Baked into the narrative structure of Mass Effect 3 is that a victory by conventional forces is, fundamentally, impossible.

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Oddly, the industry's structure closely resembles 1930s-era mass manufacturing.

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The underlying steel structure plays off the tinted glass, counterbalancing the building's mass with layers of reflected light.

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In cases where the mass is known, scientists can determine the density, ultimately hinting at the internal structure (gas, rock and so on).

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When it comes to a cure, Miss Zuboff and Mr Maxmin see the answer partly in the structure of corporations, which they regard as too narcissistic, too stuck in old concepts of mass production, even too male-dominated (real men, it seems, won't let the customer come first).

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Indeed Bioware were talking about the potential for Mass Effect to be converted into a film when the first game was released (because its structure is basically that of a film and this was intentional from the start).

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