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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • The fries I can accept (they don’t double-fry and don’t salt them unless you ask them to), the burger I can’t unless you’re in some weird ass bumpkin place as every location I’ve ever been to has produced a top-tier (for the price of fast food) burger. I’m not gonna pretend they hold a candle to the handmade ones I make or anything but they’re the best common-ish fast food place around (West Coast only TBF, they’re taking forever to spread, likely because non west coast people don’t have the burger fetish we do)




  • I mean, he brought the marker back to the planet, which should be what the marker wanted, so why were they still attacking him?

    The marker wanted to stay off of Aegis VII, actually. Their entire goal (as we learn in 3) is to spread the Necro infection and eventually make a Brother Moon. It’s likely the marker kept attacking Isaac in an attempt to stop him from putting it back on the planet that was about to fall apart. Isaac’s mental infection isn’t hardcore until DS2, either, so he’s not being manipulated very hard yet

    Dead Space gets fucking complicated if you read the extended lore in all the games holy shit I sound insane

    Wait, is mercer the guy developing the invincible necromorphs, or is he the one helping you bring the marker?

    Mercer is the guy making the invincible Necro. In the remake he kills himself willingly, in the original he’s “betrayed” by the marker. The guy helping you is June, poor bastard


  • Dr Mercer was advantageous to the Marker to have alive and doing his work, so he isn’t killed until his usefulness has run its course

    Canonically: the markers try to influence people to do what will assist in Unification. Isaac vehemently doesn’t believe in Unitology so the marker throws enemies at him to try to stop him / manipulate him into doing what it wants (in DS2 & 3). Other people in the series are believers, so they don’t need to be killed off if they’re more useful alive for the time being

    Survivors lasting by staying behind locked doors isn’t too unbelievable, either, given the fall of the Ishimura took a while (1 month from marker discovery to it getting on board the ship), and you arrive not that long after it falls (less than a week). It’s been at most a week since she went dark, I think, which is a believable timeframe to survive given the comms going black is at least a day before the big fall of the ship

    Oh hey my memory was pretty close: Check the year 2508 section

    Other games absolutely pull that shit too much, but DS did a pretty good job with background story details to explain why some people aren’t dead