Now it's all hearsay, but with all these articles suddenly coming out, some of them feel deliberately like ragebait because they know emotions are especially volatile right now, so be cautious of everything you read online (as one always should).

Ashley gets a lot of flak for her stance on aliens, often being labeled a "space racist". I think this is a deeply bad-faith reading that refuses to engage with her character and the world building at large. Often, when coming to her defence, it'll be pointed out how most the mass effect 1 squad have prejudices, the exception to this being Kaidan. Kaidan is the most paragon squad mate (as a result he's often labeled as the least interesting), but something that struck me recently is that, at it's core,his take on aliens is exactly the same as Ashley's, they just have a paragon Vs renegade perspective on it.

Both Kaidan and Ashley had a negative experience with aliens, both Turians no less. Ash's grandfather was the first human to ever surrender to an alien during the first contact war, leading to her being blacklisted in the alliance, and Kaidan murdered his Turian biotic instructor.

They both took away the same lesson from this, aliens aren't really that different from humans. Ash saw how humanity was treated here and how the council is using them as a buffer between citadel space and the terminus systems (which led to the alliance suffering multiple attacks like Mindoir and Elysium) and realised that, just like humans, aliens will always look out for themselves. Similarly, Kaidan saw this horrid Turian, and realised he was just a guy, some guys suck, some guys are nice, he hated that Turian, but there's certainly nicer Turians out there.

I really like this since it indicates what the paragon and renegade system is when it's working best, it's not about being nice Vs being a dick, it's about being an optimist Vs a realist (Which is exactly how Ashley lays it out during this scene)

Maybe this was obvious to everyone else and I just typed out a lot of yap, but I saw another wave of Ashley racist allegations, and wanted to praise the character writing in ME1, which was a bit more subtle compared to the more bombastic writing in 2 and 3.

So I've been thinking about it since I saw the trailer and I'm kind of confused as to why the Quarians are still wearing suits in the new (cancelled) game trailer?

Weren't they talking about starting the process at the end of Mass Effect 3 to allow themselves to no longer need their suits?

Just confused why they're still wearing suits if it's been 600 years since Mass Effect 3 and way back then they were talking about ways to get rid of the suits all together

Does anyone else have any insight on this?

Also here's the link to the petition to #SaveMassEffect

https://c.org/44SbQCg5hs

Absolute perfection. Everything makes sense. There is no cheesiness, no cliches. Just a cold calculating perfectly logical machine standing before ants. The first time I had the pleasure of playing this game I felt indoctrinated after this bit. RIP BioWare

This is literally such a cool and engaging way to showcase the #SaveMassEffect #SaveBioware campaign. Props to the creators!

#SAVEMASSEFFECT Website

You can see the Timeline in the style of the original ME story timeline https://savemasseffect.com/timeline.html

There's a Bioware Memorial Wall and everything! https://savemasseffect.com/memorial-wall.html

Love this community ❤️💙

rEAper

Maybe Mass Effect can be saved, maybe not. But what we can do is give its half-brothers a bit of a hand.

Because let's be honest, they seem pretty obscure and unknown. I'm not sure what their marketing strategy is, but its like they don't even try to reach out to gaming channels and such.

I know it's stupid theroize about the leaked trailer (and sometimes it's even made by other team that dosen't work in the final game) but i still want to post one thing i notice in the trailer.

And the thing that surprise me is the huge amount of Quarians that are outside Rannoch wich we can see in the trailer.

I like to think that after the reaper war they colonized their planet again and after that they seeked to recover the previous quarian status in the galaxy.

And in the game we would have seen Quarians having Jobs and successfully living outside Rannoch not like outcasts or thiefs but like normal citizens.

What do you think?.

After all this time?

For those who weren’t aware, the billboard in Time’s Square is just the beginning. There is a plan now fully in motion to propel #SaveMassEffect on more billboards, and with one specifically targeting EA HQ. During a live stream on YouTube today, KalaElizabeth and Paragon7 raised almost $6,000 to fund the project in less than 10 minutes.
Bravo Zulu people!!!

Link to the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/live/kg8IlM2ZZ18?si=f8N9FW3w6bj8KXhc