I feel like I'm a Renegade playing Paragon on my canon. I take whatever means I'll have to to achieve what I think is the best solution. But in ME, as with most RPG's I've played, it tends to be easy - the push of a button and mayyybeee
a sidequest. There are few decisions in ME I really find to be hard, maybe I just have a strong grasp of my personal principles.
I could go on about how life experiences shape my outlook, but I'll keep it to one small aspect only: myself as a huge football junkie. As with any sport, football has parallels to real life and teaches you valuable things.
From playing experience, I hold a lot of value on discipline, personal and professional. Everyone makes mistakes, but the winners learn not to repeat them IMO. Also, that playing a violent game gives you no right to be a thug. When the ball is live, hit the guy as hard as you want. After the whistle, help him up.
And to get a bigger role/more playing time, you have to earn it. Nothing is ever given to you , HS level and up!!
As an avid follower of the NFL, the business side of things teaches you many realities, which is reinforced with experience in the work force. You can't live off past accomplishments forever. People only appreciate you as long as you are doing your job well - and there's nothing wrong with that either (my chief pet-peeve with this site, a high sense of entitlement from many that I suspect have no actual experience in the world).
Therein is a real-life TIM/Cerberus: Al Davis (RIP) the Oakland Raiders. At least it was, but new leadership has taken over recently. The entire team has been run by owner/GM Davis for most of their history in the league. Davis passed recently, but he reminded me of the Illusive Man in more ways than one - a charismatic and controversial leader whom the word "renegade" has been used to describe
many times. He had aggressive strategies and generally always welcomed talent - even if said talent was otherwise a misfit in the league. His motto was "just win, baby!" and often told his people not to let failure deter them, which is pretty reflective of TIM's outlook on getting the results. He was been seen to otherwise be pretty vindictive and hold grudges at times as well, but at others, showed willingness to work cooperatively with other people even at times where it was not completely culturally-accepted. For a very long time, the Raiders were a highly-successful franchise in the NFL.
As of most of the past decade, though, the Raiders really fell-off in their play and largely because of his management at the top. As owner himself, he had no one to answer to for lack of results as GM, so the Raiders have been mediocre for a very long time. He's rigidly recruited elite talent at the expense of valuable experience and intangibles - the result has been a wildly inconsistent team for a while now. You see flashes of brilliances, with long stretches of failure in between and no playoff appearances since 2004. Basically the league's laughing-stock, very much how I see Cerberus in the ME universe.
Anyway, I've rambled, ye ole block 'o text. But there it is. This was a fun exercise OP
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I think the character that best reflects my morality is Mordin. While I'm not qute the brilliant mind he is, I think we share common views: always willing and eager to help people, but also getting our hands dirty at times to do the "greater good" - while still maintaining clear ethical boundaries at it.
Modifié par Hah Yes Reapers, 10 janvier 2012 - 07:19 .
Renegades, on the other hand... 
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