1) the council is not a democracy it is clearly an oligarchy, a cartel of limited membership dedicated to protecting its own interests. It only allows the strongest races representation and rules imperially over all the rest without their input.
2) Democracies, is a terrible system of government historically replete with examples of tyranny and injustice, but as Winston Churchill quipped “its the worst system if government apart from all the others.” The committee government of the council’s portrayal as corrupt, short-sighted, high-handed and self-interested is perfectly in line with the historic nature of democracies , although as I said above it isnt really a democracy at all, and much more natural and real-feeling than what woke game journalists would likely prefer. It reminds me very much of Washington’s struggles a venal, short-sighted Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War.
3) the early and mid 2000s were a vastly more honest and intelligent time than today. Mass Effect is a fully realized universe with the good bad and ugly of existence. Its authors were clearly informed and influenced by the great science fiction authors and a clear-eyed appreciation of history. In a decade choked with woke propaganda games like Andromeda its a breath of much needed fresh air.
@notjm: because we arent talking about fallen order we are talking about squadrons. The white guy in Fallen Order doesnt make this any less “diverse.” Its irrelevant and an attempt by you to dodge how insanely woke the demographics of this game are.
I did enjoy your hilarious zinger about dodging though, lmfao
@phili878: lol bs, its easily 90% poc in every stream ive seen and humans are at least 95% female. If you cant see the insane woke corporate diversity its bc you dont want to.
@notjm: theres plenty of streams today where you can see full missions, i saw one white guy servicing a y-wing. Its like the star ears universe was founded by Wakanda.
@amaneuvering: i saw one white guy in the background during jack frags stream. Thats it. Every character is an extremely butch poc female or an alien or morgan freeman.
lol am I supposed to feel bad for the movie or Jar-Jar? Welcome to showbiz guys, you make a bad movie and give a bad performance and your career suffers. Take it like a man ya wimps.
@zmanbarzel: Thats totally missing the point. The point here is not the EFFECT of gameplay decisions, its the INTENT of decisions made for gameplay versus the INTENT of decisions made for propaganda.
Healthpacks/regen health is INTENDED to make the game more fun, whether or not it achieves that effect is irrelevant. Lying about women and minorities signifigance as combatants is INTENDED to make the public believe a false narrative about World War 2.
Your original point is ridiculous because it pretends there is no difference between healthpacks and lying about history for propaganda purposes. I guess youre ok w dishonest political propaganda in games bc muh health regen.
@zmanbarzel: you are intentionally conflating gameplay mechanics inserted to make it a fun game with pc historical revisionism inserted to mislead the public. Can you see the difference? One is artistic lisence, the other is a lie.
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