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This. It seems like a more reasonable approach would be to remove the word blind from your vocab as a pejorative. Like when someone cuts you off in traffic and you shout “are you blind”, that sort of thing. I’m fully on board for being more considerate. But policing the dozen other definitions of the word that are not

Am I missing something with that guys explanation?

So should we rename window blinds? How about hunting blinds? How about blind corners on roads? Et cetera.

Quite a few people don’t really have much of a problem with the change but rather the arguments used to justify the change. Some of which are frankly offensive. Specifically where it’s compared to the use of gay as a homophobic slur. Despite the fact this wasn’t even a negative connotation of the word. It tends to rub

This is incredible debating technique, let me say. Just say there can’t be a debate and violently insult everyone around you. We are sending all the discussion medals to you with overnight shipping, please keep an eye on your mailbox.

Nobody has misappropriated the word. It has been used in various ways since the 1500's. People were robbing each other blind in the 1800's... Not to mention Homer’s Odyssey.

What the fuck?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2014/06/22/employees-that-stay-in-companies-longer-than-2-years-get-paid-50-less/

Or even can be purged. Nobody controls the usage of language. And trying to suppress phrases that are being used without malicious intent is both foolish and impossible.

Agreed! It’s past the point where it’s liberating, and is now working on restricting everything.

Corporations need to stop this shit. Words have multiple meanings. Just because one of those meanings might be ableist, doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with using it in a different context. Hell, this isn’t even in a negative one. A blind playthrough is a good thing! This kind of faux-supportive bullshit just

Goldeneye had the Y-axis inverted by default.

“There can be only some!” ~ Highlanders

Only it took itself way too seriously. 

Wasn’t this, like, just a movie about a bunch of Highlanders?

Up until this very moment, I had forgotten Game of Thrones aired an eighth season, and was living in blissful ignorance. But yes, dark as in that somehow-multiple-Emmy-winning episode... Be sure to turn up the brightness when you play!

Awesome, this continues the streak of a game coming to Game Pass about a week after I finally cave and buy it.

Ok but the venn diagram of that guys audience and potential buyers of a game like that is probably pretty high so I understand the move