Where are you buying the legendary edition?

lol what happened here? I thought people were just going to state where and how they will buy the legendary edition.

We're pretty vague on what happened here. If EDI is any indication, we're not looking at cyber enhancements. Instead, we're looking at a DNA rewrite. If it's anything else then we're at the same place where the synthetic/organic mix is superior to organics with some enhancements.

I don't expect any canon option will happen in ME5.

Either they will fluff and hand-wave past it,
or players will be able to pick their origin.

Oh, and I'll play a digital copy on my Series X. 

I do, that ending either being some sort of combination of parts of the endings and other huge choices or them unfortunately making Destroy and certain other choices canon (in which case no buy from me).
I would love if players could choose their ending, but I doubt that since between them and the other huge choices I don’t see how they could make all those options good. After all they’d have to for example have one player get a game with Reapers, Geth, Quarians, Rachni, Krogan alive and everyone Synthesized while also having one where all those races are wiped out and people aren’t synthesized. Not just races but the fates of planets too, like in one state Tuchanka is experiencing a renaissance of the krogan civilization while in another it belongs to the Rachni after the krogan warred with them and lost due to the Genophage not being cured.

That’s just it though: they aren’t kept the same, and they are destroyed. The reapers don’t actually reap everyone. They only use a percentage of them to create each new reaper, while the rest are wiped out or repurposed as shock troops, which is essentially the same thing. BioWare’s flimsy, simplistic writing can’t get around it. 

This is why past MELE, BioWare will never touch that subject again, because it’s basically narrative cooties. 

Of course, the reason they picked EDI as the POV character is so that they didn't have to answer questions about what it felt like to be a Synthesized human.

The idea that the unnecessarily brutal body horror method the Reapers used to liquefy people was somehow a form of data collection was an insanely retarded 9th hour asspull that wasn't thought about very much.

It's a bit like claiming that you're preserving the essence of Pig by grinding it up into hotdog.

The hotdog, by itself, can't even give you enough information to have a remote idea what the pig looked like, nevermind its behavior, culture or evolutionary history. 

You'd gain way more data on humanity simply by archiving Wikipedia, Reddit, and maybe the porn sites. Making them into paste tells you nothing of note about them.

The Reapers don't even preserve all the cultures the way a wiki article would. Plenty of colony worlds just get exterminatus'd by them if you fly around in ME3 and read the descriptions. Those colonies had unique histories and cultures that would've imbued the individuals with unique experiences. Guess they weren't worth preserving or whatever.

Then there's the fact they don't even preserve all the species. If you help the geth get Reaper code the quarians are just killed entirely, not Reap'd. Nothing remains of them and they'll presumably be lost to history forever. This is what would've happened to them anyway when the Reapers interfered for no logical reason to help the geth, had the Normandy not been sent to help them.

Why did the Reapers do that? If I were the Catalyst I'd probably want the annoying suit rats Reaped more than anyone else in the cycle, seeing as they're the only organics that built and then warred with the AI's en masse. They'd probably have more data to contribute to my goofy solution than anyone else in this cycle. Just let them kill the bots, then come and reap their dumb asses when they settle on the planet (abandoning their society's one advantage over the others at the dumbest possible time).

Nope let's just upgrade some slave robots I don't care about to vaporize them hahah. Gonna harvest these primitive turtle people that don't know shit about AI's instead kek.

I am a very smart Reaper AI.

I guess to make a distinction between lawmakers, #NotAllLawmakers, to separate from ancient lawmakers or lawmakers that don't understand or misuse/manipulate the law in an uncivil manner. Like in dictatorships or tribal societies. It doesn't hurt to make the distinction, at least. Basically, to establish a basis with which kind of lawmaking we consider as our basis. Basically, not the kind of lawmaking that sentences all offenses or political discourse to the death penalty, like this guy, who inspired the phrase "draconian measures". Not to be confused with the D&D setting of Dragonlance's Draconians. We're not talking about that kind of lawmaking. Maybe it is redundant, but hardly harmful.