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Re:Amazon Game Studios struggles to find a hit by ha4fsd3fas on Saturday January 30, 2021 @10:26AM (#25969800)
> Executives under Frazzini initially rejected charges that New World, an Amazon game that would ask players to colonize a mythical land and murder inhabitants who bear a striking resemblance to Native Americans, was racist. They relented after Amazon hired a tribal consultant who found that the portrayal was indeed offensive

What a ridicilous world we live in.

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Re:Amazon Game Studios struggles to find a hit by NoahTheDuke on Saturday January 30, 2021 @10:46AM (#25969964)
This is a pretty short comment. Which part do you find ridiculous?
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Re:Amazon Game Studios struggles to find a hit by ha4fsd3fas on Saturday January 30, 2021 @10:49AM (#25969986)
The part where someone would claim this is racist.
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Re:Amazon Game Studios struggles to find a hit by randompwd on Saturday January 30, 2021 @10:59AM (#25970065)
> the portrayal was indeed offensive

You seem to have missed that part of your own quote. They're not saying the idea was racist, they're saying the implementation was racist. No doubt is was portraying the natives as wild savages which is indeed racist.

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Re:Amazon Game Studios struggles to find a hit by lukebitts on Saturday January 30, 2021 @12:56PM (#25971232)
Is it impossible for a game to be racist? If not, how do you know this instance wasn’t racist? Do you know the game better than the people working on it?

This is not people on twitter complaining, these were actual professionals who were a part of the project, I see nothing ridiculous about it.

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