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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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Reminding the people who matters the most⦠Javik, obviously. Happy pride folks!
Shepard presenting her findings to the Council
Dragon Age: Inquisition - Quests for the Inner Circle
Hold on actually, how about let's imagine SOTR movie epilogue:
Haymitch walks through the meadow, herding his gaggle of geese back home. As he enters the house through the back door, he hears the sound of voices.
He walks into the kitchen and sees the backs of Peeta and Effie, both deep in a loud, animated debate about cake. Haymitch approaches Effie, his arm naturally wrapping around her waist from behind as he drops a kiss onto her hair.
Effie beams, turning around to face him. "Happy birthday," she says.
It is another new year after the war; another sunrise on a day that will never again hold a Reaping.
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.
Thatās why I fall into the conspiracy theory of indoctrination. Even if BioWare says itās not true itās the only way the game makes ANY sense.
Cause why would destroying the reapers destroy other synthetics????? Why? How???? Are they made of the same stuff??? No! It makes zero sense to me. And as you said synthesis requires literal magic.
The catalyst is trying to trick Shepard at the last moment when theyāre hurt and tired and probably a bit confused. Destroy is the only ending that makes any lick of sense! And the actual destroy ending with this theory doesnāt destroy other synthetics. Cause that was just a lie to keep Shepard from doing it.
Iām afraid I have a fucking type
the wolf, snared
(william etty study, 2026)
š¦ reapers look like angry shrimps š¦
Solas during his āimpromptu date in the Fadeā with The Inquisitor be like:
if i had a penny every time a movie depens the relationship between two midle age characters giving them a romantic undertone that may or may not have been on the books, i would have 2 penny, which is not much, but it is weird that it happened twice
Stop warning me about mature content I'm literally an adult
Started getting into Resident Evil, and was excited to get involved in the fandom Saw how hostile people were. Immediately discouraged from engaging because fuck it's gross how mean people were
Look, I know not everyone in fandoms is sunshine and rainbows. Every fandom has its bad eggs, but there is a difference between not being into a certain idea and being actively hostile to people who hold that idea. And the RE fandom is *very* passionate about this game. As they should be. A lot of people have invested years into it.
Well, don't engage with what you don't want to see.
I would love to, but those bitches are in EVERY comment section telling people how stupid they are, that they aren't real fans, that their ideas/ships are the only real ones because "they know the game better than OP."
In the last 3 videos I watched on TT, I saw people in the comments calling people who they disagreed with: stupid, morons, to go kts....I am scared of you and your fandom. And those were just the responses to the comments on said video that they didn't need to respond to. Didn't comment on the video, only the person's comment. It's disheartening when you get into a fandom late to see how toxic it is. I haven't really tried on Tumblr, but I don't know if I'm brave enough... I'll just be over here. Playing my little game while crying over spiders. Having fun, wishing that I could engage, but holy shit...
they need to get a room
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