duranii wrote...
To be honest, I was a firm believer in the indoctrination theory until I decided to research the facts and saw the other side of the coin. There's more ACTUAL evidence AGAINST the theory than there is FOR it. A lot of the IT relies on speculation and what I call "leaps of logic."
This video was pretty much the last straw that caused me to completely doubt the indoctrination theory. View it fully. It was well made in my opinion: www.youtube.com/watch
Skip to 3:30 to see the most damning evidence against the theory if you don't want to see the whole thing. Thing is, the things that disprove the theory can actually be seen and confirmed as fact because they ACTUALLY HAPPEN IN GAME.
That's your grand proof? The fact the soldier in the prologue glances
at the shuttle and the kid happens to be between the two? Leaps of logic indeed.
Of course the first clue should have been the way you try to make yourself seem more credible by telling us you once believed in IT. If your "facts" could stand on their own two feet then you wouldn't have to focus on trying to build up your own credibility. They'd speak for themselves. Except they don't.
I never knew an ending could suck so bad that it causes people to be so utterly blind to obvious facts because the IT is the only way to save the ending at this point.
Oh shut the hell up. Christ I'm sick of you "people" and your dimestore psychology. Listening to Oprah 7 days a week doesn't qualify you to tell total strangers how their subconscious is working.
Arian Dynas wrote...
Don't make me get out my theory on the Reaper's creation and their motivations again... I'm sick of getting in debates with Rifneno about his "Harbinger is the Prothean Reaper" theory.
And by "debates" you mean "replying 'nah' one time after reading approx. 0.5% of the post" right?
WOW! What an intelligent and well reasoned argument that is absolutely not just you spewing your hatred for a company that you only have a general concept about and have no actual involvement in!
Sarcasmo the Magnificent approves (+15)
Every time the try we become stronger and make a capital ship from the smoking remains of their arguments 
But even with tens of thousands of them, they still think they can beat them in a conventional battle if they just get everyone to fight side by side. Which totally wouldn't also unify the Reapers. Or something.
Rip504 wrote...
The Reapers did try to indoctrinate Shepard at the end of ME3. It was through TIM,and it failed.
Arian, how many times have I told you to lock the door behind you!
HellishFiend wrote...
Hmm, I have to say I feel quite the opposite. I'd like to think that TIM really did just have humanity's best interests at heart from the beginning, but that his extreme ambition was easily manipulated by the Reapers.
Of course he did. <Godwin's law> So did Hitler. </Godwin's law> Thing is, what a sick monster perceives as a good thing isn't generally what a person with a conscience would call a good thing. Very few people, no matter how much of a horrible abomination they are, see themselves as evil.
And no, Joker fans, he doesn't count. Batman's Joker I mean, not the galaxy's best pilot. The Joker is an especially unrealistic character even by the standards of the company that gave us Superman. I feel that has to be said because whenever this topic comic comes up, someone inevitably tries to retort with that "watching the world burn" quote in the monumentally mistaken idea that it's insightful.
Earthborn_Shepard wrote...
might have been a panel, I'll try to find the dialogue...
either way.. apparently iD makes you see creatures that aren't there...
EDIT: found it:
Cerberus Scientist: Third day with this headache. You'd think Chandana would have let me take a few hours off.
Goddamn!
Cerberus Researcher: What?
Cerberus Scientist:
That thing that just… gray thing! It disappeared when I looked straight
at it. Came out of the damn wall! Where we took off that panel.
Aww, you left off the terrified "I'm telling you, this thing isn't dead! It knows we're inside it!"
The derelict Reaper had such an awesome ambiance to it. In 25 years of gaming, I can only think of a handful of places that really gave me the chills like that did. Only ones I can think of off-hand are that, the Primeval Thaig in DA2, and the Dead Sea in Chrono Cross. They all just had this... aura to them. It was like the screen and speakers were bleeding wrongness.