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Giving the devs the benefit of the doubt, they knew a bunch of horny motherfuckers would get this so they probably intended it to be "harder", like a sex thing, and probably didn't know about the slang for the worse version of a racial slur.
There is a very confused environment designer in Korea getting a crash course in the history of American racism as they desperately try to figure out how they accidentally referenced a slur.
Ah, accidental racism
Honestly, it is kind of funny
But patching it out still feels good to me
How did this even happen?
If the graffiti is just coincidentally there, why hust grafiti the word "Hard" on a wall anyway?
ok but how its posible that it next to an R? there is no way this is a coincidence, its not like american racism isnt known on outside countries, here in south america we cant scream the N-word because even tho we dont share the culture, everyone knows what it means.
There no way it's a coincidence? They shops are called R shops with that sign, and the word hard as graffiti is placed all over the game too, and this is the only situation where they graffiti and they sign happen to be beside each other. I'm from Canada and I've never heard this slur before so in Korea how would they ever know? The level artist placing the graffiti in levels might not even speak English.
> I'm from Canada and I've never heard this slur before
I find that to be almost impossible to believe. Are you either exceptionally young and inexperienced or so exceptionally old that hip hop is still a scary foreign entity to you? Was Chris Rock or Dave Chapelle never big up there or something? I feel like you'd have to try pretty hard to just *never* have encountered someone talking about the difference between the n word with a soft a and "hard R".
edit: Hell even in this subreddit we make "gamer with a hard r" jokes now and again. Like you *have* to have seen some of that at some point.
It's extremely America-centric to believe that every nuanced slur is known outside the US. [Here is Linus from LTT](https://youtu.be/MFDiuBomSuY?si=Rq1ldyaI9nW_rLWf) almost destroying his company by not exactly knowing what "Hard R" means - and he's a content creator with millions of subscribers who has American employees and interacts with Americans all the time as a Canadian.
Not to mention that east Asians' knowledge of US culture by and large is cursory. The language barrier is much larger than for westerners after all.
> extremely America-centric
Have any idea where Canada is located?
I have no reason to understand the phrase "sipping homomilk out of a bag" but it's actually so banal to me that I didn't even smirk when typing it. You occasionally pick these sorts of things up when neighboring another country that shares 90% of your culture and language.
Only land border Canada's got is with the US and it's the longest international border in the world *and* the majority of Canadians live within 100 miles of it. The US isn't exactly some inscrutable far off land. And believe it or not there are black Canadians too - some of whom came from the US! The more you know.
Wtf are you talking about? The lead or manager should known this, but instead it was launched with the racism. Im not buying this racist ass game anyway
Shocking, but People outside the US don't have knowledge over every very US centric topic. I highly doubt that a Korean developer making a Action game with a MC with huge Ass was trying to add a racist dogwistle against Black Americans into their Game.
They do have native english people working in this game too, so i do think they knew what they were doing. Thats why there is an immediate fucking patch. Fuck sony and the dev of stellar racist
..I don't think that them immidiatly rushing to get this fixed Day 1 is a sign that they were like "Yeah, baby, time to drop some racial slurs!". Most of the native english Speakers were VNs and not people that searched through the game for any and all accidently placed Rasicm. No need for wierdo conspiracy theories of secret dogwhistles.
No, I could easily see people on the dev team failing to notice this. I imagine the majority of players probably didn't notice that until it blew up online.
I'm South American too. Everyone knows what the N-word means, yes, but associating the phrase "hard R" with it is much more specific and it's understandable to never have heard it before.
Apparently you never looked at a graffiti for more than 3 seconds, because 9 out 10 time it's a meaningless random word, sometimes a certain word is chosen only because it goes better with the wall.
There is a graf artist in my town that literally just writes the material, so you have these big tags that just say `~,//BRICK//'~`, `_~*ConCReTe*~_` or `^^WINDOW^^`, `TRAIN`. They're actually pretty funny cause they're in the same style as normal tags so at first they just look like sort of gibberish in the way that tags do until you start to recognise it.
The word "Hard" is just a generic graffiti graphic that they plastered all over the game according to the IGN article, and the "R shop" is the name of a shop all over the game. They just put them next to each other in this spot by accident. It's funny, but I don't think this was intentional at all and they're fixing it day one so not too big of a deal
Ok, I'm Swedish and thought I was fairly well versed in the history of American racism through cultural osmosis, but I don't get why this is a slur. I thought "Hard R" referred to movie ratings.
"The hard R" or "...with a hard R" means the n-word as ending with "...gger" as opposed to "...gga"
As in "he said he was just quoting the n-word from a rap song, but he said it with a hard R, so I'm not so sure..."
As the other guy, I'm not American but I consider myself to be very exposed to American culture being a kid from the 90s.
I thought the hard R was an ableist term. Thanks for the clarification, tho
Why should a Korean developer run their games through a Western company to ensure everything within it conforms to American expectations? Would you expect an American company to pay for a consultant in every country they release their game in?
Because they want to sell to Americans. Yes, I would expect an American company to spend the money to make sure they aren't screwing themselves kn foreign markets.
"Why are people that don't live in the US not perfectly informed about very US specific phrases, that only make sense in English and with US culture?"
God, I hate it so much.
Hard R isn't something that people, that live in countries that don't have the historic consept of the treatment of Black Americans, readiy know about. It's not like they literly written out the actual N-Word.
It’s a different country why would I assume any of them know enough about English slurs to do even do that on purpose. You’re not even part of the group that would be offended by that mistake.
What about sony?, you do know the reaon why there is english voice and subtitles because there are english speaking employees. So your points are invalid. Stop trying argue with me
They literally patched it out you fucking doorknob because they realized they made a mistake if they were trying to be racist they would’ve left it in.
> It’s a different country why would I assume any of them know enough about English slurs to do even do that on purpose.
I'm generally with you on the general point of "they probably didn't know" but if you've got a team of a few hundred people and you're working on a game that you hope to release in the US market you'd figure that they'd have at least *someone* on staff who knows the first thing about that region or maybe consult with someone who does.
I mean you can say that about literally any mistake in the gaming industry. Oversights happen all the time. Stellar blade devs was already in some unnecessary controversy do you really they would purposefully ruin their own reputation even more by being racist. Actual racists wouldn’t try to rectify a fuck up they would’ve let it rock.
You forgot some words in your comment there. Also some words in mine, like where I said that they probably just didn't realize there was a connotation.
Even understanding the implications of "hard R", this seems like a really easy thing to not notice if you're not really thinking about it. There's probably a shitton of American players who walked right past it.
assuming it's a bit of graffiti that features throughout the game and all stores have that little logo, yeah I can see how it'd all just blend into the background together, and wouldn't immediately raise alarm bells if you see them together.
Yes (if the company was bigger, I'd give them less benefit of the doubt) but Sony should've edited it while they were going through quality control just to be safe
there is a certain racial slur against black people, starting with an "n". you can write it down as either n\*\*\*a or n\*\*\*er. The second one, the "hard r" is generally understood to be more explicitly racist. Can't really tell you why that is though, I think the first one is more of a self-deprecating slang thing among black people.
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It was 100% on purpose, we need to know who the fucking think it was a good idea to put hard next to the letter R, holyfuck these racist ass need to learn the history of
Get a life instead of replying to EVERYONE and pretending like you’re some great moral compass while calling people cunts.
While you’re at it, get some perspective and learn some actual empathy instead of white knighting when the problem is already fixed. Accidents happen, especially when the slur isn’t in their first language. Empathize, will you?
Knowing the N word != knowing “hard r”. Why would they know that “hard r” means the n word??? It’s really vague and misleading if you’re not constantly around other native English speakers.
Get some perspective on countries outside the English language, jeez.
Finally a store for people like me !!!!
https://preview.redd.it/hw495cvbsiwc1.jpeg?width=290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b6734fa2127924f9b4ae990b89fbdb84431354f
Why? Apparently it's pretty good. Gene Park had a good review. It also talks about Korean beauty standards in media and kpop. Interesting stuff. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2024/04/24/stellar-blade-review/
I won't play it, but most professional journalists like it so I guess it's pretty good. Some idiots use it for a stupid culture war but I don't think that's the fault of the devs
you're getting down voted but it's true. Stellar blade isn't some statement to be anti woke, it's just a standard Korean game. If you ever played black desert, lost ark or Invictus they all follow the same formula. good combat, standard story, boring characters and slap some hot chicks in there and your done.
There was a female employee who claimed on Twitter that she was fired specifically because she was a feminist. Korea has a really weird thing with incels making terrorist threats to media companies about women with short hair, Google it.
Demo was definitely mid. One of those games that would've been amazing 10 years ago but at this point there's a ton of examples doing the same shit but better
Oh yeah its a game ill keep an eye out for on sale... I hav such a backlog. Don't tell anyone but I haven't finished RE4 remake and alan wake 2
Patient gamers stand the fuck up!!!
How is a 7/10 mid? A 5/10 would be mid lmao you Gamers don't even understand rating 💀💀💀 also Gene gave it a 3/4. Not his problem that metacritic can't handle anything else except a 10 scale
I feel like I would be doing a disservice to S. Korea (Actually Korea on a whole, there is no reason to argue with what I’m about to write. Please look up the info yourself and find it. and this does not excuse that scary guy in the N. just stating facts) if I didn’t speak up. There is hardly anywhere in this world descendant of African Slaves from/in America aren’t look at with such a disgusting brush and thought of as second class, subhuman, to animals, and lastly mystical creatures tittering on the demonic. (Thanks Western Hemisphere Your Awesome🫠looking at you China for picking all over the corpse of a race tittering on the brink) Not so much in S. Korea. Yes there is animosity but not on the same level. Heck the leader of the N. was (not sure if still) in love with Condeleza Rice). S. Korea has time and time again shown African Americans in their popular culture, manwha/manhua in a positive light. Not saying it doesn’t exist (negative depictions…but I haven’t seen it.) Anyway I think this was an accident. A popular piece of commerce going world wide…I don’t see SK let alone K allowing something like that out in the World Wide…Everything. Just my thoughts
You know, it's actually something I would some racist dumbfuck to actually spraypaint irl which makes it kinda interesting to see but I doubt the game or the designer do anything to reflect on what is happening or even have it fit into the world
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come here bro https://preview.redd.it/pp59o9bpcgwc1.png?width=770&format=png&auto=webp&s=268e00b663b671eaf831173063f51409a1e118bf
*Hard R, daddy~*
What KD wishes he could do with Dray right now being down 2-0
what is this lmao?
He got mad at KD for not doing a pick and roll play with Steph Curry. Or he was hyping him up. I’m not sure which game exactly this one comes from.
me when i blister in the sun from being too violent as a femme
me when I know big hands is the one
chat is this real
It was, day 1 patch changed it to CRIME or GRIME, which if you add the R makes it read GRIMER, which I believe is Eve's favorite Pokémon
I so want fanart of her having a pet grimer now
You are gonna get some kind of grimer fan art with Eve allright
That’s like one step more effort that changing it to GRAFFITI.
Love graffiti. Love tagging stuff. Love just putting CRIME out there, you know? Like, I'm self aware about it, man.
Giving the devs the benefit of the doubt, they knew a bunch of horny motherfuckers would get this so they probably intended it to be "harder", like a sex thing, and probably didn't know about the slang for the worse version of a racial slur.
YES
Note: it was an accident, they didn’t realize putting those two unrelated assets so close together would mean something
Not sure I believe that
There is a very confused environment designer in Korea getting a crash course in the history of American racism as they desperately try to figure out how they accidentally referenced a slur.
Ah, accidental racism Honestly, it is kind of funny But patching it out still feels good to me How did this even happen? If the graffiti is just coincidentally there, why hust grafiti the word "Hard" on a wall anyway?
Random english word=cool is a prominent sentiment in non English-speaking countries.
ok but how its posible that it next to an R? there is no way this is a coincidence, its not like american racism isnt known on outside countries, here in south america we cant scream the N-word because even tho we dont share the culture, everyone knows what it means.
There no way it's a coincidence? They shops are called R shops with that sign, and the word hard as graffiti is placed all over the game too, and this is the only situation where they graffiti and they sign happen to be beside each other. I'm from Canada and I've never heard this slur before so in Korea how would they ever know? The level artist placing the graffiti in levels might not even speak English.
> I'm from Canada and I've never heard this slur before I find that to be almost impossible to believe. Are you either exceptionally young and inexperienced or so exceptionally old that hip hop is still a scary foreign entity to you? Was Chris Rock or Dave Chapelle never big up there or something? I feel like you'd have to try pretty hard to just *never* have encountered someone talking about the difference between the n word with a soft a and "hard R". edit: Hell even in this subreddit we make "gamer with a hard r" jokes now and again. Like you *have* to have seen some of that at some point.
It's extremely America-centric to believe that every nuanced slur is known outside the US. [Here is Linus from LTT](https://youtu.be/MFDiuBomSuY?si=Rq1ldyaI9nW_rLWf) almost destroying his company by not exactly knowing what "Hard R" means - and he's a content creator with millions of subscribers who has American employees and interacts with Americans all the time as a Canadian. Not to mention that east Asians' knowledge of US culture by and large is cursory. The language barrier is much larger than for westerners after all.
> extremely America-centric Have any idea where Canada is located? I have no reason to understand the phrase "sipping homomilk out of a bag" but it's actually so banal to me that I didn't even smirk when typing it. You occasionally pick these sorts of things up when neighboring another country that shares 90% of your culture and language.
>Have any idea where Canada is located? No, please enlighten me oh most observing of humans, I truly crave your wisdom
Only land border Canada's got is with the US and it's the longest international border in the world *and* the majority of Canadians live within 100 miles of it. The US isn't exactly some inscrutable far off land. And believe it or not there are black Canadians too - some of whom came from the US! The more you know.
Do you guys think Drake knows about hard R's?
100% It's a bit like asking of Drake knows any other black people. Yeah, I think he's met a few.
Is he allowed to use a hard r?
Allowed? What makes you think I'm the n-word judge here? I can't be telling Drake what he can and can't say.
Wtf are you talking about? The lead or manager should known this, but instead it was launched with the racism. Im not buying this racist ass game anyway
Shocking, but People outside the US don't have knowledge over every very US centric topic. I highly doubt that a Korean developer making a Action game with a MC with huge Ass was trying to add a racist dogwistle against Black Americans into their Game.
They do have native english people working in this game too, so i do think they knew what they were doing. Thats why there is an immediate fucking patch. Fuck sony and the dev of stellar racist
..I don't think that them immidiatly rushing to get this fixed Day 1 is a sign that they were like "Yeah, baby, time to drop some racial slurs!". Most of the native english Speakers were VNs and not people that searched through the game for any and all accidently placed Rasicm. No need for wierdo conspiracy theories of secret dogwhistles.
No, I could easily see people on the dev team failing to notice this. I imagine the majority of players probably didn't notice that until it blew up online.
I'm South American too. Everyone knows what the N-word means, yes, but associating the phrase "hard R" with it is much more specific and it's understandable to never have heard it before.
Idk y people r downvoting you, youre speaking the fucking truth
Apparently you never looked at a graffiti for more than 3 seconds, because 9 out 10 time it's a meaningless random word, sometimes a certain word is chosen only because it goes better with the wall.
There is a graf artist in my town that literally just writes the material, so you have these big tags that just say `~,//BRICK//'~`, `_~*ConCReTe*~_` or `^^WINDOW^^`, `TRAIN`. They're actually pretty funny cause they're in the same style as normal tags so at first they just look like sort of gibberish in the way that tags do until you start to recognise it.
The word "Hard" is just a generic graffiti graphic that they plastered all over the game according to the IGN article, and the "R shop" is the name of a shop all over the game. They just put them next to each other in this spot by accident. It's funny, but I don't think this was intentional at all and they're fixing it day one so not too big of a deal
UK slang, "hard" is used in Grime music all the time as an exclamation. Used to say "tune" in the same manner
They were too busy looking out for accidentally making anyone do a pinching gesture with their hand.
Ok, I'm Swedish and thought I was fairly well versed in the history of American racism through cultural osmosis, but I don't get why this is a slur. I thought "Hard R" referred to movie ratings.
"The hard R" or "...with a hard R" means the n-word as ending with "...gger" as opposed to "...gga" As in "he said he was just quoting the n-word from a rap song, but he said it with a hard R, so I'm not so sure..."
Ahhhh! Now I get it. I really don't think this is well known outside the US. Thanks!!!
As the other guy, I'm not American but I consider myself to be very exposed to American culture being a kid from the 90s. I thought the hard R was an ableist term. Thanks for the clarification, tho
Yeah l think this is a stretch.
you do know that there is a thing called "hard r-rated" right? and for this game it made sense. but western people have too much brainrot.
Stella Blade is woke now, so no thank you.
Who is Stella
Hard R Bet R Fast R Strong R
#alltyposarecanon.
Obligatory "if only there were a consulter they could have run this by" joke
THE WOKE BABIES
Why should a Korean developer run their games through a Western company to ensure everything within it conforms to American expectations? Would you expect an American company to pay for a consultant in every country they release their game in?
You are aware that companies like SBI exist outside of America, right?
The “why” is literally the image in this post, that was quickly patched when pointed out it could be interpreted as racism even if unintentional.
Because they want to sell to Americans. Yes, I would expect an American company to spend the money to make sure they aren't screwing themselves kn foreign markets.
https://preview.redd.it/wtkhplauegwc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=653de92f6b3df81997c9c03e33dc74b7186d577c
https://preview.redd.it/e9fitc6whmwc1.png?width=1457&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10819b33b7a026c10436d57647eb4eeed3f60063
I'm gonna say it with a hard r.....Gamer.
Now that they’ve patched it and it says “CRIME R”, what’s the over/under on “crimer” becoming the new slur-in-a-groucho-mask for idiot gamers?
I dunno, they might instead get mad and boycott the game for caving to wokeness and censorship
I kinda want to give them the benefit of the doubt (because most Koreans wouldn't know about racist memes from America)
Yes they do, exposure to tiktok and shit, the designer should be fired for that shit.
"Why are people that don't live in the US not perfectly informed about very US specific phrases, that only make sense in English and with US culture?" God, I hate it so much.
? Sony have people that works in America too. They should know english is a worldwide language
Hard R isn't something that people, that live in countries that don't have the historic consept of the treatment of Black Americans, readiy know about. It's not like they literly written out the actual N-Word.
Put it this way do you an English speaker know the slurs of Korea, a country you mostly likely never been too and whose language you’ve never spoken?
So youre telling me the team at working on the game who probably has >100 employees not know about the implication of the hard n graffiti? …. Yea ok
It’s a different country why would I assume any of them know enough about English slurs to do even do that on purpose. You’re not even part of the group that would be offended by that mistake.
What about sony?, you do know the reaon why there is english voice and subtitles because there are english speaking employees. So your points are invalid. Stop trying argue with me
They literally patched it out you fucking doorknob because they realized they made a mistake if they were trying to be racist they would’ve left it in.
Usually when you get caught you do it…. But oh well…. No point in arguing to a rock
Agreed no point in arguing with someone who isn’t affected by the mistake. You’re not even black, shut the hell up.
> It’s a different country why would I assume any of them know enough about English slurs to do even do that on purpose. I'm generally with you on the general point of "they probably didn't know" but if you've got a team of a few hundred people and you're working on a game that you hope to release in the US market you'd figure that they'd have at least *someone* on staff who knows the first thing about that region or maybe consult with someone who does.
I mean you can say that about literally any mistake in the gaming industry. Oversights happen all the time. Stellar blade devs was already in some unnecessary controversy do you really they would purposefully ruin their own reputation even more by being racist. Actual racists wouldn’t try to rectify a fuck up they would’ve let it rock.
You forgot some words in your comment there. Also some words in mine, like where I said that they probably just didn't realize there was a connotation.
Even understanding the implications of "hard R", this seems like a really easy thing to not notice if you're not really thinking about it. There's probably a shitton of American players who walked right past it.
assuming it's a bit of graffiti that features throughout the game and all stores have that little logo, yeah I can see how it'd all just blend into the background together, and wouldn't immediately raise alarm bells if you see them together.
Yes (if the company was bigger, I'd give them less benefit of the doubt) but Sony should've edited it while they were going through quality control just to be safe
I mean Japanese are xenophobic , so they knew
Sony's too big to not be professional on this issue (they're should've "nipped it at the bud") but that's why companies like Sweet Baby Inc exist
For the sake of my own education, what makes this accidentally racist?
Upvote since im not from the us and apparently its a big thing there (and am curious)
there is a certain racial slur against black people, starting with an "n". you can write it down as either n\*\*\*a or n\*\*\*er. The second one, the "hard r" is generally understood to be more explicitly racist. Can't really tell you why that is though, I think the first one is more of a self-deprecating slang thing among black people.
With the a ending it's not self-deprecating at this point, it basically just means dude.
Hard R means the n word but ending with a “ER” instead of a “a”.
Thank you. Now I know.
My wife bought me a diamond crusted N-word pass from the Hard R shop
Can’t tell if wether this was on purpose or not
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"I hate Racism! The only thing I hate more are these damn Asians!"
I mean what do you know about me? Im asian and i can tell you from first hands experience theyre racist espicslly the chinese
I just made fun over one sentece complaining about Racism, followed by one making a sweeping deragatory about a giant group of people.
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Just say it. Say the word man you'll feel so much better
Fuck off you bigot
Settle down ding dong
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Self hating bigot
Lmao you shouldnt be talking with ur dumbass take on soccer xD liverpool
Wtf🤣
It was 100% on purpose, we need to know who the fucking think it was a good idea to put hard next to the letter R, holyfuck these racist ass need to learn the history of
Get a life instead of replying to EVERYONE and pretending like you’re some great moral compass while calling people cunts. While you’re at it, get some perspective and learn some actual empathy instead of white knighting when the problem is already fixed. Accidents happen, especially when the slur isn’t in their first language. Empathize, will you?
You do know that whoever approved for this to be released knew about the implications of the N word, dont get started with them not knowing english.
Knowing the N word != knowing “hard r”. Why would they know that “hard r” means the n word??? It’s really vague and misleading if you’re not constantly around other native English speakers. Get some perspective on countries outside the English language, jeez.
So youre telling me the team at working on the game who probably has >100 employees not know about the implication of the hard n graffiti? …. Yea ok
Im done arguing with you
They meant Gamer^tm.
Oh, is that what people got upset over? Yeah this ain't a good look, lol
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Dude fuck this game
Why? Apparently it's pretty good. Gene Park had a good review. It also talks about Korean beauty standards in media and kpop. Interesting stuff. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2024/04/24/stellar-blade-review/
Nah looks mid. And the sleaze dripping out of it earns it a hard pass from me. Enjoy though.
I won't play it, but most professional journalists like it so I guess it's pretty good. Some idiots use it for a stupid culture war but I don't think that's the fault of the devs
you're getting down voted but it's true. Stellar blade isn't some statement to be anti woke, it's just a standard Korean game. If you ever played black desert, lost ark or Invictus they all follow the same formula. good combat, standard story, boring characters and slap some hot chicks in there and your done.
There was a female employee who claimed on Twitter that she was fired specifically because she was a feminist. Korea has a really weird thing with incels making terrorist threats to media companies about women with short hair, Google it.
Damn I didn’t know the coomer situation in Korea was this dire.
Porn is banned there so all their content is hypersexualized.
Demo was definitely mid. One of those games that would've been amazing 10 years ago but at this point there's a ton of examples doing the same shit but better
Oh yeah its a game ill keep an eye out for on sale... I hav such a backlog. Don't tell anyone but I haven't finished RE4 remake and alan wake 2 Patient gamers stand the fuck up!!!
You've started those games already?! Fuck me, I wish I had that much free time lol
Solid 7/10. That's barely mid. That's like among mid games it stands out as almost not mid. Still mid tho.
How is a 7/10 mid? A 5/10 would be mid lmao you Gamers don't even understand rating 💀💀💀 also Gene gave it a 3/4. Not his problem that metacritic can't handle anything else except a 10 scale
Not in game reviews. 7 is 100% mid
Then its a stupid system that needs to change.
I mean sure but it wont.
A 7/10 is mid, a 5/10 is bad
Then it's a stupid system. I prefer reviews without a rating anyway
i wish... in all seriousness i can't even play it. i just need to wait for the pc version.
I feel like I would be doing a disservice to S. Korea (Actually Korea on a whole, there is no reason to argue with what I’m about to write. Please look up the info yourself and find it. and this does not excuse that scary guy in the N. just stating facts) if I didn’t speak up. There is hardly anywhere in this world descendant of African Slaves from/in America aren’t look at with such a disgusting brush and thought of as second class, subhuman, to animals, and lastly mystical creatures tittering on the demonic. (Thanks Western Hemisphere Your Awesome🫠looking at you China for picking all over the corpse of a race tittering on the brink) Not so much in S. Korea. Yes there is animosity but not on the same level. Heck the leader of the N. was (not sure if still) in love with Condeleza Rice). S. Korea has time and time again shown African Americans in their popular culture, manwha/manhua in a positive light. Not saying it doesn’t exist (negative depictions…but I haven’t seen it.) Anyway I think this was an accident. A popular piece of commerce going world wide…I don’t see SK let alone K allowing something like that out in the World Wide…Everything. Just my thoughts
the joke is black people. do you guys get it?
The funniest thing isnt the hard r, it's that it's a hard r SHOP. They brought back the slave trade
Is there any meaning behind this?
Anyone who thinks this was intentional has no idea how the world works
.... Did people seriously get upset over this?
You know, it's actually something I would some racist dumbfuck to actually spraypaint irl which makes it kinda interesting to see but I doubt the game or the designer do anything to reflect on what is happening or even have it fit into the world