or Asari or Protheans or archaeology.

RIP ambulation, establishments, drug deals, dodgy bars and dancing.

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James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2013-01-14 03:32:58 UTC
The Citadel is also the name of a senior military college in South Carolina.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Ekscalybur
Templar Services Inc.
#5 - 2013-01-14 04:24:37 UTC
Mara Rinn wrote:


And Mass Effect 1-3 is an awesome story. You should play it! up until you get to the part where the new writers decided a cleveland steamer makes a great ending to a saga



Fix'd that for ya.

nerf Veldspar!
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#6 - 2013-01-14 04:57:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Mara Rinn
Ekscalybur wrote:
Mara Rinn wrote:
And Mass Effect 1-3 is an awesome story. You should play it! up until you get to the part where the new writers decided a cleveland steamer makes a great ending to a saga



Fix'd that for ya.


I view the ending of Mass Effect 3 as more of a guide, with your imagination more than capable of going through what would happen in your version of post-Crucible Mass Effect (as opposed to post-Crucible EVE Online).

The nonsense wasn't just the ending, either: The Normandy SR-2 can't land on planets, that's why you use a shuttle to travel everywhere. Except when you're trying to escape Earth and the Normandy takes off from the local spaceport and rescues you from right in front of a Reaper Destroyer which is shooting shuttles but just plain ignores the armed and dangerous spaceship sitting in front of it. And then the SR-2 rescues your squadmates during the advance on the conduit (conduit Mk II, because there's already the Prothean conduit which we already know about, and have already used). Then there's my sentinel femshep (sentinels can only use pistols and SMGs) who always appears in cutscenes waving an assault rifle around. So don't whinge about inconsistencies in the plots that you don't like, if you aren't going to complain about the gaping holes in the plots that you do like.

I'm still 100% paragon because I stuck to the mission parameters: "destroy the reapers," and I kept my promise to my girlfriend to come back and make lots of blue babies together. So what if I committed genocide against the race helping Tali's people resettle their ancient homeworld, and murdered Joker's girlfriend.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. I went one step further and ensured that my lemon tree was Lemonade. We can rebuild what was destroyed: the Citadel, the mass relays, Joker's mechanical girlfriend, and the entire race that I destroyed.

And how this is on topic with car parking stations named "Citadel" or EVE Online, I haven't a clue.

Sorry.

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2013-01-14 05:03:36 UTC
I used to drive by the Citadel Outlets back when I lived in that area.

Not sure what my favorite store on the Citadel is though What?

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Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#8 - 2013-01-14 06:45:36 UTC
citadel is in the half life 2 series too if i remember right.
Navarre Blackmoor
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2013-01-14 07:04:30 UTC
Mara Rinn wrote:
Ekscalybur wrote:
Mara Rinn wrote:
And Mass Effect 1-3 is an awesome story. You should play it! up until you get to the part where the new writers decided a cleveland steamer makes a great ending to a saga



Fix'd that for ya.


I view the ending of Mass Effect 3 as more of a guide, with your imagination more than capable of going through what would happen in your version of post-Crucible Mass Effect (as opposed to post-Crucible EVE Online).

The nonsense wasn't just the ending, either: The Normandy SR-2 can't land on planets, that's why you use a shuttle to travel everywhere. Except when you're trying to escape Earth and the Normandy takes off from the local spaceport and rescues you from right in front of a Reaper Destroyer which is shooting shuttles but just plain ignores the armed and dangerous spaceship sitting in front of it. And then the SR-2 rescues your squadmates during the advance on the conduit (conduit Mk II, because there's already the Prothean conduit which we already know about, and have already used). Then there's my sentinel femshep (sentinels can only use pistols and SMGs) who always appears in cutscenes waving an assault rifle around. So don't whinge about inconsistencies in the plots that you don't like, if you aren't going to complain about the gaping holes in the plots that you do like.

I'm still 100% paragon because I stuck to the mission parameters: "destroy the reapers," and I kept my promise to my girlfriend to come back and make lots of blue babies together. So what if I committed genocide against the race helping Tali's people resettle their ancient homeworld, and murdered Joker's girlfriend.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. I went one step further and ensured that my lemon tree was Lemonade. We can rebuild what was destroyed: the Citadel, the mass relays, Joker's mechanical girlfriend, and the entire race that I destroyed.

And how this is on topic with car parking stations named "Citadel" or EVE Online, I haven't a clue.

Sorry.

People say this because they're too stubborn, afraid or unable to admit that the ending to the Mass Effect series was actually as bad as everybody says it is, and that we should have been given a creative and happy ending to one of the biggest heroes RPG's have ever had.

To hell with Bioware. I could have forgiven them Dragon Age 2, but not this.
ISD TYPE40
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#10 - 2013-01-14 10:39:13 UTC
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Sriracha Nighthawk
Perkone
Caldari State
#11 - 2013-01-14 11:07:28 UTC
Alphax45 wrote:
My wife just got back from LA and I couldn't help but notice something familiar on the receipt:

http://i1356.photobucket.com/albums/q734/Alphax45/Citadel_zps639f6233.jpg

Is this a sign I play too much EVE?
Do I need help?

I shop there every now and then. I'm 70 miles out. :D

"Kind of like the Caldari version of Adama I guess." -Kairavi Mrithyakara