It doesn't have a different meaning if it's being used as a stand-in for a word he knows he can't use in a civilized society. Semiotics, brah. Sort of like if I called you a sock-chucker. Everyone with half a brain would know I'm not saying you like to throw hosiery.

I have literally not once in my life heard or read about any white person unironically getting called a cracker, honky, etc. And even if I had I wouldn't give a fuck and neither should you, because those words are not racial slurs and have not been used for centuries as terms of hatred and oppression against an entire…

I wouldn't, and a public figure whose entire career is predicated on adapting black musical styles and performers should probably not do it either.

No one's condemning you, good fedora. You're being asked to do what is probably the literal bare minimum for a decent human being in civilized society: Don't use racial slurs and other terms of hate.

Context. It's an slur used by whites against blacks during a time (i.e. several centuries) when marginalizing, degrading, torturing, and and murdering them was a matter of American policy. A group using the term amongst themselves (cf. gay men and "fag") as a reclaiming it or for whatever other reason, is kind of…

A really, really obnoxious comedian.

Cable TV? The show's on Fox and is syndicated on TBS (I think). Network all the way, baby.

Just let people eat what they want to eat.

It's surprising, I work with kids (teenage boys, mostly), and as far as I know none of them watch the current iteration of The Simpsons. Many of them have seen older episodes, but if they've seen any contemporary Simpsons it's most likely because it's on around the same time as Family Guy. That show is just not the…

Mastermind writer/director behind Metal Gear.

I agree completely. The recent history of this series has been a bunch of outside chuckleheads trying to recapture the essence of the Team Silent games - SH2 in particular - without a good sense of the unique atmosphere and monster design (to say nothing of the music) that made those games effective. Del Toro is not a…

And Romeo and Juliet were 15 and 13 respectively. None of these things are a video game that was released last year and therefore informed by our current cultural mores, rather than those of Europe 500 years ago. Context!

Yep, saw this happen to a Japanese tourist on the Spanish Steps a couple years ago. The poor guy was obviously being seriously intimidated by the two con men. Naturally the Carabinieri could not have given less of a shit when we alerted them.

Eh, unless you're trained and certified in a big way (e.g. Jackie Chan or the like), I don't have a problem with people using stunt doubles. MMA and professional wrestling isn't the same thing as the kind of stunts one would do in a big-budget blockbuster. Even the most seasoned stunt people can and do get seriously,…

Albert Burnetko is both a better writer and a better human being than you are.

It's so very helpful when writers [sic] this kind of stuff, just in case we plebeian readers aren't sure whether some random trashy, drama-seeking Facebook post contains linguistic errors. You guys are soooooo smart! (attaches gold star sticker to spelling test)

Aaaaaaand now they've changed the title to something correct.

Congratulations, with a single post you have put far more thought and effort into this than the author.

I was paraphrasing the author, whom you quoted directly.

My point is that it's a bad premise for an article, a fact so glaringly obvious that the writer himself has to point it out almost immediately. It's a lazy (which, yeah, Gawker) rehash of a handful of beloved games which have already been talked about to death on this very site, mixed in with a bunch of new stuff that…