Happy N7 day! Here is something I've been working on 😬
So in mass Effect we know ✨adult films✨ exist and that Shepard is famous enough to have a VI made of them, meaning that there’s probably ✨ Shepard impersonators ✨
With that this is how I think the crew would find out. (Preface in ME3 if you romance Garrus, Joker sent him vids to help him woo Shepard)
Shepard: "You might not like me much, Wrex, but you're gonna have to trust me here"
Wrex: "I already gave you my trust. Back on Virmire, remember?
I could have put you on the ground that day, Shepard, but I didn't.
Don't make me regret that"
As a business management major with a minor in accounting here is how I think the squadmates would handle Excel. (And yes I do have spreadsheets for my posts)
S tier synthetics- EDI and Legion
being synthetics, they would both know how to use every feature and be extremely fast as well. But EDI would focus more on aesthetics than Legion
A tier knows how to make a macro (an action or a set of actions that can be recorded, named, saved and executed as many times as required and whenever desired)- Traynor, Liara, Tali, Mordin, and Miranda.
Though Mordin’s sheets are in a lot of shorthand and hard for most to understand.
B tier can make a pivot table/chart (A pivot table is a table of values which are aggregations of groups of individual values of a more extensive table within one or more discrete categories.)- Wrex and Jacob.
Now having so many kids, Wrex would need something to help keep track. I feel like the illusive man would force all of Cerberus to take Excel courses.
C tier can get the job done.- Jack, Garrus, Kasumi, Ashley, Kaiden.
They can do basic functions and stack filters but beyond that, is a nope. Jack had to learn to use it after becoming a teacher. Kasumi just doesn’t have a need for it, but if she did she would be higher.
D tier could if they needed to- Joker and Samara.
I think Joker would just get really annoyed with it and would only use it if he absolutely had to. With the Justicar code, there would be very few reasons she would ever need Excel, but she would be more than capable if she did. Thane being a Drell (they have perfect memory) he wouldn’t really need it for himself. Plus his line of work does not require it. But he would definitely make a spreadsheet well if asked to.
E tier will break something- Zaeed and Vega
Zaeed would shoot the computer after his third error code. James would really try but somehow make the whole system crash.
F tier No <3- Javik and Grunt
Javik would just refuse, but secretly it’s because he is worried he would be bad at using primitive tech. Grunt just gets too bored.
Community of Mass Effect, I invoke you to show you this video:
It's an amazing channel that produces Mass Effect ranking lists, it's 100% worth the watch. Hilarious and all, but this video makes me think about one thing:
What if the fanfic community used AI Voices for podfics?
What are your thoughts on this? Feel free to share your thoughts.