Oh my goodness, no. I get so much personal enjoyment out of character-tweaking (Behave) that I can spend at least an hour or more creating a new one every time there’s a new game, or when I go back to an old favourite.

If I don’t know exactly what something does during a game, it’s something I can find out. If…

I know we’ve disagreed on things before but... I agree with you fully on this.

Yeah. It frustrates me that people see staying silent as being neutral. Like as if keeping the status quo and preserving the current power structures in play wasn’t in itself picking a side. Chinese government would like nothing more than other the rest of the world to not talk about their bullshit. So staying silent…

That’s one way to state the painfully obvious, whilst bypassing the point of the statement.

You’re literally engaged in sophistry, and nothing will come of your conviction that you’ve issued a stinging rebuke.

Yup. And that side is aligned with a government with one of the worst human rights track records on the planet.

Three things here—for me, anyway (YMMV):

1.) This is a delayed punishment, and it seems like that delay was largely a function of Blizzard gauging the (almost entirely negative) reaction to their sanctioning of Blitzchung. When most of the complaints coming out about Blitzchung’s treatment included acknowledgment that…

+ Me. 

Meanwhile gamers are lapping up the fortnite news even though fortnite is way deeper in China’s pocket. Ever hear a fortnite streamer mention Hong Kong? Nope, and you never will. 

Already knew this was going to be here:

Human *clap* rights *clap* are *clap* not *clap* poltics

“Now, more than ever, we need to use our platforms to speak out against the human rights violations happening in China and around the world, and advocate for freedom of speech and basic human dignity.”

FULLY owned by Tencent.

fuckin cowards

It’s worse if the deck’s owner is an insufferably smug asshole.

I’m 37, nosing 38. I was old enough to vote in the 2000 primaries and POTUS cycle election, and I did—against Bush (and I did it again in 2004).

That this young woman is four—or perhaps nearly five, at most—years younger than me suggests she was probably about fourteen when Bush first took office, and eighteen when he…

I think she’d have been much better just mass replying with something along the lines of “Did not grow up in America, can you explain the effects that Tory policies had on the neighborhoods I grew up in?”

The “I was disabled” response to someones saying “pick up a newspaper” is mindblowing.

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Correct, yes, they should not be operating in China if China requires them to be complicit in totalitarianism.