Playing through the Mass Effect Legendary Edition I noticed a trend that becomes blatant trend in the resulting story loss, in the first game we have extraordinary diverse characters in both personalities and demographics, but the socjus is seen if a few characters like the xenophobic (racist) XO, who later conforms and even grows fond of the diverse crowd. All in all the game represented a wide, new story full of lore and inter species squabbling who have to unite to fight the big bad. By the second game we see far more cringe socjus like Jacob being a black man whose dad abandoned him, legion calling it racist to assess a different species off of your species ethics, etc. but still the worst is the ever present squad interactions of whose the victim (tali and legion, Miranda and Jack, etc). By the third Shepherd is in full white savior mode solving each and every deep species resentment to unify and fight the reapers. This story shift takes a drastic turn from space soldier fighting baddies to shepherd being the diplomat extraordinare. This left turn was the feminization of the story, you are no longer a soldier in war, but the “breaker of chains”.
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I suggest watching this video by American Krogan which goes over some of that. It's very interesting how Mass Effect started out as humans vs aliens, where you are supposed to take the aliens side because racism. Into organic vs synthetic, where you are supposed to take the synthetic side because racism. It is a continual and ever expanding rejection of personal biological identity in favour of foreign identity.
Well that's because with an ethnic conflict there are only 3 real solutions. Separation, domination, and mixture. Usually with some degree of all of them.
In the US we have been taught that domination is awful. You can't just allow a population group to be oppressed like that due to something out of their control. You aren't allowed to keep separate either, because that is bigoted and hateful. So the only option left to the progressive mindset is mixture.
On the plus side, you can bully gays in mass effect.
What happened in andromeda?
What the hell is the point of this shit? No, seriously, why are these cunts doing this to appease people who will never buy their games?
It’s “inclusivity” where the majority of the market is ignored to pander to extreme minorities which is how we got andromeda.
To keep whatever woman is blackmailing the CEO from dropping the MeToo dagger.
See also : Bill Gates.