No. They should take the money, and issue a press release highlighting Ubisofts lack of meaningful action.

Remember that Ubisoft is based in France and BLM isn’t really a thing over there,

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Godsdamn I love this comment.

That episode promo is a thing of beauty.

Warren Ellis

We are talking about companies and corporate entities. They aren’t people, they don’t have a right to a political opinion in and of themselves.

I have a soft spot for the Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones ending, mainly because it calls back the start of the series perfectly:

Which is in line with what they expressed in the credits to their game:

Possible, but unlikely. These bad faith attacks are usually quite amazingly transparent, given the fact that the (typically alt-right) jackasses who come up with them can’t be bothered to go beyond their own limitations and on the most superficial of factors - ie, to them calls for diversity are always tokenisms, so…

The other thing I’ve seen online is press about a petition to replace Larson because “Captain Marvel should be LGBT / WoC”, which certainly does show that if all else fails, there’s always bad faith attacks clothed in the language of progressiveness.

Every one of these were directly replying or @-ing Boyega. It’s not like he was picking out random posts that people were making on their limited circles.

Thanks for this Maddy. Over the last decade plus, I’ve seen so many of my fandoms reveal themselves as dumpster fires of regressive rage, bigotry, and stupidity. But I’d be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge that while the vocal minority has become ever so emboldened and toxic, there has been a positive overall change -…

Lol the effort they went to retcon-proof that - with Ren, Ghost-Luke, *AND* Palpatine confirming that shes a Palp....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy

What new direction?

Just a reminder - Deadspin also had one of the best write-ups on the bullshit that was Gamergate, and was one of the first places that recognised what it meant:

Do you want what I suspect was supposed to be a powerful, emotional moment to be met with groans and laughter (at least in my theater)? You’ll definitely get that. And audible sighs of relief at the next 90 seconds.

In a few months I can’t imagine I’ll even remember a single scene.

Metacritic’s tagline for it is literally: