jeweledleah wrote...
Zulu, you're opinions are not the only correct opinions. I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but what YOU think is the only option with everything else being wrong and doom? its not. to quite Dude Lebowsky: that's just like your opinion, man.
Not only mine, but that's irrelevant. What is relevant, is that there are way more logical arguments
pro keeping tha Base, than
contra.
Of course, blowing it up is "equally valid", because it's "just a game", and everybody gets their fun the way they get it. That doesn't change the fact that most arguments
pro blowing it are either emotional, or meta-gamey. They are logical only in one case: "I'd rather see Galaxy burn, than the Humans at the top."
jeweledleah wrote...
you are completely fixated on collector base being necessary for defeat of the reapers and that to do anything else means automatic doom and loss
Actually, no. I (my Sheaprd) thinks the Galaxy is pretty much doomed even with the Base. Because miniscule chances x1000 = still miniscule chances. And yet miniscule chances x1000 = a thousand times better than miniscule chances x1.
jeweledleah wrote...
even though we've been making plans for that before we even knew that collectors existed, let alone that they had a Base we could keep. Turians developed Thanix canon based on the sovereign research while you were being rebuilt, for example. Protheans left their own research from the last time reapers came around - oh wait, you think that vigil is a traitor even though vigil ONLY helped us with no strings attached, while TIM is playing out his own little drama, keeping us on strings.
And you're playing yours by spiting him, instead of contribiting to the Galaxy-wide effort (to come up to par with the main enemy, the Big Bad, the Prime Evil) by keeping the Base. All over some petty difference in the opinion about whether your own species should strive for a better place in the Galaxy or not.
jeweledleah wrote...
I wonder why is it that you feel the need so vehemently justify your choices? is it because deep down inside you know that they might not be the only viable ones after all, but them being more ruthless makes them less appealing?
I don't justify my choices. I question yours. That's how it's always been throughout the four previous C-Base threads too. As far as the real discussions went (as opposed to simple "I kept it" and "I blew it" statements), they all could have been just as easily titled "Is there any justification at all to blow up the Base?" Quite telling of itself.
jeweledleah wrote...
Cerberus is not about development or progress for its own sake. Its means to an end and that end is power.
I can see nothing wrong with that.
jeweledleah wrote...
Galactic races did pretty well before humans even came to the scene.
I can see nothing wrong with the idea to beat them at this power-game.
Nobody says the aliens should just relax and submit to the Human dominance. Let them try to prevent it. But there is no point in relaxing and submitting to the "galactic races" on our part.
jeweledleah wrote...
P.S. AI research is not completely illegal. its merely heavinly sanctioned - the reason quarians are seen so badly is becasue they they didn't go through official channels. then again, they didnt' realize what they were doing at the time...which is basicaly the reason why AI research is heavily sanctioned.
In other words, EDI is illegal, if only for not having a Council's sanction.
jeweledleah wrote...
and everyone knows that Geth are most definitely smarter then average loki mech, its why they are seen as more of a threat.
Only in groups.
Modifié par Zulu_DFA, 06 mars 2011 - 08:55 .