The litmus test

Only because those colors help us to know what kind of reaction it will give. Text doesn't show the tone and context that will be used. Even something simple as "your an idiot" can have different meanings depending on the tone used. It could be playfully joking or it could be a more sarcastic eye rolling joking to a straight up insult.

The difference between renegade and paragon besides obvious nice guy vs ass hole stuff. Is that they seem to become short term vs long term benefits. I mean think about it a pure renegade play though results in drastically less resources for the ending. If it wasn't for DLC and Mp side a pure 100% renegade play though would barly have the resources for even a good destroy ending that doesn't result in the Crucible nuking Earth.

And this is carried over with ending. Destroy is red because it is a short term solution. Yay Reapers are gone but the after effect of them in the galaxy will take generations to fix and the issue with synthetics is never fully addressed. Control gives a new leader of the Reapers who can try new things, use their resources to help rebuild the galaxy and try every single thing everyone has ever complained the Catalyst never should have done or tried but never did.

Course it doesn't help that they really tone down to ignore the consequences of destroy.




How are things asserted by the Catalyst subjective and not provable objectively? Quarian/Geth conflict proves it pretty objectively. Council restricts AI development. Quarian race walks a tight rope on the edge of those restrictions and create the Geth. The Geth start to develop on their own into intelligent life and the Quarians start a war to prevent it. Geth develop faster then Quarian's think and lose the war resulting in their population being depleted to only a couple hundred thousand. Few hundred years later the Quarians take another crack at the Geth to wipe them out or lobotomize them into gloried Rumbas. They only get the advantage because they exploit the Geth's dependency on other Geth for basic intelligence. Once the Reapers intervene and upgrade them to full AI status on par with the likes of EDI not only are they able to reverse the fighting against the Quarians. To the point they send for Shepard to help them out but also capable of wiping out the entire Quarian race.

When you watch history unfold it isn't' really subjective statement made by the Catalyst. And given Shepard the option to object doesn't change anything. I mean NASA can say the Earth is round and flat earthers can object and say it isn't. But that doesn't change everything shown has proven NASA's statement that the Earth is in fact round.




For the same reason in any action movie the hero runs head first into a hail of gunfire and never gets hit/gets hit in a non lethal way that is actually very lethal. I mean look at any Marvel movie. As long as you don't actually think for more then a second about the plot they are great movies. But you start to examine the plot and the logic of it and it starts to fall apart really fast.




The Reapers and everything about them is space magic. That is the result of dealing with technology you don't fully understand. Try to explain text messages to someone in the 18th century.



They don't know what the Crucible is. They draw that to attention very early on. They assume it is a Reaper destroying weapon because the Protheans were trying to build it and they were known to be fighting against the Reapers. Shepard chooses to believe and convinces everyone to help by saying it is a tool to destroy the Reapers. While TIM thinks it is a tool to control them.





The Geth have a fundamental flaw that they are aware of and have been trying to correct. They are so dependent on each other for intelligence that if separated or the lose of Geth results in their collective intelligence diminishing. When you are surrounded by hundreds of other people you are Tony Stark level intellect. But isolate you alone and you couldn't figure what shoe goes on what foot. That is the Geth in a nut shell. A weakness that the Quarians exploited to devastating effect and the Reapers would exploit as well. The upgrade allows each Geth to be independent and not reliant on other Geth for basic intelligence.

Pretty sure there is no upgrade to make it target only Reapers. It would be impossible since all technology used is based on Reaper tech. Any BS line about that was added in with EC to please the players that were complaining about how destroy ending has consequences to their actions. When they really just want a happy ending and to hell with any possible consequences to your actions. Which makes Fraggle's statement probably the most likely reason for the complaints about the ending.

If WW2 were a video game those people would be complaining about the consequences of dropping nukes on Japan.