Leeroy Jenkins loading screen
I don't know if y'all know this but that Leeroy Jenkins load screen is very offensive. The character was created as a caricature of black people. Is there anyway I can not have to see it when I log into your program?
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I'm not sure how many loading screen lines are in the bank, but it might not be feasible to opt-in to disable a particular line. It'd be neat if the loading screen lines could be disabled entirely though 0 -
It's not at all in an offensive context... Leeroy Jenkins isn't a racist or offensive character in and of itself, I just don't think it's a big enough deal to be changed, but I do see where you're coming from -3 -
Yes it is offensive and was meant to be racist and demeaning .It was a white boy in blackface period.
The concept of the joke itself was funny.. but the internet blackface was racist and offensive ..!
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@waffles
"One forty-ounce-malt-liquor-fueled night when he was getting his electrical-engineering degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Ben and his friends decided to create the most culturally inappropriate character names imaginable for a bunch of white guys playing video games. Out of Ben's inebriated mouth tumbled "Leeroy Jenkins," a moniker so amusing that he decided to use it for his characters in assorted games -- and, ultimately, World of Warcraft."
https://www.westword.com/news/the-legend-of-leeroy-jenkins-5091880
The fact that he intentionally set out to name his character the "most culturally inappropriate" name for a white guy playing a video game means that they were thinking of race when they did it. Add to it that when the plan fails he says, "I still have chicken" and you get, as GSame03 writes, a white man performing a racist caricature- digital blackface.
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Yeah I find this inappropriate. I also find most of the loading lines cringeorthy or immature. Once or twice they're passable. They're often misspelled.
TLDR I'd love to turn off all loading lines.
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