madimpossibledreamer

“Want? No, I don’t want it. Want implies it’s a choice. I need this, Buff.”

“michael”? Majima??? whatcha doin

If Rukh was a normal birb, avoiding petting below the head would be important (because that’s part of breeding rituals). It’s a good thing Rukh is not a normal birb, because Desmond definitely did not do the research for Owning Birb. (Rukh probably knows more about Owning Birb than Desmond does.)
I do think the Bleeding Effect is essentially Advanced Dissociation.
The line about the taste of Filth is original to the game.  I also feel a little bad for missing out on Marianne Chen; she's a cool character including for a line I'd entirely forgotten about not expecting this kind of thing to happen under a Democratic president.  She just didn't quite fit the pacing for this part.

Main Points: Assassin's Creed/The Secret World

        “He still had a crush, by the way. ‘Till the day he died. Which means you’re a cool guy, so I’d like to get to know you.” Xander, for once, doesn’t manage a response, so he laughs. “Not like that. It’d be a little soon after, don’t you think? Besides, you’re attractive, but not my type. I just…” He sighs, drawing in on himself a little. “I could use a friend right now.”
        Instantly any hesitation vanishes. “I’ll warn you, I have no idea how to be a friend despite extensive research, but complaints only run in the hundreds, so I think you’ll be fine.”
        “Oh, that good, huh?” Cho asks with a raised eyebrow and the ghost of a grin, and in Xander’s head Tony mouths ‘finally’ over a cup of...you know what, Tony probably has no idea either. That gets Xander to laugh.

Given that Surak’s whole thing was essentially ‘sacrifice the individuality that leads to rage and murder for the greater good of society’, Vulcan society tends to read more communal society (Asian, among others) to me, therefore ‘it is good for the individual to sacrifice on behalf of society’. Not as much Omelas or ‘the end justifies the means’.