My word game had some weird archaic racist word as one of the answers.
My word game had some weird archaic racist word as one of the answers.
The game is Word Cookies by Bitmango. I contacted them but haven’t heard back. I’m guessing it was just an oversight, but it still pissed me off.
Was the question: “Words Elon Musk uses at home”
I love it. But no, it was just an anagram game.
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An albino
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A mosquito
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My libido
(But also: a mulatto is also a type of coffee; not just slang for someone of mixed race)
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They generally just use some free dictionary and don’t censor because that would take any amount of effort.
The funny thing is they do censor. Also, the levels have a set word list that someone came up with beforehand.
Maybe the censor is recycled garbage too then. I know my word game's dictionary is absolute trash.
Watched that company. They make cheap ad filled copycat games. They can't be bothered to spend one day on filtering the words from the free dictionary that they used. Same for the support email, they are too busy counting the ad money, there's nobody reading them
I think you're thinking of a different company. This game lets you pay a single fee (I think it was $10 but it was literally years ago) and you get to play ad-free. They still annoy you about in-game purchases of "coins" but you can just X out of those.
And to their credit, they got back to me within a few hours and said they would remove the word.
ah, good to know
Get ready for more of this as companies start leaning more heavily on trash AI.
I very much doubt this is the result of AI, as much as somebody not checking the dictionary they imported into their game. Kinda like that Hello Kitty dictionary's... concerning definition of "necklace".
Had to Google that, but wtaf
Reminds me of the Buggre alle this Bible from Good Omens. Absolute favorite scene from the books and it didn't make it into the show.
All I can think of is
"A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido"
That's at least more cultured than my brain shouting "MULATTO BUTTS! (Mulatto butts!)" at me
Black-ass mama . . . white-ass daddy . . .
yeah.
Well, whatever, nevermind.
If the definition provided was:
"A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido. Yeah!"
It would at least have referenced a great song. Opportunity missed. Oh well.
Okay but what does mulatto mean?
Someone with mixed African and European ancestry.
Etymologically it's rather nasty: the word was coined in either Spanish or Portuguese as "mulato", as a reference to mules ("mula" - horse x donkey hybrid).
In Portuguese it seems to me that this association faded away. However, I'm going to take a guess and say that the word is probably a slur in English, so not something that you want to use for its meaning.
It's archaic enough that it's probably not a slur, or at least not a particularly bad one. Archer got away with using this as his ringtone.
I've only encountered the use of mulatto once in the wild. My girlfriend my freshman year at college had an adopted brother who was biracial. She used the word mulatto to describe him, but at the time everything she said about him seemed very loving.
I'm guessing 50/50 mixed race based on context.
Specifically half African-descended and half European (white).
As compared to Mestizo - being half white and half native American (incl. South American)
They went to stuff like Octaroon and Quadroon, having lower percentages of African ancestry.
It's all super racist obviously.
Isn't that just "giraffe" with a regional accent?
How does the game work? Did you have to give this answer, or is it like boggle where you have to construct whatever words from a set of letters?
It has a specific list of words in each level it accepts as answers and you have to get the whole list to go to the next level. Any other words are just bonuses. This was also the longest word in the level.
Maybe it just shows a person and you have to spell there race
