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There's a magic to how they are doing this six months after Animal Crossing's heyday, because it was popular with the kids back then and definitely won't read as dated now
Between that and the Cardi B interview it feels like they assume all they have to do to get The Youth Vote (read: anyone under 40) is to vaguely interact with things The Kids like and not propose any policies that will actively improve their lives
I realize this is the Democrats every election but boy is it exhausting every time
i mean joe biden is an architect of the college debt crisis that The Youth are all facing so good luck getting him to go "Boy I really fucked that up! Anyway vote for me!"
Honestly as long as there's not significant opportunity cost to "yard signs" in a video game (and with a budget in the hundreds of million I doubt it) then I don't really give a shit if the Biden campaign does this.
So long as it's not all they're doing.
there's basically zero cost to this, it's not even a promotion through nintendo, they're just posting QR codes for the designs that you can load into your game
it probably took all of 5 minutes for an intern to run the images through one of the sites that auto-generates an AC pattern for you
Wait, you can just put anything in? What about the porn?
i mean joe biden is an architect of the college debt crisis that The Youth are all facing so good luck getting him to go "Boy I really fucked that up! Anyway vote for me!"
No, no, I have no empathy for it, give me a break.
i mean joe biden is an architect of the college debt crisis that The Youth are all facing so good luck getting him to go "Boy I really fucked that up! Anyway vote for me!"
No, no, I have no empathy for it, give me a break.
Joe "Break their Legs When They Ask for a Break" Biden.
Honestly as long as there's not significant opportunity cost to "yard signs" in a video game (and with a budget in the hundreds of million I doubt it) then I don't really give a shit if the Biden campaign does this.
So long as it's not all they're doing.
there's basically zero cost to this, it's not even a promotion through nintendo, they're just posting QR codes for the designs that you can load into your game
it probably took all of 5 minutes for an intern to run the images through one of the sites that auto-generates an AC pattern for you
Wait, you can just put anything in? What about the porn?
You can put that in too. Nintendo's not checking every single QR code, though if they find out via the report feature a ban is likely
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Honestly as long as there's not significant opportunity cost to "yard signs" in a video game (and with a budget in the hundreds of million I doubt it) then I don't really give a shit if the Biden campaign does this.
So long as it's not all they're doing.
there's basically zero cost to this, it's not even a promotion through nintendo, they're just posting QR codes for the designs that you can load into your game
it probably took all of 5 minutes for an intern to run the images through one of the sites that auto-generates an AC pattern for you
Wait, you can just put anything in? What about the porn?
If you don't upload it to the internet how are they gonna know what you decide to hang on the wall
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"All of Bow's brothers, their names rhyme with Bow. So there's Oboe, who plays the oboe, Gogh, like Van Gogh and he's missing an ear," she said, adding that there was a joke about "Which one of Bow's brothers likes to till the fields?" to which the answer was, "Sow."
Seems like she fell for a racially charged joke without realizing it.
"All of Bow's brothers, their names rhyme with Bow. So there's Oboe, who plays the oboe, Gogh, like Van Gogh and he's missing an ear," she said, adding that there was a joke about "Which one of Bow's brothers likes to till the fields?" to which the answer was, "Sow."
Seems like she fell for a racially charged joke without realizing it.
So sow (the verb), which sounds like sow (an adult female pig)?
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
"All of Bow's brothers, their names rhyme with Bow. So there's Oboe, who plays the oboe, Gogh, like Van Gogh and he's missing an ear," she said, adding that there was a joke about "Which one of Bow's brothers likes to till the fields?" to which the answer was, "Sow."
Seems like she fell for a racially charged joke without realizing it.
So sow (the verb), which sounds like sow (an adult female pig)?
In my accent at least, those two words do not sound alike.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Oooooooooh, I get it. If you check out the clip itself, she repeated a racist joke by another co-worker. She did not know it was racist at the time no doubt, which isn't much of an excuse hence the apology.
That bit I copy n' pasted was from the article, not the vid itself, so it's not completely word for word. What's sure is that it's a racist joke.
Trump is in Kenosha now. So the neighborhood where Blake was shot is holding an event to counter that, to keep the focus on Blake. Faith leaders also here. After some speeches, it's now a block party, with food, music, voter registration, and a Black Panther themed bounce house.
While I appreciate the apology, can we take a moment to realize that in a nation where multiple Black farmer movements are fighting racism from agri-business and the USDA to continue farming, the automatic equating of “sow” - i.e. sowing seeds - with slavery is also pretty problematic?
Oooooooooh, I get it. If you check out the clip itself, she repeated a racist joke by another co-worker. She did not know it was racist at the time no doubt, which isn't much of an excuse hence the apology.
That bit I copy n' pasted was from the article, not the vid itself, so it's not completely word for word.
Okay, divorced from the context of the brothers O', I can see a character introducing himself as Sow who sows fields coming off as racist, barely, if I really stretch it.
But if this were beaten into the ground like bling bling, that Evanesence song, and other such bits of media, I could it see start to become racist and weaponized as a racist joke.
But right, here, with a character named bow who wields a bow, it sounds normal, in this context.
Absolutely not something I'm qualified to wade in on, but someone did make this lengthy explanatory post about why some people might see the joke as problematic even if there wasn't some weird slavery connotations in the phrasing of the setup
"All of Bow's brothers, their names rhyme with Bow. So there's Oboe, who plays the oboe, Gogh, like Van Gogh and he's missing an ear," she said, adding that there was a joke about "Which one of Bow's brothers likes to till the fields?" to which the answer was, "Sow."
Seems like she fell for a racially charged joke without realizing it.
So sow (the verb), which sounds like sow (an adult female pig)?
In my accent at least, those two words do not sound alike.
I was gonna say doesn't sow (pig) rhyme with "Ow" (pain exclamation)?
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"All of Bow's brothers, their names rhyme with Bow. So there's Oboe, who plays the oboe, Gogh, like Van Gogh and he's missing an ear," she said, adding that there was a joke about "Which one of Bow's brothers likes to till the fields?" to which the answer was, "Sow."
Seems like she fell for a racially charged joke without realizing it.
So sow (the verb), which sounds like sow (an adult female pig)?
In my accent at least, those two words do not sound alike.
I was gonna say doesn't sow (pig) rhyme with "Ow" (pain exclamation)?
Yeah for me (UK RP/posh aussie) sew and sow (a field) are homonyms, sow (a pig) rhymes with bough* (tree).
*very nearly wrote bow (greeting) there but then we're going to start getting recursive.
"All of Bow's brothers, their names rhyme with Bow. So there's Oboe, who plays the oboe, Gogh, like Van Gogh and he's missing an ear," she said, adding that there was a joke about "Which one of Bow's brothers likes to till the fields?" to which the answer was, "Sow."
Seems like she fell for a racially charged joke without realizing it.
So sow (the verb), which sounds like sow (an adult female pig)?
In my accent at least, those two words do not sound alike.
I was gonna say doesn't sow (pig) rhyme with "Ow" (pain exclamation)?
"All of Bow's brothers, their names rhyme with Bow. So there's Oboe, who plays the oboe, Gogh, like Van Gogh and he's missing an ear," she said, adding that there was a joke about "Which one of Bow's brothers likes to till the fields?" to which the answer was, "Sow."
Seems like she fell for a racially charged joke without realizing it.
So sow (the verb), which sounds like sow (an adult female pig)?
In my accent at least, those two words do not sound alike.
I was gonna say doesn't sow (pig) rhyme with "Ow" (pain exclamation)?
Really? I've only ever heard it pronounced like sew (you reap what you sow?)
that's correct for sow as in planting seeds, sow as in a female pig is pronounced like ow! that hurt!
Whether the words rhyme or not I don't think pigs factor into it. It's a matter of the name of a character, who is a person of color, being equated to working in a field (i.e. a slave).
It might not seem like much, but several of her viewers found it insulting and she obviously agreed/understood their viewpoint, hence the apology.
That level of apology might seem unnecessary for what was essentially a throwaway remark, but considering the state of things currently I would much rather someone go out of their way to correct themselves than not.
Absolutely not something I'm qualified to wade in on, but someone did make this lengthy explanatory post about why some people might see the joke as problematic even if there wasn't some weird slavery connotations in the phrasing of the setup
Huh, so the joke wasnt the issue, but that it sat at an intersectionality crossroads. Interesting.
Oh, keeping with what the post said about black farmer representation, was watching American Heartland (graveyard shift, wasgonna go to bed) and they mentioned that an African American architech was behind a series of barns that came to define American farm life.
though I will say my neck hairs perk a little when someone says "tilled the fields" or something akin to that
yeah reading the transcript I'm like "I believe that Noelle didn't realise/think about the connotations of what she was saying but I am very, very skeptical about the coworker who told her the joke."
Whether the words rhyme or not I don't think pigs factor into it. It's a matter of the name of a character, who is a person of color, being equated to working in a field (i.e. a slave).
It might not seem like much, but several of her viewers found it insulting and she obviously agreed/understood their viewpoint, hence the apology.
That level of apology might seem unnecessary for what was essentially a throwaway remark, but considering the state of things currently I would much rather someone go out of their way to correct themselves than not.
yeah I just wish I understood the racist aspect to the joke
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There's a magic to how they are doing this six months after Animal Crossing's heyday, because it was popular with the kids back then and definitely won't read as dated now
Between that and the Cardi B interview it feels like they assume all they have to do to get The Youth Vote (read: anyone under 40) is to vaguely interact with things The Kids like and not propose any policies that will actively improve their lives
I realize this is the Democrats every election but boy is it exhausting every time
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No, no, I have no empathy for it, give me a break.
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Joe "Break their Legs When They Ask for a Break" Biden.
You can put that in too. Nintendo's not checking every single QR code, though if they find out via the report feature a ban is likely
It's common knowledge in law school that the highest paying job you can get coming out of it is working for a Tobacco company as a lawyer.
And that they pay so well because it damages your soul working for them so you burn out fairly quickly.
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If you don't upload it to the internet how are they gonna know what you decide to hang on the wall
AH, but maybe he was choked for a very different, legitimate reason such as
*checks notes*
Being black!
Wait
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I linked her a good book to check out!
Mostly cause you can't just hire someone to be anti-racist for you.
https://www.ibramxkendi.com/how-to-be-an-antiracist-1
What did she say?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/she-ra-creator-noelle-stevenson-apologizes-for-racially-charged-joke-during-livestream/ar-BB18qSTs
"All of Bow's brothers, their names rhyme with Bow. So there's Oboe, who plays the oboe, Gogh, like Van Gogh and he's missing an ear," she said, adding that there was a joke about "Which one of Bow's brothers likes to till the fields?" to which the answer was, "Sow."
Seems like she fell for a racially charged joke without realizing it.
So sow (the verb), which sounds like sow (an adult female pig)?
In my accent at least, those two words do not sound alike.
That bit I copy n' pasted was from the article, not the vid itself, so it's not completely word for word. What's sure is that it's a racist joke.
Incredible.
So, what is ra....I mean.....
Hrm.
Okay, divorced from the context of the brothers O', I can see a character introducing himself as Sow who sows fields coming off as racist, barely, if I really stretch it.
But if this were beaten into the ground like bling bling, that Evanesence song, and other such bits of media, I could it see start to become racist and weaponized as a racist joke.
But right, here, with a character named bow who wields a bow, it sounds normal, in this context.
https://azzylon.tumblr.com/post/627597633984380929/explanation-behind-the-sow-joke-updated-828
I was gonna say doesn't sow (pig) rhyme with "Ow" (pain exclamation)?
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Yeah for me (UK RP/posh aussie) sew and sow (a field) are homonyms, sow (a pig) rhymes with bough* (tree).
*very nearly wrote bow (greeting) there but then we're going to start getting recursive.
yeah that's correct. sow the verb rhymes with sew
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that's correct for sow as in planting seeds, sow as in a female pig is pronounced like ow! that hurt!
It might not seem like much, but several of her viewers found it insulting and she obviously agreed/understood their viewpoint, hence the apology.
That level of apology might seem unnecessary for what was essentially a throwaway remark, but considering the state of things currently I would much rather someone go out of their way to correct themselves than not.
Huh, so the joke wasnt the issue, but that it sat at an intersectionality crossroads. Interesting.
Oh, keeping with what the post said about black farmer representation, was watching American Heartland (graveyard shift, wasgonna go to bed) and they mentioned that an African American architech was behind a series of barns that came to define American farm life.
Damned if I can find a link to them.
yeah reading the transcript I'm like "I believe that Noelle didn't realise/think about the connotations of what she was saying but I am very, very skeptical about the coworker who told her the joke."
Strong recommendation for Vicky Mochama as well, she's a really great writer and excellent whenever she appears on CBC
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yeah I just wish I understood the racist aspect to the joke