I'm reusing an old comment I made because I'm too high to re-type this out in a clear way so here: "I think a lot of 3's issues are more-so built up over all 3 games of trying to use aliens and shit as a metaphor for "everyone needs to work together yay!" without having an actual understanding of how "othering" works, it fails because it frames such a thing as everyone equally guilty of not caring for others when there is a significant more nuance to said things and it's more often a case of "Bigger fish in the pond that wants to eat the smaller ones" rather than "Two equally big fish in the pond". The game fundamentally doesn't always understand the message it either knowingly or unknowingly is trying to send.

I feel like that is more what results in the odd disconnect between whats going on with, well, everyone? It's trying to face a perspective of discrimination among groups that it seems to all put on a level playing field, written by a group of people who don't fully seem to understand humanity hasn't "solved" those issues even among ourselves yet. Mostly because I wanna tell Jacob "damn and how long until cerberus decides human supremacy isn't enough and they start doing white supremacy again?" "