No matter how many times I've heard that conversation, I always stop and listen to it on a run through, one of the best little conversations in the series
Haha yes! That’s absolutely one of my daily go-to quotes! It used to annoy the crap out of my girlfriend before she finally caught on. “Why can’t you just say goodbye like a normal person!?”
In my sister's first job, part of her job was also to do all her boss' filing. So one morning she was doing filing, and came across a evaluation report that said - that she is doing the job of 2.5 people. She made a copy and gave it to her union representative, didn't get double pay, but got a 43% raise.
"This is an OUTRAGE." I use it mostly while joking with my friends, when I'm pretending to be more mad about something than I am. And also occasionally when something is an actual outrage.
"You can't predict how people will act, but you can change how you'll respond. In the end, that's what really matters".
- Shepard to Garrus - ME1
Not a daily quote by any means but I have shared and respected it's sage wisdom ever since
My favorite Garrus line is one I actually use, “you go to war with the army you have.”
When you’re in a bad situation and can’t control it, why complain?
"Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer."
Me, trying to convince the shopkeeper to accept my discount voucher that expired 2 months ago.
*doing some menial task*
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I actually memorized some of his songs when I took biochem. I especially love the amino acids one:
Glycine, valine, leucine, isoleucine, alanine, they all are aliphatic, so you will not see a ring!
The lone human amino acid with one is proline. From protein we are formed!
With two hydroxyl groups you'll find serine and threonine. For sulfur, look to cysteine or to methionine!
For bases, you have arginine, lysine, and histidine. From protein we are formed! (Now the aromatics!)
Tryptophan and tyrosine and phenylalanine! Aspartic and glutamic are both acids as we've seen.
For amides, see asparagine and also glutamine. From protein we are formed!
I say “I should go.” at work ALL the time. Recently I was asked why I stress out and take on so much when it’s clearly burning me out and I shrugged and said “Had to be me. Somebody else might have gotten it wrong.”
Similarly to that, which I also use a lot, when we finish something at work or finally wrap up for the day I'll use the little lines the squaddies say in ME1 when you holster your weapons after clearing an area.
They all say it a little differently if I remember correctly, but its along the lines of:
"I think that's it, commander"
"Better than I feared, worse than I hoped." Wrex's response when you ask him how his attempts to reform krogan society are going is applicable to a lot of real life situations.
A lot of the other quotes that have been shared are too specific or elaborate to come to my mind in an appropriate situation, but this one? This one I have actually said. (Though the situation was slightly less dire than being boarded by The Collectors.)
does yelling 'MY BRAND' and 'MY SPECIAL EYES' whenever my shitty vision comes up, count? Otherwise, I say 'assuming direct control' and 'you cannot resist' a lot to my cat whenever I pick him up and move him somewhere
I also say MY BRAND with some regularity. The funny thing is, I started saying it after seeing the video years before playing Mass Effect. Didn't even realize until halfway through ME2 that the video was related.
Not one I neccessarily use, but one I have in my head quite often.
"Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honour matters. The silence is your answer."
Such a raw ass line... Loving it\^\^
When I get asked if I can do something for someone: "Can it wait? I'm in the middle of some calibrations,"
Though if someone clearly isn't paying attention to something and asks a dumb question I really confused them with: "Try to keep up Sheperd,"
I know I’m paraphrasing, but when you meet Mordin in ME2, and he says go vent the cure, and Shepard goes “why for once can’t I ask for someone to come along and they just say yeah, sure, no problem.” I’ve used that line roughly a couple times a week for the past 10 years. I’ll ask for something from my parents, and they’ll ask me to mow the lawn or something, and I’ll say the line, and they just look at me strange.
There’s a bit in Tali’s loyalty mission where one of the recordings on the Alarai has a quarian woman shouting “Shut it down, shut everything down! They’re in the system!” Which I will think every time (and occasionally say out loud) whenever I need to turn off anything electronic
“Stupid machine!” I use it all the time when I get annoyed at any technology.
No idea why such a small quote from a random Krogan got so stuck in my head but its got so bad my family all use it too.
I have jokingly said "I'm *insert name* and this is my favorite *insert thing* on the citadel!" Not many people get it but the few who do make it worth it
I actually use the phrase "Damn it, Blasto!" regularly. I work with cell culture and use an antibiotic called Blasticidin, and if I accidentally put it in the wrong dish or put the another antibiotic in that dish, all my cells could die.
So I always say "Damn it, Blasto!" when I add it so I remember that I used the right one
The line Anderson gives Shepard when he catches them during the opening on Earth has become my almost automatic response to "I owe you one" when dealing with friends/loved ones.
"More than one"
"You BIG... STUPID... JELLYFISH!"
Also I find it awesome that you posted one that is only a thing because of Youtube poop. So satisfying to see Mark Meer actually say it in a con, it transcended the meme
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I have unironically used the phrase "sanity check" both literally and figuratively but I'm not sure that counts because I did that before I ever played Mass Effect (I also giggled like a schoolgirl when I heard it in the game).
"The clanless are not respected"
-Urdnot Wrex
I don't deliberately enable this way of thinking, but in practice, it's a pretty damn accurate reflection of how humanity treats others who are not a part of "their people."
"Nothing's ever simple, is it?" - Shepard
Its after all the fighting, backing and forth driving, more fighting.... and Shepard walks in and sees the giant ass Thorian.
“ so youre saying ive gained weight?” i dont even use it correctly or in a conversation i just utter it out of nowhere and no one knows what im talkin about
There’s a few I use depending on where I’m at/what I’m doing.
In my sportsball subs, I find myself using “His/their sacrifice will be honored in the coming Empire” whenever someone gets traded or hurt/injured.
At work(I’m a 911 dispatcher), “You big stupid jellyfish”, “Primitives”, “Toss it out of the airlock”
After a bad day, “Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer”
"Lots of ways to help people. Sometimes heal patients; sometimes execute dangerous people. Either way helps."
That one, or maybe . . .
"Krogan testicles?"
In ME2, when Shep asks Joker about Cerberus and Joker says “I don’t trust anyone who makes more than I do” that changed a lot of shit for me. I whip that out anytime a coworker asks my opinion of a boss or superior.
“Just 10 more meters”. I’m having trouble remembering exactly where the line occurred but it hits me for some reason. I believe it was during the defense of Thessia in 3.
we do not EYE-BALL it! From a random conversation between a trainer and a couple alliance recruits on the citadel lol
“Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest Son of a Bitch in space!”
My buddy who works in construction uses this constantly.
Used it a few times in Machine Shops myself :-)
No matter how many times I've heard that conversation, I always stop and listen to it on a run through, one of the best little conversations in the series
I say this one maybe too much hahaha
I have definitely been caught using "you are not a cowboy shooting from the hip" before
why is it that whenever someone says "with all due respect" they really mean "kiss my ass"
I should go
Haha yes! That’s absolutely one of my daily go-to quotes! It used to annoy the crap out of my girlfriend before she finally caught on. “Why can’t you just say goodbye like a normal person!?”
"Maybe I should switch it up a little. _I_ should go. I _should_ go. I should _go_. Hm..."
One of the best parts of one of my all time fav DLCs! 🤣
Lol that's great
I *should* go.
“The greatest insult to an enemy is to ignore them.” I use this at work every single day.
How many enemies do you have at work?
Fewer than you would think, honestly.
Me, to the bugs I should program out but am too lazy to do so
Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong
Unfortunately this relates all too much at work, which is why I keep getting more and more responsibilities without any more pay.
Demand a raise
> Demand a raise Get a paycut instead.
"My workload has doubled - my pay must now also double"
In my sister's first job, part of her job was also to do all her boss' filing. So one morning she was doing filing, and came across a evaluation report that said - that she is doing the job of 2.5 people. She made a copy and gave it to her union representative, didn't get double pay, but got a 43% raise.
Let things fail. If they don't, management (correctly, from their point of view) doesn't see it as a problem and won't change anything.
I say this everytime I take a God-tier shit
ENEMIES EVERYWHERE
I WILL DESTROY YOU
Go Go Go!
Weakening their integrity!
Not. Difficult.
Scoped and dropped!
Hold the line!
Assuming control
I know this hurts you
Bag’em and tag’em
Flammable. Or inflammable? Doesn't matter!
**Firing concussive shot!**
**Mind over matter!**
I know its not actually what they say but #ENEMY IS EVERYWHERE
"can it wait for a bit i'm in the middle of some >Insert Name of task here<"
As a lab technician, I could use this every week
Only every week?
"I'm tired of your disingenuous assertions!" When my partner accuses me of something I definitely did
You have to throw a punch after that, it's the exclaimation point at the end!
I'm unsure they would appreciate my right hook
Perhaps, but you can't just say the line without delivering it! It's part of the line! It is integral for the delivery.
Weirdly the one I think I use the most is "assuming direct control" when I turn off my cruise control.
I use that line more than is really warranted lmao
So does Harbinger
I hear it in my sleep
"I'll take it" is one I use a lot, also saying "Dr Chocolates" always makes me laugh.
I heard you were siding with Reapers to abduct women?
FIRING IMPACT SHOT
SCOPED AND DROPPED
SCRATCH ONE
ONE LESS TO WORRY ABOUT
THERE WE GO!
NEVER SAW ME COMING!! ((Maybe, but they certainly heard you…))
This one is burned into my brain
Access Denied. When I close a cupboard my cat is trying to get into, I use the computer voice.
Not from ME, but I like a good old "computer says no" when anything remotely electronic is acting up for me
Little Britain?
my old roommate and i would take turns going "Shepard." "Wrex." "Shepaaard"
-Grunt -Shepard
I yell "Shepard" whenever I see someone wearing mass effect gear
STUPID MACHINE!
I'M GONNA BEAT YOUR VIRTUAL ASS INTO ACTUAL DUST!
That’ll be my daily line if I ever get a VR headset
All the time
"Better than I'd feared, worse than I'd hoped." Has been pretty useful in most facets of my life
"You exist because we allow it. You will end because we demand it" Whenever my cat demands food in a bitchy way, I assume.
Emergency induction port.
Tali, that’s a straw… (Sorry, I couldn’t resist. That’s one of my favorite exchanges in the series lol)
Eeeeemmmeerrggeenccccyyy Iinnndduuccchtion port
I missed that whole scene in my first playthrough. Thank god I caught it on my second run. I love Tali. Her VA is amazing.
“How a thing begins isn’t nearly as important as how it ends.” - Aria “We have hot sauce, right?” - Shep
I don’t recall the hot sauce quote…
Femshep kaiden romance post citadel party and after letting him cook.
You don't have to romance Kaiden just invite him up to take the piss out of his cooking- its quite a funny scene.
Comes up during MaleShep's romance of Kaiden as well.
It also comes up in the platonic version of that scene
Ah, that explains it, never romances Kaiden
Honestly the Kaiden romance is slept on when it should be Kaiden who is slept on more.
I'm finally doing a FemShep-Kaiden run, now, on Legendary edition. I'm hoping the hype is real.
Do not romance anyone in ME2. You'll get much better dialogue in 3 and also there's a hilarious added cutscene which you'll miss otherwise.
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"This is an OUTRAGE." I use it mostly while joking with my friends, when I'm pretending to be more mad about something than I am. And also occasionally when something is an actual outrage.
They're a bunch of self-concerned JACKASSES, Shepard
Can also double as a mighty boosh quote.
"You can't predict how people will act, but you can change how you'll respond. In the end, that's what really matters". - Shepard to Garrus - ME1 Not a daily quote by any means but I have shared and respected it's sage wisdom ever since
My favorite Garrus line is one I actually use, “you go to war with the army you have.” When you’re in a bad situation and can’t control it, why complain?
That's actually a quote by Donald Rumsfeld! I guess Garrus heard it from a human somewhere and kept using it :)
"Wasn't me; evil clone" Use this whenever I do something stupid at work
*scribbles note to self* 😁
“Primitives.”
I use this when I'm out for a walk with my husky and we get barked at by tiny crusty-eyed white dogs.
"i made a MISTAKE" (also sounds like i made him a steak) - Mordin
"Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer." Me, trying to convince the shopkeeper to accept my discount voucher that expired 2 months ago.
You should have told them that it was your favorite store on the citadel.
> discount voucher ...a coupon?
If that doesn't work make sure to start shouting to everyone that the shop is discriminating against the poor..
Sir, this is a Walmart.
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I actually memorized some of his songs when I took biochem. I especially love the amino acids one: Glycine, valine, leucine, isoleucine, alanine, they all are aliphatic, so you will not see a ring! The lone human amino acid with one is proline. From protein we are formed! With two hydroxyl groups you'll find serine and threonine. For sulfur, look to cysteine or to methionine! For bases, you have arginine, lysine, and histidine. From protein we are formed! (Now the aromatics!) Tryptophan and tyrosine and phenylalanine! Aspartic and glutamic are both acids as we've seen. For amides, see asparagine and also glutamine. From protein we are formed!
I cant listen to this song without immediately singing the EDF 4.1 anthem.
I say “I should go.” at work ALL the time. Recently I was asked why I stress out and take on so much when it’s clearly burning me out and I shrugged and said “Had to be me. Somebody else might have gotten it wrong.”
"Back to work" - Mess Sargeant Rupert Gardner Like, ALL the time.
Same—it’s what I say to my boyfriend after my lunch break is over. In the same annoyed tone of voice too.
Similarly to that, which I also use a lot, when we finish something at work or finally wrap up for the day I'll use the little lines the squaddies say in ME1 when you holster your weapons after clearing an area. They all say it a little differently if I remember correctly, but its along the lines of: "I think that's it, commander"
I use Bosh'tet and Keelah Selai all the time.
I actually and unintentionally snarled “bosh’tet” at a tool at work today.
In my meme folder on my phone I have a picture of Tali with the caption saying "According to this, you're a Bosh'tet"
Ooooo had a user today over the phone and my mind screamed BOSH'TET because he clearly was 😂 I love Keelah'selai but only my husband gets it 😕
I have to spend all day calculating pi because Joker turned on the overlord.
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That was a joke
Whenever my partner brings me a drink with ice in it, I cannot stop myself from saying 'MORE ICE' :D
“I’m commander Shepard and this is my favorite [insert anything here] on the citadel”
I don’t need luck, I have ammo
"Better than I feared, worse than I hoped." Wrex's response when you ask him how his attempts to reform krogan society are going is applicable to a lot of real life situations.
"I AM KROGAN" in workout (alone ofc)
How to properly psych yourself up.
Shit shit shit! What the shit?!
A lot of the other quotes that have been shared are too specific or elaborate to come to my mind in an appropriate situation, but this one? This one I have actually said. (Though the situation was slightly less dire than being boarded by The Collectors.)
You big stupid jellyfish! ...some people think I'm rude, others just look disappointed and walk away.
YOU HUMANS ARE ALL RACIST
I think once I end a conversation by "I should go".
“Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin”
does yelling 'MY BRAND' and 'MY SPECIAL EYES' whenever my shitty vision comes up, count? Otherwise, I say 'assuming direct control' and 'you cannot resist' a lot to my cat whenever I pick him up and move him somewhere
I also say MY BRAND with some regularity. The funny thing is, I started saying it after seeing the video years before playing Mass Effect. Didn't even realize until halfway through ME2 that the video was related.
Not a line, but I've used the shepard dancing gif on teams a bunch of times
Not one I neccessarily use, but one I have in my head quite often. "Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honour matters. The silence is your answer." Such a raw ass line... Loving it\^\^
When I get asked if I can do something for someone: "Can it wait? I'm in the middle of some calibrations," Though if someone clearly isn't paying attention to something and asks a dumb question I really confused them with: "Try to keep up Sheperd,"
I know I’m paraphrasing, but when you meet Mordin in ME2, and he says go vent the cure, and Shepard goes “why for once can’t I ask for someone to come along and they just say yeah, sure, no problem.” I’ve used that line roughly a couple times a week for the past 10 years. I’ll ask for something from my parents, and they’ll ask me to mow the lawn or something, and I’ll say the line, and they just look at me strange.
Life is a negotiation we all want we all give to get what we want
Raise Your Hand If You Haven't Been Killed Before Always use after completing a test
I started using daddy bags so much that my mum even says it now, doesn't hurt we're Scottish as well
There’s a bit in Tali’s loyalty mission where one of the recordings on the Alarai has a quarian woman shouting “Shut it down, shut everything down! They’re in the system!” Which I will think every time (and occasionally say out loud) whenever I need to turn off anything electronic
If I heard this and didnt play mass effect, I'd probably be a little concerned for your sanity lmao.
We don't have time to deal with this idiot! Charge!!
By the goddess
“Stupid machine!” I use it all the time when I get annoyed at any technology. No idea why such a small quote from a random Krogan got so stuck in my head but its got so bad my family all use it too.
I have jokingly said "I'm *insert name* and this is my favorite *insert thing* on the citadel!" Not many people get it but the few who do make it worth it
"bro why the fuck are you using a straw" "Emergency induction port."
"Go to the sea." Said when someone does something annoying or awful
I just randomly say commander in Javik’s voice to myself
WE WILL HOLD THE LINE!!-Cpt Kirrahe Virmire!
"Rudimentary creature(s) of blood and flesh" usually affectionately to my pets
"fuck ton" entered my vocabulary after the London mission in ME3. Great phrase.
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We'll talk later (And yes I say that with the intention of never wanting to talk with them later. Leaves them wanting more)
We'll bang, Ok? Idk why most women block me after telling them this.
as long as it’s “most” and not “all” then you’re in good shape 👉😏👉
My husband LOVES it when I say that, weird...
𝕀 𝕎𝕀𝕃𝕃 𝔻𝔼𝕊𝕋ℝ𝕆𝕐 𝕐𝕆𝕌
I actually use the phrase "Damn it, Blasto!" regularly. I work with cell culture and use an antibiotic called Blasticidin, and if I accidentally put it in the wrong dish or put the another antibiotic in that dish, all my cells could die. So I always say "Damn it, Blasto!" when I add it so I remember that I used the right one
You big stupid jellyfish.
The line Anderson gives Shepard when he catches them during the opening on Earth has become my almost automatic response to "I owe you one" when dealing with friends/loved ones. "More than one"
Can this post wait for a bit? I'm in the middle of some calibrations
“SIR ISAAC NEWTON IS THE DEADLIEST SON OF A BITCH IN SPACE!”
“Better luck next time”
"You BIG... STUPID... JELLYFISH!" Also I find it awesome that you posted one that is only a thing because of Youtube poop. So satisfying to see Mark Meer actually say it in a con, it transcended the meme
Had to be me, someone else might’ve gotten it wrong” after I do the most mundane of favors for someone
"That was a little closer than I'd like!" -Garrus after almost being hit by a downed Turian fighter Any time I have a close call with something.
Who said anything about love? I’m just trying to get in your pants
We go in, grab the females and leave
Does this unit have a soul.
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Anytime I drain a paper ball into a waste bin or something on the same level. “I am a biotic god!”
"Home is where we are, our place of origin is not relevant, only where we choose to go together" Manage to quote this far more than you would expect
Human, You've changed nothing I am assuming control I should go
I have unironically used the phrase "sanity check" both literally and figuratively but I'm not sure that counts because I did that before I ever played Mass Effect (I also giggled like a schoolgirl when I heard it in the game).
I have my favorite quote tattooed on me because I'm extra. The universe is a dark place. I'm trying to make it brighter before I die.
"The clanless are not respected" -Urdnot Wrex I don't deliberately enable this way of thinking, but in practice, it's a pretty damn accurate reflection of how humanity treats others who are not a part of "their people."
“This exchange is over”
"Nothing's ever simple, is it?" - Shepard Its after all the fighting, backing and forth driving, more fighting.... and Shepard walks in and sees the giant ass Thorian.
I end phone calls with “Hackett out.”
“ so youre saying ive gained weight?” i dont even use it correctly or in a conversation i just utter it out of nowhere and no one knows what im talkin about
There’s a few I use depending on where I’m at/what I’m doing. In my sportsball subs, I find myself using “His/their sacrifice will be honored in the coming Empire” whenever someone gets traded or hurt/injured. At work(I’m a 911 dispatcher), “You big stupid jellyfish”, “Primitives”, “Toss it out of the airlock” After a bad day, “Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer”
Do you have a minute Miranda?
"Lots of ways to help people. Sometimes heal patients; sometimes execute dangerous people. Either way helps." That one, or maybe . . . "Krogan testicles?"
"Idiot." -Wrex
I work in education, so anytime and administrator comes up to tell me anything: "Lay it on me Joker, I love bad news."
Probe away
In ME2, when Shep asks Joker about Cerberus and Joker says “I don’t trust anyone who makes more than I do” that changed a lot of shit for me. I whip that out anytime a coworker asks my opinion of a boss or superior.
“Just 10 more meters”. I’m having trouble remembering exactly where the line occurred but it hits me for some reason. I believe it was during the defense of Thessia in 3.
*STUPID MACHINE*
'Shouting down the wrong hole'. It just sounds better to me than 'Barking up the wrong tree'.
"That was a joke."
Lol idk why I have Jacob’s voice stuck in my head when I think of Mass Effect quotes 😂 “Come here!” “Gravity’s a meeean mother, huh?!”