BS2 Observations

* See also BS2 and Bioshock_Illogic
* See also Eleanor, Delta and Sofia Lamb 
* See also Sinclair, Stanley Poole, Grace Holloway and Gilbert Alexander
* See also Mark Meltzer
 " Illogic is a Thing Of Degree" - Joseph Conrad
 "BioShock 2 had Illogic, but it wasn't the steaming pile that Infinite was ..." - A Player
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Quote From A Forum, 3/2010 :
"I mean, at this rate of rapid degradation of game standards, BioShock 3 will be a FLASH game where you get to play as the Vending Machine that shoots grenades in Hephaestus." 
(( Behold : Infinite BS ... That prediction was close enuf to being True. ))
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BS2 - Subtitle "Sea Of Dreams" :
Who's 'Dream' ? 
:Eleanor's Nightmare ?? As she desperately seeks to escape her tyrannically insane mother ??
:Dream for more Bucks $$$ ?? ( If this was Infinite BS it might have instead become a nightmare ... )
:Delta comes back from 'sleeping in the grave' ( but is it him, or more him being Eleanor's dream of him ?? )
:Sofia Lamb was Rapture's nightmare, but they banished her into the Hell she already had created. ( Actually not a happy fate for her - Either being drowned by her own daughter or headed for a mental asylum on The Surface ... Dreaming/Awake might not matter to the insane. )
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A Defect in BS2 - You can not leave an area until the Big Sister that is after you is defeated. This makes you feel like less of a prey and more like a predator. You now have to kill this thing instead of a wily escape.
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 "Hobson's Choice" - A Decision Where None of the Alternatives are Good :
Because of the BS2 game's rather limited 'Endings', you haven't much choice, and not any way of predicting the outcomes ( The only expectation of types of 'Choice' you might have as a Player is the previously seen Endings offered by BS1 ). 
BUT, If YOU had known that as Delta, YOU could only die (at the end of BS2), no matter which choice of actions, would it have mattered ??? After all, you are a Zombie, 'back from the Dead' ( or you think you are, and considering the motivation that YOU are Eleanor's "Daddy", and she NEEDS to be Saved !!! ). 
Thus taking all actions to stack the deck to "SAVE ELEANOR", should be your biggest concern. Little Sisters could be ground up for hamburger for all you should care. Even if Eleanor should protest --- DADDY KNOWS BEST !!
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Delta's Demise : 
I'm not sure if the Daddy-Lil Sister link being broken would have been the cause ( like what happens if it is broken and then reestablished - all seemed to be some combination of mental conditioning and physiological ).
That big explosion (at BS2 end) may have severely damaged Delta ( the hamburger-meat-making effect of a powerful blast compression wave ) - It might have been more realistic to have his suit appearing well mangled/half-torn off afterward.
They were out in the water and they went up quite fast, so weren't close to any Vita-Chamber ( no data on how far those things work ), and would take a long time to get back (float down) near one ( no data in-game on how long you have for those Vita-Chamber mechanism/system to work ...  Quantum Entanglement The alleged linkage between two 'entangled' quantum objects over unlimited distance - basically Theory which Einstein though rather too dubious. stuff was as much Lala-land Bullshit fantasy as most of Infinite is ).
It is actually possible that as Delta 'died' and floated back down to Rapture, to have a Vita-Chamber intercept him.  It is all largely unexplained how that Vita-Chamber mechanism worked -- Flying monkeys carrying/dragging your corpse into the chambers to be repaired -- That is an easier explanation than any "actual" Teleporting (with or without Plasmids) --- Or worse : Reconstructing you entirely from nothing but DNA !!! INCLUDING your diving suit/equipment/ammo/Audio Diary collection ( all which are definitely NOT part of your DNA ).   Unfortunately that crutch for the  Save & Reload  game mechanism made it into the Canon.
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Little Sister Possession (The BS2 Player Used 'Little-Sister-Vision(tm)' in Outer Persephone) :
Is it a delusion, or is there a more technical (less magic-like) explanation possible/plausible ?
Even if Delta didn't really do what he thinks he sees ( running around in the ex-insane asylum in Outer Persephone as a Little Sister ), Eleanor supposedly still had to 'use them as her hands' to do some of the things to repair/modify the Vita-Chamber to fix Delta, etc ...
Perhaps Delta is really seeing what is in a TV screen inside his suit, seeing a projection from a Little Sister with a visual sensor and radio link, and a not-quite asleep Eleanor is actually guiding the LS to get the suit parts, etc... Or its an implant - Big Daddies may have had a more direct optical nerve link implant as part of their suit equipment ( and having been subjected to the conditioning/acclimation required to make use of it ), but a in-suit TV visual system and normal eyes would suffice.
A Psychic Link to remotely see out of someone else's eyes and THEN to also have remote control over them is impossible with known Physics/Medicine. CONTROL via some brain implant ( which both Little Sisters (Eleanor included) and Delta might have ), sending signals via some electromagnetic (radio) wavelength, and being tied directly into many parts of the brain ( optic nerve, motor controls, communications center of brain, etc ... ) -- THAT all is extremely complex and invasive. ( for Psi abilities, jamming a brain remotely is magnitudes simpler than fine-tuned/coordinated control and/or remote sensing ).
Much more plausible is to allow some technical explanation ( and assisted by deluded perception ). External mental-suggestion/induced-hallucination and direction via a normal communications link is much simpler. Remote sound and visual sensors (bio-electronics) and electronics would have existed already in Rapture ( ex- Security Bots and Scanners ). The Interpretation of sensor inputs of your brain can be adjusted via drugs and conditioning ( easy example is what you see is what a real Little Sister 'sees' as it runs around that area in Outer Persephone for you ).
It also could have been a recording of Eleanor PREVIOUSLY using one of her LS drones to fetch and stash her suit parts ( being re-played to Delta ). Eleanor is trying to convince Delta to help her escape, and Delta may not be interpreting what she shows him quite the way she expects, -OR- it is all for effect -- a manipulation to achieve HER goals.
Possible that Eleanor had access to some of McClendon's Robotic Little Sisters ( at some point ), and THEY were what she was controlling remotely. Or stranger yet - it was actually Eleanor running about. We've already seen how Eleanor had skill manipulating machines, so unlocking her 'containment' and sneaking around Rapture wouldn't be impossible.
Weird would be it being Delta himself ( not quite dying since the 'severed bond doesn't always result in death ) getting out of his suit, and then slithering through the vents, and marching around that section of Persephone to get the suit stuff for Eleanor (... though if she could do that already, then why bother having him do it ??). Funny would be the look on Sofia face when Delta sans suit came behind her at her 'desk', and then taps her on the shoulder and proceeds to strange her slowly ( Yes, "Great Moments That Never Were" are fully possible in the MMORPG ... )
As mentioned before, much of the Vita Chamber repairs Eleanor could have done herself, directly on-site or working on pieces brought back to her, and guiding Little Sisters and Big Daddies to do alot of gofer work ( like fetching an Alpha suit or Deltas body or collecting ADAM ). Easier than having the Little Sisters being 'Possessed' by Eleanor to do all the work themselves under 'remote control'.
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Of course, INSTEAD, we could simply have it all just be without logic (the lazy way out) - and descend into weird fantasy claptrap ( with pseudo-science icing ) like which Infinity BS congealed into ( new joke - "The Quantum Particle Did It !!!" "They've Become Sentient !!!" ). We just say the magic word 'cuz', and avoid the challenge of creating it to match how the logical real world works. If you discard the restrictions of reality, then what does anything portrayed as historic/relatable to the real world MEAN any more ? Who cares about characters, when with the wave of a hand everything is undone, and any/all effort expended playing is meaningless ?
 
If you want Fantasy, then it could have been better/easier done (game-wise) without the need for including half-arsed sort-of-science, or over-complicated/ludicrous contrived justifications.
Just think - Infinite BS, instead of being boring smeg, could have had truly psychedelic mind-stretching events and hallucinogenic Player activities, instead of being mundane and repetitive. That bad cliche plot could have abandoned the maudlin romanticism and sentiment, and made possible more awesome effects and spectacle.
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BS2 Commentation Out In The Aether :
"In our dealings with Sofia Lamb we only see a community offering at best a bogus sense of purpose, and, at worst, a bizarre nihilistic cult"
* Well what do you expect from such a Parasitic Philosophy - as compared to Ryan's achievement-based one ??
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Hooverville (?) - But THIS SHITHOLE Became Like This Under Auntie Grace and Sofia Lamb :
Lets see it (a MMORPG Flashback) when the abandoned AE Maintenance area had been redeveloped by Sinclair  ( and the squatters driven out of the squalor ), and the new Sinclair Deluxe Hotel was built, and when that Art Deco Manhattan-look was fresh and clean ( before the Anarchist's 'civil war' and the Lamb collective turned it into crap ).
The whole story of Prentice Mill's suicide there could play out ( he actually had the Penthouse in the Sinclair Deluxe, which is not accessible in BS2) He WAS still quite wealthy ( having taken 'security' for all the loans he had made ).   But his great project, the Atlantic Express, has been wrecked/obsoleted.  He eventually got tired of playing Trains with the remaining AE passenger service - the old South Line, and took his leavePrentice Mill being murdered by Sofia Lamb might be an interesting 'Twist' to that whole story.. 
Lets then see the %27civil_war%27 ( the Anarchist/Terrorist attacks ) fighting (if any) that took place there.  Sinclair's security may have made it too hazardous for Atlas's minions.
Then have the incident with Sinclair being driven out by Sofia Lamb's sycophants (and his escape to his other holdings elsewhere in Rapture - out of Sofia Lamb's reach, and how he eventually came back to find Delta to try to escape - as seen in BS2).
Lets see the actual miserable Stalinist hell which Sofia Lamb created there, to further her maniacal 'plan' for humanity (consider what we saw in BS2 were likely THE NICE PARTS).
Grace losing Eleanor and then living in fear that Lamb would blame her and have her 'Family' do to Grace what they did to 'Unbelievers'.
Lets see (our hero) Delta come through, blasting everything that moved, and with most of the inhabitants running for their lives any direction they could.
Sofia Lamb's fall, and further chaos. 
Sinclair's Return ?????   ( If Delta could return from a pile of rotted goo, then why not Sinclair ?? )
BTW  - They are called "Rooseveltvilles" in Rapture, as the people there know that the politically socialist Democrat-labeled 'Hoovervilles' did NOT go away for many-many years AFTER FDR came to power ( some were still around at the start of WW2 ).   
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Hyp-no-tize !!! :
The Hypnotize thingee ( Seen in that Introductory Cutscene of BS2) Orb .. Polyp.. whatever ) doesn't work (Where did Sofia get that ??) on Big Daddies.   It bounces off the suit and the Big Daddy thinks his Little Sister is under attack and turns his assault cannon on Sofia Lamb and her lackeys.
Heh, SO in that case, it would be Sofia that Eleanor might have been Reconstituting from 10 year-old Rotted Corpse Tissue instead of Johnny Topside ( or whoever Delta was ).   Likely Jack would have fried Sofia on the spot if she tried to pull her little escapade on him.   ( Actually that's a pretty good 'alternate universe' plot with sufficient Twisty-ness - so Flashbacks All Round in the MMORPG ).
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Multi-Player DLC Illogic : Sinclair Solutions Test Program - Played a major part in the Fall of Rapture ?
Did it ??? Or is that just supposition, when so much else was going on in the City ( like Atlas's  Splicers killing people in the Streets, and shutting down much of Rapture's economy ).  How many of Raptures 'normal' people would actually play for 'Team Atlas'  when all Atlas has to offer is disorder ?
Sinclair sold to both sides?? (I don't recall, did any of the Sinclair product recordings say GO ATTACK RYAN'S FORCES ??)  Was it easy to tell which side people were on ? Were Atlas's forces ever really that large ?  Would Sinclair want Atlas to win ? Do YOU assume Sinclair stupidly wanted Atlas to be in charge of Rapture, with the threat it would mean to his own survival ??   Perhaps ( us playing along with the premise ) Sinclair intended it to be sold to good Citizens to protect themselves - so for Rapture to survive and resume its normalcy, so that he would have some customers left by the end of it all ( He WAS a businessman after all ).
Thus it might have been a more one sided 'Test' of arming ordinary citizens to fight Atlas's barbarians wandering their streets.
All in all, pretty contrived (now as 'Canon') to justify a Multi-Player addon DLC game, which had only one mechanism for how the Players got their Plasmids/weapons.
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Sinclair Seemingly Turned Into a Robot ?? (BS2) :
Was it Real ??  Just Wave_of_the_hand story stupidity ??? Lets try to explain Sinclair's 'conversion' by making it just another one of Sofia Lamb's lies ( A SCI-FI Explanation for the MMORPGs 'repaired' Canon ) :
First - It is Quite a bit too fast to get Sinclair into a Alpha suit ( Just the work to do that isn't trivial, even assuming they had the suit parts all ready to go, and then it was somehow accomplished at THIS facility ??  This is not Point Prometheus with handy bits laying around ).   Suit Fitting, Surgery, Genetically alterations ( to have the strength to move/run in that heavy suit ) Whatever mechanics/electronics/physiological things are needed ...
And then, to get him all conditioned for such 'Control' ( the training just to work the suit is significant ) to be controlled as much as he is shown to be ... 'will-less' ( remember that other existing 'controlling' effects, like hypnotize, are temporary ).
It is rather difficult to run a body on remote control to do all the fancy (and quick) actions that the 'Sinclair' Alpha does.   Some kind of 'drone' remote control ( except about 20 X as complex as any existing drone is even today - human body movements/balance/coordination are pretty complicated ).  So unlikely it is 'remote control'.
Some variety/variant of Hypnotize ?  But that previously largely was motivation ("Daddy Now Friend !!"), not detailed commanded actions - The Hypnotized Big Daddy had to coordinate itself, and carry out typical behaviors/actions, often just its target selection was different.  The "Enraged" Plasmid affected Splicer just goes after anything near itself ...
And his mouth ( free on Sinclair so he can do his 'swan song' for the plot ) - it IS subject to your body's motor control. So NOW how to differentiate between that and other parts of the body which he somehow ISN'T allowed to control ?? (The need a Dr Strangelove moment where Sinclair trips himself when he retains control of some part of his body, and tries to thwart Sofia Lamb) ??   Shouldn't he be able to resist everything else as well .... that aspect just adds another layer of difficulty of such control happening. ( If he'd been quiet and not able to speak, then it would have been more consistent -- But then you wouldn't have got his empathetic radio messages ).
Could it be some kind of Voice Control (?) telling him what to do ( "lift your right leg and bend the knee a little, place your foot forward and now shift your balance weight onto that foot, and now lift the left leg and bend it forward..." --- It would take all day just to get down a flight of stairs. )   And all this while  Sinclair's mind is still there to jam it ?  ( Heh - He does that trick of humming loudly so he can't hear the voice "LA LA LA LA LALA ... I can't hear you you, Sofia, you !@#$% !@#$%^!!!!", or Scream Sing some ditty like "RISE RAPTURE RISE !!!!", etc ... He could even rattle her by shouting "I can feel I'm getting control back Sofia, I'll be comin' for YOU My Dear !!! And you'll soon look flatter n' a swamp frog run over by a car tire !! " )  
Unless it is done by some complex multi-mind weirdness - It is Simpler now to have Sofia Lamb Possess the Alpha/Sinclair/whatever like we did the Little Sister previously - Oops, except Sofia doesn't have Eleanor's powers and genetic links as was with the Little Sisters.
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Add ALL those ways up, and it is pretty unlikely to implement and make what they implied workable,  and do it all so ridiculously fast.   How Fast ?   How long between the time Sinclair was left in the Train ?  At FF you still heard him guiding you, and when you went into Outer Persephone, he's admonishing you to get Eleanor out of the isolation room - "What are you Waitin' for ???", etc ...   Radio Messages  Persephone  "Signal Breaking Out"
So somewhere later, Sinclair is captured ( How long were you out unconscious after Eleanor was smothered, and you were 'dying' on the table... It Can't be too long or you WOULD be dead. )   All the  "You Become a Little Sister" stuff happens - but it again can't be too long - WHEN you are supposed to be 'dying' from the Pair Bond being broken.  Then you (Delta) explore half of Inner Persephone before you see Sinclair as an Alpha before he races off to be locked in the Warden's Office.   How long a time was it to that point ?  Hour(s), less ?
First time we (as Jack) got ADAM, how long were we unconscious -- When the shock hits our system ?? ( Heh - System Shock ... )  Sinclair wasn't an ADAM user, not that we heard of.   Subtract that time, as Sinclair being too 'out of it'/unresponsive for 'conditioning'.    Sinclair also mentions that Sofia tortured information out of him ... "bomb codes"  ( Yet another odd thing ... ). All before they can even put him in the 'Suit'.   Anyway, more and more time delays BEFORE this alleged 'conversion' supposedly is completed.
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A Suggested alternate explanation : Sofia Lamb was just pulling one of her psyche manipulation games, and that WASN'T Sinclair in the Alpha Suit that Delta chases.  All we hear is a radio link (no face as usual) of his voice, and he thus could be anywhere (and NOT in the Suit).   He could be whacked out on drugs and made to think a simulators TV he's watching is him in the suit ( to account for the few comments he makes - most of which are actually his comments on what Delta is doing - he just has to see that ) .
This is possibly alot simpler explanation than THAT oh-so-quick "Sofia Lamb Turned Sinclair into a Pet Robot" which Sofia claims to have done.  It is just one of her minions in the Alpha suit running about so adeptly.  Remember, with Sofia Lamb, it is the psychological manipulation that is all that matters.  Its also safer - Just what Sofia WOULDN'T NEED was for the conditioning to suddenly FAIL, and there is now TWO mad Killing Machines after her.
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Next discussion - WTF, Sofia gave the Key to 'Sinclair' just so that Delta could take it ??
Seriously ?? Another Character made into an Utter Moron by the Game Writers ...
Why should she GIVE her Sinclair pawn this thing just so Delta could catch him and take it ?  Just more mind games ??   SO Sofia wanted to escape Rapture. Maybe she was running out of minions/Alphas,  and the Little Sisters were getting surly, OR she learned that an alliance of Other City Factions were soon to be coming for her ...  If she wanted to take Eleanor with her, then she probably still continued with her First Utopian delusion, otherwise had nothing to show for her 'Big Project', as she was forced to "Get out of Dodge".
It just as well could be a 'Fake' Key - Just 'bait' for Delta. (A SO Simple Idea - easily explained in one gloating comment by Sofia later ...)
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Bombs Go 'Boom Boom Boom ...' :
Following Gil Alexander's guidance, the Player is ultimately given the choice to electrify Alex's holding chamber through its sample disposal system ( What exactly were these 'samples', before Gil wound up in the thing ?? ), fulfilling Gil's wish to die, OR to spare him, for which his ADAM-produced alter-ego, Alex the Great, now begs.  Towards the conclusion of the game, Sofia detonates the bombs which supposedly brings down Persephone and (????) Fontaine Futuristics into the deep trench (the Abyss), potentially killing Alexander.  If spared, it is possible that Gil Alexander escaped into the ocean (as he promised, when begging for mercy ).  For the Good/Bad ending calculations, killing Alexander appears to be treated the same as most of the other Boss NPCs ( resulting in a 'bad' alignment shift for Delta, and thus Eleanor ).
That 'secret' Live Test Lab section of Fontaine Futuristics is NOT part of the Persephone complex ( it is quite far away, up on the seabed surface ).  Those explosives Sofia Lamb has detonated are not enough to do more than local damage.  Persephone is embedded quite securely in the cavern ceiling and walls, and only that one section might be effected, and that only by tearing a hole in the Pressure Structure - possibly leading to flooding of some nearby sections ( THAT immediate 'Dock' section WAS ALREADY flooded by Delta ).
The whole situation smells more like just more of Sofia Lamb's attempted manipulations of Delta and her daughter.
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Why Should Sofia Lamb Give Delta That 'Master' Key, Except as a Twisted Way of Getting Delta to Kill Sinclair ?  :
After all the other enemies Delta has fought his way through, was this supposed to stop him ? 
Perhaps it was just a delaying tactic while Sofia was getting ready to 'bug out' and abandon her 'Rapture Family'  (which were really fated to become her Borg people anyway or 'volunteer' donors to her Delusion).  She would most importantly 'Save her own Skin' when her manipulations failed on Delta.   If you wanted a REAL Moral Choice at the end of BS2, it would be with Delta choosing to 'Kill Sofia Lamb' or to 'Let her Live'. (( Not good enough for the writers apparently. ))
Another plot Twist Potential lost : That Sinclair didn't have any real 'Master Key' - Just a Fake one that would be discovered after Delta killed Sinclair, and then another smarmy lecture from Sofia about how smart she was.
Actually - So Much for these so-called "Moral Choices" the Player allegedly is given -- when they are given NO choice whether to Kill Sinclair or not in the game, to progress.
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"The Luminescent Biomass is the Enigmatic Source of ADAM in the BioShock Series" :
Is it ? Magic Glowey Light ? Not So.
SO a story is that The Coca Cola (like) company decided to dump its leftover chemicals from their 1910-ish brand Radio-Coke ( "It has Radium !!!" - A product of the popular public 'healthful attribute' misconception after the discovery/publicity of that element and other 'radioactives' like Radon. Dubious health-giving effects was attributed to it in the common culture of that time ). This 'dumping' resulted in the supposed mutation of the Sea Slugs, which ADAM comes from. Hence the glow ...
That could be a nice origins story for it, or not.
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Anyway, What's to keep the whatever (radiation ?) out in the nearby ocean from mutating Rapture's inhabitants ? Maybe THAT is the real source of the widespread deformities ( and insanity, etc ... ). Fish will concentrate 'the whatever' chemicals within their metabolic systems, and Rapturites ate LOTS of fish ...
Of course, REAL Radiation damages and kills things generally -- Much more frequently than it mutates them ( and most significant mutations are fatal to the mutated organism - disrupting some important functioning -- That is why they Irradiate food to preserve it - Kills all the bacteria within a sealed package ).
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This glowing Biomass I would rather attribute to Bioluminescence (which REALLY DOESN'T have much to do with mutations, other than atypically being located at this spot), and the gentle Sea Slug's ADAM just being the result one of your every-day natural mutations. The Sea Slugs 'mutation' is just a local anomaly, as any function of every organism was originally the product of one or more 'mutations'. The Slug's ADAM chemicals sounds like some venom effect which was a viable trait for use against the Seaslug's (actually a mollusk) enemies or prey. It just happened to also have a significant effect on human tissue.
Small Bioluminescent organisms living in some microcosm created by the geothermal activity down there ( warmth and possibly chemicals from volcanic vents ) ???
Biomass sounds like a buzzword which really only implies "bunch of stuff living down there in the cold depths", and with that level of Bioluminescence it would be more than a small microcosm around a few hot volcanic vents. Bioluminescence takes up energy and the light intensity decreases rapidly with distance thru water, so it has to be a huge mass of something able to waste energy (implying a rich environment) and possibly be floating throughout the water itself to be close enough to where anybody could see it so brightly.
A plausible answer : the organic pollution from Rapture enriched the environment sufficiently ( feeding bacteria and thus on up the food chain ) allowing what might have been a much smaller original 'Biomass' (near the volcanic vents) to spread significantly - Causing the whole area around parts of Rapture ( centered around the waste disposal outlets ... ) to glow ( much more than they did when Rapture wasn't there ). Of course something like that would wind up being cloudy if not more like glowing soup. 
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This is just pathetic. The Girders of the building (IF they were of that configuration) would collapse if their apex point ( where the BaSx 'Lunette Hook' supposedly was ) had upward force applied to it. ITS Basic "STRUCTURAL TRIANGLES for Morons" here ... (There would have to be a sideways girder to stop that incomplete 2-sideed triangular support formation from bending inward catastrophically 'Artists' ignore actual engineering because' it doesn't look right' in their Fantsasy-infused brains. GOOD artists actually care about 'details'.).
Ditto, well beyond THAT TARDGOOF IS : for the structure/building to be holding its wall water pressure outward ( the forces of opposite walls have to be supported crosswise with MASSIVE girders ), YOU NEED THE CROSSWISE SUPPORT ( See Construction ) - Preferably at the base of those 2 slanted girders.
 "DONT EVER LET AN 'artist' DESIGN SOMETHING YOU LIFE DEPENDS ON" - Werner Von Braun 
BTW - The 'Lunette Hook' is suppose to be on the OUTSIDE - to fasten cables to to lower the building (that's supposedly what IT IS FOR (inaccessible to Elizabeth, unless she has a Big Daddy Suit on ???) But Magical Infinite_BS has poisoned our poor Rapture. There is perhaps good reason that Levine is not being allowed to have anything to do with "BioShock 3" - He proved he went off into Lala-land with Infinite BS - that besides f^^$#ing up the Management of that last game.
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Questionable Issues :
BS2 - If Ryan was on the inside of Rapture Central Control, why would you assume shutting down that electric lock (powered externally - Yeah that sounds real genius) would get you in ?  The device called a "Deadbolt" HAD already long been invented... and THAT could be made UnHackable.   I suppose  Ryan already knew who Jack was, and was letting him in to spring his own 'fake dying' gambit upon Fontaine ( Twist within the Twist ... ).  
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SitS - Mark Meltzer, Big Sisters, New Little Sisters, Kidnappings ...
Those Funky Puzzleboxes were Boobytrapped ? 
Did Lutwidge ever say that these things were boobytrapped ?  An easy way to solve them can be to cut them open and look at the mechanism.  There should have been at least one that got damaged, would not function and Meltzer would be forced to do that ( possibly to get some help if he was mechanically challenged - and the puzzle would be solving the mechanism's guts instead of the crazy puzzle outside ). 
Actually, if they were 'Boobytrapped' (and Lutwidge WAS a known 'Nut'), then many people (Meltzer included) might be rather wary of having anything to do with these bizarre toys --- As the 'Nut' might try to prove himself 'superior' by intentionally trying to kill whoever tried to play his game  -- Instead of cutting them open and defusing them as HE Lutwidge (being so smart) would have done.
I'll have to go back and look at when Lutwidge made up the puzzles ( somewhere they mention one puzzle thingee strangely being sent to Meltzer when Lutridge was supposed to be in the loony-bin ).   If by the time Ryan had rejected him, he may have ( in the way unhinged people sometimes are ) been trying to prove to himself that HE was the smarter(est) one, and not caring about leading anyone to Rapture anymore - Rather, sending something like a booby-trapped kaboom to anyone else involved,  'just for fun'.
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