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GotLag
Jul 17, 2005

食べちゃダメだよ

pedro0930 posted:

Restructuring of the regulatory body means no new liscence is being issued for video games. I guess Tencent thought they have enough clout to ignore it but got slapped down.

Translation: somebody didn't get bribed

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ijyt
Apr 10, 2012

Savage For The Winjun posted:

What the heck is offensive to the Chinese about hunting and murdering endangered animals for their bits and pieces?

Steam Groups let you display that groups icon ingame, so someone probably saw a Taiwanese flag or Pooh bear.

Humbug Scoolbus
Apr 25, 2008

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Clapping Larry

GotLag posted:

Translation: somebody didn't get bribed

A friend of mine works for one of the US Tencent offices and said that was the interoffice rumor.

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...z-idUSKCN1L90UE
"A Vietnamese website, which only works when users correctly answer a quiz about disputed islands in the South China Sea, has infuriated scores of television fans in China desperate to catch the latest episode of a popular Chinese period drama."

“This is nonsense!,” said one Chinese drama fan, commenting on the Weibo microblogging platform. “Who gave Vietnam the courage to challenge China’s territorial sovereignty?”
“While stealing Chinese TV dramas, Vietnam has also stolen Chinese territory,” said another viewer.

Amazing. More websites should do this.

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth
How bad must Vietnam's TV be that they've resorted to stealing Chinese dramas.

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe

Baronjutter posted:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...z-idUSKCN1L90UE
"A Vietnamese website, which only works when users correctly answer a quiz about disputed islands in the South China Sea, has infuriated scores of television fans in China desperate to catch the latest episode of a popular Chinese period drama."

“This is nonsense!,” said one Chinese drama fan, commenting on the Weibo microblogging platform. “Who gave Vietnam the courage to challenge China’s territorial sovereignty?”
“While stealing Chinese TV dramas, Vietnam has also stolen Chinese territory,” said another viewer.

Amazing. More websites should do this.

lmao

Imagine considering your culture superior to every single one of your neighbors and still demonstrating maximum butthurt over every little thing

The Aztecs, sending angry envoys to the Tahumara: "you have hurt the feelings of our god emperor! you will regret this!"

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

Baronjutter posted:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...z-idUSKCN1L90UE
"A Vietnamese website, which only works when users correctly answer a quiz about disputed islands in the South China Sea, has infuriated scores of television fans in China desperate to catch the latest episode of a popular Chinese period drama."

“This is nonsense!,” said one Chinese drama fan, commenting on the Weibo microblogging platform. “Who gave Vietnam the courage to challenge China’s territorial sovereignty?”
“While stealing Chinese TV dramas, Vietnam has also stolen Chinese territory,” said another viewer.

Amazing. More websites should do this.

holy poo poo hell yeah

peanut
Sep 9, 2007


rofl

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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so that website has been ddosed into oblivion by angry chinese nationalists right

or have they not done that because they want to still be able to watch the show, in which case i can think of a few video games that should do this

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


ElGroucho posted:

lmao

Imagine considering your culture superior to every single one of your neighbors and still demonstrating maximum butthurt over every little thing

The Aztecs, sending angry envoys to the Tahumara: "you have hurt the feelings of our god emperor! you will regret this!"

Bad example. Had a very long history of conquering their neighbor. And then eating them.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Baronjutter posted:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...z-idUSKCN1L90UE
"A Vietnamese website, which only works when users correctly answer a quiz about disputed islands in the South China Sea, has infuriated scores of television fans in China desperate to catch the latest episode of a popular Chinese period drama."

“This is nonsense!,” said one Chinese drama fan, commenting on the Weibo microblogging platform. “Who gave Vietnam the courage to challenge China’s territorial sovereignty?”
“While stealing Chinese TV dramas, Vietnam has also stolen Chinese territory,” said another viewer.

Amazing. More websites should do this.

lol that's a brilliant screening process

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

etalian posted:

lol that's a brilliant screening process

the whole internet should work like that imo

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь
lol maybe China should invade Vietnam over it, again

tote up a bags
Jun 8, 2006

die stoats die

Welcome to PUBG! As the plane flies to your destination, please feel free to enjoy our in-flight entertainment: A very detailed breakdown of Japan's ownership of the Diaoyu Islands! Good luck!!

Phrosphor
Feb 25, 2007

Urbanisation

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-45318316

BBC claims that Chinese movie companies are making cheap B movies then buying millions of tickets to cinemas, which then are empty when the movie plays, to make artificial blockbusters that bump the film companies stock price which they then make a fortune off by selling.

evil_bunnY
Apr 2, 2003

tote up a bags posted:

Welcome to PUBG! As the plane flies to your destination, please feel free to enjoy our in-flight entertainment: A very detailed breakdown of Japan's ownership of the Diaoyu Islands! Good luck!!
In all games with no region-locking the pro move is spamming "TAIWAN NUMBER ONE" a few times then muting chat.

His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

Chomp8645 posted:

How bad must Vietnam's TV be that they've resorted to stealing Chinese dramas.

They are pretty poo poo, my fiancé watches so much of this crap, but I think more than half is chinese dubbed to vietnamese.

Tupperwarez
Apr 4, 2004

"phphphphphphpht"? this is what you're going with?

you sure?

His Divine Shadow posted:

They are pretty poo poo, my fiancé watches so much of this crap, but I think more than half is chinese dubbed to vietnamese.
I can corroborate this.

And commiserate :v:.

prisoner of waffles
May 8, 2007

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the fishmech
About my neck was hung.

Phrosphor posted:

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-45318316

BBC claims that Chinese movie companies are making cheap B movies then buying millions of tickets to cinemas, which then are empty when the movie plays, to make artificial blockbusters that bump the film companies stock price which they then make a fortune off by selling.

it's not quite as bad as giving all the contracts for supplying your navy to cronies, then finding out your gundpowder was sand when the japanese annihilate ya

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

tote up a bags posted:

Welcome to PUBG! As the plane flies to your destination, please feel free to enjoy our in-flight entertainment: A very detailed breakdown of Japan's ownership of the Diaoyu Islands! Good luck!!

Isn't PUBG made by a Korean company?

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Other screening question would be Taiwain Number 1

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel
taiwan #1 is the low hanging fruit, if it lets you type in chinese then you can really go hog wild about tiananmen and democracy and falun dafa and down with the communist party of china

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

hakimashou posted:

taiwan #1 is the low hanging fruit, if it lets you type in chinese then you can really go hog wild about tiananmen and democracy and falun dafa and down with the communist party of china

I imagine a Winnie the Pooh meme could be another screening question

sticksy
May 26, 2004
Nap Ghost

hakimashou posted:

taiwan #1 is the low hanging fruit, if it lets you type in chinese then you can really go hog wild about tiananmen and democracy and falun dafa and down with the communist party of china

Not sure how many would get a reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre tbh

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus

sticksy posted:

Not sure how many would get a reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre tbh

why would they 'get' something that never happened?

Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme

His Divine Shadow posted:

They are pretty poo poo, my fiancé watches so much of this crap, but I think more than half is chinese dubbed to vietnamese.

Bonus points for the volume being maxed out constantly

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

sticksy posted:

Not sure how many would get a reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre tbh

It's really a mixed bag. A lot of people around Beijing have second-hand knowledge of it because their parents or grandparents lived it. You have soldiers who went back to their random provinces after having experienced it, and telling people. You have net-savvy people who have looked it up and learned the truth, and you have people who have heard it from western media and believed it because it came with accompanying footage of the event.

Then you have the vast majority of young(ish) people today who have heard the official party lines (which have changed over the years) and are willing to accept them.

Early 90's version It was an attempted coup by radicals, and it was put down with minimal effort.
Mid 90's version It was just a few thousand students who were misguided, and it fizzled out fairly quickly.
2000's Version It was just a few hundred students who were misguided, and it fizzled out instantly.
2010's Version Nothing happened. . . there has always been perfect harmony in Communist China.
2020's Version "Our records indicate that you have used the numbers 19 and 89 in more than 4 instances this past year, and in one case all 4 digits together "8991". Your national social media ranking has been devalued by 1 point. You are now ineligible to attain a passport, take out a loan, and are banned from all government positions (including municipal). Any further violations will result re-education at "The Xi Jinping school of never being seen again". An official hard copy warning will be mailed to your address at 19 Zhong Sha street, unit 89. An electronic version has been sent to your phone at 877-455-8991."

A. Beaverhausen
Nov 11, 2008

by R. Guyovich

Blistex posted:

It's really a mixed bag. A lot of people around Beijing have second-hand knowledge of it because their parents or grandparents lived it. You have soldiers who went back to their random provinces after having experienced it, and telling people. You have net-savvy people who have looked it up and learned the truth, and you have people who have heard it from western media and believed it because it came with accompanying footage of the event.

Then you have the vast majority of young(ish) people today who have heard the official party lines (which have changed over the years) and are willing to accept them.

Early 90's version It was an attempted coup by radicals, and it was put down with minimal effort.
Mid 90's version It was just a few thousand students who were misguided, and it fizzled out fairly quickly.
2000's Version It was just a few hundred students who were misguided, and it fizzled out instantly.
2010's Version Nothing happened. . . there has always been perfect harmony in Communist China.
2020's Version "Our records indicate that you have used the numbers 19 and 89 in more than 4 instances this past year, and in one case all 4 digits together "8991". Your national social media ranking has been devalued by 1 point. You are now ineligible to attain a passport, take out a loan, and are banned from all government positions (including municipal). Any further violations will result re-education at "The Xi Jinping school of never being seen again". An official hard copy warning will be mailed to your address at 19 Zhong Sha street, unit 89. An electronic version has been sent to your phone at 877-455-8991."

This is a great write up. I'm reading a book about the Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (aka being disappeared), and the intro said mainlanders might know Tianamen by the name of 'the 6/4 counterrevolutionary riots' and I wanted some more context. Much appreciated!

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!
Tank Man wasn't a protestor, he just wanted to know what interesting thing was happening

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

The White Dragon posted:

Tank Man wasn't a protestor, he just wanted to know what interesting thing was happening

^^^

Also he was earnestly trying to walk around the tank and the tank was trying to get around him but it became a face issue.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Oh sweet there's tank man fanfiction.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

The White Dragon posted:

Tank Man wasn't a protestor, he just wanted to know what interesting thing was happening

When asked why he stepped in front of the tank he just said "No Why"

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Has this been posted?


quote:

Beijing: The principal of a kindergarten in southern China has been sacked after welcoming students back to the first day of the new school year with pole dancing.
First the principal, and then a female adult dancer clad in black hot pants and heels, performed the raunchy routine gyrating around a flagpole bearing the Chinese national flag, in the school's assembly square as families and students watched on.


https://twitter.com/mstandaert/status/1036465874826219520?s=19

fdjkbnadjnbkjldaf
Mar 2, 2016
Taiwan is deffo not #1. It's actually china #1, us #2, and i don't know taiwan's number 38 or something.

Moonshine Rhyme
Mar 26, 2010

Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate
Taiwan is part of China and therefore also number one (as a part of a greater whole).

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

fdjkbnadjnbkjldaf posted:

Taiwan is deffo not #1. It's actually china #1, us #2, and i don't know taiwan's number 38 or something.

are we talking infant mortality rates

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

The White Dragon posted:

are we talking infant mortality rates

Executions per year?

Gulluoglu
May 4, 2009
When I went to do a postgrad in the UK, my mainland classmates thought Tank Man was an interesting piece of art.

evil_bunnY
Apr 2, 2003

The White Dragon posted:

are we talking infant mortality rates
:kiss:

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Lawrence Gilchrist
Mar 31, 2010

Where can i find some long form hot takes on China's new legal ownership zone in HK

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