Don’t get me wrong – I’m not one of those jerkoffs that goes around insisting we have to watch our mouths lest we hurt someone’s feelings over something so irrelevant as pigment…
… but there’s something just wrong about this. If you moused over the image, you read correctly: his name is Mr Wasup and he’s an NPC in this goofy little MMORPG a few of us have been messing around on called WonderKing. He enjoys talking in horrendous ebonics (both the “double-click sound effects” and his NPC text), beat-boxing and presumably gang warfare with oversized hammers against an eastside group of cacti.
His form is grossly caricatured and basically everything that was wrong with racist cartoons of yesteryear (or today if you’re one of those unfortunate enough to be on the fax-to list for racist cartoons), in fact you’re almost left wondering why the artists and designers didn’t go whole hog. Negotiate product placement for some Kentucky Fried Chicken and some Black and Mild cigars and make some money off the whole thing.
Nope, I’m not entirely sure who’s idea it was, but I just don’t think it was such a great idea. I am, of course, going to hell for laughing when I first saw him.