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SpookyMask Since: Jan, 2011
#24226: Feb 19th 2012 at 2:43:04 AM

BTW, my id is "WrathMask", have you added me?

edited 19th Feb '12 2:43:24 AM by SpookyMask

TheProffesor The Professor from USA Since: Jan, 2011
#24227: Feb 19th 2012 at 2:43:13 AM

Think about it.

The Krogan's dream is to fight. That is directly in conflict with the rest of the galaxy. The Quarians want two things: Revenge against the Geth and their homeworld.

Not everyone has some great dream we can unite together under. However, all want to survive.

It is safer to be feared than loved.- Machievelli

SpookyMask Since: Jan, 2011
#24228: Feb 19th 2012 at 2:44:26 AM

^Was gonna comment on about how Machiavelli is misquoted often, but then I realized you said "safer" and not "better" so I'm trying to remember if that is misquoting the meaning of the sentence or not.

TheProffesor The Professor from USA Since: Jan, 2011
#24229: Feb 19th 2012 at 2:45:11 AM

I'm pretty sure that's correct. It's often misquoted as "It is better to be feared than loved.", but that's not what he said.

edited 19th Feb '12 2:46:01 AM by TheProffesor

Legionnaire The Leading Man from Australia Since: Oct, 2010
The Leading Man
#24230: Feb 19th 2012 at 2:45:32 AM

I can't take Machiavelli seriously since I learned about his plan with Da Vinci to rob one of...Florence (I think)'s enemies of their water supply by diverting a river.

Or since I played AssCreedTwo.

edited 19th Feb '12 2:45:43 AM by Legionnaire

Against all tyrants.
TheProffesor The Professor from USA Since: Jan, 2011
#24231: Feb 19th 2012 at 2:46:44 AM

That's not too crazy of an idea, actually...

Legionnaire The Leading Man from Australia Since: Oct, 2010
The Leading Man
#24232: Feb 19th 2012 at 2:48:29 AM

I would argue that permanently diverting a major river is a liiiiitle out of the scope of late Renaissance Italy, even with Da Vinci himself.

Against all tyrants.
TheProffesor The Professor from USA Since: Jan, 2011
#24233: Feb 19th 2012 at 2:49:54 AM

Point is, Machievelli wasn't crazy. Glory leads to downfall.

Falco Since: Mar, 2011
#24234: Feb 19th 2012 at 2:50:15 AM

I'm in for a game now.

Edit: Creating game. Silver OK?

edited 19th Feb '12 2:50:49 AM by Falco

"You want to see how a human dies? At ramming speed." - Emily Wong.
TheProffesor The Professor from USA Since: Jan, 2011
#24235: Feb 19th 2012 at 2:51:49 AM

We need more PS 3 players. I haven't got to play with anyone yet. sad

Medicus Sierra 117 from Australia Since: Sep, 2009
Sierra 117
#24236: Feb 19th 2012 at 3:02:48 AM

Proff is right.

Case in point: Jeong on Feros.

Paragon: No, you shouldn't destroy the colony! Think of the marketing!

Renegade: You're a bean counter, Jeong. I'm a Spectre. What do you think's gonna happen?

edited 19th Feb '12 3:05:36 AM by Medicus

It's not over. Not yet.
SpookyMask Since: Jan, 2011
#24237: Feb 19th 2012 at 4:15:48 AM

Hey, that was one of my fav paragon ones tongue Mainly because it was funny.

Also, I'm slightly annoyed. The friend of mine who I got to recruit hasn't completed the demo yet. I mean, recruitment packs aren't that important, but it would be nice to have one of them...

edited 19th Feb '12 4:21:55 AM by SpookyMask

JoieDeCombat Since: May, 2009
#24238: Feb 19th 2012 at 5:32:00 AM

I normally play Paragon, but Jeong is one of my exceptions. I always cap him in the face. It's very satisfying.

SpookyMask Since: Jan, 2011
#24239: Feb 19th 2012 at 5:43:16 AM

I'm only one who feels bad for killing characters whose dead could have been allowed, aren't I? tongue

I mean, besides chars like who REALLY are better off dead because they being alive will end up killing other people tongue

edited 19th Feb '12 5:46:29 AM by SpookyMask

fakeangelbr The Awesomest Character from Fortaleza, Brazil Since: Jan, 2010
The Awesomest Character
#24240: Feb 19th 2012 at 6:32:44 AM

"It is better to be feared than loved."
Machiavelli did not believed this

Donate money to Skullgirls, get a sweet poster.
Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
#24241: Feb 19th 2012 at 6:41:14 AM

[up]x3 I just took the non-persuasion Paragon option when I was talking to that slimebucket, even though I had enough Charm for that option.

Shepard: "I've heard enough. Drop your weapon or be prepared to use it."
Jeong: "Well if that's how it's going to be, then COME ON-"
BLAM!
Shepard: Thanks for the justification, asshole.

edited 19th Feb '12 6:41:38 AM by Reflextion

Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.
Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Uniocular
#24242: Feb 19th 2012 at 7:07:59 AM

That's the revolver?

God damn it. I am disappointed, Bio Ware.

Also, probably going to drop this thread soon. See you guys once I actually get to play ME 3. Whenever that is.

edited 19th Feb '12 7:09:09 AM by Mukora

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
onyhow Too much adorableness from Land of the headpats Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Squeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Too much adorableness
#24243: Feb 19th 2012 at 8:17:27 AM

^ Few more weeks? I heard that there will be Cerberus Daily News for 3 weeks up to the launch of ME 3...if if that appears then I guess you can count the days...

Give me cute or give me...something?
Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Uniocular
#24244: Feb 19th 2012 at 8:22:47 AM

... What?

No, I know when ME 3 is coming out (March 6.) I just don't know when I'll get to play it.

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
onyhow Too much adorableness from Land of the headpats Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Squeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Too much adorableness
#24245: Feb 19th 2012 at 8:23:52 AM

^ Oh misunderstood then (dammit I'm an idiot)...but why? Work/school?

edited 19th Feb '12 8:24:07 AM by onyhow

Give me cute or give me...something?
Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Uniocular
#24246: Feb 19th 2012 at 8:30:20 AM

Xbox died.

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
onyhow Too much adorableness from Land of the headpats Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Squeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Too much adorableness
#24247: Feb 19th 2012 at 8:31:24 AM

^ Well shit...if get repair now it might be in time?

Give me cute or give me...something?
Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Uniocular
#24248: Feb 19th 2012 at 8:40:24 AM

Theoretically, I could get it fixed in time, if I knew how. But the only way I can get it fixed is by sending it to Microsoft. And that will take until June, most likely.

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#24249: Feb 19th 2012 at 9:03:47 AM

Machiavelli (even if you don't believe The Prince is a covert endorsement of republicanism) stressed that a ruler must not ever, ever be hated. That's the part the main Renegade choices get wrong; Shepard acts like a massive dick to stroke his own ego, not because its the best option available.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Uniocular
#24250: Feb 19th 2012 at 9:05:43 AM

Seriously, how is Renegade Shepard not considered rogue yet?

He commits genocide, kills every member of a colony, murders multiple people in cold blood, kills the main governing body of the galaxy, and actively supports a terrorist organization.

All Saren did was nearly blow up a colony. (Well, also the Reapers thing, but the Council didn't use that as part of their decision to declare him rogue.)

edited 19th Feb '12 9:06:44 AM by Mukora

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."

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