AtreiyaN7 wrote...
Oh, it's you - what a surprise. I'm going to write one response in service of truth and accuracy (after which I'll go back to ignoring you/this because I can't stand your drivel).
Ah yes, another insult from another synthesis supporter.
I'm often in awe of how you can get away with breaking the forum rules over and over and not even getting a warning for your efforts.
It's not what the Reapers want. The Reapers act in the service of the Catalyst, so right off the bat, your sensationalistic title is what I consider inaccurate and misleading.
The Catalyst embodies the intelligence of the Reapers. It is the Reapers, the Reapers are it. Do try to follow.
Then again, I don't think you've previously ever let little things like the facts get in the way of your hardline prejudices, so what else is new. How are things now that the universe isn't ending and people aren't starving to death like you said they would? It was "fact" back then according to you, right? *sarcasm*
Oh, you mean after they retconned the relays into not exploding, thus averting that scenario, thus proving me right?
I'll repeat what I just said to make this clear: the Catalyst directs the Reapers, the Reapers do not direct the Catalyst. They do not "want" anything. As for what the Catalyst "wants," it doesn't have desires - it has a directive and a function as it made clear during the extended conversation. It was created to serve as an intermediary between organics and synthetics, and to try to prevent what amounts to galactic chaos and destruction. Synthesis was one of the options it came up with, but like everything else the Catalyst tried, this option failed previously.
The Catalyst = the Reapers. It appears you cannot grasp this.
One can only guess at why it failed, but I'll go with this hypothesis: I think it's likely that in previous cycles the organic races weren't psychologically ready for making an evolutionary leap. If you look at the protheans, they were very much anti-synthetic and militant (and militaristic). Based on Javik, they seemed mentally/psychologically inflexible as a whole, given that they wiped out any species who would not submit to them...hold on, wasn't that whole submission/genocide thing your issue with the Reapers? The irony - it kills me!
The Protheans did not wipe out anyone who did not submit, they forced everyone to submit.
Ah yes Atreiya, master of the headcanon. Doing it once again.
Psychologically ready? How is one psychologically ready for something that is forced upon them?
But back on topic, either it's Shepard's personal wisdom/knowledge that gets shared during the merging as I've always posited OR the possibility that as a whole, galactic society in this Cycle is more accepting of body modifications and integrating technology/machinery into themselves without losing their humanity.
Nobody was more accepting of body modifications than the Zha'til. Look what the Reapers did to them.
Again, more assumptions. Even if one is accepting of that on an individual basis, to force it on everybody? Ha.
The Catalyst flat-out says that Shepard was the first organic to make it that far, which presumably implies that - whether it's Shepard himself/herself or the actualy ability of organics and synthetics to work together (the geth and organics in a successful alliance for example) - we are ready/able to successfully make that leap. In Shepard's time, people are modifying themselves through their genetics and using implants as it is, including things like biotic implants and boneweave, etc. People clearly aren't afraid of integrating technology into themselves. Regardless of what the exact reason is, it clearly did work per the epilogue - to the benefit of all races on every world. And if you can seriously call a future where we're at peace and can pursue knowledge without fear of war bad, then go enjoy killing everyone off in Refusal and be a selfish git for the sake of your "principles" if you want.
Peace through an act of physical and mental violation is no such thing, don't even pretend that it is. You constantly sugar coat the crimes of synthesis to prop up your baseless headcanon, and it's incredibly tiresome.
Now you claim that because some people are accepting of body modifications, their whole societies are? Are you serious? And that this is the first cycle in billion years that's like this? Even though we have the Zha'til in just the last cycle? Yeah, right. Sure.
By all means continue to "ignore" arguments you can't counter. It's the reason you blocked me out of your blog, it's the only way you could stop me raining on your happy little pro-synthesis parade with actual logic.
I pity you.
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