Arcologies also appear in video games, such as SimCity 2000, Escape Velocity Nova, Deus Ex: Invisible War, Call to Power II, Shadowrun, and Mass Effect.

* In Mass Effect the Codex ( an in-game encyclopedia ) explains that Earth is composed mainly of Arcology buildings.

In Mass Effect the alien Turians and Quarians, are both based on dextro-amino acids, as opposed to all the other sentient species of the galaxy based on levo-amino acids.

* Mass Effect Relay

In March 2012, when the most recent installment of the company's Mass Effect series was released, the fandom was so displeased with the game's available endings that they demanded there be some kind of change.

Gernsback's importance to science fiction was acknowledged by video game developer BioWare, who named a vessel after him in the game Mass Effect 2.

* In the 2012 game Mass Effect 3 the second stanza of the poem is cited by one of the main characters: Ashley Williams, lieutenant-commander of the Alliance

* In Mass Effect ( 2007 ), an expedition launched by the European Space Agency discovers an ancient cache of advanced technology leftover from an alien race known as the Protheans ( The capitol of Mars is called " Lowell city " probably named after Percival Lowell who fueled the believe in possibility of alien structures on Mars ).

In Mass Effect 3 ( 2012 ), a mission is set on Mars at this cache.

* Video games: Secret of Mana and its successor Secret of Evermore ( where the menu was used to accelerate the pacing of combat ), Seiken Densetsu 3, America's Army 3, Habitat, Beyond Good & Evil, Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island, Neverwinter Nights, Normality, The Sims, Perfect Dark, Planescape: Torment, Sacrifice, Saints Row, Saints Row 2, Second Life, Battlefield 2, Freedom Fighters, Ratchet & Clank, Silver, The Temple of Elemental Evil, Crysis, Mass Effect, Warzone 2100, Halo Wars, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, Max Payne 3, Trauma Center, Brütal Legend, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, Dragon Age: Origins, Prototype, Cortex Command, Imperium Romanum

* Mass Effect takes place in the year 2183.

* Mass Effect 2 takes place in the year 2185.

* Mass Effect 3 takes place in the year 2186.

* Sha ' ira, an asari " Consort " from the Mass Effect computer game series.

In the science fiction video-game series Mass Effect, the SSV Normandy is equipped with a " Tantalus drive core.

* In " Mass Effect " the Luna colony was established in 2069.

Some of the other fictions in which warp drive technology is featured include: Stars !, Freelancer, EVE Online, Earth and Beyond, StarCraft, Mass Effect, DarkSpace, Starship Troopers, Doctor Who, and Star Ocean.

Ashley Williams, a character in the video game Mass Effect, was originally going to quote the poem during the game, but copyright issues led the developers to switch to using Tennyson's " Ulysses " in the final cut of the game.

* An immense space station and the heart of galactic civilization, in the game Mass Effect

* 2007 – The player character in BioWare's sci-fi video game series Mass Effect is surnamed " Shepard " in his honor.

Other video games adapt the Science Fiction Western or Weird West subgenres ( Gunman Chronicles, Fallout, Mass Effect and Darkwatch ).

He achieved fame with roles in the films Badlands ( 1973 ) and Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), and made notable appearances in Wall Street ( 1987 ), The Departed ( 2006 ), The Amazing Spider-Man ( 2012 ), and the Mass Effect video game trilogy.

" In addition, he played the role of the Illusive Man in the highly acclaimed video game Mass Effect 2, and the sequel, Mass Effect 3.

In the ordinary form of the Roman Rite, if 2 November falls on a Sunday, the Mass is of All Souls, but the Liturgy of the Hours is that of the Sunday.

Among these sacred works there survives a Mass in C major written without a " Gloria " and in the antique a cappella style ( presumably for one of the church's penitential seasons ) and dated 2 August 1767.

* Mass 998 kg ( 2, 200 lb )

In 257 Emperor Valerian resumed the persecution of Christians, and Stephen was sitting on his pontifical throne celebrating Mass for his congregation when the emperor's men came and beheaded him on 2 August 257.

St Stephen I's feast day in the Roman Catholic Church is celebrated on 2 August When in 1839 the new feast of St Alphonsus Mary de Liguori was assigned to 2 August, Saint Stephen I was mentioned only as a commemoration within the Mass of Saint Alphonsus.

The revision of the calendar in 1969 removed the mention of Saint Stephen I from the General Roman Calendar, but, according to the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, the 2 August Mass may now everywhere be that of Saint Stephen I, unless in some locality an obligatory celebration is assigned to that day, and some continue to use pre-1969 calendars that mention a commemoration of Saint Stephen I on that day.

# Mass flux, the rate of mass flow across a unit area ( kg · m < sup >− 2 </ sup >· s < sup >− 1 </ sup >).

Near the end of 2009, BioWare released the fantasy RPG Dragon Age: Origins, and in January 2010, Mass Effect 2.

Mass storage was provided by a hard disk that used a removable 2. 5 MB single-platter cartridge ( Diablo Systems, a company Xerox later bought ) similar to those used by the IBM 2310.

Along this section, Route 128 has major interchanges with Interstate 90 ( the Mass Pike ), Route 2, U. S. Route 3, and Interstate 93.

These actors include Mark Hamill ( The Joker, Wolverine and the Watcher from Darksiders ), Michael Dorn ( various characters from World of Warcraft and Gatatog Uvenk from Mass Effect 2 ) and Claudia Black ( Chloe Frazer from the second and third entries in the Uncharted series ).

Since Christian tradition holds that Jesus was born at night ( based in Luke 2: 6-8 ), Midnight Mass is celebrated on Christmas Eve, traditionally at midnight, in commemoration of his birth.

* Comics Reporter: " Let's You and Him Fight " Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5-Bart Beaty and Craig Fischer discuss Beaty's " Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture "

st. 2 ) which required that all peers and members of the House of Commons should make a declaration against transubstantiation, invocation of saints, and the sacrament of Mass.

" By: Huang, Betsy ; Hitting Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism, 1997 Summer ; 4 ( 2 ): 61-77.

Some people, such as the following authors, have inferred, insinuated, or suggested that entering a state of perpetual war becomes progressively easier in a modern democratic republic, such as the United States, due to the development of a relationship network between people who wield political and economic power also owning capital in companies that financially profit from war, lobby for war, and influence public opinion of war through influence of Mass media outlets that control the presentation for the causes of war, the effects of war, and the Censorship of war: ( 1 ) " The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group " ( 2004 )" by Dan Briody ; ( 2 ) " The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Help You Through It " ( 2011 ) an anthology by nine authors who are Pierre M. Sprey, George Wilson, Franklin C. Spinney, Bruce I. Gudmundsson, Col. G. I. Wilson, Col. Chet Richards, Andrew Cockburn, Thomas Christie, and Winslow T. Wheeler ; ( 3 ) " Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex " ( 2010 ), by William D. Hartung ; ( 4 ) " Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda ( 2002 ), by Noam Chomsky ; and ( 5 ) " Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media " ( 2002 ), by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky.

* In Mass Effect 2, the geth called Legion refers to the Reapers as the " Old Machines ", and claims that the geth who have attacked organics believe the Reapers to be gods.

* Mass Effect 2 features a character named Legion.

Black Mass and Fastball later appear as members of the Legion of Doom ( the latter frozen by Killer Frost following a battle between the two warring factions of the Society ).