Where are all overweight people in Andromeda?

You must not have heard the announcement on the Nexus asking for blood, tissue, and DNA donations.

We should probably avoid the obvious slippery slope discussing reproduction and the topics that is going to make us delve into and stayed focused on the fact that BW obviously has it out for fat people.

ok, then following your logic, why recruiting gays and transsexual ppl, because for once, they are more prone to mental disorders which lead to things like higher suicide rate for example, that if we decide to overlook that entire lgbt thing might be considered a mental disorder. Meaning that among everything else, only straight people, interested in making families and raising children (i.e. breeding) should be allowed. See where it's going? So can you please stop your bigotry in automatically assuming that ppl with some extra weight are inferior in some way, because they are clearly not - physique is not everything, neither it is the only quality that is required for an expedition we have in game. In other words I highly doubt that Initiative would not take some brilliant scientist with them only on a premise of him having some extra pounds around his waist. Sick...

Except that you seem to fail to understand that not everyone on AI is an astronaut or needs to be one, in a sense of performing astronauts duties. Most of the ppl in AI are anything but astronauts - scientist, engineers, sociologists, hell, there are even journalists and accountants. Also space travel in ME is highly trivialized and is not what it is today -'Tis more akin taking a boat or a plane, you don't need to have top physique to fly or sail those as well as you dont need to be in perfect shape to be able to space travel in ME. So your argument about astronauts here is not withstanding. 
Secondly, the pod size seem to be universal, but all things considered I can hardly see why slightly round character, especially female who are generally smaller than males and that's shows in game, would not be able to fit into pod designed to hold both males and females. We also not talking about ppl that are obese to extremes, so again, the "they will not fit into pod" argument is complete bs and notwithstanding.
Last but not least, if health is such a high concern, then I dont see how it would be even remotely sensible to bring transgenders on board that went through a complex surgery and require a lifetime supply of hormones and what-not. That's definitely does not sound like top health to me. So again, you argument about health and that only overweight ppl are not fit for the journey is not withstanding and stinks of bigotry and double standards.

But may I ask why exactly do you see some overweight as universally negatively viewed trait, that it has to be thing of the past? I know a lot of ppl, both male and female, who find curvy forms likable and attractive (speaking of which - Diana Allers from ME would also qualify as an example of character than not ppl in ME have perfect godlike physique. While she naturally cant be considered obese (and really, obesety is not the point of this thread - diversity is), there are some extra feminine pounds here and there), yet you assume that it is something that universally must be medically healed? It would be more believable that MEU universe got rid of gay and transgender mental disorders and all the accompanying troubles and controversies around them, but no - apparently overweight ppl were the issue. Sorry, but I am not buying it. The only only reason why there are no curvy ppl in mass effect has nothing to do with the lore, it only about BW deciding that representing those people somehow is less important, most likely because they are much less whiney in general that some other demographics, and do not organize things like "fat pride parades", so ofcourse they could be left out in favor of pondering to other more vocal demographics. Once again, nothing else but double standards here, and it saddens that there are so many ppl here that think it is completely ok to completely ignore overweight people and make jokes on them, but when something remotely "bad", even if joking, is said about gays or transes - then those very same ppl would readily grill the insufferable "bigot". But if that was not enough, now BW also making public apologies for a dialogue line to trans community, while keep ignoring some other, much bigger demographics. Seriously, that's just sad, and shows what's what really is... 

Survival of the fittest, enough said we all know the fatties are the first to die

I've yet to meet an overweight person who wasn't (supposedly) on a permanent diet, didn't suffer from constant food guilt, and spend a lot of their lives thinking "someday, when I'm skinny...". Obesity is a health problem and impacts people physically, mentally, and emotionally. Furthermore, the Ai has limited resources, including food rations, and really doesn't need to be dealing with people whose dietary habits aren't focused on satisfying nutritional needs.

Note that I mentioned overall height and weight tolerances - which would mean that people who were exceptionally tall or heavily muscled (like Vega) would probably also be disqualified. I noticed that Liam's build is much leaner and carries less muscle mass than the very athletic looking male models in MET.



Irrelevant. The Ai needs to set standards that will provide optimal survival potential with minimal resource expenditure.

You might have noticed that Ai participants tend to be multi-skilled, and not focused on a single thing.  Why would they devote 2 life pods, 400# of capacity, and 3x the food rations when a single 150# life pod can fulfill the same role(s)?



My view of MEU is that no such "troubles and controversies" exist.



Just think - if BioWare really was full of SJWs, they probably would not have erred in that portrayal and would thus have no need to apologize or change anything.

Yes.

600 years in a cryo pod is bound to have some consequences.

Or maybe they were too slow, and the Reapers got them before the ships launched, and now they're all space zombies.

Hell, I'm still trying to figure out what happened to the bald guy in the cryo pod room. Did you notice how his head turns completely around to look up at you, while he's bent over puking?

Excuse me but that a pile of rubbish you just wrote about all and every overweight person constantly feeling guilt and dreaming about being skinny. Total bullshit, just as the rest of your post which is outright dismissive of any opinion other than yours, especially when I based my previous argument around your logic and point of view. I could've written many examples of either ppl being completely content with their less that perfect body, or even liking someone who is a little bit curvy or chubby, but I see no point in wasting time trying to discuss something with someone like you in seeing how full of bigotry you are in your replies by assuming that your point of view is the only correct one despite all other fact and arguments. 

#nobigotsallowed

Krogan fit into cryopod, so overweight is not a problem. Also do not confuse that overweight = 150-200-250-300+ kg of a person. I am almost 1.90 meters tall and couple kg's above 100, and consider myself "overweight". Just to give you a perspective and make you understand that overweight =/= someone that cant fit into bathtube. 

Food consumption and weight depend in no small, or even bigger part, on metabolism. I know people who are skinny as fucks but eat twice as much as I do, and never get fat. So while "they eat more" can be considered somewhat close, its not something that 100% universal either. 

Again, thats heavily depends on the weight of overweight person. when over 150kg with 165 height - maybe, but ppl with SOME overweight generally don't need more medical attention than anybody else, at the very least in their prime years. Also transgenders need a lifetime supply of hormones at the very least, which makes them most unlikely candidates to be on the journey according to your logic, yet here they are.

If overweight ppl are less than ideal sexual partners for reproduction, then gay and trans people are even less so, yet they were brought on the journey, so your argument notwithstanding.

How does bringing a lifetime supply of hormones for transsexuals fits into your idea of optimal use of resources? Also, if you recall dialogues with Gil and how unsure, even hesitant he was about reproduction, even in form of donating genetic material. How does your optimisation fits with bringing gays with that context in mind? Not everyone might be so willing as Gil is.  And again, Gil is a guy, so he only needs to wank off into a glass and be done with it, and already that is a problem for him. I suspect that there are many more lesbians who would be completely against carrying a child. So again, your supposed "AI logic" is not withstanding. If optimization was the key, at least in a way you put it, there certainly would not be any gay people on board, as well as very likely no Krogan either.