User blog comment:Xaero Dumort/"Synthetics" as applied to the ending and the sentence that nullifies IT./@comment-5503561-20120624132016

I still don't get what is up with this "wipe out all synthetic life if you want" option. First - there's this "If you want." So that means, the thingamabob I'm shooting at will do a last minute mind-reading on Shepard to know if he checked the box by the Geth and EDI and scheduled them for termination? Or just roll over all technology as it goes, as it seems to do.

Secondly - it says "synthetic life". Life. Ergo, I personally think sentient, or semi-sentient machines, like the Geth, VIs etc. My toaster, a sky car or Shepard's lower spinal support implant aren't really sentient. Especially considering that last one, "even you are partly synthetic" doesn't make sense. Last time I checked, Shepard's implant's didn't act up in any way that would suggest sentience. So there's no reason Shepard would die, other than being an idiot and walking towards an explosion, and from vacuum when the Citadel's life support field-bubble thingy fails afterward.

Also, joke's on the star kid - Reapers aren't purely synthetic, they're fusion of synth and organic material. Kinda like Shepard, just that synth-to-fleshy parts ratio is reversed in this case. So they shouldn't be affected either, since you can't really classify a hybrid like that as either just synth or organic.