For me, it's the Tracer Tong ending

If you say so, Ted

I wonder which thread had to die for this schmootz bullshit

>>11840970
Just another Zelda thread, no big loss

I like the Tong ending too, but ultimately it's just kicking the can down the road. Communications isn't a beast that leaves you alone for long.

>>11840995
then blow it up again

>>11840995
>>11840962 (OP)
It's more like destroying the router for the world wide web... Only for it to be rebuild in short while as IW showed making it truly the most insignificant ending. Helios is the only real ending that any one should consider

>>11840995
There is no end all be all solution. For the USA the founding fathers acknowledged maintaining liberty is an eternal struggle. Just because they fought the revolutionary war and penned the constitution along with the bill of rights didn't mean everything is set in stone and that's that.

People are too fixed upon an end all be all solution and often get lost in a romanticized version of an ideology or way of life. The problem is that romanticism is fantasy, it isn't real.

Tong ending

The only ending

Not related to the post, but I sometimes forget that most visitors here are anons from America

The lack of internet never stopped the rich from buttfucking the poor, otherwise 90% of all empires would never exist.

>>11841002
Benevolent dictator is the only way. Although the Illuminati were oddly...good? They just wanted to keep things moving and seemed open to social mobility unlike MJ12. Tong ending would result in the death of regular people on an unprecedented scale even if it could work, since our massive population relies on globalization.

@11840969
>namefag comes in
>repeats the fucking joke
why are you wastes of oxygen even allowed here

>>11841083
>trusting them

>>11841002
>as IW showed
IW presents a world were somehow all 3 endings happened. So it's not an argument for or against any of the og endings: If only 1 ending happens then that's a completely different scenario then having all 3 together. Discussions on the endings should be strictly on the basis of only 1 ending. Can you take all 3 endings in Deus Ex? No. So stop using IW as an argument. Using the IW timeline as an argument means you hate fun, are autistic and are incapable of taking a stand or discussing viewpoints.
>But muh canon
As I said, autistic. The reason these discussions are still happening 25 later is because there's no objectively best answer. Choosing an ending in Deus Ex is a question of principles, which are always subjective. This is why discussing them is interesting. not because of some sequel. Discussions on the endings need to happen as if IW didn't exist.

>>11841859
Even if you were to count IW and canon as not a factor, it would still be the second worst ending after the Illuminati ending

>>11840962 (OP)
posting unmarked spoilers this fucking egregious in the OP should be punishable by death

>>11842198
Aeris dies

Luckily for you, you still have two other unspoilered endings for Deus Ex. But if you haven't played it in 2025, you'll never do it, cronic complainer

>>11840962 (OP)
Blowing up Area 51 is not gonna destroy Google, you can count on that.

>>11842198
Here's an IRL spoiler for you
>in b4 janny seethe

>>11841083
Caring about the global population in itself is a fool's errand. By that level of dependency you have to kill everyone by cutting off the supply.

>>11842274
Tong's point was to free the people. Seems silly to kill most of them in order to accomplish that.

>childhood is the Helios ending
>teenage years is Tong's ending
>adulthood is the Illuminati ending

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cur1uMGrxs

>>11842304
Just like how animals cannot survive in the wild from being kept in captivity a lot of people will die because they have no skills. This is fundamentally inherent to any true freedom from the current system outcome.

>>11841519
Add these two lines to Ublock Origin's custom filters and you'll never see a namefag or tripfag post again:

4chan.org,4channel.org##.postContainer:if(.post:not(.inlined) > .postInfo > .nameBlock > .name:has-text(/^(?!Anonymous$)/))
4chan.org,4channel.org##.post.preview:if(.postInfo > .nameBlock > .name:has-text(/^(?!Anonymous$)/))

>>11842591
This feels disturbingly familiar.

>>11840962 (OP)
>we're going to kick the can down the road a little bit
>the genie is totally going back into the bottle

>Helios
>sounds like it actually would help humanity and solve numerous problems

>Illuminati
>just the same shit what led to the whole game in the first place

>Tong
>dude people will surely not try to repair/remake everything you destroyed

>>11842806
>dude people will surely not try to repair/remake everything you destroyed
Kill whoever does.

>>11842816
Well who would enforce that? You can say powerful entities like the military or even extremely rich people with private armies but they were comfortable and used to the society that was around pre-tong ending. So these entities would most likely force people at gunpoint to fix and repair everything until society is back to where it was. The Tong ending really is for stupid reactionaries who can't think too far ahead. Sort of like other retards that they look up to, like Ted Kaczynski.

>>11845070
me

a big reason deus ex's world was the way it was was because everything was centralized. with the tong ending, destroying the infrastructure will make it less likely that when it's eventually rebuilt will end up being centralized again.

>>11845070
Think too far ahead compared to what? Siding with the Illuminati? Some organization people know the name of and knows influence events but doesn't know when those actions are done and for what purpose. None the less can be subverted as it was in the game. Or how about a super AI, especially when part of it was made from a malicious program and they merged, and it needs to merge with a human host. By the way, what it merges with was never actually born since he was lab made, possibly a good chunk of his memories implanted into him and the AI will preside over mankind based upon its vessels experiences as a human?

Do you realize how fragile and nutty all the endings are?

>>11842726
Time is flat circle, everything exists in cycles. What you call "kicking the can down the road," I would call a detoxifying reset. It gives humanity a chance to reset, reevaluate, and eventually choose how and when to rebuild. Will that rebuilding eventually result in a lot of the same problems as before? Maybe, and then it's time for a new reset.

It should have been a world wide EMP that dismantled all technology across the globe. Shutting off the internet and communications alone wouldn't have done anything because the powers that be would have just got them running again.

Lots of people would have died and mankind would be set back to the stoneage but that's what it would take