Valve teases a new card for their upcoming game, then quickly renames it to avoid controversy. Is Valve submitting to their SJW masters? r/Artifact debates.
43 2018-09-29 by Ghdust2
Here's the tweet where they talked about the card: https://mobile.twitter.com/PlayArtifact/status/1045053604388790272
For anyone allergic to twitter links, cards are categorized by color in Artifact and this card, formerly titled "Crack the Whip", buffed black cards. After having the potentially racist implications pointed out to them, Valve announced that the card will instead be named "Coordinated Assault".
Should Valve have just kept it and let people cry?: https://www.reddit.com/r/Artifact/comments/9jq0cy/crack_the_whip_has_had_its_name_changed/e6tdrya/
If this ruins the game for you, were you really invested in Artifact in the first place?: https://www.reddit.com/r/Artifact/comments/9jq0cy/crack_the_whip_has_had_its_name_changed/e6tdc38/
u/The_Reason_Trump_Won might like this one: "This is why Trump won" : https://www.reddit.com/r/Artifact/comments/9jq0cy/crack_the_whip_has_had_its_name_changed/e6tdb30/
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1 Neon_needles 2018-09-29
Lol at the idea blacks use steam
1 MrAlphonzo 2018-09-29
I'm right here man
1 Neon_needles 2018-09-29
UH A XBOX IS NOT A COMPUTER SYSTEM. Goku and football games ---> Over there to the bone console.
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Whites and rice people? Pff!~ That's our anime machine. I understand the confusion
1 Alexlincoln2 2018-09-29
Tokenism is wrong you know
1 RyuunDragon 2018-09-29
heyo
1 Neon_needles 2018-09-29
Hey, question. Do black people love hentai as much as white people? If so, I might have to stop my stereotype of steam demographics
1 RyuunDragon 2018-09-29
I don't like anime so I couldn't tell you
1 Neon_needles 2018-09-29
AH HA!! Caught in a low. We all know steam is only for the greats of hentai masterpieces (and skyrim).
1 bubastiscatmummy 2018-09-29
(black) Gamers rise up
1 rsrfy 2018-09-29
How do you not see this coming?
1 Alexlincoln2 2018-09-29
By not being from America. It's not difficult to mot have race on your mind in many countries
1 WorkingMessage3 2018-09-29
An Irvine based company is still American you chinkophobe
1 -Mopsus- 2018-09-29
being a bunch of socially stunted nerds
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
not constantly worrying what some neon haired tranny on twitter thinks is being stunted
1 d-amazo 2018-09-29
yeah it doesn't take your spooky SJW boogeyman to realize that "Crack the Whip" to somehow affect a "Black Hero" would be a bad choice of words you fucking idiot.
seriously how can you be so incredibly god damn stupid?
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
lol black people are just that fragile that a mention of a whip and the word black gives them ptsd
maybe they should harden up
1 d-amazo 2018-09-29
I dont even have the words to express how absolutely fucking retarded this comment is. You are literally too stupid for words.
1 ComedicSans 2018-09-29
Incorrect. I believe the word you are looking for is "Australian". /u/captainpriapism is "Australian".
1 FrostBittenSalsa 2018-09-29
I think you mean "autistic"
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
turns out not everyone is scared of social interactions or speaking their mind
1 ComedicSans 2018-09-29
Lmao.
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
omg a black guy might not like me unless i coddle him like a baby!
thats you, youre literally that much of a faggot
imagine being literally afraid of social interactions with coloured people
"omg what if i say whip?!??!"
1 ComedicSans 2018-09-29
Keep going, I'm almost there.
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
australians understand race relations more than americans, thats why were not as fucked up as a society and we dont let rando black people get away with everything out of some sort of misplaced guilt
again, we tried to genocide our black people and they dont whine as much as black americans
get some perspective, unless youre black in which case its prob impossible due to inferior genes
1 ComedicSans 2018-09-29
Lmfao. American? Who do you think you're speaking to, you fucking drongo?
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
eh if youre not american you sure bitch about the same stuff as them
if you were listening to a rap song with a black guy would you conspicuously avoid singing along to the word "nigga"? i bet you would
1 ComedicSans 2018-09-29
Jesus Christ, you're so retarded it physically hurts those around you.
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
i enjoy these nothing insults you always resort to when losing an argument tbh
but fr i bet youd be genuinely afraid to rap along to a song in front of a black guy huh
fyi thats not respect thats tiptoeing around and being a fag and nobody respects that
1 ComedicSans 2018-09-29
Lmfao. You actually think that's a fucking stinger. Sweet Jesus.
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
yeah it is, and its pretty clear it hit close to home because of your blustering faggy response
its representative of how afraid you are of black people, and how you think its being respectful when it just makes you look like a pansy
1 ComedicSans 2018-09-29
Keep going, I'm so close.
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
to crying about black people you mean
1 ComedicSans 2018-09-29
This is you right now.
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
lol do you get off inventing scenarios in your head to argue against
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
if a black american guy hundreds of years separated from slavery goes into rape survivor mode because he sees the word whip then fucking lol dude how fragile can they be
1 le_epic_xd 2018-09-29
Is really that hard to understand that putting a "whip the blacks" reference in a videogame isn't a good idea ? Not because it " triggers the blacks' ptsd", but because it's a shit idea
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
it wasnt a whip the blacks reference you oversensitive faggot
lol what does that even mean, in reference to what? slavery?
did you know its unhealthy for a society to cripple itself to avoid potentially making a person feel bad
especially when that person is going to use any excuse to cry regardless
1 le_epic_xd 2018-09-29
Removing a retarded name from a vydia is "crippling society"?
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
i love how you just refuse to understand simple concepts to try and own me or something
censoring yourself because some dumb black faggot might take offense cripples expression
i know simpletons like yourself might go lol video games!!!! but its the same with every form of expression
western society cares too much about what other people think because empathy and compassion are white traits, even when theyre misplaced
1 le_epic_xd 2018-09-29
I love how you don't understand how selling products to a crowd works and immediately retort "le sjw are ruining civilization with their censorship".
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
fucking lol dude you havent followed any of this shit for the past 5 years or so huh
companies trying to appeal to twitter users and sjws fail, almost always
whereas outright refusing to cave in to sensitive people creates fans
nobody likes stuff they enjoy diluted just because some dumb cunt got confused at some wording
its not "anti sjws" its literally everyone that enjoys a thing without some teenager fucking it up for everyone
how are you this dense lol its about setting a precedent
if they think they can bitch to get stuff changed theyll keep doing it
1 shaun_krant 2018-09-29
Why is it always the people with mde tags that are so fucking dumb
1 TruthPains 2018-09-29
.... I think that question warrants you a mde tag.
1 shaun_krant 2018-09-29
XD
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
anyone who hates mde is a lolcow thanks for playing
black people arent going to suddenly respect you if you pretend to sympathise you dumb fag
1 FrenchFriesFriday 2018-09-29
Your flair fits you so perfectly
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
i have css turned off
1 -Mopsus- 2018-09-29
Yes, you're socially stunted if you are unable to recognize when something like that is most likely going to receive a negative reaction. If they didn't care about the reaction then they wouldn't have changed the name.
Real life is a lot different from shitposting on /r/Drama, my socially stunted dude
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
the people with the negative reaction have a negative reaction toward literally anything that isnt a genderfluid neon mess of brown skinned feminist faggotry
its hardly worth it
witcher 3 has like one of the biggest and mosty obnoxiously obsessed fanbases ever and they specifically told sjws that they werent going to randomly add black people
imagine being literally scared to espouse opinions irl for fear of being socially ostracized
do you not have actual friends or something
1 -Mopsus- 2018-09-29
>witcher 3 has like one of the biggest and mosty obnoxiously obsessed fanbases ever and they specifically told sjws that they werent going to randomly add black people
and nearly all of them would watch it regardless, because they already have netflix and nothing better to do with their lives
>imagine being literally scared to espouse opinions irl for fear of being socially ostracized
I'm talking about running a company. I have no problem with telling you or other people to literally throw yourselves off the nearest overpass, but I'm not going to do some stupid shit through my company's social media.
I'm not talking about whether the reaction is justified. I'm talking about being so fucking socially underdeveloped that you're incapable of recognizing when something is going to cause backlash.
>its hardly worth it
Yeah, and that's why every single company that conservatives have gotten pissed off at are now non-existent. Conservatives are even worse than liberals at boycotting.
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
no i meant the game, when it came out all the usual fag outlets complained there wasnt enough POC and they replied with "its ancient polish mythology"
the netflix series is literally being written by twitter users and ugly women, its a given that its going to be laughably shit and most have given up on it already
if its your company then it doesnt matter, real people dont care about this shit
the only repercussions are from higher ups mistakenly thinking the people complaining have a valid opinion
nobody who complains about shit on twitter is a customer they just want attention
lol you goof
i know that stupid people will cry, but im saying it doesnt matter because they arent customers and nobody real actually thinks its a big deal
standing up against crying sjws is the best thing a company can do for customer retention
conservatives dont try to shut everything they dont like down lol
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
more importantly why should they care that people think its offensive or do anything in response
1 le_epic_xd 2018-09-29
Because they want to sell a product ?
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
sjws dont buy things lol, theres literally no benefit to appeasing them and often it just makes your shit fail
meanwhile anything sticking it to sjws will get a boost in sales from people trying to be activists
the people that think its a problem spend all their time on twitter talking about how much they hate video games and the people that play them, theyre clearly not the target audience
1 le_epic_xd 2018-09-29
Sjw buy games just like the other vydia-gaymers do, they simply try to hide their embarrassment behind hyperbolic shit statements.
The fact that you believe that a major company would want to alienate potential customers because of "sticking to le SJW LMAOOOO" (by keeping a blacks/whips potential innuendo) really shows how much you're detached from reality
1 Tyestor 2018-09-29
womxn don't play games dood.
1 imissyouseattle 2018-09-29
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
they dont though
are you retarded lol
every franchise that tries to appeal to sjws regrets it and loses sales, and every franchise that tells them to fuck off gets all of anti sjw twitter to spite buy their shit
its like youre incredibly new to the internet, maybe resetera is more your pace
1 le_epic_xd 2018-09-29
You don't understand that sales for AAA company don't revolve around twatter blue checks and CAncers, right? Have you ever had an interaction with a human being outside Chinese imageboards?
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
lol what do you even think im arguing
1 CollaWars 2018-09-29
Be a comp sci major
1 imissyouseattle 2018-09-29
1 error404brain 2018-09-29
Wait, that means they are interested in you ?
1 imissyouseattle 2018-09-29
I think so, that's at least how it plays out in my dreams.
1 error404brain 2018-09-29
I always tought it was because my hair was nice and soft at least compared to theirs. But I am autistic enough to be on r/drama.
1 imissyouseattle 2018-09-29
Same, brother
1 snallygaster 2018-09-29
tbf this is probably one of the most obviously tone-deaf choices that they could have have possibly made, and it was completely avoidable. How did this even pass through a team of developers and a team of PR people??
1 ihavecorrectopinions 2018-09-29
i flat out refuse to believe nobody realised
normally this shit can be written off as "losers looking for outrage read something that isn't there" but this literally says "modify a Black Hero" lmao
1 adnzzzzZ 2018-09-29
If your mind isn't trained to see racism everywhere you don't notice stuff like this. It seems obvious now after people point it out but I saw the card reveal a few days ago and this issue didn't even cross my mind.
1 ihavecorrectopinions 2018-09-29
in the context of an american company i think this ones a bit more noticeable. its still not egregious and its possible i might not have noticed it if it wasnt pointed out, but its WAY easier to spot than shit like that monkey tshirt thing
1 adnzzzzZ 2018-09-29
I'm a fairly politicized guy and I didn't notice it at all when I first saw it. I think it's reasonable that a bunch of nerds who probably don't care at all about politics wouldn't notice it either.
1 ComedicSans 2018-09-29
No.
1 UnexpectedLizard 2018-09-29
They downvoted you but you're right. It's called selective attention and it's well known to the field of psychology.
1 froibo 2018-09-29
Idonno if valve actually has a real PR process.
1 Alicesnakebae 2018-09-29
Honestly after that riot shit I'm not surprised at gaming companies being out of touch idiots
1 gumble212 2018-09-29
Holy fuck you're such a middle-aged woman
1 agenderphobe 2018-09-29
Do you really think that an outfit as incompetent as Valve has a functioning PR department?
1 charcharmunro 2018-09-29
I keep seeing snippets of this game and have no fucking clue how it works.
1 UmmahSultan 2018-09-29
It's good to give black heroes +2 to attack, but they are too lazy to do it themselves so you have to use the whip.
1 d-amazo 2018-09-29
oh that's easy, you give Valve more money to have more imaginary trading cards and having more imaginary trading cards means you're better at the game.
it's better to just write this off completely as the cash grab garbage that it is.
1 FrenchFriesFriday 2018-09-29
BRUH lmao 😂🤣
1 80BAIT08 2018-09-29
How to draw attention to your addition to the hundred so hearthstone clones.
1 GoldenMonkeyPox 2018-09-29
I get it, like a gang.
1 TruthPains 2018-09-29
It now buffs white high school males when the 'I like beer' card is in play.
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2018-09-29
😴😴😴
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
black people are so sensitive about everything lol get over it slavery was ages ago
1 shaun_krant 2018-09-29
Please go outside
1 captainpriapism 2018-09-29
lol what
even australian abbos arent as faggy about this shit and they actually got nearly genocided
american black guys just cry constantly waaah omg oppression
LOL
1 PM_ME_YA_TATTAS 2018-09-29
Normally I'm against submiting to SJWs but this is a fucking retarded name in a first place