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I don't have to consider anything. Fact: This message appears immediately after choosing one of the options and going through the cutscenes. Fact: If IT is true, Shepard has not defeated the Reapers. Therefore message discredits IT.


if IT is true then we haven't seen shepard defeat the reapers...yet.


No. Just no. It happens immediately after the choice, there is no more gameplay, no more control. It does not work.

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nightcobra8928 wrote...

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I don't have to consider anything. Fact: This message appears immediately after choosing one of the options and going through the cutscenes. Fact: If IT is true, Shepard has not defeated the Reapers. Therefore message discredits IT.


if IT is true then we haven't seen shepard defeat the reapers...yet.

yes this would mean we'd have an incomplete product at launch, at least it's completion is free of charge. 

If we haven't defeated the Reapers, they wouldn't tell us that we've defeated the Reapers.

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Just take a second and actually THINK about it. There is no explanation besides the IT that can possibly make this and all the other trillion similar plotholes right.

The fact that it covers up a lot of the plotholes doesn't mean its true.

Claiming the entire trilogy is a dream gets rid of every plothole, but it clearly isn't true.

Anyway, I thought you were going? 


Who the hell said anything about the trilogy being a dream? The IT only touches events since the start of ME3 but only claims dreams state after Shepard is hit by the reaper beam.

The fact of the matter is there is no other way to explain it.....you are still not providing ANY logic.

It has been PROVEN BioWare intended and planned for an indoctrination scenario....it's tight there in black and white in their own production notes.....there's in game file names clearly labeling indoctrination and I'm not just talking about the endings. The only things you are denial without reason or logic.....because BioWare said something in a lazy textbox. REALLY, is that your best effort? It's also been proven BioWare lied to us a hundred times over about the ME3 endings....have you really got nothing?

I can sit around and deny that 1+1=2 and defend that 1+1=97 could be explained without ever providing any logic but that would be just stupid wouldn't it?

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I don't believe in IT, even if pro-IT are respectable and the theory very constructive.

I think that a lot of guys believe in IT to justify the endings and to save ME Universe, but my opinion is that the endings have been rushed.

All mistakes noted in Mass Effect : Deception cannot be explained by IT. I dont know what happened in their mind, but BW is destroying an amazing universe.

Maybe I'm wrong.

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nightcobra8928 wrote...

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I don't have to consider anything. Fact: This message appears immediately after choosing one of the options and going through the cutscenes. Fact: If IT is true, Shepard has not defeated the Reapers. Therefore message discredits IT.


if IT is true then we haven't seen shepard defeat the reapers...yet.

yes this would mean we'd have an incomplete product at launch, at least it's completion is free of charge. 

If we haven't defeated the Reapers, they wouldn't tell us that we've defeated the Reapers.


But we're all *jazzhands* indoctrinated!

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Elyiia wrote...

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I don't have to consider anything. Fact: This message appears immediately after choosing one of the options and going through the cutscenes. Fact: If IT is true, Shepard has not defeated the Reapers. Therefore message discredits IT.


if IT is true then we haven't seen shepard defeat the reapers...yet.


No. Just no. It happens immediately after the choice, there is no more gameplay, no more control. It does not work.


on twitter people asked if the ending DLC would be just cutscenes and no gameplay

the response was something along these lines:

"where did you get that idea?"

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Who the hell said anything about the trilogy being a dream? The IT only touches events since the start of ME3 but only claims dreams state after Shepard is hit by the reaper beam.

The fact of the matter is there is no other way to explain it.....you are still not providing ANY logic.

It has been PROVEN BioWare intended and planned for an indoctrination scenario....it's tight there in black and white in their own production notes.....there's in game file names clearly labeling indoctrination and I'm not just talking about the endings. The only things you are denial without reason or logic.....because BioWare said something in a lazy textbox. REALLY, is that your best effort? It's also been proven BioWare lied to us a hundred times over about the ME3 endings....have you really got nothing?

I can sit around and deny that 1+1=2 and defend that 1+1=97 could be explained without ever providing any logic but that would be just stupid wouldn't it?


Please sir, what would you like explained? 

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nightcobra8928 wrote...

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I don't have to consider anything. Fact: This message appears immediately after choosing one of the options and going through the cutscenes. Fact: If IT is true, Shepard has not defeated the Reapers. Therefore message discredits IT.


if IT is true then we haven't seen shepard defeat the reapers...yet.


No. Just no. It happens immediately after the choice, there is no more gameplay, no more control. It does not work.


on twitter people asked if the ending DLC would be just cutscenes and no gameplay

the response was something along these lines:

"where did you get that idea?"


Again, it happens directly after your choice. I don't know how else I can say this to make you understand. EC is irrelevant at this point. The game tells you you have defeated the Reaper threat.

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Elyiia wrote...

nightcobra8928 wrote...

Elyiia wrote...

nightcobra8928 wrote...

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I don't have to consider anything. Fact: This message appears immediately after choosing one of the options and going through the cutscenes. Fact: If IT is true, Shepard has not defeated the Reapers. Therefore message discredits IT.


if IT is true then we haven't seen shepard defeat the reapers...yet.


No. Just no. It happens immediately after the choice, there is no more gameplay, no more control. It does not work.


on twitter people asked if the ending DLC would be just cutscenes and no gameplay

the response was something along these lines:

"where did you get that idea?"


Again, it happens directly after your choice. I don't know how else I can say this to make you understand. EC is irrelevant at this point. The game tells you you have defeated the Reaper threat.


yup that is correct, and that doesn't intrinsically disprove the IT theory as such an ending is still possible within these parameters.

not saying it IS going to happen but rather that it can't be disproven at this point

Modifié par nightcobra8928, 14 mai 2012 - 02:15 .


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Now I'll say "Indoctrination theory is one possible interpretation, kind of". But I sure wouldn't say "There is no other way to explain it".

Taking the end literally, as much as you may or may not like it, and as much speculation as there is about what it means, is a pretty decent explanation. So's assuming Bioware consists of game developers telling a story. They do fun fan nods and try to keep a particular mood in some scenes. In fact, that even explains some things IT doesn't. Like how we stop the @*#&@@*#@& REAPERS, for starters.

Saying "It was all a dream!" doesn't give us much to discuss rationally, since so much is called into question.

So yeah. I'll take my scotch neat, my coffee black, my carrots organic (and just carrots), and my endings of Mass Effect literal.

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Erield wrote...

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People still need to remember that the ending doesn't have to change for IT to turn out to be right. I'm not saying it is or isn't (I really hope it is, because I think it's super clever), but the ending can stay the way it is and IT will still make sense.


If IT is true, and the endings don't change significantly, then the Reapers are still around.  And in that case, then **** Bioware, I'm done with them forever.  It means they lied in interviews to advertise the game and they lied within the game itself.  It means that they knowingly, deliberately shipped an incomplete product, with the pure intent of tricking you into thinking that they hadn't.  It would mean that they tried to scam off a lame ending on the majority of the crowd, and have a "real" ending later for the hard-core fans who'll pony up the money for it in DLC format 6 or 8 months down the line.

I don't think that's the case, but there's a thread of fear deep in my heart that that is exactly what they were going for.



Are you stupid? They already lied.

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Darth_Trethon wrote...

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Just take a second and actually THINK about it. There is no explanation besides the IT that can possibly make this and all the other trillion similar plotholes right.

The fact that it covers up a lot of the plotholes doesn't mean its true.

Claiming the entire trilogy is a dream gets rid of every plothole, but it clearly isn't true.

Anyway, I thought you were going? 


Who the hell said anything about the trilogy being a dream? The IT only touches events since the start of ME3 but only claims dreams state after Shepard is hit by the reaper beam.

The fact of the matter is there is no other way to explain it.....you are still not providing ANY logic.

It has been PROVEN BioWare intended and planned for an indoctrination scenario....it's tight there in black and white in their own production notes.....there's in game file names clearly labeling indoctrination and I'm not just talking about the endings. The only things you are denial without reason or logic.....because BioWare said something in a lazy textbox. REALLY, is that your best effort? It's also been proven BioWare lied to us a hundred times over about the ME3 endings....have you really got nothing?





You missed the point. I was saying that just because the IT covers up most of the plotholes, that isn't proof that its true.

It has been PROVEN Bioware intended to go with a dark energy plotline. Is that proof that the dark energy plotline is real? No.


You also seem to misunderstand how to disprove something. The box pops up at the end, and disproves the IT. You're counter-argument to this is that its lazy and it could be a lie. Prove it. Prove that its a lie. 


I can sit around and deny that 1+1=2 and defend that 1+1=97 could be explained without ever providing any logic but that would be just stupid wouldn't it? 

And yet its exactly what you're doing.

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nightcobra8928 wrote...

yup that is correct, and that doesn't intrinsically disprove the IT theory as such an ending is still possible within these parameters.


Yes... it does. EC is optional, it is for those who want clarity and is not necessary to complete the game like all DLC. If IT is true, the game is not finished. If IT is true, then the Reaper threat has not been defeated therefor the message is false. Except there's no evidence it's false and should be taken at face value not actually being part of the plot.

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nightcobra8928 wrote...

yup that is correct, and that doesn't intrinsically disprove the IT theory as such an ending is still possible within these parameters.

not saying it IS going to happen but rather that it can't be disproven at this point

We're not trying to say it disproves the possibility of the IT being included later, we're saying that it disproves the idea that the IT is already true.

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You take facts, like the text-name of a file, and then turn that into the fact that the entire sequence it appears in is a dream.  This is faulty reasoning.

dream-plant as a file-name can lend credence to the fact that the scene it appears in is a dream, or it could mean a variety of other things that are equally plausible.

I'd re-type out everything.  Again.  But you didn't read it the first time around (apparently) even though you responded directly at least once.  :D


By itself that might mean something but it's got too much backing it.....you haven't touched the file names for TIM controlling Shepard. You haven't touched the fact that BioWare clearly planned for IT....all you got is that it was cut but you never address the overshadowing issue that TIM does controll you and that none of it makes any sense unless you took into account BioWare's INTENDED course of action. It's all right there.....you grasp at the minor strawn but never really address any of the major issues.

BioWare didn't expect the kind of lashback they got so they set to make things right....why wouldn't they do what they planned in the first place especailly since all polls proved most are willing to accept the solutiopn? You poinnt at double talk that again has been proven to be double speak with BioWare both claiming to change nothing and that we know nothing or we'd react differently.....both can't be true, period.

After all this you seriously claim that I am ignoring evidence? You have none.

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Goddamn IT guys get stupider and stupider, I swear..

When people use "Dream" to describe something it usually means "Idyllic". People look forward to buying "Their dream house" or going on their "dream holiday" and that planet is, quite obviously, meant to be a "dream planet" - It's a veritable paradise (or is presented as such). Lush and green, beautiful sky, a sunset...yes it's fairly plain to see that it's meant to be "Perfect" and thus not a ****ty happenstance that they've crashed there.

And thus when building their dream planet, for sake of keeping files grouped together, they also have their assets labeled as such and that gives us...DreamPlant.



There is certainly nothing dreamy about the ending scene.
In a galaxy where you want to meet new things and travel, this is more of a nightmare.

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Are you stupid? They already lied.


They lied in the advertising of the game--which I paid exactly zero attention to.  I knew I was going to buy the game, I didn't want any spoilers, I avoided all contact with anything that could give me information I didn't want.

Going back and seeing what kind of things they promised after the fact, well, they were pretty horrendous about it, but still--that's just in advertising.  To lie about what you will get is different than to lie about what you got.  I also work on a three-strikes rule, and they're not there yet.  If they go with IT without defeating the Reapers, though, then they're past it.

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Darth_Trethon wrote...

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You take facts, like the text-name of a file, and then turn that into the fact that the entire sequence it appears in is a dream.  This is faulty reasoning.

dream-plant as a file-name can lend credence to the fact that the scene it appears in is a dream, or it could mean a variety of other things that are equally plausible.

I'd re-type out everything.  Again.  But you didn't read it the first time around (apparently) even though you responded directly at least once.  :D


By itself that might mean something but it's got too much backing it.....you haven't touched the file names for TIM controlling Shepard. You haven't touched the fact that BioWare clearly planned for IT....all you got is that it was cut but you never address the overshadowing issue that TIM does controll you and that none of it makes any sense unless you took into account BioWare's INTENDED course of action. It's all right there.....you grasp at the minor strawn but never really address any of the major issues.

BioWare didn't expect the kind of lashback they got so they set to make things right....why wouldn't they do what they planned in the first place especailly since all polls proved most are willing to accept the solutiopn? You poinnt at double talk that again has been proven to be double speak with BioWare both claiming to change nothing and that we know nothing or we'd react differently.....both can't be true, period.

After all this you seriously claim that I am ignoring evidence? You have none.


Well, for evidence, there's the actual game, which you can take literally.

Not datamining files for names that are usually just shorthand for artists to remember what it looked like.

Just telling the other poster they have no evidence while ignoring their points isn't exactly a compelling arguement.

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Erield wrote...

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Are you stupid? They already lied.


They lied in the advertising of the game--which I paid exactly zero attention to.  I knew I was going to buy the game, I didn't want any spoilers, I avoided all contact with anything that could give me information I didn't want.

Going back and seeing what kind of things they promised after the fact, well, they were pretty horrendous about it, but still--that's just in advertising.  To lie about what you will get is different than to lie about what you got.  I also work on a three-strikes rule, and they're not there yet.  If they go with IT without defeating the Reapers, though, then they're past it.


But what if we get a chance to defeat the Reapers?

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Darth_Trethon wrote...

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Just take a second and actually THINK about it. There is no explanation besides the IT that can possibly make this and all the other trillion similar plotholes right.

The fact that it covers up a lot of the plotholes doesn't mean its true.

Claiming the entire trilogy is a dream gets rid of every plothole, but it clearly isn't true.

Anyway, I thought you were going? 


Who the hell said anything about the trilogy being a dream? The IT only touches events since the start of ME3 but only claims dreams state after Shepard is hit by the reaper beam.

The fact of the matter is there is no other way to explain it.....you are still not providing ANY logic.

It has been PROVEN BioWare intended and planned for an indoctrination scenario....it's tight there in black and white in their own production notes.....there's in game file names clearly labeling indoctrination and I'm not just talking about the endings. The only things you are denial without reason or logic.....because BioWare said something in a lazy textbox. REALLY, is that your best effort? It's also been proven BioWare lied to us a hundred times over about the ME3 endings....have you really got nothing?





You missed the point. I was saying that just because the IT covers up most of the plotholes, that isn't proof that its true.

It has been PROVEN Bioware intended to go with a dark energy plotline. Is that proof that the dark energy plotline is real? No.


You also seem to misunderstand how to disprove something. The box pops up at the end, and disproves the IT. You're counter-argument to this is that its lazy and it could be a lie. Prove it. Prove that its a lie. 


I can sit around and deny that 1+1=2 and defend that 1+1=97 could be explained without ever providing any logic but that would be just stupid wouldn't it? 

And yet its exactly what you're doing.


Huge difference....the dark energy plot was never developped or delivered. There are mountains of both actual evidence and circumstantial evidence showing the IT HAS been developed and delivered. There's so much that not implementing the IT would be a greater "change" to the plot they developed and delivered than not implementing it. Then there's the all shadowing question that anything short of completely cutting and changing the ending which they claim not to do what options have they got? They got themselves in a corner....you deny without ever touching any of the larger arguments and concerns and you yourself show no hit that you are even able to think of an alternate solution.

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Alternative solution: The game. As presented. Complete with becoming a legend, 3 different ways to end the threat of the reapers, and a lot of blood loss, speculation, and Arthur C. Clarke references for everyone.

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Huge difference....the dark energy plot was never developped or delivered.


There was plenty of development of it in ME2.

There are mountains of both actual evidence and circumstantial evidence showing the IT HAS been developed and delivered. There's so much that not implementing the IT would be a greater "change" to the plot they developed and delivered than not implementing it. Then there's the all shadowing question that anything short of completely cutting and changing the ending which they claim not to do what options have they got? They got themselves in a corner....you deny without ever touching any of the larger arguments and concerns and you yourself show no hit that you are even able to think of an alternate solution.

Again, missing the point.

Lets just boil this down. Nice and simple.

Statement 1: the IT provides a solution to most of the plotholes in the ending

Statement 2: the IT is true, and is already the intended interpretation of the endings


Both of us seem to agree with statement 1. The endings are full of plotholes, and the IT actually does cover most of them up.

However, statement 1 does not prove statement 2.

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Hadeedak wrote...

Darth_Trethon wrote...

Erield wrote...

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You take facts, like the text-name of a file, and then turn that into the fact that the entire sequence it appears in is a dream.  This is faulty reasoning.

dream-plant as a file-name can lend credence to the fact that the scene it appears in is a dream, or it could mean a variety of other things that are equally plausible.

I'd re-type out everything.  Again.  But you didn't read it the first time around (apparently) even though you responded directly at least once.  :D


By itself that might mean something but it's got too much backing it.....you haven't touched the file names for TIM controlling Shepard. You haven't touched the fact that BioWare clearly planned for IT....all you got is that it was cut but you never address the overshadowing issue that TIM does controll you and that none of it makes any sense unless you took into account BioWare's INTENDED course of action. It's all right there.....you grasp at the minor strawn but never really address any of the major issues.

BioWare didn't expect the kind of lashback they got so they set to make things right....why wouldn't they do what they planned in the first place especailly since all polls proved most are willing to accept the solutiopn? You poinnt at double talk that again has been proven to be double speak with BioWare both claiming to change nothing and that we know nothing or we'd react differently.....both can't be true, period.

After all this you seriously claim that I am ignoring evidence? You have none.


Well, for evidence, there's the actual game, which you can take literally.

Not datamining files for names that are usually just shorthand for artists to remember what it looked like.

Just telling the other poster they have no evidence while ignoring their points isn't exactly a compelling arguement.


That's exactly the problem....there is nothing to take at face value because nothing makes sense...the only thing that makes the most sense is the IT and given that it's proven BioWare intended it along with the fact that virtually nothing else makes sense it's arguably the only thing to take at face value. We go right back to TIM controlling Shepard and after the heated argument shutting down TIM's suggestion to control he just accepts every word the reaper kid says even though he makes hell of a lot less sense than TIM did seconds before.

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By itself that might mean something but it's got too much backing it.....you haven't touched the file names for TIM controlling Shepard. You haven't touched the fact that BioWare clearly planned for IT....all you got is that it was cut but you never address the overshadowing issue that TIM does controll you and that none of it makes any sense unless you took into account BioWare's INTENDED course of action. It's all right there.....you grasp at the minor strawn but never really address any of the major issues.

BioWare didn't expect the kind of lashback they got so they set to make things right....why wouldn't they do what they planned in the first place especailly since all polls proved most are willing to accept the solutiopn? You poinnt at double talk that again has been proven to be double speak with BioWare both claiming to change nothing and that we know nothing or we'd react differently.....both can't be true, period.

After all this you seriously claim that I am ignoring evidence? You have none.


File names mean nothing.  It's been told, and told, over and over again in this thread and other places that assets and resources get used and re-used.  To change the hard-location of the source to directly apply to the current asset or resource only would require a significant amount of extra work.  Just because a 3d object starts life being planned as one thing does not mean that it ends life there.  File names alone can not be realistically considered as any part of evidence for or against IT.

Bioware planned a sequence for IT.  They scrapped the sequence for IT.  We ended up with a sequence where TIM controls Shepard.  We have no idea the sense of scale that Bioware was considering; only that it involved losing control of your character while also having dialogue.  What we have in the TIM scene seems pretty clear to me that the TIM scene is what replaced it.  I don't see how TIM being able to control you is evidence that you are Indoctrinated by the Reapers.  He is clearly using control-tech he created on Sanctuary.

Bioware's INTENDED course of action can only be guessed at because we only know bits and pieces.  We know there was "a" sequence.  You say that I am grasping at minor straws, but not addressing the major issues.  WHAT ARE THE MAJOR ISSUES?  I'll address anything and everything. 

The EC is going to clarify and provide closure.  We can argue for hours what that means, exactly.  That doesn't matter, though.  You are missing the point of my arguments.  It's not that I have evidence to prove you wrong; it's that the evidence you provide does not make IT a fact.

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it's proven BioWare intended it 

Wrong.

Bioware thought about doing a sequence wheere Shepard's movements would be taken out of the player's control due to Reaper influence.

The IT demands that the entire end sequence is actually a dream.

These are not the same thing. Not by a mile.