The “capital G” Gamer set is upset that the new Assassin’s Creed game, set in Sengoku-period Japan, has as its two protagonists a black samurai and a Japanese woman. The historical Yasuke was a black man who became Oda Nobunaga’s retainer and given a stipend even larger than William “Blackthorne” Adams’ twenty years later, but this historical fact has only gotten them more upset about the wokeness of it all—as if the black samurai’s exact rank even matters in a sci-fi series about fantastical romps through history. — Read the rest
The post Funny article about gamers enraged at everything except layoffs appeared first on Boing Boing.
