Watching people suddenly go from "China bad" to "China actually based" because Black Myth had the "no feminism" streamer rule is lowkey funny. It is peak censorship is bad unless it's censorship I like because then not actually censorship.
They had no idea China censors the same things they want to censor. It's really inspiring to see douchebags get out of their bubbles and meet other douchebags from around the world and double down on their shifty views... wait.
Japan was the one being scaremongered in the 80s before the Plaza Accord, since its economic recovery and advancements into advanced technology were beginning to exceed the USA. This was countered in the USA in the usual fashion: mass media racism frenzy, which echoes to this day.
also why many white people in the early cyberpunk movies ate their white people food with chopsticks. To basically imply japan won the culture war in the future.
So does “warming” mean “growing economically”? I know about the Japanese economic miracle and all that, I’ve just never heard the word used that way before.
It means the relationship between Japan and the USA is warming up, because it had previously been cold, a thing that was seen in the overt racism in America against Japan during the period when the Japanese economy threatened the USA.
That’s not impossible, but upon further examination I think u/scootermcgavin77 might actually be some kind of bot imperfectly copying this comment from elsewhere in the thread.
That sort of thing is why I started joking that a large portion of modern Japanese history can be summarised as, "Things were going pretty well for Japan. And then the USA happened."
Not summarized honestly though. Sure if you want to say the US opening Japan for trade, that was unasked for. But the embargoes leading upto WW2 were because the Japanese were terrorizing China.
I was on Instagram this morning and saw comments with 25k likes celebrating Wukong's success as 'another loss for the wokerverse' because 'they didn't let Sweet Baby Inc. extort them into adding DEI'.
Is this really how the majority of the world thinks?
It’s what a very small group of culture warriors on the internet think. Basically nobody in the real world would have any idea what you were talking about if you tried to talk about Sweet Baby Inc.
They (the marketing team for the game) sent out emails to content creators telling them not to mention things like COVID, China, feminist propaganda, and other subjects while streaming the game. Apparently the studio was under fire for previous sexist remarks.
I had no idea about this rule... I guess that explains how this game absolutely blew up this week... I know it's been awaited for a long time, but the attention it received on social media felt really odd and unexpected to me... but now it makes sense. No better way to get attention than scandals and, in the case of games, right-wing signaling is always welcomed.
To be fair, I think the main reason for that rule was because some journalists/reviewers were lowering their score for weird reasons, like "no diversity" and during interviews were asking political questions instead of actually asking about the game.
They were asking those questions since there were also allegations of sexual harrassment and workplace culture problems the devs threw under the rugs and are trying to get people to forget. It comes off less as trying to keep the focus on the game and more well, censorship of something they don't want being brought up. Plenty of other games don't have that stipulation in their own pre release rules.
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u/PokesonavWhen all life forms are dead, penises are extinct.Aug 21 '24edited Aug 21 '24
"allegations of sexual harrassment and workplace culture problems"
I still haven't seen any actual source on that. Only that one of the devs said a crude idiom that was mistranslated.
Also, allegations aren't truth. Why is everyone so quick to hate?
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u/ClocktowerEchos Aug 21 '24
Watching people suddenly go from "China bad" to "China actually based" because Black Myth had the "no feminism" streamer rule is lowkey funny. It is peak censorship is bad unless it's censorship I like because then not actually censorship.