ASARI: Cultural Index
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- As the results on the last vote are so close (or were at the time of making this vid), we're gonna do both episodes sticking to out fortnightly schedule, with the Asari this week and the Krogan the next!
The Asari are the oldest race in the Mass Effect universe with lifespans around 1000 years, the most beautiful art and cultural heritage, they are far more than the "alien babe" trope that they may first appear to be.
...Technically they're not even women. They are blue though.
This is the Cultural Index a series aimed at exploring various Science-Fiction species.
For outsiders to a series to get to know the basics and maybe even hardened Sci-fi nuts might discover something new.
Thanks for watching!
Music in this video from Mass Effect 3.
Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 are produced by BioWare and published by EA, Microsoft Game Studios.
This Video is for educational purposes with commentary.
"...a species that can win an argument by outliving you..." LOL
Unless you are Krogan. Krogan live a long time. Krogan have really good memories.
@@Qardo the Krogan Emperor live for 1,500 years
that one got me too XD
I like to imagine an Asari going to a world and presenting a philosophy and the world totally shunning it, the Asari just shrugs and leaves. 100 years later the same Asari presents the same philosophy to the same world to see if they're more receptive 2-3 generations on.
@@aecides3203 i just pictured an Asari walkng up to some grave and saying “I told you it was a brain tumor you moron”
Ah the Bene Gesserit of Mass effect
"Asari are the most gifted race in this field ..."
... except Shepard. xD
Thats because Shepard is OP PLS NERF OMG HAX
You can fight like a krogan and run like a leopard but you'll never be better than Commander Shepard.
Well, Asari can do one thing Commander Shepard can't. Dance.
Canderous Ordo I see that you a man of high culture! 🧐
Fun Fact:There is like a single line in the first Mass Effect where Kaiden will comment that despite being an L3 Biotic Shepard "spikes" higher than L2s, the more powerful implants that came with big drawbacks.
Your really not going to bring up the Ardat-Yakshi?
They're also a reason why they look down on purebreeds. It's definitely worth mentioning. Even if briefly.
@@genkidamatrunks6759 Yeah their entire cultural taboo is based around that. In older times before space exploration that was something they had to live with as seen that they have facilities dedicated to helping them. Now that need is no more as they have man many races to choose from.
You forgot Matriarch Benezia's bewbs...no but seriously as an Asari gets older only their breast grow in size. This is important information damn it
Our ears get bigger and the ones of us with dicks see them shrink slightly...
@@justincronkright5025 Human noses and ears keep growing
J S but don’t our bodies grow to
Damn, my wife and I already have huge earlobes. Are you telling me we're going to look like the idiots with gauged piercings, minus the holes? Lord have mercy on our giant earlobed freak children!
@@LordTalax So humans living long enough could look like elephants?
Imagine if Kirk met the Asari.
He’d father half of thessia within a year
@@asher8754Who could actually do that?
I love the Asari
I wish life would let you choose what race to be, i'd definately chose Asari, imagine living for 1,000 years.
@@leeeverett4507 yep its why i always pick high elf in elder scrolls games even thought i DESPISE them
Two important points, the Asari are stated to have been altered by the Protheans, they MIGHT have father enhance themselves genetically later on, oh and the Protheans left them their technology, the Asari didn't really develop their own Technology, again, an intentional remanent of the Protheans. Humans were to be the OTHER hears the Prothean throne, but had less time to develop us.
You forgot to mention one important element of the Asari race. Perhaps I missed it, I'm sorry if that's the case. There was this conversation among characters of different races in one of the scenes, that implies heavily that the Asari look exactly how a member of their species would look. Therefore, there's a deep mental manipulation here, that is so advanced, multiple creatures see them, and each see a member of their own species. So, a human, sees a humanoid asari, the only difference is blue skin . etc, while a krogan sees a female krogan.
Bahaha, I remember that in game. Wasn't it by one of those stores where a bunch of asari were stripping on the table in 2....3? I'm pretty sure it was a turian and a salarian having a conversation.
I put so many hours into that trilogy 😭
And in canon they simply have something every race finds attractive
Humans like the shape
Salarians like their skin color
Turians like their head fringe
Etc. Etc.
The amount of people who jumped on this bandwagon when there is a factual explanation built into the lore is simply amazing. And indicative of the human attribute to jump to conclusions.
@@jorenvanderark3567 Though there may be a subtle perception filter that draws attention to whatever the individual would find attractive.
I don't think each see a member of their own species - it's a Turian, a Human and a Salarian in a bar on Ilium and all of them seem to see the Asari in the same way but think they look more like their own species than the other two. For Humans and Turians this makes total sense - humans would identify with the basic humanoid shape while Turians would identify with the shape and the frills on their head. I found it most interesting that a Salarian still felt that they looked more Salarians, since Asari look less like them than Turian or Human in the game. As someone else said, it could simply be that each species focus their perception of the Asari on the parts that they find most attractive and familiar, but I do think there's something more going on to some extent.
I know Andromeda isn't popular but another point of interest with this - you can overhear an Angaran who is clearly not sold on the presence of the other initiative species but mentions that they wouldn't mind seeing more Asari around, meaning that they're even appealing to a species from another Galaxy (an artificially created one, at that) who have been left inherently and justifiably distrustful of aliens due to past experiences.
Also, a LOT of women are referenced as being attracted to Asari, to such an extent that it seems unlikely they're all into women so, while it's never explicitly stated, I'd guess that a heterosexual human woman would still be attracted to an Asari even though they appear (by necessity for birthing and feeding their offspring) to be female.
Since they have the ability to initiate a telepathic link through physical contact and their 'sex appeal' seems to affect a species from another Galaxy despite the fact that Andromeda and Milky Way life are shown to have several notable (though mild) biological differences (such as milky way colonists needing to take an enzyme supplement to eat andromeda food), I'd hazard a guess that the effect is achieved through a kind of unconscious telepathic field rather than pheromones/similar (also, the STC is shown to extensively study other species and probably would have noticed by now if the Asari were constantly emitting mind altering pheromones, which can easily be detected and studied).
That theory wouldn't work though. They'd resemble what the person finds attractive.
So to a gay man it wouldn't make sense for them to look like women as gay men are attracted to men. Canonically Shepard is Bisexual meaning a few Asari would resemble males. The same applies with Ryder, though you have more freedom to pick his sexuality because you can make Scott exclusively gay.
But they still are weak humans fit dreadnaught level dakka on destroyer sized vessels bring yoyr game up asari
Imperium mode: *activated*
love this series
Thank you!
@@CertifiablyIngame Hello, this may seem like an odd question, especially since it's more of a comedy series, but have you ever considred doing an index on the Martians of the 2003 tv series duck dodgers, not much is directly stated about them but a good handful of knowlegde can be gathered from what we see of their culture
Draco Malfoy would not be happy among the Asari.
There ever been a reason why or how such a race might evolve? A species developed on one planet with a given assumption that intelligent species on other worlds, species outside of the ecosystem it evolved in, would share enough commonalities within it's base DNA and biology that reproduction would be possible?
Every race sees the Asari as exotically, attractive members of their race, they’re ancient beyond belief, and almost certainly lying about half the “common knowledge” about their species. Chances are they’ve got more in common with Cosmic Horrors than “sexy space ladies”
They are aquatic, a species of whale can live for up to 400 years & never stops growing. their mating process is an advantageous adaptation, with in a single generation the asari can biologically adapt to any animal in their environment.
5:18 LMAOOOO. "In order to serve amongst the Asari military, autistic training is required."
it sounds more like arctic lmao
Well, you clearly passed your "Jackass" training.
I really liked that Star Trek reference. Thank you. I needed that laugh today lol.
Speaking of monosexual species, the (allegedly) all male Moclans might be interesting. (Along with their highly hypocritical underbelly!)
what is Mr Homn? luaxana troys attendant
Goddammit, I will find out! I've been looking for 4 weeks now!
@@CertifiablyIngame so? did you find anything? i mean, it's been over 2 years now :)
ive always assumed that if you romance liara she meld with you in the last game and secretly carry's your child.
Nicholas Castleton It would be great, but it is impossible. She is about 109 years old at the Battle of Earth, but Asari don't become capable of concieving children before they reach the matron phase at about 300-350 years of age. Liara can't be pregnant.
Nothing anywhere says that.
she melds with you right before you go to the final battle in ME3... there implications in what she was trying to do.
Possible, but the there would likely have been signs, the point is that regardless of who you romance, it appears that Liara may have intentionally mated with him right before the final battle. This does not mean that Miranda or Ashley could not have done it, but Ashley had done it, you would hear about it... Miranda, yeah, that is less likely.
Clapping them blue cheeks
Great video, hope you do more on the aliens from the Mass Effect universe.
Ah yes, planet lesbian
If there the strongest spices why are they so easy to kill
A perfect example of experienced not being a synonym for correct
lets not forget who """"upgraded""" the asaris............
who
Eric Johnson the protheans
@@ericjohnson7234
The protheans. Aka forunners of the galaxy.
They accelerated the asari abilities and physiology.
5:23 I died so many times there on insanity.
1 thing that always kinda rubbed me wrong with the Mass Effect series is the animations and certain sounds related to animations, they just don't feel natural and dont feel like they match, one huge contribution to this is how they did the animations, the game frankensteins the animations by stitching together animations from a library of pre rendered animations made by hand making them very stiff and unnatural.
the reason Andromeda had such shitty face expressions early on for example (they fixed it later) is because there was a bug where the game would not properly access the animations library.
would have not been a problem if they used mo-cap or hand animated the cut scenes, but there was to many to realistically do so, especially with the honestly laughable budget and time frame the development teams was given, and it dont help that the experienced A-team was busy developing the absolute shit game Anthem leaving the B-team who had only experience as a support team for certain aspects on previous games and zero experience using the Frostbite 3 engine, and them, the support team, having to create everything from scratch did nothing to help the situation.
they had to create ALL assets, tools, systems, etc from scratch since previous games was made using the Unreal Engine leaving literally EVERYTHING other then physical artworks useless.
truly a laughable mistake from day one.
That's EA for you... i really hate EA for what they did to Bioware
1:29 whats the music in the background please?
I brushed up against her and she got pregnant
"I am ready for this Massive Effect."
-Peabiss
Hot, smart, blue chicks that will still look twenty five when I turn ninety five? Yes please!
Smashing Pumpkins
You forgot the national anthem of the asari
I'm blue dabedee dabadei
the only time i died in mass effect series was against asari matriarch in the first game lol....
the only time i died in mass effect series was against asari matriarch in the first game lol.
I left a comment just to get you off 99 comments.
Smash
I'm part of a Cerberus cell that aim to eradicate the Asari's arrogance by killing them all, hell the reapers only helped us to our goal. After this war every Asari will be no more in less than my life time then we can send USG Ishimura to Thessia and mine E0 the shit outta that tumb world.
Kek.
Nice work. Enjoying these index vids. :D
Get cultural index for the race of Q-s.
I have always wondered, do Asari physiology actually change perception of the beholder like an illusion? Or do other races find them attractive because they similar characteristics with other races? If it is an illusion, how can't they see what Asari really look like through scanning?
If it is an illusion, explain the photo of Liara that my Shepard had in his cabin, or any statues of the Asari.
Biotics is just magic
It is star trek
did you do the Prothean?
I just realize how stupid the naming of Asari MATRIARCH is, since this would mean that they have the concept of male and female, which they don't, so... well someone fked up in the naming department at Bioware
He clearly stated that they began using female terms for themselves as that was how other species viewed them...
Really good so far! keep it up!
Never felt bad when I shot an asari. Always felt bad when I shot a krogan.