• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    1. I don’t think the competitive Scrabble scene (of which there is a very intense one) really needs to be in charge of the game for everybody. But I get why that contingent is incredibly upset. The set of allowed words is locked in stone, such that people practice and optimize particular memorizations around the particular set of words, and they are barely words at that point, just random collections of letters that form the stepping-stones in their grand strategic endeavor. There are Scrabble experts who do not speak the language, just have memorized the words and are good at the strategy. I get why they’re upset.
    2. They’re not releasing the exact list, which is automatically a red flag of some fuckery to me.
    3. Nonetheless it has been confirmed that “Paki,” “fenian,” and “shiksha” are all on the banned list. Bro what?
    4. “Bitch,” “faggot,” and “slut” are all still in the game. 👍

    Deciding the list of officially banned words was always going to be a hopeless task, but even within that it looks like they’ve been doing a bad job.

    https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/uproar-over-scrabble-words-that-can-no-longer-be-used/news-story/bb72350938e787cf5566c01109c98dd0

    Edit: Uncapitalized

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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        “Paki” maybe. The other two I don’t think are.

        I think it’s especially hilarious that “fenian” is a slur. For any Irish person for whom it would become relevant at all, I feel like if you called them a “fenian” they would swell with pride.

  • Delilah (She/Her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    “scores” = groups of 20

    so somewhere between 40 and 100 players quit the game because they couldn’t say a racial slur. In a game with apparently 2.5 million daily players. That can’t be right. In a playerbase that size I’d expect the percentage of bigots with no life to be somewhere in the tens of thousands.

    Guess it was a slow news day

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      I feel like the amount of bigots in a game that requires knowing lots of words is below the population average.

      But not THAT far.

  • fossilesque@mander.xyzOP
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    My grandma, a very sweet, timid small old lady, once threw down a “C U N T” then innocently said, “What? It’s a word.”