Like I said, using the UK is cheating (I guess I should have specified that). I can take a walk down Butthole Lane, look up the bus schedule from Shitterton to Twatt, and then I can go pick up 6 faggots for £1.60. It’s all just part of the nature of the place.

Holy shit, my sides.

ASPIE
ASPIES

...

BUBBA (?)

...

BULLDIKE
BULLDIKES
BULLDYKE
BULLDYKES
BUMBOY
BUMBOYS
CHINKIE
CHINKIES
CHOLO
CHOLOS
COCKSUCKER
COCKSUCKERS

...

DAGO
DAGOES
DAGOS
DARKEY
DARKEYS
DARKIE
DARKIES
DARKY
DIKEY
DIKIER
DIKIEST
DOGAN
DOGANS
DYKEY
DYKIER
DYKIEST
FAGGERIES
FAGGERY
FAGGIER
FAGGIEST
FAGGOTIER
FAGGOTIEST
FAGGOTRIES
FAGGOTRY

Okay, on some of these, they have a point lol.

Also, I got curious and scrolled down to “N”, and all I can say is holy holy shit man. I get it. People cherry-picked out some stupid decisions, but it honestly makes a lot of sense now that I can see the list. I also understand why they didn’t publish the list…

The UK doesn’t count man. If that’s the metric for obscenity then everything is allowed.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Butthole+Ln,+Shepshed,+Loughborough,+UK/@52.776606,-1.2752399,17z

No. It absolutely is not. Historically it did sure, but I challenge you to go to any corner of the English-speaking world and use it in any sentence at all and have any single person hear you and assume that you mean a bundle of sticks.

B*lg*um

Yes, but presumably if avoiding that situation was the goal they would have removed “faggot.” I can’t even really understand what is the reasoning which might have led them to be extremely aggressive about finding weird slurs that very few people use to root out and remove, while leaving the ones that are actual issues alone. In some way, I think the impotence of the final decision set is somehow connected with the performative nature of it all. Maybe? I have no idea.

Ultimately it seems like they’re just trying to fit in with the times as their clueless executives understand them. I think they’re a few years behind the times, though, actually. Maybe if they were a little more hip they would be trying to release a “free speech” Scrabble with a bunch of new words added and with “liberal” and “woke” removed, now that the 2010s’ brand of stupid performativeness is being replaced with a new type of performativeness that’s different and much darker.

“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.

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

Meta pursued arbitration, arguing that the book is prohibited under a nondisparagement contract she signed as a global affairs employee.

I feel like in the current climate, a lot more people need to be adhering to the doctrine of go fuck yourself.

“But we had the ARBITER say you COULD NOT”

“Yeah good luck with that”

“We will SUE you and RUIN you”

“Hey I’m doing a gofundme then good luck with all your stuff, people definitely know about my book now.”

“They threw two whole hives into the basement, and the results were immediate.”

Lol

Yeah, that’s why I like it. It is a well-informed list that still communicates good information. Presumably a lot of people who would find themselves watching this video already would know that Celeste is good.

“Papers, Please” got robbed, too.

Yeah, they are both good lists.

Also, Cunningham’s Law. I totally ignored the person who simply asked for the information.

That’s not the actual list although it’s a perfectly accurate list. I liked this video because it was highly focused on some less well-known titles.

1. Viewfinder
2. Moonlighter
3. Death’s Door
4. Astalon
5. Sea of Stars
6. Blasphemous 2
7. El Fungo
8. Mini Shooter Adventures
9. Chained Echoes
10. Tunic
11. CrossCode

Possibility?

I’m not trying to be overly self-promotional, but rss.ponder.cat + piefed.social’s “feeds” could probably do this very well. I actually really like the combination of having aggregated RSS feeds I can control, along with other people voting on them so particularly interesting stuff from them get surfaced more than other stuff.

I wonder if Russian influence campaigns are trying to smuggle “see, we’re super-tough on immigration also” messaging into liberal campaigns which are opposed to their preferred candidates.

Maybe it sounds like the most crackpot of crackpot theories, but it certainly doesn’t seem like this stuff is popular or effective messaging, and it definitely seems that to some extent they like to promote it anyway. And certainly the Russians have shown quite a bit of skill at co-opting “thought leaders” in other areas of the zeitgeist, and persuading them to emit the requested type of messaging. It would be weird if it hadn’t occurred to them to co-opt any of the mercenary consultants who tend to research and define this type of messaging on behalf of the campaigns.

Not that this is in any way excusing US Democratic / UK Labour’s own inherent dogshit as far as the choice of messaging. I am sure some of it is native-born. It just struck me, in the same way it did the article writer, how similarly it seems like it’s playing out in the UK as in the US, and I wonder if there is a reason for the similarity above and beyond shared foolishness.

It’s called the social contract.

If you’re still in the teenager mindset, where you get to do whatever you want and it’s an atrocity if someone does anything to you, then of course you will feel upset about coming in, picking a fight with everyone in the thread, and them having a little chuckle and heaving you out the door and then getting back to what they were doing before you came in.

I actually have a lot of sympathy for someone who wants to talk in a community where they feel like they are not able to. What you did is not that.

It’s funny how all of y’all are rooting for this war to continue. You know it’s going to continue to be shit for Europe, right? I hope the war mongers get to actively participate since they love it so much.

Hard for anyone to see that any other way than hostile and as deliberately misunderstanding the situation.

Generally speaking, whenever you are telling somebody what they think, instead of reading what they think and then responding to it with your own response, you’re in the wrong. No one here wants the war to continue.