Valve renames Artifact card named Crack the Whip that affects black cards - Sensationalist Headlines

This cracked me up. This was so obvious I don't know how they didn't notice. People make mistakes sometimes. Sometimes really big mistakes that should have been obvious. If they don't have a pattern of doing stuff like this then calling them out on it just makes people who care about stuff like this look bad. If they have done stuff like this frequently, I'd like to see some examples because I haven't heard of anything.

Im getting really sick of this obsession with race.

That's also an incredibly apples to yellowcake comparison, the idea that the card was racist in the first place comes entirely from not only ignoring context of the game, but also combining the old name of the card, the card type Black and adding the context of US history ontop of it all. It's totally in their head, it's not the same as a duck having duck features

It's [current year]!

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/134149/0feca102-05b4-4375-8ab9-42de705be441/image.png I can't believe crayola made the black crayon this unrealistic charcoal hue, that's incredibly insensitive

listen fella if it looks like a crayon and draws like a crayon then you need to be fucking excommunicated you pig

Task master is posh af Coordinated assault just makes me think of a whole gang hitting something because of the association made before with the whip

Ya know, if you go around looking for things to be offended by you are bound to be offended

Wow, you people are idiots if you think an American company totally didn't realize this wasn't some wink wink nudge nudge racist shit. Like, come on. Of all the things to get specifically promoted, any basic PR training would of told them "you know this could get taken the wrong way" and resulted in a name change. Stop plugging your ears and pretending Valve can do no wrong. If this was EA, you'd be chomping at the bit getting on their ass about how insensitive this was.

Grade A shitpost right here. All i was saying is the card itself comes off racist, I didn't say shit about anyone at valve doing it intentionally.

stop plugging your brain and pretending the color black doesn't exist

cards using their rules for double entendres and puns have been around for a long time, and the one in the op is a very low hanging fruit that requires no stretching to come off the wau it does.

is there another word for color that won't get confused for race by fools that also can't comprehend the word black referring to a hue

Has Valve ever been good at PR.

no, maybe just make cards that aren't shitty race puns, and hire an editor to catch mistakes.

Don't. Wizards has been "sjw" for awhile now, mass calcify is not some intentional meme they did on purpose for the laughs, it's a coincidence from the color-coding of card types

Is it at all possible that the black color cards are asscociated with the dark evil type characters similar to magic the gathering, therefore an ork lookin dude whipping them fits tonally and has more to do with fantasy tropes than racism???!?! Like cmon guys this isnt that hard to figure out, also why would valve even want to start a shitstorm lol. Its pretty obviously an oversight that was quickly fixed but here are all the whiny babies looking for things to be outraged about and using literal fucking youtube videos to judge the racial demographics of a game developer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdXQJS3Yv0Y

Stop being so fucking obsessed with race you creeps jesus christ.

It doesn't necessarily have to be intentional, it's just the sort of detail that would have been noticed by someone had their team had a black person working on it; just like how early motion tracking and facial recognition systems in phones and kinect didn't recognize black people. In both cases they simply didn't notice the problem because their team was entirely white and they never tested it with a black person until public demos/release.

Best part, card ID is 1488

This just seems like one of these things where the original name was just super unfortunate and some people pointed it out so they harmlessly changed it and now everyone's just approximating how angry the other side is about it based on like, a single tweet or two. extremely manufactured and not worth clutching any pearls over.

"It's 2018. We blow stupid bullshit out of proportion cause we have nothing better to do."

Okay, a few questions. 1: How do you know no black person worked on this? 2: Do you think black people just sit around thinking about slavery all day? Why do you think a black person would automatically make this not happen? What if there was and they just didnt think about it because its referring to card functionality?

Reminds me of the controversy over Aparthied and Aug Lives in DE:MK only to find out those aspects were made by two french guys - black and asian respectively

Because Valve currently lists Artifact as being developed by Brandon Reinhart, Richard Garfield, Brad Muir, Jeep Barnett, Bruno Carlucci, and Steve Jaros. Specifically Jaros is the writer, Garfieeld is designing, Reinhart is directing, and the rest are programming; all of them are white guys. Well that's just a weird nonsequitor. It by no means would have only been solved by them having a black person on the team, but statistically speaking nonwhite people tend to be a lot more aware of the existence of racial prejudices and issues simply because they're a lot more likely to have been affected by them. Quite often being in a mixed race environment makes people more aware of race.

A black person can only tell you what would offend black people, not what would offend SJWs. They could probably hire someone who's job it is to think about slavery all day if they wanted to look good though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Artifact/comments/9jrwpw/explaining_the_crack_the_whip_noncontroversy/ I like how we manage to have people here that are worse than twitter with overreacting and manufacturing outrage

Well that's some palpable irony right there.

I initially found this ordeal absolutely hilarious from both sides. Hilarious that Valve failed to initially pick this up, and hilarious that the fans at large managed to draw such a racist implication from a mechanical reference. Then I read some of the posts in this thread and I'm really not sure what to think. People have made fairly strong cases that inside jokes in the card names, artwork and mechanics are actually commonplace in TCG, and with the existence of 'Invoke Prejudice' (fucking hilarious by the way holy shit) it would make sense to me to avoid associating a card called "Crack the Whip" with your 'black' card type. ...but I also can't shake that dismissive attitude, the 'stop caring about race in this instance' mindset. Ultimately I think that's the one to go with. @Shift28 nailed it. The game draws some fantasy tropes, black is the 'dark/evil' type, whip cracking is pretty evil. Even if Valve 100% should have caught this unfortunate correlation earlier, the inspirations and reasons for it being this way are clear and definitely not racially motivated, and I'm unconvinced that diversity on the development staff would have prevented this either. Valve would/should have changed it either way, but this story doesn't really deserve the headline or the controversy imo.