Thanks for making it clear to us you are a racist hate monger.

“Me”, and “restaurants I love.”

Poorly paraphrasing his words in some flaccid attempt to bolster your own argument is just juvenile. You clearly can’t engage in a conversation like an adult; I’m not sure why he bothered even giving you a second thought.

I come from a country previously colonized by white people for over three centuries. Would I be pissed over the use of the word ‘savage’ on a video game title? Nah. I got bigger shit to care about.

I literally never said the word “attack” so I have no idea to what you’re referring.  

I’m sorry that’s the only thing you gleaned from the multiple responses I framed. Cheers!

You could, of course, follow these very inconvenient recommendations, or you could simply follow the tried-and-true tactics:

That’s not it at all - genuinely. My point is that I think we need to be really careful about how we broach these conversations and more importantly call people out when their intentions are malicious. I don’t think that’s the case here (neither does Paul).

The weight of the conversation gets diluted if the perception…

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Oh no - not at all. I absolutely care, but believe that the intent (when using the word) matters more than anything and I don’t believe the intent here is malicious (Paul doesn’t seem to think so either).

I think a better opportunity to have this conversation is when the intent is overtly malicious.  I have no qualms…

I think the battery pack/case is a huge accessory for people with battery concerns. I’ve had one for over a year now, and it allowed me to play many a game during cross-country and even cross-Atlantic flights. I even given them to some friends as gifts, which went over really well this past holiday season when…

I mean, you’re entitled to your opinion but to suggest the “Dude’s just talkin’ about a video game name” when it’s pretty clear the conversation Paul is trying to start is so much larger than that is pretty stupid - respectfully.  

I don’t disagree with Paul’s take that ‘savage’ has always been a historically-charged term. But given that Typhoon studios is not an American studio (it’s Canadian and founded by an Australian person), we also have to consider the fact that (and I say this as an immigrant who experiences this almost every day)…

You’re super good at logical fallacies. Like, crazy good.
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What an incredibly disingenuous take on what I was saying and how incredibly naive to think a words meaning and context can’t change over time or isn’t inherently tied to how the person is using it in their language.

Someone I know told me that “In the process of deconstructing my whiteness, I learned about the incredibly racist origins of the word ‘m*therf*cker’ so I’m trying to take it out of my vocabulary.” Apparently it was in reference to how they bred slaves, but jesus WHO EVEN KNEW THAT? That definition could have…

Keeping up with the “you can’t use that word” anymore treadmill is definitely exhausting. 

Man, I certainly appreciate that there are other perspectives out there than my own, but as someone who likes to think they’re incredibly sympathetic (empathetic when I can be), shit like this drives me absolutely nuts.

Not to worry! The management overlords are now systematically attacking Kotaku. So, soon you’ll be missing this as well.

Would be nice if there was a site here that... ugh, I can’t keep up the sarcasm.