[ SECRET POST #3131 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3131 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Vic Fontaine/the EMH, Star Trek DS9/Voyager]


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03.
[The 100]


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04.
[No. 6]


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06. http://i.imgur.com/TyMQsJn.png
[linked for gore]


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07. [SPOILERS for Hannibal]



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08. [SPOILERS for Mad Max: Fury Road]



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09. [SPOILERS for Deus Ex: Human Revolution]



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10. [SPOILERS for Far Cry 4]





11. [SPOILERS for Far Cry 4]



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12. [SPOILERS for Persona 3]
[WARNING for suicide]



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13. [WARNING for rl animal death]

[CATS!]


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14. [WARNING for rape]

[Once Upon a Time]














Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[fscom]

09. [SPOILERS for Deus Ex: Human Revolution]
http://i.imgur.com/u85HuPl.png

[(Anonymous)]

a little OT but I always liked the lines in Jensen's face, which is a bit odd as I don't care for the face itself

on topic I agree, I enjoyed how they did it in Far Cry 4 where everything was supposed to suck and you were supposed to be disillusioned out of being a hero but it didn't feel as intentionally done in Deus Ex

[(Anonymous)]

He's seriously creepy looking. If he weren't a guy in a video game, he's be some kind of shady criminal type who no one would want to go near.

[(Anonymous)]

that's part of why I like those lines, and not his face. I'd obvs hesitate to approach someone who looked like him in real life, but he's got a great villainous character design.

[dethtoll]

Which is funny because he's honestly a genuinely good character -- but one dealing with a lot of pain. His apartment might be the most depressing place in a game I've ever seen. He's the classic cyberpunk protagonist: a little scary looking, a little gruff, a little morally gray, but a lighter shade than most everyone else. He feels like they took JC's design and made it less screamingly 90s and more stylish -- and when he takes that coat off he goes into full on Metal Gear Solid.

[(Anonymous)]

I know :) I like him, I simply don't care for his face aside from the nice lines in it. bit too sharp and villainous looking for me, even though he isn't one.

[dethtoll]

I honestly liken it to Solid Snake's, actually! They have very similar heads.

[(Anonymous)]

the feel they give to me is somehow vastly different. Snake looks weathered but soft, Jensen looks sharp and prickly. it may be the hair or facial hair?

[dethtoll]

It's definitely the hair. Adam's is more sharp and stylized, whereas Snake's has always been a bit of a mullet with a soft beard.

[(Anonymous)]

It's all stupid. Video games are not reality. Grow up.

[(Anonymous)]

uh what? who said video games were reality? if I said I didn't like the ending of a book, would you assume I thought the book was real life? what an odd logical leap to make, you strange person

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting that this ended up on the same day as the Far Cry 4 ones. I'm getting pretty tired of the trend in games that whenever you have a choice, every result has to be equally bad. I can see why they do it, but it's getting predictable.

[dethtoll]

It's because DXHR is a prequel to the original Deus Ex and DX1 is pretty much a classic cyberpunk setting -- i.e. it's pretty crapsack.

[(Anonymous)]

not that interesting, all spoiler marked ones go on friday

[(Anonymous)]

oh, they do? dang, I've been reading FS for ages and never noticed that.

[(Anonymous)]

spoiler and trigger ones, that's why some people call it fucked up friday :D

[dethtoll]

The real problem is that because HR is a prequel, the endings all have to more or less leave things intact for Deus Ex 1 to work off of -- and the Illuminati have to be there, as they play a central role. That's partly why I prefer the 4th, kill-em-all ending, because it's the one that most closely creates the conditions needed for the next part of the story. The other reason is because I feel that, tonally at least, the ending most closely matches with what the story was trying to tell. (It's for similar reasons that I always pick the Helios ending in DX1.) The fact that it reminds me of the endings of the first couple Metal Gear Solid games may also play a part -- I've always considered DX and MGS to be sister series of a sort.

I love this series to death but its insistence on multiple endings has always been a weak point. They tried to be lazy about it in Invisible War by saying all 3 of DX1's endings were canon -- that, to me, weakened the base from which the story could work from.

Hopefully Mankind Divided will help bridge the gap a bit between DXHR and DX1.

[(Anonymous)]

We didn't even get to see anything in the endings though. They were kept deliberately vague enough that you could pick whatever the hell you want and have no clue how it would affect humanity.

That said though, I cannot understand why people like the "just fucking kill everyone" ending. Like, did you think about it at all? How is murdering hundreds of innocent people ever a good idea? It sounds kind of nice based on what Eliza says about people making up their own mind (and yes, in that sense it is a bit like MGS, but that's where the similarities end), but she's just making shit up to try to make mass murder and dooming history to repeat itself sound appealing. It's just completely terrible in every single way and doesn't make the slightest bit of sense.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Depending on how literally you take the anti-science talk in Darrow's ending, he could kill a lot more than hundreds of people through the rejection of modern medicine. I don't know how lethal the Illuminati are (I gave up on the first game during the prison escape sequence), but Taggart probably can't be trusted with human life, either. It comes down to whether you trust Sarif.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Darrow's ending is telling the truth though. If people overreact to the truth by wanting to ban biotech or what the hell ever, that's their problem. You can hardly be said to be at fault for any deaths that result. Personally I don't think people are that stupid anyway.

Surely that's better than manipulating people in to believing what you want, especially when both Sarif and and Taggart have blatant ulterior motives for power/money.

Even then though, I can understand why one would choose Sarif's or Taggart's endings. All three of those endings only affect what you tell people about a single incident, and is spinning it in a way that you think will be beneficial to humanity really that bad? There'll be dozens of conspiracy theories in within a week anyway, and people will believe what they want. I don't think any of those choices will have nearly as much of an impact as Eliza seems to imply.

But just blowing up hundreds of innocent people because you don't like the views of 3 guys in there is straight up psycho. Like, shit Jensen, following that logic why not blow up the entire planet? Then nobody will be able to control anyone else ever again.

I highly recommend finishing the first game btw, it's great if you can get past the broken gameplay and hilariously bad voice acting.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I agree, but I think the last act lost a ton of steam after the white room Maguffin reveal.