Apparently released on the internet within the last year or two, some guy(s) taught everyone who was interested how to make armor fairly cost-effectively and not that difficultly, using EVA floor foam sheets, heat guns and hot glue. The result of such efficient tutorials apparently led to a very large conglomeration of DIY Mass Effect costumers this past Dragon-Con.
That’s all fine and dandy, but it turned out that nobody really sought out much originality amongst them all. A vast majority of the male and female Shepards were all wearing variants of black and gray N7 armors. I noticed maybe one or two who busted out some variants of the armor in white, but it pretty much ended up being the same color schemes of whites, reds and blacks.
Apparently none of these people played/care to acknowledge Mass Effect 1, and in even more cases, have any sense of humor, either. When I asked why nobody did the gay-looking pink and white Phoenix Armor from Mass Effect 1, I was met with nothing but blank stares of pretentiousness, and disgust. Granted, I was wearing a silly-looking fu manchu at the time, but still, it’s not like I don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about when it comes to the Mass Effect universe. When you kill some Batarians, and they drop Phoenix Armor 3 when you’re still rocking Predator 1s, and getting owned by turret drones? You swallow your fucking pride and put on the Phoenix Armor.
I’m willing to go with the former on this call, and guess that most of these people haven’t even played ME1. With the re-releases of ME2, nobody was really required to play it anymore, and the bandwagon probably got to its fullest when ME3 was released when ME popularity was at its highest. In a way, I can’t blame people for not wearing any Phoenix Armor, because there’s a good probability none of them even knew what it even was. Because they’re posers. Pretentious snobby ones.
A part of me is torn. I kind of want to make pink and white gay-looking Phoenix Armor out of defiance, and be a living middle finger for those people who take Mass Effect costuming so arrogantly serious, but at the same time, I’m wondering if it’s even worth the effort, just to be yet another DIY Mass Effect armor in the kingdom of shit mountain.
