my assertion is me telling you that you aren’t always watching the forums, reddit, custom game, or every complaint considering this spray
the amount of effort you’re putting into this
Girl don’t even talk to him. Hes just a 12 year old looking for arguments trying to sound smart, he ain’t nothin on you
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Over-the-top exaggeration. That’s exactly what you’re doing with your lengthy replies and confusing terminology in a thread about a noose cosmetic. You sound pretentious as hell.
How? It wasn’t removed in response to anything. At least, that wasn’t explicitly stated. Replacing this spray can’t be interpreted as anything but preemptive.
I’m not citing a specific scenario. I’m speaking generally. There have been multiple complaints in the past and now about how it was being utilised by players. To elaborate, people used the spray to portray crude references to lynching and suicide. A pretty distasteful joke, eh? And not one that would be condoned or tolerated by Blizzard. Removing it was the best decision. They’re taking control of the situation themselves. The alternative is them getting bad press for it and then eventually removing it in response to a large influx of complaints. (you know, given the current political climate)
That doesn’t mean complaints don’t exist? The world doesn’t revolve around you.
Heres 2 I found in less than a minute from a quick search:
Keep in mind that I’ve only gone through the current forums. I doubt you’ve even bothered to check the old forums. 
This is BS. Reasonable people can and will get offended when cosmetic sprays are twisted into distasteful jokes about lynching and suicide.
The problem is that Blizzard didn’t foresee this problem and put it in the game anyway. Now they’re replacing it with a less controversial one and suddenly everyone’s worked up about it. Get over it.
See what I mean by hyperbole? Why don’t you write a novel mate.
And once again, you’re not the only person in this world. Your perspective of the world isn’t the only one. Jeez, you would make a great debut on r/iamverysmart.
Nor do I need to be, because if the outrage was prevalent, it would still be there when I looked. I’m not “always watching the forums, reddit, custom game, or every complaint” about Genji, and yet I still see the community being upset with the character. The idea that, as soon as I look away, the community comes out in droves to express their deep offense at a cowboy sheriff character having a noose spray is pretty far out there.
As to “effort”, is typing words and making complete sentences really such an exertion for you? Eh, as you say I guess.
you ultimately disregarded your whole point by this remark lol. The noose being removed is no where near as important as Genji’s balance state right now, so it’s entirely two different things.
you can type however you’d like to, but you’re putting too much energy into this topic
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I’m not saying it should or should not be removed. My point is now the people that have problems with these now have a more legitimate complaint so people should not be suprised if other skins and sprays are removed in the future.
As long as the skin is replaced with a new skin at a quailty to the same standard of the skin removed and people have their currency refunded if they purched it with coins I have no problem.
lmao - what part is confusing you? There’s nothing overly complex about anything being said here, if you’re this lost in something this simple, I don’t know what to do for you.
I’m not going to quote your ramblings block for block, but just going down the line, and trying to keep it to as few syllables as possible to help you out:
So it was removed…“but they didn’t give a press release as to why, so we can’t possibly know or understand the motive”…haha, okay…
People used the spray crudely…okay? People do crude things, and will continue to do so. People use chat crudely - will that be removed? It isn’t about some knucklehead using it crudely, it’s about kowtowing to people who don’t think very well, and spend a lot of their time being offended.
You managed to find two complaints…okay? If you think that has any relevance to what I’m saying, or to why kowtowing to a perpetually offended lowest common denominator might be bad, you’ve lost the plot.
It isn’t about a noose, it’s about a broader precedent. If you think it’s purely about a spray, you aren’t following, and you might ask “if the spray is so meaningless, and so inconsequential, why change it?”.
The remark about Genji was illustrating to you the possibility of one being aware of an issue, without the constant monitoring of the forums, reddit, etc. that you seemed to believe was necessary. Unfortunately, poor reading comprehension struck again, and you got lost on the way there. The relative importance of a spray, versus a character rebalance, isn’t the point.
Confusing in the sense that it’s not necessary. You’re clearly using complicated terminology to confuse people. At least, that’s how I see it. Multiple people have reacted the same way.
Dude, get over yourself. If you expect people not to get confused when you use words like this:
which refers to Greek mythology about a guy who was forced to roll a boulder up a cliff forever just to say that something is “impossible”, what more can I do for you? You’re just too full of yourself.
Yes, why don’t we continue this condescending attitude. Smh.
Nice rhetoric.
Need I explain the huge difference between chat and a cosmetic spray? Besides the fact that one shouldn’t require moderation in the first place, if someone uses sprays to be toxic or racist it is exponentially harder to get them punished. I’m not going to explain why that’s the case. It should be painfully clear.
Also this is a slippery slope. Go figure.
And why exactly is that the case? Are you just dismissing one side of this just because? Use your head for a second. It wasn’t removed because people were getting offended by it. It was preemptively removed so people couldn’t get offended by it later on and cause bad press for Bliz. They’re playing it safe as a business. That’s smart.
How is this so hard to grasp?
I guess reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit. (but apparently your writing is)
Think we’re done here. Your garbage attitude just tells me that you’re here to argue mindlessly. You can’t even be bothered to make a proper rebuttal. Have fun with your new horseshoe spray. 
This thread is getting muted.
Yeah, I’m confused as to why it’s just the noose spray. Like there are two cop skins blizzard I think those stand out a bit more, especially Brig’s.
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This is hysterical. Earlier in the thread, I literally ran one of my posts here through a complexity/readability index, and it returned as being ninth grade, but this is apparently so far outside your reach that it MUST be an intention to confuse people…I mean, what else could it be?
I’m sure you spent a lot of time on that last post, but I just want you to know that I didn’t read any of it, past this point. I’m sure any post authored by somebody who, when confronted with ninth grade writing, interprets it as a devious plot to confuse and mislead, must be chock full of wisdom and great, well thought out points…but if you’re just going to be confused by any attempt at communicating with you, what’s the point?
Thanks for helping to confirm my long-held suspicions about the sort of person that goes in for, and defends, this mindless pearl clutching, though.
y’all so funny. i love these forums sometimes 
Simple answer is it’s easy to remove a simple image and swap it out with a horseshoe image as it takes little to no effort as oppose to making new skins to replace the old skins which blizzard are too lazy to do lol.
Plus skins have a much higher vaule for people so the backlash would be larger and the fact of the skins being of different countries police as oppose to US police would be them throwing all police worldwide in the same boat.
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Yeah, very true. But there’s no way I’m wearing that riot skin anymore. Sick of seeing what police do to the protestors.
To each their own. I’ve got the skin and its my favorite skin for her. I’ve lived across 4 different continents and always had good relationships with the cops so I got no reason to hate it personally.
good grief is that stupid fight still going on? I thought it played itself out month’s ago. I play mainly Mercy and Baptiste but I think it’s ridiculous. People literally are trying to find evil in everything these days to promote their own soap box agenda’s - to the point that they make up their own interpretations.
This is why I think politics, religion should be left for other proper social media platforms. The game is meant for entertainment and should be left strictly to just that.
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to be fair, mine wasn’t a “complaint”
more of a “realism” thing
i don’t even know what this argument is about, or who is on what side, but a noose was a real object used in real history
lassos were also used in the history of cowboys
the spray was called a noose, and portrayed more of a hanging theme rather than a coiled/held thing that would more convey the message of “imma catch this… cow…”
-shrug-
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