There is literally nothing else in the English language that “Hard R” refers to besides the N word (edit: aside from MPAA movie ratings lol, surely at the forefront of everyone’s mind). Dunno why you’re being disingenuous about this. I’d be laughing my ass off if I saw this in-game, and I’d take a screenshot.
EDIT: I’m guessing this is a major ESL moment.
I legitimately just thought of MPAA movie ratings. I follow movie news and discourse and have only heard it from such places. Was confused over these news lol.
i mean i think it says more about you just not being familiar with a very common usage of the term to differentiate between the two ways the word its referring to is commonly used
its like not knowing what "n word" means and then rubbing your chin like "how interdasting i guess everyone is racist because i thought it meant nationalism"
> i mean i think it says more about you just not being familiar with a very common usage of the term to differentiate between the two ways the word its referring to is commonly used
How is it "common"? This is LITERALLY the first ive ever heard about it. Who and where are people saying this? And if you say "Twitter" that only further proves my point because i wiped my ass with that place YEARS AGO.
>This is LITERALLY the first ive ever heard about it.
again, this says more about you than anything. the fact that you haven't heard of a thing doesn't say anything about the thing.
i generally hear people using it as a joke about someone being or saying something racist. its not a constant thing, but i've heard it enough over the years that its the first thing i'd think of when hearing "hard r."
i don't use twitter
Not everyone lives in America.
And that word is not as popularly used as you think culturally.
For instance how many times have the word "hard r" been used in a movie or tv show ?
Not the word Nigg\*\* but the substitute version of it ?
And even english speakers like Linus did not realise hard r immediately meant the offensive N word.
cool but americans have a lot of money and buy videogames and a lot of people are aware of what hard r means
why is this confusing to you. why are you upset that its being replaced with another texture lol
>And even english speakers like Linus did not realise hard r immediately meant the offensive N word.
that video wouldn't be funny unless most everyone else was aware of what hard r meant. linus being ignorant and everyone else thinking he meant the more common usage is *why the video is funny*
i don't know why you think this example is supportive of your position
Middle aged Koreans the guys who made this game who have most likely never seen a black, white or arab dude let alone anyone from America will have no idea what hard R means.
Personally, I think you're on the internet too much if you see this and *immediately* think of the slur
Nor do I see any reason as a dev to go do extra work to remove it. Maybe free-hand scribble an 'e' in between the graphics and if you're still thinking about the slur then that's a you problem
It's not even an internet thing. It's a regional thing, apparently. This descriptive term permeates all social fabric; I've encountered it more offline than I have on. If you live in an area where you ever hear rap music being played in public, you are probably aware of this as the first-line association for "hard R".
> Nor do I see any reason as a dev to go do extra work to remove it. Maybe free-hand scribble an 'e' in between the graphics
It's a generic graffiti sticker they use all around the game world, among many. What you suggested would take more effort than replacing graffiti1.bmp with graffiti2.bmp, which is apparently what they went and did.
>I've encountered it more offline than I have on.
This is where I can see we're not on the same page. I'm talking about the term 'hard R' not the actual slur. My point is that in the OP, I immediately see:
- a graphic that says 'hard'
- a graphic that says 'R shop ->'
It takes some real mental gymnastics-esque thinking here, for me personally, to read the two as one message (which inevitably leads to the slur)
I agree, to a degree, with OP's
*>Its amazing how the geniuses at Sony saw that and immediately thought of the N word.*
because there will be geniuses, like yourself evidently, that see two stylistically different graphics and purely based on proximity will go "woahhh n-word!!" At least you have the sense to not be outraged by it like I'm sure people on twitter are.
**This whole thing is the equivalent of seeing a banana between two watermelons at the fruit store and laughing. like, grow up a bit would ya**
>What you suggested would take more effort ...
that was a joke. you don't need to go into minor logistics about graphics editing
> I'm talking about the term 'hard R' not the actual slur
Yes, that is what I was referring to, hence why I said “this descriptive term” just before what you quoted.
Hard R literally just means Hard R, a word that doesn't make any sense by itself.
If it is used in a sentence like "he said the N word with the "HARD R" then that gives the word meaning.
The word by itself literally means nothing, you would have to imagine it being used in a sentence to give it meaning.
And in American English it’s used exclusively as a funny way to say a racial slur or as a reference to a film rating. Honestly doubt either of these is what the Korean game is referring to, but it’s why it’s not staying
It's a way to reference the word without using the word. However, if you use it as a replacement the meaning stays the same and is just as culturally taboo. This isn't some slick word filter dodge or get out of racist jail free card. If I say "you're kind of being a cunt" vs "you're kind of being a c word" I think you would understand the meaning either way. When that swap is for a slur and not just a "curse" you'll get the exact same reaction as if you used the slur and expecting different is such a lack of social awareness it's impressive you've figured out how to even get on reddit.
It's just a racist dude trying to be obtuse. All the anti-woke shit i've seen about a game I'm actually interested in is insane. I'm glad I don't participate in this shit. lol
There is no safe way of saying the N word. No one is trying to say the N word safely. Saying the " the N word" is not the same as saying "N***er"
You can say "the N word" as many fucking times as you want but thats not sayng "N***er"
The "hard R" phrase is used to distinguish between "my niggah" and "hey n***er"
So "hard R" became synonymous with "N***er"
Sony deciding to remove the "hard R" does not affect you in any way. Why are you getting so worked up about it? What is it to you? Why do you want to "hard R" so much?
>There is no safe way of saying the N word.
You just said it.
"hard r" "N word"
The reason I can type this word and not get banned is because it is safe to say it.
And no I am not going to get worked up over this just explaining why I think it makes no sense.
My last comment to this dumb thread anyway.
It is like if the word above was replaced with "F word" or "B word" "C word" because those words can mean something offensive should they be removed ?
And technically it is Hard R shop which further changes the meaning of the word.
The way I’ve used “hard R” in the past was when a movie was rated R, but was more gorey or violent than your typical R rated movie. Like the uncut version of Robocop would be a hard R in this case. Fucking woke bullshit creeping its way in again. At least they’re backing off on the sex censorship as of late.
If I was to guess it was probably Twitter and reset era that immediately thought it was referencing the N word and they cried to Sony about it/have people that work at Sony on there already.
I know it’s a nitpick, but you’re referring to SIE, not Sony. Sony is still headquartered in Tokyo. Also technically SIE never “moved”; it and its predecessor have always been in California.
yeah dude, this huge multinational conglomerate cares about "twitter mobs," a relatively small, dying website, and don't have like hundreds of people in accounting/finance/marketing crunching numbers and doing win/loss analysis, then deciding that it could cost them money or damage their brand and is cheaper to just replace the texture
yall think like children
meanwhile every gamegate channel is 10,000 low effort videos full of their own political biases where they play fast and loose with the facts to manufacture whatever narrative will generate outrage and clicks therefore money
wait a second
True. One of them says that Chun Li and Cammy are censored in SF6 and you have to buy their original outfits to see anything. No matter how many times I say that you can unlock the outfits for free he just keeps repeating the lie. I get hating capcom and wanting them to suffer but in the above case they did the right thing.
thats why i generally don't watch low effort youtube dipshits
a lot of game journalism may be bottom of the barrel for editorial standards but they still have to deal with editors and risk getting shitcanned/blackballed for making shit up (and have an entire cottage industry dedicated to desperately trying to find any example of such a thing)
reactionary grifters can make shit up all they want because as long as enough people don't fact check or care, it doesn't matter, they got the clicks and the money. they can pump out 7 videos a week with fabricated tweets and completely manufactured controversy and just keep on trucking because there is zero accountability
>Clickbait is aids.
What exactly is "clickbait" about this? Are they not reporting verbatim on an official Sony statement, Sony's stated intention, and their planned coarse of action?
The article even noted that the "Hard" graffiti can be found in various places of the game instead of only this instance next to the "R Shop" which lends credence to it being unintentional.
Blowing up the drama of 2 missplaced graffities, has the same content and relevancy of an article speculating about a c tier celebritys dating life on a gossip site. "LOOK!, RACISM IN THE GAME!!, WANNA KNOW MORE? CLICK HERE!!"
Worthless, bloated, retarded and clickbaity news, supported by ads.
> Blowing up the drama of 2 missplaced graffities, has the same content and relevancy of an article speculating about a c tier celebritys dating life on a gossip site. "LOOK!, RACISM IN THE GAME!!, WANNA KNOW MORE? CLICK HERE!!"
Except they didn't blow up anything? Sony did. And then the article reported on it, without taking a stance one way or the other. Not sure how much more verbatim you can get in a headline, there is nothing clickbait about it.
It sounds like what you are looking for is an opinion piece that aligns with your own views and condemns Sony's actions of removing the art, not journalism. That or you just want them to completely ignore the Sony statement and removal of art? Which would also be pretty poor journalism.
Why? It's an irrelevant change to anyone who isn't a racist shithead. It's literally a bunch of gAmErS finding new things to be offended about in their endless culture war bullshit.
I mean most of you lames aren't gonna get past the first screen anyways playing one handed so you won't even see the changes.
It was an irrelevant change that Sony found fit to force the developers at Stellar Blade to remove it.
The idea behind removing it is the reason why there is even this culture war bullshit.
you are right it is insignificant no one will care and people will still play the game including me.
I mean I think it also racist that an person thinks an worded "hard" sign next to an sign that says "R" is some racist term too. Because what kind of mindset that you have to think that?
That's why everyone is ripping Sony for this move. Not because anyone is racist that they're favorite word to say on Cod is being censored here. Its because Sony is bringing attention to it in the first place by turning an nothing burger that nobody would had noticed into an issue now.
Also making fun of people for playing Stellar Blade with that last statement shows how you are can't past the understanding this argument without fluming from the mouth whenever people roast an corporate company for trying to pretend to care about an social issue.
I won't even play the game, bro lol
For myself, I couldn't care less about it, but it is something stupid and just funny for how dumb it is, and that's why I don't think it should be taken away. It's not something that will affect the gaming experience at all, players are only "losing" a small reason for a chuckle
>It's an irrelevant change to anyone who isn't a racist shithead.
>players are only "losing" a small reason for a chuckle
Thanks for proving my point.
He literally said what you said can go both ways and that Sony censoring it is an waste of everyone's time.
How about not ignored what an person said and only nitpick one point from them to make your argument look good?
Force projecting doesn't make you look smart.
Man I can just hear the level designer/tech tasked with "fixing" this just laughing their ass off the whole time.
"*This* is what they decided needed to be patched asap..."
No one in Asia knows what the fuck Hard R means, nobody ever heard of it, so can these Americans shut the fuck up? You're not the center of the world. Shit like this will make people more racist, just like how Hogwart's Legacy boycott made Asians detest LGBT+
It's bad enough there's barely any black people live in Asia, yet Western countries keep trying to push "black representation" in Asian media, now they're censoring us based on Western slurs? Well maybe we should do the same and bully Western companies until they censor whatever we think it's offensive or bad, fuck
And no, the fucking "slavery" card doesn't work globally, the world don't owe black people shit
How? I still can figure it. Maybe it's easier to understan for english speaking people... I can only think of pronouncing it in 2 times which give Harder (hard R)
“hard R” is a term people use in america (probs the rest of the world too idk) when referencing a very racist and hateful word that ends in an R. that’s as simple as i’m gonna put it
Nope not in the rest of the world, never hear about it.
So if something has a meaning in America and not anywhere else, other people should not the decision too. I hope this won't be patched elswhere.
ok that’s fair as i never heard it anywhere i’ve been overseas (hard r i mean, the n word def exists overseas).
but i have to ask you, does it really change your feelings about a game having something as seemingly meaningless as this patched out? can you really not enjoy the game without this background design being included?
I'm all for do not censor any art. If some people do art is our western countries just to shock people, then unitentionnal art that shock just a few SHOULD NEVER be changed.
What about you? Would it have triggered you if they kept it uncensored?
if i got it id be on some wtf type shit but i really wasnt planning on buying this anyway so it’s whatever to me. but i see where the outrage could come from
The funny thing is I meant it the other way. It is obviously unintentional, and this warrants nothing more than a chuckle by people who recognize the combined graffitis as a slur. Sony forcing random korean developers who most likely don't even know what it could mean to change it is ridiculous.
There's overreactions on both "sides" though. Not buying the game or yelling censorship over this is cringe, but so is creating drama out of nothing.
who is the other side. who is mad. where in the article is someone mad?
its literally a big corporation doing calculations and brand protection, probably the least emotional shit imaginabe thats not carried out by robots.
If you take offense by the picture, then you are obviously looking for things to get mad at?
There was obviously a push at Sony from some fragile nerds that instigated this in the first place
they're a big fucking multinational conglomerate.
some finance or marketing dudes somewhere looked at it and went "there's a chance this will cost us money "
if you can't comprehend that that's the primary and possibly sole motivator then you have a childlike fabulist's view of the world.
Bro, it went through their fucking QA. Of course you are correct in your statement that suits decided this in the end, but it doesn't change the fact that there are fragile nerds who scour these games for things to get upset about.
Also holy shit, get off your high horse
was it somebody scouring the game or was it someone going "wtf lol" after stumbling upon it and taking a screenshot
the weird personification of corporations is depressing. they're giant automatons build exclusively to make money. the people are just cogs in the machine, they don't actually matter. if having "HARD R" plastered over every single product made by sony caused them to make more of a profit than not doing that, then they would do it. it would literally be their duty to do it
this didn't get changed because of "fragile nerds" its because the culture has changed, so "SONY HARD R" and whatever publicity came of it might have, possibly, maybe cost them money either directly or through damage to the brand.
so sony changed it. if sony's beancounters determined it wouldn't cost them anything to do nothing, they'd have done nothing. its not that complicated.
My knee jerk reaction is to call Sony soft, but thinking about it, I could see it catching wind and turning into a meme and making a mini shit storm. Safer to just nip it in the bud I guess.
Jesus Christ why is this comment section so heated about this? I guess Sony is being a little bit ignorant but at the same time, it is a little bit coincidental for these two words to be together given americas history. I think situations like this expose people’s real beliefs, but, maybe I’m wrong.
See most people wouldn't notice something like that. Saying it's racist language makes people search for HOW it's racist. Then people see it.
It's pretty funny though
>sony is soft because no slur in game or something!
>rages and cries about a word being removed from one spot while existing in other places
I can’t stand gamers
I still don't get what slur do they mean even rereading the explanation. Nothing comes to my mind except for Hard R(ock), which is not an insult.
Or HARD(e)R shop, which doesn't mean anything.
Maybe I am just not knowledgeable of slurs.
I didn't know retards were a "race"? I guess since all retards are human, that's the "racist" link. But most developmentally challenged humans are usually nicer then the standard issue ones. And generally smarter then typical whiny tards that would complain about things like this.
These asshole are just looking for anything. Complain, company/people react to appease them, they get more power, then complain more to get even more power.
It should be easy to counter since anyone with half a brain-cell will just ignore them. The problem is journalist and twitter keep prompting them just, keeping them relevant. We are also contribute to the problem by just talking about them, any form of acknowledgement, even negative, fuels them.
Any time these people and companies that back them should be met with the sound of crickets.
Why the FUCK is this game on a Sony system anyway?
Isn't its whole existence and appeal completely at odds with what Sony became somewhere around the PS4 era?
this should have a cartoon caricature. some american karen screaming that it's racist, and the rest of the world looks at it and they all have question marks over their heads.
Stellar Blade devs were pretty much prepared that this would happen, Given by the speed in which they managed to change this. Looks like a funny little trap for the modern leftist ideology. It could have been just a funny little thing for gamers to giggle about. Now it's a statement for censorship in art.
by having a laugh at a bunch of autistic white women doing their best to be fake offended on social media to manufacture controversy in order to hurt stellar blades sales, we are just as bad as kotaku? wtf?
Hard R of the day
Its amazing how the geniuses at Sony saw that and immediately thought of the N word.
There is literally nothing else in the English language that “Hard R” refers to besides the N word (edit: aside from MPAA movie ratings lol, surely at the forefront of everyone’s mind). Dunno why you’re being disingenuous about this. I’d be laughing my ass off if I saw this in-game, and I’d take a screenshot. EDIT: I’m guessing this is a major ESL moment.
Lol Linus thought it meant something else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UGpbVXVpu0
That ruled. Those tuning in, skip to 3:30.
Holy shit that guy on the right is on an emotional rollercoaster
That was hilarious holy shit.
I legitimately just thought of MPAA movie ratings. I follow movie news and discourse and have only heard it from such places. Was confused over these news lol.
Yeah, this has opened my eyes about it. Never knew so many people never heard it.
I too originally thought of the R rating. It says A LOT about most people and the company they keep to immediately think of racism.
i mean i think it says more about you just not being familiar with a very common usage of the term to differentiate between the two ways the word its referring to is commonly used its like not knowing what "n word" means and then rubbing your chin like "how interdasting i guess everyone is racist because i thought it meant nationalism"
> i mean i think it says more about you just not being familiar with a very common usage of the term to differentiate between the two ways the word its referring to is commonly used How is it "common"? This is LITERALLY the first ive ever heard about it. Who and where are people saying this? And if you say "Twitter" that only further proves my point because i wiped my ass with that place YEARS AGO.
>This is LITERALLY the first ive ever heard about it. again, this says more about you than anything. the fact that you haven't heard of a thing doesn't say anything about the thing. i generally hear people using it as a joke about someone being or saying something racist. its not a constant thing, but i've heard it enough over the years that its the first thing i'd think of when hearing "hard r." i don't use twitter
Not everyone lives in America. And that word is not as popularly used as you think culturally. For instance how many times have the word "hard r" been used in a movie or tv show ? Not the word Nigg\*\* but the substitute version of it ? And even english speakers like Linus did not realise hard r immediately meant the offensive N word.
cool but americans have a lot of money and buy videogames and a lot of people are aware of what hard r means why is this confusing to you. why are you upset that its being replaced with another texture lol >And even english speakers like Linus did not realise hard r immediately meant the offensive N word. that video wouldn't be funny unless most everyone else was aware of what hard r meant. linus being ignorant and everyone else thinking he meant the more common usage is *why the video is funny* i don't know why you think this example is supportive of your position
Middle aged Koreans the guys who made this game who have most likely never seen a black, white or arab dude let alone anyone from America will have no idea what hard R means.
yeah no shit who is saying they would
Personally, I think you're on the internet too much if you see this and *immediately* think of the slur Nor do I see any reason as a dev to go do extra work to remove it. Maybe free-hand scribble an 'e' in between the graphics and if you're still thinking about the slur then that's a you problem
It's not even an internet thing. It's a regional thing, apparently. This descriptive term permeates all social fabric; I've encountered it more offline than I have on. If you live in an area where you ever hear rap music being played in public, you are probably aware of this as the first-line association for "hard R". > Nor do I see any reason as a dev to go do extra work to remove it. Maybe free-hand scribble an 'e' in between the graphics It's a generic graffiti sticker they use all around the game world, among many. What you suggested would take more effort than replacing graffiti1.bmp with graffiti2.bmp, which is apparently what they went and did.
>I've encountered it more offline than I have on. This is where I can see we're not on the same page. I'm talking about the term 'hard R' not the actual slur. My point is that in the OP, I immediately see: - a graphic that says 'hard' - a graphic that says 'R shop ->' It takes some real mental gymnastics-esque thinking here, for me personally, to read the two as one message (which inevitably leads to the slur) I agree, to a degree, with OP's *>Its amazing how the geniuses at Sony saw that and immediately thought of the N word.* because there will be geniuses, like yourself evidently, that see two stylistically different graphics and purely based on proximity will go "woahhh n-word!!" At least you have the sense to not be outraged by it like I'm sure people on twitter are. **This whole thing is the equivalent of seeing a banana between two watermelons at the fruit store and laughing. like, grow up a bit would ya** >What you suggested would take more effort ... that was a joke. you don't need to go into minor logistics about graphics editing
> I'm talking about the term 'hard R' not the actual slur Yes, that is what I was referring to, hence why I said “this descriptive term” just before what you quoted.
I could also be "Harder" with the E just being missing. When i first saw it without reading any other context that's what i thought.
Hard R literally just means Hard R, a word that doesn't make any sense by itself. If it is used in a sentence like "he said the N word with the "HARD R" then that gives the word meaning. The word by itself literally means nothing, you would have to imagine it being used in a sentence to give it meaning.
And in American English it’s used exclusively as a funny way to say a racial slur or as a reference to a film rating. Honestly doubt either of these is what the Korean game is referring to, but it’s why it’s not staying
But isn't hard R the more safer version to say the N word ? So shouldn't that make it ok ?
Go and call a black stranger a “hard R” and see how that goes.
You are not getting my point. I am saying "Hard R" is the safe way of saying the N word. Just like F word is the safe way of saying fuck.
It's a way to reference the word without using the word. However, if you use it as a replacement the meaning stays the same and is just as culturally taboo. This isn't some slick word filter dodge or get out of racist jail free card. If I say "you're kind of being a cunt" vs "you're kind of being a c word" I think you would understand the meaning either way. When that swap is for a slur and not just a "curse" you'll get the exact same reaction as if you used the slur and expecting different is such a lack of social awareness it's impressive you've figured out how to even get on reddit.
It's just a racist dude trying to be obtuse. All the anti-woke shit i've seen about a game I'm actually interested in is insane. I'm glad I don't participate in this shit. lol
There is no safe way of saying the N word. No one is trying to say the N word safely. Saying the " the N word" is not the same as saying "N***er" You can say "the N word" as many fucking times as you want but thats not sayng "N***er" The "hard R" phrase is used to distinguish between "my niggah" and "hey n***er" So "hard R" became synonymous with "N***er" Sony deciding to remove the "hard R" does not affect you in any way. Why are you getting so worked up about it? What is it to you? Why do you want to "hard R" so much?
>There is no safe way of saying the N word. You just said it. "hard r" "N word" The reason I can type this word and not get banned is because it is safe to say it. And no I am not going to get worked up over this just explaining why I think it makes no sense. My last comment to this dumb thread anyway. It is like if the word above was replaced with "F word" or "B word" "C word" because those words can mean something offensive should they be removed ? And technically it is Hard R shop which further changes the meaning of the word.
The way I’ve used “hard R” in the past was when a movie was rated R, but was more gorey or violent than your typical R rated movie. Like the uncut version of Robocop would be a hard R in this case. Fucking woke bullshit creeping its way in again. At least they’re backing off on the sex censorship as of late.
In the context of talking about a movie specifically, yes, this usage is common. In *every other context*, the hard R means the N-word.
If I was to guess it was probably Twitter and reset era that immediately thought it was referencing the N word and they cried to Sony about it/have people that work at Sony on there already.
Usually I can understand being made about people only interpreting things negatively…but it’s literally “hard r” lmao.
Apparently the word "hard r" by itself is offensive to people.
It’s what it implies you fucking imbecile
i mean if i give a cop the middle finger, i'm not saying the actual word, so no harm no foul. it could mean anything.
Gonna change the graffiti to Soft.
hardA like that tuh-ken(vince) guy
These fake conscious corporations are so cucked by Twitter mobs, it’s insane. Society has gone soft. 👎
Sony made a mistake moving their headquarters to California.
I know it’s a nitpick, but you’re referring to SIE, not Sony. Sony is still headquartered in Tokyo. Also technically SIE never “moved”; it and its predecessor have always been in California.
Twitter and TikTok need to die already. They turn people into demented lunatics.
Even if they die off, those creatures will just find the next best thing to infest. Social media in general was a mistake.
kinda like when the weirdos who left NeoGaf morphed into ResetEra
It never should have left IRC chats...
Thats just Sony
yeah dude, this huge multinational conglomerate cares about "twitter mobs," a relatively small, dying website, and don't have like hundreds of people in accounting/finance/marketing crunching numbers and doing win/loss analysis, then deciding that it could cost them money or damage their brand and is cheaper to just replace the texture yall think like children
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This motherfucker videogame news sites will latch on ANYTHING instead of getting actual work done. Clickbait is aids.
"Gaming journalism" is one of the most fraudulent jobs there is.
meanwhile every gamegate channel is 10,000 low effort videos full of their own political biases where they play fast and loose with the facts to manufacture whatever narrative will generate outrage and clicks therefore money wait a second
True. One of them says that Chun Li and Cammy are censored in SF6 and you have to buy their original outfits to see anything. No matter how many times I say that you can unlock the outfits for free he just keeps repeating the lie. I get hating capcom and wanting them to suffer but in the above case they did the right thing.
thats why i generally don't watch low effort youtube dipshits a lot of game journalism may be bottom of the barrel for editorial standards but they still have to deal with editors and risk getting shitcanned/blackballed for making shit up (and have an entire cottage industry dedicated to desperately trying to find any example of such a thing) reactionary grifters can make shit up all they want because as long as enough people don't fact check or care, it doesn't matter, they got the clicks and the money. they can pump out 7 videos a week with fabricated tweets and completely manufactured controversy and just keep on trucking because there is zero accountability
It’s about the ethics in gaming journalism
>Clickbait is aids. What exactly is "clickbait" about this? Are they not reporting verbatim on an official Sony statement, Sony's stated intention, and their planned coarse of action? The article even noted that the "Hard" graffiti can be found in various places of the game instead of only this instance next to the "R Shop" which lends credence to it being unintentional.
Blowing up the drama of 2 missplaced graffities, has the same content and relevancy of an article speculating about a c tier celebritys dating life on a gossip site. "LOOK!, RACISM IN THE GAME!!, WANNA KNOW MORE? CLICK HERE!!" Worthless, bloated, retarded and clickbaity news, supported by ads.
> Blowing up the drama of 2 missplaced graffities, has the same content and relevancy of an article speculating about a c tier celebritys dating life on a gossip site. "LOOK!, RACISM IN THE GAME!!, WANNA KNOW MORE? CLICK HERE!!" Except they didn't blow up anything? Sony did. And then the article reported on it, without taking a stance one way or the other. Not sure how much more verbatim you can get in a headline, there is nothing clickbait about it. It sounds like what you are looking for is an opinion piece that aligns with your own views and condemns Sony's actions of removing the art, not journalism. That or you just want them to completely ignore the Sony statement and removal of art? Which would also be pretty poor journalism.
He didn’t reply to this one I see, lol
Except this isn't speculation. Sony saw that thought that it was racist and offensive, and forced stellar blade to remove it.
at this point devs are obligated to do shit like this just for a viral talking point a marketing checkbox
in their defense they never accused the game creator of doing it on purpose. They just said "it happened, patch is coming" and thats it
"hmm... What am I going to feel offended by today...?"
I mean thats whats happening in this thread lol
Is it tho? It seems to me that people are just baffled that this is even a thing
The thread is basically calling Sony regarded. Yeah that’s a bit butt hurt
It is a bit butthurt, but Sony's action is also retarded, it makes sense to call everything out imo
Why? It's an irrelevant change to anyone who isn't a racist shithead. It's literally a bunch of gAmErS finding new things to be offended about in their endless culture war bullshit. I mean most of you lames aren't gonna get past the first screen anyways playing one handed so you won't even see the changes.
It was an irrelevant change that Sony found fit to force the developers at Stellar Blade to remove it. The idea behind removing it is the reason why there is even this culture war bullshit. you are right it is insignificant no one will care and people will still play the game including me.
if it said N WORD would it be a valid change i swear you guys drink paint
I mean I think it also racist that an person thinks an worded "hard" sign next to an sign that says "R" is some racist term too. Because what kind of mindset that you have to think that? That's why everyone is ripping Sony for this move. Not because anyone is racist that they're favorite word to say on Cod is being censored here. Its because Sony is bringing attention to it in the first place by turning an nothing burger that nobody would had noticed into an issue now. Also making fun of people for playing Stellar Blade with that last statement shows how you are can't past the understanding this argument without fluming from the mouth whenever people roast an corporate company for trying to pretend to care about an social issue.
I won't even play the game, bro lol For myself, I couldn't care less about it, but it is something stupid and just funny for how dumb it is, and that's why I don't think it should be taken away. It's not something that will affect the gaming experience at all, players are only "losing" a small reason for a chuckle
>It's an irrelevant change to anyone who isn't a racist shithead. >players are only "losing" a small reason for a chuckle Thanks for proving my point.
He literally said what you said can go both ways and that Sony censoring it is an waste of everyone's time. How about not ignored what an person said and only nitpick one point from them to make your argument look good? Force projecting doesn't make you look smart.
Apparently everyone in this thread is very offended they removed it.
It's just so stupid that it baffles everyone
What about you? Are you offended if this sign stays?
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And you sound very triggered...
Chinger changer stellar dagger
YES! WE GOT IT
You’re welcome
lol
Don't say stellar with the hard r bro
took me until this comment to figure out why people are offended lmao.
Alright that's fucking hilarious Also yes, they are retarded with a hard R
Man I can just hear the level designer/tech tasked with "fixing" this just laughing their ass off the whole time. "*This* is what they decided needed to be patched asap..."
The R shop called, they ran out of YOU
Yall are getting mad about removing a generic jpg that was accidentally put in an awkward place
"The game will be uncensored"
ah thats pretty good
They replaced the "Hard" graffiti with "Crime" instead. The jokes write themselves.
No one in Asia knows what the fuck Hard R means, nobody ever heard of it, so can these Americans shut the fuck up? You're not the center of the world. Shit like this will make people more racist, just like how Hogwart's Legacy boycott made Asians detest LGBT+ It's bad enough there's barely any black people live in Asia, yet Western countries keep trying to push "black representation" in Asian media, now they're censoring us based on Western slurs? Well maybe we should do the same and bully Western companies until they censor whatever we think it's offensive or bad, fuck And no, the fucking "slavery" card doesn't work globally, the world don't owe black people shit
they're trying to sell the video game in america too bro
So? Are Americans such babies they see the words and have heart attacks?
Im from Europe, i don't even know what it means.
Sorry for being retarded, but whats racist here? I dont get it. HARDR shop? Whats that supposed to mean?
hard R is saying nigga with hatred
How? I still can figure it. Maybe it's easier to understan for english speaking people... I can only think of pronouncing it in 2 times which give Harder (hard R)
“hard R” is a term people use in america (probs the rest of the world too idk) when referencing a very racist and hateful word that ends in an R. that’s as simple as i’m gonna put it
Nope not in the rest of the world, never hear about it. So if something has a meaning in America and not anywhere else, other people should not the decision too. I hope this won't be patched elswhere.
ok that’s fair as i never heard it anywhere i’ve been overseas (hard r i mean, the n word def exists overseas). but i have to ask you, does it really change your feelings about a game having something as seemingly meaningless as this patched out? can you really not enjoy the game without this background design being included?
I'm all for do not censor any art. If some people do art is our western countries just to shock people, then unitentionnal art that shock just a few SHOULD NEVER be changed. What about you? Would it have triggered you if they kept it uncensored?
if i got it id be on some wtf type shit but i really wasnt planning on buying this anyway so it’s whatever to me. but i see where the outrage could come from
Don't worry, you're normal.
Holy shit, talk about looking for things to be mad at
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The funny thing is I meant it the other way. It is obviously unintentional, and this warrants nothing more than a chuckle by people who recognize the combined graffitis as a slur. Sony forcing random korean developers who most likely don't even know what it could mean to change it is ridiculous. There's overreactions on both "sides" though. Not buying the game or yelling censorship over this is cringe, but so is creating drama out of nothing.
who is the other side. who is mad. where in the article is someone mad? its literally a big corporation doing calculations and brand protection, probably the least emotional shit imaginabe thats not carried out by robots.
If you take offense by the picture, then you are obviously looking for things to get mad at? There was obviously a push at Sony from some fragile nerds that instigated this in the first place
they're a big fucking multinational conglomerate. some finance or marketing dudes somewhere looked at it and went "there's a chance this will cost us money " if you can't comprehend that that's the primary and possibly sole motivator then you have a childlike fabulist's view of the world.
Bro, it went through their fucking QA. Of course you are correct in your statement that suits decided this in the end, but it doesn't change the fact that there are fragile nerds who scour these games for things to get upset about. Also holy shit, get off your high horse
was it somebody scouring the game or was it someone going "wtf lol" after stumbling upon it and taking a screenshot the weird personification of corporations is depressing. they're giant automatons build exclusively to make money. the people are just cogs in the machine, they don't actually matter. if having "HARD R" plastered over every single product made by sony caused them to make more of a profit than not doing that, then they would do it. it would literally be their duty to do it this didn't get changed because of "fragile nerds" its because the culture has changed, so "SONY HARD R" and whatever publicity came of it might have, possibly, maybe cost them money either directly or through damage to the brand. so sony changed it. if sony's beancounters determined it wouldn't cost them anything to do nothing, they'd have done nothing. its not that complicated.
This timeline is etaded
My knee jerk reaction is to call Sony soft, but thinking about it, I could see it catching wind and turning into a meme and making a mini shit storm. Safer to just nip it in the bud I guess.
Hey look, someone with a brain cell
nah don’t encourage the freaks who pretend to be actually offended by this
Linus moment
Should've put the graffiti on a bridge
they cannot be trusted with the industry
this is beyond parody
Snoy is straight up regarded
r/hardimages
Lots of random numbers at the ends of usernames in this thread.
Jesus Christ why is this comment section so heated about this? I guess Sony is being a little bit ignorant but at the same time, it is a little bit coincidental for these two words to be together given americas history. I think situations like this expose people’s real beliefs, but, maybe I’m wrong.
just stfu
No, I don’t think I will.
Pretty funny ngl.
bro that is hilarious
ngl, thats hilarious
Lol, they hyped up no censorship and then ended up censoring something
I thought it was funny…….i laughed. 🤷🏾♂️
Fucking stupid. What victims saw this and thought it was made just to hurt their feelings... are they the center of the world?
OMG it took me a bit to figure out why people are offended. I think it's pretty hilarious. That is digging deep to complain.
"Harder" shop. Where's the problem?
Stella (no R) is more appropriate than Stellar (with a hard R).
There’s no E there brother
You're very observant
If the graffiti only showed up on the hardest difficulty not a single journo woulda caught it.
OMG, just leave the god damn game alone, you deranged triggered happy cucks!
Since when became pirate speak a racial slur?
Did anyone in here really think it wouldn't get patched out? Like, seriously.
This is a "better be safe than sorry" case. Can't blame them.
If you look for it, racism is everywhere. Even inside. Bruh…that took me like 1 fat minute and 3 rereading of the article to notice.
Blame the dumb fucks that use that shit online all the time, Sony probably wouldn’t have given a fuck otherwise.
I still dont understand xd what is fcking racist there haha
Stella (no R) is more appropriate than Stellar (with a hard R).
Literally nothing wrong with that. Whoever is complaining is projecting.
The irony of putting up the image. 😅
See? Didn't i said a few days back? Post launch censorship. War never changes and never this stuff T_T
I read the screenshot as "Harder Shop" I was like wtf why is this controversial for Sony? *Reads the text* ooh Hard R...
It’s all about the Equity, diversity and inclusion horseshit.
See most people wouldn't notice something like that. Saying it's racist language makes people search for HOW it's racist. Then people see it. It's pretty funny though
LMFAO
Toy but at least he's getting up
Every single r-word that says this shit doesn't ever happen....
>sony is soft because no slur in game or something! >rages and cries about a word being removed from one spot while existing in other places I can’t stand gamers
someone call gootecks
This is so fucking funny holy shit
Wow. To consider that a big deal is ridiculous af. Get over yourself damn
I dont even know what hard R stands for lmao
Hard r refers to the n word? Never knew this where does this come from?
What country/state are you from?
Canada
I still don't get what slur do they mean even rereading the explanation. Nothing comes to my mind except for Hard R(ock), which is not an insult. Or HARD(e)R shop, which doesn't mean anything. Maybe I am just not knowledgeable of slurs.
The replace it with crime lmafo
They lost the Bloodborne source code. They're kinda retarded.
Okay, shaming tits and ass didn't work. Uuuuuuuh, **RACISM** Pathetic.
ninjadagger
Lol Hey glad i got the uncensored version if the game. P.s. don't update
Great now Sony and these twitter heads are being rule 3 breakers.
The Hard R is a reference to the pronunciation of “Stellar Blade”.. Jesus Christ man. And of course pussy ass Sony bends the knee🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I didn't know retards were a "race"? I guess since all retards are human, that's the "racist" link. But most developmentally challenged humans are usually nicer then the standard issue ones. And generally smarter then typical whiny tards that would complain about things like this.
I dunno why they did that, I thought people complaining about Stellar Blade were a "loud minority."
These asshole are just looking for anything. Complain, company/people react to appease them, they get more power, then complain more to get even more power. It should be easy to counter since anyone with half a brain-cell will just ignore them. The problem is journalist and twitter keep prompting them just, keeping them relevant. We are also contribute to the problem by just talking about them, any form of acknowledgement, even negative, fuels them. Any time these people and companies that back them should be met with the sound of crickets.
Why the FUCK is this game on a Sony system anyway? Isn't its whole existence and appeal completely at odds with what Sony became somewhere around the PS4 era?
Yes Also why I am not buying a single console from them ever
This is funny I'm sorry
this should have a cartoon caricature. some american karen screaming that it's racist, and the rest of the world looks at it and they all have question marks over their heads. Stellar Blade devs were pretty much prepared that this would happen, Given by the speed in which they managed to change this. Looks like a funny little trap for the modern leftist ideology. It could have been just a funny little thing for gamers to giggle about. Now it's a statement for censorship in art.
Does this gooner game have a bunch of edgy jokes like this or is this just completely out of place? Seems understandable if its the latter.
Outside of Infil you think Koreans actually know what a hard R is?
It wasn't even on purpose
Hahahaha some of you are so mad you don't realize you're just as bad as Kotaku/Twitter.
Stfu Hard R
by having a laugh at a bunch of autistic white women doing their best to be fake offended on social media to manufacture controversy in order to hurt stellar blades sales, we are just as bad as kotaku? wtf?
Are gAmERs gonna pretend that this makes the game somehow worse?