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Oh you played with the minecolonies mod? I have used that before and it was pretty fun
Let’s go! Division 7 arena in Fortnite today
Killing Russian Commies, Chinese Commies, German Socialists, Italian facists, and Japanese Imperialists with American Steel
@AWOIII got any redstone projects that need doing? I like engineering things
Anybody playing Tales of Crestoria? It's a gacha Tales game
I beat someone in smash who had the name ACAB
then taunted of course
Lmao
Legend
Shiny Giratina at 14,404
Older hunt but hey it's a cool shiny
Im looking for some people to play hell let loose with on pc, just dm me if you are interested
I hope this is the right channel. Board games are games, right?
The North American Scrabble Players Association is moving to ban "offensive slurs" from tournament gameplay, in light of George Floyd’s highly publicized death making everyone desperate to appear non-racist. A word is “offensive” if every single definition of it in a dictionary is tagged “offensive” or the like, and a word is a “slur” if it refers to a person’s attributes mentioned in the NASPA Code of Conduct (such as race, gender, sexuality, and so on). Thus, it is highly likely that the so-called N-word that refers to blacks will be banned, but the so-called F-word that refers to gay men most likely wouldn’t be banned because, while it’s a “slur”, it’s not “offensive” because it can also mean “to make weary by hard work” (the 3-letter version) or “to bind together into a bundle” (the 6-letter version). The 4-letter S-word for 💩 probably won’t be banned because, while it’s obviously “offensive”, it’s not a “slur”.
IMHO, if the reason why we need to ban the N-word is because spelling out a word on a game board, devoid of all context, grammar, and meaning, is enough to inspire moral outrage and offense in minority groups who deserve to not have to see such awful words regardless of context, then the same should apply to the anti-gay F-words. Sure, the words have non-offensive meanings, but nobody in North America ever uses them, so arguably the words carry the same weight for gay men that the N-word does for blacks. Why should gay Scrabble players not have their feelings protected like black ones, just because the words that hurt *their* feelings can also vaguely and hypothetically mean other things?
I'm sure house rules overrule the companies rules
My grandmother has an old scrabble board game. New words have been invented since the manufacture of that particular set. We still use new words. Given the same amount of letter tiles, people are gonna spell whatever the hell they want. Also, I doubt many people care about scrabble tournaments...
> I'm sure house rules overrule the companies rules
@Dstar_Destroyer True, *home* Scrabble games can use any lexicon they want. But in tournament Scrabble, NASPA decides the lexicon. Really, removing slurs from the lexicon is mostly empty posturing, because the words you can play are constrained by the letters you randomly draw out of the bag, so if you wanted to play a slur on purpose just to troll your opponent, you'd have to make sub-optimal plays just to save the letters that make up the slur until you can play them all at once. (The slur that's most likely to come up in an actual game is the 3-letter one that results when you take the 7-letter word for a female homosexual and remove the last four letters, because it's a short word and all of its letters are pretty common.) The biggest effect that banning slurs has on the game is opening the door to a slippery slope of banning any word for any reason, which I personally oppose.
On a tangential note, Scrabble is a feminist's nightmare. "According to Hasbro, 83% of recreational Scrabble players 25 to 54 are female." (Source: <https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/sorry-feminists-men-are-better-scrabble-11611.html>) And yet at the competitive level, the people memorizing all the obscure words (like QAT and QI) and using them to dominate games are mostly men.
Even before George Floyd was killed, there was a list of "offensive" words that were legal in tournament Scrabble, but not printed in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary for home and school use. All the aforementioned slurs (except the F-words for gay men) were on that list, as are some amusing words like REDNECK, CRAPPER (but not CRAP), and one of my favorites, FEMINAZI. That last word will probably be treated as a slur and banned, but imagine: FEMINIST and NAZI are both legal in Scrabble (apparently, enough people use "nazi" without a capital N to not violate the "no proper names" rule of Scrabble), but if you combine them. . . slur!
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Fun fact, some guy who spoke zero French memorized a French dictionary to win a French scrabble tournament
Anyone play Magic the Gathering Arena?
@KumquatLord Answers the question of "How bad are the French at French"?
Hey
Anyone here like sonic
No
I like the characters, but never played the game much. Before I was a furry, I preferred Mario over Sonic.
I enjoy the games for what they are
I've played very frew sonic games
Like half a game
Half of half of the game
i hate how i have gta 4 the lost and damned and the gay tony one but its on xbox and i only play pc now. ill probably wait to get the bundle rockstar has on my pc