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Borderlands 2's Tiny Tina accused as racist, Gearbox responds

Borderlands 2 features some totally bat-s**t crazy characters, but none are as loop as enfant terrible Tiny Tina, the game's resident child bomb-maker. Gamers have called out Tina's dialogue as racist in a Twitter spat with the game's lead writer. The result? She may be patched in future.

PC Gamer reports that it all started with this:

That's Mike Stacco, creative developer at Cryptozoic Entertainment tweeting to Borderlands 2 lead writer, Anthony Burch, creator of Tiny Tina. Stacco's tweet kicked off a backlash from fans, who chipped in their own two cents on Tina's dialogue:

Even Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford got involved:

You can check out the whole daisy-chain of events via PC Gamer's piece at the link above, but it ended with this:

There has been no word on whether or not Tina will be changed. But what do you think? Are terms like 'crunk' and 'badonkadonk' racially charged, or are they justt he mindless yammering of a psychotic child? Let us know below.

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