David Doel
@daviddoel.bsky.social
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daviddoel.bsky.social
Dammit yet another game I need 😑
daviddoel.bsky.social
The National Post needs to relax
'Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau spotted kissing on yacht: report' 'A Canadian PM named Trudeau dating beautiful celebrities? It’s happened before' 'Justin Trudeau ‘just too vanilla’ for Katy Perry, says Canadian ‘super fan’ who voted Conservative' 'What Katy Perry and Sophie Grégoire have said since new Justin Trudeau relationship revealed'
daviddoel.bsky.social
So Ubisoft killed a brilliant premise for a game out of fears of how racists might react to it.
stephentotilo.bsky.social
SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...
Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year
Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File
www.gamefile.news
daviddoel.bsky.social
You can create a thumbnail with two very distinctly different responses with “Both are correct” on the thumbnail, and people still think you’re arguing to be nice to fascists because they didn’t get through the first 2min of a video 😑
daviddoel.bsky.social
If you’ve ever felt imposter syndrome just remember that Bari Weiss is now heading up CBS News
daviddoel.bsky.social
'contrarian' is a nice way of saying genocide defender
daviddoel.bsky.social
Not at all. The awareness that I'm playing a less than ideal version when I can just play the actual thing off a hard drive is enough for me to ignore all cloud gaming.
daviddoel.bsky.social
Everyone has a price-hike breaking point, and Xbox just found theirs.
wario64.bsky.social
the website to cancel Xbox Game Pass subscriptions is overloaded
daviddoel.bsky.social
Sitting quietly here with the grandfathered-in Xbox Game Pass Console and hoping they forgot about it
daviddoel.bsky.social
6 days ago Liberal MP Vince Gasparro smeared and ‘banned’ Kneecap from Canada (forcing them to cancel tour dates) just 3 days after meeting with an Israeli lobby group, using this bogus terrorism charge as reasoning.

Seems a public apology is in order.