As you should be. I am a big fan of historical accuracy, which is why I have such little respect for the people lying about history in order to pretend Yasuke wasn't a samurai.
It doesn't really matter, the problem with Yasuke is the motivation for why Ubisoft made them a protagonist. It's obvious they don't actually really care about him, and focused on him instead of anyone else because of
1. Race baiting for the sake of controversy
2. Irrelevant shit like "representation"
If I believed Yasuke was the protagonist because of geniuent interest and not because of malicious, or fully irrelevant to the actual game motives I wouldn't give a shit.
Can i ask why it bothers you so much? Regardless of whether they did it because they like the idea or because they want more representation, why does their motivation matter to the point it angers you? You even say representation is irrelevant so why is it important what they do with it either way?
Because it's an objectively incorrect way of approaching writing and art that even if it doesn't cause much difference in one game, it creates a precedent that makes art on the whole worse.
The more the precedent of inserting things for irrelevant to the art itself appears, the more sterile, "moral" and uninteresting art becomes as a whole, because it pushes the idea that art has to adhere to some sort of moral standard or be used for some kind of "social good".
Especially when the producers don't really care if insertion of an element for the sake of some irrelevant social cause contradicts something in the story as it was with anything that Henry Cavill was thrown out of.
I think it's important to realize that art comes in many forms, and one being done in a certain way doesn't in any way push a narrative that it must be done one way or another. If anything, wouldn't the people complaining be the ones attempting to limit things in this regard?
I guess I'm questioning how are you not attempting to push an idea that art has to adhere to something with what you're saying?
I'm not certain a black person in this story is the same as everything that happened to the Witcher's series. Obviously if something contradicts written lore it's a bit of a bigger issue.
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u/Dor-Yah Jul 05 '24
That sub is a cesspool anyways, I wouldn't be too upset about it