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Leo_Gruen's avatar
3 years ago

Snowy the Sandman should be Snowy the Sandpal for consistency and uniformity

I'll be honest I think Snowpal isn't really necessary terminology personally, but if we're gonna go with "build a snowpal" in seasons I think this holiday pack item should be renamed for consistency.

Unless it's somehow OK to project a gender onto a crude effigy in one context but not another. Anyway, Snowy isn't traditional name with existing cultural gender associations so it should work irrespective of Snowy's gender. Unless of course the children in the song parodied in the description assigned a gender identity to their sandperson (OK that sounds like a weird sifi monster maybe snowpal is the better choice) which I guess is fine since it's just sand and can't form an identity for itself... but it also feels off somehow to have snowman used in one context as an apparently generic term and then snowpal in another context.

Edit: Also the 'Holiday Snowman' object from the same pack. This is even worse since there's no context for the identity, it's just assumed to be male as a default.
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