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i dunno guys, the only good pro-slavery dude is a dead pro-slavery dude imho...incidentally, the lore goes to great pains to depict batarian civilization as being extremely pro-slavery as a whole, to the point of conflict with humanity and the broader council iirc like, i can see being weirded out by 'kill all batarians memes,' even the down-trodden of omega, but you're probably better off remembering that bioware writing is wretchedly lazy and sloppy enough that most species (except humanity, with other species being baffled by our diversity) just have a single governing body that happens to embody and define them as a whole, except for the misfits like the krogan poet, and with batarians it's their dumb, over-the-top kidnapper's space confederate hegemony
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I thought the Batarians were meant to be Somalia what with the lack of a central government
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slavery is a deeply ingrained part of batarian culture. by asking batarians to stop kidnapping and enslaving people, it is actually you who is being intolerant
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counter point:
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Arcsquad12 posted:I thought the Batarians were meant to be Somalia what with the lack of a central government The batarian hegemony is depicted as an extremely centralized authoritarian command economy. Do you even read the loving codex, bro
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Feb 9, 2021 17:51
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The funny part about playing a work of fiction is that you can jokingly take extreme stances like "kill all batarians" and it doesn't matter, because Mass Effect is not real life.
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Feb 9, 2021 17:53
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El_Elegante posted:how so I just got a huge "The
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exquisite tea posted:The funny part about playing a work of fiction is that you can jokingly take extreme stances like "kill all batarians" and it doesn't matter, because Mass Effect is not real life. Batarians are real and they are my friend
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Feb 9, 2021 17:55
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They end up being way more sympathetic than Quarians, that's for sure.
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Feb 9, 2021 17:57
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“Hell yeah,” Shepard shouts and grins as he does A Genocide
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Feb 9, 2021 17:58
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exquisite tea posted:They end up being way more sympathetic than Quarians, that's for sure. im glad they died on their way to Andromeda
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Feb 9, 2021 18:00
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El_Elegante posted:“Hell yeah,” Shepard shouts and grins as he does A Genocide Video games.... are art.
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Feb 9, 2021 18:01
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Is the virmire mission a genocide? It’s incredible how many you get to do in the trilogy. Shepard should have been tried and executed at the end, just like Kojima planned to do Snake.
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Feb 9, 2021 18:07
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okay, but you can try fitting a reaper into a courtroom
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Feb 9, 2021 18:09
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another low point of ME3 is how they bungle the opening and don't do Shepard on trial in the game. Going directly from the ending of ME2 to the opening of ME3 is one of the weirdest whiplashes in quality in the entire series
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Feb 9, 2021 18:10
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El_Elegante posted:The batarian hegemony is depicted as an extremely centralized authoritarian command economy. Do you even read the loving codex, bro What planet was space Somalia then? I must be getting it mixed up with one of the Terminus System planets from ME2 because I know there's one where they said that the Council had declared it a no fly zone because it was so hosed.
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Feb 9, 2021 18:11
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hard counter posted:okay, but you can try fitting a reaper into a courtroom "We will now refer to the testimony from the reaper Harbinger" *loud deafening BWOMMMMMMMMM shatters all the windows in the room and bursts everyone's eardrums*
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Feb 9, 2021 18:11
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Hackett knew when he sent Shepard in that there was going to be an explosion. He just didn't know Shepard was going to zoom past WMD and go straight for "Galactic Gender Reveal" levels of destruction.
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Feb 9, 2021 18:15
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Arcsquad12 posted:What planet was space Somalia then? I must be getting it mixed up with one of the Terminus System planets from ME2 because I know there's one where they said that the Council had declared it a no fly zone because it was so hosed. That was the Yahg, I believe.
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Feb 9, 2021 18:45
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I do think that a lot about the Batarians seems to evoke post-9/11 anti-muslim hysteria, although it's not like the game actually specifically equates them with muslims. Slavery is bad, but there's also that one Asari slaver on Illum trying to get a quarian into a slave contract, so it's not an exclusive Batarian thing.
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Feb 9, 2021 18:52
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it's okay, we can shoot that asari into the sun too
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Feb 9, 2021 18:55
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8one6 posted:Hackett knew when he sent Shepard in that there was going to be an explosion. He just didn't know Shepard was going to zoom past WMD and go straight for "Galactic Gender Reveal" levels of destruction. 
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Feb 9, 2021 19:09
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Moola posted:"We will now refer to the testimony from the reaper Harbinger" ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL OF THE CASE. THIS TESTAMONY HURTS YOU. THIS EVIDENCE IS WHAT YOU FACE. THESE OBJECTIONS ARE POINTLESS. PROSECUTION CANNOT BE STOPPED.
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Feb 9, 2021 19:13
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hard counter posted:it's okay, we can shoot that asari into the sun too  If there was a suicide mission but for races at the end of ME3, I would ensure the asari die every time.
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Feb 9, 2021 19:19
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8one6 posted:Hackett knew when he sent Shepard in that there was going to be an explosion. He just didn't know Shepard was going to zoom past WMD and go straight for "Galactic Gender Reveal" levels of destruction. but enough about the ME3 ending,
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Feb 9, 2021 19:25
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Lt. Danger posted:but enough about the ME3 ending, It's a... Green hat?
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Feb 9, 2021 20:28
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Eimi posted:
Least with Javik you can sorta give them and their religious believes a good nice shake. "No you aren't the inheritors of the protheans, they thought you where stupid babies"
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Feb 9, 2021 22:51
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Arcsquad12 posted:What planet was space Somalia then? I must be getting it mixed up with one of the Terminus System planets from ME2 because I know there's one where they said that the Council had declared it a no fly zone because it was so hosed. There was no planet like that. The Terminus systems is a loosely affiliated area not directly controlled by any of the major powers. The council was in the process of using Humans to tame the Terminus Systems (previously they were using the Batarians) since Humans were so keen to colonize new worlds. Generic American posted:That was the Yahg, I believe. Yeah, it was the Yahg, but it wasn't because it was space Somalia. It was because the Yahg are extremely hierarchical and domineering so when the visiting Council ambassadors didn't respond properly and acted as equals the Yahg took offense and effortlessly killed them. Their world was declared off limits because uplifting them would be a disaster for the current powers.
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Feb 10, 2021 17:54
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It's like they didn't even watch the TNG episode where they show the Federation uses spies to investigate the culture of worlds before they interact with them so they can minimize the freaking out "Oh my god aliens are real" phase
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Moola posted:another low point of ME3 is how they bungle the opening and don't do Shepard on trial in the game. Going directly from the ending of ME2 to the opening of ME3 is one of the weirdest whiplashes in quality in the entire series Yeah, it really set the tenor for the rest of the bungled narrative.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Yeah, it really set the tenor for the rest of the bungled narrative. I can remember the moment I knew ME3 was not going to be on the same level as ME2, and it was that awful opening speech Shepard gives to some war committee or something. It's on the exact same level of quality as this speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34x6jxZ_Erk but it's actually played straight
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Feb 11, 2021 00:49
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All speeches about war should be written by Kojima.
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Eimi posted:All speeches about war should be written by Kojima. Do you just want people to suffer?
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Arcsquad12 posted:Do you just want people to suffer? You feel it too, don't you?
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Feb 11, 2021 01:48
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Eimi posted:All speeches about war should be written by Kojima. 
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https://twitter.com/PrelewdEvents/status/1359537241924730883?s=19
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I wasn't sure where this person was going with that, but I should've guessed. https://twitter.com/PrelewdEvents/status/1359542033107591175 Also that entire account is, shall we say, extremely dodgy.
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Yeah it owns, I don't normally side with bioware but these people really should just search for butt porn or whatever or maybe just go to deviant art for their needs
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they should keep the butt shots in, but have a text pop-up afterwards that says "you know poop comes from there, right?"
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It'd be funnier I think if they kept the shots, but covered the pertinent areas of the screen with huge black bars. The idea that changing some camera angles to be less gratuitously titillating constitutes "censorship" is so laughable that BioWare should really go all-in on upsetting these miserable cretins.
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