This is a bad "dad joke," nothing more. A character, presumably Chinese-American (but at the very least some kind of East Asian), makes a joke that his knees are "Chi-knees." That's the whole joke; feel free to roll your eyes. Anyone linking this to a virtually forgotten racist rhyme from the late 19th century is either looking way too far into this or is being intentionally disingenuous.
On that note, this article is legitimately spreading misinformation. The character in question doesn't "recite" the aforementioned racist rhyme—he says "Chi-knees," that's it. The author literally linked to a Twitter post with the clip included that shows as much. Did Nintendo Life just take someone's tweet and report it at face value without doing any further research, even up to actually watching the video clip included with said tweet?
Seeing as Awakening received a Teen rating, I imagine this game will receive a T from the ESRB at the very least and could very well receive a M rating, especially if suggestive/sexual themes are the reason for the upped CERO rating as the ESRB always seems to judge games more harshly for those things than they do for violence. Unfortunately, because we don't have an intermediate rating between T and M (which we sorely need), this increases the likelihood of Nintendo of America censoring the game to keep it at a T (or for no good reason, honestly; they didn't need to censor Tharja's butt in the Summer Scramble DLC but they did so anyway). That's a possibility I've been worried about ever since I saw the trailer.
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Re: Monster Hunter Movie's Chinese Premiere Reportedly Cancelled Due To Racist Joke
This is a bad "dad joke," nothing more. A character, presumably Chinese-American (but at the very least some kind of East Asian), makes a joke that his knees are "Chi-knees." That's the whole joke; feel free to roll your eyes. Anyone linking this to a virtually forgotten racist rhyme from the late 19th century is either looking way too far into this or is being intentionally disingenuous.
On that note, this article is legitimately spreading misinformation. The character in question doesn't "recite" the aforementioned racist rhyme—he says "Chi-knees," that's it. The author literally linked to a Twitter post with the clip included that shows as much. Did Nintendo Life just take someone's tweet and report it at face value without doing any further research, even up to actually watching the video clip included with said tweet?
Re: Fire Emblem If Box Art Confirms amiibo Support and 15 Years and Up Age Rating
Seeing as Awakening received a Teen rating, I imagine this game will receive a T from the ESRB at the very least and could very well receive a M rating, especially if suggestive/sexual themes are the reason for the upped CERO rating as the ESRB always seems to judge games more harshly for those things than they do for violence. Unfortunately, because we don't have an intermediate rating between T and M (which we sorely need), this increases the likelihood of Nintendo of America censoring the game to keep it at a T (or for no good reason, honestly; they didn't need to censor Tharja's butt in the Summer Scramble DLC but they did so anyway). That's a possibility I've been worried about ever since I saw the trailer.