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Since I had a t/erf pop up liking my posts, this is a reminder that I’m transmasc nonbinary and that bullshit isn’t welcome here.
I hope you’re wrong, madam.
I had to request a content review for her but. I guess Tali with her hood down is mature content now.
Seriously this site's content moderation is so stupid lmao. Fully covered head to toe in an environment suit? Sorry babe you're too mature for the kiddies now.
This is still in content moderation and it's been two weeks.
@support we get your hand's being forced regarding age verification, stupid though it may be, but this is not adult or even mature. And two weeks is an absurd amount of time for something to remain in review. This character doesn't even have any skin showing!
People hate on the ending of Mass Effect 3 for a variety of reasons. For me, it's the way they, like.
They know. The developers know that the Destroy ending is the obvious correct answer. The kneejerk reflex after all this fighting is to want them destroyed.
That's why they arbitrarily hold a gun to EDI and the Geth's heads over and go, "You better not. You BETTER FUCKING NOT. I'll shoot. I SWEAR I'LL DO IT."
Which completely ruins any philosophical nuance that deciding the Reapers' fate might have. "Should we seek symbiosis with them, take control of them, or kill them and also murder a bunch of other unrelated people in cold blood too why not?"
They knew the choices they were offering weren't very compelling. So they put a hand on the scale.
Because the thing is? Destroy is the kneejerk, of course. But after much consideration? Objectively, Destroy is the right answer for the Reapers. Or would be if they didn't have that gun. The very existence of the Control ending proves that.
The problem with Control as an option is that it eliminates the Reapers' capacity for agency. The ME3 ending states in no uncertain terms that the Reapers are slaves to program. They obey the Catalyst unthinkingly. They destroy societies in an endless cycle because that is what the Catalyst believes is best, based on his own ideas.
He, the Catalyst, is a self-aware AI.
But the Reapers are not. They just obey the Catalyst. For all their bluster in ME1 and 2, for all Sovereign and Harbinger like to talk big, they're all just word-processing. The Catalyst is the only thinking machine among them.
And the proof of that is that if Shepard replaces the Catalyst and sends them contradictory orders, the Reapers all universally obey the new protocol without question. They're in the midst of destroying worlds when the program "Do not destroy these races," comes through. And so they all drop what they're doing and leave without an ounce of hesitation or consideration.
Because they're just obedient machines.
And if that is true? If they're not intelligent, free-thinking artificial life like the Geth or EDI?
Then what value is their existence? They're just complicated warships built for genocide. That is the totality of their being.
And if that is true? Then why would we "seek coexistence" with brainless killing machines? Why would we want to control them, to arm a god-emperor with an armada of planet-killing super-weapons to keep the galaxy in line?
If Reapers obey the Catalyst unquestioningly, if they will obey Shepard unquestioningly, if they are just unthinking and unquestioning machines....
Then obviously we should just destroy them. That is the conclusion that the Catalyst and his choices inevitably brings us back to. If they're just the Catalyst's weapons of slaughter and nothing more, then those weapons of slaughter should not exist. They should all be destroyed and their destruction celebrated in the same way we would celebrate all the world nations disarming their nuclear arsenals.
But the game says no. If you destroy the Reapers, you destroy EDI and the Geth. Because it thinks they're the same, even as it introduces this plot point that completely upends any claim the Reapers have to being intelligent.
In the end, the final choice of ME3 is flawed at a point of basic principles. I reject the notion that it's founded on, that what you choose to do with the Reapers is a reflection of your beliefs towards EDI and the Geth, and their right to coexist with organic lifeforms.
Because they're alive.
And the Reapers are not.
The ending itself told me that.
There's also no explanation as to why choosing Destroy would indiscriminately destroy the reapers, EDI, and the Geth, but Control wouldn't let you control EDI and the Geth -- only the Reapers.
And don't get me started on how the synthesis ending would even be remotely possible without literal magic. Really has no business being included in a series that has consistently presented itself as hard scifi.
Even if they don't tell the audience how the crucible works (and I'd prefer they don't), THEY should have a very solid idea of the rules and logistics.
Instead we got this whimsical malarkey.
I had to request a content review for her but. I guess Tali with her hood down is mature content now.
Seriously this site's content moderation is so stupid lmao. Fully covered head to toe in an environment suit? Sorry babe you're too mature for the kiddies now.
So this video popped up.
And I cannot stop thinking about it. I feel like of all the races, the turians would be the most likely to have a really large variety of languages. But the one I think would have more dialects than god? Salarians.
Just because of feuds and fallings out and bad contracts etc.
Commander Aislynn Geraldine Shepard
Spacer + Soul Survivor + Paragon | Soldier
Sometimes I write things and realize my Shepard is just a DISASTER of a human being. Like this woman is a soldier, just a soldier, she has no biotics, her tech skills are negligible, she just has a commanding presence on the field and cheekbones that could kill a man.
She's USUALLY really soft-spoken but by god she'll make herself heard if you're being an idiot.
She is 6'1" and built like a linebacker, and honestly I think that intimidates a lot of people. It also probably has a lot of bearing on how her peers view her. Except for the crew of the Normandy, who have seen her a) cry watching Fleet and Flotilla with Tali and b) pack away the fruitiest mixed drinks ever.
And I am one hundred percent convinced that given the opportunity in ME3, she'd be shit talking Cerberus NONSTOP every single time someone even breathed their name in her direction.
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤCmdr. Aislynn Geraldine Shepard ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ Spacer | Sole Survivor | Paragon
"We'll fight and win without it. I won't let fear compromise who I am."
mass effect is like we have a sentient artificial intelligence reckoning with her humanity and autonomy and what it all means not just for her but on a philosophical scale and asking not just herself but you the player what being a person is actually. but she has to be a sexy robot so they gave her massive robot tits
Somewhere on Hackett's ship is a yeoman whose only job is to track the location of the Normandy and cross-reference it against every task Hackett has spent the last ten years procrastinating on.
Every time someone draws a super alien looking Tali instead of the weird photomanip we actually got in game, an angel gets its wings.
Biblicaly accurate Tali'Zorah.
Incase it's not clear you're all free to use this design as you please in your art or fiction 👍
a really rough Alistair doodle
I still remember sitting and watching the big marketing blast night of the ME3 launch and being DEVASTATED learning Emily died.
"Want to see how a human dies? At ramming speed."
A handful more images from March 5, 2012, the eve of the original release of Mass Effect 3.
Happy 10th anniversary eve, everyone!
The Initial Post
Images from 3/5/2012
Tonight is the eve of the tenth anniversary of Mass Effect 3, and having been on Tumblr at the time it went down, I went looking through my old blog to find some of the posts I still had from that era.
For all the faults of the game, regardless of your opinion on it? The lead-up to the release was fantastic.
Fans around the world were getting in on the “game,” photoshopping Reapers into pictures, making posts and tweets about the invasion that had suddenly begun. The blogs that posted some of these are long gone… deactivated or abandoned. But I still have access to my old archive and dug up some. It’s how fans learned, before the game had even released, that reporter Emily Wong died… ramming a Reaper in a shuttle.
I’ll post more later, but here’s to that cold March night ten years ago, when an entire fandom came together to celebrate the end of the world.