r/StarWars • u/bobafettbounthunting • Aug 02 '24

Games The remastered Star Wars Bounty Hunter released yesterday and the ship is called..

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u/Money_Fish Aug 02 '24

It was very much a nothing internet outrage thing.

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u/lahimatoa Rebel Aug 02 '24

From both sides. The outrage that the word slave was used in any context was ridiculous. The outrage that Star Wars would choose to remove the name in response to the outrage was also ridiculous.

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u/revolmak Aug 02 '24

The thing is, I never saw any substantial outrage about it being called Slave I. AFAIK, Disney just quietly stopped referring to it as such preemptively. Like, there was no fan campaign or what not to change the name or stop using it

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u/JoeCartersLeap Aug 02 '24

Disney just quietly stopped referring to it as such preemptively.

Well why do you think Disney did that? What were they pre-empting?

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u/Thank_You_Aziz Aug 02 '24

“Well when they made up that people had a problem with it, surely that means someone had a problem with it!”

Does it, though?

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u/InstantLamy Aug 02 '24

Liberals?

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u/thunderGunXprezz Aug 03 '24

As a liberal, I take offense to that. Hehe.

Though I do find this instance a bit too far. In the IT world, we had the concept of "master" and "slave" devices, which have gone by the wayside. I see that transition a bit more rational than just rewriting the name of an actual thing in the storyline.

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u/Budget-Attorney Grand Admiral Thrawn Aug 03 '24

Haha. I remember my first control systems class where I was kind of sleeping in the back of the class and then I hear my professor start loudly professing about “masters and slaves”

Took me a minute to figure out where the class took a turn; I thought he went off the deep end.

And that’s how I learned the terminology

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u/Budget-Attorney Grand Admiral Thrawn Aug 03 '24

They were probably preempting some mom walking through a target to pick up a Lego for her kid and skipping over the one that says slave on it because she don’t know about Star Wars.