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Lenus: Too whom ever it is deleting my note on An Economy is you, do it again and I won't care, I don't feel like constantly re-editing a page for 3 stinking lines.
That would be me: you're just making a half-baked excuse for a mechanic which was obviously copy-pasted from Bioshock's vending machines. To boil it down: Isaac is the only one to use the machines for anything. There is no evidence that anybody else ever has; most of the schematics for supposedly vital pieces of equipment are missing, there's all of one item of equipment on the entire ship [as opposed to enough for a large portion of the workforce as you'd think], and nobody has enough money on them to actually buy any of the tools they're supposed to be using anyway. It's amazingly 'videogamey' and the definition of the trope in question.
Asmodemus: So there's dust on them or something? How do you tell they've never been used?
If they were actually using the things to get hold of mining equipment, you'd expect there to be some in lockers, equipment rooms or on the Necromorphs themselves, but there's exactly one Plasma Cutter on the entire ship and nothing else. Hence, nobody is using the machines. Not that there was much facility to since most of their schematics, including the ones for ammunition for the 'tools,' hadn't been uploaded anyway.
Lenus: Half baked my ass. The machines are in logical places you'd expect to see a vending machine in the real world, I.E. Tram stations, break rooms, etc. And also, it's not only mining equipment, tell me, how much mining do you do with a buzzsaw? Considering you only really find 50 plus bodies on a ship of HUNDREDS doesn't mean that the tools aren't with the bodies (Or where they died before being reanimated). You find plenty of ammo, credits, health packs, etc, some of the cheapest stuff on the ship laying about but stow away the expensive stuff. What are YOU more inclined to leave about, a pack of bandages or a bonesaw.
Also, how do you expect necromorphs to hold shit, their original hands make way for giant blades, new ones are too small to hold tools, use their hands for ambulation, etc etc
- It's all supposed to be mining equipment, the buzzsaw included; the fact that it's stupid doesn't mean that isn't what it's meant to be. And now you're veering off into fanon territory, saying the tools might be with some hypothetical other bodies we never see, which just means the trope is present and correct in what we do see. And Necromorphs can hold medpacks, credits, ammo, semiconductors and massive exploding pustles just fine, so a necromorph with part of it's body grown around a piece of equipment would hardly be inconcievable.
- You carry Money in your pockets, maybe keep a pen or some nails in a belt when you work? You don't however jam a soldering iron in your pants.
- You're much less likely to carry your paycheck around in an industrial job than your tools. What do you think toolbelts are for if not for carrying vital equipment? Isaac himself can carry four weapons in his groinal pocket dimension. And you're also trying to divert things away from the subject; there are no tools anywhere on the ship save the single plasma cutter; not on corpses, not in storage areas, not discarded on the ground. The stores have most of their schematics missing, including vital ones for ammunition. It is abundantly clear that the system was not designed to look like anyone had ever used it before Isaac.
- You carry Money in your pockets, maybe keep a pen or some nails in a belt when you work? You don't however jam a soldering iron in your pants.
Dracosummoner: If I may ask, why did someone delete the "Fridge Logic" notes relating to the "protect her" mission with Isaac, Nicole, and a bunch of Necromorphs?
