> Ubisoft makes 'Japanese game' > Japanese people poke holes in every single historical inaccuracy > Ubisoft calls them racists > Ubisoft hurt itself in its confusion
That person talking about elves is the problem. Example is DND. DND doesn't have as white elves, black elves, mexician elves, ect. It has Sun Elves, Drow, Wood elves. These people forcing rl meta cultures and politics into the game are moronic and they deserve to be shamed for trying to make us feel racist. it's a game, it's a made up world, they need to keep their RL crap out of it.
True, but that's not going to make morons understand something they have no interest in, yet want to force their politics onto. I've tried explaining this exact thing to people complaining about the skin color of an elf and it fell on deaf ears.
I made someone just shutup and stare at me for a solid 10 seconds. when they sat down at my table and asked "what race do you think best represents black people" and i responded with "a human... that is black"
Sweet Baby can offer a new service "Pay us one million to put a badge on the game "This game was NOT developed in collaboration with Sweet Baby"". It is now a massive selling point for any games.
@@kaviramyead7987 Bro, they actually demanded 7 million from Wukong, and GameScience said no. Now they're begging for more money to keep the lights on. I hope to god these DEI companies go out of business.
When I found out that they refused to follow SBI I immediately pre ordered the game I knew at that moment it was gonna be a great game and even if it wasn’t the fact that they refused there BS ideology was the most satisfying thing I heard
@@michaelmoran2125 That's just 1 aspect and not a coincidence. Too bad asmon doesn't believe what's happening because of "bUzz WoRds" Well, he didn't believe the destruction being caused by "Woke" agendas to entertainment before, and now look at him making a gazilion videos about how terrible it is, how people dislike it, how they attack the customer for not liking their propaganda. He was warned but oh, nooooo "bUzz WoRds~~" Honestly, people deserve all the bad things they tolerate. I enjoy watching people waking up but it's also frustrating being ahead of them.
If diversity was what really mattered in tech then companies would make an effort to hire more conservatives. That's probably one of the least represented groups in tech.
Their only strategy is shaming people into submission, it's a necessity derived out of their ideology (anti-masculine) and hence why they behave so strategically self defeating now.
Game companies attacking gamers. It beggars belief. What kind of company attacks their own customers? It's staggering that this has become a dominant culture in entertainment companies. Karens and crybullies have infiltrated and poisoned these companies.
Can be compared to a (very) spoiled child. The one that when not allowed to get a toy they wanted, angrily trashing their own room and toy. Short sighted, too emotional, and have no capability for rational thinking.
Honestly it worked when the normies or casuals assumed that people were hating on things but now to many duds made them aware of it. Basically the people who thought of it years ago were not dumb but everyone else imitating it at this point are just plain stupid because they pretend that reality hasn’t changed from where it was ten years ago.
It's astonishing how companies like Ubisoft go to such lengths to manipulate opinions, instead of focusing on improving their product. This misleading strategy really diminishes trust in their brand.
Have you ever wondered if maybe just watching these outrage videos maybe warp your own opinion? Like, Ubisoft doesn't bot comments. If they cared about comments, they would just delete every single bad comment and only leave the good ones.
Hey US guys! I'm from the EU, but i also have been in many countries around the world. Right win and left wing as a political system is mostly exists within the US(so the magic word is "Far-right" within the US, and any single direction outside.). If you read it in other context, like a Japanese "right wing political party",its not a definitive sign, but it smells like a BS. If you find signs of it also looking like a BS, its probably a BS. Japan in particular doesn't have right and left wing. If you still want to defines politics this way, then you will find that all political parties in Japan are right-wing parties, with little difference in the US Left-Right wing scale.
It dosent even matter if they try to manipulate comments. The first wrong step is to create a bad product. Warzone, Fortnite, PubG and others are free to play, so you can't even start to compete with them if you put a price tag on it. If you have a single-player campaign and multilayer on top of it, then you can put a pricetag on it. There are also semi good games out there but they are to expensive for the content, so people won't buy it. Its also a strategy to sell a political message as main point, but you have to consider that your target group would be small, so you shouldn't use a lot of money for it. They don't even get the fundamentals and thats their downfall. I'm a company owner and gamer myself, the same goes for many friends of mine. Everyone of us sold aside from Microsoft all gaming stocks. One friend owns a investment company, he alone invest roundabout 15 mio euro per month, thats also money they won't get. The developers nowadays forget that their is no stereotypical gamer, we grew up with games but that dosent mean we have no money or don't own stocks. If they produce a good game, then the money will follow. I was 2 times at a live orchestra and they played different OST from the whole Assassin Creed series, it goes for 2 hours and the cheapest seat is more expensive then the games. Just an example how they lose accros the board. Its not just the game, its everything around it, but its starts with the game
Maybe start spreading the name of it's employees and ceo so the mere speck of them in the credits means failure in a game and companies feel obligated to not give them any job unless they change their ways to make a good game instead of a dei slop game
They hire ups are thinking "yes!!! more ESG money!" and the DEI hires which filled these companies over the last decade think "yes!!! i can push my agenda even further!". The remaining passionate devs have to suffer under all this crap because all they want to do is make a good and fun game. There is a reason almost all of the old devs in any of these companies are gone. First they had to take care of the cheap contractors which got hired when these companies started to cut cost for maximum greed. Then they started to hire based on DEI which put even more strain on the talent. Now most of them moved to the Indie scene or left the industrie entirely.
@@KazaiTV Corporate globalists moved Western manufacturing outside of the West and seemingly use the bait of easy investment money to lure Western corporations into effectively setting themselves on fire while producing subversive propaganda meant to convince Western consumers to embrace a culturally and polically corrosive mindset.
@@mrjohnnyk Followed up with "Because we didn't go woke enough, we need to go even woker!" Leftists don't understand the concept of insanity: trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. They did this exact same thing with communism, they did it with voting as well, and now they're doing it to movies and games.
If they change course it means WE were correct... What they are doing is hoping and trying to Fleece enough customers to survive. Admitting that GAMERS were correct sends ripples throughout the industry, when their Fleecing fails those same ripples happen but this is their weak attempt to Fleece and Survive. Because, they see themselves better than Gamers... They want people to without hesitation or critique to eat their slop. A more insidious and weak attempt has never been made by a company.
Asmon is actually right here. The subtle programming in most of "journalism" to coerce unwitting readers to just take their word for things because they spoke to an "expert" or "authority" is slowly seeping in to peoples minds making them more and more trusting and ask less and less questions/ think for themselves or do their own research. Huge problem
It's nothing new. This kind of journalism has been around forever. It has become more common though. Which is also part of why journalism is dying. Fewer people are watching it, trusting it. People aren't actually dumb.
People need to be *far* more skeptical about news articles. Almost all "news outlets" these days are definitely, and strongly, biased one way or the other. This means that they will never give you the full story, and the one they do give, will be biased.
@@sensiclaus3884 such as? We had John Wayne play Genghis Khan, however in that case there was no travel into the soviet bloc so there was no access to mongolian actors.
@@sensiclaus3884just like many Japanese plays based on stories of japans history such as miura anjin was played by a japanese guy and not a white guy even though miura anjin aka William Adams was a white guy from England. Your point??
@@mandowarrior123That was done because the country hadn't been afflicted with diversity. You see the same thing in countries around the world when representing historical events.
@mandowarrior123 sure there were. Chinese had been comming to the US (especially to CA) to build railroads since the 1880s. It was racist and a common practice in Hollywood to cast white actors for minority roles and put them in heavy makup. Jerry Lewis was known for his buck toothed cross eyed chinese character. It was also the 1950s and pre civil rights era. Shortly after laws were passed about blatant race swapping. Ghengis Khan starring John Wayne is one of the most glaring examples of why we DON'T do this crap anymore.
Blackrock money. Somehow, it feels like a conspiracy: Blackrock backs DEI, some years later the gamers having enough and push back, stock prices plummeting, Blackrock buys bankrupt company for cheap. Then starting making good games again, stock prices rising, Blackrock pocketing huge sums.
One of the funniest arguments I heard about Yasuke went something like this: "Well, people didn't care that Yasuke was a samurai in Nioh, so why do they suddenly hate it when he's a samurai in Assassin's creed?" For one. Nioh isn't a historical game, it uses historical characters sure, but it's not a historical game. I don't remember seeing demon shifters and massive skeleton giants in texts depicting actual japanese history. And Yasuke had a very very very minor role in Nioh. Assassin's Creed is claiming to be authentic to history by depicting Yasuke as a samurai and saying that it is a historical fact.
And never ever forget, they're launching it in Black History Month in February. They are not doing this to honour the East at all (they really managed to piss off Japan together with China and Korean neighbours together all at once).
I want a stronger argument though. Nioh does have many supernatural and non-historic elements to it, but it also has a good deal of historic figures and events. There is still a big difference between the level of importance Ubisoft places on him versus Koei Tecmo, as well as a difference in the degree of faithfullness to history both assert. I'd like a succint way to express that because otherwise there's going to be a lot of talking past people who don't understand this whole situation.
@@Keeki95Yasuke is the main character, beheading the Japanese heads and having people bow to him in the game. Assuming the plot follows the usual AC games, he is also going to liberate Japan. All other AC games have fictional characters from the origin countries, except for this one.
@@Keeki95 At that point you might as well call Metal Gear Solid a historical game because it has historical events. There's a very clear distinction between Ubisoft and Koei. The other tries to make Yasuke into a gigachad samurai. The other gave Yasuke a very minor yet very respectful role for Yasuke. Yasuke even says in Nioh that he dreamt of becoming a samurai and had waited for Nobunaga to make him one just as he promised, yet Nobunaga died before he could fulfill his promise. It doesn't go against what we know of him historically and dabbles into the "what-if" and "could-have" things.
You get a degree in women's studies. You get a job as a DEI officer. You either tell your boss that things are equal, therefore outing yourself out of a job, or you tell your boss that things "keep getting worse" and receive paychecks.
That's what happened with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Warner has to live that game down with shame, while SBI can just wipe it off from their site and pretend nothing happened.
@@lordthruxawe504 an acronym for what the word started being used because everyone where confused a black guy was a mayor and he didn’t do a interview with a suit
Weird to me how Americans will look at someone with a japanese last name and automatically assume they know everything about Japan. You would never assume some white person named Brie Larsson would automatically know everything about Sweden or French cheese.
It's because people tend to think of Asains as no different from whites. Honestly, only reason i think they believe that is because they are colorist. They look at the skin color and since white and asains are "fair skinned" they are different compared to the truly oppressed darkies. "Blacks, Spanish, Indians, Middle Easterners, etc.". Even in my own when speaking with other Black people they feel lighter skinned black people have it easier than darker skinned black people. Which honestly is a bit true unfortunately.
I can’t think of anything that makes Japan “white adjacent” culturally, historically, physically. Only having pale skin, maybe? Crazy. The goalpost is always being moved
A japanese person can easily tell when Google translate is used because Google translate only does a literal translation. By literal translation, I mean it simply translates words 1:1, it doesn't take proper sentence structure into account. It also doesn't take nuance into account as many words in japanese have multiple meanings based on the context of the sentence. I remember seeing a comment on the trailer from a japanese user that used the word "“Yabai” (やばい) and google translated the word to mean "dangerous." However, in the context of the sentence, the word actually meant "terrible." It wasn't until someone who knew japanese clarified the translation because everyone was asking "why is this dangerous?"
*sigh* Yes. The only actual references to him come from the diary of Matsudaira Hidetada and the Jesuit missionary who brought him over. If Yasuke had been literate enough to write kanji, he likely would have given a personal account. Even if that wasn't the case, the title "samurai" is a social distinction. It means your family is elevated in the social hierarchy and those beneath you should bow to you. The way they would go about this with Yasuke would likely be to have him marry into the family...yet there's no account of this. At all. Therefore, he was an attendant, unless someone comes forward with an unearthed ACTUAL Japanese account of what happened.
@@AstralHyren Why Yasuke would benefit from taxes reserved to samurais if he wasn't a samourai ? The family stuff is the the same nonsense some people tell about knighthood in medieval europe. A lot of minor knights were commoners, and many nobles were living like peasants when not fighting. You didn't have to get married to be a knight, you had to be exceptionnal on the battle field or be a friend of the right noble. It was the same in Japan. Yes, There was no chances for Yasuke to became a high ranked samourai, but becoming a low rank samurai was perfectly possible. There a nuances in societies. There idealized knights and samurais, and the historical ones who could get corrupted to turn against their masters.
@@romeopiston8211 Cite your source that he was benefiting financially. Wikipedia and Brittanica don't count. Even if this is true, it wouldn't prove that he was an elevated class. You're making a silly argument anyway, because it heavily implies that Nobunaga conferred land to him, which would necessitate the tax. Why else would he need this? As far as your social mobility argument, no, it was not "the same" as Europe. It's always been family based in Japan. Sure, maybe someone from a lower class could distinguish themselves. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was an example of this. But he did it on the battlefield.
@@romeopiston8211He wasn’t even in the country long enough to learn the basic sword forms to a proper level in which he would be entrusted on a battlefield with the title of samurai. Samurai trained from childhood to be as good on the battlefield as they were, even if you were a genius at battle, it would take you years at the minimum just to get to a decent standard in Japanese swordplay. 🤦♂️
The “get comfortable with not owning your games” wasn’t out of context at all, asmon, it was just a slip up, something they shouldn’t be saying out loud, but it’s absolutely what their goal is.
It is out of context and not even the full sentence. "In order for subscription services to succeed gamers would need to feel comfortable not owning their products." There's even context in the sentences following discussing how in more than any other media gamers are still attached to their physical media. Asmon is correct and you are not.
@@pixeljauntvr7774 and yet companies are indeed taking our digital products from us that we bought to own, so it doesn't matter because they indeed do believe this statement fully and are looking to make it reality. Out of context is a joke, they like many others fully endorse that practice and we should encourage pirating their products until their service gives in to pro consumerism or they keep losing money.
I am baffled that I can't find jobs to be a community manager yet these freaks that destroy companies reputations can get the job so easily without having prior experience as a community manager.
When I was in school in the 90s the main message/goal from teachers was "learn to think critically", but today the message is "stay informed". On the surface it sounds similar, but one requires thinking and decision making and the other outsources thinking to someone else.
Hahahahhaha, no it wasn't. The 90s were just a precursor to now, it was listen to and follow the people in charge. Stop it with the rose colored glasses that are full of nonsense nostalgia lies.
I was in international schools that were either British based or American based. Been to at least 5 different international schools (my dad had a job that required us to move every 2 years). Every single international school that wasn't in a western country taught us 'critical thinking' and 'looking up the source' and 'looking at both sides' etc. etc. And at the same time mingling with other cultures of students, it really helped me become a non ignorant person now that I'm older. Of course every day is still a learning experience and I'm open to it.
@@thomgizziz Yeah, it sounds like your school just sucked, to speak for every single person and to tell us to stop thinking like that is really telling of the type of schools you went to.
well you see, they like paying that fee to get an ideological purity certification from them. Not only do they become officially "pure" but also it lets them donate money to 'their side'.
It’s not just “add gay and trans” but also giving them full creative control to define characters within a plot that the third party may not be attached to, understand, or care about the integrity of to determine *how much more gay/trans/multicultural* it needs to be. One of my closest friends is gay, my friends and I weren’t aware of it for months, to the point where some of the partnered men were forming defensive qualities around said friend. They thought that friend was flirting with their girlfriend. We didn’t find out until one day he brought his boyfriend, they made out a lot, and that was it. No conversation, no preface, the guy’s sexuality was a footnote to the man he is, the career he works, what he would do for his friends, etc. The way sweetbaby adds in sexual/gender/racial representation is so performative it’s devoid of representing those classes with integrity. As a person of color I am exhausted with being identified first and foremost with stereotypes based off my immutable characteristics. I’m actually more than willing to believe sweet baby is controlled opposition because it’s so insane to me that anyone can lack understanding about what media is for children. Media in all forms is how children gauge their norm amongst other factors. If they see that dynamic on TV, they’re going to look for that dynamic in real life. What organizations like this should be doing is marketing their normalcy, attractiveness, and interesting qualities to children. No child takes a look at Concord’s player list and goes “I wanna be like that”. It’s so brain dead and counterintuitive it would make more sense.
they are monetarily incentivized to do so during production , demonstrating DEI attributes in their media qualifies them for grants from governments and investments from BlackRock based on ESG initiatives . some of these in production projects are doomed to fail before , bad gameplay , design , management , etc. they know they arent going to get the sales so they load up as many of these "partnerships" as possible and deflect any criticisms away from how bad the underlying game is . ultimately its a scam against the companies and governments offering grants , actually damaging the publics reception to their initiative , achieving the opposite effect .
if they just focused on their usual formula of two protagonists racially represented in their region then people wouldn't have laser focused on yasuke and have thomas lockley (the main guy "researching" about yasuke) go into hiding and because they scrutinized him too deeply if they just tried to make everyone happy by making yasuke a cool significant side character/DLC instead none of this would've happened on this level. this is what wokeness gets you
it is a corporation, average corpo shit they want to spend as little money while making as much money as possible if they could, they would sell you air that isnt even clean
Man, the sheer amount of drama we got this year is freaking surreal! Wukong, Concord, dustborn, starwar, assassin's creed, dragon age, the list goes on and on! It's like all the woke zombies came out of the graveyard with triple dose of steriods!
Yeah, I forgot the space marine 2 drama, Jesus! It's still September, and I don't believe those woke zombies will let us live through the rest of the year peacefully!
i think this happens in the real world historically and can also happen to media, in this case it would be games. there will probably be a collapse and then a golden age after this sudden exponential influx of culture war. we are at the nearing collapse which would just be a bunch of lay offs and a low rate of games being produced as companies clean themselves up
Even minor DEI is painfully noticeable. Take Shadow of War: there is a dark-skinned young man in the Gondorian forces. Okay, easy enough: he's a member of the Haradrim / Easterlings who came north. A bit rare and noteworthy, and that is basically how they portrayed him, but not crazy out-of-place. What was crazy and out-of-place? The Gondorian general's waifish granddaughter being an officer and part of the defensive force! That is WAY outside what Gondor culture would even remotely tolerate. What's worse is that she is easily the worst character in part 1; she makes blunder after blunder and yet STILL feels the necessity (and justification) to berate everyone around her, including the MC. That was the infected mole that preceded this full-blown cancer.
This is the entire Problem with making Elves and Dwarfs not white skinned, how can an Elf or Dwarf who're an entirely Unique Race of people be "Latino" or "Black"?
@@Junkzillabox Not exactly a solid argument, while yes technically you could do anything in a fantasy setting, but... it at the very least has to be somewhat believable to the audience. For example if you plop a fantasy dragon in a scifi setting or give a medieval fantasy empire nuclear arms your audience is going to be confused at best or outraged at worst, since those things appearing in those settings is not what they signed up for based on the genre. Now more to the point if you look back in fiction the term "dark" was merely used to describe their respective societies effectively analogizing the term dark with evil, since many of the societies have lets say less than civilized characteristics to them, the Drukhari from 40k are a good example of what I am referring to It always had zero to do with appearance and or ethnic background, it was only within recent times that the appearance was changed to correspond with the dark term. Realistically speaking both dark elves and dark dwarves are typically depicted as subterranean races (especially the latter) and thus would be super pale to the point of being near translucent, due to the fact they would have zero contact with the radiation of the sun, which darkens skins pigmentation based on exposure itself, but also they would not need to evolve any sort of natural protection for said exposure via increased melanin, thus resulting in them being naturally very pale not unlike many aquatic creatures are at the depths of the ocean, as solar radiation cannot penetrate down that far due to water being one of the most efficient radiation shielding substances next to lead, concrete and some types of rock.
Nah, idc about these arbitrary rules. It's made-up fantasy and people can come up with whatever variation they want - if your world has different continents then obviously you could have different complexions. What matters is if the plot is still good or if it's ass because they shoehorn in hamfisted social commentary.
Ubisoft: You're not the target audience Player: ok Ubisoft: *shocked pikachu face* Cant wait how Japan will sue Ubisoft over this Using Oda Family emblem and a religious symbol both without permission Oh boyy oh boyy
their target "audience" 😂 implying that you can bank on 25,000 people according to google "Concord Has Sold About 25,000 Copies " times that by 40 , their "profit" was 1 millions dollars just 399,000,000 more to break even 😂😂
Unfortunately, there's no more Oda family left that direct descendant from Nobunaga Oda. Unless the Japanese government is the one that sue Ubislop, nobody can.
Tbh, the Japanese can't do anything about the religious symbol lol. Ubisoft isn't a Japanese company, and no one cares about their laws on some dumb religious icon
The reason the article specifically called out the group as right wing is the proof that it was propaganda. Because no, most people don't know dick about Japan and when they read the article, they will come to the conclusion that "Oh, only some extremists in Japan didn't like it." Because most American's do not understand that right wing in Japan (or most places) is not the same as right wing in America. That was the intention of the article, and why Asmon brought up the point of putting your guard up when you read words like that in an article. Because the purpose of the article is likely not to inform you, but to cunningly mislead you.
@@RuecianGray Yeah. The definition of 'X wing' in politics is going to vary hugely by nation, or even regions of larger nations. (Take the USA for an example.)
I was looking for a comment like this... Yes, reading comprehension is a huge problem. One other thing... With the current state of "journalism", every news article should be read *very* skeptically... because almost every article has an agenda, because almost all of them are one side or another, usually the left. This means that they all get the "spin doctor treatment". They might be telling the literal truth... but it will always be slanted.
Facts, trump say women bad and they emidiately believe him, and the left claims the economy is great and people just pretend we don't have the worst living conditions in over 100 years
You make a great point on the surreptitious use of language in order to purposefully attempt to evoke a specific opinion the journalist wants their readership to agree with. The phenomenon you're describing, especially when you were pointing out the use of words like "threatened" or "disgusted", is actually well known enough to have a name: Russell Conjugation, named after the philosopher Bertrand Russell who was the first to formally acknowledge the linguistic practice, who himself also called it "the unspoken argument". The famous example goes like this: A person I don't like is pig-headed. A person I feel ambivalent toward is stubborn. A person I like is tenacious. Pig-headed, stubborn, and tenacious all have roughly the same denotational definition, but obviously different connotative meanings. Since these words all technically mean the same thing on paper, a writer can use them interchangeably depending on how they want the reader to feel about any particular subject. A politician I don't like is pig-headedly opposed to a bill I support. A politician I do like is tenaciously standing on principle by refusing to vote for a bill I don't support. The problem for the writer, and for modern journalism writ large, is that this technique is significantly less effective when the readership is on the lookout for it, and it also tends to inspire dislike for whatever publication/writer is engaging in the practice. Strangely, people tend not to appreciate condescending attempts by pseudo-intellectuals to stealthily incept ideas into their heads "for their own good". Appreciate the interest in raising awareness of the phenomenon. The more people that are aware of it, the less effective it becomes as a technique. We all benefit by reducing our collective vulnerability to propaganda.
This is why speech and persuasive writing need to be required high school courses. (With potentially a revisit at the collage level if someone's interested.) Knowing the tactics and why they're used, especially with a bit of practical (harmless) experience in it's use? Changes how you view the world.
The funny thing is this Hashimoto dude is an American. As if he's the premier expert on what Japanese people think solely because he and Yamada Taro are distant cousins. A race isn't a hivemind.
The dude lives in California, speaks English, uses pronouns in Twitter, and specifies that he's gay. And he expects someone to believe his bullshit about Japan.
No Asmon, it is not "right wing" to be upset about historical inaccuracies (in ubisofts case they aren't inaccuracies, it's fiction being told as if it's historical fact).
That's the fence sitter in him. Some people think not taking a side makes them an intellectual. These are the types of people that would allow a PDFile to voice their opinion on child safety for "Fairness sake"
@@pilosopino23 Everybody thinks they are smart until they meet someone smarter. Who knows who is right. Asmon may be the one or me or any of the other commenters idk.
It's the same thing the news does. They want to discredit the critics so average people don't listen to them. Their problem is that gamers are very tuned in online, where they have much less control
Also gaming attracts people on the spectrum who don't get the value of conforming with the societys opinions. They want to not be seen as evil but they keep being the squaky wheel and getting the oil.
@@JohnSmith-ox3gylol you don’t have to be on the spectrum to be free thinking. I’m normally a very agreeable person but things have gotten quite ridiculous and I’ve realized staying silent is how we got here in the first place. I will no longer stay silent when I hear someone spouting absurdities as truth.
@@braynjohnson4302no but pattern recognition helps for sure lol they probably caught on way sooner I also feel the “conforming with societal norms” thing I might be on the spectrum idk lol but it helped when I quit cod years ago and everyone was still buying a reskinned game
I wonder if this Hashimoto person that thought it was very important to bring up Japan's history of colonization when Animal Crossing came out was also in the group of people calling out Cyberpunk 2077 for displaying "old ideas of an imperial japan" and "the western fear of a japanese take over". Would be interesting to know...
That "Hashimoto person" is a half-Anglo, half-Inuit Alaskan native who identifies as Japanese. And male. So yeah, not Japanese at all, yet accuses native Japanese people of being just as not-Japanese as they are. They always confess through projection.
"It is well-received in Japan." In other words, Mr. Hashimoto created a colony called "Japan" in Animal Crossing and spoke on behalf of the islanders' reaction.
@kayne8222 because casting a spell to change your gender doesn't make sense to someone that only lives in the real world. Instead they would rather force people to be reminded that even in the fantasy world they tried to escape to, they were born wrong and have to see the reminder of that with scars
I've had several literal Japanese people using google translate to say to me that they appriciate that I've stood up for that it should be a Japanese person representing thousands of years of Japanese culture and not an African here on yt.
@@marine76a most "bracks" are a blight on others and the "community/culture" is just horrid at best and at worst they "pull" life from under youth riding bikes to name only one thing that happened and some how got excused in the end by the masses... and dont try it I lived with them most of my young life I know the new gen and the old gen and both are bad then from the looks of it the newest gen is not that much better if at all....
As a Canadian I apologize for our lack of backbone to tell people "No, that's a fucking retodded idea." This lets people and shitty companies setup here, get funded by our tax dollars and shit themselves. I'm more invested in how much money they'll lose with production costs, hiring braindead mobs, and garbage fire marketing. It may not be concord levels but hey expecting grim tidings.
This is why Wu Kong developers didn't let this kind of mental illness anywhere near their game. Sweet Baby went ahead and called them misogynistic and racist anyway. That's basically the only two words they learned through college.
They learned to shout bad words at people and not critical thinking, common sense, doing research and living in the real worlf where you are suppose to self reflec5
Anyone who can speak japanese and any other western language immediately knows that this claim with online translators is just BS. The japanese language has a different way of forming sentences and (!) just putting any sentence into the translator would result in gibberish that even native japanese people would not understand without more context and brainstorming. This level of dishonesty is so unbelievable.
Easy to tell what they said to us "Americans" because we are notoriously the least likely to know more than 1 language. We can't wrap our heads around that concept because we only know English. Last time Americans tried learning a language, it was high-school spanish/French, depending on what border you were closer to. Asmond: "most people are dumber than you could imagine" Is very relevant here. All I'm saying is I can see why the company tried this spin. And the more we can try to see why they did it, the easier it is for "us" to manipulate them back 😅
@@WhiteWolf126 it is 🤨. Its only good to translate short phrases if you go and put more than 6 words there the result will be trash specially with languages with many words like spanish, chinese and japanese. Best case is that you get a correct phrase with words that no one uses in normal conversations
@@pheonixMHTri Whether it's "better" is completely irrelevant and dishonest. OP's entire point is that it isn't great and native speakers can spot it. This is literally the reason twitter detectives were looking through commenter's profiles to see how old their accounts were and if they liked any English videos; instead of proving they were fake by breaking down the Japanese. The reality is most of the people using google translate in the comments video literally said they used google translate to show their support and specified their country. While the other comments were more than likely native Japanese speakers. The comments are still public you can go through them.
For defamation/libel I think you need to argue that you have a public image to ruin. Most people simply don't, IDK how that works with a group of people since they just called out a general audience and not an organization, and how do you prove that someone is racist or not in a court of law? We can't read minds, so we'd have to go with the biological bias to reject the other, so yeah we are all racist technically... Just not in any meaningful way. Considering the burden of proof being on the accuser, being only technically correct might be enough in a court of law. Now. If they called Asmongold racist, there might be a case since he has a public image that could arguably be ruined, though as mentioned above, talking about it in court might be a fools errand.
It's an arrogant even sinful prideful mentality that they got of thinking they got an absolute monopoly on gaming and its narratives, but this is not true they are still competing against Eastern game developers. Thats why the East sells more, and the West been sinking to the trash and even there their "monopoly" is starting to fade out quickly. Their tactic of pressuring "scaring" devs into doing their bidding aint working anymore.
They have been getting away with it for years already. It's only because they thought that they had won and decided to not even try to hide their dei BS any longer.
That's the good part, that aren't. The majority see this as stupid which is why assassin's creed shadow has had articles coming out about it nonstop since the reveal of yasuke and none of them are good, why people had been constantly talking about it and never in a good light, people are fucking tired.
They probably know they can't. Their stocks are already failing and they appear to be approaching bankruptcy if nothing changes. May as well stir a big drama and make life a bit more annoying for a lot of people. That's how a cornered animal acts.
But you also noticed that even though the story of shogun was based on Ieyasu Tokugawa, the writer still out of respect used fake names for their characters.
@@swordinhand8356 that what we calling "fiction" Some fiction story is indeed using based on real history and characters but that doesn't mean we should using real name of real persons, we can using fiction names for real historical persons in fiction story Not anyway should "historical accurate" Like a fanatic
@@No_Anime_No_Life. Is english your first language? I don't mean to insult, but this sounds like google translate had a hard time with a language with wildly different sentence structure to english to the point where this is... difficult to read and harder to understand.
If I get this right.. Ubisoft tried to get propaganda from "authentic Japanese" in support of the premise of the main character not being Japanese to make me think "oh.. I guess I have to get it now" because someone supposedly Japanese said it's cool?
Conquest merely refers to subjugating another people and their territory with violence, without reference to what you do to them. Integrate them on equal terms, colonizing their territory, carry them off as slaves, extracting a yearly tribute, etc. Colonization refers to your own people setting up overseas settlements, regardless of whether this is done in the context of a conquest. The Romans conquered Gaul, carried off a lot of its population as slaves, then proceeded to set up colonies. The Dutch set up a colony on Java on land given to them by a local Sultan, and then proceeded to conquer the Netherlands Indies. Different order of events, same end result. And it's the end result that made people mix up this terminology.
Originally, I believe the word "colony" is not a term to describe whether something is good or bad, but rather a form or guideline, but now it has become just a label used to reject things that we don't like. At least that is what Mr. Hashimoto intended.
Tbh. The idea of being a japanese fan and being excited for shadows because itll probably be a japanese character only to find out its gonna be a big black guy, beating up japanese guys in a poorly made japanese setting that uses assets its not allowed to makes me mad for them.
I'm an English fan, and if it wasn't for Jacob frye (evie is dei slop and she isn't the main character anyway) then I'd have been robbed of inclusion many times. Edward kenway was originally English, until he featured as a protagonist and got retconed into being half english, half welsh, yet acts like he's only welsh. then in valhalla, we don't get to play as an English character, we play as the viking invaders! It's ridiculous.
the irony is that it's all being done to alleviate European/white guilt. The fact that it's only ever done to white, and white-adjacent cultures, gives away the game: We're going to make ourselves feel better about the past, by re-writing it.
@@asdfbeau the added irony is that this does nothing for black people. this does not represent their culture positively. for crying out loud they added HIP HOP when he fought
Have you ever thought about why they get mad at Kingdom Come Deliverence? It's because they're presenting European history in a way that is counter to their narrative. They want to push the idea that European countries have always been diverse and multicultural, so that when they make media that depicts medieval Europe, no one questions why every race under the sun is in one location at a time where travel was extremely limited and dangerous. I think they really want to detach younger generations from their culture, heritage and history, so that they feel no claim to any land or community. We are all just nomadic peoples wandering the globe in their eyes, I suppose.
I wonder how French company Ubisoft would react if some Japanese or Chinese company would mix together old England, France, Spain and Germany. Like Napoleon wearing lederhosen, speaking English taking a siesta between missions of eating sauerkraut...
Much of Japanese architecture actually did derive from Chinese architecture as Chinese people were trading and working in Japan for a long time. There's a reason why people on Kyushu, Japan, or at least who's families were historically from that area look different that Japanese people who have relations historically from around the eastern part of Honshu. I studied Japanese joinery in Japan and it's widely known though not discussed openly that the architecture of Japan did in fact have early Chinese influences. But you can make a game based in Chinese history and have the architecture completely wrong for the time period or region within China.
No they don't... they're running on fumes for years now... I bet they spent all their reserves on NFTs back when they tried to implement them in one of their games a few years ago
You’re right to bring up the degradation of people’s literacy. Woke started infiltrating colleges and now as people have dumbed down, they are moving to music, movies and video games.
The infiltration began in the 40s and 50s, Bella Dodd, a former communist, testified before the Unamerican Activities committee that her former colleagues had already completely subverted a good deal of the education and political machine of New York.
Attacking someone isn't intended to make that person like the product! It's intended to discredit the individual so other people waiver and might not follow the beliefs of that person. Nudge the crowd, not the target.
Nudging the crowd is effective with a significant proportion of people but not with all. Studies into the technique show that around two thirds of people can be controlled but a third will not be. The problem is that the susceptible outnumber those who reject the manipulation (although, of course, the manipulation could potentially result in the susceptible being removed from the situation changing relative numbers).
@@First_Chapter Agreed. Imagine a situation where one side is 'losing the argument' 33 / 66. If they can nudge 2/3rds of that opposing 66% they end up winning 77 / 23. Attacking / discrediting leading opponents can really tip the balance. Weaponised lying, especially when subtle, WORKS!
It is easy for the Japanese to tell which comments have been translated. This is because the translation software is still incomplete. The Japanese language has honorific form "尊敬語" or like humble form "謙譲語", while at the same time people use more informal form when talking to friends or commenting on TH-cam. But the translation software doesn't understand the difference yet. So those comments are usually messed up sentences.
Isn’t it interesting that the prestigious New York Time article is basically just the sane slop as the PC gamer one….No extra deep dive, no extra context, just the same people presenting the same arguments.
jurnos lie, spin narratives, gaslight. It's what they do no matter the outlet or what it is. Their job isn't to inform it's to spread a narrative. Reminder as much as you think you hate jurnos it isn't enough
I like how these companies and some people think that we as gamers are at fault for their games failing. Same in movies and TV. Its impossible for the audience to be at fault for a piece of media failing, because that implies they have a responibility to make it succeed. Its crazy to see how something so obvious has been completely forgotten.
SBI are ex Ubisoft devs of course they would do this. 2 companies known for engaging in dishonest and devious tactics, a bunch of crybullies workting together, who-duh-thunk it.
15:34 Ironically it was Assassin’s Creed III and Origins that made me appreciate unforced diversity of the main characters by exploring their respective locations and times in history; even with many liberties taken on historical events they were not disrespected egregiously.
How fitting that Hashimoto is a DISEASE often characterized by difficulty thinking, anxiety and depression and balding amidst a host of other symptoms.
Also just wanna note this dude is HALF Japanese...he's actually just an American, and clearly very westernized (or more specifically, californized) based on the type of shit he writes, what he's known for and some of his pictures. Bros trying to use his ethnicity and name as a way to make his argument sound more convincing like "Hey guys, my dad is Japanese, so you should trust what I say" as if that has anything to do with being CULTURALLY Japanese and actually participating in the Japanese discord that obvious DID occur all over the internet.
"Who claimed the criticism of the game was being done by individuals in the West using translators"?!?!?!?!?! LIKE THAT ONE PUBLICATION WHO USED A TRANSLATOR OF THAT ONE STUDIO AND BRANDED THEM ISMS AND ISTS?!?!?! 😂😂😂😂😂
what's fun is Yasuke is depicted as a samurai in other games and stuff but in those games his role wasn't like in assassins creed, Nioh is a very recent example and Nioh is great
I think the distinction can be made that Yasuke is presented as a samurai often in more fictional media; media delving into the realms of myth or legend. Assassin's Creed, whilst being fictional, usually have protagonists that are relevant to the setting and as far as I'm aware, aren't real people. Their choice to make Yasuke the protagonist was purely an ideological one - do you honestly think, out of the thousands of Japanese samurai they could have depicted, they just happened to choose the one black person in Japan for centuries? No, it was an ideological choice and a choice based on DEI, and everyone can see it, plain as day. If there was a dedicated game based on Yasuke (that didn't claim any historical accuracy), I doubt people would mind as much. There's been media like Afro Samurai in the past.
I'm not into American market of vegan products, but here where I live the vegan market has almost nothing with politics, and the products are good, and also having problems with gluten and milk also makes me thank god that people that have the same problems created those products not thinking about politics and more about offering a products that wont make people lose their organs in the toilet after eating it. But thank to remind me to not buy products that support trans or those kind of shit
If the game was a masterpiece, no one would care. But they have a black samurai, and the game is horrendous. With Star Wars OL, the problem was the game sucked, everything else added on top. If SBI put out the next GTA, we would hate the messaging but play the game. But they are too stupid, lazy, and incompetent to make a good game in the first place.
Yeah, that's just one of the problems. Like most disasters this isn't due to a single flaw or mistake, but several happening one right after another, all stemming from general incompetence laced with toxic ideology.
There’s media with black people in a Japanese setting that is very good. The black samurai isn’t an issue whatsoever if the gameplay was on Sekiro’s level. There’s plenty of ways you can write a black samurai into a plot and it not be cringe, but the underpaid writers at Ubi aren’t up to the task
@@rhett3350making Yasuke part of the Brotherhood causes some issues for Assassin's Creed. The Brotherhood is meant to be a shadowy organisation that has gone undetected. So there shouldn't be any historical record of any of its members. The roles of historical figures are also meant to be represented as they are historically. So Da Vinci is still portrayed as an inventor as one example. If we apply the same rule to Yasuke, he should be a samurai that serves Obunaga. He shouldn't be an assassin that's part of the Brotherhood. This is why they've always made fictional characters for the Brotherhood up until now.
Its not the black samurai. its because them saying its Historically accurate and then after all this ensues they are taking back what they are saying. You cn even still see the "historically accurate" thing on their promotional site, they forgot to remove or change it. And also a black samurai is never realy an issue. Remember "Afro Samurai"? That was cool and everyone including japanese were fine with it. Quite sure when i watched the movie it was also in japanese or at least japanese dubbed back when i was a kid.
There's a reason why the focus on critical thinking fell off in schools at about the same time modern Sociology came on the scene, and I think you can figure out why.
its now a taboo skill....i got fired from 3 places in the last 2 years because i thought for myself and deviated from the dumb procedure to make it better.....thought for myself = im out...thats how companies work now at least in Canada
What you described was not ad hominum it was gas lighting. Gas lighting is when one, in lieu of an actual argument, uses exageration to make their opponent look or feel crazy. It can invlove lying but doesnt need to do so. The logical fallacy here is to discredit the word or your opponent or make them seem less trustworthy, rather than rebutting their actual argument. What she actually did was several fallacies. Strawman, ad hominum, and gas lighting.
>Attacks the customer
>If you don't like it, don't play it
>Why is no one buying our game?
>Everyone is racist for not playing our game
Peek marketing
A bold move Cotton, let's see how it works out for them 😂
"Peak" not peek- with love bro 😘
@jshaya96 Nah they are peeking an L, it was spot on.
@@jshaya96 new slang, they do mean peek i'm pretty sure, but the shorthand is... poor.
It's really ironic that they attack customers meanwhile:
Loving and Compassionate Consultants treat minorities as check boxes
> Ubisoft makes 'Japanese game'
> Japanese people poke holes in every single historical inaccuracy
> Ubisoft calls them racists
> Ubisoft hurt itself in its confusion
It’s Super Effective!
Ya
Calls them westerners as well 😬
Woke trainer Feminist was defeated but wanted you to pay he/she/it instead
We need to stop this madness
"How will this help sell our game?"
"Game?"
I love this comment; it really feels like they forget what their mfing job is, which is to make and sell games not lies and push agendas.
Truthspeak
@@c4on754 Insert 'Game is also art.' and 'game is not a game'
"Sell?"
"Help?"
That person talking about elves is the problem. Example is DND. DND doesn't have as white elves, black elves, mexician elves, ect. It has Sun Elves, Drow, Wood elves. These people forcing rl meta cultures and politics into the game are moronic and they deserve to be shamed for trying to make us feel racist. it's a game, it's a made up world, they need to keep their RL crap out of it.
True, but that's not going to make morons understand something they have no interest in, yet want to force their politics onto. I've tried explaining this exact thing to people complaining about the skin color of an elf and it fell on deaf ears.
Nice
💯 exactly!!!!!!
I made someone just shutup and stare at me for a solid 10 seconds. when they sat down at my table and asked "what race do you think best represents black people" and i responded with "a human... that is black"
The projection from these people is unreal. “But don’t you see?? Orcs are just like black people! Look at this chart I made…”
Glad the Wukong developers basically told Sweet Baby inc. whatever to "Fuck oFF"
Sweet Baby can offer a new service "Pay us one million to put a badge on the game "This game was NOT developed in collaboration with Sweet Baby"". It is now a massive selling point for any games.
@@kaviramyead7987 Bro, they actually demanded 7 million from Wukong, and GameScience said no. Now they're begging for more money to keep the lights on. I hope to god these DEI companies go out of business.
When I found out that they refused to follow SBI I immediately pre ordered the game I knew at that moment it was gonna be a great game and even if it wasn’t the fact that they refused there BS ideology was the most satisfying thing I heard
The problem is that people working for these types of companies are still alive.
@@ladjame8109And it is a great game so that’s a double win
“You’re seeing diversity in all of these company names, but you’re not seeing any diversity of thought” - Goddamn! That sums it up.
Can't have that in a "tolerant" society. Honestly this is just one consequence of diverting the dialogue so left leaning.
“Diversity” a bunch of middle class white women
Except diversity is not real if it doesn’t include Everybody.
@@michaelmoran2125 That's just 1 aspect and not a coincidence. Too bad asmon doesn't believe what's happening because of "bUzz WoRds" Well, he didn't believe the destruction being caused by "Woke" agendas to entertainment before, and now look at him making a gazilion videos about how terrible it is, how people dislike it, how they attack the customer for not liking their propaganda.
He was warned but oh, nooooo "bUzz WoRds~~" Honestly, people deserve all the bad things they tolerate. I enjoy watching people waking up but it's also frustrating being ahead of them.
If diversity was what really mattered in tech then companies would make an effort to hire more conservatives. That's probably one of the least represented groups in tech.
Attack the customers into buying our games .... Why is no one buying our games?!?!?! 😭
Their only strategy is shaming people into submission, it's a necessity derived out of their ideology (anti-masculine) and hence why they behave so strategically self defeating now.
Game companies attacking gamers. It beggars belief. What kind of company attacks their own customers? It's staggering that this has become a dominant culture in entertainment companies. Karens and crybullies have infiltrated and poisoned these companies.
Can be compared to a (very) spoiled child. The one that when not allowed to get a toy they wanted, angrily trashing their own room and toy.
Short sighted, too emotional, and have no capability for rational thinking.
Honestly it worked when the normies or casuals assumed that people were hating on things but now to many duds made them aware of it. Basically the people who thought of it years ago were not dumb but everyone else imitating it at this point are just plain stupid because they pretend that reality hasn’t changed from where it was ten years ago.
@@paulw5039Gamers are not seen as customers but resources to exploit.
It's astonishing how companies like Ubisoft go to such lengths to manipulate opinions, instead of focusing on improving their product. This misleading strategy really diminishes trust in their brand.
Have you ever wondered if maybe just watching these outrage videos maybe warp your own opinion? Like, Ubisoft doesn't bot comments. If they cared about comments, they would just delete every single bad comment and only leave the good ones.
Hey US guys!
I'm from the EU, but i also have been in many countries around the world.
Right win and left wing as a political system is mostly exists within the US(so the magic word is "Far-right" within the US, and any single direction outside.). If you read it in other context, like a Japanese "right wing political party",its not a definitive sign, but it smells like a BS. If you find signs of it also looking like a BS, its probably a BS.
Japan in particular doesn't have right and left wing. If you still want to defines politics this way, then you will find that all political parties in Japan are right-wing parties, with little difference in the US Left-Right wing scale.
@@kimberly4275 if they deleted comments the outrage would be even bigger
Focus on making better games: ❌
Shame customers for not buying: ✅
It dosent even matter if they try to manipulate comments. The first wrong step is to create a bad product. Warzone, Fortnite, PubG and others are free to play, so you can't even start to compete with them if you put a price tag on it. If you have a single-player campaign and multilayer on top of it, then you can put a pricetag on it. There are also semi good games out there but they are to expensive for the content, so people won't buy it. Its also a strategy to sell a political message as main point, but you have to consider that your target group would be small, so you shouldn't use a lot of money for it. They don't even get the fundamentals and thats their downfall. I'm a company owner and gamer myself, the same goes for many friends of mine. Everyone of us sold aside from Microsoft all gaming stocks. One friend owns a investment company, he alone invest roundabout 15 mio euro per month, thats also money they won't get. The developers nowadays forget that their is no stereotypical gamer, we grew up with games but that dosent mean we have no money or don't own stocks. If they produce a good game, then the money will follow. I was 2 times at a live orchestra and they played different OST from the whole Assassin Creed series, it goes for 2 hours and the cheapest seat is more expensive then the games. Just an example how they lose accros the board. Its not just the game, its everything around it, but its starts with the game
I will be glad when Sweet Baby Inc is no longer (hopefully) a thing.
Unfortunately they'll just change names and keep trying
@@redreaper3065, you're 100% right, unfortunately.
@redreaper3065 yep exactly
They will hide and do it again
It won't stop
These are the same people from gamer gate so I doubt it
Maybe start spreading the name of it's employees and ceo so the mere speck of them in the credits means failure in a game and companies feel obligated to not give them any job unless they change their ways to make a good game instead of a dei slop game
"What are they thinking?"
thats the neat thing, they don't.
If they didn't think and just made random shit they would have a higher hit rate XD
They hire ups are thinking "yes!!! more ESG money!" and the DEI hires which filled these companies over the last decade think "yes!!! i can push my agenda even further!".
The remaining passionate devs have to suffer under all this crap because all they want to do is make a good and fun game.
There is a reason almost all of the old devs in any of these companies are gone.
First they had to take care of the cheap contractors which got hired when these companies started to cut cost for maximum greed.
Then they started to hire based on DEI which put even more strain on the talent. Now most of them moved to the Indie scene or left the industrie entirely.
Wrong. They are making very carefully designed propaganda. You are not wise enough to see it.
Are they NEAT
@@KazaiTV Corporate globalists moved Western manufacturing outside of the West and seemingly use the bait of easy investment money to lure Western corporations into effectively setting themselves on fire while producing subversive propaganda meant to convince Western consumers to embrace a culturally and polically corrosive mindset.
Reminder, as a parent you have to to say no to your kids once a while, so they dont end up like those DEI Sweet baby inc brats
If you watched the video you wouldn't have written DEI
@chiquita683 we are sick by this virus give a moment and we will back to normal lol
If your watching Asmon as a parent reconsider your priorities.
As an asian get a ‘no’ from parent is considered the least hurtful thing we get. Usually it would be physically ’No’ 😅
@@Sintraniano with extra belt and sandals ~
"Guys, the woke games aren’t working....WE NEED TO BE MORE WOKE!" - AAA studios
More like we ruined Saints Row (cheering!) who's next?
Followed up with "why are we going broke?"
@@mrjohnnyk Followed up with "Because we didn't go woke enough, we need to go even woker!"
Leftists don't understand the concept of insanity: trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. They did this exact same thing with communism, they did it with voting as well, and now they're doing it to movies and games.
Make it about being gay, of colour and make it as boring as it can possibly be without offending anyone!
Back in 2016 this is what the MSM was saying, they were saying Trump won because they didn't smear him ENOUGH
Looks like 2024 will finally be the year people get bored of consuming slop like this and actually speak up against it. Good to see.
Dude, facts!
Sadly they will come back in a different name
It will never end
fr we're all sick of it
People finally seeing Ubislop for what it is
they wont, because its not adults that are doing this, its 10yo kids with their parents credit cards.
Stock price down almost 90%? Ubisoft:” No need to change course at all “
If they change course it means WE were correct... What they are doing is hoping and trying to Fleece enough customers to survive.
Admitting that GAMERS were correct sends ripples throughout the industry, when their Fleecing fails those same ripples happen but this is their weak attempt to Fleece and Survive.
Because, they see themselves better than Gamers... They want people to without hesitation or critique to eat their slop.
A more insidious and weak attempt has never been made by a company.
Unfortunately for them, they don’t get to choose to do nothing because shareholders can take legal actions at this point.
Maybe almost 90% if you go to 5 years, but in the last year it's only 57% (rounded up from 56.62%)
Just make another far cry
@@maramba32 they tried that and failed. Pretty sure FC6 was on sale for $15 like 2 months after it was released.
Asmon is actually right here. The subtle programming in most of "journalism" to coerce unwitting readers to just take their word for things because they spoke to an "expert" or "authority" is slowly seeping in to peoples minds making them more and more trusting and ask less and less questions/ think for themselves or do their own research. Huge problem
There’s a reason they don’t teach “appeal to authority” in schools.
People need to realize the media is state run at this point. Only follow people online who have shown the truth over and over,
Agreed, but this has been going on for at least 100 years…
It's nothing new. This kind of journalism has been around forever. It has become more common though.
Which is also part of why journalism is dying. Fewer people are watching it, trusting it. People aren't actually dumb.
People need to be *far* more skeptical about news articles.
Almost all "news outlets" these days are definitely, and strongly, biased one way or the other.
This means that they will never give you the full story, and the one they do give, will be biased.
Sweet Baby inc sounds like a cover up company name for pdfiles
MAP makers
it is bro , it is
Their logo is suitably an old symbol PDFiles use.
With just enough not so subtle hints for other pdf files to join their secret islands.
Stop ruining files man!
I need to make a doc tomorrow
Inb4 Ubisoft says smth like "Japanese people need to understand that this game is not about them..."
It will take about 2 more weeks. Then all the beans in there can, have been spilled.
😂
Ubisoft been drinking the fluoride again
I dare them to say that😂
Its really gonna be another cleopatra "documentary" situation
I‘d like to see an Asian or White guy being the leader of a secret African warrior tribe.
White guy is just describing a bunch of 90s movies 🧓
@@sensiclaus3884 such as? We had John Wayne play Genghis Khan, however in that case there was no travel into the soviet bloc so there was no access to mongolian actors.
@@sensiclaus3884just like many Japanese plays based on stories of japans history such as miura anjin was played by a japanese guy and not a white guy even though miura anjin aka William Adams was a white guy from England. Your point??
@@mandowarrior123That was done because the country hadn't been afflicted with diversity. You see the same thing in countries around the world when representing historical events.
@mandowarrior123 sure there were. Chinese had been comming to the US (especially to CA) to build railroads since the 1880s. It was racist and a common practice in Hollywood to cast white actors for minority roles and put them in heavy makup. Jerry Lewis was known for his buck toothed cross eyed chinese character. It was also the 1950s and pre civil rights era. Shortly after laws were passed about blatant race swapping.
Ghengis Khan starring John Wayne is one of the most glaring examples of why we DON'T do this crap anymore.
Sony losing half a billion, Ubisoft stock in freefall. Microsoft firing people left and right. Clearly DEI is working as intended.
well, if the leaders are now woke and we all know woke ones want to see the west fall, it IS working as they intend yes
Blackrock money. Somehow, it feels like a conspiracy: Blackrock backs DEI, some years later the gamers having enough and push back, stock prices plummeting, Blackrock buys bankrupt company for cheap. Then starting making good games again, stock prices rising, Blackrock pocketing huge sums.
@@Sekir80 that is INDEED the long game, but you forgot that the new good games will be 1000$+ .....
@@rogerelzenga4465 Well, indie games FTW, then! Like Dome Keeper, somehow I love watching it, yet not playing. Feeling too old :D
Unironically, yes. Ideologues are happy to sink the ship if it means pushing The Message.
One of the funniest arguments I heard about Yasuke went something like this: "Well, people didn't care that Yasuke was a samurai in Nioh, so why do they suddenly hate it when he's a samurai in Assassin's creed?"
For one. Nioh isn't a historical game, it uses historical characters sure, but it's not a historical game. I don't remember seeing demon shifters and massive skeleton giants in texts depicting actual japanese history. And Yasuke had a very very very minor role in Nioh.
Assassin's Creed is claiming to be authentic to history by depicting Yasuke as a samurai and saying that it is a historical fact.
This is also one of the points as well
And never ever forget, they're launching it in Black History Month in February.
They are not doing this to honour the East at all (they really managed to piss off Japan together with China and Korean neighbours together all at once).
I want a stronger argument though. Nioh does have many supernatural and non-historic elements to it, but it also has a good deal of historic figures and events. There is still a big difference between the level of importance Ubisoft places on him versus Koei Tecmo, as well as a difference in the degree of faithfullness to history both assert. I'd like a succint way to express that because otherwise there's going to be a lot of talking past people who don't understand this whole situation.
@@Keeki95Yasuke is the main character, beheading the Japanese heads and having people bow to him in the game. Assuming the plot follows the usual AC games, he is also going to liberate Japan.
All other AC games have fictional characters from the origin countries, except for this one.
@@Keeki95 At that point you might as well call Metal Gear Solid a historical game because it has historical events. There's a very clear distinction between Ubisoft and Koei. The other tries to make Yasuke into a gigachad samurai. The other gave Yasuke a very minor yet very respectful role for Yasuke. Yasuke even says in Nioh that he dreamt of becoming a samurai and had waited for Nobunaga to make him one just as he promised, yet Nobunaga died before he could fulfill his promise. It doesn't go against what we know of him historically and dabbles into the "what-if" and "could-have" things.
You get a degree in women's studies.
You get a job as a DEI officer.
You either tell your boss that things are equal, therefore outing yourself out of a job, or you tell your boss that things "keep getting worse" and receive paychecks.
Dei isn’t even a word
@key2shawn154 its an acronym.
That's what happened with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Warner has to live that game down with shame, while SBI can just wipe it off from their site and pretend nothing happened.
@@lordthruxawe504 Actually, it's an initialism. Acronyms spell out words once initialized.
@@lordthruxawe504 an acronym for what the word started being used because everyone where confused a black guy was a mayor and he didn’t do a interview with a suit
Weird to me how Americans will look at someone with a japanese last name and automatically assume they know everything about Japan. You would never assume some white person named Brie Larsson would automatically know everything about Sweden or French cheese.
💯❤
HAHAHAHAHA🤣
Brie at least know one kind of cheese at the very least...
French cheese 😂. That's a good one
Dude this comment is gold🤣
They are more cooked than we thought
Well done even.
@@daeryk6424 Nah. they're "congratulations"
they are the pizza you forgot in the oven
@@goodboy-zg3xo *Puts Pizza in oven* "Alexa set 10 min timer." *Rips bong and falls asleep*.
they aren't cooked, dang! they fried!
Crazy that the only Assassin's Creed game where you can't play a native, is in Japan... the place that Sweet Baby Inc referred to as "White Adjacent."
It's because people tend to think of Asains as no different from whites. Honestly, only reason i think they believe that is because they are colorist. They look at the skin color and since white and asains are "fair skinned" they are different compared to the truly oppressed darkies. "Blacks, Spanish, Indians, Middle Easterners, etc.". Even in my own when speaking with other Black people they feel lighter skinned black people have it easier than darker skinned black people. Which honestly is a bit true unfortunately.
I can’t think of anything that makes Japan “white adjacent” culturally, historically, physically. Only having pale skin, maybe? Crazy. The goalpost is always being moved
" Am I so out of touch? "
" No, it's the gamer's who are wrong "
"Aurora borealis, in your kitchen???"
Yup lol, gaming industry is full of people like that.
Lie to and attack your customers, then ask them to give you money- Ubisoft.
Hey man it worked for Concord right?.... right?
@@aeow8859 OH yea so much so Sony announced a new ps5 pro that's slightly better than a normal ps5 so you can play ps4 games better
AC is too big of a franchise, this trash will sell anyway
There are hundreds of legendary well known samurais and shinobis and what does Ubisoft go with? A female shinobi and a black samurai...
And his Samurai title was basically an honorific, he didn’t really do anything of worth or note for the Japanese people, other than just exist.
female shinobi is one thing,
the way they make her look like she is from China is kinda hilarious
A female shinobi is cool af, a black samurai would be cool in a fictional world setting.
A black gay samurai
@@CristanioPeweyyyCap Ubisoft plant
I would love it if someone modded the game to make Yasuke into a Japanese person, just to see the outrage from the people defending this game.
Lol nexusmods would ban that really quick.
Eh just play Ghost of Tsushima instead.
A japanese person can easily tell when Google translate is used because Google translate only does a literal translation. By literal translation, I mean it simply translates words 1:1, it doesn't take proper sentence structure into account. It also doesn't take nuance into account as many words in japanese have multiple meanings based on the context of the sentence. I remember seeing a comment on the trailer from a japanese user that used the word "“Yabai” (やばい) and google translated the word to mean "dangerous." However, in the context of the sentence, the word actually meant "terrible." It wasn't until someone who knew japanese clarified the translation because everyone was asking "why is this dangerous?"
"Yasuke's portrayal as a fully fledged Samurai is accurate, our cherry picked expert who shares our ideology said so"
-Ubisoft
*sigh* Yes. The only actual references to him come from the diary of Matsudaira Hidetada and the Jesuit missionary who brought him over. If Yasuke had been literate enough to write kanji, he likely would have given a personal account. Even if that wasn't the case, the title "samurai" is a social distinction. It means your family is elevated in the social hierarchy and those beneath you should bow to you. The way they would go about this with Yasuke would likely be to have him marry into the family...yet there's no account of this. At all. Therefore, he was an attendant, unless someone comes forward with an unearthed ACTUAL Japanese account of what happened.
@@AstralHyren Why Yasuke would benefit from taxes reserved to samurais if he wasn't a samourai ? The family stuff is the the same nonsense some people tell about knighthood in medieval europe. A lot of minor knights were commoners, and many nobles were living like peasants when not fighting.
You didn't have to get married to be a knight, you had to be exceptionnal on the battle field or be a friend of the right noble. It was the same in Japan. Yes, There was no chances for Yasuke to became a high ranked samourai, but becoming a low rank samurai was perfectly possible.
There a nuances in societies.
There idealized knights and samurais, and the historical ones who could get corrupted to turn against their masters.
@@romeopiston8211 Cite your source that he was benefiting financially. Wikipedia and Brittanica don't count. Even if this is true, it wouldn't prove that he was an elevated class. You're making a silly argument anyway, because it heavily implies that Nobunaga conferred land to him, which would necessitate the tax. Why else would he need this? As far as your social mobility argument, no, it was not "the same" as Europe. It's always been family based in Japan. Sure, maybe someone from a lower class could distinguish themselves. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was an example of this. But he did it on the battlefield.
@@AstralHyren”cite sources, but the ones that don’t confirm to me doesn’t count!!!!”
Lmao
@@romeopiston8211He wasn’t even in the country long enough to learn the basic sword forms to a proper level in which he would be entrusted on a battlefield with the title of samurai. Samurai trained from childhood to be as good on the battlefield as they were, even if you were a genius at battle, it would take you years at the minimum just to get to a decent standard in Japanese swordplay. 🤦♂️
The “get comfortable with not owning your games” wasn’t out of context at all, asmon, it was just a slip up, something they shouldn’t be saying out loud, but it’s absolutely what their goal is.
Idk about others, but I feel pretty comfortable about not owning AC: Shadows
and if "buying does not mean owning" then "piracy isn't theft"
never forget that
It is out of context and not even the full sentence. "In order for subscription services to succeed gamers would need to feel comfortable not owning their products." There's even context in the sentences following discussing how in more than any other media gamers are still attached to their physical media. Asmon is correct and you are not.
@@pixeljauntvr7774 and yet companies are indeed taking our digital products from us that we bought to own, so it doesn't matter because they indeed do believe this statement fully and are looking to make it reality. Out of context is a joke, they like many others fully endorse that practice and we should encourage pirating their products until their service gives in to pro consumerism or they keep losing money.
i think it was a foreshadowing because they won't have any funding to make more games XD
I am baffled that I can't find jobs to be a community manager yet these freaks that destroy companies reputations can get the job so easily without having prior experience as a community manager.
Nepotism + dei
Add pronouns and a rainbow flag in your bio and front and center on your resume. You'll be hired immediately! 😂
What a joke!
When I was in school in the 90s the main message/goal from teachers was "learn to think critically", but today the message is "stay informed". On the surface it sounds similar, but one requires thinking and decision making and the other outsources thinking to someone else.
Hahahahhaha, no it wasn't. The 90s were just a precursor to now, it was listen to and follow the people in charge. Stop it with the rose colored glasses that are full of nonsense nostalgia lies.
@@thomgizziz either your school sucked or mine was fantastic, because critical thinking was a big part of all my education.
Ah yes Blind acceptance of Authority.
I wonder what ideologies have that as well?
Cults for one
I can think of others as well.
I was in international schools that were either British based or American based. Been to at least 5 different international schools (my dad had a job that required us to move every 2 years). Every single international school that wasn't in a western country taught us 'critical thinking' and 'looking up the source' and 'looking at both sides' etc. etc. And at the same time mingling with other cultures of students, it really helped me become a non ignorant person now that I'm older. Of course every day is still a learning experience and I'm open to it.
@@thomgizziz Yeah, it sounds like your school just sucked, to speak for every single person and to tell us to stop thinking like that is really telling of the type of schools you went to.
Sweet Baby Inc should be called Studio Bankrupted Instantly, it's so much more accurate.
they are getting goverment funded so they dont really care lmao
I still can't believe game companies WILLINGLY pay someone to tell them: "add trans and gay into your game".
well you see, they like paying that fee to get an ideological purity certification from them. Not only do they become officially "pure" but also it lets them donate money to 'their side'.
It’s a protection racket. They go to studios and demand money. You either pay or they’ll slander you. Just like they did to Wukong.
It’s not just “add gay and trans” but also giving them full creative control to define characters within a plot that the third party may not be attached to, understand, or care about the integrity of to determine *how much more gay/trans/multicultural* it needs to be.
One of my closest friends is gay, my friends and I weren’t aware of it for months, to the point where some of the partnered men were forming defensive qualities around said friend. They thought that friend was flirting with their girlfriend. We didn’t find out until one day he brought his boyfriend, they made out a lot, and that was it. No conversation, no preface, the guy’s sexuality was a footnote to the man he is, the career he works, what he would do for his friends, etc.
The way sweetbaby adds in sexual/gender/racial representation is so performative it’s devoid of representing those classes with integrity. As a person of color I am exhausted with being identified first and foremost with stereotypes based off my immutable characteristics.
I’m actually more than willing to believe sweet baby is controlled opposition because it’s so insane to me that anyone can lack understanding about what media is for children. Media in all forms is how children gauge their norm amongst other factors. If they see that dynamic on TV, they’re going to look for that dynamic in real life. What organizations like this should be doing is marketing their normalcy, attractiveness, and interesting qualities to children. No child takes a look at Concord’s player list and goes “I wanna be like that”. It’s so brain dead and counterintuitive it would make more sense.
If you have to pay someone to use your degenerate ideology in a media type...it probably isn't good...or sane.
they are monetarily incentivized to do so during production , demonstrating DEI attributes in their media qualifies them for grants from governments and investments from BlackRock based on ESG initiatives . some of these in production projects are doomed to fail before , bad gameplay , design , management , etc. they know they arent going to get the sales so they load up as many of these "partnerships" as possible and deflect any criticisms away from how bad the underlying game is . ultimately its a scam against the companies and governments offering grants , actually damaging the publics reception to their initiative , achieving the opposite effect .
Crazy how if you just made a good game this wouldn't have happened.
They're too busy focusing on how they can force as much of their ideology into the game as possible
And if Ubisoft wasn’t Ubisoft then they wouldn’t be Ubisoft.
Like why are you saying this, they did this because IT IS THEM.
if they just focused on their usual formula of two protagonists racially represented in their region then people wouldn't have laser focused on yasuke and have thomas lockley (the main guy "researching" about yasuke) go into hiding and because they scrutinized him too deeply
if they just tried to make everyone happy by making yasuke a cool significant side character/DLC instead none of this would've happened on this level. this is what wokeness gets you
They make represen ation the most important thing to them but yet when it comes to THIS game, they use someone that was neverborn there
it is a corporation, average corpo shit
they want to spend as little money while making as much money as possible
if they could, they would sell you air that isnt even clean
Man, the sheer amount of drama we got this year is freaking surreal! Wukong, Concord, dustborn, starwar, assassin's creed, dragon age, the list goes on and on! It's like all the woke zombies came out of the graveyard with triple dose of steriods!
We are in the last days of the end times. The great tribulation is imminent.
We got Space Marine 2, it makes up for the trash heap of games coming out. Although Wukong was also great.
Its almost like TH-camrs are creating outrage for views
Yeah, I forgot the space marine 2 drama, Jesus! It's still September, and I don't believe those woke zombies will let us live through the rest of the year peacefully!
i think this happens in the real world historically and can also happen to media, in this case it would be games. there will probably be a collapse and then a golden age after this sudden exponential influx of culture war. we are at the nearing collapse which would just be a bunch of lay offs and a low rate of games being produced as companies clean themselves up
"Sweet Baby" sounds like something the Anti-humans would come up with.
Yeah, it’s pretty fucking creepy sounding. Has a spiral-ish symbol in their logo too…
Correct.
@@jon4715 that is interesting
@@jon4715what does the spiral mean?
@@arandomperson6293downward spiral
Even minor DEI is painfully noticeable. Take Shadow of War: there is a dark-skinned young man in the Gondorian forces. Okay, easy enough: he's a member of the Haradrim / Easterlings who came north. A bit rare and noteworthy, and that is basically how they portrayed him, but not crazy out-of-place. What was crazy and out-of-place? The Gondorian general's waifish granddaughter being an officer and part of the defensive force! That is WAY outside what Gondor culture would even remotely tolerate. What's worse is that she is easily the worst character in part 1; she makes blunder after blunder and yet STILL feels the necessity (and justification) to berate everyone around her, including the MC. That was the infected mole that preceded this full-blown cancer.
To think the war against Sweet Baby Inc began when they fucked with the legacy of Kevin Conroy.
OMG no one cares about kevin cornoy
@@justicedemocrat9357you care enough to comment
Excuse me, we care@@justicedemocrat9357
Wait what? IT HAPPENED BECAUSE OF SUICIDE SQUAD?!!!
@@justicedemocrat9357 you should go fishing with bait like that
SBI is truly a kiss of death
SBI = Shouldn't Buy It
Yeah not sure why anyone would want to go with them. They are toxic.
SBI = State bank of India😂
@@pixeljauntvr7774 they threat to have anyone cancelled. Its fear driven. we call it extortion here!
Why? They literally only offer ideas, devs aren't forced to implement any of it.
This is the entire Problem with making Elves and Dwarfs not white skinned, how can an Elf or Dwarf who're an entirely Unique Race of people be "Latino" or "Black"?
Yuup,
Ascribing human races to non-Humans is weird
There are dark elves and dark dwarves.. but they don't usually have African traits, but in a fantasy anything can happen I suppose.
@@Junkzillabox Not exactly a solid argument, while yes technically you could do anything in a fantasy setting, but... it at the very least has to be somewhat believable to the audience. For example if you plop a fantasy dragon in a scifi setting or give a medieval fantasy empire nuclear arms your audience is going to be confused at best or outraged at worst, since those things appearing in those settings is not what they signed up for based on the genre.
Now more to the point if you look back in fiction the term "dark" was merely used to describe their respective societies effectively analogizing the term dark with evil, since many of the societies have lets say less than civilized characteristics to them, the Drukhari from 40k are a good example of what I am referring to It always had zero to do with appearance and or ethnic background, it was only within recent times that the appearance was changed to correspond with the dark term.
Realistically speaking both dark elves and dark dwarves are typically depicted as subterranean races (especially the latter) and thus would be super pale to the point of being near translucent, due to the fact they would have zero contact with the radiation of the sun, which darkens skins pigmentation based on exposure itself, but also they would not need to evolve any sort of natural protection for said exposure via increased melanin, thus resulting in them being naturally very pale not unlike many aquatic creatures are at the depths of the ocean, as solar radiation cannot penetrate down that far due to water being one of the most efficient radiation shielding substances next to lead, concrete and some types of rock.
Nah, idc about these arbitrary rules. It's made-up fantasy and people can come up with whatever variation they want - if your world has different continents then obviously you could have different complexions. What matters is if the plot is still good or if it's ass because they shoehorn in hamfisted social commentary.
They also don't live with the normal ones.
Ubisoft: You're not the target audience
Player: ok
Ubisoft: *shocked pikachu face*
Cant wait how Japan will sue Ubisoft over this
Using Oda Family emblem and a religious symbol both without permission
Oh boyy oh boyy
their target "audience" 😂 implying that you can bank on 25,000 people
according to google "Concord Has Sold About 25,000 Copies " times that by 40 , their "profit" was 1 millions dollars
just 399,000,000 more to break even 😂😂
Unfortunately, there's no more Oda family left that direct descendant from Nobunaga Oda. Unless the Japanese government is the one that sue Ubislop, nobody can.
@@P.Whitestrake wasnt the skate champion of Japan is of Oda Descend?
Tbh, the Japanese can't do anything about the religious symbol lol. Ubisoft isn't a Japanese company, and no one cares about their laws on some dumb religious icon
@@P.Whitestrake It's literally the Japanese government that went on record to say that they're looking into suing Ubisoft
"A small right wing party in Japan." You do realize the majority of Japan is pretty conservative right?
The reason the article specifically called out the group as right wing is the proof that it was propaganda. Because no, most people don't know dick about Japan and when they read the article, they will come to the conclusion that "Oh, only some extremists in Japan didn't like it."
Because most American's do not understand that right wing in Japan (or most places) is not the same as right wing in America.
That was the intention of the article, and why Asmon brought up the point of putting your guard up when you read words like that in an article. Because the purpose of the article is likely not to inform you, but to cunningly mislead you.
@@RuecianGray Yeah. The definition of 'X wing' in politics is going to vary hugely by nation, or even regions of larger nations. (Take the USA for an example.)
Everybody knows that to these journalists(?) right-wing equals Trump.
@@peterkrochmalni673 They would have an aneurism if they met an actual rightist considering Trump is a 90s liberal.
The default state of mind in asia makes donald trump look like barack obama
Reading Comprehension and Critical Thinking are almost gone in the US.
I was looking for a comment like this...
Yes, reading comprehension is a huge problem.
One other thing...
With the current state of "journalism", every news article should be read *very* skeptically... because almost every article has an agenda, because almost all of them are one side or another, usually the left.
This means that they all get the "spin doctor treatment". They might be telling the literal truth... but it will always be slanted.
Facts, trump say women bad and they emidiately believe him, and the left claims the economy is great and people just pretend we don't have the worst living conditions in over 100 years
You make a great point on the surreptitious use of language in order to purposefully attempt to evoke a specific opinion the journalist wants their readership to agree with. The phenomenon you're describing, especially when you were pointing out the use of words like "threatened" or "disgusted", is actually well known enough to have a name: Russell Conjugation, named after the philosopher Bertrand Russell who was the first to formally acknowledge the linguistic practice, who himself also called it "the unspoken argument". The famous example goes like this:
A person I don't like is pig-headed. A person I feel ambivalent toward is stubborn. A person I like is tenacious.
Pig-headed, stubborn, and tenacious all have roughly the same denotational definition, but obviously different connotative meanings. Since these words all technically mean the same thing on paper, a writer can use them interchangeably depending on how they want the reader to feel about any particular subject. A politician I don't like is pig-headedly opposed to a bill I support. A politician I do like is tenaciously standing on principle by refusing to vote for a bill I don't support. The problem for the writer, and for modern journalism writ large, is that this technique is significantly less effective when the readership is on the lookout for it, and it also tends to inspire dislike for whatever publication/writer is engaging in the practice. Strangely, people tend not to appreciate condescending attempts by pseudo-intellectuals to stealthily incept ideas into their heads "for their own good".
Appreciate the interest in raising awareness of the phenomenon. The more people that are aware of it, the less effective it becomes as a technique. We all benefit by reducing our collective vulnerability to propaganda.
This is why speech and persuasive writing need to be required high school courses. (With potentially a revisit at the collage level if someone's interested.) Knowing the tactics and why they're used, especially with a bit of practical (harmless) experience in it's use? Changes how you view the world.
People need to learn that SBI is primarily made up of EX-Ubisoft Staff.
Very true
And that says everything you need to know
The funny thing is this Hashimoto dude is an American. As if he's the premier expert on what Japanese people think solely because he and Yamada Taro are distant cousins. A race isn't a hivemind.
It is to a collectivist though.
Hashimoto is a american born in LA.
But i guess having a japanese last name make him the leader of japanese people somehow and know better
The dude lives in California, speaks English, uses pronouns in Twitter, and specifies that he's gay. And he expects someone to believe his bullshit about Japan.
No Asmon, it is not "right wing" to be upset about historical inaccuracies (in ubisofts case they aren't inaccuracies, it's fiction being told as if it's historical fact).
That's the fence sitter in him. Some people think not taking a side makes them an intellectual.
These are the types of people that would allow a PDFile to voice their opinion on child safety for "Fairness sake"
Well Asmon prides himself on being “fair” and “center”
Funny how he never put centric terms in his little list.
Part of the agenda is historical revision.
It’s a pillar of the tiny hat’s and Blackrock’s woke agenda.
@@pilosopino23 Everybody thinks they are smart until they meet someone smarter. Who knows who is right. Asmon may be the one or me or any of the other commenters idk.
That's his american bias speaking.
It's the same thing the news does. They want to discredit the critics so average people don't listen to them. Their problem is that gamers are very tuned in online, where they have much less control
Also gaming attracts people on the spectrum who don't get the value of conforming with the societys opinions. They want to not be seen as evil but they keep being the squaky wheel and getting the oil.
@@JohnSmith-ox3gylol you don’t have to be on the spectrum to be free thinking.
I’m normally a very agreeable person but things have gotten quite ridiculous and I’ve realized staying silent is how we got here in the first place. I will no longer stay silent when I hear someone spouting absurdities as truth.
@@braynjohnson4302 What was the last straw?
indeed gamers have a huge crossover with anime freaks and nerds who are aware of the stuff they consume being changed from the outset lol.
@@braynjohnson4302no but pattern recognition helps for sure lol they probably caught on way sooner I also feel the “conforming with societal norms” thing I might be on the spectrum idk lol but it helped when I quit cod years ago and everyone was still buying a reskinned game
I wonder if this Hashimoto person that thought it was very important to bring up Japan's history of colonization when Animal Crossing came out was also in the group of people calling out Cyberpunk 2077 for displaying "old ideas of an imperial japan" and "the western fear of a japanese take over". Would be interesting to know...
stop noticing xD
That "Hashimoto person" is a half-Anglo, half-Inuit Alaskan native who identifies as Japanese. And male.
So yeah, not Japanese at all, yet accuses native Japanese people of being just as not-Japanese as they are.
They always confess through projection.
"It is well-received in Japan." In other words, Mr. Hashimoto created a colony called "Japan" in Animal Crossing and spoke on behalf of the islanders' reaction.
Sweet baby inc is an actual mob.
Ubislop.....oh well what next
Ubislop.......ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bioware, bioware is next
New DA has Transition surgery scars in character creation... smh whyyyyy
@kayne8222 because casting a spell to change your gender doesn't make sense to someone that only lives in the real world. Instead they would rather force people to be reminded that even in the fantasy world they tried to escape to, they were born wrong and have to see the reminder of that with scars
EA has been quiet for quite a while
I've had several literal Japanese people using google translate to say to me that they appriciate that I've stood up for that it should be a Japanese person representing thousands of years of Japanese culture and not an African here on yt.
Excrude Bracks!! I'm Japaneseruuu
@@marine76a most "bracks" are a blight on others and the "community/culture" is just horrid at best and at worst they "pull" life from under youth riding bikes to name only one thing that happened and some how got excused in the end by the masses... and dont try it I lived with them most of my young life I know the new gen and the old gen and both are bad then from the looks of it the newest gen is not that much better if at all....
And then the emperor clapped
I don't really get why the protagonist is representing 1000 years tho? It's literally just a game I don't get why people make it about race
I had a full conversation via Google translate lmao
As a Canadian I apologize for our lack of backbone to tell people "No, that's a fucking retodded idea." This lets people and shitty companies setup here, get funded by our tax dollars and shit themselves. I'm more invested in how much money they'll lose with production costs, hiring braindead mobs, and garbage fire marketing. It may not be concord levels but hey expecting grim tidings.
Nice guys finish last. Canadians are really nice.
Atleast we havent turned into the UK
Fr, can you do smt abt it? It’s your tax money after all, and they wasted it on shitty Company that clearly gonna bankrupt after a few months
@@reavercity568 Funny you say that, I am in the UK and I think we are lucky we aren't Canada. I guess a lot of things get exaggerated for clicks :)
@@raisedbyaspaceinvader we paid for the acolyte that's worse LOL
Seeing Ubisofts stock price peak in 2018 compared to now makes me giggle...
This is why Wu Kong developers didn't let this kind of mental illness anywhere near their game. Sweet Baby went ahead and called them misogynistic and racist anyway. That's basically the only two words they learned through college.
They learned to shout bad words at people and not critical thinking, common sense, doing research and living in the real worlf where you are suppose to self reflec5
The Dunning-Kruger effect runs rampant in journalism.
I would say that it's far more a matter of personal (or outlet's) political bias, rather than the Dunning-Kruger effect.
MSM be like : "i really dont get why people dont trust us"
Bro they know exactly why. It’s on purpose and they know it
ubi gone soft
Ubisoft modern
Ubidungoofed
Sweet Ubisoft
No, u be soft
Ubi been soft look at the company
This whole narrative is so egotistical and narcissistic. "We couldnt possible make a bad product so you the customer are the problem."
Anyone who can speak japanese and any other western language immediately knows that this claim with online translators is just BS.
The japanese language has a different way of forming sentences and (!) just putting any sentence into the translator would result in gibberish that even native japanese people would not understand without more context and brainstorming.
This level of dishonesty is so unbelievable.
Easy to tell what they said to us "Americans" because we are notoriously the least likely to know more than 1 language. We can't wrap our heads around that concept because we only know English.
Last time Americans tried learning a language, it was high-school spanish/French, depending on what border you were closer to.
Asmond: "most people are dumber than you could imagine"
Is very relevant here.
All I'm saying is I can see why the company tried this spin.
And the more we can try to see why they did it, the easier it is for "us" to manipulate them back 😅
That's not really true. Google Translate is a lot better these days, so it's not gonna be gibberish most of the time.
This isnt entirely true. its got a lot better and is able to reconfigure the sentence structure. its not perfect though, so it can still be obvious
@@WhiteWolf126 it is 🤨. Its only good to translate short phrases if you go and put more than 6 words there the result will be trash specially with languages with many words like spanish, chinese and japanese. Best case is that you get a correct phrase with words that no one uses in normal conversations
@@pheonixMHTri Whether it's "better" is completely irrelevant and dishonest. OP's entire point is that it isn't great and native speakers can spot it. This is literally the reason twitter detectives were looking through commenter's profiles to see how old their accounts were and if they liked any English videos; instead of proving they were fake by breaking down the Japanese.
The reality is most of the people using google translate in the comments video literally said they used google translate to show their support and specified their country. While the other comments were more than likely native Japanese speakers. The comments are still public you can go through them.
Can’t we all just sue them for defamation since they’re calling us “racist” for not playing/buying their games?
For defamation/libel I think you need to argue that you have a public image to ruin. Most people simply don't, IDK how that works with a group of people since they just called out a general audience and not an organization, and how do you prove that someone is racist or not in a court of law? We can't read minds, so we'd have to go with the biological bias to reject the other, so yeah we are all racist technically...
Just not in any meaningful way. Considering the burden of proof being on the accuser, being only technically correct might be enough in a court of law.
Now. If they called Asmongold racist, there might be a case since he has a public image that could arguably be ruined, though as mentioned above, talking about it in court might be a fools errand.
on one hand yeah that’d be badass
on the other, i’m pretty sure that only works if you’re specifically being called out by name
@@logandunlap9156 Class action lawsuit
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hard to organize and not likely to actually get going.. it'd be funny if it did though
I don't understand how they think they can get away with this...
It's an arrogant even sinful prideful mentality that they got of thinking they got an absolute monopoly on gaming and its narratives, but this is not true they are still competing against Eastern game developers. Thats why the East sells more, and the West been sinking to the trash and even there their "monopoly" is starting to fade out quickly. Their tactic of pressuring "scaring" devs into doing their bidding aint working anymore.
They have been getting away with it for years already. It's only because they thought that they had won and decided to not even try to hide their dei BS any longer.
That's the good part, that aren't. The majority see this as stupid which is why assassin's creed shadow has had articles coming out about it nonstop since the reveal of yasuke and none of them are good, why people had been constantly talking about it and never in a good light, people are fucking tired.
The people behind this have no grasp of reality, that's why. Shows what living in a bubble will do to you.
They probably know they can't. Their stocks are already failing and they appear to be approaching bankruptcy if nothing changes. May as well stir a big drama and make life a bit more annoying for a lot of people. That's how a cornered animal acts.
By this point I think it's safe to say that ubisoft is shitting themselves every single day.
Considering their logo looks like an birdseye view of a Turd, that wouldn't be too off brand for them
It's EXTRAORDINARY lucky for Japanese people that "Shogun" was released before AC Shadows.
But you also noticed that even though the story of shogun was based on Ieyasu Tokugawa, the writer still out of respect used fake names for their characters.
@@swordinhand8356 that what we calling "fiction"
Some fiction story is indeed using based on real history and characters but that doesn't mean we should using real name of real persons, we can using fiction names for real historical persons in fiction story
Not anyway should "historical accurate" Like a fanatic
@@No_Anime_No_Life. Is english your first language?
I don't mean to insult, but this sounds like google translate had a hard time with a language with wildly different sentence structure to english to the point where this is... difficult to read and harder to understand.
Ubisoft IS Sweet Baby Inc.
Their history goes deeper
There's an interesting connection for certain.
Just Dance did go hard on that at E3.
SBI CEO is a former Ubislop employee
@@ronniecantiga5629 exactly
There is a good reason why Ubisoft won't abandon the agenda or change course no matter what. They're dug in deep.
If I get this right.. Ubisoft tried to get propaganda from "authentic Japanese" in support of the premise of the main character not being Japanese to make me think "oh.. I guess I have to get it now" because someone supposedly Japanese said it's cool?
Conquest merely refers to subjugating another people and their territory with violence, without reference to what you do to them. Integrate them on equal terms, colonizing their territory, carry them off as slaves, extracting a yearly tribute, etc.
Colonization refers to your own people setting up overseas settlements, regardless of whether this is done in the context of a conquest.
The Romans conquered Gaul, carried off a lot of its population as slaves, then proceeded to set up colonies. The Dutch set up a colony on Java on land given to them by a local Sultan, and then proceeded to conquer the Netherlands Indies. Different order of events, same end result. And it's the end result that made people mix up this terminology.
Originally, I believe the word "colony" is not a term to describe whether something is good or bad, but rather a form or guideline, but now it has become just a label used to reject things that we don't like.
At least that is what Mr. Hashimoto intended.
Tbh. The idea of being a japanese fan and being excited for shadows because itll probably be a japanese character only to find out its gonna be a big black guy, beating up japanese guys in a poorly made japanese setting that uses assets its not allowed to makes me mad for them.
I'm an English fan, and if it wasn't for Jacob frye (evie is dei slop and she isn't the main character anyway) then I'd have been robbed of inclusion many times. Edward kenway was originally English, until he featured as a protagonist and got retconed into being half english, half welsh, yet acts like he's only welsh. then in valhalla, we don't get to play as an English character, we play as the viking invaders! It's ridiculous.
Don't forget the Chinese architecture.
the irony is that it's all being done to alleviate European/white guilt. The fact that it's only ever done to white, and white-adjacent cultures, gives away the game: We're going to make ourselves feel better about the past, by re-writing it.
@@asdfbeau the added irony is that this does nothing for black people. this does not represent their culture positively. for crying out loud they added HIP HOP when he fought
Have you ever thought about why they get mad at Kingdom Come Deliverence? It's because they're presenting European history in a way that is counter to their narrative. They want to push the idea that European countries have always been diverse and multicultural, so that when they make media that depicts medieval Europe, no one questions why every race under the sun is in one location at a time where travel was extremely limited and dangerous. I think they really want to detach younger generations from their culture, heritage and history, so that they feel no claim to any land or community. We are all just nomadic peoples wandering the globe in their eyes, I suppose.
I wonder how French company Ubisoft would react if some Japanese or Chinese company would mix together old England, France, Spain and Germany. Like Napoleon wearing lederhosen, speaking English taking a siesta between missions of eating sauerkraut...
My grandma always told me that napoleon was black.
@@McDLT999999999999999 He was short, so he had to be Mexican.
Much of Japanese architecture actually did derive from Chinese architecture as Chinese people were trading and working in Japan for a long time. There's a reason why people on Kyushu, Japan, or at least who's families were historically from that area look different that Japanese people who have relations historically from around the eastern part of Honshu. I studied Japanese joinery in Japan and it's widely known though not discussed openly that the architecture of Japan did in fact have early Chinese influences. But you can make a game based in Chinese history and have the architecture completely wrong for the time period or region within China.
Ubisoft needs to go.
My grandma always said: "No matter what they tell you in school, the Samurai were trans-gay-pansexual- black dudes"..
Was your grandma in the Netflix Cleopatra documentary?
@@sikkableeat5614 the very same one bro 😎😉
My grandma always said: "No matter what they tell you in school, Martin Luther King Jr. was Chinese"
Imagine the MSM rage.
Ubisoft has more money to waste I see.
No they don't... they're running on fumes for years now...
I bet they spent all their reserves on NFTs back when they tried to implement them in one of their games a few years ago
You’re right to bring up the degradation of people’s literacy. Woke started infiltrating colleges and now as people have dumbed down, they are moving to music, movies and video games.
The infiltration began in the 40s and 50s, Bella Dodd, a former communist, testified before the Unamerican Activities committee that her former colleagues had already completely subverted a good deal of the education and political machine of New York.
Yeah and soon they will be moving on the streets!
Attacking someone isn't intended to make that person like the product!
It's intended to discredit the individual so other people waiver and might not follow the beliefs of that person.
Nudge the crowd, not the target.
Nudging the crowd is effective with a significant proportion of people but not with all. Studies into the technique show that around two thirds of people can be controlled but a third will not be. The problem is that the susceptible outnumber those who reject the manipulation (although, of course, the manipulation could potentially result in the susceptible being removed from the situation changing relative numbers).
@@First_Chapter Agreed. Imagine a situation where one side is 'losing the argument' 33 / 66. If they can nudge 2/3rds of that opposing 66% they end up winning 77 / 23.
Attacking / discrediting leading opponents can really tip the balance.
Weaponised lying, especially when subtle, WORKS!
So you're right, but the problem is in this case the "target' is probably at least 60% of their potential customer base.
@@DeltaMikeTorrevieja Indeed. And instances like this exist in recent years...
im pretty sure they got told the jab would make average people more compliant thats why they are doing it everywhere
It is easy for the Japanese to tell which comments have been translated. This is because the translation software is still incomplete. The Japanese language has honorific form "尊敬語" or like humble form "謙譲語", while at the same time people use more informal form when talking to friends or commenting on TH-cam. But the translation software doesn't understand the difference yet. So those comments are usually messed up sentences.
気が付くと白人が差別される世界になってる気がする💧なんで？？
他の人種を差別してまで黒人を素晴らしい人種に見せようとする意味は何なの？？
Real eyes, realize, real lies.
分かんない
And yet, there ARE studies showing that high levels of fluoride does lower IQ.
Ubisoft x Sweet Baby Inc collab lead to a spectacular collapse.
Honestly, Ubisoft is learning a harsh lesson about a rather common phrase:
"If you can't take the heat, don't get in the kitchen."
At the point where I thought things were absolutely ruined and couldn't get worse,
*somehow they managed to make the situation even worse.*
"Never interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake." Or in this case, a series of mistakes.
Isn’t it interesting that the prestigious New York Time article is basically just the sane slop as the PC gamer one….No extra deep dive, no extra context, just the same people presenting the same arguments.
jurnos lie, spin narratives, gaslight. It's what they do no matter the outlet or what it is. Their job isn't to inform it's to spread a narrative. Reminder as much as you think you hate jurnos it isn't enough
I like how these companies and some people think that we as gamers are at fault for their games failing. Same in movies and TV. Its impossible for the audience to be at fault for a piece of media failing, because that implies they have a responibility to make it succeed. Its crazy to see how something so obvious has been completely forgotten.
I can't comprehend why developers hire SBI. For what? To tell them how to make gamers hate their games?
To avoid hit pieces like this being written about your company. It’s an extortion racket but it’s been exposed now.
literal mafia tactics. its kind of hire us or our fellow game journalists will write shit about your game
ESG funding
@@McDLT999999999999999 Now? A. Sarkeesian and her ilk have been pulling the same shit for over a decade. And people have been exposing it.
SBI are ex Ubisoft devs of course they would do this. 2 companies known for engaging in dishonest and devious tactics, a bunch of crybullies workting together, who-duh-thunk it.
15:34 Ironically it was Assassin’s Creed III and Origins that made me appreciate unforced diversity of the main characters by exploring their respective locations and times in history; even with many liberties taken on historical events they were not disrespected egregiously.
How fitting that Hashimoto is a DISEASE often characterized by difficulty thinking, anxiety and depression and balding amidst a host of other symptoms.
Also just wanna note this dude is HALF Japanese...he's actually just an American, and clearly very westernized (or more specifically, californized) based on the type of shit he writes, what he's known for and some of his pictures. Bros trying to use his ethnicity and name as a way to make his argument sound more convincing like "Hey guys, my dad is Japanese, so you should trust what I say" as if that has anything to do with being CULTURALLY Japanese and actually participating in the Japanese discord that obvious DID occur all over the internet.
looking at the games they've consulted on, it becomes very clear the effect it had on the product.
"Who claimed the criticism of the game was being done by individuals in the West using translators"?!?!?!?!?!
LIKE THAT ONE PUBLICATION WHO USED A TRANSLATOR OF THAT ONE STUDIO AND BRANDED THEM ISMS AND ISTS?!?!?!
😂😂😂😂😂
what's fun is Yasuke is depicted as a samurai in other games and stuff but in those games his role wasn't like in assassins creed, Nioh is a very recent example and Nioh is great
I think the distinction can be made that Yasuke is presented as a samurai often in more fictional media; media delving into the realms of myth or legend. Assassin's Creed, whilst being fictional, usually have protagonists that are relevant to the setting and as far as I'm aware, aren't real people. Their choice to make Yasuke the protagonist was purely an ideological one - do you honestly think, out of the thousands of Japanese samurai they could have depicted, they just happened to choose the one black person in Japan for centuries? No, it was an ideological choice and a choice based on DEI, and everyone can see it, plain as day.
If there was a dedicated game based on Yasuke (that didn't claim any historical accuracy), I doubt people would mind as much. There's been media like Afro Samurai in the past.
@@lordthruxawe504 and Afrosamurai is fire 🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯
0:29 Vegan Strat
Lol
Soy
I'm not into American market of vegan products, but here where I live the vegan market has almost nothing with politics, and the products are good, and also having problems with gluten and milk also makes me thank god that people that have the same problems created those products not thinking about politics and more about offering a products that wont make people lose their organs in the toilet after eating it.
But thank to remind me to not buy products that support trans or those kind of shit
Ubisoft hasn’t been Ubisoft for over a decade
I mean sweet baby inc already basically admitted they try to infiltrate discord servers to find what people think of them this is not shocking at all
their name alone is a huge red flag...doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out theyre bad through and through
And the ceo of that company is nuts.
Her speech at GDC was the most psycho narcisist person i have ever seen.
None of this matters. It's gunna fail because Ubiwoke has a black Samauri. Literally period.
If the game was a masterpiece, no one would care. But they have a black samurai, and the game is horrendous. With Star Wars OL, the problem was the game sucked, everything else added on top. If SBI put out the next GTA, we would hate the messaging but play the game. But they are too stupid, lazy, and incompetent to make a good game in the first place.
Yeah, that's just one of the problems. Like most disasters this isn't due to a single flaw or mistake, but several happening one right after another, all stemming from general incompetence laced with toxic ideology.
There’s media with black people in a Japanese setting that is very good. The black samurai isn’t an issue whatsoever if the gameplay was on Sekiro’s level. There’s plenty of ways you can write a black samurai into a plot and it not be cringe, but the underpaid writers at Ubi aren’t up to the task
@@rhett3350making Yasuke part of the Brotherhood causes some issues for Assassin's Creed.
The Brotherhood is meant to be a shadowy organisation that has gone undetected. So there shouldn't be any historical record of any of its members.
The roles of historical figures are also meant to be represented as they are historically. So Da Vinci is still portrayed as an inventor as one example.
If we apply the same rule to Yasuke, he should be a samurai that serves Obunaga. He shouldn't be an assassin that's part of the Brotherhood.
This is why they've always made fictional characters for the Brotherhood up until now.
Its not the black samurai.
its because them saying its Historically accurate and then after all this ensues they are taking back what they are saying.
You cn even still see the "historically accurate" thing on their promotional site, they forgot to remove or change it.
And also a black samurai is never realy an issue.
Remember "Afro Samurai"?
That was cool and everyone including japanese were fine with it.
Quite sure when i watched the movie it was also in japanese or at least japanese dubbed back when i was a kid.
Critical thinking is an essential skill in the modern age.
More like a lost skill
There's a reason why the focus on critical thinking fell off in schools at about the same time modern Sociology came on the scene, and I think you can figure out why.
its now a taboo skill....i got fired from 3 places in the last 2 years because i thought for myself and deviated from the dumb procedure to make it better.....thought for myself = im out...thats how companies work now at least in Canada
What you described was not ad hominum it was gas lighting. Gas lighting is when one, in lieu of an actual argument, uses exageration to make their opponent look or feel crazy. It can invlove lying but doesnt need to do so. The logical fallacy here is to discredit the word or your opponent or make them seem less trustworthy, rather than rebutting their actual argument. What she actually did was several fallacies. Strawman, ad hominum, and gas lighting.
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