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Asmongold Reacts to: Modern Audience is very upset at critics of AC Shadows
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00:00This has been, uh, it's been pretty funny for me to see.
00:02Assassin's Creed Shadows has probably been one of the most controversial games on Twitter.
00:08And it's been one of the most controversial games on YouTube also.
00:11People have just, in general, been really, really angry about this game.
00:16Like, just, in every direction, with everything.
00:20It's been insane.
00:20Dragon Age The Veilguard?
00:22No.
00:22The difference is that Dragon Age The Veil-
00:24So, here's how it's different.
00:26Dragon Age The Veilguard...
00:28Everybody pretty much agreed that it was garbage.
00:30Assassin's Creed Shadows is better than Dragon Age The Veilguard.
00:33It, it, I would say it's just in every way better.
00:36It's not way better, it's not an amazing game, but it's better than Dragon Age.
00:41And so, now you have people that are like, it's kind of okay,
00:45so it makes it a much more controversial topic.
00:49Despite AC Shadows being officially released,
00:51the modern audience types are not actually any happier about this game.
00:56As a matter of fact, it looks like they're getting even more upset.
00:59Considering that they're the ones who've been ardently defending this game and Ubisoft,
01:03you'd think that, you know,
01:04they might hush up and be playing the game that they've been advocating for this whole time.
01:08But no.
01:09Instead, we're met with posts like these.
01:12I'm concerned about my friend.
01:14He's playing Yosuke Simulator.
01:16Okay.
01:20A quick side note for anyone not familiar with Yosuke Simulator,
01:22it's just a little indie game that someone made.
01:25As a complete joke towards Ubisoft and AC Shadows.
01:27Yeah, it's obviously a fucking meme.
01:29Developers literally call themselves history-accurate developers.
01:32And the release date is the same release date that AC Shadows has,
01:35that being March 20th, 2025.
01:36And yeah, to my understanding, at least the game is just a silly janky game
01:40and is nothing to be taken seriously.
01:42Just people memeing around and poking fun at Ubisoft.
01:44All right, now back over to that post, once again titled,
01:47I'm concerned about my friend.
01:48He's playing Yosuke Simulator.
01:50So apparently, there's an AC Shadows parody game called Yosuke Simulator
01:54from history-accurate developer studio.
01:58My friend is playing it at the moment, and I'm pretty worried.
02:00He's going down the right wing slash reactionary pipeline.
02:03A fighting cowboy had a crash.
02:05I'll watch that.
02:06If you guys remind me to watch it, I can watch it after this.
02:09From what I've Googled, only chuds are talking about the game.
02:12Only chuds, bro.
02:14That's like one of those words that, like,
02:15as soon as I see somebody use that word unironically,
02:18I'm like, uh-oh, we're dealing with a retard here.
02:22Uh-oh.
02:22Oh, here we go.
02:25And some random streamer on Twitch.
02:27It doesn't seem to be bigoted, at least not blatantly.
02:30Yeah.
02:30Has anyone played it?
02:31Should I be concerned?
02:32I love how this person tries to insult people as being-
02:35I love how these people try to police the behavior of everybody else.
02:39Like, that's what I find to be very annoying,
02:41is it's the behavior policing and the, I'm going to tell you what to do.
02:46I just, I don't think that they understand how unpopular it is
02:50to make your entire personality telling other people what to do.
02:56Yeah, hall monitors.
02:57It's so annoying.
02:58If you want to play the game, play the game.
02:59That's fine.
03:00But, like, sitting around trying to, like, guilt people into not playing it
03:03or into playing it or telling them what they should think,
03:06it's so exhausting for just a normal person to think.
03:10Chuds saying that only chuds are talking about the game,
03:13as this person is actually talking about the game via their own post.
03:16This lack of self-awareness is not the only thing I'll be showing you about this person.
03:20There's another great example of this person having a massive lack of self-awareness,
03:23but we'll get to that after we finish this post.
03:25So it's also hilarious to me that they accuse other people
03:27of being, like, right-wing slash reactionary
03:29simply because they'll play some AC Shadows parody game.
03:32Hey, if you parody AC Shadows, if you mock Ubisoft,
03:35you're right-wing or reactionary.
03:37What kind of loser actually thinks like that?
03:39It's such terminally online and brain-rotted behavior.
03:42I think the reason why it's really weird is the fact that it's the fixation
03:45around trying to control what other people are doing and what their preferences are.
03:50I think that's really where the problem comes from,
03:52and I think that's the reason why a lot of people get frustrated,
03:55is that people are, I think, fatigued from being told what they need to like
04:00and what they need to think.
04:02That's really it.
04:03Like, I mean, it's literally that simple.
04:06And I think this is the case also with, like, anti-woke people.
04:09Like you, and I think that's what the, I saw the fighting cowboy clip.
04:13We'll watch it after this.
04:14But like, a lot of people are just tired of being told
04:18what they can and can't play and what they can and can't like.
04:22Just in a very general sense.
04:23It's not anything specific to any specific game.
04:26It's just in a general sense, people are tired of this.
04:29Types of people constantly pretend as if they're these wonderful revolutionary leftists,
04:33while their form of leftism is simply defending giant corporations
04:37and being the biggest bootlickers that they can possibly be.
04:39The top comments here are not any better.
04:41For example, this one saying,
04:42Call him out.
04:43Call him out.
04:44Yo, why are you playing the racism game?
04:46Oh my gosh.
04:47The racism game.
04:48People are so weird.
04:49And the reason why, it's like, this is, you never,
04:52the way that you solve this and the way that you overcome this
04:55is that you never engage with it.
04:57Because people like this, if you engage with them in an honest way,
05:02you automatically lose.
05:04Because those are people who basically, they're not trying to get,
05:09they're not trying to have a conversation.
05:11They're not trying to explain anything to you.
05:14They're not trying to do anything other than tell you what to do.
05:17And so the solution for that is very simple.
05:20You just simply do not play the game.
05:24Something along those lines.
05:25Yeah, it's a bad faith argument.
05:26Yeah, yeah.
05:27You're basically, if, because if you accept that premise,
05:31you've already lost.
05:33I asked him immediately.
05:34He claims it's a parody of Ubisoft.
05:35It's like, why have you stopped beating your wife?
05:37That is not racist or whatever.
05:38But then it's literally called Yasuke Simulator.
05:42So what?
05:42What the frig?
05:44Why are you so pressed over that title?
05:46Look at this exchange.
05:47Comment says, how is the game racist?
05:49Yasuke uses assault rifles for one.
05:52How does that make it racist?
05:54Genuinely asking as a black person myself.
05:56Yeah.
05:56Do you think assault rifles existed in Yasuke's time?
05:59Or do you think they added them in for reasons?
06:02That still doesn't make it racist.
06:03Using assault rifles isn't really a black stereotype.
06:06Modern audience.
06:07Yeah, it's not.
06:11Yes, it is.
06:12Oh, here we go.
06:13Inter-editor response saying, lol, yes, it is.
06:16Gun violence is largely attributed to black people in the US.
06:18And putting guns like that in a game dedicated to a black man in the 1500s
06:21is a pretty clear setup.
06:23Not to mention it's full of Asian stereotypes as well.
06:26And they get a response that reads,
06:27I think you linking shooter elements to racism
06:30is more racist than the game itself, honestly.
06:32Yeah, I don't really think that's, I mean, like, yeah,
06:36I mean, if you go on like Poll or something like that,
06:39or you go on like another really like,
06:41you know, a racist place on the website,
06:43on the internet.
06:44Yeah, you're going to have people that think that for sure.
06:46But like to act like this is some kind of like prevailing opinion.
06:50No, absolutely not.
06:53Oh, by the way, this subreddit is a discussion subreddit
06:56specifically for the gaming circle jerk subreddit.
06:58If you don't have the misfortune of being familiar with the gaming circle jerk subreddit,
07:02essentially it's filled with these modern audience types.
07:05But anyway.
07:06Do you guys agree with me, by the way,
07:07about like what I'm saying about how people just don't like being told what to do?
07:11Because I feel like that's really what the problem is more than anything.
07:14People are just fed up with being told what to do.
07:20Like in any direction,
07:21stop trying to micromanage my life,
07:24to micromanage my interests,
07:25to tell me what I need to enjoy.
07:28Just stop.
07:30It's the modern audience OP from that post,
07:33the one who's all upset at their friend for playing Yasuke Simulator.
07:36I'd mentioned that they had another...
07:37It goes for liking and disliking things.
07:41The problem is trying to force that view on other people.
07:46Great example, hilarious example of their lack of self-awareness.
07:48And that's eight days ago, they made this comment saying,
07:51Who gives a dang about culture war, but culture warriors.
07:54There's hundreds of millions of players worldwide coming from cultures from all over the world.
07:58A huge amount of them are children, often younger than 10.
08:00A lot of them are people with untreated mental issues or people fed with political agenda.
08:04If you want to find some garbage opinion, I guarantee you will find it.
08:07If you look for this stuff only to get outraged about it, you are part of the problem.
08:11But traditional media and influencers start to co-opt these terrible takes
08:15because they bring hate clicks.
08:16It's just profitable to make a clown of yourself, to make a clown out of yourself.
08:20Spaces like Kotaku in Action and Gaming Circle Jerk both contribute to this degeneracy.
08:24So on one hand, I think this, by the way, I think this is an accurate post.
08:30I do think that like, obviously people care about this kind of stuff
08:33because they feel like this type of thinking has gotten into gaming in a way that's not organic.
08:38And they feel like it's not really representative of what players want.
08:42It's basically just a top down ideology that's being distributed to people,
08:46you know, regardless of whether they like it or not.
08:49But I think in general, like, yeah, most people just want to play a good game.
08:54Like they don't really care about a lot of the like a lot of the like social messaging, etc.
08:59People will look past that or they will not care about it if the game is good.
09:04This is very true.
09:05Some credit, they called out the Gaming Circle Jerk subreddit.
09:08But eight days later, they want to influence who you like,
09:11what content you interact with and what interests you,
09:13what you're supposed to have.
09:14It's fucking annoying.
09:15Yeah, it is.
09:16It's like these people are just so controlling.
09:20They're so controlling.
09:22And it's just insane for me to see it happen.
09:25And this is why they've alienated so many people.
09:28On the discussion subreddit for Gaming Circle Jerk,
09:31literally making a clown out of yourself with a terrible take,
09:34like doing what eight days ago they were trying to call out.
09:37Of course, I don't understand how people are like this.
09:39I think some people just can't handle being online so much.
09:42Like some people can be online.
09:43So this is the issue is that they categorize everybody
09:46who disagrees with them as culture warriors.
09:49And then they categorize themselves as just having the right opinions.
09:52And it's not a culture war because they already presume
09:56that they're accurate about everything that they think.
09:58So like it's basically it's a diminutive term
10:02that they use for people that agree with them,
10:04but they don't realize or accept that it also applies to them.
10:08All day and they're totally chilling.
10:10One thing that you'll notice with a lot of people on the internet,
10:12and I think this is a general thing,
10:14is that people try to conceal their intentions
10:18by using different vocabulary.
10:21And they try to make it sound like,
10:23oh, I'm not doing this or, oh, I am doing this.
10:26With vocabulary and different words
10:28that they're trying to like replace with each other, right?
10:31It's like euphemisms and, you know,
10:33like kind of trying to make things sound worse
10:35or better than what they actually are.
10:37But some people like this person,
10:39perhaps they just suffer from so much brain rot.
10:42Like this sort of person really needs to go outside,
10:44get some fresh air.
10:45And on that note, speaking of people like that,
10:47let's hop over to journalism as we've got an article from Forbes.
10:52Oh God.
10:52Paul Tassi of Forbes.
10:53You probably heard of the guy earlier today.
10:55He released an article titled,
10:57It's Abundantly Clear,
10:58The Assassin's Creed Shadows Controversies Are Nothing.
11:02He writes,
11:03Now that Assassin's Creed Shadows has launched
11:05and players and critics have gotten their hands on the game,
11:07they've discovered something.
11:09This is an Assassin's Creed game.
11:11Wow, no way.
11:13It's fine, even pretty good,
11:14but this is simply nothing out of the ordinary for the series.
11:17Even if many would have you believe otherwise.
11:19The narrative about the game was drowned
11:21by social media accusations of it being woke
11:24by using Black Samurai Yasuke as one of its two leads.
11:27And while that drama farming was always ridiculous,
11:30it is even more so when you play the game
11:32and realize that there's nothing remotely controversial
11:34about any of this.
11:36His inclusion, how he's portrayed,
11:38or what liberties may have been taken with the character
11:40in a series where Leonardo da Vinci builds you a hang glider
11:43and you fist fight the Pope.
11:45This story.
11:45Yeah, this is the continual argument
11:47that people like this make.
11:49And the issue again,
11:51it's not that you took creative liberties,
11:57it's that you took creative liberties
11:58in a way that everybody knows
12:02it's just for political messaging.
12:06There's not really any political messaging
12:08while Leonardo da Vinci builds you a hand glider
12:11to fist fight the Pope, right?
12:12There's not an overt political ideology
12:17that's being pushed with that.
12:18But I think that whenever you have
12:20characters that are constantly being included,
12:24I don't really think having Yasuke
12:26as a main character is really a bad thing, really.
12:29But it's also fair to say that the reason
12:31why they probably added it
12:33was to kind of make the game more for modern audiences.
12:36Two things can be true at the same time.
12:39And the problem is that when people see the inclusion
12:42of these elements in games,
12:43they view these elements as immersion breaking
12:46and they just don't want to see it that much.
12:48They just want to play a game
12:49for the sake of it being a game.
12:51And so that's it.
12:52It's politicized, exactly.
12:53I don't think they care it's immersion breaking.
12:55But what's wrong with that?
12:56There's nothing wrong with doing it or not doing it.
12:59But what there is wrong with it
13:01is for adding something into a game
13:04and then instead of saying that,
13:06oh, well, it's just a fiction,
13:09they make the appeal to authority
13:11that this actually happened
13:13and like all these things were real.
13:15If they had never framed it that way,
13:17I don't think people would have gotten frustrated at all.
13:21Or they would have gotten a lot less frustrated.
13:24Pissing off Japan should count.
13:25Yeah, sure.
13:26I mean, and I think also,
13:28like the way that people in Japan view this is,
13:31you know, I'm not really sure.
13:32I've been playing Assassin's Creed since it became a game.
13:34Shadows is the first game
13:35where they use a real historical figure as the main character.
13:38Now they need to appeal to actual history.
13:42That's probably, that's actually kind of a good point.
13:45Yeah, that's true.
13:48It is not all that dissimilar to what we saw years ago
13:51with Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai.
13:54Or more recently, our good friend, the Anjiin Shogun.
13:58Two characters that drew far less controversy
14:00because, well, you know.
14:01The implication is because they're white
14:03and they're not black
14:04and people are racist against black people.
14:06The reason why people were okay with The Last Samurai is,
14:10and also, by the way, Tom Cruise,
14:12everybody in Japan apparently loved Tom Cruise
14:14after The Last Samurai.
14:16The reason why is it's done in a way
14:17that people feel is respectful.
14:20At the end of the day,
14:21when you had as many fuck-ups that Assassin's Creed had
14:24with, like, Japanese culture,
14:26it's going to feel like it's disrespectful
14:28even if it is, to some degree, accurate.
14:31And he wasn't a samurai.
14:32Yeah, that's the other thing, too,
14:34is that Tom Cruise, the story is him,
14:38like, basically telling the story of The Last Samurai,
14:42not that The Last Samurai in Japan was a white guy.
14:47That's not it.
14:48He was the witness.
14:49Yeah, exactly.
14:52To argue that Yasuke's story is more interesting
14:55because of his race
14:56and the dynamic that creates within Japanese society
14:59and his place and ascension within it.
15:01Okay, so he's obviously trying to just
15:05make some sort of blanketed racism accusation here
15:08regarding why Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai
15:10didn't get controversy
15:11and Yasuke in AC Shadows has.
15:14However, this is a false equivalence.
15:16The issue is not racism.
15:18The issue is the lack of respect for Japanese culture
15:20that AC Shadows has constantly depicted
15:22throughout its promotion,
15:23which has got a ton of backlash
15:25from the people of Japan,
15:26including the government of Japan,
15:28the National Diet, all the way up to...
15:30One important component to this
15:32is that the main reason why Japanese people
15:34didn't like this
15:36actually didn't have a lot to do with Yasuke at all.
15:39It had to do with destroying the different places in Japan,
15:42like the sacred places in Japan,
15:45and being able to kill the different citizens in the country.
15:49That was the main thing
15:51that was being discussed in that parliament meeting.
15:53It wasn't about was Yasuke real or not.
15:56I don't think they really care a whole lot about that.
15:58It's about the behavior that you're able to do
16:00while you're in Japan.
16:01Did they have Torii Gate too?
16:02Yeah, that's another one.
16:04Oichi got shit on in this game?
16:06Yeah, I mean, that was another thing.
16:07And that's another historical figure.
16:09Japan's own prime minister condemning the game.
16:13On the other hand,
16:14he's bringing up The Last Samurai,
16:16Tom Cruise movie from not just years ago,
16:18but like, I don't know,
16:1915 years ago or something like that.
16:20I remember, dude, this is...
16:22I remember this so well.
16:24I remember The Last Samurai came out.
16:29Oh God, I can't even say this.
16:30It's so fucking stupid.
16:32Okay.
16:35The Last Samurai came out.
16:38And me and my friend Lowell watched the movie.
16:41This obviously was the greatest movie we've ever seen.
16:48We go and you know,
16:49like those magazines they used to send you,
16:51where it's like you,
16:52like you can send away and like order like swords
16:55and like stuff like that, right?
16:56I think it was called like Bud K.
16:59Well, we get one of these catalogs
17:01and we order a $30 katana
17:04off of one of these fucking stores.
17:07Yeah.
17:08And this is like just...
17:09Yeah, we were like,
17:10I think 12 or 13 or something like this, right?
17:13And we had decided that now we want to be samurai
17:19and we're going to go out
17:21and we're going to train ourselves to be samurai.
17:24And we would go out in Lowell's front yard
17:27and we would cut up cardboard.
17:29And I remember we bought the sword.
17:31The sword finally arrived.
17:33Everybody went up to Lowell's house
17:35and we took the sword
17:39and we took it to a piece of cardboard, right?
17:43And we slice it and the sword bends.
17:48And we're just like,
17:51uh,
17:53and I'm like, uh,
17:59and we just put the sword away
18:02and we never talked about it again.
18:04That was it.
18:06The cardboard wins once again.
18:07Yeah, it did.
18:08That was it.
18:09Sounds like a bad form.
18:10Yeah, it was.
18:11You should have trained more.
18:13Well, I mean, to be fair,
18:14I actually did find another sword
18:15that was way better than that one.
18:17But the first one that we got was so bad
18:19and we were just like,
18:21it was so bad.
18:22What do you expect for 30 bucks?
18:24We're like 12.
18:26Like 11, 12, 13 years old.
18:29We don't, we don't know like the type of steel.
18:31Like, I don't know how much a katana is.
18:33I mean, like, why the fuck would I know that?
18:36Do you still have the sword?
18:38So I, I don't know where it is.
18:40I know it's in my house,
18:41but I don't know where in my house it is.
18:44Because I asked my mom
18:45whenever she was still around
18:47and I was like,
18:48where the fuck did you put my sword?
18:50Because I found, I swear to God,
18:53I found a legitimate fucking katana
18:56in the, in, in like the woods straight up.
19:00And it was an amazing weapon.
19:01I had this for pretty much like
19:03my entire time growing up.
19:04I would take this katana with me everywhere,
19:06including school, which was a problem.
19:08And so anyway, uh, I, I was like,
19:10oh, this is like, you know,
19:11a fucking Joan of Arc of something, right?
19:13Or something.
19:13You're a chosen one.
19:14Exactly.
19:15And so my mom hid it
19:16because we kept cutting things up with a katana, right?
19:18Obviously the sword,
19:19I don't even think it was a katana particularly.
19:22And she hid it from me
19:23and she forgot where she fucking put it.
19:26And I've been, I've been looking
19:27or every like six months,
19:29I will start trying to look for this sword.
19:32I still haven't been able to find it.
19:34And that's a movie which you can look up online.
19:36Apparently people in Japan actually did like that movie.
19:38Dude, I've got some good memories of that movie.
19:39They pointed out some historical inaccuracies with it,
19:42of course, saying that like, you know,
19:43Hollywood was being Hollywood
19:44with some of the things in that movie.
19:46But ultimately it showed a great respect
19:48towards the Japanese culture
19:49and depicted the samurai as very noble people,
19:51Japanese people as very hardworking, noble people.
19:54And for the most part, from what I've seen online,
19:56the people of Japan like that movie.
19:58At the very least, they didn't find it
20:00to be highly disrespectful.
20:01Like they have AC shadows.
20:02So once I think also another,
20:04another subtext of this is that back then
20:07you didn't have the amount of social messaging.
20:09Like I bet nowadays,
20:11if they released the last samurai again,
20:13you probably would have Mulders.
20:16But like, it would, it wouldn't be like serious.
20:18But like, I think that the internet
20:20does definitely give like a, you know,
20:22a fucking loud speaker to Mulders.
20:26This is an issue about respect
20:28or lack of respect towards the Japanese people.
20:30This is not an issue of racism,
20:31despite what some gaming journalists
20:33and or modern audience types
20:35on social media would have you believe.
20:36That's another thing I find ironic.
20:38They constantly go on about like being against racism,
20:41but they're the ones propagating
20:42this racist narrative the most.
20:44And as a matter of fact, if we play their game,
20:46like if they want to talk about racism,
20:48I find it very suspicious
20:51how they constantly diminish the critiques
20:55and concerns of people in Japan about this game.
20:58They never seem to-
20:58Well, they, the thing is that
21:02I have never met people that are,
21:04like, actually that's not true.
21:06I have met people that are more racist than this.
21:09But the people that get hyper fixated on race,
21:14have you guys ever noticed
21:15about how the horseshoe theory comes around
21:18and they actually become racist?
21:21Have you ever noticed that?
21:23Because I see it all the time.
21:28Acknowledge that stuff.
21:29Apparently these-
21:30I disagree.
21:30Last Samurai coming out today
21:31would have Christopher Nolan levels of success,
21:33even more so than whenever it came out originally.
21:35Maybe you're right.
21:36I don't know.
21:36I mean, we can't really know.
21:38But I think honestly,
21:40and here's another thing is like that article
21:42that was being written about
21:43the Assassin's Creed Shadows controversies not mattering.
21:46We don't know that
21:48because you don't have a use case
21:50that you can compare it to.
21:52So like, for example,
21:53if Assassin's Creed Shadows
21:55just went with like your traditional John Shadows
21:59and it is, you know, a, you know,
22:02like middle-aged Japanese male samurai.
22:05And then you can also play
22:07as maybe a female ninja or something like that.
22:10If you had that as the main character,
22:12yeah, John Creed, exactly.
22:16I think it probably would have done better.
22:19I do.
22:20Because I do think that the controversy
22:22did alienate more people against it.
22:24And it was an overall negative.
22:27And this is always what the comparison is.
22:29It's not the comparison as to like
22:30whether it was successful or not.
22:32I think that an Assassin's Creed game being successful
22:35was a foregone conclusion.
22:37But it's about the degree of success
22:39and whether that degree was compromised
22:41by decisions that were made.
22:43You see what I'm saying?
22:46A holier-than-thou,
22:47virtuously only types
22:48who claim to be against bigotry.
22:50Don't actually care about bigotry
22:51when it's towards Asian people.
22:53Now, of course, they may try and deny that,
22:55you know, spin it some sort of way,
22:56but their actions do speak much louder
22:58than their words.
22:59And for years now,
23:00I do think, by the way,
23:02there is this really weird thing
23:04that happens online
23:05where people think that racism towards,
23:08I don't know if it's really just Asians,
23:10but it's also Indians
23:12and maybe in one other group of people
23:13that I can think of.
23:15Racism against that group of people
23:17is like seen as more okay
23:20than racism against like,
23:22I don't know,
23:23different groups of people, right?
23:24Indians or Asians.
23:25Yeah, it's Indians and Asians
23:26that really get farmed a lot.
23:28And I find it to be very,
23:31I mean, the fact is,
23:34nobody alive today
23:35was alive during slavery.
23:39Thousands of people who are alive today
23:42were sent to internment camps.
23:43So I think if we're talking about
23:46structural, systematic racism
23:50from the government directly,
23:53I'd say Japanese kind of got
23:54fucked over there.
23:56They did.
23:58Those groups are seen as privileged, though?
23:59Yeah, I think that's what happens.
24:02Arabs as well?
24:03Yeah, I mean, it depends.
24:04Arabs, it's like very hit and miss
24:06about like how people like,
24:07you know, whether people are going to be
24:08like racist against that group or not.
24:11According to some people,
24:13according to Doge,
24:13there were some people alive
24:14that experienced slavery.
24:15Oh, I forgot.
24:17Yeah, Dracula.
24:18Now, we have all seen what those actions are,
24:20or in some cases,
24:22what those lack of actions are.
24:24Paul Tassi concludes his article
24:25with two paragraphs,
24:26the first one reading,
24:28I've seen some pivots to other woke aspects,
24:30which are things like the option
24:32to form non-straight romances
24:33with characters, an optional path.
24:35To me, this speaks not to how games
24:37have become more woke,
24:38but how weird and nonsensical
24:40this sort of pushback has become.
24:41I don't think that these people realize
24:43how unpopular things like being non-binary
24:46and being gay are in the world,
24:49in the greater scheme of things.
24:51When you're talking about like these types,
24:53and this is especially,
24:55I think that people are generally OK
24:56with being gay,
24:58like it's not really as bad.
25:00But whenever you look at anything
25:03that is the non-binary sexual,
25:06you know, deviation.
25:07So like if you look at trans, non-binary
25:10or any other variation of that,
25:13you get into a extremely
25:16small percentage of people
25:17that have a genuine acceptance of this.
25:20People will tolerate it,
25:22and they are willing to deal with it in society
25:25and be reasonable and be nice.
25:27But I think a lot of people
25:29don't really agree with it a lot.
25:32And I wouldn't be surprised
25:33if the majority didn't.
25:35And I think I'm guaranteeing you
25:37that the majority doesn't
25:38if you look at the entire world.
25:40So I think that what happens
25:42is that people spend way too much time
25:44on a liberal Western bubble,
25:48and they don't realize that
25:50things like being non-binary,
25:54this isn't something that's like normal
25:56for a lot of people.
25:57They don't understand what it is,
25:58whether you think that they should or not,
26:00they don't.
26:00They don't understand it.
26:01They don't get it.
26:02They don't think it's real, etc.
26:04So when you put something like that
26:06into the game,
26:08people see that and they're like,
26:10well, this is political messaging
26:11of this weird thing that I don't understand.
26:14That's it.
26:18Remember Mass Effect,
26:19the nearly 20-year-old series everyone likes
26:21that has been doing this kind of thing for eons.
26:23Games haven't changed.
26:24And people don't want to learn about it.
26:26They don't want to be educated in it.
26:27They don't care about it.
26:28They don't want to hear about it.
26:30And that's it.
26:32These commentators and fans have,
26:34which have become a pit of rage baiting,
26:36Twitter users and YouTubers
26:37and audiences making something
26:39out of literally nothing time and time again.
26:41Okay.
26:41So I'm not the most familiar with Mass Effect,
26:43but to my understanding,
26:45none of the people in Mass Effect are real, right?
26:46It's like complete,
26:48complete science fiction stuff.
26:50Now, on the other hand,
26:50Yasuke was a real person,
26:52which is even a part of Paul Tassi's own argument.
26:54And so there's a huge difference
26:56in making fictional characters LGBT
26:58and taking a real person
27:00and then making them LGBT when they're-
27:02This is a very good point.
27:04Yeah.
27:04Changing a historical person's sexuality
27:10I'm going to be honest.
27:11I don't think they should do that.
27:14Unless it's like clearly stated,
27:15like there's a few guys like in history,
27:17like I even heard there's like evidence
27:19that maybe fucking Abraham Lincoln
27:22might've been gay or like Walt Whitman
27:24or somebody like that historically was gay.
27:26Alexander the Great.
27:29I don't know.
27:29I could probably think of some more,
27:30but those are the first ones
27:31that come off the top of my head.
27:33And so if you make these guys gay
27:35or bisexual or whatever,
27:38that's fine, right?
27:39I don't think people care,
27:40but like I don't think
27:40that you should create fan fiction
27:42where you change a historical person's sexuality.
27:47I just, I think it's weird.
27:51I do.
27:51I just think it's fucking weird.
27:54There's no evidence to suggest
27:55that they were in fact LGBT.
27:57Hand changing or real-
27:58Why not?
27:59The reason why not,
28:00why is it-
28:02Why not?
28:03See, I mean,
28:04and that's a good question.
28:05Why is it?
28:10I think that people look at their sexuality
28:14as something that defines them as a person.
28:17And when you change
28:18one of those definitive characteristics,
28:21like someone's race, their age,
28:24their sexuality,
28:26like an identity characteristic,
28:29you're effectively co-opting
28:31you're effectively co-opting
28:33and you're like invalidating
28:37part of this person's identity.
28:39And I think that's probably the reason,
28:41yeah, why even do it?
28:42I think that's a better reason.
28:43Yeah, why do something like that?
28:45But, and I'd have to think about that more,
28:47right?
28:47Because that's a good question.
28:51But yeah, it's altering history.
28:52Yeah, it's revisionist.
28:53Yeah.
28:54And I think that also another reason
28:55is that there's no reason to do that
28:58other than to push like a,
29:00you know, new age narrative.
29:03Person's sexual orientation like that
29:05is actually pretty creepy.
29:06So yeah, I think that's a really bad comparison.
29:09And I would hope that Paul Tassi can see why.
29:10He ends with this paragraph that reads,
29:13you can say, well, none of this matters,
29:15but it does matter.
29:16It does.
29:16Ubisoft is taking steps
29:17to protect its employees from harassment
29:19due to the hostility surrounding this release
29:21that can target not just the company,
29:22but individual developers.
29:24Again, for what?
29:25Because Ubisoft is using a historical figure
29:27to tell a story that has already been told
29:28similarly in other media with white guys,
29:30that the Japanese representation is a woman,
29:32not a Jinsekai Tsushima samurai.
29:35Why is that a bad thing?
29:37If people want to play
29:38just like your traditional John samurai,
29:42why is that bad?
29:46Because the premise of this
29:48is that this is somehow bad to want that.
29:49Why is it bad?
29:50I don't think it's bad at all.
29:52I think it's fine.
29:53How would they feel if it was done
29:54to a historically LGBT person to made straight?
29:57I think that's actually also a really great point,
30:00is that if you took a person who was historically gay
30:03or, you know, like bisexual or a lesbian,
30:07and then you allowed them to be straight
30:09and you change their sexuality,
30:11I think people would be really bothered by it.
30:15Yeah, like you'd see so many Twitter threads
30:17with people that have five flags in their bio.
30:20They'd be losing their fucking minds over this.
30:24Yeah, they'd be mad as fuck.
30:25Yeah, exactly.
30:27And we all know that.
30:30This is utter nonsense and discourse
30:32about practically any new game on the market
30:34has become so toxic
30:35that staying off the internet entirely
30:37is the only way to avoid it.
30:38But good luck with that.
30:39That whole thing about Ubisoft
30:41protecting its developers from harassment
30:42comes off like such damage control.
30:44Seen no evidence of like actual Ubisoft developers
30:47being targeted by mass amounts of gamers
30:50in any way, shape or form.
30:51This is a point where I will slightly disagree
30:53and say that I do think that developers
30:56do get individually harassed.
30:58And, you know, this is it's kind of like
31:00what I said before about January 6th.
31:01It's like nobody supports that.
31:03Like, I mean, that's weird.
31:05Like if you're going
31:05and you're harassing developers individually,
31:08like I understand if a developer
31:10is making statements about the game
31:11and you're disagreeing with those statements
31:13on a public platform,
31:14that those those statements
31:15are made in a public platform.
31:16I think that's very fair, right?
31:18That's totally OK.
31:19But if people are being harassed
31:20to the point where like you're calling
31:22their personal phone numbers,
31:23you're trying to interfere
31:25or impact their real life.
31:27This is a very unhealthy behavior
31:29that's disgusting and nobody should support it.
31:31And I think anybody that does that
31:33and this doesn't have anything to do
31:34with Assassin's Creed Shadows.
31:36Nobody cares about that.
31:37This is something that I would say about Tesla.
31:39I would say this about ActBlue.
31:40I would say this about Doge.
31:42I would say it about Costco.
31:45I'd say it about any of these companies.
31:47If you're systematically going through
31:48and harassing employees of a company
31:50because you don't like what the company's doing,
31:52you are engaging in a behavior
31:54that's disgusting
31:55and it should be completely repudiated.
31:59That being said,
32:00is this really happening a lot?
32:02I bet it probably has happened
32:04and it's totally fair
32:05for people to put their foot down on it.
32:07But criticism of a video game
32:09is not harassment.
32:12People are targeting
32:13Ubisoft Corporation with criticism
32:15and this game with criticism.
32:16They're not going after individual devs.
32:18And something else I mentioned
32:19in coverage about this exact topic
32:20from a few days ago
32:21was how Ubisoft attempted to say that
32:23their own developers are scared to mention
32:25that they work at Ubisoft.
32:26And I find it more likely
32:27that their developers are simply embarrassed
32:29to work at Ubisoft
32:30given how terrible the reputation of Ubisoft has become.
32:33Not that they're-
32:33That's the real reason.
32:36Yeah.
32:37Like people, like back in the day,
32:39if you worked at Blizzard,
32:40people would ask you about like,
32:42oh, are they gonna add the Lich King?
32:44Are they gonna add Illidan?
32:45What about Deathwing?
32:46Are they gonna add them?
32:47Now, if you tell people you work at Blizzard,
32:49they're like,
32:49who was it that got the breast milk?
32:51Did that really happen?
32:52Like, what did they do?
32:53Like, was it happening to multiple people?
32:55How many people did it happen to?
32:57So yeah, big surprise.
32:59People don't want to be at companies
33:00that have had their reputations fucking destroyed
33:03and they don't want to be represented by them
33:05publicly, right?
33:06Yeah, who got the breast milk?
33:07Exactly.
33:09Afraid of being harassed
33:10by massive armies of gamers.
33:11Once again, something that we have no evidence
33:13of actually happening.
33:14Furthermore, that whole thing
33:15is simply a PR statement from Ubisoft.
33:18Why would anyone just blindly believe
33:20some PR statement from these corpos?
33:22Couldn't be me.
33:23Thankfully, couldn't be the sort of people
33:24that watch my videos too.
33:25Y'all are wiser than that,
33:27more based than that,
33:28and we'll leave it there for today.
33:29So let me know what you think about all this stuff.
33:31AC Shadows has officially released,
33:33and yet the modern audience types
33:35are still finding ways to get upset.
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33:41Have a great weekend
33:42and I'll see you in the next one.
33:44A lot is going down right now.
33:45We'll watch this one too, but not yet.
33:48Um, what I find to be so ridiculous
33:50and funny about this
33:51is the amount of posturing about it.
33:54It's like nobody's even interested
33:56about discussing the game
33:58and whether the game is good or not.
34:00I think that there are some things
34:01about the game that are good.
34:02There are some things that are bad.
34:05But nobody's interested
34:07in discussing any of that.
34:09Nobody cares about anything about the game.
34:12It's just a bunch of like weird bullshit.
34:15I don't understand it at all.
34:17There's the video.
34:17Give it a like.
34:18I agree.
34:19I think it's just a very...
34:21The Assassin's Creed,
34:22and this is also another component,
34:24is that Paul Tassi,
34:25I'm glad that he's finally admitting
34:26that all of the internet controversy
34:29does actually play a massive role.
34:32Internet controversy
34:33does massively affect the game.
34:35And I think if the game
34:37went with a safe protagonist
34:38rather than trying to make a statement
34:40with the protagonist,
34:41which is what I think that they...
34:42I think that they were trying
34:43to make a statement
34:44with the protagonist.
34:45I do.
34:45Like, I have both opinions.
34:48I don't care.
34:49I think Yasuke is cool.
34:50And I like him in the game.
34:52But I also think that he was added
34:54into the game
34:54for a modern audience,
34:56like, you know,
34:56like sociopolitical reasons.
34:58I think that's the reason
34:59why they did it.
35:00So, like, both of these things are true.
35:02Like, I care.
35:04I understand this is what's happening,
35:05but I'm not like...
35:07That's not what's going to make me
35:08not play the game.
35:10100% the reason?
35:11Yeah, exactly, right?
35:13Nothing about Yasuke is cool in game.
35:15I don't know.
35:16It feels decent to play the character.
35:18I mean, it's a bit problematic, sure.
35:20But overall, that's just my opinion about it.