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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.
It is!
You can freely create words with it that are on their naughty list without getting shot by police. Its woke, man!
Up next, Fox News accuses walnuts of being lazy.
They just sit on the lawn and do nothing! A literal zombie can walk up to them, and they do nothing about it.
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”
Turns out banning hate speech is woke now. Fun...
The N-word was in the official Scrabble dictionary until 2020.
I'm sure they're mad that they can't use it in the tournaments they don't play in.
The biggest take away of this is they think their viewers know what scrabble is.
It's the part of the pig that's best for fryin', yeehaw!
They probably removed the scoring because no one understands how it works
If multiplying by two or three causes issues, you've got bigger problems than "gen Z not liking competitive games".
If they want kids to play it, shape the board like the Fortnite map, and give double points for using those letters in the named areas.
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.
I always play with scoring with my children. Gives then character.
I was going to check to see if Gutfeld even has children and, thankfully, he does not. Let's hope it stays that way.
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.
You can still play Scrabble the original way and no one will stop you.
You would if you could, and we both know it.
I would what if I could?
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.
It's not stupid to provide a proper board and a structured system for a variant of the game that people enjoy
That's fine. I barely care about my own opinion on this.
I read the bottom paragraph as though it was a John Oliver segment and that just made it funnier.
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.
Tarlov then said [...] "Scrabble can be a tough game". Co-host Greg Gutfeld replied, “So is life!” before admitting that he has never played Scrabble.
Yeah and it's also accusing libraries of being drug-infested sex dens
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It's as if Fox News is not a reasonable source for anything but counterfactual nonsense
If libraries were actually drug-infested sex dens, I would hang out in the library more than on Lemmy.
Could you imagine if Fox News found out about Lemmy?
My guess is that the headline would be something like "WOKE NETIZENS TRAIN HACKERS TO TAKE OVER THE INTERNET BY SPREADING WOKENESS"
Their lawyers argued in court that they were a source for entertainment, not news.
I mean I always wanted to shag the hot librarian in my hometown but sadly they weren't sex dens back then! 😭
If this were true, people would actually go to the library more often!