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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)
Where did the mulatto coffee get its name?
I dunno, man.
An Italian?
It means "mixed breed" in Portuguese and Spanish. You'd most often hear the word in South America, where it means some particular mixture of heritage as far as I remember.
HEYYYY MACARENA
Yeah, yeah
So many kids won't get this reference. Makes me sad. And feel old af.
2021 was just a string of "oh, that's 30 years old too" realizations for a metric shitton of iconic albums.
- A coffee
- A person or animal lacking pigmentation
- A parasite
- My sex drive
Makes sense. As much as aqua seafoam shame does anyway.
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".
I'm sorry what?? Why the hell???
I posted this image from reddit
Oh no.
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.
I'm a native pt speaker and I had never thought of the word as slur. I remember it being commonly said on TV, music, and written on newspapers without this connotation. It was certainly more common than the preferred alternative "mestiço".
Yeah, in Portuguese it is not a big deal. (I'm also a native speaker.) Some people do complain about it, but it's typically based on etymology, not current usage.
Dunno how others interpret it but for me "mestiço" isn't quite an alternative, it's more like a hyperonym for any person with mixed heritage (not just Afro+Euro).
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.
Thanks for the info - my guess was wrong then.
No it wasn't. It's a backwards and weird word.
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.
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.
So like, it wasn't just hiding in the game's dictionary, but someone or some pre-coded algorithm selected it to feature?
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Maybe it just shows a person and you have to spell there race
Isn't that just "giraffe" with a regional accent?
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