darth gditch said:
RedMenace said:
Amnestic said:
Turians are
avian, not reptilian
We know they're 'less squishy' than humans and asaris.
Big difference. Birds evolved from reptiles anyway. And Garus definitely looks more like Velociraptor than a Parot.
Technically speaking, Dinosaurs were not reptiles. Scientist hypothesize that they were warm-blooded. But I see your point. And actually agree.
From what I understand, the debate over whether dinosaurs were cold or warm blooded was settled with a compromise: that they were likely neither, had a sort of pseudo-warm-bloodedness. Clearly Velociraptors and similar must have had series motabolisms, but that same sort of metabolism in a giant lumbering sauropod like Brachiosaurous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachiosaurus#Metabolism] seems like it would be fatal (they'd starve to death). But if they were fully cold-blooded, then they would take 100 years to reach their full grown size.
Which isn't all political bullshit. Great wike sharks and giant turtles, for example are technically ectothermic animals, but they have faster metabolisms and maintain pretty constant body temps. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantothermy] So they, in a way, they are neither endothermic nor ectothermic.
The more important point is that Garrus being more like a Velociraptor and less like a Parrot is like Garrus being more like the great great great grandfather and less like the dad.
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Tali is clearly hot, and she is clearly human enough for Shepard to make out with her.
I mean, I don't know how strong you may theorize platonic love to be, but that would be a very, very, very, very strong psychological connection if she were fugly and chicken legged. I doubt any man could keep it up, unless Shepard is some kind of closet zoophile.