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Non-violent offence
Sep. 23rd, 2013 11:54 pmWhitney sent me a link to an article rather inappropriately declaring itself to be about "kick ass violence-free video games". I don't think that there's anything on the list that people won't have heard of, but there are a couple that I'd meant to get around to playing. I love the sudden turn the list takes as you scroll down - Portal, Journey, Minecraft, Animal Crossing, SLENDER, Gone Home, Katamari...
What really caught my eye, though, was this:
And... I know that even after seven years, every single week in this country leads to a new misunderstanding, but this is absolutely not an okay thing to say in Britain! When I read that, I thought... well, I'm not a great fan of him either - I mean, look at this prick - but where I'm from, "spastic" is a really offensive term for someone mentally disabled, equivalent to (and I do apologize for this) the word "retard".
Apparently, here it just means high-energy or twitchy, which makes a lot more sense in context. And it sort of makes a nice change, not being the one that says something massively offensive by mistake due to the language difference.
What really caught my eye, though, was this:
If the last time you touched a game controller involved a spastic blue hedgehog...
And... I know that even after seven years, every single week in this country leads to a new misunderstanding, but this is absolutely not an okay thing to say in Britain! When I read that, I thought... well, I'm not a great fan of him either - I mean, look at this prick - but where I'm from, "spastic" is a really offensive term for someone mentally disabled, equivalent to (and I do apologize for this) the word "retard".
Apparently, here it just means high-energy or twitchy, which makes a lot more sense in context. And it sort of makes a nice change, not being the one that says something massively offensive by mistake due to the language difference.
