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PC Gamer
Ted Litchfield

Valve yoinked a new Counter-Strike 2 map out of the game after just 2 days, either for potential Disney copyright infringement, a 'gamer word' hidden in its data, or both

Counter-Strike 2 header image.

"Valve added a bunch of new community maps to Counter-Strike 2 on October 2nd," SteamDB wrote in an October 4 BlueSky post, "and now one of the maps, Transit, has been removed due to potential copyright issues and one of the entity names having a gamer word." Attached was a picture of a distinctively-shaped building in de_transit's skybox.

I resent having enough of an internet poisoned brain to parse that statement, and wanted to know more. For any normal people with healthy relationships reading this, "gamer word" is a sarcastic turn of phrase that emerged out of the fracas of influencer PewDiePie's use of a racial slur in a 2017 PUBG Twitch stream, infamously excused by one defender as a "heated gaming moment."

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