Comments by "G L" (@gelinrefira) on "Ubisoft situation got so, so much worse.." video.

Imagine Game Science make a game on the American revolution by inserting a Chinese character based on an obscure historical figure that did not really do much, lionize that historical figure, overblown his importance and then use it to pander to a Chinese audience while saying it is "historically accurate". Or a Japanese studio doing the same thing. Yea, I think people in the US will be outraged too. The hilarious part is that there are literally thousands of samurais in recorded history, not to mention fairly famous ninjas or shinobis that can take on this role and they deliberately choose to find that one person that was not of Japanese descent to represent Japan's culture. If they don't want to pick someone too famous, they can pick from the roster of thousands of Japanese historical figures that were more obscure for some creative freedom to write a fictional story. Saying that this is just a game or fiction is a cop out when it is obvious that this game was meant to be a "hard" historical fiction is a cheap cop out. Elevating Yasuke into hero-dom in a Japanese oriented product is like a screwy, cynical version of Dancing with the Wolves. He could have been a perfectly great NPC and cameo.
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Imagine Game Science make a game on the American revolution by inserting a Chinese character based on an obscure historical figure that did not really do much, lionize that historical figure, overblown his importance and then use it to pander to a Chinese audience while saying it is "historically accurate". Yea, I think people in the US will be outraged too.
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@fffinisher6298 Wrong take. Just because something is bad, you don't have to bring in other stuff that is not relevant to it. Are you saying there is no systemic racism because it is quite obvious to anyone who live in the system experienced it. If you think about it, cynical pandering thinking that it will make money is a kind of systemic racism.
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@matthewmosier8439 I think it is insulting to be inserted into a product just to cynically pander to people.
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