Blizzard, as a private company, is not beholden to any specific form of free speech or regulations. If they chose, they could totally allow protest in favor of human rights, and ban speech intended to discriminate or push harmful political ideologies. There is no regulation or restriction that implies Blizzard has to…

It is, you can’t avoid being a political entity even if you claim to be apolitical and shut down ‘any’ political commentary. Blizzard is a major corporation with tons of money and by doing nothing, they are openly saying their political stance is that their corporate income is more important than any given belief they…

Just so you know for accuracy’s sake, Lego World’s hasn’t been updated in months and as far as anyone knows, the devs up and abandoned development without telling anyone about it. The last major update was nearly a year ago and around January they just stopped communicating with anyone. 

Just so you know for accuracy’s sake, Lego World’s hasn’t been updated in months and as far as anyone knows, the…

Conceptually, protesting Blizzard with pro-HK stuff might not ‘seem’ like it will do much. Boycotts and protests historically don’t appear to accomplish much.

I think the outrage would be very similar, but filled with a lot of people who are devoutly pro-Israeli, because that’s how that issue works 

I don’t think historical fantasy games are a great way to represent real world politics.

I wonder if the future concept of downloads is to be able to pre-select graphics settings and only download files in a compression that you actually need it. I’m not going to use 4K textures even if I could run them for performance reasons.

Cake! I hope the answer is cake

What’s not to like is mostly that storage isn’t “free” even if it’s cheap, and poor development is wasting space that doesn’t need to be wasted. Also ISPs suck and don’t want you downloading that much at once. 

I don’t get why you have an issue with wanting China to not enforce authoritarianism on HK. Maybe other nations do just want to delay China’s superpower growth. And maybe that’s okay because China flagrantly disregards human rights and we don’t need nations with even less freedom than the current world powers already…

It’s almost like people in HK don’t want to live in an authoritarian state that suppresses their freedoms and ability to live. The agreement is trash written by bureaucrats and officials who stand to benefit, or at least will never feel the consequences, of their decisions.

Damn been a while since I’ve read that, but that’s a timeless concept.

I got a Lego AT-TE set for 1$ from a small retailer this year because they still had it on sale and it didn’t ring up right since it’s been discontinued for years. The manager kinda laughed that they still had one and let me have it for a dollar.

Similar experience: Got a purse for 3$ from a Goodwill. We know nothing about brand names and stuff but we found a card in a pocket we didn’t know about a year later detailing the real leather history of it tracing back to the 60s. I don’t know how much it’s worth, but it’s neat anyway. 

My friend almost got hit by a car and that driver got paid off by pro-HK bodies. Not taking a political stance is not a choice companies can afford to make. This was the easy way out. The strategy where Blizzard says “not on our time” is Blizzard putting profit before ethics, and saying that they’d rather risk their…

My friend almost got hit by a car that hit another protester and the driver got paid off by pro-HK entities. Blizzard’s political stance is that degrading human rights and abusing people is not enough reason for them to change how they operate, and they can rot for that. 

Neutrality is a political stance, even if they pretend it isn’t. 

Most people have relatively low incomes and very little control over the shift of industrial manufacturing to China out of their nations. In the US at least, average incomes are middling and a massive portion of the nation is a few missed paychecks away from being below the poverty line. It’s hard to not buy Chinese…

They mean an ethically run state with human freedoms, the kind that HK has been enjoying for a long time and are now shrinking away as the mainland and HK government have decided they want to exert domination

I know you’re messing around, but having a private corporate issue in China at all kinda breaks the whole “they’re communist!” thing