Convecticus

I think I’m largely in agreement with you – yes, I absolutely want people to respect each other, and start from that perspective. Mostly because there are a lot of super lazy jokes about groups of people that aren’t funny because they’re not clever, they’re just bigoted.

But when people say, “too much political correctness”, that tends to be what they’re talking about. E.g., some jerk makes a joke about their pronouns being attack/helicopter or something, showing that they don’t understand pronouns and that they don’t understand that humor should involve something unexpected, not something super expected, if one assumes the person has bigoted ideas.

But plenty of people make good humor with various groups because they don’t fall into those standard tropes.

And if someone is punching up, absolutely respect should be kept to the bare minimum.

Or, in other words, basic respect is about learning about a topic. “Too much respect” would be never pointing out various oddities in a group that you otherwise have basic respect for.

Because, yeah, people act in funny ways. Especially when acting as a group.

Being creative does oftentimes require taking risks, and oftentimes unintentionally crossing lines, so I’m with you on that.

On the other hand, the only mention of women being how they’re required to go commando is… not likely to be an environment women want to be in.

As for political correctness, to quote Neil Gaiman:

I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…” talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, “That’s not actually anything to do with ‘political correctness’. That’s just treating other people with respect.”

Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile.

Maybe there are times when that’s not what’s happening, but most of the times I see it used, it’s people complaining that they can’t act like jerks without consequence.

Agreed!

As a child playing this, I got to be decent at the arcade version (biggest hint is to not use nitros, unless doing so would directly result in winning, because otherwise the computer starts speeding up because of them.), and would happily play for an hour on only a few tokens.

And, yeah, it was fun that steering was, “…and now go spin as fast as possible, and grab onto the steering wheel to stop when the truck has turned the correct direction.”

It wasn’t really accurate, but I liked Super Mario Kart (SNES) and Stunts (PC) for driving things, and a certain amount of unreality was part of what made them fun.

But this post was about the console versions of it, none of which I was able to get into, probably because of it not being like the arcade.

All the same, it’s a bit of a white whale for Lynx, and I’d jump at the chance to own it for any moderately-reasonable price. Even though, obviously, I’d want to own four copies for the one random time when I had enough interested people together in the right place to play the game.