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, but I don't understand why it's this game which is breaking DEI's back when the Yasuke character history/legend seem perfectly fitting for an AC game
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i think if they just straight up ignored history to cuck chuds and straight up said, we dont care about history, we just wanted to make AssCreed: Afro Samurai, they would have sailed through
but past month both Ubisoft and shitlibs have distorted truth to reach that Cleopatra documentary levels of fraud
i myself don't know how important the Real life Yasuske actually was, but when real life history is seemingly blatantly being distorted to fiction, i believe this may rub peeps askew
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Yeah it's the rewriting history stuff people are sneeding over, if old AC games had people editing wikipedia to say that leonardo da vinci used to love making super mario references because it was in assassin's creed people would have been mad then too
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I remember noticing somebody edited Alexander VI's cause of death many years before.
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They also had educational mode where that added females to the Greek pottery because it wasn't diverse enough… in education mode.
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I only played the AC that takes place in Italy, but It felt like they put effort in to making the world feel sorta realistic, but the characters were basically anything goes.
I hadn't seen other comments from Ubisoft, but if they were saying it's super historical, maybe the outrage makes more sense
I think if this came out like 5 yrs ago, even the chuds would have liked the idea
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I definitely think a lot of it is chuds growing impatient with anything which even looks like DEI. They're automatically going to assume that the devs' thought process was "we're in Japan. How do we fit a Black guy into this?", even if they once would have accepted Yasuke as an interesting figure.
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To be fair, these are AAA game devs in 2024. There's a 95% chance they were thinking that.
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Listen chud, they added Yasuke to the game with only the best intentions!
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Given this games development cycle it's highly likely that the devs decided on Yasuke as a main character in 2020 because of BLM, so unironically they probably did think "how can we add a black guy to this to show our support to black lives".
I totally understand how thinking that sounds chuddy. I work in the games industry though and am surrounded by DEI ideologues( lib mayos) and one of the things that becomes clear the more you talk to them is that they really see the world as only having two races, white and black. Latinx, and Asians are a secondary thought to them when it comes to representation and "equity".
DEI is supposedly covering everyone from every walk of life but in practice it's really just about adding more black representation at the expense of everyone else to try and soothe liberal white people's racial guilt and self hatred for living in the US or a successful western country with a colonial past.
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I think that may be true for western chuds, but Japs are shockingly racist and not shy about it. I'm too lazy to translate things but I'd pretty much expect a lot of "why is there a fricking BIPOC in my video game?"-type sentiments from them.
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But when you start any assassins games first massage you get is that this is work of fiction. They also told they were inspired by history. They only giving that game free publicity, with how much publicity that game got and even if it would be total shit it would put decent amount of sales figures
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Mainly because there isn't an asian man option. Yasuke should have been an unlockable bonus character or a dlc or something and things would have been fine. But the fact that Ubisoft put more work into shoving a black man in ancient Japan than an actual japanese guy is just ridiculous even for some normies.
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It's just realistic
Nobody wants Asian men in dating
Nobody wants Asian men in video games
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Definitely true
And this is why incels are sperging out, they know nobody wants them either 
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I think it's chuds seizing their moment. Yasuke would be defensible, but he feels strikingly out of place in Sengoku Japan. So the game smells like DEI even if the devs genuinely thought Yasuke was an interesting choice. And this time white chuds who have a bone to pick with DEI can be backed up by Asians and Japanese people who feel less guilt about slavery than mayos and are less inclined to roll over in submission.
It also doesn't help that AC fans were calling for a Japanese AC for years and were clearly imagining creeping around as a ninja. Ubisoft's marketing might have been able to save themselves here by focusing on Naoe more but she's unfortunately very non-descript next to Yasuke.
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I think part of the assassin creed appeal is blending into a crowd, which in confucian medieval Japan is kinda impossible for a black foreigner and (to a lesser extent) a woman ninja
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Bastardizing historical figures to make everyone on the side of assassins or templars is AC's whole thing. This really is nothing other than permanently online r-slurs mad that a black man exists and the company using the seethe to generate marketing. They would've been pissed about the woman too mowing down waves of male enemies but racism trumps sexism.
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Yasuke would perfectly fit as an NPC in the game like Michaelangelo or Alfred the Great were in past AC games. This lets them be more historically accurate while the crazy made-up stuff is mostly done by the made-up character.
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This isn't breaking DEI lmao 🤣 this is only happening because another DEI faction (Asians) are upset.
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I heard them say that they picked Yasuke just because they liked the idea of an outsider introduced to feudal Japan as an exotic new environment (like the player, probably) and that actually completely makes sense to me
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When they say shit like that, they're lying.
If they do an AC game in Africa the protaganist(s) will be black with no exceptions. None of this "we wanted to introduce players to the culture through a foreigners eyes". Because it turns out, making a game in Africa and then replacing an African protagonist with someone who is not Black is deeply offensive and racist in their eyes.
It's just when it's a different region or race of the world it's (DEI)fferent for some reason.
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