Extremely Inappropriate Nickname? - Page 5

ashantewarrier · 05-20-2007, 11:54 AM

This thread is getting old.

As I said in an ealier post that I'm not offended (and I am African-American BTW) and I am sure there was no intent when the game was created.

IMO this thread has ran it's course.....everyone has made their point (including me) and we should just move on. If you don't like the nickname just delete it.

I think there are more important issues in the world today (Iraq war, healthcare, etc. etc.) than to waste time debating if the term "Grand Wizard" in a game is offensive or not. If that was the case then the WWF (now WWE) would have come under fire years ago.

"Can't we all just get along?" Sheesh!

Hopefully this thread will die soon.

darthpb · 05-20-2007, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by ashantewarrier

This thread is getting old.

As I said in an ealier post that I'm not offended (and I am African-American BTW) and I am sure there was no intent when the game was created.

IMO this thread has ran it's course.....everyone has made their point (including me) and we should just move on. If you don't like the nickname just delete it.

I think there are more important issues in the world today (Iraq war, healthcare, etc. etc.) than to waste time debating if the term "Grand Wizard" in a game is offensive or not. If that was the case then the WWF (now WWE) would have come under fire years ago.

"Can't we all just get along?" Sheesh!

Hopefully this thread will die soon.

Very well said, dude, but you're a Yankee fan? No good!!! lol

ashantewarrier · 05-20-2007, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by darthpb

Very well said, dude, but you're a Yankee fan? No good!!! lol

Oh, I see you're fom Queens and must be a Met fan!

(BTW- I was born and bred in Brooklyn)

bababui · 05-20-2007, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by ashantewarrier

Oh, I see you're fom Queens and must be a Met fan!

Great!! Now this is becoming a gay bashing thread!!!

ashantewarrier · 05-20-2007, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by bababui

Great!! Now this is becoming a gay bashing thread!!!

LOL!

Chappy · 05-20-2007, 01:39 PM

I wonder if anyone would be offended if "Queen" were one of the nicknames?

Cooleyvol · 05-20-2007, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Chappy

I wonder if anyone would be offended if "Queen" were one of the nicknames?

Oh, there's no doubt.

Arlie Latham · 05-20-2007, 01:51 PM

Listen, there is nothing remotely gay about Queen or their mercurial front man.

RBLwebguy · 05-20-2007, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift

You're aware that Rocker was nicknamed The Grand Wizard precisely BECAUSE of the racist remarks, right? I'm not sure that helps your cause. And again, I don't see anybody campaigning to include "Nig", so the "it's there in real life noob" argument doesn't hold a great deal of water.

It is not my cause, I just said, it was most likely put in there with no ill intent.

and it just took me all of 10 seconds to go into the folder and file to edit it, which I did.

wilkiburger · 05-20-2007, 04:01 PM

I think this is a very sad state of affairs.

Why let names bother you in the first place, this is PC gone mad again!, its a sodding random factor and my dad's a magician so sod the lot of you and grow up. Ive never heard so much toot in my life.

GET A GRIP EVERYONE!

p.s. Can we have some real rosters please so the race debate can rear its ugly head somewhere else. Please, pretty please.

wilkiburger · 05-20-2007, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by RchW

I wonder what the author of this book would say?

http://www.amazon.ca/Grand-Wizard-Ko.../dp/1424107350

Priceless, PC is destroying my life

I never envisaged seeing it on a sports simulation game, SI ignore the idiot mad PC brigade.

wilkiburger · 05-20-2007, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by bababui

Great!! Now this is becoming a gay bashing thread!!!

So everyone started picking on homosexuals instead!

It beggers sodding belief!

wilkiburger · 05-20-2007, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Mel Ott

Because they killed people. For being black.

Just because you, personally, may not be offended by it doesn't mean that someone else couldn't reasonably be offended by it. Why should SI invite even a handful of possible customers' misunderstanding when they can prevent that misunderstanding in a way that's simple and won't upset anyone?

Actually, now ive read this one, you better do away with nicknames alltogether!

Tish Pish Tosh and knob off to all nicknames, pathetic!

DougWyatt · 05-20-2007, 04:36 PM

Nah. I haven't read this whole thread; just the first post. And I'd vote nah, not inappropriate.

Muppetus Galacticus · 05-20-2007, 04:41 PM

I would have just thought "Grand Wizard" was someone's nickname in real life. :shrug:

There are people who would see the nickname "Red" and think of someone with red hair, where others would see this

and feel the need educate us all on the evils of Communism and having women in OOTP.

Maybe they will take this one out of the game for future downloads. But either way

Muppetus Galacticus · 05-20-2007, 04:51 PM

What about "Cracker" and "Whitey"?

bababui · 05-20-2007, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Muppetus Galacticus

What about "Cracker" and "Whitey"?

Whitey Ford and Whitey Herzog definitly need to be removed from the game!!

ashantewarrier · 05-20-2007, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Muppetus Galacticus

What about "Cracker" and "Whitey"?

We are entering some sensitive territory...........

Someone please close this thread!!!

Please!

Sdpm100 · 05-20-2007, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Chappy

My nickname is in there...

And mine.

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Originally Posted by bababui

Whitey Ford and Whitey Herzog definitly need to be removed from the game!!

And Tex should definitely be added in to the game. It's bad enough that Wikipedia don't recognise it, but now OOTP too?!?!

ashantewarrier · 05-20-2007, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by wilkiburger

Priceless, PC is destroying my life

I never envisaged seeing it on a sports simulation game, SI ignore the idiot mad PC brigade.

Agreed...

05-20-2007, 11:54 AM	#81
ashantewarrier Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Somerset, NJ via Brooklyn, NY Posts: 2,305	This thread is getting old. As I said in an ealier post that I'm not offended (and I am African-American BTW) and I am sure there was no intent when the game was created. IMO this thread has ran it's course.....everyone has made their point (including me) and we should just move on. If you don't like the nickname just delete it. I think there are more important issues in the world today (Iraq war, healthcare, etc. etc.) than to waste time debating if the term "Grand Wizard" in a game is offensive or not. If that was the case then the WWF (now WWE) would have come under fire years ago. "Can't we all just get along?" Sheesh! Hopefully this thread will die soon. __________________ "I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being." -Jackie Robinson, #42 Brooklyn Dodgers *"Hitting is better than sex."* - Reggie Jackson

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05-20-2007, 04:01 PM	#90
wilkiburger Minors (Double A) Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 191	I think this is a very sad state of affairs. Why let names bother you in the first place, this is PC gone mad again!, its a sodding random factor and my dad's a magician so sod the lot of you and grow up. Ive never heard so much toot in my life. GET A GRIP EVERYONE! p.s. Can we have some real rosters please so the race debate can rear its ugly head somewhere else. Please, pretty please.

05-20-2007, 04:36 PM	#94
DougWyatt All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Michigan Posts: 1,117	Nah. I haven't read this whole thread; just the first post. And I'd vote nah, not inappropriate.