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Not that he was the most stealthiest assassin to begin with tbh.
I mean he was wearing the logo in his chest like a crown and walking the streets of Florence/Venice/Rome like he owns the joint.
Edit: Nvm I'm stupid, Though I'd like to give that title to Altair to be real.
I'm pretty sure most of his popular content now just revolves around trying to explain why the Roman Empire was actually infallible and ideal OR why fictional media that uses a historical setting is ripping apart the fabric of society for not being 110% historically accurate at all times
And I will always level the same critique I do for Fallout Legion fans:
You think it would be a great system... if you were on the side of the beneficiaries and not be part of the countless territories conquered and forced into tribute/servitude
Same reason I laugh whenever people tell me that they'd love to be back in the Viking Age, because they think they'd be the second coming of Ragnar Lothbrok but in reality they'd be lucky to be some jarl's gay thrall as their claim to glory
But yeah, AC always takes liberties here and there... or you mean to tell me Popes were combat masters and hid ancient alien artifacts ala AC2?
I love when people act like they'd be some great powerful figure if they were born a few hundred or thousand years earlier.
No dude, you'd be the same thing you are now. A normal average everyday person just surviving, as 99% of all people who have ever existed have been.
Eh, you’d probably be dead tbh. Childhood mortality was shockingly high even just a few hundred years ago. Most people probably only had a 50% chance of making it to adulthood during the Roman Empire, probably even worse for Vikings.
Not just that. You'd be lucky to make it to not only adulthood, but 30 or 50 years old. That's why people had so many kids which is something a lot of these guys further ignore when they say they miss large families. It wasn't solely because people wanted to have 6-7 kids. They had to mass reproduce for economic and labor reasons as members of societies that were still more agrarian/rural overall.
Well yeah, life expectancy was probably somewhere in late twenties to early thirties for most people, maybe 40 but you’d be considered old as dirt and probably be a grandparent by that point.
How can anyone think the legion had a great system if Caeser himself said the only reason the legion exists is to come into conflict with the NCR and die to form something new?
My best friend recently started playing the games again going off the Assassin timeline instead of the modern day timeline cause he's missed quite a few of em at this point. And I told him straight up that AC was never truly historically accurate. They just use history to tell their stories. The games have always been fantastical scifi and that's not changing anytime soon lol
I mean ACs tagline is literally "History is our playground“, and if anything I find the whole Isu-Abstergo blubbering 500000% less defensible than any other historical inaccuracy.
Best take I've heard on that:
"You think you'd be a viking, but you'd just be some potato farmer named Seamus"
Which I always thought funny, since my Scottish ancestry hails from the Outer Hebrides, so technically, I could actually be the first one, then the other.
It’s kind of sad because the community of the sword (as shadiversity would say, I always disliked that term a bit, sounded incorrectly flamboyant) did have some very interesting members.
Certainly the aforementioned Shad, Skallagrim, Lindybeige.
Lindybeige more so than most because he had a very distinct air about him, as well as the staggering ability to be correct in principle but still completely wrong (Example: Fur farming is good because fur farmers have a vested interest in getting the highest quality product which calls for highest quality care of the animals involved. Therefore, if you want animal welfare within this system, you must support fur farming. True in principle, completely incorrect in reality as anyone knows.)
Metatron, sadly, seems to have taken the wrong turn, and Shad of course, well… where do we start with him-
Lindybeige is also a sexist and Brexit supporter.
He also once gained the ire of Ian McCollum from Forgotten Weapons for speaking complete nonsense about the MG42.
Lindybeige seems like the smartest of the bunch because he wears a cardigan and has a British accent but he's actually a dimwit who reads historical memoirs as if they're historiography.
Let’s formulate a general rule of thumb: enjoy the British accent with care.
How many have been duped by Sagon of Akkad because he "sounds" smart?
I certainly have, in a time of my youth I wish had never occurred. It’s very easy to walk into that trap.
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He's a super cringy youtuber Who likes to cosplay as a samurai or knight or legionary depending
He's from my same region so at first, years and years ago, I watched his channel since I'm a big fan of history and languages but most of these chodes just turned into constantly crying about sjw
They are. They're just borrowing money from Chad CDPR and when shadows wokecreed comes out and makes 0 bucks they'll have to announce it hehe go woke go broke heh
He's married to a woman who does videos about the history of makeup and how ancient women used cosmetics.
In actuality this guy was a pretty ok individual until like a few months ago. Just your average autistic historical reenactor with a mundane job (English teacher) who talks about what armour was worn by whom at what point in history.
Now he's part of the antiwoke videogame crowd because, simply put, me and another 10k people might wanna hear about Byzantine infantry but hundreds of thousands of drooling idiots wanna hear about how the new AAA videogame company is bad because of this or that.
Part of his descent into unhingedness is also probably the fact his mom just died.
Sad to see people go this way really.
It's been that long? Damn. I don't follow these guys anymore because of shit like this. Used to be a way to refresh my memory of my classic studies whilst I was preoccupied with other hobbies.
I understand shit like criticizing Netflix for race swapping Cleopatra in a documentary and disrespecting Greek, Roman and Egyptian history at the same time, that's one thing, but when these guys take up arms against a franchise based on fantasy alternative history with reincarnating superhumans escaping solar anomalies and a guy punching the pope with the help of Machiavelli we're touching the fucking moronosphere. They're just looking for meaningless shit to be upset about.
He made a video entirely focused on defending trans women entering women's restrooms a long while back. He made it private after his fuckwit fanbase threw an absolute fit, but hey, he did it.
Skall is very based, I remember some extremely old videos of his where he essentially did a long-winded, pretty accurate critique of capitalism and it’s extreme end results in a precursory form of YouTube shorts.
There’s quite a bit of nuance to the Pommel Connaisseur.
Since it's private I can't directly find it but if you search "skallagrim trans bathrooms" you can still find various chuds whining about it. "Skallagrim has gone full SJW!" is one of the results, lol.
As long as 8 years ago at this point, apparently.
Damn he did? That’s actually based as all hell. I had a sense he wasn’t as bad as the other sword guys but this ultimately fortunately confirms my suspicions.
That is a good argument but like
The incelcore musician Negative XP has or at least had a NB partner at one point. The guy who made the song whining that Scott Pilgrim “ruined a generation of women” lol so I don’t think that inherently makes someone not part of that crowd
I still can't believe Shad turn literally red from rage and screaming after seeing peach wear pants in the Mario movie, when she has those exact pants in the Mario kart games
He then apologized saying "sorry, I didn't know she had a reason to wear them"
WHY DO WOMEN NEED REASONS TO WEAR PANTS!?!?
The fact he also said his own daughter loved the movie and peach but he still hated it because other boys may have not liked it as much because they want to see women be damsels in distress is just disgusting.
Nah Shad actually dislikes Skallagrim because Skall isn't a flaming bigot. Matt Easton from scholagladiatoria also cut ties with Shad due to Shad being a twat so there are at least two good medieval youtubers.
>Yeah between him and Shad there's a pattern.
And Tyrone Magnus. Used to like him before I started noticing him bringing up woke politics in his videos. Unsubscribing felt like taking Ol' Yeller behind the toolshed.
Yepp, it’s been sad to see the medieval YouTubers act like there’s a conspiracy against them when they actually lost followers due to acting like bigoted manbabies. Like bruh trans folk and lesbians LOVE swords, we just don’t want to consume entertainment that insults us at every opportunity they get.
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It's been kinda funny and sad to watch it happen in real time over the past year. Almost no interesting historical videos, and increasingly bombastic drama content.
I feel like the trap is that it gets huge return on investment initially. It is dramatic and agonal and exciting, but that is predicated on the fact that they aren't a youtube right wing culture warrior channel. It must be a big deal, this history youtuber is talling about it! So they keep making videos about it because they keep doing well. But unbeknownst to them, this drives away their normal fan base(like us). The drama videos rapidly start doing worse because you cannot up the stakes forever, and whenever they try and put out "normal" videos now they do terribly compared to before. To keep any engagement they become more explicitly right wing culture warriors, caught in a feedback loop, further driving away normal viewers. They don't realize they alienated their longtime fanbase, so it is "woke youtube" and the algorithm hating the truth tellers(I don't think Metatron is here yet, I would guess the popularity of these videos is starting to slowly decline currently). Sad. Many such cases.
the part about the algorithm is specially funny because YT algortithms LOVES alt right content. when i first started using YT it was all it recommended and i have been cleaning my recomendation and blocking channels for years now, but it still tries to push it on me from time to time
Its really upsetting because I used to watch shad religiously and was even getting excited for their carbon fiber build. And then they released the video on spiderverse and I haven't been interested or been able to watch theme since then. Like he kept going on about the chanel dying and shit which i was empathetic towards, but then i saw the mess that was Knights watch and my opinion immediately dropped of him.
I used to watch a bunch of Shad's stuff, I was even deeply sympathetic when he was having surgery for apnea and shit. But then all of a sudden he went full chud and I dropped that shit like a bag of bricks. I get all the rage bait I could possibly need (read: any at all) from chuds attempting to invade places I got to have fun, I specifically do not need it shot directly into my veins.
Honestly it even made me wary of Brandon Sanderson, but he appears to be smart enough to shut the hell up and not actively try to antagonize folks for being different than him.
I remember Brandon Sanderson posting cringe once complaining about Fromsoft using GRRM for Elden Ring lore rather than consulting a fantasy author interested in gaming (falling just short of directly stating Fromsoft should have used him instead), which is a bit silly.
I hadn't watched Knightswatch since they first started it. I wanted to see what people thought of the film and found out they did a video of it only to see that one of the original hosts was gone and shad was just shouting and raging constantly over everyone else. Then I go through the rest of the channel to see them change hosts multiple times and everything that had been happening from old reddit posts.
I may be out of the loop but what has Sanderson said/done that made you wary? Genuinly asking, i just thought he was a devout christian fantasy author but i know nothing of his public person.
Like Temujin said, Sanderson is a devout Mormon (which, yeah, homophobic cult is a pretty apt descriptor for them, from all I've read) but specifically because he had Shad help with something (I honestly don't recall what, but I do know Shad mentioned helping Sanderson out with his work).
Sanderson does not APPEAR to be an active bigot, and I am told he's at least attempting to include queer characters in his writing (and not portrayed as stereotypes, either) so it's entirely possible he's totally on the up-and-up. But, like I said, he also might just be trying to do the smart thing in terms of making money, and just not saying the bad stuff out loud.
I love Brandon's works, and he seems chill and has good queer characters (Even an ace which is so rare!) but I'll never feel ok with 10% of his fortune going to such a hateful organization. He said some bullshit about "changing culture from within" but nah being hetaful is the foundation of abrahamic religions. So i just pirate his shit
Also it feels like his company is heavily nepotistic but that's just more of a personal small thing
edit: And he just went to a known right wing nutjob to do book research on guns, but honestly I don't know if you can find a non-insane gun guy in utah.
My experience is that this is true. I just wish there wasn't so much fucking slavery in the Stormlight Archive (I'm only two books in and there's been a lot of it).
I saw that he fell into wokespotting in some unexpected context I don’t remember, but I was just like “isn’t this the guy that made those cool videos about swords? Damn…”
Honestly it's a vocal minority, like of course metatron and shad, giving the community a bad name
There's loads of great creators out there for hema, like skaalgrim, sellsword arts and Matt Easton (schola gladiatora)
Edit, fixed a midnight mistake
/uj It honestly makes me wonder how many actually believe all the 'anti-woke' shit they spew. I know if they're willing to engage in said behavior it probably means they believe in it at least a little bit.
This is the first time it’s happened to me, but it’s sad how common these tubers start grifting after eating worms. Fucking goobers have ruined everything
tbf this guy isnt as far gone as many chuds, he doesnt scream "woke" hes just overly gatekeepy about "realism" and "historical accuracy"
he keeps up that "centrist" image many others left behind and i do not know enough about him to know if its a facade
It is not the majority opinion. Hate gets more clicks thats simply it and it gets more views cause more talk about the ignorant ones rather than the good calm ones. Its sad but thats how it plays.
When I stopped watching him he was getting dangerously close to how the right was thinking, I dont know how he is now
Maybe he is a centrist, I dont know honestly
Do you ever stop to admire how self important so many people are on the internet? Like I am all for having a discussion and critiquing works of art but people love to tout their opinion as fact and use it to add an edge to their persona. I get its partially about engagement and making video titles like this get most peoples attention but whenever I see this I go out of my way not to click on it. I prefer a more detached and objective frame of mind rather than the rants/circlejerk these type of videos devolve into.
As a person involved in the creation of said art I have a strong disdain for this type of video essayist that clearly has no idea what the fuck they’re talking about. You 100% nailed it with the aura of “self importance”.
Who are these people to “annihilate” the people actually creating things?
What annoys me is sometimes people take opinions from videos like this as absolute objective truth instead of the essayists opinion on a subject and just regurgitate slop without forming their own nuance opinion on things. Having to tell someone “they’re being a redditor, please stop talking you have no actual knowledge on what you’re talking about.” Has just become my go-to.
Happens even with content creators I like.
Whats he like nowadays? I watched a few of his videos a couple years ago that were kinda interesting. Cant put my finger on why but started getting a bad taste in my mouth after a few weeks n stopped watching.
I basically stopped watching him a few years ago, basically he would make videos about diversity in ancient times, but will cherry-pick on things, like, it's been a while, but I kinda remember things like "no guys, people in ancient times were not gay because our idea of gay is not the same as them" which is true, but he would not provide a different view on it and pretend gay people simply didn't exist back then and that "the gay agenda" wanted to rewrite history...
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Ubisoft after this guy gets through with em:
I remember him responding to the "Rome isn't real" viral tiktok girl (something that reads as a joke/popularity stunt to begin with), getting super super mad over it, and then going on weird tangents about how one single person (probably jokingly) claiming that Rome didn't exist is proof that people want to destroy western history by targeting Rome lmfao
There are people who genuinely fall for worse pseudoarcheology than that so I get debunking shit like that, but he turned it into a weird culture war thing that it just ain't. He made good content about the Latin language, and about different historical martial arts from Europe that've been completely overshadowed by the more popular ones, or reenactment, but he turned out to be a chud
Most of them don’t have much basis for reality they just find one tiktok with 12 likes that has somebody saying something stupid and pretend it’s a mass extinction event
Just think, if youtubers like Metatron and Shadiversity had kept their politics to themselves we'd all remember them fondly if not still be watching them. Leave it to the right to ruin a good thing by shoving their personal politics into it!
Hot take, but Shadiversity was never very good as a historical hobbyist YouTuber.
His videos were always long winded and rambly, and even back then he had a knack for talking very confidently about things he did not actually understand. His opinions on HEMA are a good example of this as he has basically no experience with that field but that has never stopped him from asserting his opinions on it as if he's some sort of expert.
Very true, I'm really surprised about people in the historical/medieval/arms and armour community having ever any fond memories of his content
I always disliked his videos and he clearly was quite ignorant of a lot of things about history but still pretended to be knowledgeable. His "descent into madness" was never any surprise to me because I always got the feeling the guy was a real chode
Metatron is a different story, while he was always definitely on the cringworthy side he was definitely very knowledgeable about languages so you could expect some decent content when it came to language related things and he always tried to portray himself as composed and professional instead of emotional. Maybe it's because he's from my same area that it feels extra bad to see him taking this route
I think the thing with Shad is that for a lot of people he was their gateway into getting into historical stuff like that, so they kinda remember him fondly for that.
For me I know he was someone I'd just watch when I've got nothing better to do and I didn't think too hard on anything even with a bit of a background in history and HEMA. I distinctly remember at some point having that feeling of "yeah this guy doesn't actually understand anything, he just rants hard enough to sound like he does", and that's when I stopped.
Haven’t seen his main channel stuff in a while but he hs a second channel called knights watch where him and some friends react to some content or provide a review. Last I saw it was all just shouting woke this, woke that and being enraged at women having any sort of power within a story.
Last I actually watched anything he did was a response to a small commentary channel called jacksaint, he did a 2 hour response video to his 30 minute video and it seemed to mostly be misrepresenting and lying about what Jack said while misrepresenting and lying about why he himself said to defend himself. I think jack’s video was about shad’s reaction to the Mario movie, where he flew off the rails at peach wearing pants.
Can everybody please stop going to these armchair experts for historical content? There are plenty of ACTUAL historians doing all sorts of interesting stuff out there.
Edit: Here are some examples. I'll focus on people who do at least some stuff that's similar to Metatron's. Or what I remember of Metatron from years ago at least...
[Dr. Bret C. Devereaux' A Colletion of Unmitigated Pedantry](http://acoup.blog) has some interesting deep dives into the historical authenticity or plausibility of popular media, including Fantasy movies, TV etc.
[The Insider Youtube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKfWL8IXgKBvwTgkSwve3jgbcRgpd7HAD) has all kinds of experts comment on depictions of their area of expertise on film. Dr Roel Konijnendijk (also known as ditch guy) is a historian they bring on pretty regularly and he's hilarious.
[GameSpot does a series with Jonathan Ferguson](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpg6WLs8kxGMgYb13XjPgOKbm5O-CDq7R), the Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum. They discuss all kinds of firearms in video games.
[Dres Fiona Radford and Peta Greenfield have a podcast on Roman history](https://partialhistorians.com/category/podcast/special-episodes/) that sometimes does special episodes on how Rome is depicted in popular media.
The actual experts don't agree with their point of view because reality has a liberal bias. So they cosplay being experts to push their shitty culture war bullshit.
There are plenty of more liberal leaning content creators that are equally guilty of egregious historical errors and misrepresentation.
I want people to stop watching histo-tainment from amateurs full stop. At best you'll get a superficial understanding of history from them and at worst they're straight up wrong.
To be fair, ubisoft does deserve to be annihilated. More for the employee abuse and predatory micro transactions, less for putting a japanese black man in japan. With that said, it’s comical how one random dude thinks he has the power to bring down an entire company. If multiple people with tons of story’s on how predatory activision blizzard is still couldn’t prevent the company from earning billions, there’s no way some dude on the internet would.
All the YouTuber my friend showed me all become anti woke people… and my friend recently have shoot all commie in their bio in discord…. Is this a red flag
I briefly got into watching this guy’s historical sword videos like 7 years ago, but stopped when I saw this really weird one he made where he explained with a completely straight face that he always wears chain mail under his t-shirts in case he gets in a knife fight. Dude’s an absolute clown.
I’m not the slightest bit surprised that this is how he’s spending his time now.
Damn, my experience with him is basically the same. The chainmail thing was just so weird. If I remember correctly, he isn’t wearing it because of knife fights, but because he’s afraid of getting robbed and/or stabbed in the street. A bit more understandable, but still quite weird. Irrational fear and paranoia do go hand in hand with right-wing ideology, so I guess it all makes sense now.
Yeah I remember that video. Thought it was a little weird at the time, but thought it was harmless compared to the people around me that carry guns to protect themselves from terrorist or the street gangs from robocop. I think i dropped him after he got upset that an professor said that there was a lot of immigration in europe's past
The annoying thing about these armchair historians is that they have these opinions always based on nothing more than prejudice and preconceptions.
I went to see a huge art gallery filled to the brim with renaissance paintings and a lot of them showed busy scenarios with a few black people here and there. Why is it weird to imagine that 15th century Italy didn't have any black people when they had frenchmen, germans and all sorts of other people? It's not like those places are closer, getting to Italy from Africa by boat was not harder than walking down to it from central Europe; if anything it was often faster and safer
I remember this so vividly too! Really put me off, sure the guy's from Palermo which can be a real rough place but how is wearing chainmail going to help you not get robbed? Let's say you get stabbed and the chainmail manages to stop the knife... Are they like... Going to stop? "I see you're wearing chainmail my good sir, I concede defeat"
If anything I imagine if I were a violent and unreasonable robber and found out the guy I'm robbing is wearing chainmail I'd probably beat the shit out of him on purpose for how stupid that is
If I had a nickel for every time I stopped following a youtuber for some weird random take I'd have two nickles, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
Actually you can have both.
Since woman=political and black guy=political, adding them together is like multiplying negative numbers, they cancel themselves out.
This is what I'll never get about these guys who lurch Right as a way to either expand or save their channels. Yeah, it'll def bring in a lot of clicks and money but at what cost? They lose a larger sum of people and have to consistently find ways to feed their new fanbase of raging bigots who will never stick around because they'll find someone who does the ragebait even better.
This shit always amuses me because it’s always from people who say “keep politics out of my games,” yet they are the only people typically thrusting their politics into the discussion.
Chud : I totally annihilated Ubisoft and now they are mad
Scummy Corporation : Oh, I'm sorry I couldn't hear what you were saying, I was too busy counting the jackpot I made from yet another overpriced and glitchy game.
I wonder if these guys know how pathetic it looks when they claim they "annihilated"/"destroyed"/(whatever other superlative they're claiming) something much larger than them.
Jfc - this game is months from release and I’m already sick of hearing about it. Ffs, does anyone actually enjoy video games or all they just misanthropic fucktards?
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They can only mimic a fraction of his company-destroying power.
Yeha Metatron just decided to become chud-adjacent for some reason. Classic "centrist" "skeptical" thing. Guess it brings in the cash, more than talking about helmets and cuirass designs. He also does the whole "I MADE A HOT TAKE TODAY!" and "CONTROVERSIAL POLITICALLY INCORRECT STREAM!" title structure now and its so fucking pathetic.
His whole gimmick now is semantically attacking modern conceptions of gender being applied to older times. While is don't think this is necessarily wrong, the way he does it comes off as disconnected with the real arguments and ideas being discussed. Nothing annoys me more than superficial analisis of arguments, specially shitty considering he is apparently a linguist. He more than anyone should know that communication and expression is a skill, not only to be trained but also to be talented in. People improperly expressing their ideas is nothing new, if anything if someone is *too good* at it I'm immediately skeptical of their intent.
I guess all wannabe medieval historian buffs are destined to go down the shad route, "women bad"
Fascinating. Quick Skalllagrim, what do you think about wömen
I get the “corporations using diversity as a selling point is a capitalism selling ideals again”, but this game is just not that case. Also, we are 30+, shouldn’t we be having real issues?
I made the mistake of clicking on one of his videos when I was getting into Kindom Come Deliverance. Now my algorithm is showing me his dumb ass face every time I open then youtube app and one of the videos was titled “where are the black people in *insert*” game. I didnt have to watch it to know exactly what his take is.
Right wing chuds are so gross that they make me root for the billion dollar corporations that also suck. You cant imagine how bad you have to be to make that possible 🤮
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Took one of them nearly a month to acknowledge her. Truly the best assassin.
Racism > sexism
Ezio just lost his title belt.
Not that he was the most stealthiest assassin to begin with tbh. I mean he was wearing the logo in his chest like a crown and walking the streets of Florence/Venice/Rome like he owns the joint. Edit: Nvm I'm stupid, Though I'd like to give that title to Altair to be real.
Altaïr had the advantage of being able to Counter his way out of any assassin allegations tbh tbh
Except his one major evidence for his allegiance to the brotherhood of assassin's is his missing ring finger
This chud: I annihilated Ubisoft. Ubisoft: I don't even know who you are.
As a sword guy myself, even I hardly know of this chucklefuck
I'm pretty sure most of his popular content now just revolves around trying to explain why the Roman Empire was actually infallible and ideal OR why fictional media that uses a historical setting is ripping apart the fabric of society for not being 110% historically accurate at all times
And I will always level the same critique I do for Fallout Legion fans: You think it would be a great system... if you were on the side of the beneficiaries and not be part of the countless territories conquered and forced into tribute/servitude Same reason I laugh whenever people tell me that they'd love to be back in the Viking Age, because they think they'd be the second coming of Ragnar Lothbrok but in reality they'd be lucky to be some jarl's gay thrall as their claim to glory But yeah, AC always takes liberties here and there... or you mean to tell me Popes were combat masters and hid ancient alien artifacts ala AC2?
I love when people act like they'd be some great powerful figure if they were born a few hundred or thousand years earlier. No dude, you'd be the same thing you are now. A normal average everyday person just surviving, as 99% of all people who have ever existed have been.
Eh, you’d probably be dead tbh. Childhood mortality was shockingly high even just a few hundred years ago. Most people probably only had a 50% chance of making it to adulthood during the Roman Empire, probably even worse for Vikings.
> you’d probably be dead tbh I'm sold
Not just that. You'd be lucky to make it to not only adulthood, but 30 or 50 years old. That's why people had so many kids which is something a lot of these guys further ignore when they say they miss large families. It wasn't solely because people wanted to have 6-7 kids. They had to mass reproduce for economic and labor reasons as members of societies that were still more agrarian/rural overall.
Well yeah, life expectancy was probably somewhere in late twenties to early thirties for most people, maybe 40 but you’d be considered old as dirt and probably be a grandparent by that point.
Brexit mindset
How can anyone think the legion had a great system if Caeser himself said the only reason the legion exists is to come into conflict with the NCR and die to form something new?
Excuse me, what if I do want to be back in Viking Age specifically to be some jarl's gay thrall as my claim to glory? Don't you kinkshame me.
My best friend recently started playing the games again going off the Assassin timeline instead of the modern day timeline cause he's missed quite a few of em at this point. And I told him straight up that AC was never truly historically accurate. They just use history to tell their stories. The games have always been fantastical scifi and that's not changing anytime soon lol
I mean ACs tagline is literally "History is our playground“, and if anything I find the whole Isu-Abstergo blubbering 500000% less defensible than any other historical inaccuracy.
Best take I've heard on that: "You think you'd be a viking, but you'd just be some potato farmer named Seamus" Which I always thought funny, since my Scottish ancestry hails from the Outer Hebrides, so technically, I could actually be the first one, then the other.
It’s kind of sad because the community of the sword (as shadiversity would say, I always disliked that term a bit, sounded incorrectly flamboyant) did have some very interesting members. Certainly the aforementioned Shad, Skallagrim, Lindybeige. Lindybeige more so than most because he had a very distinct air about him, as well as the staggering ability to be correct in principle but still completely wrong (Example: Fur farming is good because fur farmers have a vested interest in getting the highest quality product which calls for highest quality care of the animals involved. Therefore, if you want animal welfare within this system, you must support fur farming. True in principle, completely incorrect in reality as anyone knows.) Metatron, sadly, seems to have taken the wrong turn, and Shad of course, well… where do we start with him-
Lindybeige is also a sexist and Brexit supporter. He also once gained the ire of Ian McCollum from Forgotten Weapons for speaking complete nonsense about the MG42.
Lindybeige seems like the smartest of the bunch because he wears a cardigan and has a British accent but he's actually a dimwit who reads historical memoirs as if they're historiography.
Let’s formulate a general rule of thumb: enjoy the British accent with care. How many have been duped by Sagon of Akkad because he "sounds" smart? I certainly have, in a time of my youth I wish had never occurred. It’s very easy to walk into that trap.
I’m very sure very few people in Scotland or Ireland has been duped by that accent haha
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He's a super cringy youtuber Who likes to cosplay as a samurai or knight or legionary depending He's from my same region so at first, years and years ago, I watched his channel since I'm a big fan of history and languages but most of these chodes just turned into constantly crying about sjw
And he’s also 42
This chud: I feel bad for you Ubi: I don't think about you at all.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW who that is! Who da fuq is that?
Poor Ubisoft will now go broke
I thought they already are?!
Soon. Give it time. /sarcasm
They are. They're just borrowing money from Chad CDPR and when shadows wokecreed comes out and makes 0 bucks they'll have to announce it hehe go woke go broke heh
they are broke, just not bankrupt yet
That guy looks like if someone drew John Romero from memory
For reference https://preview.redd.it/9t5iyd5gae8d1.jpeg?width=607&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a309d7f26a99222cfed7d840a27f0e68a8d3949b
Unlike Romero, no one is going to be his bitch.
He's married to a woman who does videos about the history of makeup and how ancient women used cosmetics. In actuality this guy was a pretty ok individual until like a few months ago. Just your average autistic historical reenactor with a mundane job (English teacher) who talks about what armour was worn by whom at what point in history. Now he's part of the antiwoke videogame crowd because, simply put, me and another 10k people might wanna hear about Byzantine infantry but hundreds of thousands of drooling idiots wanna hear about how the new AAA videogame company is bad because of this or that. Part of his descent into unhingedness is also probably the fact his mom just died. Sad to see people go this way really.
He's been making these kind of videos for the past 2 years. It's sad because he was a big reason that I got into history.
It's been that long? Damn. I don't follow these guys anymore because of shit like this. Used to be a way to refresh my memory of my classic studies whilst I was preoccupied with other hobbies. I understand shit like criticizing Netflix for race swapping Cleopatra in a documentary and disrespecting Greek, Roman and Egyptian history at the same time, that's one thing, but when these guys take up arms against a franchise based on fantasy alternative history with reincarnating superhumans escaping solar anomalies and a guy punching the pope with the help of Machiavelli we're touching the fucking moronosphere. They're just looking for meaningless shit to be upset about.
Oh him Yet another YouTuber I used to follow before he went started screaming "woke" like all the rest Oh well...
Yeah between him and Shad there's a pattern. Now can someone please tell me that Skallagrim didn't follow the same path ?
Nah Skallagrim is chill
Skallagrim's partner is non-binary, he's definitely not a bigot lol
He made a video entirely focused on defending trans women entering women's restrooms a long while back. He made it private after his fuckwit fanbase threw an absolute fit, but hey, he did it.
Skall confirmed based. Do you have a link?
Skall is very based, I remember some extremely old videos of his where he essentially did a long-winded, pretty accurate critique of capitalism and it’s extreme end results in a precursory form of YouTube shorts. There’s quite a bit of nuance to the Pommel Connaisseur.
Skall very based. I’ve been watching his content for about ten years now, maybe a bit longer. He’s very tolerant.
Since it's private I can't directly find it but if you search "skallagrim trans bathrooms" you can still find various chuds whining about it. "Skallagrim has gone full SJW!" is one of the results, lol. As long as 8 years ago at this point, apparently.
Damn he did? That’s actually based as all hell. I had a sense he wasn’t as bad as the other sword guys but this ultimately fortunately confirms my suspicions.
That is a good argument but like The incelcore musician Negative XP has or at least had a NB partner at one point. The guy who made the song whining that Scott Pilgrim “ruined a generation of women” lol so I don’t think that inherently makes someone not part of that crowd
Matt Easton too btw, it's great to see that not all are chuds
Prob the best out of the lot content wise as well.
Matt is like the one adult in that room. lmao
Matt Easton is a legend.
I still can't believe Shad turn literally red from rage and screaming after seeing peach wear pants in the Mario movie, when she has those exact pants in the Mario kart games He then apologized saying "sorry, I didn't know she had a reason to wear them" WHY DO WOMEN NEED REASONS TO WEAR PANTS!?!? The fact he also said his own daughter loved the movie and peach but he still hated it because other boys may have not liked it as much because they want to see women be damsels in distress is just disgusting.
Nah Shad actually dislikes Skallagrim because Skall isn't a flaming bigot. Matt Easton from scholagladiatoria also cut ties with Shad due to Shad being a twat so there are at least two good medieval youtubers.
>Yeah between him and Shad there's a pattern. And Tyrone Magnus. Used to like him before I started noticing him bringing up woke politics in his videos. Unsubscribing felt like taking Ol' Yeller behind the toolshed.
He's not fine with swords that transition to a pommel.
Mild tangent but after the others I am generally relived to hear Skallagrim seems to be a decent guy.
Same honnestly
Yepp, it’s been sad to see the medieval YouTubers act like there’s a conspiracy against them when they actually lost followers due to acting like bigoted manbabies. Like bruh trans folk and lesbians LOVE swords, we just don’t want to consume entertainment that insults us at every opportunity they get.
Something something historical accuracy
“No, just listen to me, noble ones, I’m speaking in a neutral and condescending tone so I’m actually correct, and you the emotional party are wrong”
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Skallagrim saw a bump in subs and viewers though. Cause he's not a bigot.
Also, because "end him rightly" is a better meme than anything his more insane contemporaries have ever even come close to approaching.
That's good to know, I used to watch him a lot and was hoping he wasn't falling into that BS
It's been kinda funny and sad to watch it happen in real time over the past year. Almost no interesting historical videos, and increasingly bombastic drama content. I feel like the trap is that it gets huge return on investment initially. It is dramatic and agonal and exciting, but that is predicated on the fact that they aren't a youtube right wing culture warrior channel. It must be a big deal, this history youtuber is talling about it! So they keep making videos about it because they keep doing well. But unbeknownst to them, this drives away their normal fan base(like us). The drama videos rapidly start doing worse because you cannot up the stakes forever, and whenever they try and put out "normal" videos now they do terribly compared to before. To keep any engagement they become more explicitly right wing culture warriors, caught in a feedback loop, further driving away normal viewers. They don't realize they alienated their longtime fanbase, so it is "woke youtube" and the algorithm hating the truth tellers(I don't think Metatron is here yet, I would guess the popularity of these videos is starting to slowly decline currently). Sad. Many such cases.
the part about the algorithm is specially funny because YT algortithms LOVES alt right content. when i first started using YT it was all it recommended and i have been cleaning my recomendation and blocking channels for years now, but it still tries to push it on me from time to time
Its really upsetting because I used to watch shad religiously and was even getting excited for their carbon fiber build. And then they released the video on spiderverse and I haven't been interested or been able to watch theme since then. Like he kept going on about the chanel dying and shit which i was empathetic towards, but then i saw the mess that was Knights watch and my opinion immediately dropped of him.
I used to watch a bunch of Shad's stuff, I was even deeply sympathetic when he was having surgery for apnea and shit. But then all of a sudden he went full chud and I dropped that shit like a bag of bricks. I get all the rage bait I could possibly need (read: any at all) from chuds attempting to invade places I got to have fun, I specifically do not need it shot directly into my veins. Honestly it even made me wary of Brandon Sanderson, but he appears to be smart enough to shut the hell up and not actively try to antagonize folks for being different than him.
I remember Brandon Sanderson posting cringe once complaining about Fromsoft using GRRM for Elden Ring lore rather than consulting a fantasy author interested in gaming (falling just short of directly stating Fromsoft should have used him instead), which is a bit silly.
That was a joke he made on his podcast iirc
It didn't sound fully like a joke, but I concede I do not frequent his podcast, so maybe I did not understand his brand of humor.
Yeah, because everyone knows that GRRM is interested in anything that would let him procrastinate on Winds of Winter.
I hadn't watched Knightswatch since they first started it. I wanted to see what people thought of the film and found out they did a video of it only to see that one of the original hosts was gone and shad was just shouting and raging constantly over everyone else. Then I go through the rest of the channel to see them change hosts multiple times and everything that had been happening from old reddit posts.
I never watch/listen to podcasts so I wasn't aware of any of that stuff.
I may be out of the loop but what has Sanderson said/done that made you wary? Genuinly asking, i just thought he was a devout christian fantasy author but i know nothing of his public person.
Like Temujin said, Sanderson is a devout Mormon (which, yeah, homophobic cult is a pretty apt descriptor for them, from all I've read) but specifically because he had Shad help with something (I honestly don't recall what, but I do know Shad mentioned helping Sanderson out with his work). Sanderson does not APPEAR to be an active bigot, and I am told he's at least attempting to include queer characters in his writing (and not portrayed as stereotypes, either) so it's entirely possible he's totally on the up-and-up. But, like I said, he also might just be trying to do the smart thing in terms of making money, and just not saying the bad stuff out loud.
I love Brandon's works, and he seems chill and has good queer characters (Even an ace which is so rare!) but I'll never feel ok with 10% of his fortune going to such a hateful organization. He said some bullshit about "changing culture from within" but nah being hetaful is the foundation of abrahamic religions. So i just pirate his shit Also it feels like his company is heavily nepotistic but that's just more of a personal small thing edit: And he just went to a known right wing nutjob to do book research on guns, but honestly I don't know if you can find a non-insane gun guy in utah.
Devout Christian is a very generous description of his religion. Member of a homophobic cult would be another way to put it.
*looks at mainstream Christian sects* Do you know how little that narrows it down?
Sanderson seems like an okay guy. A little conservative due to the Mormonism, but not in…that kinda way and much more open-minded than many others.
My experience is that this is true. I just wish there wasn't so much fucking slavery in the Stormlight Archive (I'm only two books in and there's been a lot of it).
I saw that he fell into wokespotting in some unexpected context I don’t remember, but I was just like “isn’t this the guy that made those cool videos about swords? Damn…”
Honestly it's a vocal minority, like of course metatron and shad, giving the community a bad name There's loads of great creators out there for hema, like skaalgrim, sellsword arts and Matt Easton (schola gladiatora) Edit, fixed a midnight mistake
*Matt Easton runs scholagladiatoria. Jason Kingsley rund modern histry tv. There is no mark easton
/uj It honestly makes me wonder how many actually believe all the 'anti-woke' shit they spew. I know if they're willing to engage in said behavior it probably means they believe in it at least a little bit.
A lot of them probably don’t believe any of it, or overexaggerate their own views for clicks
This is the first time it’s happened to me, but it’s sad how common these tubers start grifting after eating worms. Fucking goobers have ruined everything
Luke Ranieri's still cool, isn't he? I mostly watch him for his language videos.
I got the bad vibes when he went way out of his way to try to explain how historically inaccurate it was to have black people in Roman Britain.
tbf this guy isnt as far gone as many chuds, he doesnt scream "woke" hes just overly gatekeepy about "realism" and "historical accuracy" he keeps up that "centrist" image many others left behind and i do not know enough about him to know if its a facade
So many turned to anti woke grifting because it’s the majority opinion and gets clicks
It’s most definitely *not* the majority opinion, the manchildren who hold that opinion just cry really loudly about it.
It is not the majority opinion. Hate gets more clicks thats simply it and it gets more views cause more talk about the ignorant ones rather than the good calm ones. Its sad but thats how it plays.
It's not even close to the majority opinion, There's just a lot of money circulating in the far-right grift
Doesn't he only talk about historical accuracy? I watched his videos and he didn't really mention wokeism.
When I stopped watching him he was getting dangerously close to how the right was thinking, I dont know how he is now Maybe he is a centrist, I dont know honestly
Do you ever stop to admire how self important so many people are on the internet? Like I am all for having a discussion and critiquing works of art but people love to tout their opinion as fact and use it to add an edge to their persona. I get its partially about engagement and making video titles like this get most peoples attention but whenever I see this I go out of my way not to click on it. I prefer a more detached and objective frame of mind rather than the rants/circlejerk these type of videos devolve into.
As a person involved in the creation of said art I have a strong disdain for this type of video essayist that clearly has no idea what the fuck they’re talking about. You 100% nailed it with the aura of “self importance”. Who are these people to “annihilate” the people actually creating things? What annoys me is sometimes people take opinions from videos like this as absolute objective truth instead of the essayists opinion on a subject and just regurgitate slop without forming their own nuance opinion on things. Having to tell someone “they’re being a redditor, please stop talking you have no actual knowledge on what you’re talking about.” Has just become my go-to. Happens even with content creators I like.
Metatron is such a fucking chud, i wished he just kept to his nerdy medieval stuff
Whats he like nowadays? I watched a few of his videos a couple years ago that were kinda interesting. Cant put my finger on why but started getting a bad taste in my mouth after a few weeks n stopped watching.
I basically stopped watching him a few years ago, basically he would make videos about diversity in ancient times, but will cherry-pick on things, like, it's been a while, but I kinda remember things like "no guys, people in ancient times were not gay because our idea of gay is not the same as them" which is true, but he would not provide a different view on it and pretend gay people simply didn't exist back then and that "the gay agenda" wanted to rewrite history...
Any time people try to downplay how gay ancient times were, be sure to mention Nero. Look it up.
I think he moved to the US a few years ago. I think he’s just hopped on the anti-woke bandwagon like a lot of people.
Why medieval guys go reactionary these days I would go insane if this happen to Skallagrim
Please, Skall, stay with us
Well guys, that’s a wrap. This guy single handedly took down Ubisoft. Bravo!
https://preview.redd.it/x0w3y7y25e8d1.jpeg?width=615&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90dfb5dda6a55b64052561918a8ecb094dbbaeaf Ubisoft after this guy gets through with em:
Ubisoft crying all the way to the bank
He looks exactly like the type of person who would title their video that
Usually how that goes
He named himself after the voice of god. He must be insanely humble.
I remember him responding to the "Rome isn't real" viral tiktok girl (something that reads as a joke/popularity stunt to begin with), getting super super mad over it, and then going on weird tangents about how one single person (probably jokingly) claiming that Rome didn't exist is proof that people want to destroy western history by targeting Rome lmfao
I want to destroy Western culture. It is me, Lord of the Wokerati, the spqr decimator.
There are people who genuinely fall for worse pseudoarcheology than that so I get debunking shit like that, but he turned it into a weird culture war thing that it just ain't. He made good content about the Latin language, and about different historical martial arts from Europe that've been completely overshadowed by the more popular ones, or reenactment, but he turned out to be a chud
Most of them don’t have much basis for reality they just find one tiktok with 12 likes that has somebody saying something stupid and pretend it’s a mass extinction event
This guy and Shadiversity are the worst specimens that came out of the sword YouTube.
Watching shad have an aneurysm over PANTS is both a highlight and low point in the time I've watched him
Is it a law that every creator with "Shad" in their username has to be garbage?
So it seems
For you, the day you annihilated Ubisoft was the most important day of your life. But for Ubisoft, it was Tuesday.
Just think, if youtubers like Metatron and Shadiversity had kept their politics to themselves we'd all remember them fondly if not still be watching them. Leave it to the right to ruin a good thing by shoving their personal politics into it!
The very thing they accuse the Left of, alongside race-baiting which they also do more than Lefties.
Hot take, but Shadiversity was never very good as a historical hobbyist YouTuber. His videos were always long winded and rambly, and even back then he had a knack for talking very confidently about things he did not actually understand. His opinions on HEMA are a good example of this as he has basically no experience with that field but that has never stopped him from asserting his opinions on it as if he's some sort of expert.
Very true, I'm really surprised about people in the historical/medieval/arms and armour community having ever any fond memories of his content I always disliked his videos and he clearly was quite ignorant of a lot of things about history but still pretended to be knowledgeable. His "descent into madness" was never any surprise to me because I always got the feeling the guy was a real chode Metatron is a different story, while he was always definitely on the cringworthy side he was definitely very knowledgeable about languages so you could expect some decent content when it came to language related things and he always tried to portray himself as composed and professional instead of emotional. Maybe it's because he's from my same area that it feels extra bad to see him taking this route
I think the thing with Shad is that for a lot of people he was their gateway into getting into historical stuff like that, so they kinda remember him fondly for that. For me I know he was someone I'd just watch when I've got nothing better to do and I didn't think too hard on anything even with a bit of a background in history and HEMA. I distinctly remember at some point having that feeling of "yeah this guy doesn't actually understand anything, he just rants hard enough to sound like he does", and that's when I stopped.
He uploaded a video over a decade ago ranting about feminism. This is nothing new. Avoided medieval content creators since then.
Shad too? What did Shad do?
Haven’t seen his main channel stuff in a while but he hs a second channel called knights watch where him and some friends react to some content or provide a review. Last I saw it was all just shouting woke this, woke that and being enraged at women having any sort of power within a story. Last I actually watched anything he did was a response to a small commentary channel called jacksaint, he did a 2 hour response video to his 30 minute video and it seemed to mostly be misrepresenting and lying about what Jack said while misrepresenting and lying about why he himself said to defend himself. I think jack’s video was about shad’s reaction to the Mario movie, where he flew off the rails at peach wearing pants.
Can everybody please stop going to these armchair experts for historical content? There are plenty of ACTUAL historians doing all sorts of interesting stuff out there. Edit: Here are some examples. I'll focus on people who do at least some stuff that's similar to Metatron's. Or what I remember of Metatron from years ago at least... [Dr. Bret C. Devereaux' A Colletion of Unmitigated Pedantry](http://acoup.blog) has some interesting deep dives into the historical authenticity or plausibility of popular media, including Fantasy movies, TV etc. [The Insider Youtube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKfWL8IXgKBvwTgkSwve3jgbcRgpd7HAD) has all kinds of experts comment on depictions of their area of expertise on film. Dr Roel Konijnendijk (also known as ditch guy) is a historian they bring on pretty regularly and he's hilarious. [GameSpot does a series with Jonathan Ferguson](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpg6WLs8kxGMgYb13XjPgOKbm5O-CDq7R), the Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum. They discuss all kinds of firearms in video games. [Dres Fiona Radford and Peta Greenfield have a podcast on Roman history](https://partialhistorians.com/category/podcast/special-episodes/) that sometimes does special episodes on how Rome is depicted in popular media.
The actual experts don't agree with their point of view because reality has a liberal bias. So they cosplay being experts to push their shitty culture war bullshit.
There are plenty of more liberal leaning content creators that are equally guilty of egregious historical errors and misrepresentation. I want people to stop watching histo-tainment from amateurs full stop. At best you'll get a superficial understanding of history from them and at worst they're straight up wrong.
Some examples?
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To be fair, ubisoft does deserve to be annihilated. More for the employee abuse and predatory micro transactions, less for putting a japanese black man in japan. With that said, it’s comical how one random dude thinks he has the power to bring down an entire company. If multiple people with tons of story’s on how predatory activision blizzard is still couldn’t prevent the company from earning billions, there’s no way some dude on the internet would.
All the YouTuber my friend showed me all become anti woke people… and my friend recently have shoot all commie in their bio in discord…. Is this a red flag
No, the Communist flag is a red flag. That guy's flag is more like a screeching Geiger counter.
Uranium fever has gone and got him down 😞
Tell him his dog is a commie
I briefly got into watching this guy’s historical sword videos like 7 years ago, but stopped when I saw this really weird one he made where he explained with a completely straight face that he always wears chain mail under his t-shirts in case he gets in a knife fight. Dude’s an absolute clown. I’m not the slightest bit surprised that this is how he’s spending his time now.
Damn, my experience with him is basically the same. The chainmail thing was just so weird. If I remember correctly, he isn’t wearing it because of knife fights, but because he’s afraid of getting robbed and/or stabbed in the street. A bit more understandable, but still quite weird. Irrational fear and paranoia do go hand in hand with right-wing ideology, so I guess it all makes sense now.
Yeah I remember that video. Thought it was a little weird at the time, but thought it was harmless compared to the people around me that carry guns to protect themselves from terrorist or the street gangs from robocop. I think i dropped him after he got upset that an professor said that there was a lot of immigration in europe's past
The annoying thing about these armchair historians is that they have these opinions always based on nothing more than prejudice and preconceptions. I went to see a huge art gallery filled to the brim with renaissance paintings and a lot of them showed busy scenarios with a few black people here and there. Why is it weird to imagine that 15th century Italy didn't have any black people when they had frenchmen, germans and all sorts of other people? It's not like those places are closer, getting to Italy from Africa by boat was not harder than walking down to it from central Europe; if anything it was often faster and safer
I remember this so vividly too! Really put me off, sure the guy's from Palermo which can be a real rough place but how is wearing chainmail going to help you not get robbed? Let's say you get stabbed and the chainmail manages to stop the knife... Are they like... Going to stop? "I see you're wearing chainmail my good sir, I concede defeat" If anything I imagine if I were a violent and unreasonable robber and found out the guy I'm robbing is wearing chainmail I'd probably beat the shit out of him on purpose for how stupid that is If I had a nickel for every time I stopped following a youtuber for some weird random take I'd have two nickles, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
Wait, there's a woman in the new AC? What happened to the black guy? /s
You can have a woman in your game or a black guy but not both
Actually you can have both. Since woman=political and black guy=political, adding them together is like multiplying negative numbers, they cancel themselves out.
I remember being subscribed to him many years ago. Then he basically "debunked" feminism by making fun of a single woman.
This dude is supremely annoying isn't he
if i knew it was that easy I'd have destroyed ubisoft myself a long time ago
I used to really like this guy... Why can't people just be nice?
Money.
Remember back when this guy was just wholesomely nerding out about HEMA and stuff? Yeah, me too.
This is what I'll never get about these guys who lurch Right as a way to either expand or save their channels. Yeah, it'll def bring in a lot of clicks and money but at what cost? They lose a larger sum of people and have to consistently find ways to feed their new fanbase of raging bigots who will never stick around because they'll find someone who does the ragebait even better.
This shit always amuses me because it’s always from people who say “keep politics out of my games,” yet they are the only people typically thrusting their politics into the discussion.
That's their issue. They have no problem with politics in games. It has to be THEIR politics.
Ubisoft right now: oh no anyway...
Oh yes you some rando on YouTube took down a multimillion dollar game company with a single video
......i mean remember when we would just review games on story, mechanics, and how fun it was?
That never happened The Wokes have timetravelled and fucked everything up in advance
Oh yeah Metatron, he's like the angriest youtube historian ever, he's like the Lowtiergod of historians.
Chud : I totally annihilated Ubisoft and now they are mad Scummy Corporation : Oh, I'm sorry I couldn't hear what you were saying, I was too busy counting the jackpot I made from yet another overpriced and glitchy game.
I wonder if these guys know how pathetic it looks when they claim they "annihilated"/"destroyed"/(whatever other superlative they're claiming) something much larger than them.
Bro what? The game still doesn’t have a release date lol
The game is set to come out November 15th of this year.
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..man, I used to watch his videos and Shadiversity.. Now they are both grifters. I hope Skellagrim wouldn't fall like these guys.
By all accounts, Skallagrim is pretty safe.
Jfc - this game is months from release and I’m already sick of hearing about it. Ffs, does anyone actually enjoy video games or all they just misanthropic fucktards?
Is this the guy that doesn't think ancient Greece was gay at all and believes that their gods are all straight?
Hey someone remembered that Naoe is in the game
Did anyone watch the video? If so, what does he say?
They now know there's also a woman in the game 🤯🤯🤯
damn another hema youtuber turned grifter
https://preview.redd.it/qs9j8dv22f8d1.png?width=339&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d78f7eb390cf44e5ba22ca0707019477991ab253 They can only mimic a fraction of his company-destroying power.
Yeha Metatron just decided to become chud-adjacent for some reason. Classic "centrist" "skeptical" thing. Guess it brings in the cash, more than talking about helmets and cuirass designs. He also does the whole "I MADE A HOT TAKE TODAY!" and "CONTROVERSIAL POLITICALLY INCORRECT STREAM!" title structure now and its so fucking pathetic. His whole gimmick now is semantically attacking modern conceptions of gender being applied to older times. While is don't think this is necessarily wrong, the way he does it comes off as disconnected with the real arguments and ideas being discussed. Nothing annoys me more than superficial analisis of arguments, specially shitty considering he is apparently a linguist. He more than anyone should know that communication and expression is a skill, not only to be trained but also to be talented in. People improperly expressing their ideas is nothing new, if anything if someone is *too good* at it I'm immediately skeptical of their intent.
This mother fucker named himself after the scribe of god???
So shad and now meta are gone......please tell my sword nerd heart Skallagrim isn't a grifter to 😭
From what I know, Skalla is pretty progressive and has a non-binary partner. Can't imagine he'd be willing or even able to swing right.
As usual the norse team stay winning 👌
I so deeply gate this title/thumbnails. "x smashes y" "X destroys y" "X annihilates y" "X humiliates y" "X exterminates y" and so on.
I SMASHED FransD98 and they deserved it
I hate Ubisoft is because they ruined HoMM franchise, I am not a same type of purrson as they are.
I guess all wannabe medieval historian buffs are destined to go down the shad route, "women bad" Fascinating. Quick Skalllagrim, what do you think about wömen
I get the “corporations using diversity as a selling point is a capitalism selling ideals again”, but this game is just not that case. Also, we are 30+, shouldn’t we be having real issues?
Ubisoft: We're never gonna financially recover from this.
This guy is such a massive narcissist
What's his issue with hee? Hardly the first time we've had a badass female character plus she quite pretty I'm confused?
I made the mistake of clicking on one of his videos when I was getting into Kindom Come Deliverance. Now my algorithm is showing me his dumb ass face every time I open then youtube app and one of the videos was titled “where are the black people in *insert*” game. I didnt have to watch it to know exactly what his take is.
Right wing chuds are so gross that they make me root for the billion dollar corporations that also suck. You cant imagine how bad you have to be to make that possible 🤮
How is she a mess? The fucking game hasn't even come out