Chances are if you ever bought Resident Evil 5 or Borderlands 2, you did. If you thought that killing black people in Africa and using "oh but they're just zombies" is a valid excuse or a white girl using ghetto talk is perfectly fine by your standards (because we all know how that type of communication is reserved for African Americans and no one else)then i would strongly advise you to check your privilege. Someone even made a handy Android app just for that

The latest example in this despicable trend is now Stanley Parable. Look at this ingame picture and tell me that there is nothing wrong with it. Now i imagine you're all probably brimming with rage so let me just explain you why you should be mad and scream for demanding of social justice in the first place. You see, there is nothing wrong that a grown man is setting a kid on fire, the problem here is his skin color (and i'm pretty sure the situation and public outrage would be the same if the roles were reversed, r-right?)
I bet you're all probably asking yourself what can i do at this point except nagging on the internet while trying to make a controversy out of nothing but! - that's where you would be wrong. With enough commitment and a lot of free time there is a chance that DICE might just hire you to work on a Mirror's Edge sequel with insightful unbiased advices or get a job in many of the Gawker media affiliates - the possibilities are almost endless.
So whenever you see a Black, Asian or Australian character in a videogame you should ask yourself why is he/she there in the first place if they don't have a leading role in providing a social commentary, we don't want you to play games just to have fun, that would be crazy!. Next time you see a videogame that you might like, dont just blindly buy it. Do some research, be sure to overanalyze everything and if that process you tend to separate a fiction from the reality, who cares? It's part of the package

tl;dr
If you buy Stanley Parable before they patch it, you are most likely racist

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Thanks for Racism: Legendary Edition!

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"You see, there is nothing wrong that a grown man is setting a kid on fire"

WTF?

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Huh? Are you racist towards green people when you kill standard videogame zombies?

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Yes, I hate green people!

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And that is funny when you realize what contributes to racism (not the bad type particularly) the most is people who don't try to be racists and are overconscious about it.

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Some of the shit in this thread makes me want to take up drinking. :t

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I always do it, but not by accident.

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Would you rather it be a black man burning a white child?
Also... The first image is a man lighting a cigarette for a kid, nothing wrong with that?
Another thing, saying a white person speaking as if they live in the ghetto is racist, is racist. Just because they're not black they can't speak "Gangstah"?

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I bought all stuffs I like - I don't care if the game is racist whatsoever.

I even use racist insult in Dota 2. Part of strategy, part of the game etc etc.

Sue me.

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holy shit, Valve is encouraging racism in dota 2 by putting an all chat feature.

Quick, sue valve!@!@!

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Good thing I've seen it's posted by Xarabas before I read it. Anyway, I think match 3 are the most racist games - they force you to match 3 items of the SAME COLOR in order to progress further and gather points...

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OMG! YOU'RE TOTALLY RIGHT!!!!1!

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I killed black zombies in resident evil 5, and the final boss was a white guy :D

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To say that Resident Evil 5 is racist because you only kill Africans is like saying RE4 is racist because you only kill the Spanish. Newsflash, you would kill a lot of African zombies if you were in Africa and there was an influx of mutagenetic psuedo-zombies. If you're going to call RE5 racist for ANYTHING, it'd be the fact that at one point, you're killing Africans decked out in tribal gear chucking spears at you. Secondly, Borderlands is hardly a game to take seriously.

The Stanley Parable is a work of art and those pictures are far from racist and should act more as an eye-opening experience to show how we treat other nations, especially Africa. You see, we could afford to buy a small African village a pump so they can pull water from the ground and live better lives. Instead, we go to the store and buy whatever cheap liquor we can find because it's our guilty pleasure to phase out into a good bottle of whisky while the rest of the world wonders if they'll starve to death the next day. At the very least, it's my guilty pleasure.

Also worth mentioning is that the picture depicts a very likely future for these African children living the way they do. Should we help them become a viable civilization, they'd just become consumers in the free market, being sold cigarrettes for example. The Stanley Parable is more of a snap back to reality that forces you to look at the current human condition and make you realized we're all trapped. Btw, you convinced me to buy it because I'm obviously racist ;D

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Sounds like a retard with white guilt to me. No, you're not supporting racism when you play those games.

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You sound like a retard who can't take a joke. So you've got that going for you.

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it isn't a joke. It is criticism, explained sarcastically.

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old examples :( I was expecting exciting new false claims of racism and actually intended to say "yes because I mistakenly liked tiny tina and slaughtered dead africans in africa while playing as a white man without thinking in re5(did the addition of the half naked woman in tribal paint carrying a bow with feathers on really make that better though?)" but those were the examples :P

I now feel compelled to buy this Stanly parable game to spite random crazy people on the internet...they didn't do this on purpose did they?

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Whoosh!: The Thread

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I don't even notice these things in games lol

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This is a joke right?

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No, we're all racists for playing popular video games. Open your eyes to what you have become!

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yeah, people should use more things made of wood, organic stuff, and text-based-spiritual-adventure games.

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re: roll reversal question
it only works one way because that sort of behavior is just expected of blacks, they stab everybody.[shrug] (its just their way and we must respect other cultures and not racistly impose western values on others.)
but if a white guy stabs you he must mean something by it because you guys(I quit to start my own team. just as soon as I get enough money together for some good cybernetics*) usually act like people.
Like how that gps program that could take violent crime statistics into account when calculating walking routs was racist and justly labeled "avoid ghetto app" and had to be stopped. because violent criminals is just code for african americans(and everybody knows they live in ghettos)
...you're just totally racist if you don't see it that way.


*(if I can help it I'm not gonna be in the same race as the vast majority of the people pointing out racism where nobody else including the victims see it(I assume because its implied minorities are just too dim and need a white guy thinking for em to spot such things))

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tiny tina is the cutest girl in that freakin game, and she raised herself she doesnt understand the words she uses

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misure fleshstick be trippin mad balls at the fancy tea party yo. got all sorts of doilies up in here bitch wouldn't believe. badonkocrunk to you good sir

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Thread was good, mentioned Australians as a repressed ethnic group, thread became perfect.

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Lmfao

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tldr

...and yes. I'm all for racism in video games. Dwarves and Elves suck. They all need to die.

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elves don't need to die, they suck pretty well

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Because I play a game I support this or that is bull crap. I play the game for fun not to smack a race around. Any person who see a black guy in a game and kills them must be a race hater? This is one post that only shows how stupid people are. So if I shoot any race that I am not then I must support it? total bull $%%^.
Lets see how this works then.
Batman: Arkham City GOTY - black guy attacked by batman = racism (game you own)
Borderlands 2 = racism (game you own)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown = racism (game you own) if you let any black people die.
I could list tons more proving you must support racism, but I think you get the point. This thread is useless as I just proved.

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" This is one post that only shows how stupid people are " irony at it's finest.

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LOL

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You must be simply delightful at parties.

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8

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Closed 10 years ago by xarabas.