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🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:30.1 | In a huge and rare move, Chief Justice Roberts just hit back at Donald Trump over attacks |
0:34.4 | on a judge who issued a ruling against him. Israel just killed over 400 Palestinians in a surprise airstrike breaking the ceasefire and their warning there's more to come. |
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0:46.0 | anti-harassment and Drake UMG lawsuit situations have divided the internet. We're talking about |
0:50.3 | all that and much more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news, how it's being covered, and how people are reacting to it, |
0:57.0 | starting with this. |
0:58.2 | Ubisoft is now reportedly planning for its employees to be hit with an onslaught of harassment |
1:02.0 | as their new game, Assassin's Creed Shadows, is set to release this week. |
1:05.5 | Because while for many, it is a highly anticipated game, for others, they're angry. For nearly the last year, it's faced a sort of |
1:12.0 | anti-Dei controversy. And this, in part because the installation takes place in feudal Japan, and when |
1:16.7 | the trailer first came out back in May, people got to meet the two main characters. Noway and Yaseke. |
1:21.3 | And as you might have noticed, Yaseke is black and that prompted tons of people to cry, |
1:24.9 | woke and threatened to not play the game. With some tying their issue with his race to the fact that the game is set in Japan, arguing that |
1:30.3 | Leeds should have been Japanese. And then on top of that, some were also mad that the other |
1:33.8 | protagonist was a woman. But as far as historical accuracy is concerned, reportedly Yaseke is a |
1:38.3 | historical figure in Black Samurai. But with that, it kind of added to the backlash as some contend that there are questions about his rank and samurai status. |
1:45.2 | So you had outlets like Forbes noting that there was some criticism about accuracy alongside people who were just simply mad that he was black at all. |
1:51.4 | And while all of this, you know, started in spring of last year with the game about to come out. |
1:54.9 | Recent posts from the Assassin Creed account have been met with some replies that are slamming the game for being woke or DEI or some variation |
2:01.1 | of that. So now we're saying things like the outlet BFMTV reported that UBosoft is implementing |
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