If the headline was “Scrabble bans hateful words” nobody would care because it’s their game, they can do what they want with it and nobody has sympathy for the guys complaining they can’t be racist in Scrabble.
But using the word “woke” makes it sound like it’s some ongoing culture war battle with half the country on either side. It ain’t.
Tell that to Mr Potato Head or M&Ms. You might be better off phrasing it as “it shouldn’t”. Because the moment this shows up on conservative media… It will.
These hosts are doing everything they can to justify having a job. Normal people would say “yeah maybe we shouldn’t have swears and slurs in a game targeted at families”
He then said, “Playing a game without scoring — even if you suck at something — is so anti-human. It’s like scoring is part of your DNA."
Gutfeld is so stupid man I can’t believe I used to like him
Yeah a game without a scoring system is anti-human, that’s why we famously never play such games with our children. What’s your ELO in peek-a-boo, Greg? You absolute dweeb? Man I can’t wait to get back to my ranked play jigsaw puzzle at home. Can’t wait to beat my brother at D&D this week.
Greg Gutfeld’s the kind dude that stopped reading books when he got to be too old for the Book-It program and couldn’t score any more free personal pizzas at Pizza Hut.
Getting rid of scoring in scrabble is definitely stupid. If you don’t want to keep score, just don’t. I don’t think I’ve ever bothered, but it’s still a game with a scoring system and plenty of people use it. Didn’t need doing. I don’t know which side of that argument counts as woke and I really don’t care.
Kinda arrogant to tell people that the way they enjoy a game is stupid. It’s a good thing the new Scrabble boards offer this scoreless variant as a variant, while the opposite side of the board remains the same scrabble you’ve grown accustomed to.
Oh, so it hasn’t changed at all then, it’s a non-story. Should have realised. Incidentally you’re mistaken, I said I don’t ever use the scoring system but that redesigning the game was nevertheless stupid, because you can already choose not to use it.
Being a Fox News producer must be exhausting. Like, you gotta look all around for the slightest possible thing to anger and scare people. I’m sure the producer was at Target walking down the board game aisle and was like “oooohhh a new Scrabble? I’m gonna call this woke!”
Jessica Tarlov, one of the panel’s more liberal co-hosts, said she was in favor of the game removing slurs, adding, “I think we can all agree on that.”
Two panelists replied, “Not so fast!” and “Be careful, Jessica.”
Jesus Christ, how do these chucklefucks convince themselves that they aren’t terrible people?
Would only really be relevant for tournaments, except the organizing bodies of which aren’t affiliated with Hasbro and have their own sets of words and drama over them. People playing casually can just have house rules about whether slurs are or aren’t accepted and what counts as one.
We used to play “if you can convince me it’s a word, it counts”. I got a triple word score on zaxticuous and that shit got shut down. It means: Having the property or appearance of Zach Morris from Saved by the Bell.
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