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I've quoted it in other contexts so lets talk about a quote from my favorite character in Mass Effect: Mordin Solus
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Mordin Solus is a Salarian doctor and scientist
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When you first meet him, he's running a clinic in a run down space colony overrun by gang violence
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It's unglamorous work
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Later on you find out he was part of the team responsible for the Krogan Genophage
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Mordin spends the entire game trying to justify how the genophage was good for the galaxy
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Up to the bit where you get a chance to cure it
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If you cure it, you get the Krogan's full support in the final battle, if you sabotage the cure, you get the Salarian's full support
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But, more immediately relevant
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If you try to sabotage the cure, Mordin tries to stop you
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After spending the entire game up to this point talking in a super clipped and detached kind of way and trying to talk about how in the Big Picture the genophage helped the galaxy he fucking breaks down and says
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(Minor correction: he wasn’t involved in the original genie have, but he was part of the team that updated it to keep it working later)
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Right that yes
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He wasn't one of the original team members but he's part of the genophage project
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"I made a mistake. focused on big picture. big picture made of little pictures"
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And just that line of "Big picture made of little pictures" always really stuck with me
oh i'm scary
same
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He started his little clinic because he felt that he had to remind himself constantly of the consequences that big decisions have on small people
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Anyway it's what I think about
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Whenever some smug badguy in a game or tv show or something
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starts talking about the Greater Good
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Anyway
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Mordin Solus is good, actually
Infychu
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When he says "I made a mistake" it's like
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the only time in the game he uses a pronoun
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Let’s not forget
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“Someone else might have gotten it wrong.”
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And the two line deliveries thereof
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Had to be him
Quinnfernal
the worst part is that the "I made a mistake" line is locked behind a quest that requires you to be just the worst megahitler ever
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I played ME as Paragon, Quinn played ME as Renegade
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and we are in agreement that Renegade is HOT GARBAGE
Quinnfernal
yes
DehydratedWater
oh that explains why I didn't remember that line
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I only know about it because I watched Quinn play it
Quinnfernal
my optimal playthrough is all paragon dialogue and most renegade triggers
CrowsbeforeBros
I'm still annoyed headbutting a Krogan is a Renegade interrupt
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It's culturally appropriate!
CrowsbeforeBros
honestly a few interrupts being renegade makes sense, others really don't