You can use the excuse they didn't know what it meant, but, I dunno, I think it's kinda part of Sony's and the sexist development team's job to know and make sure nothing like this makes it in when they make a global product like this 🤷‍♂️
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[IGN] Stellar Blade has "unintentional" racist in-game graffiti; will be patched out
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Yeah i'm with you on this from everything i have seen from them and the main guy's previous games.
Also i'm a bit baffled at so many not knowing this, even outside America, this isn't America only, def english only? Like i came in and immediately was like, oh that's pretty bad. I could see it as an accident but do they not have English playtesters that should catch something like this?
Yeah. I always used hard R for a very violent/sexual movie.
The racist hard R is a very American thing that doesn't really exist outside of its borders. As a Canadian who tries to keep on top of what should and shouldn't be said, I had never heard of that expression until the Linus Tech Tips video.
Never knew it had another meaning, I'm 40 now and the only time I've heard that term used was in regard to US Movie ratings. Good to see they are correcting it though.
Is the graffiti actually being individually placed by hand? If it really is just one of several reused "stamps" I wouldn't be shocked if their placement was handled procedurally which could make stuff like this hard to catch
Nope. Hard R has always been slang for movies on the border of X/NR and R.
koreans are generally too busy being mad about a hand emoji to go out of their way to figure out how people are insulting each other in english just so they can be as intentionally offensive as possible on a global scale
Yup, they knew what they were doing.I have to wonder how "unintentional" it really was given there's also this sign:
That being said I don't think the "Hard R" was intentional in a racist sense, but more-so a reference to "rated R" and such, given the rest of the content of the game.
And who knows maybe both these actually WERE unintentional... But I'm still gonna side eye it regardless. Glad Sony is patching out the most egregious one at least.
good god this game has bad fucking vibesI have to wonder how "unintentional" it really was given there's also this sign:
Everything about this game is just beyond parody. Like, what do you even say to something like this by now.
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Yeah, that must be what's happening here. People just looking to be mad.
Great take.
Thanks for the additionnal information !
(but yeah, frankly, while I do like language idiosyncrasies in general, this type of slurs is not the one I really wish to expand my knowledge into)
Hard R is pretty well known in the UK too but we're basically little America at this point
Whenever I come into there sorts of threads I like to remind my non-Black friends that -a and -er are both off limits to you.
I've seen too many people get the false impression that dropping the er makes it ok for all, and they get themselves in a jam.
I mean, Hard -R is a description of how someone is used the N-word and their intentions behind it.
No one should use any variation of the word if they aren't Black, but if someone who isn't Black is running a gag about Hard-R, then the punchline is "I quietly think of using the most offensive term for Black people"
I've seen too many people get the false impression that dropping the er makes it ok for all, and they get themselves in a jam.
I mean, Hard -R is a description of how someone is used the N-word and their intentions behind it.
No one should use any variation of the word if they aren't Black, but if someone who isn't Black is running a gag about Hard-R, then the punchline is "I quietly think of using the most offensive term for Black people"
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If only this sort of thing existed...oh wait.
Can't believe others in this thread are defending this.
I've heard of "R instead of A" before but never HARD R. I doubt it was intentional considering who made the game.
I swear people will look over anything just to be able to say "I was right game is good!"
Dismissing you like that feels pretty shitty doesn't it? Game has a lot of problematic shit that should rightfully be called out. The fact that it keeps coming out of the same game and company should say a lot.
Lol the console wars never stop!
On topic: The game is full of sexism and very egregious shit, so I can see an argument for someone trying to be funny and "hiding" this message in the game, it's not like the studio fosters a culture of empathy and respect. Good thing it's getting patched out, but I can already see all the idiots crying about it on Twitter, I wonder how long it'll take for the "censorship" card to be played.
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Sony shouldn't even take it out. It's just Americans, White Americans no less, upset about it.
This should be easy but here we are.
From the description of what this means, unless you were born in the USA this is a super obscure thing to know, doesn't matter the size of the company if none of them grew up in the US.
I don't believe it considering I saw a screenshot of a sign that also said Boobs. Also
R
shop
is an weird thing for someone to just make randomly
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is an weird thing for someone to just make randomly
I didn't know about the term until this very thread, BUT I should add that English is not my main language. I'm from the country ruled by that sociopath king wannabe that is good friends with the Tesla guy (Argentina).
i think i will apply hanlon's razor, but i mean the studio hasn't really earned the benefit of the doubt, so it is not implausible it was intentional either.
i will say, if it was unintentional on the developer's part, it's kind of wild no one on sony's localization or QA teams caught it
i will say, if it was unintentional on the developer's part, it's kind of wild no one on sony's localization or QA teams caught it
Or they can just be considerate of their audience. It's really not fucking hard.
It does matter when said company wants to localize and sell their product to the US Market. This isn't difficult to understand.
I mean this one is definitely intentional, but it's also clearly one asset as opposed to two separate things that just happened to be in close proximity like the hard r one, which could be intentional or completely accidental and possibly just a result of unfortunate procedural placements, assuming people are being honest about the "Hard" being a generic texture that pops up all over the placeI have to wonder how "unintentional" it really was given there's also this sign:
That being said I don't think the "Hard R" was intentional in a racist sense, but more-so a reference to "rated R" and such, given the rest of the content of the game.
And who knows maybe both these actually WERE unintentional... But I'm still gonna side eye it regardless. Glad Sony is patching out the most egregious one at least.
People insisting this should have been caught yet we're here in a thread with predominantly Americans who didnt even know this was considered "slang" or a "slur" how the hell do you expect a foreign company without that exposure to even catch it? It's a random piece of art that unfortunately lined up with another sign in the environment.
People need to chill the fuck out. Remove it or whatever but acting like it should have been easily caught as if someone wrote the actual word on the wall or something is ridiculous.
People need to chill the fuck out. Remove it or whatever but acting like it should have been easily caught as if someone wrote the actual word on the wall or something is ridiculous.
This is the page on the N-word on the SK version of Wikipedia. Very common reference site used by my Korean friends:
Third sentence of the first section. If an SK developer wanted to be a racist little shit, it would take MINIMAL amounts of research to find this stealthy alternative.
Considering the very similar "BOO_B" graffiti from another section of the game, it's not hard to believe that the environment artist was using this as a way of inserting edgelord shit.
It was Sony's job to catch this. The publisher, who wants to sell this game in America considering how hard they've been marketing it.
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It's the kind of thing that can be caught if you hire an outside group to go over the game and look for problems like this. There are people whose literal jobs are to catch things like this.
I thought it was a term to describe someone using a very racist term, rather than the hard R being racist in and of itself. Such as "omg that guy just used the hard R". I had very rarely heard this terminology until the whole Linus fiasco, but I imagine it comes up allot when talking about MAGA idiots and racist uncles...
This thread makes me think of the random theory of life creation. That if you throw enough shit together enough times, you will eventually get life. Yeah I am sure that could happen with a super specific racist term. But I doubt it.
Shit happens WAY to often, folks just love to tell people being pissed on that it's just raining.
Shit happens WAY to often, folks just love to tell people being pissed on that it's just raining.
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You realize that Sony published this right? They are also responsible for catching things like this before release. If they can't, this is why you hire companies to review the content.
yeup. To me, "hard R" is MOST associated with movies more so than the N-word. though more recently, the term "hard R" is used to describe a more racist pronunciation of the N-word, generally by white american racists. they are right to patch it, but let's relax a little bit here. lot of people in here acting like it was clearly intentional
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