https://www.nppa.gov.cn/nppa/contents/320/103799.shtml

here is a list of the games approved, ive been googling the names of each game and so far they all seem like normal indie/mobile games


edit: it looks like one of them is Merge Duck lol

ok this one is really really good

it is genuine, he’s been well-known as a pro-putin guy for quite a while i believe

i’m not a fan of the idea of painting people as ‘bots’ etc though, it feels pointless to me

i dont know if that’s true about bridget and poison being disliked by the trans community (to the extent that it is a ‘community’ in the first place). my experience is the total opposite there. it’s true their origins were problematic though

did you read the venturebeat report? it is very thorough and makes it clear that there are *many* employees who had big issues there

so you are saying this is a relatively normal thing that happens quite often. i think you’ll find that a lot of people agree with that!

i definitely don’t think it just boils down to physical disconnect. that makes little sense to me when we have tv/internet news media. i could be talking out my ass, but i feel like people in many countries actually do know a lot more than we do about world affairs and how they actually are relevant

it’s more like the western world is saying ‘white lives matter,’ having conspicuously never cared about black and brown people, and other people are going ‘uhhhhh wait what? this seems racist’

note the numerous examples in western media of people going ‘i mean, of course this kind of violence is expected in, say, the…

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/the-families-losing-their-loved-ones-to-hunger-suicide-in-afghanistan

“People are dying by suicide across Afghanistan because of starvation, as the US has frozen the Afghan Central Bank’s assets and the IMF suspended access to funds after the Taliban takeover. The World Bank had…

seriously. we got condoleezza rice on the news condemning this invasion and yet any criticism of US hypocrisy gets painted as ‘whataboutism,’ my brain can’t take it lol

you have to ask yourself *why* this situation in particular could be WWIII though. it’s not the fact that russia invaded in and of itself that makes the situation so volatile; it’s the fact that russia invaded *and* the west is ramping up escalation of the conflict by pretending that putin is megahitler, when they…

ok ok yeah, i do agree it’s a political choice on their part. I guess I just mean that they’re not like... ‘trying to score points,’ or make an implied statement of condemnation against russia or something. like it’s not that kind of direct statement that we’re seeing from a lot of companies, but rather, they’re just…

They actually did the same thing with the first release of AW, which in many regions was set to be immediately after 9/11. So I don’t think it’s actually some political statement on their part.

i mean you can try to make this into an argument or whatever, but at the end of the day, you saw a comment which was saying “there’s a lot of awful wars going on right now, and we should care about that,” and you responded to it in an upset manner. so that is on you, is all i can say. peace

noooo, no, you have it totally backwards! i know there are a lot of conflicting things going around, but please consider what you are saying here. you are saying that it is accurate to suggest that the west is hypocritical when it comes to their own past regarding invasions, but in fact we can’t point that out,…

the so-called ‘whataboutism’ is literally the only thing *stopping* us from having the attention span of a goldfish!

people will go “remember this thing that happened a month ago? or a year ago? or literally right now?”

and people will say that it’s “whataboutism” as if it’s suddenly banned to even bring that stuff up!…

what original commenter is saying: “people should care about more of these conflicts, because they are all very horrible.”

your response: “oh, so i should stop caring about ukraine?”

pretty confusing response there.

it’s probably got little to do with the details of the lore of the game, haha. in fact, advance wars was delayed in its original release due to 9/11! so this is kind of an eerie repetition of those events, to be honest!

anyway, original commenter is correct that westerners largely don’t care, or even don’t know, about…

it would have been amazing if you had gone with a blurred out chris pratt

“The company has 100% responsibility for creating the game, and both management and creative talent are parts of that equation in externally inscrutable ways.”

if creative talent is a part of that equation, how is it ethical for them to have zero agency over whether their games just suddenly become legally unobtainable…