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Is OOO Racist????

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Thu, 01/22/2015 - 20:48
Aero-Shark's picture
Aero-Shark

http://i.imgur.com/VJYLCN7.jpg
This is a burning cross.
Not only is this insulting to anyone of Catholic or Christian heritage, but this is also extremely racist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_burning

Are you kidding me? How was this even remotely okay going through the level designer's heads?? I'm genuinely insulted by this blatant racism whether it was intentional or not. Absolutely disgusting.

So are the people at OOO racist klansmen or are they just idiots? Blacks deal with enough oppression as it is, now I gotta stare at a burning cross in what's supposed to be a child-friendly videogame? As a black man who attends church every sunday I'm legitimately disgusted by this.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 20:58
#1
Brony-Tears
OH MY GOD this is SO

Oh my god, this is so insensitive. How can OOO have such a depiction of a offensive hate symbol. As Jew living in the deep south I too have experienced the mental devastation this can leave on a child and how it can affect how they think of anyone of discerning color and religion. I hope OOO has something to say for itself after this travesty.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 20:59
#2
Midnight-Dj's picture
Midnight-Dj
/facepalm

A better question, where is there no Gremlin spiral knight yet? Is the Spiral order Isoran exclusive? Now that, is racist.

And also, that cross is hardly burning. Probably just a design overlook... get over it...

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 21:17
#3
Aero-Shark's picture
Aero-Shark
@Midnight-Dj

So you're blatantly admitting you're a racist?
Because that's what telling a POC pointing out oppressive behaviour to "Get over it" pretty much is.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 21:20
#4
Avihr's picture
Avihr
Void

Grow up already

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 21:20
#5
Midnight-Dj's picture
Midnight-Dj
:/

Yep, I am racist, what are you going to do to me? Type more hateful texts? Or intolerant for the sake of intolerant? Get over it.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 21:33
#6
Toxicyoccm's picture
Toxicyoccm
Actual funny

The oppressive behavior you're talking about is the imagery of a burned building. Even in your wiki-link it's used to intimidate which is what FSC is. I don't think it's a matter of "They hate X, let's put a burning cross," when "Let's use the burned wooden building motif to show what level this SL leads to," is a more sane line of thinking.

Besides this is much more tame than OOO's tar-baby trinket.
http://yppedia.puzzlepirates.com/Cursed_effigy
(which again lacks intent to be oppressive)

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 21:26
#7
Abelisk's picture
Abelisk

Enjoy your ban, historian.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 22:26
#8
Fangel's picture
Fangel
Oh shoot

Tumblr is leaking, someone get the cork!

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 22:31
#9
Pandafishie's picture
Pandafishie

Things like this...

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 22:56
#10
Traevelliath's picture
Traevelliath

First of all, I truly hope you are being satirical, because it's hard to tell through the internet.

Second of all, even if the burning cross is intentional, do you see where it is located? It's located at the entrance to the most evil place of the entire game. If it was in the middle of Haven, then yes, you have every right to be angry because it implies that Spiral HQ openly supports the KKK. However, putting it outside FSC implies that it's Vana's political message.

Finally, blatantly racist? There's unintentional poor design, and then there's over reacting. That's like getting offended because a white man fell into mud and came out looking a little like black face. There is nothing else in the game that supports what you're saying. The game isn't trying to force this political view into your face, or even make you aware it exists. It's just two sticks stuck together, with one of them smoldering slightly. That's like saying because you can do this in Dark Souls, they support Black Power. I can understand being upset if lazy design sends a bad message. For example, having every enemy in a modern military shooter be black, implying that all blacks need to be shot. However, the game doesn't do anything to reinforce the idea that OOO is supporting the KKK, which makes me think you're just being overly sensitive or are actively seeking out things to hate.

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 23:17
#11
Agentz's picture
Agentz
BLARGH

Can't tell if joking

or just oblivious

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 00:11
#12
Spiral-Market's picture
Spiral-Market
Illuminati Confirmed

To progress in this game, we have to kills wolves, puppies, cats, etc. That means OOO are not only racist but they are also supporting animals abuse!!

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 03:03
#13
Turtletalks
lol.

It's a cry for attention.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 03:32
#14
Cormorants's picture
Cormorants
symbols here, symbols there

I see wood, you see symbols. In fact, that's a digital simulation of a burning wood. Hell, it might not even be wood. Are you even sure what you're looking at is what you're seeing?

Get real, man.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 03:48
#15
Krakob's picture
Krakob

gr8 b8 m8

[...] in what's supposed to be a child-friendly videogame.
I understand that you might view SK as such but you actually have to be 13 years old to play so I recommend removing that sentence so the GMs don't catch you and ban you! Maybe you should just go back to Tumblr and stay there for 2-3 years until you're legally allowed to play the game!

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 04:19
#16
Theirillusion's picture
Theirillusion

It's very easy to find stuff that you think proves your theory if you really want to. It doesn't make it true. Enjoy your time wasted.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 06:18
#17
Rothni-Halias
:/

January 22nd, 2015 with 16 replies.

This entire thread's point is to rile people up and inflict fire. The user is even named "African-History" (and the user under him "Brony-Tears")! If you have something to say then say it as clearly and as completely as you can. Otherwise, don't bump it for other players to see (though I bet that's not going to work). This whole topic is just going to end up in the graveyard section.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 06:31
#18
Darklordskull's picture
Darklordskull
Society please stop looking

Society please stop looking for things to be insulted about.

It's a broken beam.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 06:51
#19
Bleyken's picture
Bleyken

This is a joke, right?

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 06:56
#20
Thunder-The-Bright's picture
Thunder-The-Bright
algorithms are the solutions to any problem.

please quit posting on this thread.
if a mod or a dev can say "no" and close the thread, I will seriously be thankful.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 07:27
#21
Mtax-Forum's picture
Mtax-Forum

There's yellow rectangle on this picture. Cross in rectangle creates triangles. Illuminati is a triangle. OOO ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 09:37
#22
Gwenyvier's picture
Gwenyvier
2 things. First, when stress

2 things.

First, when stress is put on structures they break at the spots that are structurally weaker. Often the horizontal beams coming off a vertical one. There are plenty of pictures you can find of buildings that burned down where there's a "mysterious" cross in the wreckage. There was one in the twin towers wreckage even. It is a smoldering piece of of a burnt building, not a flaming cross planted in somebody's lawn by a bunch of bigoted idiots.

Second, the blatant troll is blatantly obvious. Please remember to not feed the troll people.

And on the low, LOW chance he's not a troll. There are plenty of things to be offended by in the real world, quit trying to find things to be offended by in a fake one. Or pick something worth being offended by: Hatred, the fact that in most of the modern military shooters its an all white team vs darker skinned people, the fact that gamergate is still a thing, that SWATing is a thing at all.

Just enjoy the game.

~Gwen

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 12:24
#23
Whimsicality's picture
Whimsicality

I would say this topic is a joke, but jokes are supposed to be funny. The amount of people taking this topic seriously, however...

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 15:05
#24
Jmmoormann's picture
Jmmoormann
OH NO!

(is in his sarcastic mood)

OH NO STUN SYMBOL IS A STAR THAT IS JEWISH SK SAY JEWS ARE DIZZY SK IS RACIST!!!

OH NO JELLIES ARE SLOW AND STUPID RACISM TO JELLY CUBES!!!111!!1!

OH NO MOST ROBOTS IN THE GAME ARE HOSTILE ROBO RACISM ALARM!!!

OH NO GREMLINS ARE YELLOW SK IS RACIST TO CHINESE OMGOMG!

I hope I am not a racist by saying that I absolutely don't care about this stupid troll post. Else I'm completely NOT sorry, because (says some things that obviously make him racist and a KKK member).

(gets into his even more sarcastic racist mood)

"now I gotta stare at a burning cross"

Yes. You absolutely have to stare at it. The goal of the game is to stare at the elevator to the SFSC for as long as possible. If you are the first player who looks at it for a year you win the game, Cradle explodes and the very very very racist burning cross is gone. Come on man, stare at it for a few more weeks and you have won!

"As a black man who attends church every sunday I'm legitimately disgusted by this."

Yes. It's is legitimate indeed, since you probably won't be arrested for being disgusted. And I really think the whole SK art team hates every single christian in the world, so that is why they made this game so racist.

BTW nice work m8. Your account name, your beautiful speech and you even created a special alt in your battle against racism! You should probably get the Nobel prize for peace because of your great work1

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 15:31
#25
Retequizzle's picture
Retequizzle

excuse me but you're wearing cat-themed armors and standing in fire and even though i'm allergic to cats i have to say that animal abuse is a terrible thing please remove it before i report you, i mean seriously just because you can cook chicken and eat it doesn't mean you can do that with cats

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 16:12
#26
Petater's picture
Petater
@African-History

Clickbait title leads me to believe you work at Buzzfeed. o3o

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 16:38
#27
Spark-Of-Hope's picture
Spark-Of-Hope
you know this is a troll when

the other player with him has the name with brony in it

*I'm not trying to insult all you bronies out there so... chill guys

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 16:42
#28
Gbot-Vtwo's picture
Gbot-Vtwo
???

"Yep, I am racist." (Sarcastic) Yeah, so racist for stating the obvious! @ALL(except African-History) And you guys say i post the dumbest things.........

@African History This Is really sad how you would post something like this. besides if you are going to look for something against your religion in
this game(Which you have 0 chance of finding anyway) then look with your eyes open and not have your eyes glued to the floor.

"Clickbait title leads me to believe you work at Buzzfeed." Buzzfeed gets really dumb information sometimes. Oh wait, that's the point of this thread. Dumb information. Well, bye for now.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 14:00
#29
Malware-Exe's picture
Malware-Exe

If you can't handle racism, then I recommend you play The Binding of Isaac...or watch the news.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 18:36
#30
Golden-Crusaderr's picture
Golden-Crusaderr
really,really

So it's come to this ,spouting false accusations
about hate and racism .I only hope this is a joke
And not a bunch of pathetic people looking
for attention

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:50
#31
Gbot-Vtwo's picture
Gbot-Vtwo
>:(

"I'm genuinely insulted by this blatant racism whether it was intentional or not. Absolutely disgusting." And just how Is it racist anyway? oh wait... Its not racist, because Christians are not a race! And no, OOO's and their workers are not idiots... but your post is idiotic and bigotted!!! If you want to complain about something that bothers you about the game, send an email to them! > http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Support_Portal "illuminati Confirmed." More like idiot confirmed!

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 19:35
#32
Red-Galaxy's picture
Red-Galaxy
hey everybody

http://youtu.be/BsSNwnY5tGg

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 00:54
#33
Xxpapaya's picture
Xxpapaya
The papaya mutters something

Like to point out that the "arms" of the cross aren't on fire...Just saying. Please tell me you aren't serious about this.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 02:27
#34
Thunder-The-Bright's picture
Thunder-The-Bright
algorithms are the solutions to any problem.

please refer to post #20 and let this sink to the bottom.

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