Newspaper Slams Assassin's Creed 3 for Distorting History

Wait...there was an American Revolution? News to me. Next thing you'll try to tell me is there's been a man on the moon. Pranksters.
 
bbvdd2 said:
Wait...there was an American Revolution? News to me. Next thing you'll try to tell me is there's been a man on the moon. Pranksters.
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Nah ... we faked those moon landings ... no way someone made it all the way to the moon :p
 
Meh... wonder when that same newspaper writer will discover things called movies from hollywood.
 
ballistic90 said:
I was telling this to a LOT of people. Assassin's Creed is being made in Montreal. Do you really think some Francophone Canadian knows about US History?

Actually, yes, because people in Southern Canada watch a lot of American TV.
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i don't think americans know much about their own history anyway.
 
kbrickley said:
Nah ... we faked those moon landings ... no way someone made it all the way to the moon :p
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Dude, seriously...do you NOT read history? The US did for real send someone to the moon. It was some assassin guy from the revolutionary war era. It's true, I read about it in a Canadian newspaper just the other day.
 
This is Exactly how I was taught in school. He also killed a famous WWI pilot in mid-flight in a slow motion leap attack. There were explosions everywhere.
 
I grew up playing Civilization games and others like Panzer Generals those werent bad if you read the Civpedia on the cultures and world wonders...Not sure how anyone can judge video games when "The Learning Channel" has shows like Honey Boo Boo and "History Channel" has Ice Road Truckers.
 
DejaWiz said:
Dude, seriously...do you NOT read history? The US did for real send someone to the moon. It was some assassin guy from the revolutionary war era. It's true, I read about it in a Canadian newspaper just the other day.
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Are you sure ... I am pretty sure the secret Alien fleet orbiting our planet and running the secret world government would shoot down a spacecraft like that ... hmmmm ... maybe since it had an assassin on board it was invisible in order to slip through undetected :D
 
kbrickley said:
Are you sure ... I am pretty sure the secret Alien fleet orbiting our planet and running the secret world government would shoot down a spacecraft like that ... hmmmm ... maybe since it had an assassin on board it was invisible in order to slip through undetected :D
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Yes, I'm sure. It was a Canadian newspaper, and they are the foremost authority on US history!
 
So what, next they are going to tell me that the persians were not accurately depicted in the movie 300?
 
Commander Suzdal said:
The article was tripe, but it (and some of the comments below it) opened my eyes to Canadian lines of thought I never knew existed. Apparently there are fervent believers that the American Revolution was all about a bunch of traitorous criminals stealing the legitimate territories of the British crown, and that the War of 1812 was an abortive attempt by the nasty "Americans" to take over Canada into the bargain, stopped by the noble Redcoats and their trusty indigenous allies. You know, rather than the abortive attempt of the British Crown to re-subjugate the Colonies. I can see that being the prevalent point of view among loyal colonies in the 1790s, but not in 2012.

In the broader context opened up by the comments, it seems to be part of some kind of pro-Royalist Canadian revisionism that's using America-bashing as fuel. I didn't think the Canadian temperament was given to getting this worked up about anything, let alone defending the tawdry record of European colonialism. What is going on up there?
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Most of the natives were on the Crown's side, there was a deal between General Isaac Brock and aboriginal leader Tecumseh to create an aboriginal nation after the war of 1812 was over. Unfortunately, back in 1812 General's lead the charge, Brock was shot, and his replacement had no interest in creating a native nation. Its too bad, I think alot of their current social issues could have been avoided if they had their own country.
 
kbrickley said:
Nah ... we faked those moon landings ... no way someone made it all the way to the moon :p
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That's what I though.
But there is a Treasure Map on the back of the Declaration of Independence. I read it on my ipad once so its true fo shizzle
 
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