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Harassed by Assassin’s Creed gamers, a professor fought back with kindness (apnews.com)
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[-] [email protected] 69 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Gamers are so fucking embarrassing man... These people will harass a voice actor, because they don't like that the character the person plays killed a beloved character.

It's like they cannot tell fiction from reality.

Edit:

Anik Talukder, a 28-year-old south Asian man living in the United Kingdom, said he apologized at least 10 times to Schmidt-Hori after accepting her Zoom invitation to discuss his Reddit post about her.

Look... It's great this person felt remorse, but Jesus Christ these people fold immediately. A bunch of racist paper tigers.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Honestly, that's most racist people. As soon as they actually meet the target of their vitriol, they'll usually fold. Just make sure they're alone and not with their racist buddies.

The same goes for most forms of bigotry.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It’s not just gamers it’s in almost every corner of geek fandom. Remember how a bunch of losers attacked Kelly Marie Tran because they blamed her for the new Star Wars slop.

[-] [email protected] 68 points 4 weeks ago

I wish the biggest problem in my life was how good a video game is. If you don't like the game, leave a bad review, warn others in your circle... but don't go harassing people that worked on it.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 4 weeks ago

A big part of the problem is that social media platforms encourage and amplify hateful content.

People are literally profiting from their hate and harassment of game developers (and have the hubris to complain about ‘woke grifters’) but platforms like YouTube just throw up their hands and pretend it’s nothing to do with them.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago

The fashy outrage engine where any trailer with some amount of melanin triggers endless "WOKE FAIL" videos is in full force.

The process is watch trailer>check for nonwhite>RAGE video>if game bombs: GLOAT video> if game is a hit: quietly STFU and move on to the next target.

I have to assume the algorithmic boosting of this garbage is the result of someone at Google arguing that groceries haul videos and reaction videos were the bottom of the barrel and someone grab-my-beering that shit.

I mean, these idiots spent months doing "Expedition 33 is WOKE" outrage videos. That was, in fact, the top couple of threads on the Steam community forum for the game on launch day. I checked. Besides one thread hilariously trying to do "It's a hit because it's not WOKE" on the top page, the word "woke" is no longer in the first ten pages of discussions.

It's such an obvious grift and it's so pointless to even call it out. Everybody knows it's bullshit. The creators know it, the fascistoid children following them know it, the game makers know it, the politicians taking advantage to indoctrinate young men know it. And yet here we are.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)
[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

especially a series thats been like that for several titles lol. makes no sense

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

If you lack any self-worth and identity on your own, you will derive it from hating others.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 4 weeks ago

Learning Yasuke was based on a real person did little to assuage critics. Asian men in particular argued Schmidt-Hori was trying to erase them, even though her role involved researching historical customs and reviewing scripts, not creating characters.

If you are this stupid, maybe you in particular should be erased?

[-] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It's crazy that racists just have an axe to grind with people who are even vaguely accepting. If a game is too "woke" just shut up and let us have our fun. No one is making you play it. Kudos for the professor's self-confidence. I hope she is safe from crazy people on the web.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Exactly. And empathy is not a weakness, it's a strength. Blindly hating things is weakness and ignorance.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

Let me just open this article to see how billion dollar company Ubisoft helped defend and protect their consultant...

Told her to ignore it. Cool

Made a statement about how amazing she is after she turned the tide. Got it.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago

I honestly wish i had the option to offer a facecall to whoever is toxic to me online. Its good to remind People, that there are realisiert humans behind the User names.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

"realisiert" found the German.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Damm you Phone and your flawed typing Support in two languages

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Hmm, username didn't tip you off?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Random capitalization of nouns

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

"sugar_in_your_tea" found the Brit

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Go fish.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Kindness wins.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

I don't understand people like that. If you don't like some piece of entertainment, don't consume it, leave a bad review, and move on

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

don't consume it, leave a bad review,

If you didn't consume it, why leave a review let alone a bad one?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I meant that as an "or". Don't consume or give feedback if you do

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Good franchise fanbase strikes again

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

Honestly, I seriously doubt that the harassment is from the AC fanbase, and as a side sucky thing in an ocean of suck, it also sucks for Ubisoft that their game is getting associated with the backlash. It really seems like these are just political actors and opportunists exploiting the nazi child outrage farms for views, more than anything else.

I'd be shocked if most of the outrage, even the one whitewashed as "Asian men erasure" was genuine at all. Especially in the game series that opened with "hey the Crusades were bad, maybe" and spiraled out into assassinating the pope and playing as multiple black people murdering slavers.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Exactly. They're outrage tourists.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

At this point I wouldn't call the Assassin's Creed franchise "good". "Painfully mediocre" is closer to what I'd call it, but that's just Ubisoft games in general nowadays

[-] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago

It's a meme ya dunce

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