Latest news with #FarCry6
The Herald Scotland
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Anti-woke stormtroopers are gunning for Superman. The world's gone mad
If you tootle over to the Reddit website, where folk ask questions about every subject under the sun, you'll find a page called "What's the most ridiculous thing you've ever seen described as 'woke'?" It's one long point-and-laugh at the puce-faced puffins who evacuate into their underpants over anything which doesn't accord with their 1950s Pathé News version of reality. Here are some examples: the novel Frankenstein was called woke by the tabloids because the monster is portrayed as a "misunderstood victim"'. Spoiler alert: the monster is misunderstood. That's Mary Shelley's point. Or there's the poster for the film of the computer game Legend of Zelda. It's woke as it features a girl. Spoiler alert: Zelda is a girl. Then there's Rage Against the Machine. Their lyrics are woke, apparently. Spoiler alert: it's Rage Against the Machine. Read more by Neil Mackay There's the Welsh person who was called woke for speaking Welsh … in Wales. The computer game Far Cry 6 is woke as it features Hispanic women. Have you guessed yet that it's set on a Caribbean island…? A documentary about Tyrannosaurus Rex was woke as the dinosaurs didn't kill enough. Lego is woke. Afros – woke. Allotments – woke. Jam-making – woke. Disney – woke. I mean, it's Disney, what do they want from the people who brought us Bambi and Dumbo? The movies of Leni Riefenstahl? On it goes. A stream of absolute, sweaty-eyed, frothy-lipped absurdity. Being anti-woke has become a joke. Look, there's been plenty of absolute blazing stupidity from the so-called world of woke. We saw over-reach and insanity at the height of MeToo and Black Lives Matter. We've seen bad behaviour, including threats, from trans rights campaigners. The left in general has undoubtedly engaged in silencing and cancel culture. But holy moly, the right-wing over-reaches daily. Misogyny and racism drip from the anti-woke mob. The bullying and abuse from the anti-trans brigade is simply mass dehumanisation. The right is currently – not in general but as a matter of policy – engaged in wholesale silencing and cancel culture. For pity's sake, someone was charged under terrorism laws in Glasgow this weekend for wearing a t-shirt reading "Palestine Action". I repeat: for wearing a t-shirt. The latest anti-woke crusade encapsulates the pitiful madness of the right perfectly. Superman has gone woke, seemingly. Cue right-wing commentators hurling themselves from skyscrapers. It began when Dean Cain, who played Superman on telly in the 1990s, thought he'd seek some relevance. Trump-supporting Cain didn't like an interview given by James Gunn, the director of the new Superman movie. Gunn said that Superman 'is the story of America'. It features an 'immigrant', and is about 'basic human kindness … something we have lost'. Cain wailed: 'How woke is Hollywood going to make this character?' Well, sorry Dean, but Superman is an immigrant. Here's a clue: he's a refugee from planet Krypton. The opening pages of the first Superman comic in 1938 describes the hero thus: 'Superman! Champion of the Oppressed, the physical marvel who has sworn to devote his existence to helping those in need!' Some may call this woke, others may just call it "Superman being Superman" or "acting nice, like your mum told you". Cain was on a roll, though, envisioning vistas of woke horror opening up before his eyes. 'How much is Disney going to change their Snow White?' he lamented. Mate, Snow White hangs around with seven dwarves, I don't think they could make her more woke if they tried. The anti-woke mob holler go woke and go broke. When I hear that I picture a bull defecating in a field, because the reverse is true. Who single-handedly trashed every brand he owned with his obsessive, endless, 3am anti-woke squawking? Elon "Hammer of the Woke Mind Virus" Musk. The anti-woke cult is just an update on the witch-hunt. Devotionals sound like Senator McCarthy at the height of his paranoid unravelling over communists in America. Instead of Reds under the Bed, anti-woke stormtroopers see the woke creeping from every cranny in culture. They've lost their very tiny, very over-heated minds. It would be funny if so many people in power didn't tag along behind as they think that's how to win approval from the English tabloids. One recently ran an article about how sandwiches were woke. GenZ is apparently 'waging war on our sandwiches', and 'ditching English classics like ham and mustard in favour of fancy woke fillings'. Yes, readers, fancy woke fillings! Is this why my grandfather fought the Nazis, so we could eat falafel!? A quick perusal of the British media of late will show you that the new Pope is woke; architecture is woke; new banknotes are woke; as are Jaguar cars. The woke are everywhere. Can't you feel their eyes boring into you? Don't you hear them whispering about you? They're plotting to ban patriotic fish and chips, they're going to make our children read The Colour Purple everyday. Soon we'll be forced to dye our hair pink and listen to Kneecap. Elon Hammer of the Woke Mind Virus Musk. (Image: PA) The next James Bond will be trans! Doctor Who will be disabled! Won't someone think of the children! The anti-woke league manages to be both sad, embarrassing and nasty simultaneously. It's a clubhouse for people who hate kindness. To the anti-woke, anything which doesn't conform to their rigid, tyrannical and petty worldview must be smashed. Such narcissism is breath-taking. By all means defend old-fashioned, conservative values. But have some proportion and perspective, lest you fall victim to the law of diminishing returns. If you scream about woke bogeymen every five minutes, eventually folk just switch off. Who wants to listen to the same repetitive drivel about ideological phantoms from minds both fevered and dull? When we see the symptoms of the anti-woke mind virus today, the rest of us just snigger. You're not a culture warrior, you're a joke. Neil Mackay is The Herald's Writer at Large. He's a multi-award-winning investigative journalist, author of both fiction and non-fiction, and a filmmaker and broadcaster. He specialises in intelligence, security, crime, social affairs, cultural commentary, and foreign and domestic politics
New York Times
08-04-2025
- Business
- New York Times
Colleges are about to pay players. Plus, best season ever by an NCAA men's basketball league?
Until Saturday Newsletter 🏈 | This is The Athletic's college football newsletter. Sign up here to receive Until Saturday directly in your inbox. Today in college football news, I don't think Far Cry 6 is an excellent game, but it does have a helpful crocodile named Guapo. Two things that happened on Aug. 3, 1852, in New Hampshire: Since literally day one in 1852, college sports has been a business contorting itself around amateurism. But it would take about a century for all of college sports' powers to agree to universities compensating that labor with mere scholarships. And roughly another half-century for the NCAA to agree athletes can make NIL money, as long as it doesn't come from the piles of revenue they generate for schools. Advertisement And now look at us, nearly 173 years after that day on the lake. College sports is finally about to go somewhat legit. That House v. NCAA thing that's been in news headlines for seemingly forever? It's wrapping up. Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken held a hearing on a proposed settlement, and her final approval is likely coming soon. From our thorough explainer: 'If approved, schools will be permitted to directly pay athletes through about $20.5 million in revenue sharing during the 2025-26 athletic year. 'In addition, nearly $2.8 billion will be set aside as back-pay damages for athletes dating back to 2016 who did not have the opportunity to be compensated for their name, image and likeness.' If a version of that deal goes through, pending Wilken's few remaining questions during a follow-up next week, amateurism will no longer be the Division I business model. (Non-scholarship programs in Division III and elsewhere: proceed as normal.) This would be a truly new era. The portal and NIL have felt revolutionary, but they just expanded and codified things that had always been happening. Schools paying players actual money? That would be new. Power programs had already been operating as if this settlement will happen. SEC schools, for instance, are expected to distribute their $20.5 million budgets by adapting the settlement's back-pay formula: '75 percent to football players, 15 percent for men's basketball, 5 percent for women's basketball and 5 percent for others.' (Player payments in those first three would average in the low six figures or high fives, along with scholarships and NIL.) 'The NCAA and its members are finally acknowledging theirs is a multibillion-dollar commercial enterprise, not an after-school activity,' wrote Stewart Mandel after visiting Wilken's courtroom again. 'The revenue from their massive TV contracts will finally be accessible to the athletes that generate it.' Also, in case the judge's name sounds familiar: Yep, Wilken handled 2014's Ed O'Bannon case that, among other things, forced EA Sports' college football game to go away until it could do things legally. That worked out fine. 🌀 With the portal reopening next week, who are the teams to watch? Stanford just changed head coaches, while Texas Tech might continue loading up. ❓ After Tulane suspended QB TJ Finley following his arrest on a charge of possessing a stolen vehicle, his lawyers said he'd been the victim of a scam. 💰 Even if someone who's sold over 25 million albums buys the naming rights to your stadium, NIL remains a challenge. Advertisement ⏰ New mock draft by Nick Baumgardner. Shedeur Sanders tumbles. 🏀 Former NCAA president Cedric Dempsey died Saturday at 92. He oversaw the organization's Y2K-era TV money boom. 🏈 Brock Huard is stepping away from calling CFB games for Fox so he can coach tight ends on his son's high school team. 🌎 In year one of the Pac-2's sports calendar, Oregon State and Washington State have had a hard time on various fields and courts. 🏈 From late last week: The NCAA is investigating Michigan State over potential recruiting violations during former head coach Mel Tucker's tenure. The best season ever had by any men's college basketball league: quite arguably the SEC's run that ended last night with Florida beating Houston for the title. 'Nine years after hitting rock bottom with three NCAA bids,' explains Joe Rexrode, 'the SEC collected on a concerted effort to prioritize the sport.' Joe also notes: As someone who remembers the 2010s' mocking #SECBasketballFever hashtag, which would appear whenever pre-Bruce Pearl Auburn was sadly fumbling around or when a team like 2013 Ole Miss remained unranked even while winning the SEC tournament, this is still taking some getting used to. Still, one program held the conference up even when it was at its most feverish. Seth Emerson notes these are the championship leaders in men's basketball over the past 20 seasons: No such consternation on the women's side, where Geno Auriemma won UConn's record-setting 12th title (no matter how many times per year he tries to retire), thanks in large part to Paige Bueckers, who was already a legend anyway. Pretty straightforward, relatively. That's it for today. Last week's most-clicked link: Which college football team has the most fans? 📫 Love Until Saturday? Check out The Athletic's other newsletters.
Yahoo
04-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Unannounced Far Cry Game Headed for Development Hell
It's been quite a while since we've seen a new game from Ubisoft. The Giancarlo Esposito-led Far Cry 6 was the last entry in the long-running series, which did totally fine critically. As such, it seems like it might be time for another open-world adventure, but unfortunately for fans of the franchise, one of the two Far Cry games reportedly in development is going back to the drawing board. A new report from Tom Henderson of Insider Gaming claims a Far Cry extraction shooter codenamed Maverick has been rebooted. This particular project began as the multiplayer component for Far Cry 7 (codenamed Blackbird), which then spun-off from the main entry in early 2023. However, it seems the game wasn't quite up to the quality standards of Ubisoft leading to the project getting rebooted. The report also claims that Ubisoft Montreal will collaborate with Ubisoft Sherbrooke during its new prototyping phase. Project Maverick was said to be set in Alaska. It seems it is pretty similar to most extraction shooters and had players face off against wild animals, AI soldiers, and other players. 'That's according to several sources familiar with the projects development, who said that the 'writing was on the wall' for a number of months,' reads the report. 'It was said that the final nail in the coffin came after its dedicated tech team called Talisker (also the old name of Far Cry 7 before it morphed into two separate projects), moved from Maverick to be fully dedicated to Blackbird in late December to ensure the project stays on track.' Specifics on the reasoning behind rebooting the project are unknown. However, the report implies it could potentially be due to Ubisoft's recent struggles and the company's attempt to create a more efficient workflow among its teams. Ubisoft's next release is Assassin's Creed Shadows, which launches on March 20. It seems like it's a pretty imperative title as the company has been under pressure for the past year. Its ugly Star Wars Outlaws release, paired with multiple studio closures, seem to have been the last straw now as the Guillemot family and Tencent have mulled over a new venture which would see the Chinese tech company take control of some of Ubisoft's IP. The post Unannounced Far Cry Game Headed for Development Hell – Report appeared first on PlayStation LifeStyle.
