Minervas Den Illogic

* See also Bioshock_Illogic
* See also DLC
* See also Minervas_Den
Minervas Den was one of the Best DLCs done - With new 'Story' and not much writer RetCon shitting on the main game's Canon or Lore the way Burial At Sea did.
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Sigma and Porter -- It is Just As Strange Plotwise As Jack In Bioshock With Atlas :
Sigma (Player) : "Seriously, Why are they asking ME to do all this shit ?" 
I asked myself "Why can't 'Porter' ( Yes, yes, it is actually The Thinker emulating Porter's voice ... But at that point in the story, WE don't know that. ) do all these things HIMSELF - which he is having Sigma (ME the Player) instead do it ? ( Just like Atlas has Jack, a complete ignorant newbie, do everything for him ? IT SOUNDS LIKE ANOTHER SETUP HERE ... ) 
"If you want it done right" ... 
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Porter Tasking Sigma :
A logical question : Why can't tech genius Porter do his own so-important task in his own familiar facility, instead of having to get a bug-brained 'Alpha' cyborg to do it all for him ? And not one of those nice well conditioned later-model Big Daddies either ( Alphas were supposed to be 'basket cases' ... No ? )   'Porter' shows he has control of all kinds of things in the story.  So wouldn't it be simpler for Porter to do his own sneaking around ( like he must've for years to survive wherever he's at ), so to 'Print out the Code' (or whatever) ?  
Instead, "Porter" stays where he is in hiding, all nice and safe ...  So, this Porter guy can't contact The Thinker himself ? Maybe Wire-Splice into a phone/data line and talk directly to The Thinker computer, etc ... To do what he and Tenenbaum needed done ?
All (contrived) for the 'twist' ...   MAYBE WE NEED TO Consider that these games ARE graded 'On a Curve' by the ones who set their 'scores'. In a game industry known for its lazy lack of innovation. ( This Minervas Den game at least has a half-excuse of being DLC. ) 
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A Similar Logic Issue in BS1 :
There is no disclosure (in BS1) that Jack, being Ryan's 'child', was Atlas's reason to use Jack - Allegedly so he can get past security ( which Atlas can't ... Jack can get past 'genetic lock security' for this assassinate Ryan Plan of Fontaine's ). 
EXCEPT Consider : Fontaine's 'Plan' started 4 years earlier WHEN all that genetic security most likely DID NOT EXIST YET . Remember these are DLC 'gamewriters', who are On Par "Par" : An amount/judgement taken as an average or norm to the rest of the game industry, who have FAR lower standards of what's expectable.
'AND : Atlas himself seems to 'get around in Rapture' just fine. WE DO, in-game, see Atlas traipsing around the City. And Atlas IS SHOWN to manipulate Rapture systems left and right throughout the story.   ( I was suspicious of his 'pal' crap from the very first ).
Strangely : Atlas is having an unarmed, inexperienced, stranger who is supposed to do better than the 'Big Clever Rapture Man' -- Who is this "Who is Atlas" and "Atlas Voice of the People" guy. ( Remember that Guy Johnny who got disemboweled in the first few minutes you arrive in Rapture ?? )
THIS IS A SERIOUS CASE OF : Something is wrong here.  They had way too much Player Manipulation for their 'Plot Twist', which they then botched by anti-climactic by still having 1/3rd of the game yet to go. (( Sucha story would be 'laughed out of' a third-rate pulp fiction community. ))
Unfortunately, there is No (better) game-written possibility offered for some Internal Conflict in Jack -- Ways for him to React IF (or when) the Player figures out he's being 'used' ( OOPS - I guess the Player being more informed might detract from their simpleton 'Twist' within the slaughter-fest Shooter-game. But then, sophisticated/superior games, with actual psychodrama, ARE hard to write. ) 
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Sorry VACUUM TUBES Don't Work To Make Some Super-Duper Computer :
Seems an easy relatable topic : 'Computers' with 'nostalgic' rows of Vacuum Tubes - Done to give a RetroFuturism kind of element to the setting. The typical ignorance of the Player was to be played upon : Most people haven't a clue about how early computers worked ( and don't really know how the ones THEY NOW USE actually work either ) ... Rows of Tubes is the Cliche. 
Players perhaps know even LESS what Transistors looked like.
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THE THINKER to the Surface :
In the end, a pile of Punchcards/Data-tapes will go to The Surface so that the program Can Live ? Really, it is Porter going there who has the actual capability to recreate The Thinker. How Tenenbaum and Porter will manage to build an expensive (many) multi-million dollar prototype computer is a whole nuther story.
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Gravity Well
DLC - goes beyond Parent. A Plasmid which has to be Fantasy Psi (Psionic) in what it is supposed to do. Gravity in NOT something that any Physiological mechanism can produce. ( SEE Making_Plasmids_More_Sci-Fi )
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