Over the last week I could swear I've seen way more LIB types suddenly throwing around the word troglodyte left right and centre

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Very recently I've also seen "Unga Bunga" being said by totally-not-racist racist liberals, and they pretend to be innocent smol beans that totally only think of 90s video games with cavemen when they think "Unga Bunga." morshupls

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Favorite part of federation was the one liberal who couldn’t contain their rabid racism anymore and started unironically doing the “Shling Shong Winnie the Pooh” bit

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        YOU ARE A BOT

        YOU ARE ALSO A BOT

        EVERYONE IS A BOT BUT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      I thought it was supposed to be a sound a gorilla makes. Anyway, whether it should be changed or not, "unga" currently sits as the standard term in the fgc for characters with excessively safe moves (who thereby enable button mashing, mindless offense, hence gorillas).

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        I'm pretty sure lots of people in freeze-gamer communities use racist terminology that was derived from Heated G!mer Moments without knowing where it came from. And that's understandable.

        It's like the use of (CW: Ableistic slang)

        spoiler

        "REEEEEE" to describe someone being upset.

        But some freeze-gamer get so protective of their edgy slang that they cite caveman themed video games from the 90s to justify contemporary use and argue for hours against everyone saying otherwise.

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          The fgc is profoundly sexist, but it's very multiracial, with a particularly large proportion of black members, including the NB person who is currently held as the best in the genre, sonicfox. It's possible that I just don't know the origin, but I wouldn't guess that it was something anti-black because then there would probably be more pushback against it.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            Comrade Sonicfox is exactly the kind of person that inspires bravery in lots of marginalized people, and makes freeze-gamer bigots sooooo mad.

            • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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              11 months ago

              Absolutely, and I'm glad for what they do. I would think since they are pretty outspoken that they or another community figure would say something if there was an issue, even if that lead to r/kappa using the term even more because their only belief is chauvinist contrarianism.

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                11 months ago

                Whenever I hear someone say "kappa" as a punctuation mark unprompted in the internet wild (or, once, offline) it's pretty much always adjacent to bigoted edgelord shit. gamer-gulag

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      11 months ago

      I've seen it going around, but only in reference to video game strategies that amount to "forget strategy, just go hit it until it dies"

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        "Tank and spank" is what I usually hear. Maybe I don't group up with enough totally-not-racists when strategizing.

        • SoloboiNanook [comrade/them]
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          11 months ago

          Its common in fighting games for characters who have a simple strategy or are seen as "mashy"