• AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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    Jessica Tarlov, one of the panel’s more liberal co-hosts, said she was in favor of the game removing slurs, adding, “I think we can all agree on that.”

    Two panelists replied, “Not so fast!” and “Be careful, Jessica.”

    Jesus Christ, how do these chucklefucks convince themselves that they aren’t terrible people?

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        Nice sentiment, but too many syllables to hold their attention.

        More like “why they call me ass for being ass?!”

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      “Yeah, Jessica, we’ve talked about this. You can’t just SAY that racist things should be avoided, we’re trying to APPEAL to racists, remember?”

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      How do you remove slurs from a boardgame where you pick and place letters?

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          Would only really be relevant for tournaments, except the organizing bodies of which aren’t affiliated with Hasbro and have their own sets of words and drama over them. People playing casually can just have house rules about whether slurs are or aren’t accepted and what counts as one.

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            Well yeah. When we play Scrabble, the house rule is ‘English Wiktionary’

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              We used to play “if you can convince me it’s a word, it counts”. I got a triple word score on zaxticuous and that shit got shut down. It means: Having the property or appearance of Zach Morris from Saved by the Bell.

              (The events in this comment are a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.)

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                “Any resemblance to actual persons— Zach Morris or otherwise— or actual events… is purely coincidental.”

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          I’ll accept it if its obviously a real word, no matter how offensive it is.

          Not if it requires a capital letter though. I’m not a complete animal.

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      Jessica Tarlov, one of the panel’s more liberal co-hosts

      I honestly first read that as “one of the panel’s more literate co-hosts”.

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    He then said, “Playing a game without scoring — even if you suck at something — is so anti-human. It’s like scoring is part of your DNA."

    Gutfeld is so stupid man I can’t believe I used to like him

    Yeah a game without a scoring system is anti-human, that’s why we famously never play such games with our children. What’s your ELO in peek-a-boo, Greg? You absolute dweeb? Man I can’t wait to get back to my ranked play jigsaw puzzle at home. Can’t wait to beat my brother at D&D this week.

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      I read the bottom paragraph as though it was a John Oliver segment and that just made it funnier.

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      Greg Gutfeld’s the kind dude that stopped reading books when he got to be too old for the Book-It program and couldn’t score any more free personal pizzas at Pizza Hut.

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      Getting rid of scoring in scrabble is definitely stupid. If you don’t want to keep score, just don’t. I don’t think I’ve ever bothered, but it’s still a game with a scoring system and plenty of people use it. Didn’t need doing. I don’t know which side of that argument counts as woke and I really don’t care.

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        Kinda arrogant to tell people that the way they enjoy a game is stupid. It’s a good thing the new Scrabble boards offer this scoreless variant as a variant, while the opposite side of the board remains the same scrabble you’ve grown accustomed to.

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          Oh, so it hasn’t changed at all then, it’s a non-story. Should have realised. Incidentally you’re mistaken, I said I don’t ever use the scoring system but that redesigning the game was nevertheless stupid, because you can already choose not to use it.

  • BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.world
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    Yeah and it’s also accusing libraries of being drug-infested sex dens

    spoiler


    It’s as if Fox News is not a reasonable source for anything but counterfactual nonsense

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      They just sit on the lawn and do nothing! A literal zombie can walk up to them, and they do nothing about it.

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    Gotta stoke the hatred, even when there’s no news. Can’t have their viewers cooling off and developing minds of their own…

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      Being a Fox News producer must be exhausting. Like, you gotta look all around for the slightest possible thing to anger and scare people. I’m sure the producer was at Target walking down the board game aisle and was like “oooohhh a new Scrabble? I’m gonna call this woke!”

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        It’s easy, any white supremacist can do it.

        1. Black people are doing a thing, segment on why this is bad and frightening.

        1a. It is somehow news to just observe a specific black person and get mad: “black man wears a suit,” “black man eats mustard.”

        1. Something is jeopardizing white cishet Christians’ ability to say the N-word without consequences, segment on why this is horrific persecution.

        You can just make shit up as well, since your audience is 100% white supremacist dimwits.

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    It is!

    You can freely create words with it that are on their naughty list without getting shot by police. Its woke, man!

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    Tarlov then said […] “Scrabble can be a tough game”. Co-host Greg Gutfeld replied, “So is life!” before admitting that he has never played Scrabble.

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    These hosts are doing everything they can to justify having a job. Normal people would say “yeah maybe we shouldn’t have swears and slurs in a game targeted at families”

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    They probably removed the scoring because no one understands how it works

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      If multiplying by two or three causes issues, you’ve got bigger problems than “gen Z not liking competitive games”.

      If they want kids to play it, shape the board like the Fortnite map, and give double points for using those letters in the named areas.

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    If the headline was “Scrabble bans hateful words” nobody would care because it’s their game, they can do what they want with it and nobody has sympathy for the guys complaining they can’t be racist in Scrabble.

    But using the word “woke” makes it sound like it’s some ongoing culture war battle with half the country on either side. It ain’t.

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      Tell that to Mr Potato Head or M&Ms. You might be better off phrasing it as “it shouldn’t”. Because the moment this shows up on conservative media… It will.