User blog comment:The Milkman/Indoctrination Theorists Say the Darndest Things, Part II/@comment-5830255-20121205094236/@comment-5830255-20121205211459

Ghardo:

Except in ME3 if they live their pretty much unimportant and have little engagement, they pretty much become cameo apperances with not that much interaction.

A lot of the time whether these people die or not has no important impact once again.

Your romantic interest isn't that huge and maybe the only real choice because basically it only matters to you the player and Shepard.

LilyheartsLiara:

Even if that's the case he's been helping the Reapers because he thinks it will lead him to controlling them. All it takes is a mindset that makes you think helping the Reapers is the way to get what you want. This can't be don with destroy, it's the absolute intolerance of their existence.

Milkman and everyone else asking about illusion of choice: The IT at least makes choice important. All I need to do from a literal perspective is pick R/G/B because they are apparently morally ambiguous enough to all be valid. If their all valid why am I compelled to prefer one over the other? If they all have good enough arguments to be rationally acceptable then logically I have no reasoning to make one outweigh the other. So illusion of choice, same with any choice before that ends up becoming a slideshow at the end. Non-ending choices don't matter because they apparently are boiled down to pictures that me or you chooses merely on preference. Not because they actually matter, but because they headcanon matter.