Wrex's Fate (Nexus Uprising spoilers)

broshep, femshep, doesn't matter. in the end they were all obviously meant to be green sparkly gender neutral synthganics

I think there's only a couple of choices in which I go Renegade (or neutral). In fact, I think the only one that isn't genophage related is leaving Ronald Taylor to the feral males, killing the heretics on Legion's loyalty mission, and getting Kelly to change her name.

And I don't even consider them to be Renegade. The krogan nearly destroyed the galaxy, and, unlike the rachni, don't seem to have any care as to why it happened other than "salarians and turians BAD!" There is no way I would let those people run unchecked. Even Wrex, who is 'supposedly' a smart krogan who thinks about more, doesn't even seem to notice. He laments that krogan have no interest in something other than fighting, but he doesn't really see what a krogan population boom means for the galaxy. Sure, he researches peaceful technology, but that's not enough. He creates a neutral zone for fertile females (letting clans who break the rules get annihilated), but it comes off as more of a smokescreen, that attacking Clan Urdnot puts lots of fertile females at risk. He says he wants ten colony worlds, right off the bat. He says he'll ask for it first, but isn't going to take no for an answer. 

He's no saint, he's only a slightly more self-aware mutant, but not aware enough to know what a krogan population boom would do, or even if he could keep the krogan from revolting. And the dangers are ignored because he's Wrex. 

But that flies in the face of what we know about krogan. They are massively tribal and territorial. They aren't going to just follow the leader. Plus, as Mordin points out, krogan population booms result in war. Always have. 

Overeagerness. Self-deception. Being salarian does not immunize yourself from such problems. 

Just because Wrex is mentioned to being leader of Clan Urdnot does not mean they are cannoninzing that particular event. It just means that in the particular timeline the book takes place Wrex is leader of Urdnot, not that he is Leader of Urdnot in all timelines or that it is 'canon.'

It's also "canon" in ME:A that Garrus survived ME2 ...I think. Garrus only contacted his father for help after ME2, right? At least far more people are inclined to keep Garrus past ME2 than Wrex after ME1, so this inclusion was "safer."

That infographic was based on selective research by origin. Meaning you had to be opt in to have your computer and game monitored. I know many gamers opted out of being monitored. If you played offline or not on PC it doesn't include you. It also doesn't say if they counted every single play through a player would do or only 1 per unique player. If they only count the first play through it is possible they are missing out on players who may have started as one character like a male solider, didn't finish, and then restarted another character. A lot of very simple folk didn't even know you could customize your character (yeah I know someone who didn't know this. So he missed the awesomeness of vanguard or any other class). It also doesn't say about what years this research was conducted either. Acting like that research is the be all end all is well not smart. It was way too selective to say anything about the gamer population at large. 


As far as the topic goes:
Doesn't bother me. I don't really care about what happens in the books or anything else. As long as I can preserve my choices in my games I'm happy. I think people who get super bent out of shape about it are really just looking for a problem.

They also made Leliana alive in DAI even though she could have died in DAO.

My two cents is that whether or not "child" is patronizing depends entirely on the context and tone it's being used in.  Anderson clearly wasn't using it in such a manner, anymore than he was using "son" in a patronizing manner towards Dudeshep. In both cases the context and intent is that Anderson has come to view Shepard as a surrogate child and the games are pretty clear that Shepard has come to view Anderson as a paternal figure. 

I suppose one could consider it patronizing to be thought of in such terms rather than as a colleague and an equal and that's fair enough. Though, and this is just my opinion, I'd say it's a bigger dick move to hold a grudge against Anderson for thinking about Shep that way in his dying moments than it is for Anderson to have that misconception of his relationship with Shep in the first place.

I'm personally inclined to believe that Synthesis is almost definitely non-canon.

It's been calculated that the Reapers could theoretically make the journey between the Milky Way and Andromeda in less than half the time that the Arks did. In the Synthesis ending you have Reapers who are active participants in galactic society along with individuals who were fully aware of the Andromeda initiative.

If Synthesis were canon there's no reason the post-war, synthesized Milky Way people couldn't hitch a ride on one of their new Reaper pals and lap the Initiative, and be there waiting for us when we got there.