I doubt that their viewers play Scrabble....
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"Look! It's the only word anyone can spell with the letters G-I-N-G-E-R!" - some stupid fucking racist probably.
Oh! Naggers
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Or if they do, they try to play proper nouns like the troglodytes they are
You just used a word they couldn't spell even if they had the Scrabble tiles.
And I'm sure you guessed the word I mean: play.
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I doubt their viewers could spell scrabble.
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Five angry Fox News hosts think the popular board game Scrabble is too “woke” because — in addition to banning racist and anti-LGBTQ+ slurs — a new version focuses more on having fun with friends than on competitive scoring.
Damn right! What the fuck is even the point of a board game if you can be racist while you gloat after destroying all other players?
That's also the point of Monopoly, which is why it is the best board game ever and everyone loves it.
Edit: Also-
Co-host Greg Gutfeld replied, “So is life!” before admitting that he has never played Scrabble.
Of course not. Why would he play that particular game when he knows he's too stupid to ever destroy all other players and then gloat about it?
That’s also the point of Monopoly, which is why it is the best board game ever and everyone loves it.
The Landlord's Game was like that on purpose, to demonstrate why monopolies are terrible. Then you're supposed to play it again using the "prosperity" ruleset and actually have fun.
Parker Brothers completely lost the plot by removing that second ruleset.
Remember when republicans wouldn’t shut the fuck up about liberals being snowflakes 🙄
The left might eat itself, but it’s better than leaving rotting limbs attached that no longer serve a purpose to the rest of the body lmfao.
Edit: removed unnecessary and “argument muddying” name calling/frustrated venting
I honestly think that the Left in-fighting is a good thing to a good extent. I just wish we'd focus that energy on squashing the people who don't help the cause and promote those with initiative.
It is, if we’re not constantly reassessing our priorities and discussing differing views, how are we to adapt to changing times.
Republicans would rather live in fear and in the past than have the balls to face the future and it’s people for what they are.
One to rule them all instead of learning to coexist.
It’s as simple as that.
I saw a comment a while ago that I love and it's that the left has a diversity problem when it comes to focusing their energy. It's so hard to get everyone to commit to one thing because there's such a wide diversity of cultures, ideas, and solutions. And it's great to be that way! But it can muddy the messaging a bit.
Whereas there's far less diversity of ideas in the right side of politics. It's mostly outrage at the new. "The liberals are going to take everything from you and here's why you should be scared." Everything boils down to that.
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A reasonable amount of infighting is needed to weed out bad ideas. Unfortunately, some take the mentality "some good, more better!".
I like the circle analogy. The right tend to circle the wagons. The left forms a circular firing squad.
It also doesn't help that the left is FAR less monolithic than the right. It's 100 lemmings in a shared trenchcoat. Without the 2 party systems, it would shatter into a dozen smaller parties, and work as a collective a lot more.
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I'm confused. Isn't the base rule of the game "if it's in the dictionary then it's allowed, and if it's not in the dictionary then it isn't"?
How is the game woke?
dickti... discu... disjona... wordbook woke.
I know I should be getting the joke on this one but sadly I'm missing it.
They're mimicking someone who's trying to say the word dictionary but ironically lacks the diction to articulate it and instead says 'wordbook'
It is humorous because of the implication that extreme right wingers ala Fox news and it's viewers are illiterate hillbillies. They're not. They're just insane.
Yup that should have been obvious to me. Thank you
Basically the old Porky Pig cartoon character
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I posted this elsewhere in the thread. Apparently the N-word was only banned from tournament play four years ago. I shit you not. So I guess that's what they're mad about.
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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.”
“Careful, Jessica! Can’t have our viewers thinking rationally!”
Do they have a fucking code or something? Did somebody actually read the Trump bible?
It’s true! Did you know they include all the letters of the gay agenda? Literally LGBTQ are IN THE BOX!
Brainwashing confirmed!!
So done with right wingers hating on anything slightly different than the norm.
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I was going to joke that they were just mad that you can't use ****** anymore but that appears to actually be one of the complaints. Wonderful.
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Solidly genX, always fucking hated scrabble powergamers boiling the fun out of everything.
The way you make classic scrabble awesome is by adding just one rule: you must play the funniest word you can make, regardless of score. If players do not agree which word is funnier, they must argue about it.
This actually leads to some interesting strategy, for instance if you're left with two Os in your hand, you're very likely going to have to play POO next turn, and that's only 3 points. And you can set traps, too.
This is actually genius and sounds way more fun than base game
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Man, when I play Scrabble the rules are basically just "no names." You can even play made up words as long as nobody challenges you before they take their turn. If you are challenged, you have to provide the source and we don't care if it's Webster, Miriam or Urban. I can't even think of a single board game where my family ever followed the rules 100% as written in what came in the box.
My father got a PhD in English. We literally had an unabridged OED in the house. He did not play Scrabble, but the OED got used on a regular basis by the rest of us. Although we did eventually moved to the unabridged Webster's because of debates over American vs. British spellings went on too long.
Also, my mother is an evil Scrabble player and no one will play with her anymore. One of those "if I can't have a triple word score, no one can. Oh wait, I figured out how I can get one if I completely fuck you over, so I'm going to do that" sort of evil Scrabble players.
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That lady with the deep voice just wanted to say “woke” as much as possible for this segment.
They ditched offensive words from the NASPA lexicon years ago that isn’t new.
The game doesn't allow racist and anti-LGBTQ+ slurs?!?
It sounds like they're talking about the original, board game form, not a video game. You can play with house rules.
Correct. In fact...
The popular word-spelling game recently released a new European version called Scrabble Together. The new version allows players to play in teams, challenges players to spell certain kinds of “goal” words (like a word containing two of the same letter), and provides hints for improving players’ skills. The new version also has the classic Scrabble game board, with its color-coded scoring, on its underside.
A big part of what Fox was complaining about was that "scoring is in our DNA" and "what's the point in playing a game if you don't take score?" (apparently none of them have ever played a cooperative game before, and I cant say I'm surprised, I sure wouldn't want to play a game with any of them lol). Even if that was the most true and reasonable argument in the world, you can just flip the damn thing over and play the old version...
I’m offended that
- the new version is released in Europe, only, and Amazon doesn’t have it in the US store
- Hasbro web site won’t let me shop unless I tell them my birthday
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Words are too woke. Because if you know too many of them and put them in specific orders you can learn anything.
The right wight is outraged about something the left wing does. Then the left is outraged about the right's outrage and next Fox News is going to report on the left's outrage about their outrage and that pretty much sums up today's politics reporting. Recreational outrage all the way down. At this point we're just knowingly killing braincells by paying attention to any of this.
"Both sides!!!!!"
You got downvoted, but you're right. That's essentially what he's saying.
"The left is so dumb for being outraged at Fox News for saying most black people are criminals."
but something something 13/50, No, I swear I am not racist, that confederate flag is due to Heritage!
Then the left is outraged about the right’s outrage
Can you point out who on the left is outraged over Fox throwing a fit about 'woke Scrabble?'
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Also, I would definitely play "woke" Scrabble before I ever played Scrabble: The Presidential Edition. Which is a real board game I posted about not too long ago: https://lemmy.world/post/13734442
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