Way to miss the forest for the trees.

You saying this proves the other persons point perfectly. You are completely ignoring the persons point and acting like a child by calling the word savage their “baby”. Not surprising considering you don’t seem like the type of person that wants to have actual an actual discourse.  Be better.  

My dad dealt with a lot of racism growing up and while I’ve had an easier time of it, I’ve got my share of problems too. I just get tired of my people getting treated like fragile porcelain by white dudes who want to feel woke. The word savage isn’t gonna hurt us. Institutionalized racism hurts us. Police hurt us.…

But here’s the thing. If a person finds a word offensive, apologize and stop using it. For 99.99% of the population, savage is a word with no baggage. We need to stop saying “you can’t say X because I can imagine a specific scenario in which a person might find X offensive under certain circumstances.”
We don’t need to…

This feels like the most manufactured of manufactured controversies. I Googled “savage” as requested, and got the following as the first result.

None of the definitions feel inherently racist, and the initial adjectival definition feels like it serves the game perfectly. Sure, the developers *could* have chosen a…

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.

Gee, it’s almost like people can still enjoy a flawed game.

Found you (mostly)

I’m not technically a gamer. I’ve played Warcraft since vanilla but no other games. Anyway, I really enjoy the pictures you post of Japan. I was in the Navy for 24 years and have been there many times. Your pictures bring back a lot of memories of my travels around Japan.

Thank you for the post and the apology.

I don’t disagree that “gamer” is functionally useless as a blanket associative term at this point in the hobby’s history.

What I’m thinking is that we need to be looking after our friends (I’m sure we’d all like to believe we’re not associated with anyone who’d behave this way, but I’m pretty sure everyone knows…

It is possible to disapprove of Epic’s exclusivity practices—and to be disappointed that a game you’ve been looking forward to has become an EGS exclusive (almost certainly for a period of no more than a year)—without resorting to shitting all over devs who decide to take the deal.

This is especially true of faking…