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It’s also important to note just how little there is in the obituary that is not this. This is like a full quarter of the piece.

Any reporter that thinks Elon Musk is an authority worth citing on any games or any art medium at all ought to find out how much of a fraud he was at even *playing* games. Just because he’s rich doesn’t make him an expert.

musk said something racist so we have to print it in this person’s obituary. Oh, musk was also completely wrong but we’ll just note that and go ahead anyway

Republicans/maga are the single most pathetic group of people ON THE PLANET!

Why does everybody keep hate-reading NYT and not just let it die?

Yasuke was real, wasn't he? Like, he wasn't created by Ubisoft.

"some people online criticized the game" THIS IS NOT NEWS. THESE ARE NOTHING PEOPLE.

They can't even get their story straight. Ubisoft created Yasuke, but he's a historical figure two sentences later

Precursor tech but yes (Contrary to popular belief they are never stated to be extraterrestrial). Also you directly inspire Machiavelli and invent putting milk in coffee

Meanwhile Beat Takeshi directed a movie a couple of years ago where Yasuke decapitates Nobunaga, the guy who unified Japan, for being an abusive prick. Yasuke probably didn't do that either, but there wasn't any colossal fuss about it.

Unlike Tom Cruise's Last Samurai, Yosuke was real. But it's only white racist distortions of reality that aren't "woke" according to one of the world's leading racists.

I can answer that. The New York Times is a publication for rich Americans and for Americans who wish they were rich. those people always want to know what Elon thinks

I wonder if this in part them just trying to link to anything they’ve written about Ubisoft in the past for indexing and it turns out - oooops, they only cover it when it’s part of the culture war

Why would anyone quote Elon Musk, racist, authoritarian non-expert, as if his opinion means anything? Did I mention yet that DOGE was a failure?

Practicing complicity.

I'm going to add that AC: Shadows was financially successful, it did well. So clearly most gamers did not have a problem with a black samurai. Smack their "DEI is killing culture nonsense" with that little factoid. "DEI sells ya'll!"

You can't understand why they despise it? Do you mean why they don't despise it?

In particular, it uses “by creating,” then a couple of lines later indicates that he’s an actual historical figure. That sort of complete ignorance of context even just a sentence or so earlier is an AI hallmark.

musk doesn't get to have opinions on games since he's known to be so bad at them he has to pay people to win

Both sidesing an obituary, a new low for the NYT

The whole country.

When I die, if my obituary details Elon Musk’s opinion on anything for any reason, I will climb out the grave and beat all y’all’s asses.

This is a stupid “controversy” but I had no idea about the real Yasuke, who is genuinely fascinating.

I Think they mean 'racist trillionaire how does nazi salutes at national conferences was upset that the game's creator wasn't racist.

"Elon Musk said" got to become a command in software to delete the file you are writing, as if that dude should be given any space for his critic of cultural products.

By what journalistic standard does a man who cannot pass Margit get a quote in game development executive obituary?

The writer was so desperate to get Elon in there that I’m convinced it was written by Grok

Notice how they say ‘creating a black samurai’ BEFORE mentioning Yasuke is Historical.

yes, the NYT is a fascist paper and has been for the past 15 years at minimum, and the past 100 years honestly, where have yall been

I too always hate it when there's fictional people in my fictional game.

The fuck?

Can't stand these "woke" accurate historic depictions.

Isn't the better question, what are we doing over here? Why do we keep subscribing to a shitty newspaper and then posting their shit?

time to wipe the nyt out! i mean it has been forever but it sure is now also

Ubisoft is a publisher, the founder didn't personally make Assassins Creed. This is like if the ceo of penguin books died and they spent a para talking about oscar wilde's homosexuality trial.

POV: you’re a NYT writer who doesn’t play games but is always on X

I just found out something very interesting about entertainment sources like movies, music, games etc..if I don't like it, I don't have to watch it, listen to it or play it. Nobody is forcing it on me.

It’s like some editor’s gamergator dweeb nephew got lifted up into a journo position through nepotism, then insisted on pissing on this dude’s grave because he stopped emotionally maturing at age 13 and can’t let go of a harassment campaign from >10 years ago.

This kind of stupidity is know to cause dangerous blood pressure spikes in people with at least half a brain. It's Father's Day, why you trying to give me a heart attack? Don't do that to my kids.

could talk about the actual controversies with Ubisoft like the NFT shit, the stop killing games petition, or the accusations of tolerating sexual harassment, but nah gotta shout out the people who got upset at the black person who existed and already is in a ton of media

Wasn’t Yasuke the first black man in Japan? Like 1500’s or something.. I think. Could be wrong tho.

… I think I’m more shocked that Elon didn’t know about Yasuke. He gives such strong “white guy who had a hard hard weeb phase” energy…

but yasuke was black and nobunaga gave him a short sword. (and no i never saw the anime i read in a book! A BOOK! about samurais)

Yeah uh, that is not what we wrote on PC Gamer

"A man died, you're probably wondering what Elon Musk's opinion of him was"

somehow chris rufo is still an assignment editor over there

bsky.app/profile/blue...

what the fuck are we even doing anymore. what the fuck

Holy crap, I didn't think this was real

If I die and someone puts an Elon Musk quote in my obituary I'm haunting people. I will rise from the grave to take my revenge.

Old Hitler would have sent that one to one of his camps.

And they didnt “create” the character, that person actually existed

They’re run by right wing weirdos now and it shows in their editorial choices

I’m pretty sure they did, but then dropped off when they weren’t getting as many clicks for fake outrage over niche anime series than fake outrage over a popular video game series.

They didn't create a black samurai retainer called Yasuke. There actually *was* a black samurai retainer named Yasuke, likely from the eastern coast of Africa, this is established historical fact

@nytimes.com just doing what it does best.

This part: "The people of the region had never seen an African before and were astonished. The researcher Thomas Lockley speculates they may have seen him as a form of divine visitor given the Buddha and other holy figures were often portrayed as black-skinned in Japan at this time"

Not a week goes by without NYT giving another example of why everyone should cancel their subscriptions.

if elon musk is quoted in my obituary please kill me again

Fuck’s sake

How is a 16th century warlord somehow less racist than a current day New Yorker?

yet when it happens, they will be among the loudest voices tut-tutting anyone bringing up the long litany of terrible shit he's done

Oh look! The NYT and musk... I can now go dry heave twice.

NYT is merely showing their dedication to racism

Ketamine? Is the answer ketamine?

Indeed! I agree WTF? Also I like Jesus “H” tap dancing Christ here. but my overwhelming choice would have been JumpinJesusPalomimo! OH! Don’t forget about the files…. #TheTRUMPepsteinFILES #SubpeonaMelania

Yeesh NYtimes, this shit is the sort of thing we used to joke about the NYpost doing.