Harassed by Assassin’s Creed gamers, a professor fought back with kindness (apnews.com)

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[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 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.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 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.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 30 points 2 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.

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 21 points 2 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.

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 8 points 2 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.

[-] Whats_a_lemmy@ponder.cat 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

wokespotting

[-] arakhis_@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 19 points 2 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.

[-] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 17 points 2 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.

[-] owl@infosec.pub 6 points 2 weeks ago

"realisiert" found the German.

[-] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

Damm you Phone and your flawed typing Support in two languages

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Hmm, username didn't tip you off?

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Random capitalization of nouns

[-] owl@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago

"sugar_in_your_tea" found the Brit

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Go fish.

[-] rustyfish@lemmy.world 7 points 2 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?

[-] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Uneducated comment, removed.

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

My dude... Not only can Asians be racist, they are some of the most racist people around. Go to China and listen to them talk about other races. They make Alabama seem like a pinnacle of equality and tolerance.

[-] StarshotJohn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Taiwan #1!!!

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Can confirm, I have Asian friends and they can say some pretty spicy things about their neighboring countries. Of course, if they actually meet someone from that country they'll call them an exception.

It's pretty wild IMO.

[-] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

We had a Thai exchange student while I was in high school.

She used skin whitening cream, and refused to talk to myself and my mother because we were the dark ones in the family.

So yeah, Asians can be insanely racist.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, that's just racist in the other direction. You could read the article where it gives some examples and the part where Schmidt-Hori met some of them on video.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I’m Asian-European and in my experience there are many Asians who are right wing racist shit heads. Not to mention all the self hating Asian women who hate every Asian man on the planet including their own family members.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

If you actually read the article, you’d see your assumption is wrong.

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.

[-] OmegaMan@lemmings.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

The article disagrees

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io -1 points 2 weeks ago

Go ahead and say "white." You mocked the idea they're Asian but then replaced it with an ideology and a nationality. You think they're white, right?

[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 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.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] vegetvs@kbin.earth 3 points 2 weeks ago

Kindness wins.

[-] totallyNotARedditor@lemm.ee 2 points 2 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

[-] Sickday@kbin.earth 2 points 2 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?

[-] totallyNotARedditor@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Good franchise fanbase strikes again

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 3 points 2 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.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 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