![]() ![]() When the game came out, I didn't understand the connotations "coolie" had. I've never played this game and so I was perplexed when all the controversy popped up after they announced the remake. I still have the physical disc with case and manual, so. I'm not exactly sure where I first saw it, either, but it might be in the manual. I was like "how the heck do you know that's a 'Cacodemon', I just call it evil tomato cyclops" )įair enough. Do they actually name it in game or does that just show in an enemy viewer or something? The first time I ever heard someone talk about the "proper" names for monsters in Doom I was perplexed. I just remember that as monster with dynamite. Well ok yup, that's racist - or at least really insensitive. They called the enemies who carried dynamite Coolies, ffs. ![]() Worth noting, there is a difference between tastelessness and racism. Is that the logic there or am I misunderstanding? I can't say I particularly agree.Īre there specific things in the game you can point out? I don't necessarily disbelieve you, but my memory of the game is admittedly quite fuzzy. So because racism against Asians exists outside the game, doing a campy Asian accent is racist, but doing other campy accents is not as long as there isn't perceived racism that exists for that culture/race outside the game. A big white dude with a goofy, generic Eastern-European accent doesn't have the same baggage. There's a very specific history of racist imagery of Asian peoples (particularly in the US) that Shadow Warrior readily invokes. To my memory there's nothing openly derogatory toward Asians in it. No one calls TF2 "racist" because of the Heavy. I don't see how that's much different than, say, someone doing a really campy Russian accent. Replacing "R"s with "L"s that sort of thing. Honestly, the most racist thing about Shadow Warrior is that you have a voice actor doing a really bad Japanese stereotype accent. ![]()
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