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The moment that inspired this question:

A long time ago I was playing an MMO called Voyage of the Century Online. A major part of the game was sailing around on a galleon ship and having naval battles in the 1600s.

The game basically allowed you to sail around all of the oceans of the 1600s world and explore. The game was populated with a lot of NPC ships that you could raid and pick up its cargo for loot.

One time, I was sailing around the western coast of Africa and I came across some slavers. This was shocking to me at the time, and I was like “oh, I’m gonna fuck these racist slavers up!”

I proceed to engage the slave ship in battle and win. As I approach the wreckage, I’m bummed out because there wasn’t any loot. Like every ship up until this point had at least some spare cannon balls or treasure, but this one had nothing.

… then it hit me. A slave ship’s cargo would be… people. I sunk this ship and the reason there wasn’t any loot was because I killed the cargo. I felt so bad.

I just sat there for a little while and felt guilty, but I always appreciated that the developers included that detail so I could be humbled in my own self-righteousness. Not all issues can be solved with force.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sending an utterly unrepentant genocidal, eugenecist war criminal to his death, and singing along with his little musical number as he died.

Made me realise that while justice is a futile pursuit, we can still have fun settling the score.

#justice4krogans

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unrepentant? I will not stand for this Mordin slander!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Anyone else would've gotten it wrong

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Genophage was right, and you and paragon Shepherd can go suck some morally uptight bollocks.

Even when I'm playing paragon, I will generally go renegade options when the Genophage is involved, since I wholeheartedly believe it was the correct choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yay for genocide?

Fashionable, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You call it genocide, I call it birth control