Egon

Ah okay I just misunderstood you then. Yeah I saw the spectres as the CIA equivalent (as seen in the eyes of libs and how they think It Should Be In A Rational World) where I saw cerberus more as a vague terroist allegory (and since it's written by libs they don't really have any deeper motivations)

Yeah exactly! I wonder why the writers changed them

Yeah I recall that, I guess I should rephrase. What I meant was that they were cartoonishly evil in 1 doing Mengele-tier experiments for no discernible reason and being all-around Saturday Morning Cartoon Villanous burning down all they encountered. In 2 and 3 they're more... pragmatic bad guys. They do bad things because they think it's for the good of mankind. The things they do are bad and they are bad for doing them, but they kinda make sense from their worldview. They also aren't as obviously horrendous as they were in 1.

But the Moderates aren't moderate though, not even for regular politics. They're very clearly conservatives like Lars Løkke. The media just regurgitating "They're moderate! Lars has said his party is moderate!" and the people buying it no questions made me so angry. That whole election "ooooh there's the moderate party and they're not in any block because they're moderate, super duper moderate, so moderate we can't place them in a block, who know what block they'll end up in?" made me feel like I was going insane.

Worked with a guy who didn't want to wear PPE because it was uncomfortable. We were demolishing a building and he was sawing thru old insulation tubes. We had to wear PPE because the tubes were full of asbestos. He didn't wear PPE, he understood what asbestos was. I still can't figure it out.

I'm talking about Cerberus or whatever they were called not the Spectres

Parliamentary realities meant that the "Radical Left" party called the shots

Before people get excited: "Radical Left" is the name of a centre-right party in danish politics. They are named thusly because they are an off-shoot of the major right-wing party, which is of course called "Left".
Danish politics is fun because all the names suck. You have the "Liberal Alliance" that are against women's rights, the "Danish Peoples' Party" that are against policies that make more danish people (they're racists), the "Unity List" which was created as a coalition between several left-wing parties (even a few trots), a few parties has since split from the party and created new left wing parties like "The Communist Party" "The Communists" and "Revolutionairy Socialists", all of whom mainly sit around and wait for the revolution to arrive. Then there's the "Alternative" which offers themselves as an alternative to voting for a party that takes itself seriously, and the "Moderates" that are centrists according to their leader (who used to be the leader of Left) and the danish media (they base this claim on the fact that the Moderates say that they are moderates).

Mass Effect is just a franchise of interesting concepts that is never explored. You literally die and is brought back and it's just handwaved away

Inquisition is actually pretty good

Also what happened in the writers room between 1 and 2 were the evil human organisation suddenly stopped being unambiguously evil?

Dragon age origins was such a good game too. The different starts, the factions. I even liked the deep roads, they were kinda cool. I missed the origins fighting system even though it was clunky. Sten was fucking rad too.
Its been so long that I can't remember if Morgan was actually nuanced or she was just a failed attempt at nuance. The chantry mission rocked.

I romanced Sera because she was quirky. Didn't know people didn't like her