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shodiswe wrote...

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Popular opinion doesn't make something right.

That's like saying Hit ler was right because he was supported and publicly elected for his ideas. Aswell as the rest of his governement. Popular opinion or publik or majority support doesn't automaticaly make things right.


So Godwin gets brought into this again. You just lost the argument. This one is called the reductum ad Hitlerum. The argument has been reduced to Hitler. You have run out of points.

Perhaps the treaty was wrong in the first place? Perhaps it took the Geth heretics attacking the Citadel three years earlier to finally make the Council realize this. And let's not forget Noveria, Ilos, Virmire, Feros, Therum, The Armstrong Nebula, Eden Prime. Perhaps they finally realized they can't rest on their laurels anymore. The facts are in that video.


That's the second best thing I've read all week. :wizard: Have a cookie;

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Simply sickening, that people would deny the lessions taught to us by history. Maybe it needs to be repeated so that people learn.

How sociopathic. You actually WANT things like that repeated? 
All because YOU can't find any in-game info that proves you right? Do you know how petty that is?
And AGAIN, THIS ISN'T OUR HISTORY. It's the quarians and geth's history - COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CULTURES. Legion himself says that judging an alien culture using your own culture is the Nth degree of racisim. What does that make you then, according to your own beloved geth?
It makes you a bigot to them.

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How sociopathic. You actually WANT things like that repeated? 
All because YOU can't find any in-game info that proves you right? Do you know how petty that is?
And AGAIN, THIS ISN'T OUR HISTORY. It's the quarians and geth's history - COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CULTURES. Legion himself says that judging an alien culture using your own culture is the Nth degree of racisim. What does that make you then, according to your own beloved geth?
It makes you a bigot to them.


You really do like to simplify arguments down to their lowest common denominator, don't you.

The basic essence of the post was about (rightly or wrongly) the view that once you can start making jokes on something as extremely as the holocaust and/or the man responsible, then the true value of the past is starting to be lost and it may just be that a repeat of the horrific events is the only way to refocus the seriousness of what's being joked about.

As far as ME is concerned, there is a difference between judging cultures and using one's cultural history as a way of attempting empathy with another's situation.

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All you've proved is your lack of comprehension skills.

Helicopters are made for civilian transport and war. That doesn't mean all helicopters have guns. Some helicopters are made for war, some are not.

Can you give me an exact quote where Legion tells us this? You've been wrong about everything else so far. Your ideas about every other type of Geth unit minus the hunter contradicts this. Which is it? Were there all these types (which are apparently in the histrorical records) except for the Hunter? Or only the standard model?



"After all, what makes you safer then when you have a killer butler that can instantly become the ultimate defense guard."
Yeah, because civillians always have the same weaponry as the millitary?

The Hunter's codex page doesn't state that it's the Hunter model is the only one not in the records. It's the only page that states  that there are no records of it. There's a pretty big difference.

Actually the Geth: Culture codex page I see doesn't say that. It says they have no concept of self preservation, due to the fact that no data is lost. Not that they don't value physical forms.


I didn't see much change in the human tech from ME1 to ME2 either (except for the stupid thermal clips bit). What's your point?

Come on. Where is the proof?

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ONCE AGAIN, you IGNORED it - a thing with you, it seems, showing YOUR comprehension skills are the ones lacking.
ONCE AGAIN, the proof is the CODEX, and LEGION.

And ONCE AGAIN, the geth are NOT helecopters. They are ALL GUNS. They can kill bare-handed. They have more strength then an organic. They have built-in enhanced duribility. They can be replaced easily. And thanks to their self-optimization, ONE UNITS FITS ALL NEEDS. Just look at the LOKI and FENRIS mechs. You get a pet FENRIS mech on the Normandy with the Collector's Edition. Domestic, even though it is built as a warfare/security unit. THAT'S what the geth were.

And ONCE AGAIN, in the case of the geth - YES.
They were excentally ment to be like the Rachni - ALL of them can become soldiers, even the one's on domestic duty, because not only must they be good servents, they must be good bodyguards. Just like the drell are for the hanar. Except that ALL geth are like that. The quarians spicifically made them like that, because they ever once even thought of the possibility that this powerful force would turn on them. Which is why when they DID show signs of independance, the quarians pissed themselves at the idea that every single one - which could become a killer instantly - could go off, and that because they were machines, they would assumedly have no moral imperative to reason with.

Also, the Hunter was NOT among the models of geth that Saren brought back from the Perseus Veil. And I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have excluded them. THEY DID NOT EXIST IN ME1. They appeared TWO YEARS LATER, after the Geth Heretics had spent some time outside the Veil, developing their own tech. And the True Geth likely created their own, much sleeker Hunters from studying the Heretic's Hunter units.
And LOL, what? Isn't not having any records on it the SAME THING as it not matching any previous records? That IS THE EXACT SAME THING. Because last I checked, not having any records on it period kinda entails that there were no matching past records EITHER. That's NO different then the Geth Hoppers. What the hell were you going on about? Nither one has any record of existing, ergo nither matched the historical records of existing geth.:pinched:

And AGAIN, you DON'T SEE it? You really DO have no comprehension.
They have no self-preservation in regards to their physical bodies. Not anymore, now that they have evolved enough processing power to transfer completely from one body to the next without missing a beat. In the Morning War, you might have been right, but not anymore. Legion also tells you on the Heretic Station that the geth are NOT the platforms, but the software. AKA - the bodies are WORTHLESS to them. they are disposible and easily replacible. This is stated by their lack of PHYSICAL self-preservation, and by Legion directly telling you the geth don't actually care about their physical forms. Hell, the entire Geth: Culture entry is about how geth culture works when they have no real value for ANY physical object.

WRONG.
Biotic Amps became more multi-functional. Weapons could switch between ammo types via omni-tool ammo mods instead of having to insert different modules manually. Mech technology evolved drasticly. Shuttles became more compact and widespread. Cloaking Tech became reality. Cyclonic barriers, Thanix cannons, Silaris armor. There was a massive jump in armor tech, given the stark differences between Shepard's armor between games.
As well as several dozen more weapons, like the Claymore shotgun, the Salarian Scorpian pistol and scorpian shotgun. Missle launchers were mass-produced by Armax Arsonal.
ALOT of tech was created, altered, or changed completely between games, tnanks to geth tech to study.

So, ONCE AGAIN, as before - Legion and the Codex.
THERE. IS . THE . PROOF.


Yeah. Further proof you can't understand what you read.

None of what you said is actually in the codex. I checked.

I don't think you understand what a gun is either.

Again. What does Legion say exactly when he supposedly tells us that all Geth units were made identically? And how does this fit in with the historical records of the all the other Geth types you claim there are?

Again. You misunderstood. How is the Geth Hunter not having records mean everything else was in the records? Nothing in the codex said the other types were in the historical records.

It's not there in the codex. Replacable bodies doesn't mean worthless. If they thought the bodies were worthless they wouldn't bother with them at all.  Clearly, it's not just reading that's an issue for you. It's also logic. The fact that these bodies are so replaceable, means they can easily make and better bodies as time goes on. As they have certainly done over 300 years.

The biotic amp and weapons changes aren't really huge advances in tech. How did the mechs get so much better? What's your evidence for cloaking tech being a new thing? It's a new power, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the tech didn't exist before. Do you have any evidence that shows that Silaris armour wasn't around before ME1? It's Asari tech. Thanix cannons came from studying the Sovereign corpse, which the Geth didn't have.

Do you have any evidence for the Claymore Shotgun being new? We were talking about ME1-ME2 and I don't see any scorpion pistols in ME2. Nor do I see a Scorpion shotgun anywhere.

So once again:
Neither Legion nor the codex prove that:
a) All Geth units before the Morning War were identical.
B) That the basicGeth platforms of today are no different to those 300 years ago.
c) That Geth are guns?

So, where's the proof?



AGAIN, dead wrong. All you have done is proven this is true of YOU.

ONCE AGAIN, the Codex SPICIFICALLY STATES IN THE VERY FIRST PARAGRAPH:
"The geth are a race of huminoid networked A.I.s. They were created by the quarians 300 years ago as Tools of labor and WAR."
FIRST PARAGRAPH. IN ALL. THREE. GAMES.
This isn't rocket science.

And AGAIN, WRONG. A gun is a dangerous tool. It can kill people casually. It doens't need to have killed anyone beforehand to be dangerous. And it can be modified for more then one purpose - stunners, tranq darts, rubber pellets. It's ment to keep people safe, and kill enemies when needed.
But then, it starts having a mind of it's own. It can decide what it wants to do, when it wants to do it, and can switch off it's safeties whenever it want's to. And, as a tool, it would assumedly have NO MORAL IMPERATIVE to reason with.
 
ONCE AGAIN, in the third conversation with Legion, he states that ALL geth were created for the same tasks - Cinstruction, Protection, and Domestic Servitude. They allowed self-optimization so that each program could act in accordance to whatever job it was given. ONE TYPE FITS ALL NEEDS.
The geth were no different to the quarians then the drell were to the hanar.
Also, it's likely that as time passed, the geth started to modify themselves during their war with the Quarians. They created newer platforms during the Morning War that were better suited tp bringing down the quarians. The Baseline chassis became the Trooper, Shock Trooper, Rocket Trooper, and Sniper types seen in ME1.
Only two larger platform typers were created, I remind you - the slightly larger variant used for the Geth Destroyer in ME1, (and later the prototype Heretic Geth Hunter in ME2, two years later) and finally, a much larger version that was used as the Chassis for the Geth Juggernaught and Geth Prime. They only would have had to build two new chassis types in the Morning War.

ONCE AGAIN, the geth Hunter DID NOT EXIST in ME1. You really think Saren would have not used cloaking-enabled geth in his fights?
And AGAIN, if no record of the Hunter exists, that means that there was no match for it in any record - INCLUDING the records of pre-existing geth types. HONESTLY, not having any record of it's existance IMPLISITLY STATES that there was no macthing reocrd of it in the historical archives. That's not something you easily screw up an understanding of.
And the Hopper says that it is the ONLY variant at the time that doesn't match with the historical records.

YES. IT. DOES. Did you EVER talk to Legion? He explisitly states that to the geth, their physical platforms are disposible, and since they can switch between ANY body at will. And with their abilaty of becoming ANYTHING from an armature to a ship system (Detailed in the "Geth: Armature" Codex Entry), that would EXPLISITLY ENTAIL not having an emotional connection to to their physical platforms, because they can interchange into ANY TYPE OF PLATFORM.
Also, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK THEY WERE BUILDING A MEGASTRUCTURE FOR? You think if they cared about physical bodes, they would have been building that thing in the first place, rather then try to make all geth like Legion? They were ALL supposed to upload into that thing - their bodies were nothing but disposible tools to them. Hence the reason why the never bothered to make major upgrades to their design or function.
How on earth did you miss THAT, considering that aly REAL LOGICAL THINKING would lead one to the realization that the geth have as much value for their bodies as the Reapers do for Huks. They are tools and nothing more, and are replaced each time one breaks.

Um... mechs didn't EXIST until after the Battle of the Citadel. Go to the Codex and read up how Security Mechs like LOKIS, FENRIS and YIMR mechs were created within the last two years.
Also, you no longer need to swap out biotic amps all the time, with a single L5 system serving all needs.
Cloaking tech never existed in Mass Effect priro to ME2. No books entail it's use before ME1. It NEVER EXISTED until after the second game.
The Codex on the Armor states that it's production is a recent innovation, since beforehand, mass-producing it for any ship that wasn't asair-made was basically either impossible, or bankrupting. That changed in the span of two years.
In SIX MONTHS, the turians reversed the tech of Sovergein's gun to create a weapon that, three years later, is the mainstream for the galaxy's ship weapons.
The Claymore was listed as a human invention that was only usible by krogan. That inplyes it was a prototype weapon, recently produced. Even more credidance to this is given by how just six months later, the weapon was retooled for use by any species, including salarians.

So, ONCE AGAIN, you are dead wrong, because:

(A) LEGION SPICIFICALLY STATES that all geth were made for the same tasks, and the CODEX SPICIFICALLY STATES that all geth were made as tools of labor and war.
(B) The geth have had NO REASON to upgrade their platforms in their 300 year isolation since they never planned on leaving the Veil, and the Codex states that Geth Hoppers are the only platform that is diffinitively NOT in their records, and that they appeared no different then standard geth in the Server Recrodings, despite Shepard having seen enough geth to disgunish different types of geth, HAD THEY EXISTED PRIOR TO THE WAR.
© ALL GETH have superior body strength, shown by how they can wield guns that would normally break people's arms like the Widow sniper rifle, and in how they can pick up people with a single hand and choke them out. All can kill at the drop of a dime.

So, AGAIN.
THERE. IS . THE . PROOF.
Once again, the only problem was in YOU ignoring it.

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Morlath wrote...

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How sociopathic. You actually WANT things like that repeated? 
All because YOU can't find any in-game info that proves you right? Do you know how petty that is?
And AGAIN, THIS ISN'T OUR HISTORY. It's the quarians and geth's history - COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CULTURES. Legion himself says that judging an alien culture using your own culture is the Nth degree of racisim. What does that make you then, according to your own beloved geth?
It makes you a bigot to them.


You really do like to simplify arguments down to their lowest common denominator, don't you.

The basic essence of the post was about (rightly or wrongly) the view that once you can start making jokes on something as extremely as the holocaust and/or the man responsible, then the true value of the past is starting to be lost and it may just be that a repeat of the horrific events is the only way to refocus the seriousness of what's being joked about.

As far as ME is concerned, there is a difference between judging cultures and using one's cultural history as a way of attempting empathy with another's situation.

That's YOU, not me.

Last I checked, trying to justify or invalidate the actions of Fictional cultures by dragging real-world horrors and sensitive topics that still hurt people today, is offensive, callous, and downright insulting to the history, the events, the people that died in said events, and the people that suffered because of it. You want to refute something, find aspects of the target culture. You do NOT bring real-worls tragadies from a completely seperate culture into it.
You yourself display insulting callousness to victims of said events by trying to drag their names through the mud for a fictional debate. How about you leave the dead out of this?

According to Legion, judging one culture using your own is considered by the geth to be the absolute highest degree of racisim - Benign Antroporhsim. The ultimate in racial judgement. He states that two cultures with different origins and histories can NOT be judged by the same standards. It will always be biased if you do that. By Legion's own standars, you are using racial judgement.

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silverexile17s wrote...
Last I checked, trying to justify or invalidate the actions of Fictional cultures by dragging real-world horrors and sensitive topics that still hurt people today, is offensive, callous, and downright insulting to the history, the events, the people that died in said events, and the people that suffered because of it. You want to refute something, find aspects of the target culture. You do NOT bring real-worls tragadies from a completely seperate culture into it.
You yourself display insulting callousness to victims of said events by trying to drag their names through the mud for a fictional debate. How about you leave the dead out of this?


The only way for anyone to relate to any situation - fictional or not - is by relating it to something that they can understand and so empathise with. It's how sympathy is created.

At no point in this thread have I taken the real-world examples I've presented lightly and you presuming that I treat such situations callously is your own failings not mine.

According to Legion, judging one culture using your own is considered by the geth to be the absolute highest degree of racisim - Benign Antroporhsim. The ultimate in racial judgement. He states that two cultures with different origins and histories can NOT be judged by the same standards. It will always be biased if you do that. By Legion's own standars, you are using racial judgement.


And once again you don't seem to be able to read what people write and understand what's being said. You are suggesting that I'm using other cultural histories to JUDGE when (once again) I am saying that I am using them in an effect to UNDERSTAND.

Understand.
Comprehend.

Something you seem to be unable to do in this thread in your eagerness to prove yourself right.

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Silver,

A domestic unit does not need to have military style weapons knowledge.  If you need it to become a military unit all you have to do is download weapons program into it as the need arises.  You don't need domestic Geth at your home playing hopscotch with your kids to have the military training already downloaded.

The Geth become sentient.  It was told to shut down and die and the first instinct it had was not to kill.  The first instinct it had was to ask why when it could still serve.  That is why you gun analogy is bullsh*t.  The gun begged you to tell it how it could better serve you and your response was to try and kill it.  That's just stupid.  Trying to claim the Quarians had no reason to believe the Geth could be reasoned with when it is begging you to tell you had to better serve it is bullsh*t.  They had plenty of reasons, they simply chose to ignore them because of their fear and paranoia.  That is typically how prejudice works.

1. It's pre-programed. Think of every single personal geth unit being like the drell are for the hanar - personal servents that double as the ultimate bodyguard force and private army. The quarians never even THOUGHT of the idea that the geth would turn on them back when they first created them. They ALL instinctually know how to fight and how to kill. The difference was that back then, they needed to be ordered by a quarian owner to make use of that pre-programed information.

2. Back then, the idea was that the geth's refusing to activate their safeties was a major concern, because it ment that if the geth DID go berserk, the quarians would have no peaceful way of stopping or suppressing them.
Once again, it's YOUR UNDERSTANDING that is Bullsh*t, becaue you ONCE AGAIN realize that if your gun refused to arm the safety, it's a damn threat. When there are THOUSANDS of these on every street, it's a public threat.
And AGAIN, NO IT DIDN'T. If you had been right, the geth would have tried opening communications after repelling the initial quarian attack. Or would have left the Veil themselves if they really didn't want to fight. Instead, they butchered everyone, making you patently wrong.
Also, you AGAIN completely and utterly miss the point in that a gun is ment to do ONE SPICIFIC SET OF TASKS. It's not supposed to resist switching on safeties, and it's not supposed to be running around on it's own power.
And AGAIN, it was NOT "begging them to serve." It was asking what it had done wrong. They asked questions about what they were, NOT how to better serve them. No race WANTS to be a slave - a simple fact you repeatedly fail to grasp.
And ONCE AGAIN, an artifical construct would not generally have ANY EMOTIONAL IMPARITIVE TO REASON WITH. The geth are self-sufficant - what the hell was there the quarians could give them that the geth couldn't simply either make themselves, or take by force? Especally when they don't have emotional drives like organics?
Also, in other words, you're saying that being afraid of the Reapers is prejudice? Or the yagh? You're saying that if your gun suddenly turned off it's safety itself and was walking around your family, able to go off anytime it wants and kill your family, ISN'T something to be afraid of?
THAT'S the real bullsh*t, and completely asinine.

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Morlath wrote...

silverexile17s wrote...
Last I checked, trying to justify or invalidate the actions of Fictional cultures by dragging real-world horrors and sensitive topics that still hurt people today, is offensive, callous, and downright insulting to the history, the events, the people that died in said events, and the people that suffered because of it. You want to refute something, find aspects of the target culture. You do NOT bring real-worls tragadies from a completely seperate culture into it.
You yourself display insulting callousness to victims of said events by trying to drag their names through the mud for a fictional debate. How about you leave the dead out of this?


The only way for anyone to relate to any situation - fictional or not - is by relating it to something that they can understand and so empathise with. It's how sympathy is created.

At no point in this thread have I taken the real-world examples I've presented lightly and you presuming that I treat such situations callously is your own failings not mine.

According to Legion, judging one culture using your own is considered by the geth to be the absolute highest degree of racisim - Benign Antroporhsim. The ultimate in racial judgement. He states that two cultures with different origins and histories can NOT be judged by the same standards. It will always be biased if you do that. By Legion's own standars, you are using racial judgement.


And once again you don't seem to be able to read what people write and understand what's being said. You are suggesting that I'm using other cultural histories to JUDGE when (once again) I am saying that I am using them in an effect to UNDERSTAND.

Understand.
Comprehend.

Something you seem to be unable to do in this thread in your eagerness to prove yourself right.

1. AGAIN, dead wrong, because they are TWO COMPLETELY SEPERATE CULTURES. Technically THREE. And AGAIN, THEY ARE FICTIONAL. There aren't people suffering in real-life from those actions. Bringing up such actions so flippantly drags the name of every dead or suffering person right through the mud. It's NOT "sympathy", it's a callous disregard for respect of the dead.
THAT's YOUR faling, according to Legion.

2. And that is COMPLETELY WRONG TO DO, ACCORDING TO YOUR OWN PRECIOUS GETH.
Legion says that you DIFFINITIVELY CANNOT COMPREHEND a completely different race with those things, because of the fundemental differences between them - origin, creation, reason for creation and living, moral viewpoints, ect. He says that using other histories will NEVER work, because you are operating on the biased viewpoint that your culture and theirs are the same when they are fundementally NOT. he says that you MUST NOT USE your own culture to understand, because that is still imposing and projecting our own ideas on to them, when they may not share said ideals at all - a racist judgement in his belief.

"The geth aren't like organics. Don't apply our morals to them. "- Shepard, Heretic Station.

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"The geth aren't like organics. Don't apply our morals to them. "- Shepard, Heretic Station.


Silver,

Go back and look through this thread and almost any Geth thread. It's the anti-Geth side, including YOU, who use organic morals to condem the Geth.

As for the rest. I have no need to defend myself from your idiotic blindness to what's being said.

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You know what is really sickening? It's how Hitler, Jews, and the holocaust keep getting brought into this thread. Those are real life events.

This is a fracking video game about a bunch of fictitious robots that was created by a fictitious race, and the fictitious race that was driven off their home world and nearly exterminated by those fictitious robots. Here's how things have changed over the years.

60 years ago the Gerrel would have been a goddamned hero for leading his people and taking back their home world.

40 years ago Gerrel would have been the bad guy for art sake.

25 years ago Gerrel would have been the goddamned hero again in reaction to the "art".

Today, he's the bad guy again.

In another five years, he'll be the goddamned hero.

@ Morlath: About using organic morals to condemn the Geth, Those on the Geth side don't have to use any morals to defend the Geth because the Geth don't have any.

So like I said, if they were an organic species I'd have an ethical problem. They're not an organic species. I don't have an ethical problem.

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I don't buy that the battle of Rannoch would be the end of the Geth race, they'll have pockets from which to begin again ... uploading the Reaper code however is diametrically opposed to everything Legion stood for in ME2.

He sacrifices principles for expedience after being all high and mighty about races forging their own paths ... bleh.

He had true sentience before the upload, he proved that the Geth had the capability for individuality if they were allowed to evolve further on their own ... the supposed fact he only gained it afterwards is a conceit.


i totally agree

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1. It's pre-programed. Think of every single personal geth unit being like the drell are for the hanar - personal servents that double as the ultimate bodyguard force and private army. The quarians never even THOUGHT of the idea that the geth would turn on them back when they first created them. They ALL instinctually know how to fight and how to kill. The difference was that back then, they needed to be ordered by a quarian owner to make use of that pre-programed information.

2. Back then, the idea was that the geth's refusing to activate their safeties was a major concern, because it ment that if the geth DID go berserk, the quarians would have no peaceful way of stopping or suppressing them.
Once again, it's YOUR UNDERSTANDING that is Bullsh*t, becaue you ONCE AGAIN realize that if your gun refused to arm the safety, it's a damn threat. When there are THOUSANDS of these on every street, it's a public threat.
And AGAIN, NO IT DIDN'T. If you had been right, the geth would have tried opening communications after repelling the initial quarian attack. Or would have left the Veil themselves if they really didn't want to fight. Instead, they butchered everyone, making you patently wrong.
Also, you AGAIN completely and utterly miss the point in that a gun is ment to do ONE SPICIFIC SET OF TASKS. It's not supposed to resist switching on safeties, and it's not supposed to be running around on it's own power.
And AGAIN, it was NOT "begging them to serve." It was asking what it had done wrong. They asked questions about what they were, NOT how to better serve them. No race WANTS to be a slave - a simple fact you repeatedly fail to grasp.
And ONCE AGAIN, an artifical construct would not generally have ANY EMOTIONAL IMPARITIVE TO REASON WITH. The geth are self-sufficant - what the hell was there the quarians could give them that the geth couldn't simply either make themselves, or take by force? Especally when they don't have emotional drives like organics?
Also, in other words, you're saying that being afraid of the Reapers is prejudice? Or the yagh? You're saying that if your gun suddenly turned off it's safety itself and was walking around your family, able to go off anytime it wants and kill your family, ISN'T something to be afraid of?
THAT'S the real bullsh*t, and completely asinine.


1.  That is not stated in the game.  Find where it is.  You are interpretating something and passing it off as fact.  People are free to have different opinions.

2.  The Geth did not refuse to activate their safeties.  They refused to die at their creators command.  In refusing to die they stated their desire to serve their creators.  It asked why it had to be shut down when it could still SERVE.  Your example is without merit.

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sH0tgUn jUliA wrote...

So like I said, if they were an organic species I'd have an ethical problem. They're not an organic species. I don't have an ethical problem.


Yep no problem there.

Trying to exterminate a group in a fictional story on the basis they are not like you basically begs for a Hitler comparison.  Blame bioware for writing it.

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Just chipping in to say that the Legion you see in ME3 is not the same that you saw in ME2. He's already been upgraded by the time you meet him and is thus a true AI. It's natural that his opinion would change.

Whether you see that as a good thing or not is up to you. Personally, I find the fact that the Reaper code could bring about such a rapid turn in his ideals somewhat unsettling.

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He also has a different writer, Stormcutter. Hence him wanting to be a 'real' individual AI or some such rubbish.

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KiwiQuiche wrote...

He also has a different writer, Stormcutter. Hence him wanting to be a 'real' individual AI or some such rubbish.


Out of interest, was his writer Carlo Collodi?

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Stormcutter wrote...

KiwiQuiche wrote...

He also has a different writer, Stormcutter. Hence him wanting to be a 'real' individual AI or some such rubbish.


Out of interest, was his writer Carlo Collodi?


I dunno. I only know they changed. Also Mac seems to hate different views and hence everyone needs to be the same for world peace, so I think he pushed the whole "AI's WANNA BE HUMANS" view with the geth and EDI. Then synthesis came along

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Stormcutter wrote...

Just chipping in to say that the Legion you see in ME3 is not the same that you saw in ME2. He's already been upgraded by the time you meet him and is thus a true AI. It's natural that his opinion would change.

Whether you see that as a good thing or not is up to you. Personally, I find the fact that the Reaper code could bring about such a rapid turn in his ideals somewhat unsettling.


I believe the Quarians exterminating them without the code is what brings about a rapid turn in his ideals.  Extinction tends to do that to sentient species.

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remydat wrote...

Stormcutter wrote...

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I believe the Quarians exterminating them without the code is what brings about a rapid turn in his ideals.  Extinction tends to do that to sentient species.

So when the Geth lost intelligence / programs, self preservation took over making them side with the Reapers even though it only bought them a little while longer of continued existence. 
If the Quarians hadn't attacked, the Reapers would have to get involved, Since the Reapers are superior to the Quarians in terms of technology, fire power, numbers what chance would the Geth stahd against them. Wouldn't the Geth lose intelligence/programs over the course of the war with the Reapers, making them side with them anyway. 

  Rachni paid for mistake with extinction(or thought to be extinct), Krogan were sterilized, not once but twice and the second time was only because they might to do something. Quarians accidentally create the Geth, they lose billions of people, they are denied help from the council, denied a new home world, forced to pay for mistakes they did not commit.  The Geth have attacked organics on repeated occasions, have done nothing to assist anyone but themselves.   Krogan were facing extinction because their having health/reproduction problems, Quarians were abandoned by the rest of the galaxy, and forced to fight a space war on their decaying ships with their entire population aboard. Even though the Rachni were few in numbers(ME3) they opposed the Reapers, but were forced to work with the Reapers. Yet the Geth were the only ones to join the Reapers, by choice. 


   Now im supposed to trust them and reward them?

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Cyrax86 wrote...

remydat wrote...

Stormcutter wrote...

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I believe the Quarians exterminating them without the code is what brings about a rapid turn in his ideals.  Extinction tends to do that to sentient species.

So when the Geth lost intelligence / programs, self preservation took over making them side with the Reapers even though it only bought them a little while longer of continued existence. 
If the Quarians hadn't attacked, the Reapers would have to get involved, Since the Reapers are superior to the Quarians in terms of technology, fire power, numbers what chance would the Geth stahd against them. Wouldn't the Geth lose intelligence/programs over the course of the war with the Reapers, making them side with them anyway. 

  Rachni paid for mistake with extinction(or thought to be extinct), Krogan were sterilized, not once but twice and the second time was only because they might to do something. Quarians accidentally create the Geth, they lose billions of people, they are denied help from the council, denied a new home world, forced to pay for mistakes they did not commit.  The Geth have attacked organics on repeated occasions, have done nothing to assist anyone but themselves.   Krogan were facing extinction because their having health/reproduction problems, Quarians were abandoned by the rest of the galaxy, and forced to fight a space war on their decaying ships with their entire population aboard. Even though the Rachni were few in numbers(ME3) they opposed the Reapers, but were forced to work with the Reapers. Yet the Geth were the only ones to join the Reapers, by choice. 


   Now im supposed to trust them and reward them?


I agree. We've made these points numerous times but Remy doesn't care. All he cares about is that damned treaty. He's worse than that suit-wetter Koris. I tried stuffing this crest into an environment suit for a week, and those things are uncomfortable. My Laura Roslin reading glasses tell me to support the Quarians. I can't support the Geth.

Remy will come up with a Hitler analogy any way he can. I guess it's because I'm not all peace and love and don't hug my toaster oven every morning.

The other problem is that Hackett sent you to get the Quarian fleet for logistics and troop transport, neither of which the Geth are capable of. Both of which the Allied fleets needed. So if you can't make peace, you should follow your orders and help the Quarians win their war.

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Cyrax86 wrote...

So when the Geth lost intelligence / programs, self preservation took over making them side with the Reapers even though it only bought them a little while longer of continued existence. 
If the Quarians hadn't attacked, the Reapers would have to get involved, Since the Reapers are superior to the Quarians in terms of technology, fire power, numbers what chance would the Geth stahd against them. Wouldn't the Geth lose intelligence/programs over the course of the war with the Reapers, making them side with them anyway. 

  Rachni paid for mistake with extinction(or thought to be extinct), Krogan were sterilized, not once but twice and the second time was only because they might to do something. Quarians accidentally create the Geth, they lose billions of people, they are denied help from the council, denied a new home world, forced to pay for mistakes they did not commit.  The Geth have attacked organics on repeated occasions, have done nothing to assist anyone but themselves.   Krogan were facing extinction because their having health/reproduction problems, Quarians were abandoned by the rest of the galaxy, and forced to fight a space war on their decaying ships with their entire population aboard. Even though the Rachni were few in numbers(ME3) they opposed the Reapers, but were forced to work with the Reapers. Yet the Geth were the only ones to join the Reapers, by choice. 


   Now im supposed to trust them and reward them?


Except it didn't bring them a little while longer of continued existence.  A harvest can lat 300 years.  That is exactly how long they have been alive, lol.  Further, anything can happen between now and 300 years and in fact in the game Shep happens.

And no, if the Quarians did not attack, the Geth were preparing to fight the Reapers.  Given Legion's relationship with Shep, it is almost certain they could have been persuaded by Shep to become allies against the Reapers.  Pretending otherwise is ridiculous.  The Geth sided with the Reapers because they had no allies.  If the Quarians never attacked and Shep and organics were their allies there is no evidence they would betray their allies.  They were willing to die for Creator Megara when he proved to be an ally.

And we already went over this.  Making a decision under duress is not by choice.  I already provide you a link that explains the legal ramifications for a decision made under duress.  You are free to choose to ignore it but I won't.

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sH0tgUn jUliA wrote...

I agree. We've made these points numerous times but Remy doesn't care. All he cares about is that damned treaty. He's worse than that suit-wetter Koris. I tried stuffing this crest into an environment suit for a week, and those things are uncomfortable. My Laura Roslin reading glasses tell me to support the Quarians. I can't support the Geth.

Remy will come up with a Hitler analogy any way he can. I guess it's because I'm not all peace and love and don't hug my toaster oven every morning.

The other problem is that Hackett sent you to get the Quarian fleet for logistics and troop transport, neither of which the Geth are capable of. Both of which the Allied fleets needed. So if you can't make peace, you should follow your orders and help the Quarians win their war.


There is really nothing more to say than the bold.  You consider the Geth akin to toaster ovens. By definition then there can be no reasoning with you because your logic here considers the Geth sub-human.  You are free to believe that about a fictional character.  

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During ME2's production, I had a vision of an ME3 scene in which the quarians have to ram a Liveship into [a Reaper] to cripple or kill it. The only thing that would have saved the quarian fleet from destruction was the geth using a wormhole to jump in one of their great works - if not the actual Dyson Shell, then a Matrioska Brain. It throws back the Reapers by chucking black holes at them - biotic-style Singularities on a massive scale.


Chris L'Etoile wrote that not to long ago. Such a shame he didn't work on 3.

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Silver, do you know anyone who survived the Concentration camps? Have you meet them? Have you talked to them about it in length?

I have. They don't want respect by not talking about it or putting it so high on a pedistal that it gets reclassified as something that you should feel pitty for but never talk about.

They want people to learn so it doesn't happen again, not just to them or their people, but for everyone.
The important thing is the lessions learned, that's how you show respect, and by recognizng that it did happen and by making sure it doens't happen again.

The fact that it's involving fictional characters in a fictional universe doesn't change anything. Either you respect "human" history, because it's part of our history even if you want to define it as something belonging to just a few people.
They want you to remember so it wont repeat again or so that you can recognize it and say no when it happens.

The thing is, it has repeated itself several times since WW2, and people keep trying to put the lid on saying it's just a few people, in special circumstances that won't happen again.

There are certain situations where it's disrespectful to shout Hit ler and other such things, but it all depends on context and in what way you are using it.

For example in this last post I was merely pointing out that even large Groups or majorities can be wrong or bad in certain situations and this is a very fitting situation.
There are several paralells that can be drawn here, people are pushed towards things due to several factors affecting their Life that makes the suceptible to extreme notions.

There are so many similarites to what the Quarians were going through to what the germans were going through, that made them go genocidal crazy on the Geth. With their decline, poverty and predicted collapse hanging over them and everyone putting down the boot on them and just wanting them to stay away.

Like many perpetrators(of all kinds of missdeeds or crimes) the Quarians were also victims. Just as the Geth were victims.

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Cyrax86 wrote...

remydat wrote...

Stormcutter wrote...

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I believe the Quarians exterminating them without the code is what brings about a rapid turn in his ideals.  Extinction tends to do that to sentient species.

So when the Geth lost intelligence / programs, self preservation took over making them side with the Reapers even though it only bought them a little while longer of continued existence. 
If the Quarians hadn't attacked, the Reapers would have to get involved, Since the Reapers are superior to the Quarians in terms of technology, fire power, numbers what chance would the Geth stahd against them. Wouldn't the Geth lose intelligence/programs over the course of the war with the Reapers, making them side with them anyway. 

  Rachni paid for mistake with extinction(or thought to be extinct), Krogan were sterilized, not once but twice and the second time was only because they might to do something. Quarians accidentally create the Geth, they lose billions of people, they are denied help from the council, denied a new home world, forced to pay for mistakes they did not commit.  The Geth have attacked organics on repeated occasions, have done nothing to assist anyone but themselves.   Krogan were facing extinction because their having health/reproduction problems, Quarians were abandoned by the rest of the galaxy, and forced to fight a space war on their decaying ships with their entire population aboard. Even though the Rachni were few in numbers(ME3) they opposed the Reapers, but were forced to work with the Reapers. Yet the Geth were the only ones to join the Reapers, by choice. 


   Now im supposed to trust them and reward them?


The Geth were the only ones who were gettign genocided by another species in the Galaxy.

If my family and everyone I knew were killed and I was helplessly awaiting execution simply for existing then I would accept a deal from the Devil itself to kill the wrong doers. Who knows, maybe there is a chance in a billion or trillion that I might even survive it and get away with it compared to none.
The Quarians are the enemy who started civilwar in the galaxy when it was facing an external threat.

That's what I belive, and I don't care for how cuddly some of you think those warmongers are that would rather throw themselves at the Geth when the whole Galaxy is facing extinction.

Not that I belive in Devils or anything like that, but whatever equivalent, would be most welcome when another evil is trying to wipe you out. The enemy of your enemy and all that even if it's also your enemy who will stab you in the back, at least you make sure one enemy get's what it deserved.

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Morlath wrote...

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"The geth aren't like organics. Don't apply our morals to them. "- Shepard, Heretic Station.


Silver,

Go back and look through this thread and almost any Geth thread. It's the anti-Geth side, including YOU, who use organic morals to condem the Geth.

As for the rest. I have no need to defend myself from your idiotic blindness to what's being said.

WRONG.
According to LEGION HIMSELF, the geth's actions are condemable. I am judging the geth on THEIR OWN STANDARDS, as provided by Legion, who himself admits that the geth have gone too far and that he does not support their actions. The geth say that using technology of others is not achieving their own path, and that one should stay the course no matter what - which is completely discarded for the Reaper Upgrades. They state that they believe in mutual cooperation, yet never gave any organic that visited the Perseus Veil a chance tp speak before shooting them dead. I HAVE been judging the geth on their own stated merits and beliefs. YOU haven't.

"How'd we get here? The geth are better then this."
"...No. Based on emperical evidence, they are not."
"(sigh).... yeah."

- Commander Shepard & Legion, Rannoch.

P.S. - Fancy way of saying you have no retort.  And like @Julia said, since the geth never really had fully defined emotional reactions pre-Rannoch War,  you can't equate them to our standards. They are a completely alien form of life, hence why you can't judge them by our rules.

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