Flappy Pannus
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UBIsoft in potential financial trouble
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None of the other, older titles were like this.
Real life is like this. What we experience, and by extension of that, our memories, are not the ground truth of reality. They are an interpretation of reality. In fact, there is plenty of research that suggests that our memories are extremely malleable, and constantly being reinterpreted by ourselves. Any simulation of our memories would have to be an interpretation at best. And down right fantasy at worst. Which perfectly explains why you fight a minotaur and Thomas Jefferson having bear strength in these games.
Also, there are plenty of times in the older titles where the player character knows they are in the future. They have conversations with the people in the Animus. So even if they are reliving the memories of someone else, they would still be interpreting those memories through themselves.
A lot of the computer age shareholder companies are driven by shareholder value/investments than their actual income stream. They always promise "the future" like Twitter(before takeover) or Netflix. They were only bleeding money with no profit in sight...
UBI is dependent on investments and if Blackrock wants to punish a company's shareholder value they can do that easily if they don't follow the agenda. They control global markets...
Just look what Disney did with Star Wars they paid 4B for. They destroyed it *intentionally*.
It wasn't rational by conventional business logic.
That should tell you that for some groups money is just a social/control tool and not just used to make more. Then you see the hand of the state/central-banks and the real global power players at work.
For you. For me, nothing was as lame as AC Da Vinci.
Did you check how much the franchise is worth now?
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These days you be able bed Da Vinci. As it should be, the randy bastard that he was.
So you are claiming that there are no historical or cultural examples of gender fluidity or even gayness in Japan?
Gayness maybe, 'gender fluidity' no, not prior to the year 2000 that is.
You can start reading up here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_minorities_in_Japan
Even when I lived there in the early 2000s there was a lot of newhalf porn etc. There were also things like cross dressing host and hostess clubs and similar. I never saw one in real life though.
This is getting too RSPC OT. There certainly isn't a need to determine historical gender types in Japan if the game is actually selling well, as Ubi's financials clearly aren't be affected whether there was or wasn't. IF Shadows bombs, and there's fair evidence it was due to the gender aspects of the story, quite possibly, maybe, at a push, the outrage of historical inaccuracy can be considered. 
This artical has a tag in the header saying it’s poorly written (and I agree, its structure is unlike any other wiki article I’ve read) and also doesn’t prove the existence of ‘non binaries’ in feudal Japan. You going there and seeing perverts in 2001 is irrelevant.
i think it will sell well regardless of the gender nonsense because it’s ultimately not a major part of the game. That said it won’t sell well enough to pull Ubisoft out of the hole imo, and this is partially due to it looking like just an iteration on the post-Origins template. I would like an AC game that returns to form, like a successor to AC Brotherhood/Revelations than Origins/Odyssey.
As an uncertain reference point, Shadows hit 60k peak Steam users. First page English language negative reviews seems mostly about technical faults, DRM, voice acting quality, and generally being a dull game to play in their opinions. 83% positive on Steam. 8.1 Metacritic. 4.1 PC User Metacritic with a lot of remarks on Japanese history.
Review bombing from lots of people who never played the game. I’m sure there are lots of people in that number who also don’t care one iota about Japanese history.
It is not nice to call non-binary or trans people perverts. But anyway, you can't really prove anything when it comes to history.
My experience with Japan is that trans-gender and non-binarism was way more prevalent than norther Europe where I came come from. And we have old pagan gods that are both mother and fathers like Loki!
I never called them perverts, you were talking about seeing porn in public lol.
Cmon dude lol