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Castle Crashers is a racist game
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Vigo the Carpathian
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White Man said:And they're clearly not racist at all:
Verboten said:
You said it, not me.
Newsflash:
Many western game devlopers are obnoxious racist assholes.
Ban me, I don't care, but it needs to be said. The guy is a scumbag. But I'm sure many of you knew that already. With great talent comes even greater egos.
Stabby McSter
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Before you do get banned (if you do), how is Cliffy racist?Vigo the Carpathian said:
Vigo the Carpathian said:Newsflash:
Many western game devlopers are obnoxious racist assholes.
Ban me, I don't care, but it needs to be said. The guy is a scumbag. But I'm sure many of you knew that already. With great talent comes even greater egos.
Can you back this up at all?
Vigo the Carpathian said:
If you look at Japanese games (along with anime and manga) on the whole, I think you'll find that most of the heroes and heroines have black or brown hair, not blonde. WWII didn't turn the Japanese into self-loathing Aryan supremacists. Might want to stick with sleuthing out anti-Xbox conspiracies and ****ing with the Ghostbusters, bro.
DaddyZ said:
Point. Even if the developers didn't intend them as racial caricatures, there's just too much room for misinterpretation there. (I thought they were some kind of shadow creatures when I first saw them, but I can understand how other people could get a different impression.) They really ought to ditch the designs.
One thing I thought was funny, though - why did that woman automatically assume the characters you're playing as are white? They're wearing full helms - I've got no clue what color they're supposed to be.
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
Tellaerin said:If you look at Japanese games (along with anime and manga) on the whole, I think you'll find that most of the heroes and heroines have black or brown hair, not blonde. WWII didn't turn the Japanese into self-loathing Aryan supremacists. Might want to stick with sleuthing out anti-Xbox conspiracies and ****ing with the Ghostbusters, bro.
One idea that had been rooted in Japan from WWII is that white is better than black (war time shintoism taught that as well) and America treating their black soliders like sh!t didn't help any... but on the good side is the younger kids are starting to look up to blacks more and the stigma isn't as heavy as it is in the states...
plagiarize
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i always thought they looked like little skeleton dudes.
OMG SKELETONS ARE WHITE THAT'S RACIST.
seriously though, aren't the guys in white just wearing white things over their armour? dont they have grey arms and OMG BLACK HANDS.
seriously.
anyway. i hope they save the powerpuff girls and defeat ignorance.
OMG SKELETONS ARE WHITE THAT'S RACIST.
seriously though, aren't the guys in white just wearing white things over their armour? dont they have grey arms and OMG BLACK HANDS.
seriously.
anyway. i hope they save the powerpuff girls and defeat ignorance.
CrapSandwich
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Cliffy B approves of curb stomping, hence he's racist? I think that's what the chap above was getting at. Which is just as ridiculous as identifying the characters in Castle Crashers as black and white.
Sensitive Susies FTL.
Sensitive Susies FTL.
DaddyZ said:Funny thing is these books are/were popular in England, the characters have crusader masks and the crusades....oh nevermind, there's no history to this...right!?
Enid Blytons stuff was and is still popular but nowadays you wont find the Golliwogs in their own or any other of her books. There was some rumours that she might have been racist but its unsubstantiated.
Now, all we need is CliffyB himself to come in here and SMACK YOUR ASS DOWN.
Ahem.
Anyway, I do believe that those characters were put in there just to add to enemy variety, but I can see how, to the right person, they would look racist. Hell, when I end up getting Castle Crashers, I won't be able to play that part without thinking of this phone call. Right or wrong, thanks, lady.
Ahem.
Anyway, I do believe that those characters were put in there just to add to enemy variety, but I can see how, to the right person, they would look racist. Hell, when I end up getting Castle Crashers, I won't be able to play that part without thinking of this phone call. Right or wrong, thanks, lady.
Vigo the Carpathian
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adg1034 said:
I would love Cliffy to come in here and tell us what his inspiration was for the Locust Horde.
TheGreatDave
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Cliffy is racist now? Good to know. They can add that to the GOW promotion. Any publicity helps!
Vigo the Carpathian
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TheGreatDave said:
I guess, I'm not buying it.
Runningflame570
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Unison said:
Yes..the Crusaders were definitely some racist bastards. But this game isn't racist, just like the "White is Coming" PSP ads arn't (or rather weren't) racist.
Some people need to think objectively here..now if she is say around 50yrs old+ I can understand..but if she is much younger she is the same kind of person who has got white guys everywhere racist or not afraid of being called racist for perceived slights against "minorities".
Hitler Stole My Potato
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White Man said:
He has no argument.
Vigo the Carpathian
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White Man said:
Go ahead and google "Locust Horde" and "bible" or "Locust horde" and "nazi".
TobitheCat
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I'm with you. If you follow the trail of fried chicken, you'd find some white guy at the end telling everyone what should offend them.HomShaBom said:
I'm black, just in case some wiseguy wants to call me a racist for the "fried chicken" statement.
Blackace said:
Yeah, the impression I've had since at least the mid-80's was that all foreigners are more or less equally strange to the Japanese.
The thing about wartime Shintoism teaching that white's better than black sounds seriously screwed up, though - that's my first time hearing about it. Meh. :/Vigo the Carpathian said:I would love Cliffy to come in here and tell us what his inspiration was for the Locust Horde.
If anything, you ought to be accusing Cliff of reverse racism. After all, Gears is the game where you play as a badass black man, and gun down hordes of dead-white-skinned monstrosities. It's obvious he's portraying white folk as monsters and encouraging the black man to grab a chainsaw and cut them down for the good of humanity.
Seriously, that's about as ridiculous as the thought of CliffyB being some kind of closet racist.
Tellaerin said:
I think you just nailed the most important thing in all this right there.
People need to understand that "people see what they want to see". Many problems would disappear in this world when people would then stop playing the "let's look if i ever could be discriminated somehow somewhere" game.
I guess she could also associate the look of the helms with the KKK...
Vigo the Carpathian
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adg1034 said:I know- a horde of locusts was one of the plagues brought down by Moses onto Egypt. So, you're saying that in the game we'll be attacking a creation of Judaism?
http://www.wwnorton.com/nto/middleages/topic_3/nathan.htm
l their ranks swelled so that the number of men and women, and children exceeded a locust horde; of them it was said: "The locusts have no king yet go they forth all of them by bands" [Proverbs 31.27]
Vigo the Carpathian
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White Man said:
Look 2 posts up.
Vigo the Carpathian said:
Yeah, I didn't see anything bad there, either.
It's comparing their ranks to the size of a locust horde, which is what we call a metaphor. Also note that the wording implies that locust horde is a concept that was understood previously to the writing, it's not introducing the concept.
Hitler Stole My Potato
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Vigo the Carpathian said:
Well I'm convinced. CliffyB is obviously the Grand Dragon of the KKK.
Vigo the Carpathian
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Muslims dude.
Geez I have to spell EVREYTHING out????
Geez I have to spell EVREYTHING out????
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