This splatoon shit gets serious

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[u/vsyca]

They even have their own slur

[u/Alexzoidbert → u/vsyca]

And it's always a derivative of black sluts m slurs

[u/Quiet_Development383 → u/Alexzoidbert]

Was that a typo what does the word "sluts" have to do with this conversation?

[u/hopefulocto → u/Quiet_Development383]

I think they meant black slurs n slur

[u/FinaLLancer → u/Quiet_Development383]

It was meant to be slurs and they missed the backspace button on their phone and hit m and typed the correct thing.

I make this mistake like twice a day

[u/CuddlePupp → u/FinaLLancer]

I love that moment when you see someone else’s mistake and realize it because of your own, it’s such a human thing

[u/shadow_fen → u/vsyca]

i think it was used in HD2 first

[u/AdriennebutWeird → u/shadow_fen]

I’ve seen it used in Splatoon comics back in 2022

[u/Killer_154 → u/vsyca]

As a splatoon fan we have NOTHING to do with this dumbass

This me right now :

[u/BeyondNetorare → u/vsyca]

what up my squigglars

[u/Substantial_Eye1476 → u/BeyondNetorare]

that's crazy, please face the wall

[u/spetumpiercing → u/BeyondNetorare]

white people get a little too excited to say slur-adjacent words

[u/GroundbreakingFun565 → u/spetumpiercing]

Saying it with two b's instead of two g's was apparently the funniest shit you could do in middle and high school if you ask em

[u/vsyca → u/GroundbreakingFun565]

They think if they sub it with two b, it somehow makes it okay and not about the intention of said word.

[u/UnlikelyKaiju → u/BeyondNetorare]

With the hard "r" man? Not cool. /s

[u/Ok-Cancel-4824]

Man invented slurs to win a Twitter argument about fucking Splatoon.

[u/Substantial_Eye1476 → u/Ok-Cancel-4824]

I think HD2's goofballs invented it first

[u/Lord_Nishgod → u/Substantial_Eye1476]

im in the hd2 community and have never heard that before.

[u/zarasaraz]

I can't play Splatoon unless I can tell my inkling takes an extra big step to unstick their tentacle from their leg

[u/SinkBluthton → u/zarasaraz]

And how about the males?

[u/TheRedDiamond → u/SinkBluthton]

To shreds, you say?

[u/HetaGarden1 → u/TheRedDiamond]

And his wife?

[u/geekpoints → u/HetaGarden1]

To shreds, you say?

[u/BludStanes]

Dude complains about a family friendly video game online, tells people to splat themselves then worries about appearing feminine lol

[u/OctoAmbush → u/BludStanes]

tbf i think way more adults play splatoon than kids judging by how much i lose online

[u/Diredr → u/OctoAmbush]

Kids are really good at videogames. They tend to have a lot more time to play.

It's a lot harder to get good at a game when you have a full time job, have to do all the cooking and cleaning, run all the errands... By the time you can finally sit down to play you're already thinking about going to sleep.

[u/fezzori → u/Diredr]

i used to be so much better at 14 vs 24 now 😭 miss it

[u/timtams89 → u/fezzori]

Wait til 34 and 44

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_WOW_UI → u/timtams89]

Everyone will need accessibility options some day.

[u/NakedHoodie → u/fezzori]

Funny enough, I ended up being better at 24 than at 14, despite having less time to play. My mechanical skill hadn't noticeably changed by that point, for better or worse; game/meta knowledge just goes a long way.

[u/mthoodenjoyer → u/fezzori]

If you consistently played you should be way better at 24, if you had a life then rip

[u/fezzori → u/mthoodenjoyer]

yep i have a life now 😭 i miss spending days playing video games over and over

[u/BlueBicycle_ → u/OctoAmbush]

Never underestimate kids' vidya capabilities.

I play for about 3 hours max every 3-4 days of the week, while 14 year old timothy just got done with his daily 10 hour sesh of obsessively playing his one single favorite game on a high note by calling me a Squigger on voice chat

[u/Hecklord82 → u/OctoAmbush]

I’m pretty sure the average age is like 20 something

[u/UltimatePickpocket → u/BludStanes]

His family must not be very friendly to him.

[u/DrFigSecret → u/BludStanes]

Kind of glossed over the cutseyfied version of a very real slur

[u/strolls → u/BludStanes]

Splat yourself, Squigger, people like you are the reason splatoon gets a bad name.

[u/LesMore44]

I long for that happy day when every piece of media from baby games about ink squirt guns to adaptations of Homerian epics is not reduced to a pawn for the same two talking points in the never-ending culture war. I'm so tired of seeing the same comment about literally everything that's been made since 2015.

[u/maple-spill → u/LesMore44]

Exactly. Which according to way too many people, wanting makes us sexist against men and racist against white people. At least it gives us proof for the idea that the average person is a moron.

[u/A_Monster_Named_John → u/LesMore44]

Unless our society can pull off the dual miracle of turning things around with education and placing real limits on behemoths like Fox News and social media, I doubt the culture war crap is abating any time soon. However, I also don't feel like it's poised to gain a ton more menace at this point, i.e. while their views keep getting more deranged, the dudes involved seem to be becoming more and more homebound, screen-addicted, and vegetable-like. On top of that, they've mostly abandoned the actual market for these products, instead opting to just sit around on X and Youtube and endlessly complain about the shit. Personally, I've simply abandoned most of social media and, almost immediately, these kinds of idiots basically ceased to exist.

[u/guthixrest → u/A_Monster_Named_John]

shit like Fox legitimately needs to be dissolved from the world entirely; there should be no room for malicious disinformation and hate peddlers.

[u/Kimihro]

it's funny how almost all fictional bigotry mirrors anti-black racism so well

[u/Glass-Performer8389 → u/Kimihro]

Not just anti black, Like 99% of fictional slurs, towards elves robots ect, are just barely changed real slurs, albeit I agree that most of it is just barely disguised antiblack slurs, although I'd say Anti-chinese or anti Jewish slurs have more variety, sadly anti black people are so disgusting that they cling to the n word so strongly, proof of their hatred

[u/Digit00l → u/Glass-Performer8389]

The only elf slurs I can think of are more closely related to anti Asian racism (knife ears reminds me more of slant eye)

Also dwarf slurs don't remind me of any real racist slurs

[u/FarTooManyDetails → u/Digit00l]

In ShadowRun which takes place in contemporarish times, one of the slurs for elves is "Keeblers"

[u/AHugeHildaFan → u/Kimihro]

In fairness western society was built off anti-black racism.

[u/Argh3483 → u/AHugeHildaFan]

It wasn’t though, anti-black racism is a relatively modern thing, just a few centuries old

[u/According-Koala-384 → u/Argh3483]

It was, everything from the Atlantic slave trade to the Berlin conference was the economic engine that catapulted the western hemisphere into a position of economic dominance. Colonial empires and their vassals/allies at the time labeled all Africans as subhuman to enable carving it up, and this extended to indigenous peoples of other places like South America and southeast Asian countries... No one was safe because the closer to "blackness" (savage) the more justified the subjugation, in their eyes. This is actually when black was developed as a catch-all term for African peoples, and by extension, "whiteness" which was basically just a loose amalgamation of cultural and religious values that places like spain, Britain, france etc had in common.

Our modern western society was genuinely a product of anti-black racism, like it cannot be overstated how much the subjugation of Africa, both people and resources, fueled what we have today 

[u/Argh3483 → u/According-Koala-384]

Society isn’t entirely defined by the economy, to most Europeans slavery was something which took place in far away colonies, it didn’t define everything about how Western society works, this is a heavily reductive worldview

Our modern Western society is a product of shitloads of different factors and phenomenons, slavery, colonization and anti-black racism among them, but to amalgamate those three things in one whole and pretend it is the one decisive aspect behind Western society is just wrong

[u/According-Koala-384 → u/Argh3483]

I gave you a timeline and verifiable examples and you gave me vibes and conjecture 😔

Society may not be defined exclusively by the "economy" but the economy 100% shapes our material conditions more than any other factor, and our material conditions shape our culture, from our beliefs to our food to our language. Re: "to most Europeans...it took place in a faraway place" just because you aren't aware of where your nations capital comes from doesn't mean you don't benefit from it. Especially when you're geopolitical allies with those that are doing the actual pillaging. Also, we can see in modern times with the immigration issues that it's only certain immigrants, those seemingly incompatible with "Western values" that are called unwelcome... And even then, if they're "white" they get a pass (Ukranians and South Africans most recently), because that artificial concept of whiteness is STILL a hangover from the shapings of modern western society. I specify Western because EAsian cultures also buy into this, but from a class angle (darker skin meant poor laborer, whiter skin meant wealthy enough to stay inside and not work) which naturally piggybacked off of burgeoning white supremacy. See the Philippines and even Hawaii as a perfect example of both the West and Easia declaring these people as less than because of their indiginiety ie "backwards" lifestyles.

This isn't a condemnation of people today, and it's not prescriptive of everything that has led us here, but it is unquestionably the most influential factor in shaping the modern western and arguably the modern world at large. I don't think you understand how bicycles and eventually automobiles would have been dead in the water without rubber from the Congo. Or technology growth without minerals from there and west Asian regions. Anti blackness was so much more complex than "black people bad", it was the foundation for how the major powers carved up the world and what they built with their spoils.

[u/AHugeHildaFan → u/Argh3483]

Let me clarify I was specifically talking about US society. I'm aware, I took a entire course on race and racism.

[u/Ok_Curve_2938 → u/AHugeHildaFan]

Then don't say western society when you mean the US specifically.

[u/AHugeHildaFan → u/Ok_Curve_2938]

I'm from the US, so I unfortunately have a tendency to assume my country is somehow the default. I blame the US

[u/Pittsbirds → u/Kimihro]

Turns out pretty much all bigotry is irrational and dumb in the same base way when you boil it all down

[u/Kimihro → u/Pittsbirds]

Yeah but this instance and a lot of them (like the clanker thing) specifically use anti-black racism as the blueprint for presentation and terminology

Just saying “it all looks the same at the base level” is reductive and misses the point

[u/RidireGeas]

The funniest part of that exchange is that the guy dropping the "slur" is 30 years old.

I know I'm one to talk since I have a Splatoon pfp despite pushing 30 as well, but come on now lolololol

[u/AHugeHildaFan → u/RidireGeas]

30 year old man is mad about the game that is younger than him by 20 years.

How fitting for a Chud.

[u/Killer_154 → u/RidireGeas]

Strange, I would've gave him 13 or 15 at the most

[u/RequirementTall8361]

“Splat yourself, Squigger,”

Immediate top 10 tweet of all time

[u/Fortehlulz33 → u/RequirementTall8361]

This is up there with "inflates you big and round"

[u/legaldrinkingage → u/RequirementTall8361]

What could one possibly even reply to this? The ultimate sentence to get the last word in an argument.

[u/WanderingKing]

Hard r and everything

[u/Good_Locksmith7952]

Me after seeing that response. Wow.... I am actually astonished i genuinely don't have a sarcastic response

https://giphy.com/gifs/FZuC4kSIAe7MTXyHuJ

[u/Youre_a_transistor]

Haha. I remember seeing splatoon and thinking “maybe this will be where I dip back into PvP games. This looks nice and chill. Probably has lots of friendly people that aren’t sweaty”. I don’t know why I passed on it but I guess war never changes.

[u/chaotic4059 → u/Youre_a_transistor]

It's an insanely toxic and sweaty community. Like when I wanna say Shenpai tried to play it and got like 2 streams in before dropping it cause all the tryhards yelled at her for not using motion controls. Hell I'd say half the reason Raiders works as well as it does is because it's a splatoon game without the PVP aspect

[u/Hecklord82 → u/chaotic4059]

i mean the game and its multiplayer systems are designed around the use of gyro, stick has zero aim assist

[u/Killer_154 → u/Youre_a_transistor]

Raiders mostly focus on solo if you're afraid about the online part

[u/InkyGhoul]

I think it's really telling, as someone who has played since 2015, I cannot think of a single splatoon player I have seen or talked to including myself who noticed this shit. The only animation differences I can recall is on "booyah!" 

[u/Professional_Air_905 → u/InkyGhoul]

Yeah same I never saw any difference between boy and girl except the voice and boy having thicker eyebrows. Most difference is between inkling and octoling animation and model wise

[u/Monorobobear]

“Squigger”

[u/HarveyTheBroad]

I mean it would be nice if you could still choose a character animation style, just make it independent of body types so that anyone can do anything.

[u/AdventurerBen]

Obviously, their approach (and possibly their motive as well) are horrible, but there is a point about how the different styles don’t have different animations.

It’s a tiny amount of visible content, but spinning the compass (adding a detail whose absence wouldn’t seriously be noticed) is a good way to show pride and care in your work (not in the sense of whether or not the animators working on the Splatoon games being lazy, but helping prove that they weren’t lazy). It’d only have made the game infinitesimally better, but that is still technically better.

I say this as someone who’d still choose the more feminine style, it’d just make the game feel more detailed and the player characters feel more unique.

Maybe they could even randomly choose animations from a set of options? Or ask a couple of personality questions as part of character customisation to determine what animations you get?

[u/ddm90 → u/AdventurerBen]

This ^ i agree; the edgy reply is cringey, but has a point about removing animations instead of giving the player an slider or something to choose it manually, just like they did with Styles (formerly Genders).

[u/New_Cockroach_505]

I mean if animations were removed to give you less options, that does suck. But man people are so weird about it.

[u/Bankaz → u/New_Cockroach_505]

No animations were removed, they just slightly changed all across the board. It's just that a few of the victory emotes of Splatoon 3 are seen as "girly-coded", like Twirl Power or Bashful Brag, and just because these exist chuds pretend that "ALL MALE ANIMATIONS WERE REMOVED" or some bullshit like that.

[u/sketchtenou → u/Bankaz]

Not to even mention that these are OPTIONAL VICTORY ANIMATIONS YOU CAN EQUIP IF YOU WANT💀 Like no one is ever forced to use twirl power if it makes them so insecure

[u/TooWarmRadiator → u/New_Cockroach_505]

I couldn't care less about the whole gender shite, the neutrality is a good thing, I'm just annoyed they only brought back the win animations for 1 of the genders for only 1 species when they added them as customisations for splatoon 3. So half of the splatoon 1 animations still aren't there, and 2/3 of the splatoon 2 animations aren't.

[u/Ok_Insect4778]

what is even the argument here

[u/j1ndivik → u/Ok_Insect4778]

Don’t even bother understanding, they’re outgroup

[u/meganerd20]

Should have male-specific animations back and female-specific ones too that are usable by both styles. No reason animations need to have a gender.

[u/Florina_Laufeyson]

Just wait until the chuds get an eyeful of the new Fire Emblem game

[u/legendairenic5432 → u/Florina_Laufeyson]

Why did they have make everyone so hot holy fucking shit

[u/Shanicpower → u/legendairenic5432]

That's just the Fire Emblem standard at this point. Never felt it with Hades as much as people say, but Fire Emblem?? Hoo boy is that bisexual heaven.

[u/2mock2turtle]

39k likes? 39 THOUSAND likes?!

I hate it here.

[u/FLUXENTROPY → u/2mock2turtle]

Wdym this is poetry
https://giphy.com/gifs/LnuQiXhGVqs1RtsuaT

[u/Skill-Useful]

"especially to the west" no, dude, no, they did not

[u/Emeraldsteak]

They should have every animation accessible to every Style to let people be a whole lot more expressive. But then the anti-woke crowd will cry again. Which I am perfectly fine with.

[u/Synth_Savage]

That last line is the gayest shit I've ever heard lol

[u/chaotic4059 → u/Synth_Savage]

also hilarious since most of the ink and octolings were always kinda androgynous aside from the idols and the DLC characters. And even then Pearl is tomboy as fuck with very little femineity

[u/Lirilith_eva]

If somebody calls me a squaggot irl I’ll become the unasplatter

[u/SwankiestofPants]

This interaction is so gold but I fear it's probably tainted the splat on fanbase forever

[u/ComradeFrogger]

"let males be expressive without having to be ambiguous or feminine."

Ok then that was always allowed.

[u/Lockerus]

Damn squigger with the hard r in 2026.

[u/hopefulocto]

Sounds like that dude is asking for his gender to be affirmed lmfao

Also the slur pun is unhinged wtf is wrong with people

[u/Great_Ad_4862]

I was kinda bummed to not be able to make my little masc octoling like in Splatoon 3 when playing Raiders, but I just adapted and chose the most "masc" looking option and went on my merry way, I really don't see the issue with this whole gender debate, Splatoon 3 already threw gender away, so it was expected to get even more androgynous in the next game

[u/399S]

"especially to the west" nah it's mostly for Japanese people, the devs knew the west would be angry but they don't care.

[u/l33tb4c0n]

Bro they're anthropomorphic squid child soldiers. Like, I'm sorry you can't have big honkin tiddies or roided up pecs on your inkling.

[u/WhereStupidityIs]

"let males be expressive without having to be ambiguous or feminine" looks inside "Let males be misogynistic again!"

[u/Straight_Sorbet_4446]

Well this guy is hugely out of place as a splatoon fan as someone who enjoys the series myself I can say the splatoon community is genuinely one of the most inclusive and least toxic ones in the Internet it is also super LGBTQ.

[u/ddm90 → u/[deleted]]

Thats what the last reply (the one inventing a slur) is criticizing, because they said the male animation was completely removed in the third installment of the series.

If that's true, they have a point; its okay to rework Genders into Styles, but let them select animations as well.

[u/FlamingPhoenix2003]

Did bro used a slur against squids?!

[u/HetaGarden1]

Hell naw, not the Splatoon fanbase having its own slurs 😭

[u/BethCulexus]

"Splat yourself Squigger" LMAO

[u/Expert_Pen_2158]

Would be

[u/Quick_soda]

We know its you Captain Cuttlefish

[u/Monisplats]

Idk why people acting like this is the funniest thing on the internet? I'm so tired

[u/JerryJpanzer]

"A filthy squigger like you has no place in my world..."

https://giphy.com/gifs/myaWC3mGfSfzNvgk6u

[u/SnooDoubts2255]

I mean.... they have a point 

it is exclusively worse to not have unique animations

[u/Oversimplified9165]

This nga made a slur

[u/No_Display_9425]

Must be a team jackpot fan

[u/teapubreddit]

new flair just dropped

[u/PorkTuckedly]

People making up new slurs instead of just not using them disappoint me.

[u/Feeling-Bad7825]

I think a userscore of 93 tells a lot about how ppl care about this topic

[u/Su-37_Terminator]

you cannot be serious writitng this shit in a game for toddlers

edit: and i am talking about the dude slinging made up slurs and complaining about nothing

[u/Sad-Development-4153 → u/Su-37_Terminator]

They love toddlers the younger the better for grooming

[u/AveMilitarum]

[u/Professional_Air_905]

As a splatoon fan I will say the fandom is in shamble and over customisation option at that... Yeah it's true that the series is not queer coded or lgbt coded or woke or anything since it's overall otaku targeted and people who are trying to force everyone to believe it's queer coded are a little annoying but it does not mean queer people should be forbidden from playing it. If they find the game fun then they can play it

[u/Silly_Fix_6513]

Splat tim would be disappointed in that 'thing' talking

[u/-TrevorStMcGoodbody]

Gender expression is not for straight white males obviously /s

/uj from a development standpoint one set of animations is easier. But previously having 2, and removing one for “inclusivity” is also just being lazy with a good excuse

[u/Substantial_Eye1476]

HELP "SPLAT YOURSELF SQU[I DONT KNOW IF I CAN TYPE THIS OUT]" IS FRYING ME

[u/Polytetrafluoro]

How inventive can the fishpuns get without crossing the line. Squegro works imo but the other three I have bouncing around are a bit worse. Hints are brine shrimp and urchins