Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

But I don't believe there is anything that says a Sith must be a bloodthristy, murdering lunatic.

One of the few choices I felt they were close to getting 'Sithyness' as not bound to 'Evulz' right was early on Korriban, in the interviewing prisoners (specifically the assassin) segment:

Since this isn't a spoiler I think we can dispense with the tags. See, this is a common misconception. You're right that not all Sith are bloodthirsty, murdering lunatics, but not in the way you mean it.

The problem is that they're often portrayed as mindless "rawr kill evry1 ded" by writers either too lazy or too dumb to do their research. This is true in TOR as well, for both some choices the Sith PCs make and the NPCs we come across. This problem is compounded by the false dichotomy moral choice system which in games always results in choices coming down to "be a friend to all the children and fuzzy animals" or "feed them to a wood chipper, cackling" with very little middle ground. Even more so in a Star Wars game where that kind of thinking is kind of built in.

But if you look past the games and lazy writing to the lore you'll find that Sith are much more subtle than that. It's not that they want to kill everyone, it's that they're building power to be free from any inhibition, including being able to kill anyone. They embrace their passions and reject absolutely all restrictions "Through victory, my chains are broken". They're also very social darwinist/ubermensch about it and ruling the galaxy comes from that and as a way to ensure no one ever tries to chain them again. It all comes down to the Sith Code- the proper Sith lives by it to the fullest.

Peace is a lie, there is only passion - already you have to reject the light side to believe this since the light side is all about peace, harmony and the supression of passion in the pursuit of transcendance.
Through pasion I gain strength - Passion, literally the way to draw on the dark side, by feeding your emotions is what fuels their power
Through strength I gain power- through a Sith's personal strength they gain the ability to get what they want.
Through power I gain victory- Ability becomes reality
Through victory, my chains are broken- Reality means they are now unfettered.

Thus, the Sith have to be dark side, by definition. Does that mean being a mindless berserker? No. Was Palpatine a mindless berserker? Or Dooku? Darth Bane routinely spared people where "there was no purpose in their death" but he was still by all definitions a complete monster.

Now there may be a bit of a discrepancy between terms. "Light side sith" as you mean it may mean "pick all or most of the blue options" where some may be justifiable under Sith ways of thinking. This would be different from "light side sith" from a lore perspective which is literally a light side Force user that still calls himself Sith. I'm very much against the latter as something that could legitimately exist in a system such as the Sith Empire. The former may be rolled into that simply because I'm allergic to the term

That being said I'm also not a fan of the "changing the empire from the inside" vibe a fully "all blue option" playthrough tries to push. I just flat out think it's nonsense and lip service wank, at least how it's presented. My agent is much better at "changing the empire from within" because she actually wants to get rid of the Sith or at least get them to stop micromanaging according to their insanity and just let people do their jobs.

And at the end of the day my problem with the warrior remains- whether you pick blue or red you can't fully live up to the Sith code with him, you have to settle for being a minion.

And now I'll end my rambling and let someone else speak

Is it wrong that I think my female chars are hot enough to make out with them? I mean, I never would... but... my Sith Warrior... ahem. Of course, I picked female for all those classes where the female romance is totally cute. So I had to live vicariously through youtube. Thanks for making Star Wars completely straight, Lucas. -.- At least starting with Makeb I can flirt with same gender NPCs.

Is it wrong that I think my female chars are hot enough to make out with them? 

Im not gonna be able to play this game for weeks I swear haha

Its just downloading patches... I finished a 11gb one just to get hit by an 18gb one... its just stupid haha... for whatever reason my Internet speed is locked at like 100kb/sec even though I know its faster I even did a speed test and it was MUCH faster... its gonna take FOREVER... I have it downloading every waking minute but its just getting nowhere... and the green bar which says overall progress is just stupidly low even though ive installed like 15gb already total

Im hoping to be able to play by the end of the month... hoping

Pics or it didn't happen

Exposing and embarassing Darmas was fun to record.