• Parzivus [any]
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    8 hours ago

    It's really annoying that a random videogame has made a pretty interesting historical figure into a culture war magnet. He was one of the first black people in Japan and was supposedly 6.2 ft tall, it's not that surprising that Nobunaga decided to hire him.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      8 hours ago

      HE WAS A DIVERSITY HIRE WHICH INVALIDATES HIS EXISTENCE AS A HISTORICAL FIGURE IN MY HISTORICALLY ACCURATE SWORD TREATS frothingfash

  • Smeagolicious [they/them]
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    8 hours ago

    Uhmm ackshually he wasn't a samurai, he was just a retainer to the shogun who was given the weapons of office, traveled with his retinue, given residence, and fought with him. There's a big difference.

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    • Awoo [she/her]
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      7 hours ago

      Literally everyone that fought with swords in wars was considered a "samurai" during Yasuke's time. These stormfront users are going by the earlier periods when samurai was a noble status rather than by the fact that as time went on it just came to mean everyone in the warrior class.

      They would be correct if Yasuke had existed before the Sengoku period, which is when the term became vague. But Yasuke's time as a samurai to Nobunaga was 1581-1582 which is firmly after the Sengoku period, making him definitively a samurai.

  • mayo_cider [he/him]
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    9 hours ago

    The people writing the history don't understand that the only legit gaijin samurais are white guys from Iowa who ordered a $1000 katana online

    • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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      8 hours ago

      They'll be real disappointed to find out the best Katana are made by some guys in Longquan and not a Japanese blacksmith with 800 years of family blacksmithing history. At least for 1 grand you're not getting a stainless steel wall hanger with no tang tho.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        32 minutes ago

        Fun fact: those shit mass produced katanas you can buy online and put to dust on your closet are probably better quality than average samurai footsoldier sword from XVI century.

      • mayo_cider [he/him]
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        8 hours ago

        Spending a lifetime to learn to use the shittiest materials known to man to make something remotely useful seems like a great investment

        An inspiration to all hotdog stands

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    10 hours ago

    Once again "historical accuracy" just means us-foreign-policy and dudebro biotruths in freeze-gamer use.

    • mustGo [any]
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      10 hours ago

      One assassins creed game gets announced and suddenly thousands of pasty gamers who don't know shit about anything turn into high scholars on 16th century japan, curious. thinking-about-it hitler-detector

      • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.ml
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        7 hours ago

        It mystifies me how they are so certain in their assertions without citing anything, as if they are unafraid of anybody disproving them. The main reason that I cite so many of my claims is so that nobody can accuse me of making up stuff, but apparently these types find it easier to just ignore me.

        https://steamcommunity.com/app/694280/discussions/0/5625567756217350195/?ctp=4

        I was the only participant in that thread to reference historians. Coincidentally, I was also the only one to (unjokingly) defend the hypothetical presence of female enemies in the setting.

  • Poogona [he/him]
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    10 hours ago

    There's a great Shogun-esque novel waiting to be written about Yasuke, with the same appeal of imagining the political intrigue surrounding a person who literally has nowhere else to go in the world (since he would return to being a slave)

    Credit where credit is due, the goofy Nioh series of games had Yasuke

    • Smeagolicious [they/them]
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      8 hours ago

      Where he was a giant axe wielding dude with a bear guardian spirit, it's hype as fuck

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    11 hours ago

    Nobunaga be like "hmmm I will take you on as a samurai retainer and troll the white supremacists centuries later epic style troll "

  • Vampire [any]
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    9 hours ago

    A black samurai is just a normal samurai spraypainted black.

    • Parzivus [any]
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      8 hours ago

      You joke but

      Nobunaga also wanted to see him, and so sent for him, so Padre Organtino brought him. With great fuss, he couldn't believe this was the natural colour and not by human means, so ordered him to take off all his clothes above his belt. Nobunaga's sons also called him over, and everyone was very happy.

      From the account of a Portuguese monk

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        8 hours ago

        Nobunaga also wanted to see him, and so sent for him, so Padre Organtino brought him. With great fuss, he couldn't believe this was the natural colour and not by human means, so ordered him to take off all his clothes above his belt. Nobunaga's sons also called him over, and everyone was very happy.

        :Volcel兵士: