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[quote]Farbautisonn wrote...
HAhahhahah..... And you are a writer....? AHAHAHHAHAHHAH!!!!![/quote]

I did already know you couldn't comprehend why. I will not surely lose time to explain why to you in detail. Just a little hint: if you copy a painting does that mean that you are a "bad" painter for this? You can be a copier, but that doesn't mean that you are not good at painting (and on the contrary it can be just the opposite, in fact).

[quote]Farbautisonn wrote...
-Do you really need the Deux ex: HR story rehashed? Christ... its not like it hasnt been vomited all over this discussion board since realease? [/quote]

Again, this has nothing to do with bad writing per se, they are two separate concepts. A work can be plagiarized to hell and yet be written well, it's possible that you cannot understand this simple thing? Really, boy, if you want to talk of things you clearly don't comprehend at last do so with a little of humility.

[quote]Farbautisonn wrote...
-I think my background would surprise you. On the other hand you're omniscient, so maybe not...[/quote]
 
Sure, how not. You have not said anything that hints at it, and you always use hyperboles (as this "omniscent" as a sort of insult), the usual excuse of mediocrity, so I guess not.

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-Really? Name me some "motives"? and what the hell does motives have to do with this anyway? Are you suggesting somehow that if the motivativation was different that it would be ok to plagiate the material of another work... a pisspoor one at that?[/quote]

I already hinted at some motives for this above. Another one is that plagiarizing a work, while unacceptable for many reasons it's not "bad writing" in itself because it comes before the writing itself. You plagiarize an idea, you cannot plagiarize a way of writing in itself, no matter how much you can try.

[quote]Farbautisonn wrote...
-Erm... Trust me.[/quote]
 
Excuse me that, given the above and the other things, I simply cannot.

[quote]Farbautisonn wrote...
I know precisely what that means. I minored in Rhetoric. [/quote]

Sure, sure.

[quote]Farbautisonn wrote...
You however seem to have some problems with the concept. You are stating that for a work of plagerism to be "bad writing" the original work de facto has to be bad too. [/quote]

No, I never said that. I already did know that you would fail to comprehend what I wanted to imply, it was obvious (and in fact I said it plainly) that it would have happened given your current status.

[quote]Farbautisonn wrote...
Christ... what kind of educational background do you have since you have the balls to tote it, presume to lecture others on logical fallacies only to employ them ad nauseam? [/quote]

If instead of reading the thing just like you would have liked to, you would have at last made a minimum tentative in trying to go just a little under the surface, maybe (again, I doubt it anyway, but who knows?) you will have comprehended the particular and the connection I tried to imply. Obviously it's just easier to sprout the ennesimal insult and pretend you did understand something either if I warned you that the thing was more complicated than it could look at face value.

Good job on supporting my point on your inadequacy on debating about these things because you know nothing about them.

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-This is where I pick up the word you used falsely and employ it correctly. You implied it by using this defense when I attacked the endings.[/quote]

Of what the hell are you talking about? I never did a thing as that. I attacked you then on all another thing. It had nothing to do with the endings specifically.

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-Aside from the fact that I never stated any such thing and your the entire thing basically boils down to a strawman combined with an ad hominem, its a pisspoor defense of plagiarism and unoriginality. [/quote]

What do you do now, you return back because you didn't like the reply you did gave before? Something I said did hit your ego hard perhaps?

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-You started our entire discussion by employing strawman rhetoric, ad homienems, and a metric ****ton of other logical fallacies, and you presume to judge me? Thats grand. I have explained my position quite sufficiantly. [/quote]

No, you have not and you continue to not do it. You just run in circles saying nothing at all but insults and rethoric. I explained everything and motivated what I said. Where I have not done so (and just now because it is futile) it was just because I wanted to see your reaction before doing it to understand some things.

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-Great. Another pseudo artist who built his career on technique rather than passion and talent. [/quote]

????

Because someone that study art at the academy necessarily builds his/her career on technique instead of passion and talent? What kind of idiotic suppositon that is? And you have either the courage to tell me *I* use ad hominem statements?

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You try to structure passion and dumb it down for the masses, whilst trading your initial energy and drive for some feeble prison of technique. [/quote]

Techinique is a part of art as it is passion and talent. Apart this (that you obviously neither comprehend) from where did you get all this knowing about what I do or don't do is beyond me (and please, don't try to turn the thing around this time, want you?)

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I dont care if you are a well known writer, artist or sculptur in your nation. You are inane, unable to conduct a discussion without employing logical fallacies left right and center and you actively attribute false statements to anyone who does not agree with you. [/quote]

This is funny. You have done nothing but insulting me, saying nothing at all also if I tried to have a debate on some usueful ground given the thread and you either accuse me of being unable to conduct a discussion. Oh well....

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And you are either too stupid or too arrogant to admit to it. I would prefer to belive the latter, but given your hypocrisy Id say its the former. [/quote]

For now the only one doing the figure of both is you. You didn't say anything at all and you didn't comprehend anything at all. But you want to play the card of the expert and became offended because you obviously cannot fake it no matter what. However at the same time you cannot fake the fact that something I said must have hit you hard because elsewhere you would not react this way.

Can you see you are a little overreacting?

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-Sure is. Especially when people reveil more about themselves through discourse than they really should. [/quote]

Again turning around what I said to you already. Are you a parrot that you cannot find way to attack me but using already employed sentences by me? Let's talk about originality... (and btw, as you see, that doesn't meant that you are "bad" at writing per se, just that you are unoriginal).


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-This comming from the guy who employed defamation of character, (implied) ad hominems, fallacies galore and then have the phariseeic gall to presume to pass judgement on the discourse and rhetoric of others.[/quote]
 
Have I ever insulted you? Doesn't seem so. Have I ever backed up from debating a thing specifically? Doesn't seem so. Have I ever failed to explain what I meant by a thing (apart when it's futile, as in the case above)? Doesn't seem to me.

Now, since you are good at it, turn around the issue and ask the same questions to yourself.

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Christ you have zero Idea how inane you look, and that makes me fear for the people you supposedly write for...[/quote]

Yes, something I have said to you must have hit your ego really hard, child. Look at you, it is like you are about to jump at the screen and tear it apart.

Calm yourself, you are no better or worser than anbody's else and I never implied the contrary.

Modifié par Amioran, 07 avril 2012 - 06:21 .


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lazuli wrote...

Maybe I'm a moron, but I didn't even realize there was a choice at first. I just walked straight ahead and got that ending. DERP.


i agree. i thoguht i was supposed to walk towards the light, but i veared right and though, "im gonna shoot this thing" then the game ended.

what an ending! its sooooo good bioware cant even decipher it.

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Alex_SM wrote...
So forcing you to become a semi-ciborg doesn't go against your free will? 


I was stopped and frisked once by some cops. That went against my free will. But it didn't remove my free will.

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The Spamming Troll wrote...

lazuli wrote...

Maybe I'm a moron, but I didn't even realize there was a choice at first. I just walked straight ahead and got that ending. DERP.


i agree. i thoguht i was supposed to walk towards the light, but i veared right and though, "im gonna shoot this thing" then the game ended.

what an ending! its sooooo good bioware cant even decipher it.


You guys are serious? I thought Bio was holding our hands too much during those cutscenes. They literally showed what you would be doing.

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AlanC9 wrote...

Alex_SM wrote...
So forcing you to become a semi-ciborg doesn't go against your free will? 


I was stopped and frisked once by some cops. That went against my free will. But it didn't remove my free will.


You know that comparision doesn't make sense, don't you? Did they changed forever the way you are? 

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AlanC9 wrote...

Alex_SM wrote...
So forcing you to become a semi-ciborg doesn't go against your free will? 


I was stopped and frisked once by some cops. That went against my free will. But it didn't remove my free will.


Did the cop follow you around for the rest of your life frisking you?  Being turned into a cyborg against your will and having to live the rest of your life as a cyborg is quite a bit different than being frisked and detained for about 5 minutes, then sent on your way to resume your life however you saw fit.

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syllogi wrote...

I would not want to be a organic/synthetic hybrid.  It would be grossly unfair to be made so by some random dude who took the word of some Starchild that this was best for every living being in the galaxy.

I don't think individuality is taken away by the Synthesis ending, but free will is definitely removed from any creature, anywhere, that liked being what it was.


Artemis_Entrari wrote...

Well right off the bat, the free
will for everyone to CHOOSE whether they want to be transformed into a
sort of cyborg.  Shepard pretty much decides for everyone that they have
to become part synthetic.  That in itself means every single being in
the galaxy loses the right to decide for themselves.

Perhaps no
loss of individuality, but forcing individuals to become part synthetic
whether they want to or not is definitely infringing on their own free
will and choice.


This reasoning is so stupid I feel bad for even quoting it. No offense.

If we follow your thought through, then nature is a f*cking bully as well because it forced me to be organic. I would much prefer to be a sexbot like EDI, after all.

Modifié par Tirigon, 07 avril 2012 - 06:27 .


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I'll never understand this. Both Mass Effect 1,2,3 and the series as a whole explicitly and implicitly state that diversity is a strength that should be embraced. Not just diversity between species(multiple species, both organic and synthetic, coming together to deal with Saren, the Collectors and the Reapers), but within a species as well(such as Wrex emphasizing and embracing differing traditions among clans).

And then suddenly, we learn that this diversity is apparently wrong and the "best" ending is the forced homogenization of all life in the galaxy? This actually angers me, never mind the fact that this doesn't actually solve the problem the godchild says it would. Just because everyone is a cyborg doesn't mean they won't create AIs to do their work that will rebel.

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Tirigon wrote...


This reasoning is so stupid I feel bad for even quoting it. No offense.

If we follow your thought through, then nature is a f*cking bully as well because it forced me to be organic.




Uh, the difference is you were born that way.  You weren't living most of your life one way, then forced to change midway through for no apparent reason than some dude decided to jump into an exhaust chute.

You want to argue that future generations won't have their free will taken from them, so be it.  But for the trillions who weren't living as cyborgs before, that's another story.

Christ, just think about it.  If YOU were forced to become a cyborg without any warning or without a voice in the matter, wouldn't YOU think your free will was taken from you?

Modifié par Artemis_Entrari, 07 avril 2012 - 06:31 .


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Jedi Sentinel Arian wrote...

But I thought they push Blue Ending ... "So the illusive man was right"


Not gonna lie, I kinda like the idea that TIM could have been right, but for all the wrong reasons.

Modifié par xAmilli0n, 07 avril 2012 - 06:31 .


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I didn't read the whole thread, so this may have been said already.

I hated the green ending. Not only does that mean Shepard is okay with letting the reapers just hang out, he is suddenly okay with merging organic life with the reapers. This is NOT OKAY. Not only is the idea behind this ending completely vague and absent of logic, Shepard chooses this against the will of all organics in the galaxy.

Through the whole series, Shepard is fighting for the right for organics to choose their own path and make choices based on free will (a.k.a. fighting their 'reaper destiny'). And then suddenly it turns to, "Didn't want to be half-reaper? Too bad, I say you have to".

EDIT: Okay, read some of the posts in here and saw that people have already been making this point. It still stands though. (:

Modifié par Alistair Theirin, 07 avril 2012 - 06:40 .


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AlanC9 wrote...

Alex_SM wrote...
So forcing you to become a semi-ciborg doesn't go against your free will? 


I was stopped and frisked once by some cops. That went against my free will. But it didn't remove my free will.

Well no, your average cop isn't capable of changing you at a molecular level after all :P

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Tirigon wrote...

This reasoning is so stupid I feel bad for even quoting it. No offense.

If we follow your thought through, then nature is a f*cking bully as well because it forced me to be organic. I would much prefer to be a sexbot like EDI, after all.


Artemis Entrari said most of why you're wrong, but I'll add that in the Mass Effect universe, up to the end of 3, you *can* choose to be at least partially synthetic, if you desire.  But all choice is taken away by the Synthesis ending.  You cannot say for certain that the personalities of the Normandy crew were not changed by the space magic that made them hybrids.  They may look happy, but because we have no idea what was actually done to them, or whether they have been altered to accept these changes without complaint, it's still a gross invasion of free will.

If someone came into your home, kidnapped you, and gave you a sex change operation, is that okay if by coincidence, you were already unhappy with your gender and didn't mind, or you were brainwashed into thinking that this was for the best?

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Reapers.

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Amioran wrote...
*snip*


I have to ask. Is English your first language?

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Artemis_Entrari wrote...

Uh, the difference is you were born that way.  You weren't living most of your life one way, then forced to change midway through for no apparent reason than some dude decided to jump into an exhaust chute.

You want to argue that future generations won't have their free will taken from them, so be it.  But for the trillions who weren't living as cyborgs before, that's another story.

Christ, just think about it.  If YOU were forced to become a cyborg without any warning or without a voice in the matter, wouldn't YOU think your free will was taken from you?


No I wouldnt.

I would think that nothing changed except that I am now much more awesome, because I am, for example, immune to disease and all that awesome stuff.

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syllogi wrote...

Artemis Entrari said most of why you're wrong, but I'll add that in the Mass Effect universe, up to the end of 3, you *can* choose to be at least partially synthetic, if you desire.  But all choice is taken away by the Synthesis ending.  You cannot say for certain that the personalities of the Normandy crew were not changed by the space magic that made them hybrids.  They may look happy, but because we have no idea what was actually done to them, or whether they have been altered to accept these changes without complaint, it's still a gross invasion of free will.

If someone came into your home, kidnapped you, and gave you a sex change operation, is that okay if by coincidence, you were already unhappy with your gender and didn't mind, or you were brainwashed into thinking that this was for the best?


Nothing really changed, unlike I chose it to be changed.

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DamonD7 wrote...

AlanC9 wrote...

Alex_SM wrote...
So forcing you to become a semi-ciborg doesn't go against your free will? 


I was stopped and frisked once by some cops. That went against my free will. But it didn't remove my free will.

Well no, your average cop isn't capable of changing you at a molecular level after all :P


That must have been some frisking...

Do it for Jeff.

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Gaiden96 wrote...

Amioran wrote...
*snip*


I have to ask. Is English your first language?


Naturally not.

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[quote]Amioran wrote...

. Just a little hint: if you copy a painting does that mean that you are a "bad" painter for this? [/quote]
-No. Just means you arent an artist. You are at best a craftsman. Unless you want to argue that a xerox machine is also a machine artist.

[quote]Again, this has nothing to do with bad writing per se, they are two separate concepts.[/quote]
-Really? How so?

[quote]A work can be plagiarized to hell and yet be written well, it's possible that you cannot understand this simple thing?[/quote]
-An example would be nice. You must have a metric ton of them :D.

[quote]Really, boy, if you want to talk of things you clearly don't comprehend at last do so with a little of humility. [/quote]
-You mean like your talking about fallacies and proceeding to employ them? 


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Sure, how not. You have not said anything that hints at it, and you always go with hyperboles, the usual excuse of mediocrity, so I guess not.[/quote]
-Hahah... comming from you thats mindboggling ironic.

[quote]
-Really? Name me some "motives"? and what the hell does motives have to do with this anyway? Are you suggesting somehow that if the motivativation was different that it would be ok to plagiate the material of another work... a pisspoor one at that?[/quote]

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I already hinted at some motives for this above. [/quote]
-Im sorry. Im not omniscient. Thats your realm. So please. Do elaborate.
[quote]Another one is that plagiarizing a work, while unacceptable for many reasons it's not "bad writing" in itself because it comes before the writing itself. You plagiarize an idea, you cannot plagiarize a way of writing in itself, no matter how much you can try. [/quote]
-Ermn... plagiarizing a work is basically feeding of the art and originality of another person. it takes no skill, no effort and is both morally and in most academic circles practically a massive faux pas. It is by its very definition void of effort.

[quote]
Excuse me that, given the above and the other things, I simply cannot.[/quote]
-Fine. Suit yourself. I suppose I cannot ask you to trust me, when I myself place so very little trust in you.

[quote]Sure, sure.[/quote]
-Blue blood too. :).


[quote]No, I never said that. I already did know that you would fail to comprehend what I wanted to imply, it was obvious (and in fact I said it plainly) that it would have happened given your current status. [/quote]-Hmn. Youre very big on "implying things". Whats wrong with outright stating what you mean? Or does your "motivation" somehow play into the logic of this? Perhaps your fallacies? Or your initial ad hominems? Never mind Lets just let your words shine in all their glory and let the people decide:
[quote]if this was the case the "plagiarized" work would be "bad writing" too and that would be a logical non-sequitur [/quote]
-Seems pretty straightforward to me.


[quote]If instead of reading the thing just like you would have liked to, you would have at last made a minimum tentative in trying to go just a little under the surface[/quote]
-Oh... oh... I got this. Its "Implied" again? HHAHHAHA... You "implied" something with your ad hominems, fallacies etc, that didnt make them ad hominems or fallacies? Wow? Which school of rhtoric is that? Im pretty sure its the same school that the writers of Bioware used for the endings. Where things were "implied" so that there would be "lots of speculation" because they couldnt be arsed to formulate their own "artistic vision" ™. :lol:

[quote]you will have comprehended the particular and the connection I tried to imply.[/quote]
-Imply again. Really. What the hell is wrong with stating outright what you mean? Because if you hid behind "imply" who the **** can take anything you say seriously if you insist that whenever you are caught in a fallcy or an ad hominem that "something else was implied"? 
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Obviously it's just easier to sprout the ennesimal insult and pretend you did understand something either if I warned you that the thing was more complicated than it could look at face value.[/quote]
-Ok. Im ESL, And whilst I fancy myself in pretty good command of the english language I have zero idea as to what the hell "ennesimal" means. Didnt find it on google either, and I dont believe Ive ever come across it. So if you dont mind I think thats a word you just pulled out of your arse in the vain hope that I would be intimidated by it.

"More complicated than it could look at face value". Well. If thats the case, we should prolly employ someone besides you to explain it since you have a fetich for the "implied".

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Good job on supporting my point on your inadequacy on debating about these things because you know nothing about them.[/quote]
-Good job on skating and completely avoiding responsibility for your own uttered words.

[quote]Of what the hell are you talking about? I never did a thing as that. I attacked you then on all another thing. It had nothing to do with the endings specifically.[/quote]
-Oh... so the strawman argumentation, the adhominems etc in clear defense of Biowares "art" never happened. You "implied" something so advanced it was beyond the comprehension of mere mortals. Well... The endings are right up your alley allright. Completely nonsensical.


[quote]What do you do now, you return back because you didn't like the reply you did gave before? Something I said did hit your ego hard perhaps?[/quote]
-Oh my ****ing god. You even persist.  After having been called on a strawman, you employ another ****ing strawman to cover the first. And Im betting you are so inane you dont even see it. If it wasnt so funny it would be tragic. And you write? Hahahhaha.....

[quote]
-You started our entire discussion by employing strawman rhetoric, ad homienems, and a metric ****ton of other logical fallacies, and you presume to judge me? Thats grand. I have explained my position quite sufficiantly. [/quote]

No, you have not and you continue to not do it. You just run in circles saying nothing at all but insults and rethoric. I explained everything and motivated what I said. Where I have not done so (and just now because it is futile) it was just because I wanted to see your reaction before doing it to understand some things.

[quote]Because someone that study art at the academy necessarily builds his/her career on technique instead of passion and talent?[/quote]
-Usually the case. I have seen so many artists that were more in love with the concept, the illusion of being an artist, for fame, money, sex or whatever, than with art and creation. Hell "art academies" are en par to Journalist schools and academies for producing individuals who educate themselves in the hope of getting screen time and fame. If you had ever attended one you would know this to be very much true.
[quote]What kind of idiotic suppositon that is? And you have either the courage to tell me *I* use ad hominem statements?[/quote]
-You reap what you sow. Its not an idiotic supposition. Try going to an arts schools or universitys vernissage for the "graduating classes". 95% of it is mindboggling naiive, void of passion, panders to the proffessorates established concepts and preconceptions of art, or unimaginatively and primitively offensive in a feeble attempt to provoke emotion.  Youd know this ofcourse if you had attended one.

[quote]Techinique is a part of art as it is passion and talent.[/quote]
-Hahahah... clinging to the last floorboard of the Titanic. Wrong. Passion and talent is what drives art, its what speaks to human charcter. Technique is at best a nice tool, but it is completely and utterly useless if Passion and talent isnt there.

[quote] Apart this (that you obviously neither comprehend) from where did you get all this knowing about what I do or don't do is beyond me (and please, don't try to turn the thing around this time, want you?)[/quote]
-I am deducting from your choise of words, your lack of varity in your english vocabulary, your insistance on using fallacies, ad hominems, pandering to works of writing (me3) that are at best feeble, your feeble figleaf of "I imply", your boasting a literary career and formal education combined with said abysmally low variry of words and low lixcount, your focus that "technique is a pillar of art" when in reality its meerly a chisel, etc etc etc... Your words betray you. Like most of your kind.

[quote]This is funny. You have done nothing but insulting me, saying nothing at all also if I tried to have a debate on some usueful ground given the thread and you either accuse me of being unable to conduct a discussion. Oh well....[/quote]
-Debate? Oh... so starting discourse with strawman argumentation and ad hominems is "initiating a debate on usefull ground"? Really? And then you wonder why I reply in kind? Hahahha... christ... how old are you? 

[quote]For now the only one doing the figure of both is you. You didn't say anything at all and you didn't comprehend anything at all. But you want to play the card of the expert and became offended because you obviously cannot fake it no matter what. However at the same time you cannot fake the fact that something I said must have hit you hard because elsewhere you would not react this way.[/quote]
-Strawman argumentation again. Fallacy upon fallacy. Keep digging "writer". I wouldnt trust you to write a childrens book.

[quote]Can you see you are a little overreacting?[/quote]
-Can you see your initial response to me was both insulting, fallacious, and inflammatory? No? Didnt think so.

[quote]Again turning around what I said to you already. Are you a parrot that you cannot find way to attack me but using already employed sentences by me? Let's talk about originality...[/quote]
-No. Im turning your words against you. Big difference. I know you cant see that, but its ok. I think most others here can. 

[quote]Have I ever insulted you? [/quote]
I suppose this was not directed at me? That  it did not attribute values or statemetns to me that were completely unfounded and untrue? Christ... you really are unable to grasp the bare essentials of discourse arent you? 


[quote]Have I ever backed up from debating a thing specifically? [/quote]
-Look at your initial post above. Doesnt seem as if it becons discourse and debate, only polarized exchanges of harsh derogatory pronominems.

[quote]Have I ever failed to explain what I meant by a thing (apart when it's futile, as in the case above)?[/quote].
-Consistently. You hide behind I was "implying" this or that more or less with impunity.

[quote]Now, since you are good at it, turn around the issue and ask the same questions to yourself.[/quote]
-No need. I have conducted this discussion precisely as I wished.

[quote]Yes, something I have said to you must have hit your ego really hard, child. Look at you, it is like you are about to jump at the screen and tear it apart.[/quote]
-Lulz... strawman, strawman strawman... you presume way too much. My outbursts are merely reserved for my amazement with the ignorance you present.

[quote]Calm yourself, you are no better or worser than anbody's else and I never implied the contrary.
[/quote]
-Do yourself and us all a favour. Dont use the word "imply" as your equivalent to biowares "artistic vision" ™. Some kind of magic wand that will wipe up all the  rhetorical turds you drop. Be specific, to the point, avoid strawmen, ad hominems and other idiocy. It will serve you better in life.

Or perhaps you can go back and get acclaim for your literary genious from your barbera cartland fanbase. They will likey believe anything you "imply" and find it very "artsy".

Modifié par Farbautisonn, 07 avril 2012 - 07:32 .


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Don't know, but here's a great video that breaks down point by point why the Synthesis ending just doesn't work



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Tirigon wrote...

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Artemis Entrari said most of why you're wrong, but I'll add that in the Mass Effect universe, up to the end of 3, you *can* choose to be at least partially synthetic, if you desire.  But all choice is taken away by the Synthesis ending.  You cannot say for certain that the personalities of the Normandy crew were not changed by the space magic that made them hybrids.  They may look happy, but because we have no idea what was actually done to them, or whether they have been altered to accept these changes without complaint, it's still a gross invasion of free will.

If someone came into your home, kidnapped you, and gave you a sex change operation, is that okay if by coincidence, you were already unhappy with your gender and didn't mind, or you were brainwashed into thinking that this was for the best?


Nothing really changed, unlike I chose it to be changed.


So, you're saying you'll just make up the effects of the Synthesis ending in your head.  Fair enough.  I'll pretend that only bad geth and AI who have creepy fake genitals were destroyed in my ending, and the Mass Relays were repaired with super glue and bubblegum shortly after the credits rolled.

Everybody gets the ending they want, with imagination!  :wizard:

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Pretty sure I only had the blue and green options.

Was tempted by green but then I thought I couldn't destroy the relays and then I thought about the abomination and dragons teeth so defiantly couldn't go green.

So that only left TIM blue :S

Maybe there should be a yellow option - everything dies, no synthetic or organic life. Possibly this is the only solution that equals peace??

Wouldn't be surprised if we find out in the extended cut that red = war based on the genophage.

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syllogi wrote...


So, you're saying you'll just make up the effects of the Synthesis ending in your head.  Fair enough.  I'll pretend that only bad geth and AI who have creepy fake genitals were destroyed in my ending, and the Mass Relays were repaired with super glue and bubblegum shortly after the credits rolled.

Everybody gets the ending they want, with imagination!  :wizard:


No, YOU are making Synthesis up and interprete it as "taking away free will" ... which is never stated that way!

That is not what happens. What happens is a Synthesis between Organics and Synthetics. I still have my free will, and I can still make every choice I could do before.
I only have a new, better perspective because I am no longer bound by an unnecessary distinction between different species.

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Tirigon wrote...

syllogi wrote...


So, you're saying you'll just make up the effects of the Synthesis ending in your head.  Fair enough.  I'll pretend that only bad geth and AI who have creepy fake genitals were destroyed in my ending, and the Mass Relays were repaired with super glue and bubblegum shortly after the credits rolled.

Everybody gets the ending they want, with imagination!  :wizard:


No, YOU are making Synthesis up and interprete it as "taking away free will" ... which is never stated that way!

That is not what happens. What happens is a Synthesis between Organics and Synthetics. I still have my free will, and I can still make every choice I could do before.
I only have a new, better perspective because I am no longer bound by an unnecessary distinction between different species.


Don't mean to burst your bubble, but ****6 MONTH OLD SPOILERS*****



Synthesis was intended as merging with the reapers.  Whether that changed after the leak, I'l leave that for you to decide.  In my game, the only synthetics left to merge with are EDI and........ the reapers.

Lines 1926-1938 from the script in Nov 
http://pastebin.com/KYJNWGug 

"CONVERSATION: Once Shepard reaches the top of the elevator he begins a conversation with GUARDIAN where all the mysteries of the universe are revealed. 

ACTION: Shepard must now make his final decision - to control the Reapers, to destroy the Reapers, or if they had a perfect game to become one with the Reapers.

CUTSCENE: The DEVICE docks with the Citadel, Shepard leaps off the edge of the platform becoming one with the Reapers."


Now you might say things weere revised, but the intent at that time was clear, and most of what changed was just cut out altogether.  Javik was dropped as the catalyst, and the Guardian(starchild) became the catalyst.

Reapers vs you in a battle for free will after merging, who do you expect to win?

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