That makes a lot more sense than the claim that Funimation is backpedaling. The show was highly rated among users; their fan base was eating it up, and there was no loud counter-campaign.

Unlike flushing crack down the toilet, claiming ignorance will do little good here. We know Funimation knew enough about the series to stream it and to plan English subtitles and dubs.

You think the FBI is above planting evidence to someone that’s pissing off a big corporation?

You just accessed a forgotten corner of my high school mind. Well done.

Then why did they stop?

Your hair looks like it’s made for TV if you’re John Mulaney.

I mean you can since nothing major will happen in Part 1....

Oh, Great Vowel Shift, you still mess with us.

Yes, with the caveat that if it were just a few people and I didn’t care about the issue, I probably wouldn’t know about it. Saying that thousands of people objecting loudly enough that both of us knew about it is not a “real life controversy” feels like a peculiar kind of gatekeeping. You’re confusing what it is…

Yes, a couple of thousand angry people is a controversy, “real life” or not. The difference is whether you personally care, and it sounds like you don’t.

To quibble a bit, internet controversies are real life controversies, but not all real life controversies are on the scale of millions of people.

Yeah, I’ve met the face of outrage pertaining to this article.

Another example of why savage was a misstep.

An interesting detail is that the 19th century Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso studied the traits of the “savage” and the born criminal regularly in his work. Italian has the noun il selvaggio and the adjective selvaggio, with uses that also were colonialist. Also recall Italy’s attempts at involvement in Africa…

Set aside the hyperbole you pose of an “outrage,” real or faux, since the tone and statements of the article do not suggest outrage.

Personally, I don’t see the hyper-sensitivity here. Savage is a word with a specific and negative historical context when referring to a place where indigenous people live. Bringing that context into a game where the focus isn’t exploring that context more deeply but merely shooting and having fun feels like a…

I found savage jarring too. I specifically have a problem with this idea of describing a place to be colonized as savage, which at once erases the experiences of its inhabitants and makes whatever is found there out to be inferior and threatening. Calling the place savage makes it sound like the people there will be…

That’s interesting. I tried just now to find numbers of players. I found that there were about 65,000 active accounts over 90 days in Warcraft III in 2018, and a million players per month for Age of Empires 2 in 2019. I’m always able to find an AoE2 match, and Steam shows 10-15,000 players on at any one time for the…

Yeah, when I played WoW III I was surprised by how smooth the UI was. I primarily played it PvP with friends, and didn’t delve much into the campaigns.

I sense a Smash hero.