Oh god, I just hope the game will be as enjoyable as I expect it to be. It would make all this salt just so much more delicious. Also, on Steam it's #1 amongst the international topsellers atm and it isn't even out yet. So I do hope that customers will vote with their wallets in favor of this game while entitled identity politispergs bitch and moan. It'll feed into their Gamergate narrative and bring us even more salt.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is coming out this month. That struck me as sort of weird, given that February is
Black History Month, and
Deliverance has failed utterly to include any people of color (PoC) in their white man power fantasy game
Oh why, thank you, I thought my wall needed a fist-sized hole right next to my computer...
All joking aside, in their eagerness to prove their unyielding progressive worldview, they manage to be so incredibly jingoistic, that it puts even the reddest of necks to shame.
The rest of the world doesn't give a shit about cottonpicker-appreciation month - and why should they?
I’ve even provided a basis for a historically accurate character design!
No it is not a "historically accurate" design.
The guy is clearly wearing the parade armor of the 16th century (if not even something from the 30 years war period from the 17th century). The game is set in
1403.
Also, as this buffoon states, it's not even a random knight from 16th century Europe, it's a depiction of Saint Maurice, who was in service with the roman army in the 3rd century, ie: A fucking maritime superpower of the mediterranean sea over a thousand years prior. He has absolutely nothing to do with knightly orders, he was described as a soldier, so they drew him in what was "state of the art" armor back then. They did the same with the roman soldiers that stood guard at Jesus' tomb, so the depiction in and of itself is a huge anachronism and tells us nothing about the commonness of black people in Medieval Europe.
The fact is, we don’t have much evidence about any aspects of day-to-day in the middle ages.
We know enough of their day-to-day lives to narrow down trends in clothes, beards, hairstyles and food by the fucking decade.
We know a shitton of insanely mundane details, thanks to a plethora of art, literature and archeology.
It's just the wrong kind of evidences for these people's tastes, cause these evidences invalidate their precious idea that medieval europe was a hodgepodge of people from all around the world living in harmony and a bunch of white cishet male historians completely covering up that out of bigotry afterwards. Everything we know tells us one thing: If there have been black people in medieval Central Europe, they were really
really really rare. So, of course these evidences must be ignored.
But what really takes the cake is the inclusion of this image as proof of blacks in Europe:
It's a late 16th century depiction... of
Lisbon. A mere whooping 1,400miles away from the place that KCD is set and 170 years later.
Bohemia to Venice would take some six days by foot, which is about the pace a heavily laden trading cart would've been.
According to Google Maps, it would be a travel of 700km (roughly 435miles) which would take 150 hours by foot of nonstop travel with modern day infrastructure.
However, there were almost no roads in the middle ages and far less mountain passes... and you'd have to haul along luggage and food. An average of 25km
per day is a good estimate of the travel speed of someone back then. That would mean you'd actually take almost a month of uninterrupted traveling to get from Venice to the area that the game is set in. [edit:] And that could obviously change for the worse with season, weather, amount of luggage, political situation along the way, sickness etc.[/edit]
Even the shortest route to the sea would still be more than 610km long.
