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Yeah no, Shao Jun's voice is racist. I'm not putting the heat on the voice actress (much) because 1) It's common practice for VAs to know nothing about who they're auditioning for until they're actually booked or already recording and 2) A paycheck's a paycheck. (Side note, that might be why Noah Watts went back to voice Ratohnhaké:ton for The DLC That Will Not Be Named despite all the Bullshit that happened in its making. The entertainment industry is The Bad Place but Michael keeps resetting us.)

Canada is one of the last places in the world with a Chinese shortage lmfao. Oh, Quebec's a bit empty (it's not)? Roll up to Toronto, my dude. Drive down to NYC. With how much Asian erasure has finally become a mainstream topic of discussion these past few years, the white gatekeeping is especially egregious.

I don't think it matters how much effort Ube Softee puts in AC Red or Jade. They could do one of two things: 1) Put in surface-level research and overwork their team to crank out a discombobulated game within the unreasonable time period of a year, which they always do (stares in AC: Odyssey which I love but also holy shit the quality drop after Origins) 2) Shove as much money as possible into a cultural research and possibly branding project (How to Make Cdrama Marketing Research) where they don't like any of the nuance or actual input by Asians, and nothing substantial gets put in the game anyway. (See also: Mulan 2020 costume designer going to European museums where they hold our stolen stuff and then spending three weeks in China probably romping through the Beijing-Shanghai-Suzhou circle like a tourist)

To make a good game, they could just let Asian Americans and Asian Canadians take over and trust them to make a stellar product, but we know they won't. That's not how North American industries work. We'd have a very different world of entertainment if they did.

I am hoping Mirage will go better; because of the pandemic, Ube Softee had to actually wait a few years between releasing games for once, and it might have forced them to put quality into it instead of just rushing to bust out the next game within a year like they always do.

(I didn't play Valhalla and I'm already wtf over turning an Old World Iraq-i man into the reincarnation of a fucking Norse god. But also, I'm very excited to run through the Golden Age of Baghdad, this is why we fall for it eVERy TIMe.)

I got no faith that AC Jade won't be Orientalist. It's another one of those western games that want to imitate Cdramas but will probably into the white idea of what ancient China is (stares in mulan 2020).

On a related note -- I love Shao Jun as a character, but you can hear that she's voiced by a white woman with a caricaturist's accent a million miles away.

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Next pages! thank you to everyone who submitted their guardians! I still have a few more of these pages planned for the future! I just want to make the tower feel lively and full

thank you to: @kb1301 @feiofthefae @violin-vibecheck @austigmatism @94pigeons @crocodile-god for their guardians! Osiris and Sagira are next week

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Finished starscream that @feiofthefae started ! Took me about two hours

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New to RP (I have RP'd with friends but that's about it), so if you're interested uhhh I'm here? I have 7 Guardians but this blog is specifically for these idiots.

If you want to RP and/or be mutuals in general, I follow back via my main blog @feiofthefae. ✌️

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Lmfao, I did think primarily about the cultural aspect and get Big Mad, but yes, the level of detail they got in there would hopefully be good in Mirage, at least. But like. They're not gonna recreate the 兵马俑/Qin Shihuang's WIP tomb well.

I get what you mean, but most of the casting and mocapping is done out here in North America. But honestly, we could expand the definition to western and get a similar result.

I got no faith that AC Jade won't be Orientalist. It's another one of those western games that want to imitate Cdramas but will probably into the white idea of what ancient China is (stares in mulan 2020).

On a related note -- I love Shao Jun as a character, but you can hear that she's voiced by a white woman with a caricaturist's accent a million miles away.