The cross and holy water are also there. One of the characters is basically alucard.

When did I say that people should not enjoy them? If you like them cool, but you are not gonna come and tell me that designing randomness is harder than to craft an intricate and well thought out experience of something like Hollow Knight or Hyper Light Drifter. Its easier (in comparison of course) to make a…

How so? Ka Mai is pointing out the historical context of the word and I’m pointing out that modern users of the word don’t care about it’s original use and historical context.

I wasn’t doing a history project. I was commenting on the definition of a word, for a blog. That said, the Merriam-Webster dictionary is commonly cited by scholars.

“white supremeacist” is descriptive, “cracker” is not.

The sentiment is that it’s a pejorative. It’s a racial epithet being used in a negative way. If you accept some and not others, then you’re deciding based on skin color. Do you know what kind of person evaluates value based on skin color?

Well said.

“The problem, of course, is that racism refers to overarching power structures, not if an innocuous word made you feel bad.”

Words only have meaning you give them. If you choose to give them historical meaning, that’s on you. Words are literally a combination of sounds that come out of our mouth.

Call a black person with absolutely zero knowledge of history and see how he reacts.

Its a slur that is derogatory and aimed at one race of people. Therefore it is racist. Doesn’t matter the historical context or how you wish to define punching up or punching down. We are all created equal but fighting one form of racism and allowing another form of racism to persist is hypocritical and does nothing…

“If you’re not a racist white person, there’s no reason for the word cracker to offend you. It is not, and never has been, directed at you.”

The problem is, a human being is not in the best position to establish their relative position in punching up or punching down. Bias is going to play a big factor there.

Who cares about what is and isn’t comparable? Not that you’re replying to the actual comment above so much as the straw man you’ve built. The fact is that yes, he used a slur. No, that’s never a good look. This isn’t one of those instances where a social deconstruction is at all warranted.

Nice false dichotomy.

A slur is a slur no matter who it’s aimed at. The target being white people doesn’t make it somehow okay.

they’ve confirmed it will support split screen when it arrives, though I can’t imagine it will be a particularly great experience unless you’re playing on a series X (or PC if they decide to put splitscreen on that platform- they didn’t for MCC)

EXCLUSIVE!

Why do you keep spamming this comment on every post on here? You seem to think it’s brilliant but it’s the dumbest thing you could write. See the word illegal in your reply? Yeah. Do you know what that means?

Wow. Those are some ethics you have there, Kotaku. Actively advocating and cheering on emulators for a current (2 days old!) release on a current console? And there’s a slew of other Metroid games available on easily obtainable hardware. I get it when the game is old/out of print/long dead hardware, but for crying out…

Yeah, perhaps some sort of always online DRM requirement is the direction they should go, right?