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I think Google has learned from the YouTube catastrophes. I like Google. Who doesn't? But I hate monster corporations. Google frequently finds itself walking a line when it comes to being on the side of the free people and the money making conglomerate that they are. I, like I'm sure many others, would like to believe that they will come through and side for a free internet. I hope they don't destroy Twitch and begin the mayhem that was YouTube at the turning of this year.

I look forward to Patrick's opinion on this, hopefully today.

It's interesting that you say this, because the rating of the game does make a difference to its sales (as I said before, an M rated game can't be bought by minors at most major chain stores). Hurting the value of licensed NFL properties hurts the value of the NFL license. Also, the reason I chose the game is because there is a legitimate argument to be made that the slur should be treated like any other slur in the eyes of the ESRB. I cannot think of a single game where a slur is used that is rated E except for Madden.

Also, there's plenty of ways EA could remedy the situation. They could rename the team in game (as they do for Bill Belichick every year because they aren't allowed to use his likeness. They call him Chad Masters instead). They could just call the team "Washington." There are plenty of different things they can do while still producing a game equal to the quality of a traditional Madden game.

Finally, I've already shared my position re: the "usefulness" of petitions. To anyone that thinks I'm wasting my time, I would like to heartily thank you for caring so much about me that you would go out of your way to tell me so. Fortunately for me, I literally don't have to do anything for it from this point forward. This is a way to say something. I've said it.

Also, @joshwent, I donate $20 to the Heritage Association on Columbus Day and Thanksgiving. It isn't much but it's all I can afford, and those two holidays represent a lot of really bad things to Natives and how poorly they've been treated.

I mean, you clearly don't give a shit about the game. The people that were involved with Miiquality did. That's who the hell cares what a game company does with a game they made. The people who are interested in the product. The people it's being made for...except it wasn't being made with them in mind. And that's just sort of disappointing. I understand the argument that it costs money to make changes to game, and it doesn't make much sense to expect them to change it somewhere along this process, but from my understanding, that wasn't the point of the whole "fiasco." I don't really think anyone was expecting it to be changed by the time it got here, and the idea of boycotting the game goes against what Miiquality was trying to accomplish (again, from my understanding). This didn't seem to me like it was about attacking the game, so much as it was letting people know they can do better. If you're interested opinions, there's already this thread, which has a couple of active discussions in it.

I don't know why I'm surprised that people aren't taking that as a joke, considering I quoted my Twitter account out of context just like the Colbert Show quoted itself out of context (the joke, of course, is that most of the people I've seen expressing outrage at Stephen are neither Asian nor Native American and therefore their offense is entirely useless to me regardless of the whole missing the joke in the first place issue). But I do know why I'm surprised by your comment here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_chong

my contribution from the weekend

#CancelColbert because, as a white male, I'm tired of seeing Asians suffer through ching-chong jokes.