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Basicaly, if you have ever thought of an explenation for odd things that don't make sense in video-games, post them here... even if they contradict a thing or two in the game, or the official texts.

Now, most of us know that, except for the Beam Rifle, none of the Covenant 'Plasma' weapons in Halo/2 make sense; as is explained on stardestroyer.net, they travel too slowly, among other things, to be plasma weapons.
Bit of a stretched idea, but perhaps, rather than plasma weapons, what the Covenant in Halo2 are firing are, basicaly, artificial ball lightning.
Ball lightning is usualy reported as 15-40 cm in size, and that's easily within the size of Plasma Rifle/Pistol Shots. This could also help decently explain why these weapons are so much more effective against, not only the Master Chief's shields, but his armor than they are against standard Marine/ODST armor(Marines/ODSTs have FAR more health than the Master Chief in Legendary...); he uses what effectively is a powered-combat armor.
As for them being called "Plasma" Rifles/Pistols, I don't think I've ever heard the Covenant themselves call them such, and humans don't understand them well, so it could be explained that they generate plasma as a by-product of the generation or firing of the actual shots, but not enough to have any practical use, which would explain why when you get... over-enthusiastic with them, they overheat and large amounts of hot gas(plasma) come out, and when you fire, you see a little puff of similarly colored gas. Perhaps coolant is being turned into plasma?
The Humans apparently don't know much about how Covenant "Plasma" weapons work, so they may just know that they somehow involve plasma somewhere, and decided to call them "plasma" weapons.
Of course, this is in contradiction with the instruction manual, but Bungie's to blame for calling them plasma weapons in the first place anyways.

I can't understand how the HL2 Manipulator is working...

Magnet = will pull you
Anti-Gravity = will lift anything
I forgot my other ideas...

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The Railgun is being made by the scientists

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How did UED(Terrans) kill the cerebrates in BW last mission if they can only be harmed by the Dark Templar energy?

Dude, Terran are kewl enough

Refresh my memory, when did that happen?

Broodwar Terran Campaign last mission. "To slave the Beast"

Invincible sunkens (red)
Torrasque (brown)
Overmind defence (Orange)

You can just kill the Cerebrates without any dark templars.

Ah, yes, I remember that now.
Hmm... stupid idea, but whatever.
Protoss weapons are generally psi and/or energy-based, cerebrates are somehow immune to them(possibly through their own telepathic[psionic] network with each other, Overlords, Overmind, Etc)and that's why they can't harm cerebrates, with the exception of the Dark Templar, 'cuz they're special like that.
The Terrans use more 'conventional' weaponry, and the Cerebrates can't defend against that.
The Protoss don't know this because they've never tried killing the Cerebrates with anything other than their psi, photon-manipulations, or "phase disruptor"s.

Stupid yes, and I'm sure it's inconsistant or contradictory with some other part of the campaign, or some official text or something, but hey, no reason not to throw it out.

Let's say you just temporarily disable them for the time being, until the Overmind can reincarnate them.

In MoH European Assault...If you kill enough people, you go into Üb-err Adrenaline mode, which you're invincable and can kill people in 1 hit. What happened to historical recreation?

In Star Wars 3: RotS, in Dual mode, or whatever the hell its called, you can pit the same characters against each other (Darth Vader vs. Anakin Skywalker for example)

What happened to...

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Three posts just say what doesn't make sense, not how to make it make sense...

How come when you use a nuke in SC there aren't any harmful after effects of radiation on any unit in that area, after the blast?

How come in SC a marine is pretty big compared to an entire battlecruiser?

Well, in the opening cut-scene for Broodwar, that Battlecruiser is pretty damn big. It would cover, like, the whole freaking screen. It's for convieniency, really.

devilesk, do you not understand the concept of the topic? When you ask such questions, you are supposed to justify them with reasoning so thay aren't unreasonabilities. -__-

I thought others were supposed to do that for me

Okay so I'll justify them, for the nuke it would just be lame to have the area contaminated, and for the BC it wouldn't be practical for the thing to be actual scale. GG thx my unreasonables are pwned.

How is it that by snorting a crapload of cocaine you can take many bullets and not die for some reason.

Reference to Scar Face.

Reason: It's a ing movie.

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Cerebrate problem:

Kerrigan stole the Matriarch to use Zeratul and his bretheren to kill the overmind for her.
I'm pretty sure sharp blades and acid isn't much different from bullets and rockets...

My explanation:
Psi Disruptor prevented the Overmind from reincarnating the Cerebrates.

Actually, people in Vietnam did that with Opium.



How come in almost every game, when someone says soemthing like "That's the deserted something. No one goes down there any more." you always end up going there?

I'd say plot device, or they just hate you.