Uh huh.

 

Uh yeah, You blatantly listed inaccurate information, no practices were put up, and yet it was stated otherwise.

 

Its simple and no amount of smariness or snark will change that you listed it.

I could provide specific examples, but it gets down to semantic. There are plenty of examples, the question is would it change anyone's opinions if I provide it? I know very specific examples I can list; I don't want to waste my time.

 

Then don't say you provided examples, you listed a practice, you didn't actually list half a dozen citations or anything, word yourself correctly.

 

I mean really, there is a difference, I mean I can list off a handful of practices out of left field, but that doesn't mean anything unless if I actually point out specific cases to strengthen my argument, its all positioning and word play.

Just look at what is happening over at Marvel Comics.

 

I didn't say it didn't exist, I said he provided no citations or examples

 

And yet he said he did, a small inaccuracy I felt like pointing out.

I have already given you examples of how characters being changed race intentionally

 

You actually didn't.

 

You said the practice exists. 

 

You didn't provide any actual examples of it.

 

Just a FYI.

I'm not a fan of how Rey was handled. Her behavior in a few scenes had me rolling my eyes and her mastery of the Force was achieved with no hard work or knowledge required.

That said, I was surprised at the comments about the new protagonist. It is far too early to pass on judgment.

 

Force training for either spectrum is a involved process that takes YEARS, I mean crud Luke by the end of ROTJ was not on par with Jedi Knights of the Old Republic, little lone a master, but over the following decades, he basically cobbled together a unique understanding of the Force from the prior Order, and his own discoveries and along with that understanding, came the utility and abilities that came along with it. Darth Maul was trained in secret for decades, seriously from less then a year old until five Sidious had him in the care of droids, and from then on, he was trained until adulthood to master the abilities and skills of a Sith Assassin.

I standby what I said:

If some of you had a brain cell, you would have known that I was talking about advertising.

I own a wide diversity of movies and tv-shows, which contain: female leads, black leads, and gay leads. I am in full support of diversity.

 

If Disney had three brain cells in their marketing division they would realize that two of the greatest american actors of all time including James Earl Jones, and Billy D frigging Williams were involved with the original Star Wars trilogy, thus making the whole inclusion of black folks sort of like issue that never needed addressing anyway. Hell even the prequels had Samuel Jackson(Not a fan of that actor or his work but that's me) Starwars has in the decades it has been around already included multiple ethnicities of our human race into it, from one end of the globe to the other you will find spectrums of skin tone and pigmentation featured across it, heck one of the Grand Admirals from the EU was actually modeled off a korean writer they had for a magazine at the time(according to fan theory).

 

Warder may not like where Starwars is at the moment in terms of narrative, plot direction and etc, but he does fondly recall the EU and thus has a large breadth of knowledge of it and its characters. 

 

...I miss Mara Jade.

Honestly, I came to realize after reading their nonsense again and again that most of those guys are just hypocritical. 

 

 

Me too!

So remember boys and girls, when something's not made specifically for white straight men, it's called pandering.

 

FFS, BSN...

 

And when you actually present a logical argument, its buried beneath: No, but that's not how the modern western world views it blanket statements.

 

FFS BSN.

This thread is amusing in that it devolves to such tripe because its own topic is utterly spent.

 

Please though, continue the show-respectfully of course, I am enjoying this.

I don't know if the parallel is appropriate here. Tevinter is the core of human civilization, more or less the first place where humans arrived to the continent. Also, far from being insular, Tevinter was expansive, more than willing to trade peacefully with those who wanted (like the Dwarven Empire) and ruthlessly crush those who tried to stay insular (like the remains of Elvhenan). That until the Blight started and, after that, a group of barbarians from the farthest corners colonized by humanity rose against them under the banners of political opportunity (Maferath) and zealotry (Andraste).

 

You know, maybe Tevinter is the Federation and Zeon is the Alamarri?

 

In how their respective wars went maybe? Not even that really.Tevinter fell apart, its a paper tiger if there ever was one. It would be Zeon in that case too, Tevinter lost that war on the theater level, you don't give up a continent, if you have the capabilities to win.

 

Also being trade, does not mean that you have adoptive culture, did Tevinter adopt the customs of every society they conquered? Of course not, they took some useful things, but overall they did not change, insular society, insular culture. You finding a parallel between two parts of their respective histories doesn't do this much credit.

 

But overall like Zeon-Tevinter would not abandon its cause so easily. With numerous rogue militant groups, terrorist cells and successor Zeon movements, the One Year War would not be the end of a era of war but rather then merely the prelude to it. Which mirrors Tevinter's defeat in the first Exalted March only to gather its strength and basically invade several nations, Zeon would do similarly, a decade almost after the One Year War, they invade in earnest. Kick off another major war, get defeated, same as Tevinter in the aftermath of the Third Blight, because the Federation had actually just gotten out of a war, where Zeon had aided them

 

Ironically enough, they turned on them mere days after the Gryps War ended.

 

Of course same song and dance, they are defeated, shattered and disorganized, but in the aftermath of the First Neo Zeon War...well you know how it goes, new leaders rise, rally the men, regroup and prepare.

 

She looks like she has a hemmroid

<.<

Its actually already in place and pretty common.

 

Every soldier in the Alliance has gene treatments, and the Alliance even has a gene firm on call to provide said treatments.

 

Civilians even have access to that tech, its not touched upon much, but neither is it nonexistent.

You know, I have thought of a interesting parallel.

 

Zeon is the furthest series of colonies from Earth, Tevinter is the tip of where Humanities known influence ends in Thedas. This distance has worked to both's advantages when actually putting together their own nations and cultures, where Zeon was once like any Federal colony cluster pre Deikun and Tevinter was just another barbarian culture before advancing under the rule of stronger leaders. At the same time however, both of these cultures became increasingly insular and inclusive to the outside world to the point of the only contact you'd likely have from them would be in a military fashion.

 

Both believe in their inherent superiority over, basically every other race which stems from that culture. The difference being that in Tevinter such a attitude was cultivated over countless generations, in Zeon? They did it in a decade, soon after severing all contact with the greater solar community in the aftermath of Deikun's death and the rise of the Zabi's rampant nationalism and militarization began. Admittedly this rise to power would be no less bloody then any Tevinter power struggle, the National Diet was abolished(after being overthrow), the local military garrison from the Federation was kicked out of the country(after a series of mass revolts), the transformation from a democracy to a autocracy or monarchy(depends on how you view a hereditary dictatorship) occurring pretty much overnight.

 

Similarly with Tevinter in the aftermath of their own civil war marked its own decline from its golden age, the difference between these two examples is night and day, where Zeon rose to glory on the back of war, Tevinter crumbled in it.

 

I can keeping going, but the point is made.

 

Edit: I added two videos to provide clarification for those who don't know a Zaku II RB from their own left foot.

Alright then whatever you say.

 

When you are presenting evidence against what goes against historical grain, you generally have to do better.

http://essaysbyekowa.com/olmecs.htm

 

All of those citations are garbage level propaganda.

 

I didn't really expect much but, I am still disappointed.

 

Also two of those sources no longer even exist, just FYI.

I hope they have different kinds of scars as well. The slash ones are good, but I would also like for their to be options like burn scars.

I've got scars on my right hand from glass being propelled a few dozen meters per second...their these little pock marked thin lines.

Zaeed had tattoos

No. Just no.

 

In realistic situations many times it means that stopping to do a good deed will result in you giving your enemies time to escape / destroy data, etc.

Pragmatism Vs. Idealism are about whether you should do a good deed even when it harms your "Greater good" or overall bottom line.

 

Sure, sometimes you may reap an unexpected benefit do to a good deed, but with how Bioware likes to portray this, you (almost) ALWAYS get rewarded more for good deeds. (I do wonder why we have so many crooks and criminals in the world if this is the case)

 

Selling arms to insurgents is a profitable way to make a living.

I would like to note that as far as I could tell the Alliance's BAaT program at it's worst had nothing on Cerberus' Sanctuary project at it's best.

 

...Because having military instructors physically assaulting civilians is something you want in the press, I mean at best you could say they were drafted, but erm, they weren't.

 

Breaking limbs of people who aren't in your military to begin with tends to result in court martial and dishonorable discharges from my experience.

 

The fact they hired Turian mercenaries is another tsk tsk thing as well, So it isn't even Alliance military doing said assaulting, its something that would result in a diplomatic incident with the Council races and Humanity.

 

So got nothing? Heck no, if reported it would lead to all sorts of nastiness, which is why that crap is so far classified, they'd put a bullet in your head if you tried to talk about it.

Repent! Worship the Lady!

o.o

I follow a more fashionable leader

Hmm... that would still leave the problems of possible Indoctrination for everyone who worked or served on that ship, but assuming you somehow managed to solve indoctrination, I guess that's somewhat better.

Oh there is a work around.

Most of the crew is inorganic VI delegated slave circuits. Only a handful of critical stations such as weapons, communications, navigation and engines have human presence.

Nothing living is interacting with Reaper processes.

That's actually TIM's solution for utilization of Reaper materials. Basically just removing the human element entirely wherever possible.

Food for thought: Since the Architect reversed the tainted blood in Fiona, couldn't Corypheus theoretically have done the same for Felix?

It was as far as I could tell a accidental effect. Not the purpose.

The problem with something like this is that an Alliance Dreadnought the size of a Reaper is still inferior to a single Reaper, technologically speaking.

You need to think outside the box when it comes to defeating the Reapers through conventional warfare, it can be a Death Star, it can be trying to control the Reapers, or it can be something else, but a single Super Dreadnought that is on par with a single large Reaper will most assuredly not suffice.

>.>

You think there is anything standard about that ship at all?

No point in doing spoiler alerts or anything for a event tree but depending on choices erm... That ship can be the most advanced piece of construction of the cycle.

It basically ultilizes fully powered Reaper main guns in base form. It's series of 'upgrades' do anything from housing a collection of signal jammers that have the ability to interfere with control of Reaper forces to having the intact Reaper brain as a portion of its primary computer.

That said its only a single ship in a fleet.

It's just...the biggest thing in game.

Every fleet needs its Dolos.

I would have started even earlier, with Cerberus staging a covert op on the Prison Shepard was in, offering him to actually do something to stop the Reapers instead of sitting on his ass to appease the alliance PR department.

 

At this point you have a choice to go with them, or refuse and go with the Alliance.

 

*coughs*

 

In my narrative Shepard can actually kick off the Citadel Coup in act two to basically institute a human led war effort against the Reapers, supported obviously by Cerberus Commandos and assorted mercenaries that basically neutralize C-Sec and hold the Council(including Anderson or Udina at gunpoint) until their demands are met, instituting a martial law on the Citadel under Cerberus control, which actually results in my opinion the neatest Cerberus war asset (God I hate that term) a Super Dreadnaught that they basically force the alien population of the Citadel to construct in the wards which is christened the Olympus Mons By TIM as its basically the largest organically constructed ship in known history at damn near the size of a Reaper(it takes almost eight months to construct even with round the clock slave and skilled labor) 

 

It grant as much battlefield potential as four normal Alliance Dreadnaughts.

 

It becomes the flagship of the Allied Fleet in the push to retake Earth in the final act, with TIM himself actually coming out of the shadows to watch because if they fail here, they won't have enough left to even slow the Reapers any longer, this is the Cerberus path conclusion which leads to several endings depending upon just how well that final push and retaking Earth goes, resulting in anything from TIM and Cerberus basically all killed in action when they ram the dreadnaught into Harbinger(which kills the stupid squid) to Cerberus basically becoming the unifying force for Humanity in the aftermath with the Alliance being decimated beyond repair with much of its military and political voice destroyed.