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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?
Nice sentiment, but too many syllables to hold their attention.
More like “why they call me ass for being ass?!”
“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?”
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”.
Probably both.
How do you remove slurs from a boardgame where you pick and place letters?
There is an official Scrabble dictionary
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.
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.
Well yeah. When we play Scrabble, the house rule is ‘English Wiktionary’
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.)
“Any resemblance to actual persons— Zach Morris or otherwise— or actual events… is purely coincidental.”
The best Scrabble move I ever saw:
My brother: “Can you put down swear words?”
My mother: “No.”
My brother: (Puts down SHIT) “Not a swear, just what I have to do.” (Leaves to go to the bathroom.)
Legendary
It is!
You can freely create words with it that are on their naughty list without getting shot by police. Its woke, man!
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
If libraries were actually drug-infested sex dens, I would hang out in the library more than on Lemmy.
Could you imagine if Fox News found out about Lemmy?
My guess is that the headline would be something like “WOKE NETIZENS TRAIN HACKERS TO TAKE OVER THE INTERNET BY SPREADING WOKENESS”
If this were true, people would actually go to the library more often!
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.
I read the bottom paragraph as though it was a John Oliver segment and that just made it funnier.
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.
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.
Up next, Fox News accuses walnuts of being lazy.
They just sit on the lawn and do nothing! A literal zombie can walk up to them, and they do nothing about it.
Gotta stoke the hatred, even when there’s no news. Can’t have their viewers cooling off and developing minds of their own…
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”
Turns out banning hate speech is woke now. Fun…
The N-word was in the official Scrabble dictionary until 2020.
I’m sure they’re mad that they can’t use it in the tournaments they don’t play in.
They probably removed the scoring because no one understands how it works
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.
The biggest take away of this is they think their viewers know what scrabble is.
It’s the part of the pig that’s best for fryin’, yeehaw!
