America Patton

> 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!

bruh wut

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

@Vinz Clortho Ye I've played MTG Arena. It's been a little bit tho.

built a wall out of tanks

It's like WoT

But it's Wall of Tanks

yeah

wall thunder

@Goose Your PfP is haunting my lucid dreams

@kriegor191

Why is Pokemon getting so damn easy

Sword and Shield sucked

Literally exp share is automatically built in the game now you get no say in whether or not it's used

There's no story whatsoever and there is basically nothing in the post game

I am not paying extra for the post game, the other games had it for free

all these past few years have done is prove that gamergate was right on every point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDs2wNgzub4

I wish there were a good un-woke or anti-woke tabletop gaming community, since the one I was a member of for years decided to side with Burn Loot Murder last month. 😐

Fames of war

@mathgrant

@Mauler I don't know what "Fames of war" is. There's a wargame called "Flames of War", but I'm not incredibly interested in complicated wargames with miniatures and stuff. In any event, I'm looking for a community devoted to tabletop gaming as a whole, not a single specific game (even if its fanbase happens to be anti-woke). I'm mostly into abstract strategy games (AbStrats), because they tend to have rules which are easier to learn and easier to teach to normies.