{"id":74150,"date":"2023-07-13T14:04:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T13:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartmileco.com\/jagged-alliance-3-developers-decline-to-comment-on-use-of-ableist-slur\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T14:04:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T13:04:57","slug":"jagged-alliance-3-developers-decline-to-comment-on-use-of-ableist-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmileco.com\/jagged-alliance-3-developers-decline-to-comment-on-use-of-ableist-slur\/","title":{"rendered":"Jagged Alliance 3 developers decline to comment on use of ableist slur","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

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Strategy game Jagged Alliance 3 <\/em>launches later this week, and when it does it will launch with a character using an ableist slur to describe a differently abled friend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The character, Headshot Hue, hangs out in a bar in one of the game\u2019s early areas and uses it to describe his former mercenary colleague, Lurch, who runs one of the in-game bars. If asked \u201cwhat\u2019s wrong with Lurch\u201d, Hue will explain that Lurch too was the victim of the same event which left Headshot Hue shot in the head – hence the nickname – and then describes him with the slur.\u00a0<\/p>\n