As was foretold, we've added advertisements to the forums! If you have questions, or if you encounter any bugs, please visit this thread: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/240191/forum-advertisement-faq-and-reports-thread/
Options
Penny Arcade - Comic - Reportage
Dog
Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
Penny Arcade - Comic - Reportage
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
Unknown User on
+9
Posts
Which reminds me, need to change my clantags from "CMEN" at some point.
Is Hearthstone as full of Naga-as-the-N-word is WoW was? The fact Blizzard wouldn't crush those people really annoyed me.
To be or not to be?
That's too bad. I find the older I get, the more appreciation I have for a well crafted offensive name. The less sense it makes the better. They're like little bits of your favorite batshit insane cartoon, except crafted out of racism.
in Return to Castle Wolfenstein I named my nazi guy "jewkiller". they made me change it. not that I had any real attachment to the name but I mean... really? I'm on the nazi team, that's what nazis did, they killed jews. like, a ton.. it's a game about nazis and shooting and killing with guns. and flamethrowers. it's not a fantasy RPG or pokey-man card game or sci-fi space shooter...
Making you change your name was the right call, definitely.
Nintendo ID: Pastalonius
Smite\LoL:Gremlidin \ WoW & Overwatch & Hots: Gremlidin#1734
3ds: 3282-2248-0453
That's gross dude. It's not even clever or funny.
you can't be serious about that.
A name doesn't become more or less offensive based on the genre of video game.
Oskar SoHighler
To me running around as XxVegeta_HitlerxX or Headshot_Himmler doesn't quite invoke the same reaction as Jewkiller.
naga, please.
You are not Mecha-Hitler. You are a real life person that others are playing the game with. Many of whom the term jew killer is intensely offensive given their own personal backgrounds and histories.
I find context tends to matter but in general, as someone who plays a bunch of historic, grognardy games, people naming themselves after historical figures almost always do it as the 'wrong' side as a way to represent their shitty opinions in non-offensive ways or to be just on the edge of good taste so they can cause a fuss when someone takes their name as not appropriate.
Kinda like how you see people fly the Confederate flag 'to remember the history' but often there's a shittier motive about too.
The classic the-offensive-thing-I-said-was-just-a-joke-you're-wrong-to-be-offended defense.
Yes
the trash bin of history
not?
Damn.
It's just wierd to me how much this matters to some people. The entire European side of my family save 1 was wiped out in concentration camps, but I can still see a silly name in a silly game and laugh. And yet we throw out this "trash bin of history" rhetoric, mostly because people like me might be offended by it?
I hate to think we're at the point where someone can't play a silly nazi game with a silly over-the-top name without the locals breaking out torches and pitchforks.
To this day I still don't know what prompted someone to report the name, or why it was deemed offensive. If you think it may have been the KKK of his name & Guild initials combined, ALL of my WoW characters' names began with K, so they were all KKK, and yet Knuttjob was the only one reported.
Now I am thinking of the South Park game where Token, as a member of Cartman's "Koopa Keep Kingdom" faction, busts down the door of the elf-kids' house/fortress and proudly announces: "We're the KKK!"
Which still almost makes me fall out of my chair thinking about it even now.
Many people aren't as ready to laugh about this topic as you are.