[ SECRET POST #2414 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2414 ⌋

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

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02.
[Akumu-chan / My Little Nightmare]


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03.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation/Deanna Troi]


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04.
[The Borgias]


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05.
[Kaiba Seto and Jounouchi Katsuya from Yu-gi-oh!]


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06.
[Spring Breakers]


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07.
[Murder Rooms]


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08.
[Twin Peaks]


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09.
[Mass Effect]


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10.
[Despicable Me 2]


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11.
[Ice Age]


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12.
[Arrested Development]


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13.
[Super Junior]


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14.
[Halloween]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 064 secrets from Secret Submission Post #345.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[elaminator]

I'm pretty sure Synthesis is supposed to be the best ending since it takes the most EMS to achieve. Everything about it creeps me out. I DO want EDI and the Geth to live, but none of the ending were satisfactory imo. I don't care how unrealistic it would've been, I think EDI and the Geth surviving the destroy ending should've been possible.

Still, I've made my peace with it. Mostly.

[(Anonymous)]

+1 to all of the above. WHY Synthesis requires the most EMS, I have no idea. I'll take Control over that any day, even if that had its own creep factor. We can't win with any of these endings, sadly.

[elaminator]

We can't win with any of these endings, sadly.

Pretty much. They all have their downfalls, which doesn't necessarily HAVE to be a bad thing; not all endings need to be perfect. Still...the endings will always be a clusterfuck of wrong to me.

[miarrow]

I still think Indoctrination theory would have been the greatest, so I'm really upset they didn't go that route. Like I was fine with Shepard having to go out in a heroic way (though I agree with some of the arguments made for letting him/her live), but wiping out the synthetic life and pretty much everyone... agh.

I'm still not over some of the stuff during the game. Like it made it impossible to really think of doing Renegade choices because they went from pragmatic humanist to cutthroat idiot.

[elaminator]

The Indoctrination theory makes more sense to me than anything we got. (And is way more pleasant.) And imo Shepard should ALWAYS have a chance of survival if not for any other reason than BioWare games are supposed to be about choice. (Granted we did get choices, they were just crap ones.) All the endings are pretty damn harrowing, but either BioWare wanted it that way or didn't see the underlying issues with them.

[(Anonymous)]

I just imagine the Marauder Shields comic is the real ending now and it makes me passably happy.

[diet_poison]

I guess Synthesis was supposed to be like, a big grand statement about the ideal pinnacle of life - it was supposed to be the ultimate end. idk.

I agree with you 110% about an alternate Destroy. I didn't feel any great desire to spare the Reapers. If it had *just* destroyed Reapers without killing all those other people (which...it doesn't seem like it would be that hard to do) it would have been amazing.

[elaminator]

I guess Synthesis was supposed to be like, a big grand statement about the ideal pinnacle of life - it was supposed to be the ultimate end.

Yea, I think that's what they were going for. The message didn't really reach me though...it just ended up feeling disturbing and horror movie esc. Different strokes and all that but it didn't work for me.

I didn't feel any great desire to spare the Reapers.

Me either, what with the whole 'we're killing you so you won't kill yourselves' shit. (Like seriously?) And we're supposed to trust that Shepard will have the ~strength of will~ (or whatever, idek) to control them indefinitely or inherently change every living being in the galaxy instead of destroying them? Whaaaaaaat?

[diet_poison]

Yeah, different strokes...very, VERY true in this fandom, heh.

Totally agreed about Control. Part of why I didn't like it is that it felt...nebulous. How do we know Shepard is actually going to be able to control them? And how do we know he/she won't become corrupted by all that power? As much as I believe in Shepard's goodness and self-sacrifice (at least, paragon!Shepard) that kind of power can corrupt anybody.

[elaminator]

Yeaaaa, Shepard warned The Illusive Man about controlling something that large - basically said, "You have to be crazy and arrogant to think that's possible", which is why I don't see Shepard (at least, again, paragon!Shepard) going with it. Even if Shepard is ~pure of heart~ I don't believe that level of control would allow her/him to stay 100% themselves. I just can't see it not going wrong somehow.

Which is basically how I feel about synthesis, too.

Urg, Mass Effect endings.

[diet_poison]

I think Control has a much higher possibility of something going wrong; maybe that's why it didn't sit well with me compared to Synthesis.

I honestly think the main thing I dislike about Synthesis is it feels too much like a deus ex and a ~perfect happy ending~. Also that it's just really hard to conceive how it could possibly work. It's too bad there wasn't a way to make Destroy work better...