Close enough to and just as stupid as saying you won and I lost. You're
still basically trying to pat yourself on the back extra hard for the
choice you made, for reasons that are baseless and contradicted by the
game itself.
For someone boasting so much about reading comprehension, you sure blow it up when it's no longer convenient.
Once again, try to grasp the concept of roleplay, please.
Know what else is stated in the game? That Shepard ended the Reaper threat, no matter which of the three choices you make.
The game itself tells us that Shepard ended the Reaper threat. That's
actually more reliable than an in-game character saying it, because it's
talking directly to you, the player. The only thing that's
hypothetical is a scenario in which Bioware retcons the story.
This is your main mistake, here. Everything relevant to the plot must happen during the plot, told to your caracter, aka roleplaying. Whatever is told to the player referring to him as such is not relevant to the plot. Why? Because it happens totally outside the Mass Effect universe, into the real world.
But the message is right, however, Shepard finished the immediate reaper threat. If you read properly, it doesn't say "forever", see? That message does not invalidate future works involving the reaper threat in any form (actual reapers, ancient reaper technology that indoctrinates another guy, whatever).
The message is right... for now. Not forever. It can be, if nobody decides to go for a reaper related plot again, it won't be if they do. I'm talking about chances here, all the time. That message is not definitive in any way.
I didn't lose track of anything. First of all, the entire premise of
this thread is "I won, you lost", hence why the OP falsely claims that
anyone who didn't pick destroy "failed" a non-existant test. As for you
and me specifically, you're really not much different from the OP. All
this "the Reapers can still return in control and synthesis", "destroy
is the only ending that isn't a gamble", "you bought into enemy
propaganda" stuff, and you're gonna tell me you're not trying to
insinuate that the choice you made is better than the other two? 'Cause
that's sure what it looks like. And is.
Again, so much for your reading comprehension. The premise of this threat is that, yes, and by supporting destroy I don't completely agree with everything OP says, do I? or must we all have the same exact opinion?
The choice I made is
safer than the other two, in my eyes. Note how I always said the other two options
"felt wrong", not
"are wrong". I don't know what Bioware has planned for their ME universe so far, but letting the reapers leave surely opens a path for them to return. That is not a difficult concept to grasp. I don't think Shepard can control them, but maybe he does; I don't think synthesis and its magic DNA can solve all the problems and stop every war, but maybe it does. And everything will be just as good and as bad as it was if I pick destroy, but the reapers will be left out of the equation, unless they resurrect lol.
Try and exercise your reading comprehension a little. There is a huge difference between "if reapers are alive they
might return" and "...
will return". They certainly can, the possibility exists, like it or not. There is also the chance that will never happen.
Yes, I
think destroy is the best option. I
think it is.
Think. That is not stating a fact, it's my opinion.