Retcons or contradictions that you have noticed

Ugh, they even added the "I'm so sorry for using wrong gender pronouns" thing with that angara.
Ugh, what's next? 

"Krogan lives matter?"

I always had that impression that SAM translated their language directly into your brain when you were picking up their data pads. It was actually done correctly, since at first you couldnt understand their gibberish, but once SAM decrypted their moonrune lingvo, it became comprehensible. But yeah, I just realized they never explained how Angara understand english, or if SAM just uploaded the angaran language to everybody's translator on the nexus. Did we even have a scene of SAM breaking downa the angara language? Ugh.

But yeah, there was NO scene whre they go: "Actually we call kett 'gazorpazorpians' ". It's just kett from start to finish, at least the geth and proteins gave reapers their own names and it felt authentic. 

'We're the real illegal immigrants in this galaxy.'



(Come on, that's worth a like at least.)


More seriously/flippantly, while I thought the trans-asari comment was silly, on further thought I actually could enjoy seeing a trans-asari... if the writers had the gall to have the Asari treat the trans!Asari in the same way most people look at those who insist they're neither male or female but their own new and exclusive gender with new personal pronouns. Impatience, eye-rolling, and exasperated questioning about why established gender norms that have lasted for millenia aren't good enough for this one chick. (Or would it be chuck?)

Given how progressive Bioware likes to be, I doubt they'd be comfortable writing a trans character who might just be acting out for attention, but it'd be amusing to see them try.

It wouldn't even have to be all one-sided or just acting out- you actually could do a good job in casting social deviants in Andromeda on the basis of, well, being social deviants who want to escape the old norms and create new ones. Stigmitized/marginalized communities could be the most eager to join the Initiative if it had a chance to let them become something normal.

So even if trans!Asari who insist on/prefer male verbage are an infitestimatlly small minority, one-in-a-hundred-million who typically get pressed to culturally assimilate over the centuries, I could see that mote-in-the-eye-of-the-majority going to Andromeda and then telling any alien they meet that their social deviance is normal. Who's going to say they're wrong?

Oh, I'd totally dig an Asari with a dick, but I don't trust Bioware writing a complex character like that. I mean, c'mon, the only trans girl in MEA is written like: "Hello, my name is Michelle, but back on Earth people called me Michael" Which is totally fucking ridiculous, as most trans people won't just straight up tell their former names in a first conversation like that off-hand. Which just shows BioWare's lack of understanding on the subject matter and how to treat it for real. Plus it'd be icky for them, so I don't see this subject matter being explorer further than a reference banter somewhere.

I've only scanned a few pages, but did Peebee's eyebrows get brought up? I haven't heard an explanation for it in game.

I'm not the least bit surprised it was a mistake. 

Ryder and the crew were the first to arrive on Aya but not the first to be on angaran land. Kadara Port used to be an angaran trading post until the kett took it. Sloane and her Outcasts took over it after killing the kett despite how the angaran citizens still lived there. That's why there are a fair amount of angara on Kadara that are angry at the Milkies. They are not exiles of their people either. Evfra even mentions Kadara as a why on their distrust of Milkies.

Just got to the last memory fragment. And Im confused, was not Shepherd the first Human Specter ever?

And so did we not win against the reapers?, so messages could only be sent while we still had the Mass relays?

Shepard is indeed the first human Spectre.

The translator thing is for convenience. If every race had its own name for every thing including other races names, planets names, city names etc. there would be hundreds of extra names, labels and terms which would be used in the translation and would be confusing as hell, it would drive people nuts.

"Terana" Whats that, oh its the turian word for Earth. "Asopans" what are those, those are what the salarians call hanar. etc.

The citadel? Thats a weird name, heres what every onther race calls it, remember the list.

Gaider blogged on tumblr for at least a couple of years.

As for the reasons he left:  lhttps://twitter.com/davidgaider/status/595992113038237696