{"id":102314,"date":"2016-07-25T12:32:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T20:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102314"},"modified":"2016-07-25T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T20:34:08","slug":"how-many-people-have-been-red-pilled-by-playing-the-popular-video-game-mass-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102314","title":{"rendered":"How Many People Have Been Red-Pilled By Playing The Popular Video Game Mass Effect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mass_Effect\">From Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMass Effect is a science fiction action role-playing third person shooter video game series&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The original trilogy largely revolves around a soldier named Commander Shepard, whose mission is to save the galaxy from a race of powerful mechanical beings known as the Reapers and their agents, including the first game&#8217;s antagonist Saren Arterius. The first game sees Shepard investigating Saren, whom Shepard slowly comes to understand is operating under the guidance of Sovereign, a Reaper left behind in the Milky Way tens of thousands of years before, when the Reapers exterminated virtually all sentient organic life in the galaxy as part of a recurrent cycle of genocide for an unknown purpose. Sovereign&#8217;s purpose is to trigger the imminent return of the Reaper fleet hibernating in extra-galactic dark space, restarting the process of extermination. The second game takes place two years later, and sees Shepard battling the Collectors, an alien race abducting entire human colonies in a plan to help the Reapers return to the Milky Way. The final game of Shepard&#8217;s trilogy centers on the war being waged against the Reapers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can just see someone playing this game and coming to the realization that it reflects a painful part of reality &#8212; that different peoples on average have different gifts.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/masseffect.wikia.com\/wiki\/Races\">From Wikia<\/a>: &#8220;The Milky Way is populated with dozens of races. Some are valued members of Citadel space, working to build a better galactic community; others are lawless, caring nothing for the Citadel Council&#8217;s edicts; a few are outcasts, but all are unique.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Races_Drell.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Races_Drell.png\" alt=\"Races_Drell\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-102317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Races_Drell.png 150w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Races_Drell-144x144.png 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wikipedia: Mass Effect is a science fiction action role-playing third person shooter video game series&#8230; The original trilogy largely revolves around a soldier named Commander Shepard, whose mission is to save the galaxy from a race of powerful mechanical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102314\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102318,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102314\/revisions\/102318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}