There are literally gaming archivists. Instead of trying to justify pirates, look at the companies that are hiring these people (EA just hired one to do archival work for Apex) and ask yourselves, and them, why this isn’t a more widespread practice in the industry.

There are ways to do that without fully writing out the word, such as hiding it behind an optional spoiler link of some kind that doesn’t force those of us who’ve had it used against us in the past to read it.

The current implementation just shows that the word itself isn’t taken seriously as a slur. That it’s seen by…

What are you talking about? You can provide context for the word without writing it out. Refusing to do so doesn’t lend credence to anything he said, and ensures that people (like me) who’ve had the term used against them in the past don’t have to deal with being exposed to it yet again.

There are other issues I have…

He’s a shande, but he’s not a JINO. A Jew is a Jew, full stop.

I encountered it pretty regularly in high school (2003 or so) and college.

Could we maybe not include the slur, uncensored, in the article text?

Thank you.

My long-ass history of trying to play every PC game of my childhood using a flightstick, to the point of mapping one so it could move the mouse cursor in point-and-click games, would like a word with you.

It’s one of those cases of trying to have their cake and eat it, too. I also played the Samurai Jack game, recently, and that contains a retcon of the actual series’ ending that is significantly less bittersweet than the original.

The difference, there, is that Samurai Jack buries that retcon behind a series of…

Shield grew on me once I unlocked the Aspect of Zeus. Pair it with the two Ares boons that give you a Doom effect on your special and allow Doom effects to stack for additional damage, then throw it out there into the middle of a group of enemies (or right on top of a boss, for sustained damage).

Theseus was my Achilles’ Heel for a while. He’s the only boss who has a shield, which makes him difficult to hit because he’s great at pivoting to face you. However, the spear throw he does, where you see the target marker above your head right beforehand?

He always turns around after that and walks away. If you wait…

Have you tried the Vortex Core? If you like small keyboards with high-quality caps (and intricate legends), the Core is a 40% I used to use as my daily driver at my last job. It loses the number row and a lot of toggle keys (like the various locks), putting them on additional layers, but manages to work because the…

Wait, there’s an upcoming Mito Laser SA group buy? That’s one of my white whale keycap sets.

Assuming a six-foot wingspan, Fahey has eight keyboards within about a 28 and a quarter square foot area of his living room. Extrapolating this density (32 keyboards per 113 square feet) across the average size of a living room (12x18 feet, or 216 square feet), we can determine that Fahey probably has about 61.2…

*glances down at his Vortex Tab 90M*

Mmm... The whataboutism is delicious this time of night.

What’s the actual distinction? What motivates a purist to police others’ experiences that doesn’t motivate a “hardcore gamer in search of clout”?

Perhaps. There’s the fairly important distinction that Nazi Germany was targeting and combatting manufactured bogeymen whereas the Jews have a well-documented history of oppression and prejudice against them with which to justify what may, to others, seem like paranoia.

The Holocaust demonstrated how tenuous that survival is. The thing to remember is that Jews will always be an outsider group in almost any country. They’re not the only ones, either; you can look at almost any country with a minority racial/ethnic group and see that group’s vilification and disenfranchisement to…

To wit, it was known as Palestine... By Jews who lived within it prior to the Balfour declaration. I don’t think that was the official name for the land or a people therein until after that.

Unless your masters degree is in a field relevant to the history of anti-semitic conspiracies in the Western world (and in the US in particular, in this case), or you were raised Jewish, you’re unlikely to be aware of how pervasive the idea of Jewish control of the media (of everything, really) is in white supremacist…