For what it’s worth, my situation is similar right down to the Irish heritage.

These things are subjective. I bounced off of Dread after about 3-4 hours. It’s a good game, but it’s definitely treading well-worn ground, and I wouldn’t even say it’s the best recent entry in it’s genre. Hollow Knight is a better Metroidvania than Dread, in my opinion.

You seem to think that ¨Cracker¨ is an insult targeting affluent whites, but its origins and use stem from and target subsets of poor people, not specifically for their skin color but for their geographic origins, poverty, or status as a criminal.

The fact that they tacked this onto one of their least popular games makes me think they’re checking off a box on a list of shareholder demands without having much real interest in using NFTs for anything seriously. Given the way the word “blockchain” gives investors erections at the moment, Ubi was no doubt…

“The only way to be intellectually honest is to pretend nuance and context don’t exist or matter and treat everything as an absolute” is a really weird take.

I’ve honestly never heard white people use “cracker” amongst themselves.  That might be a regional thing, I suppose.  

“White trash” is descriptive as well, and it’s more a slur than “cracker” ever was.  

I think the two go hand in hand. The reason Valhalla was too long is the same reason it was boring: it’s bloated. No one wants to stack rocks. No one wants to chase a piece of garbage across the rooftops. No one wants to break into 300 buildings that repeat the same 5-6 “puzzles” over and over again.  Even the main…

I think I fall somewhere between you and your friend on this. I have a completionist compulsion, but with a lot of open world games, I have to set boundaries or I burn out. In AC: Valhalla I decided early on to skip the rock stacking and the “chase garbage across the rooftops” stuff because those things suck, and let…

Maybe it’s a regional difference, but growing up in the south, “cracker” was a term specifically for what would be today’s MAGA crowd. White people who were mostly ignorant, racist, or at least supported and voted for people who were. White people who believe in, support, or promote a specifically white-centric…

Words only have meaning you give them.

Its a slur that is derogatory and aimed at one race of people. Therefore it is racist.

You’d be surprised how often the “I’m not racist, but...” crowd makes this exact argument for words that have a much sharper edge.

Why should anyone adhere to any “rule” that prevents hitting back against one’s oppressors? Those “rules” only exist to keep people oppressed.

Cracker is not a slur, because it’s not disparaging any race, religion, gender, or any other intrinsic attribute of an individual. It’s disparaging an ideology. Specifically the toxic ideology of white supremacy.

I think the issue is that while we can see the distinction, Twitch doesn’t.

Whether or not you want to admit it, cracker absolutely has negative connotations.

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

The fact is that yes, he used a slur. No, that’s never a good look.

It’s not, for me. I know the answer. I want him figure it out himself.