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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • If you look at the comments under any YouTube video about Gaza or Lebanon, it’s mostly people cheering it on, especially on videos from major media outlets.

    It seems like people understand the immense human toll and just don’t care because they want to see Israel continue to take out alleged military targets regardless of civilian deaths. It’s truly evil and reminiscent of any other genocide in history, the victims just aren’t respected as humans.

    I’m tired of seeing this over and over, even in the information age. I’m starting to be convinced that humanity is just not viable as a species and is destined to destroy itself ad infinitum over shit like this.











  • Ibaudia@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldSelective rage
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    11 days ago

    Assassin’s creed is purely fictional and has very little basis in reality, so no, people do not make the exact same argument about Assassin’s creed, because my argument necessarily excludes it as I have said already lol. Besides, Yaskue was a real person. It’s not even historically inaccurate and his origin is explained.

    Good example, in Castlevania Nocturne they introduce a bunch of multi-ethnic characters and give them all backstories as to how they ended up in 19th century France. I think that’s awesome, and I love to see the thought and effort being put in there. I don’t want these characters to be white, I want them to have a story.


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    Historical or alternate history fiction falls under pure fiction imo. That’s fine as long as it makes sense. If it’s meant to be some super grounded realistic historical slice-of-life then it would just make me think “when are they going to bring up the fact that there’s X type of person walking around here” for the whole story.

    Not exclusive to black people. If there were a story that took place in 12th century Mongolia and there was some Nordic guy walking around I would be like “huh, what’s his story” and then be confused when it was never mentioned. That’s how I feel about a lot of these creative choices.



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    Getting mad sure, but it is definitely a dumb creative decision to have characters be random races that don’t make sense in the historical context and it’s fine to criticize it. If it’s a purely fictional world with no basis in reality then no one should care.