>In the track 'Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There', if you skip to around 1:48 into the track, you'll reach a section of the song where words are softly spoken rather than sung. At around 1:57 it appears the term "retarded" is used, and followed up by the assertion that "I can say it."
>The term 'retarded' is considered a slur against people with mental disabilities. It has been commonly used as a pejorative term to diminish the capabilities of those with certain mental health conditions, and is widely accepted as a term which should not be used in English-speaking parts of the world. In fact, many parts of the world are trying to phase it out of medical texts and replace it with terms like intellectual disability.
>Needless to say, this does not exactly fit Nintendo's family friendly image, nor seem an especially appropriate inclusion in a game with a 12 rating (or indeed any game).
No, the Japanese accent just sounds like it if you're not used to it.
Parker Jenkins
>xenophobic white liberal is racist in their everlasting quest to produce more fake outrage >kotaku end yourself
Jack Nelson
At 1:57, you hear "retort it".
Kotaku thinks they are saying "retarded".
Just comes off as racist.
Jordan Bell
Race isn’t attached to the song so they can’t use that argument. This is about justice for the mentally challenge and American sensibilities
Brayden Williams
it's pretty hard to figure out what she's saying in any of the songs at least for me, some parts are completely different than what I hear i still wouldn't make a fucking article about it
>It quit twitter over this Fucken kek. At least apologise first, you mark
Colton Carter
JUST
Xavier Mitchell
I just can understand mentality of those people. They want to be offended. They really do, and obsessively seek out anything that does. What mindset makes you write article about "disability slur" instead of thinking you probably misheard engrish?
Connor Sanders
If fucking only. They never actually stay away.
Hudson Brown
Imagine your job is writing useless articles about imaginary offensive things in entertainment media. Other people are out there building roads or performing surgery or emptying garbage cans. All things that are useful to society. All respectable work. And here you are whining because you thought you heard the word "retarded" whispered in a video game song. And for that you expect to draw a paycheck. What an utterly useless and pathetic specimen of humanity.
Josiah Phillips
because it's all fake controversy Social media generation = all fake drama to get some attention.
You see all this shit all the time in news sites and boards
Eli Evans
It's Japan's fault for not being able to speak English properly because they're too used to their useless dead language.
Hudson Cox
stop trying to comprehend your betters, it's not your place.
Ayden King
>I can say it. I can say it too. NIGGER!
Nathan Collins
Retarded faggot
Joseph Jenkins
Retard fuck Retard damn you gay retard.
Brody Diaz
It's not about sensibilities at all, this is just a flex by game journos to prove Japan isn't immune to their shit.
Thomas Miller
>retarded tranny is retarded
Wow, color me shocked!
Brody Thomas
They're absolutely fucking the tranny up for not doing a bit of research on this article kek. Good. Hope he kills himself for being an abomination not only as a biological one, but for being a shitty writer too.
Jason Collins
ironically enough lefties LOVE Carlin. If he were alive today he'd rip them all a new one and it's hilarious.
He does know that, even if the bigger did say retarded, that retarded has another definition that is used fairly often right?
Aiden Lopez
More like "you are a vagina." Pussy ass tranny
Michael Morgan
Yeah, pretty sure Joker was singing about fire safety. >They never saw the fire comiiiing >because i sprayed it with fire retarded chemicals
Henry Hall
>mutilating your genitals is a crowning milestone in your life Clown world.
Wyatt Roberts
Is that fucking Egoraptor? Damn I stopped following him when he started sequelitis, but damn what happened to him?
Cooper Butler
When I listened to the song I always thought it sounded like retarded, but gladly I was smart enough to use common sense and realize that's not actually what the singer is actually saying. Common sense is clearly a trait lacking in Kotaku.
>My name is Laura, I'm a video game critic, I'm a trans woman on the autism spectrum, and I've got two books releasing in 2019 Here's your journalist bro
Fuck you for making me go to this shit site and check. There is no article about this and the tranny doesn't even seem to write for them anymore. Why the fuck would you make this thread?
faggot has a listening disability too. lyn obviously says "Record it"
Samuel Adams
Hi "Laura", nobody gives a shit.
Joshua King
if he were resurrected he would. if he had lived all this time he'd have been sucked in along with everyone else.
Adam Hill
wow, what a retard
Gabriel Jones
The OP clearly specified Kotaku UK you retard. They share articles but not all.
Liam Kelly
This article is from Europe
Jason Harris
The doubling down on this retarded shit was my favourite part. Okay well yeah the lyrics might not have been that but I still heard it that way so obviously that's what it is.
Mason Rodriguez
>Kotaku UK
Colton Nelson
Man this just comes across as painfully stupid. I have no particular feelings to this journalist one way or the other, but I imagine that people are gonna remember this shit forever. I mean, there's basically 0% integrity being shown here, someone thought they heard something and made a news article about it. Did this person WANT to commit career suicide? (Not that they'll fire a trans woman)
That's really all that needed to be seen to know this article was horseshit.
Gabriel Harris
it's a foolproof way to win an argument
>"x is true because of y" >"y isn't true?" >"x is still true because i want it to be"
Zachary Gonzalez
I wish facts still existed in reality.
Luis Baker
You are very based and redpillled my friend.
Dylan Richardson
This Larry guy sounds retarded
Sebastian Morgan
>(Not that they'll fire a trans woman) This is super true, unfortunately. Unless Laura straight up starts fucking up big time I doubt they'll ever fire them due to the backlash they'll inevitably get. Shame too, I find them to be an awful, petty journalist
Robert Flores
America is no longer just a country, it's a state of mind.
Josiah Collins
>falling for clickbait >falling for bait threads
Jaxon Taylor
Is there an archive or whatever link for this website so they don't get traffic but still get the ridicule?
Henry Flores
>guy
Levi Martin
Why do Europeans blame us for their bullshit?
Isaac Reed
Dale has a long history of this sort of shit, from smearing people based on lies to fake Switch leaks.
nichegamer.com/2019/04/19/opinion-the-questionable-ethics-of-laura-kate-dale/ deepfreeze.it/journo.php?j=laura_kate_dale >Claimed in a series of tweets to have been called male, “it” and “thing” by a presenter at a videogame expo, identifying him publicly by name and Twitter account. This was picked by NeoGaf and Kotaku, caused large backlash and apparently “several hundred tweets per minute” sent to the presenter. Dale stated she was receiving harassing tweets—and, after publishing her number herself, phone calls—and saying incorrectly that she had told Kotaku not to publish their article. She received an apology from the presenter (despite the fact that he was denying her claims), multiplied her Twitter followers and was published on the Huffington Post where she changed her story somewhat. Five days after the initial tweets, she admitted her original statments were not correct in a joint statement with the presenter, and she apologized. Two years later, Kotaku’s Editor-in-Chief, when talking about the article, described the story that unfolded as a mess, and said that it resulted in Kotaku changing the use of tweets as a source.
If you google the comedian's name to this day the first thing that comes up is the smear articles, most of which don't have corrections. I wonder how much that has harmed him over the past 6 years. Also I like how Kotaku supposedly changed their policy about using tweets as sources because of Dale lying, and then Kotaku fucking hired Dale. Doesn't exactly do any good if the bullshit is being written to Kotaku directly instead of being tweeted.
>Actively contribute to a culture of cancelation where the utterance of any kind of slur or off-color remark can end your career >Knowing this, publish an accusatory article about your own speculation of what a Japanese Jazz singer might have said in English that's offensive because you THOUGHT you heard it >Not only do you accuse her of saying retarded, but you also state that the singer affirms their right to say retarded in the same breath >Even Twitter and Resetera, the kings of cancellation, know how stupid that claim is mostly because it makes no fucking sense >Take a break from Twitter for 10 hours because this is a long time to people with the life expectancies and intelligence of mayflies >Come back guns blazing saying that the article, which could have ended a woman's career, which you know for a fact because you've contributed to cancellations before, is still valid because of something you felt and not something you knew
I don't know, I think it could be "retard it", i.e. a request from the singer to the band to ease up on the tempo, which is often necessary in improv jazz like this segment. Still not a slur of course. Can't believe he thought "retarded" wouldn't get censored when "damn" did.
re·tard 1 (rĭ-tärd) v. re·tard·ed, re·tard·ing, re·tards v.tr. To cause to move or proceed slowly; delay or impede. v.intr. To be delayed. n. 1. A slowing down or hindering of progress; a delay. 2. Music A slackening of tempo.
Luke Miller
....on one hand i want to understand why, on the other hand I don't because i'm going to be too disgusted from the answer. what the hell is wrong with some people?
Ian Perez
youtu.be/ATcKBMYYSJs?t=108 I remember mishearing lyrics when I was like 8 and snickering with my friends about it. Is this person a literal child?
Aaron Rivera
60
Lucas Davis
>In the entire game there are multiple DLC's projected >In one DLC you have several songs >In one of those several songs there is one instance of a word that may or may not be seen as a slur This is why nobody cares about """game journos""" anymore.
Dale's a former fucking editor in chief. They know what they're doing.
Michael Myers
>a literal tranny
John Perry
17
John Rodriguez
Who am I? Am I not unique? Maybe I'm not here At all Look, the fakers Blinding us with lies The breakers of us all Oh, it's useless What could it mean that we're here? Can we make a difference? If we don't break out of here? Wake up, get up, get out there Raise your voice against trans Feed your anger like fire Why does nobody want change?
Landon Smith
>and saying incorrectly that she had told Kotaku not to publish their article. They don't stop with this either. Pulled the "oh uh the site is having trouble so it can't update the article right now tee hee uwu" shit on this one.
Robert Morales
>Laura posts this shit >Then has the balls to wonder why his boss thought he was throwing him under the bus
>I remember mishearing lyrics (IN GENERAL) if i meant THESE SPECIFIC lyrics I would say >I remember mishearing THESE lyrics
There that's your reading comprehension lesson for today. Hopefully it helps you be less retarded in the future
Charles Clark
>implying some people didn't donate so he could permanently ruin his body/life I imagine it's similar to how non-fat women condone fat women's rantings about "muh fat shaming" and shit in hopes that other women will become obese and result in less competition for themselves.
>tranny pulls this bullshit >can't fire them because MUH DISCRIMINATION lawsuit headache holy shit, also made up some bullshit about being emailed by someone
Anthony Reyes
look at the fries in the last equation and notice there's only one thing of fries and not two, retard
Why do literally ALL TRANNIES have some stupid retard neon hair? Do they really think their anime is real?
Christian Watson
>It has been commonly used as a pejorative term to diminish the capabilities of those with certain mental health conditions
The word doesn't diminish their capabilities. The fact that they actually are a retard is what diminishes their capabilities and no amount of happy thoughts will ever change the fact that they have diminished capabilities.
James Cruz
>when I was like 8
Owen Gutierrez
This. The answer is obviously 60
Daniel Diaz
oooh, that's devilish
Asher Lee
the answer is obesity
Carter Butler
MENTALLY ILL TRANNY
Zachary Mitchell
Femininity challenged
Oliver Ward
It's nutty how Dale tries to play dumb constantly despite being very meticulous about how to handle and cultivate a social media platform based on pity. I never assume Kotaku is incompetent, just trying to see how far they can go one step at a time.
Sebastian Adams
I hope Kotaku gets blacklisted by Nintendo. What a great outcome this would be.
Wyatt Thomas
No, it's 15. 5 + 1 × 10 =5 + 10 =15
Hunter Nelson
The 5 o'clock shadow really sells it.
Ian Gray
>Kotaku
Tyler Brooks
Multiplication before addition faggot
Zachary Watson
don't come in here with your slander did you forget your order of operations
>I remember mishearing lyrics when I was like 8 I'm really curious how you extrapolated that I must be like 11 now from that sentence. Does your memory only go back 2 years?
Liam Baker
The tranny himself has actually been blacklisted by Nintendo, so hopefully they do the whole site.
Daniel Campbell
obsessed euros at it again
Cameron Diaz
fuck order of operations
Ayden Turner
>That deer in headlights stare.
Adrian Watson
And that's a good thing. Kotaku can be forever plagued by the faggot and everyone else will take it as a lesson not to hire trannies in the first place.
Nolan Sanchez
They're doing the "I'm just going to lurk on my second private twitter" thing that Zoe Quinn did after she said Nintendo was making Gamergate jokes about her (when it was a Watergate joke).
Unless she actually apologizes I expect her to get mocked constantly for this, though. Literally making an article bitching because she misunderstood engrish, what a dummy (and a racist to boot).
Anyone retarded enough to be offended by retard probably can't read or play games anyway.
Lincoln Adams
>>can't fire them because MUH DISCRIMINATION lawsuit headache
Nobody cares about this shit. Stuff like that is sorted out in quick and dirty tribunals rather than wasting the courts time and almost nobody wins wrongful dismissal suits because there's always a 1001 legitimate reasons to fire anybody.
Grayson Gomez
Two dollars Stop making me remember my calculus classes from eight years ago faggot
Austin Hall
This is a "end with a video of "her" crying and everyones gonna feel sorry for "her" and forgets about this" situation isnt it?
Luis Anderson
because laura got an email from another tranny saying it said retarded so it ran with it with checking
Blake Gray
2 dollars? if it's 2 dollars, then...
2=1+(.5*2)
Connor Robinson
Of course, that's always been Dale's go-to.
Alexander Clark
Smashfags take after elephants in more than just the smell department; they have a long memory.
Alexander Cooper
>Needless to say, this does not exactly... Fucking English/Journo grad who secretly loathes that they have to write about videogames for pay, I guarantee it
Here's Lyn at Persona Super Live, singing the exact same song live and the section is completely fucking different. There's no point in trying to speculate what she was saying without asking her, if she even fucking remembers what she meant.
Also the Live version blows the in-game version the fuck out.
Justin Stewart
No their balls were surgically removed.
Adam Jackson
LKD must have met his shadow and gotten Personatriggered. >no matter what you pretend to be, your body will always be a man's body >YOU'RE NOT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Ryder Young
Show your work
Brayden Morales
PEMorDAorS
Left to right only comes into play for multiplication and division OR addition and subtraction, not all four lumped into one
Joshua Johnson
except this wont end with 'her' accepting her shadow and she dies lol
Landon Moore
>I wanted to wait. >I also immediately put the article up on my twitter and defended it. HMMMMMMMMMMMM
Colton Phillips
>make an article cause a "disabled person" emailed you about the topic >Do no research >bare minimum you at least make the wording sound like it's still debatable what's actually stated in the lyrics >Boss demands you change the wording to make it sound definitive cause sweet clickbucks >entire thing blows up in your face and you're the fall guy >boss says to shut up and take the L for the both of you >can't even jerk off to relieve the stress anymore
This has the ne thr dumbest article in the history of gaming journalism. Like, there's been dumb ironic shit like "ranking the bulges of smash bros characters" or some crap like that, but this is next level actual garbage passing itself as reporting. I cannot believe this exists
Jackson Hall
All_Of_Kotaku.txt
Thomas Morales
>deliberately leaking internal documents Holy shit, there's no reasonable way to defend someome this stupid.
He fucked up with that article and now he's going to get even more fucked
Grayson Sullivan
Do they also enjoy peanuts?
Lucas Stewart
sometimes I think they are doing it on purpose to get clicks
David White
Isn't it 25?
Brandon Taylor
>Lefties eating themselves alive once again Never gets old
Logan Gutierrez
When will it finally an hero and save us all from having to be in the same world as such an abomination?
Owen Jackson
Why isn't disabling something (in a menu for example) considered a slur as well?
Matthew Perez
Soon to be 40%
Nathaniel Rogers
It's 16 because there's only one pack of fries XDDD
Hudson Cook
you know i'd be inclined to agree but then again these people also do shit like this i think they might just have a natural knack for being so retarded that they can make a living by having people be recreationally mad at them
Michael Collins
Wasn’t this the person who “leaked” all the Nintendo Switch info? Then none of it was true.
Elijah Moore
nice you still got it wrong xD
Matthew Green
Hamburger + 2fry + 2fry = 9 Hamburger + fry x drink = X
Adrian Cook
I believe there’s multiple answers to this question if you’re including decimals. If not- >the drinks would have to be 10 assuming they’re all the same price. >by extension the the burgers would have to be 5 following the same logic >by extension the fries would have to be 2 10+5+2= 17
William Martin
oh fuck I thought there were 2 + symbols It's 15
Christopher Adams
well one thing was true
Daniel Murphy
yeah, they write bullshit to get clicks faster instead of proper investigation, or just googling the lyrics up
Noah Wood
See I have a genuine question after reading this. Is this person's career fucked, or is this one of those things that'll be swept under the rug? Calling out the boss like that makes me think Laura is gettin' fired
Eli King
Looked more into it, turns out Laura didn't want to do the article. Higher-ups at Kotaku told them to, and dissallowed Laura from actually going and interviewing Nintendo and Atlus before putting the article out.
you should take the time to read other people's replies instead of rushing to get your very late word into the conversation and looking dumb while attempting to be analytical or at least take more than 5 seconds to look at the picture
Jordan Johnson
it's (fry x drink) + hamburger though right?
Ethan Lee
This guy is correct I’m retarded and didn’t see the times symbol
Lincoln Smith
Yeah I swear I have a disability with this shit. My bad anons. It’s 25 then right? 10x2 + 5
Colton Nelson
breaking: why disabling items in smash is ableist
Lucas Foster
Isn’t it time to pray toward mecca, britbong?
Joshua Foster
>25 yes, a visual disability look at the fries very carefully
Oliver Hall
It's 15. Fries equal 1, drinks are 10, burgers 5. 10 x 1 = 10. Plus 5 equals 15. Order of operations says you do multiplication first, then addition.
Xavier Cox
There's 4 fries in the third row
Logan Cook
Already debunked and the tranny author has already been run off the internet. Maybe he'll end up a 40%-er next
Zachary Mitchell
>everyone just looking at the fries >but nobody knows how much the cup has been filled
What is up with that? FtM are mostly all chill as fuck from what I’ve met.
Joseph Anderson
Fast food places don't charge by how full the cup is, you're paying for the cup itself.
Liam Allen
Oh shit so there is. I just glazed right over that bit.
Luis Moore
56%
Luke Russell
without a visual representation that whatever is in the cup is different from all the other cups, it should be assumed that identical pictures of cups are the same
William Walker
there is a world of difference between internet trannies and real-world FtM and MtF
Dylan Foster
If you want to be anal about it sure but the parenthesis only make the order of operation there a bit easier to see. You would multiply fry and drink regardless if the parenthesis was there or not.
Evan Cox
Maybe the fact that they pass a lot easier or something. Almost all mtfs that are batshit insane are troglodyte looking motherfuckers.
Nathaniel Baker
That depends on the restaurant owner. McD is a chain and you can do your own shit.
Furthermore, it could be a small cup that is very close to the camera.
Show me a medical textbook that lists "retardation" as a disability. Retarded just means slow.
Jaxson Martin
>That depends on the restaurant owner. McD is a chain and you can do your own shit. user. I'm just straight up calling bullshit that there's a McD's out there where they charge you by how full the cup is.
Dominic Johnson
Retardation is short or slang for mental retardation.
saying 1 fry = 1/2 of 2 fries because there's half as many fries in the picture is like saying V = 1/2 of W because there's half as many Vs in the character.
Luis Campbell
retort it
Ryan Lopez
>once called Show me a current textbook that lists "retardation" as a disability. The word is open for use.
Cooper Lopez
Maybe not in USA, but the one near me doesn't have a refill station. Another one a couple of km south of here does however.
Adam Sullivan
>Laura Shit Dale >TB defended it to death multiple times >it proceeds to fuck him over Yikes
Adrian Richardson
Looking at his face and hair choice, i can safely say he does indeed have autism.
Evan King
>google article >resetera thread pops up Even the trannies think this is fucking stupid.
Josiah White
It's "once called" because of the negative stigma attached to the word "retard". Just like people went from saying "illegal alien" (a perfectly applicable phrase) to "undocumented immigrant". Just because a slur or hurtful phrase is old doesn't mean it loses it's venom.
Evan Baker
>Another one a couple of km south of here does however. And that one also doesn't charge based on how full the cup is. Seriously user, this is so dumb. No restaurant has ever done that, why are you arguing that it happens.
Anthony Bennett
maybe he's ESL and is thinking of how they charge based on cup sizes but is saying the wrong fucking thing
Nicholas Cook
The other one does. What do you think will happen if I order a small coke but they don't have small cups? They'll give me a large cup and charge me for a small one. >why are you arguing that it happens. I'm bored
Robert Morris
FtMs don't have to mutilate themselves to be happy. Just take some pills to remove your bobs and scissor some bitches. It also help that feminine men are much more socially acceptable than masculine "women"
Jaxson Barnes
That's funny because the cups are the most expensive part of the drink
Wyatt Green
If it's not currently used to refer to the intellectually disabled then calling a moron a retard is in no way a disabled slur. It's simply a use of the word stemming from it's root.
Retard to slow or hinder
That's all it means currently. It is not used in a medical context.
Carter Ross
In the event that they're completely out of small cups, yes. But that's completely changing the argument, user. No restaurant ever charges you based on how full the cup is. To imply this is even a thing is stupid.
Ayden Gray
>mental retardation.
yes user the act of being slow in the head. it's not an actual medical term anymore you retard.
Joshua Kelly
That reasoning is like saying it's not racist to call a black person a negro because we call them African-Americans or a Person of Color.
Jonathan Campbell
only on nintendo you see this kind of retard and degenerate.
Julian Lee
>In the event that they're completely out of small cups, yes. I accept your concession.
the stigma existed because snowflakes of the era perpetuated it and ruined it for musicians who were still using it legitimately.
Nathan Rogers
Same mentality as the people who post these threads tbqh.
Aaron Green
Completely different. Race isn't a medical condition. You can't compare these.
Lucas King
>if we ban words people will be nicer to each other! what a retarded notion
Leo Bell
Friendly reminder that Univision sold Kotaku at a huge loss to some random organization and now the inevitable layoffs will commence.
Nathaniel Gomez
calling this guy retard is offensive to mentally impaired people
Owen Wright
>I moved the goalposts I'm glad you're just admitting you're a shitposter. You couldn't find even one place that charged by how full the cups were, huh?
Brayden Ramirez
>AMERICANS HUR DUR >it's kotaku uk >56% I don't get it
James Gray
>it's was a call to discussion
nice writing
Leo Jenkins
They need to quit life
Aaron Diaz
user you weren't even arguing the same thing anymore. Whatsoever.
Robert Garcia
No you dumb nigger it means slow something down and is used very often in chemistry, industry, and military
David Fisher
The Arab World is the only hope for humanity.
William Cruz
Of course I can't find a place. It's a holiday.
Jack Miller
You've likely met FtMs who actually want to be women and put in an effort to look nice and can still be considered human. Hideous ogres like the retard who wrote the article are straight men with a crossdressing fetish that have been pushed off the deep end by communities who confuse having a fetish with having a personality.
Landon Wilson
>Of course I can't find a place. Because it doesn't and has never existed.
Christopher Myers
We're talking about language. For decades medical professionals used (mental) retardation as a diagnosis for slow children and adults
>On January 28, 2013, we published an NPRM that proposed replacing the term “mental retardation” with “intellectual disability” in our listings that we use to evaluate claims involving mental disorders in adults and children under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act (Act) and in other appropriate sections of our rules.We are finalizing the proposed rule without change.
The change wasn't decades ago, it's a fairly recent thing... retard can be likened to fag in the sense it's a catch all term for someone fucking up/being weird. This doesn't mean those slurs have lost their original sting when used against the people they were originally meant for.
Wouldn't that make california the state of mind in this situation The American state of mind is about pretending things that have nothing to do with race are racial. And being completely incapable of thinking of politics as anything more than 2 strictly defined sides.
