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

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

YOU ARE A BOT

YOU ARE ALSO A BOT

EVERYONE IS A BOT BUT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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