@OldFartNugget@buxgarii@King5897E64209 You could argue a bunch of other things went wrong with the games release lol. Why would spending the time to make a racially diverse cast diverse cast take away from other parts of the game. Overwatch has a plenty diverse cast and it’s still a hero shooter power house.
@OldFartNugget@buxgarii@King5897E64209 I don’t think they’re all ugly or lame looking but that’s what happens when you use subjective metrics as objective ones. Objectively they’re racially diverse but I fail to see how that’s a net negative.
@authordanremy@buxgarii@lonsdelm@hadious89 That’s not really goalpost moving the quoted tweet shows them literally hard swapping two characters. If you can find an example of a game hard swapping its two man characters to a gay robot or a fat gay black woman let us know lol.
@GeauxSox_@Danasty42@buxgarii You’re responding to a quote tweet about someone complaining about games being too “woke” there’s classic dog whistles alluding to such. This is the context in which you replied to the tweet you cannot remove the conversations from that context.
@GeauxSox_@Danasty42@buxgarii Cuz if it was meant to mean anything else you wouldn’t be worried about. What’s so “woke” about a rainbow outside of it being the modern symbol for gay pride.
@GeauxSox_@Danasty42@buxgarii Because your point is stupid. Then op had a character swapped to a fat gay black woman and the other was just gay swapped. Can you name a time that has happened at all?
@jonsimschina@WithoutHistory Never said it was the seat of everything I was disputing your claim that implied the Africans received iron smelting from a non African source. Which evidence supports isn’t true. If that triggers you well don’t go around and make such claims especially if you’re not read on them
@jonsimschina@WithoutHistory I agree and that’s what I’m saying. The post you made I originally replied to in which you ended with “so you’re welcome” implied that this technology was introduced via European contact which wasn’t true.
@jonsimschina@WithoutHistory Well quite simply they wouldn’t have been hunter gatherers. There are Neolithic urban sites in West Africa. And sub Saharan Africans had also independently developed agriculture.
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@jonsimschina@WithoutHistory The widespread use of iron smelting technology in Europe roughly starting around 1300bc. Also I wasn’t referring to lejja, there is an archaeological site in the Central African Republic known as Oboui which has radio carbon dates of around. 3000-2500bc.
@jonsimschina@WithoutHistory My claim was that sub Saharan Africans were smelting iron before the European Iron Age which is true. I’m defining Iron Age here as a the wide spread use of iron smelting technology and not single instances of iron smelting as was the Kaman site in Turkey.
@DBDesign12@tonsmit@WithoutHistory Hell you can even tell me to go to Africa and listen to the local oral historians and storykeeprs as their word is sacred and valuable and I would be happy.
@DBDesign12@tonsmit@WithoutHistory Once again didn’t say anything about the west. I’m asking you to point me in the direction of any record of history you have. This could be oral, archaeological, textual, in any form I just want evidence. That is not a western concept proof of concept is global.
@jonsimschina@WithoutHistory Is that not earlier than 1300BC? With radio carbon dating between 2200BC-1900BC the assumption that this was an independent development would be safe seeing as there isn’t documented trade from Cameroon to anywhere else at the time. Once again archaeological evidence cited.
@jonsimschina@WithoutHistory “This includes sites such as; Oboui and Gbatoro in Cameroon and Central Africa, where iron furnaces, bloom fragments, slag pieces, and at least 174 iron tools were found dated to c. 2200–1965 BCE” the source for this is cited in the article. Is Cameroon not sub Saharan?