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ShallNoiseUpon posted:A tale in two tweets:
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Dec 16, 2020 16:50
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this is a poorly told tale cause I have no idea what any of this is or why it’s happening
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Dec 16, 2020 16:51
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indigi posted:this is a poorly told tale cause I have no idea what any of this is or why it’s happening The game is by a Taiwanese studio. It was originally banned from almost every platform because someone found out there was a placeholder texture that made fun of Xi Jinping and China got extremely mad about it and started a campaign back in June of 2019 to get it delisted The studio went dark for over a year and came back with this and I guess GOG was given a call by the state and cancelled the release
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Dec 16, 2020 16:54
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Throatwarbler posted:The question and my answer are not really meaningful in that context. its also worth noting that this is a huge draw of our propaganda machine at this point we must be the best country in the world because everyone wants to come here and be a citizen if we did stuff the same way other countries do it would be much easier to make apples to apples comparisons and find out that american exceptionalism is actually a myth
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Dec 16, 2020 17:09
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Grapplejack posted:The game is by a Taiwanese studio. It was originally banned from almost every platform because someone found out there was a placeholder texture that made fun of Xi Jinping and China got extremely mad about it and started a campaign back in June of 2019 to get it delisted to be exact, it wasn't 'China' in the sense of its government, it was a furious reaction from mainland gamers. Also appears to be the case in this instance I have no idea what cdprojekt was expecting, the most cursory research on the game would have predicted this
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Dec 16, 2020 21:13
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Fuligin posted:to be exact, it wasn't 'China' in the sense of its government, it was a furious reaction from mainland gamers. Also appears to be the case in this instance Maybe the first time but there's zero chance anyone remembers or cares about this a year+ later; my guess is someone in the government stepped in to stop it and score some points with Xi since CDPR is relying pretty heavily on China to make up for bad western cyberpunk sales
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Dec 16, 2020 22:11
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da big lai
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Dec 16, 2020 22:14
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Grapplejack posted:Maybe the first time but there's zero chance anyone remembers or cares about this a year+ later; my guess is someone in the government stepped in to stop it and score some points with Xi since CDPR is relying pretty heavily on China to make up for bad western cyberpunk sales but that's just a theory...a game theory
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Dec 16, 2020 22:21
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Grapplejack posted:Maybe the first time but there's zero chance anyone remembers or cares about this a year+ later; my guess is someone in the government stepped in to stop it and score some points with Xi since CDPR is relying pretty heavily on China to make up for bad western cyberpunk sales Did the game actually sell bad?
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Dec 16, 2020 23:06
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genericnick posted:Did the game actually sell bad? Cyberpunk? no not really but we're not talking about like, real sales, we're talking about what investors expected sales to be.
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Dec 16, 2020 23:10
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genericnick posted:Did the game actually sell bad? Sales have cratered now that people, especially Xbone and PS4 owners, are seeing how poorly it's running. https://www.gameinformer.com/2020/12/15/cdpr-conference-call-reveals-last-gen-cyberpunk-2077-neglect-no-refund-agreement-in quote:Investors on the call were then able to ask questions, asking what happened to make sales decrease so much in a span of just four days, especially so for last-gen consoles. Nielubowwicz said that despite doing "good initial sales," the fact that last-gen versions were seemingly left in the dust caused that dramatic pivot. Nowakowski added that "throwing more [developers] at it" would not have made the quality of the last-gen version any better, and the the team is still "collecting data" regarding all of the reasons behind the decline.
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Dec 16, 2020 23:18
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Why do game publishers keep having to learn about the Streisand Effect? Did they really think a tweet like that would go unnoticed?
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Dec 16, 2020 23:27
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So I was watching somebody play Cyberpunk and a character made an anti capitalist rant Keanu Reevs lol. Is the writer for real or this is a dumb Fight Club Anarchist thing? Also the game has full blown Chinese dialogue dub, I need to watch a Chinese playthrough when I get around to it and see of they cut out the sex scenes. This game is so horny. stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 00:11 on Dec 17, 2020 |
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Dec 17, 2020 00:07
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stephenthinkpad posted:So I was watching somebody play Cyberpunk and a character made an anti capitalist rant Keanu Reevs lol. Is the writer for real or this is a dumb Fight Club Anarchist thing? what do u think?
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Dec 17, 2020 00:10
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Cyberpunk as a genre is basically rooted in the idea that while capitalism sucks, there is no alternative. So as a political statement, cyberpunk works aren't all that threatening to capitalism.
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Dec 17, 2020 00:20
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Atrocious Joe posted:Cyberpunk as a genre is basically rooted in the idea that while capitalism sucks, there is no alternative. So as a political statement, cyberpunk works aren't all that threatening to capitalism. I don’t think it denies alternatives as much as it imagines that capital is (or will become) powerful enough to stomp them out
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Dec 17, 2020 00:24
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I think Gibson's Pheripheral has the most accurate prediction of where the US capitalism is going in 3 decades (redneck militant capitalism)
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Dec 17, 2020 00:31
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https://twitter.com/UberFacts/status/1335968813611962375?s=20
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Dec 17, 2020 00:42
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What are some unique Chinese oaths? Like how many Americans swear on their mother, or by god, what do Chinese folks swear by?
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Dec 17, 2020 01:58
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Deng’s Teeth!!
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Dec 17, 2020 02:10
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sincx has issued a correction as of 05:32 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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Dec 17, 2020 02:43
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THS posted:Deng’s Teeth!! lol a book I’m reading had a character say “maos balls”, when the neomaoist colony on mars gets discovered by the alien ai radar scanner. that’s why I asked.
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Dec 17, 2020 02:53
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PawParole posted:What are some unique Chinese oaths? Like how many Americans swear on their mother, or by god, what do Chinese folks swear by?
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Dec 17, 2020 03:04
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i wonder who the market for those broadway party musicals are? old people?
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Dec 17, 2020 03:06
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this seems unlikely
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Dec 17, 2020 07:05
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imagine being a regulator whose job was to watch tv and make sure nobody did any puns
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Dec 17, 2020 07:08
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Some Guy TT posted:this seems unlikely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNp1iNc4gwk&t=123s
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Dec 17, 2020 07:18
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Some Guy TT posted:this seems unlikely it's basically impossible given how the language works
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Dec 17, 2020 07:40
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they’re easily scrutable
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Dec 17, 2020 07:52
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stephenthinkpad posted:So I was watching somebody play Cyberpunk and a character made an anti capitalist rant Keanu Reevs lol. Is the writer for real or this is a dumb Fight Club Anarchist thing? johnny silverhands is the stereotypical media adventurist anarchist
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Dec 17, 2020 13:41
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cyberpunk has some critiques of capitalism but it's not socialist or anything
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Dec 17, 2020 14:07
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I think these 3 news are related and can be discussed together. 1. PWS Anderson and his wife's awful video game movie Monster Hunter include a very unfunny joke about knees and chinese in a dialogue spoken by an Asian actor. The "movie" was even funded by Tencent, why was this not cut out I will never know. The CCP got wind of the this and promptly cancel its theatrical showing. 2. A Taiwanese game Devotion included a Xi Jinping easter egg joke? Got taken down from Steam 1 years ago. It was put on GOG for like 4 hours and quickly taken down after Chinese gamer unleashed the internet fury. I don't want to sound like an apologizer but they should have changed the name of the studio and the game and regroup. 3. Asus partnered with hololive to promote a ROG related gear yesterday, since Hololive got out of China due to a vtuber anti-Chinese comments? (I refuse to get to the bottom of this because its about vtubers), Chinese vbuter fans engaged and Asus cancelled the promote after a few hours. stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 15:04 on Dec 17, 2020 |
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Dec 17, 2020 15:02
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stephenthinkpad posted:I think these 3 news are related and can be discussed together. The Hololive thing is dumb. It was over a vtuber inadvertently referring to Taiwanese users in a breakdown of viewer stats by viewing nation. Chinese netizens flipped out about it.
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Dec 17, 2020 16:03
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i don’t know what any of that stuff is
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Dec 17, 2020 16:09
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fart simpson posted:i don’t know what any of that stuff is vtubers stream entertainment to the larger internet while representing themselves as a potato wearing the anonymous mask
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Dec 17, 2020 16:11
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sincx has issued a correction as of 05:32 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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Dec 17, 2020 17:25
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:The Hololive thing is dumb. It was over a vtuber inadvertently referring to Taiwanese users in a breakdown of viewer stats by viewing nation. Chinese netizens flipped out about it. According to some chinese vtuber fans, the whole platform has been doing "passive aggressive apologies" over various incidents. I ain't going to watch some vtube video to verify it. I do think a platform (a business with actual office space and payroll) letting one of its talent/performers use "gently caress u never come back" as a way to end the relationship with an entire market is very strange. I mean you are not a solo uploader. People are going to hold this grudge against you for many years. Dspgaming's haters still gently caress with him online after so many years.
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Dec 17, 2020 17:29
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stephenthinkpad posted:According to some chinese vtuber fans, the whole platform has been doing "passive aggressive apologies" over various incidents. I ain't going to watch some vtube video to verify it. I do think a platform (a business with actual office space and payroll) letting one of its talent/performers use "gently caress u never come back" as a way to end the relationship with an entire market is very strange. The antis are horrible poo poo and most of the hate they get is specifically from china, some of the more popular girls have straight up said "You make me do a direct apology to these fuckers and I'll quit". Like one of the girls had the gal to show a video from the chinese equivalent of youtube one time and they started flaming her and sending her pictures of dead rabbits (the vtuber is a rabbit girl) The company basically decided to sever most of their reach in china because they weren't growing fast enough there and couldn't leverage the main strength of the company, which is doing collaborations with the rest of their talent. Instead the expanded to the west and they are doing significantly better.
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Dec 17, 2020 17:42
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stephenthinkpad posted:I think these 3 news are related and can be discussed together. the vtuber thing is because one of the vtubers was going over stats by location and taiwan was listed as its own separate location. They engaged and hololive decided just to pull out of china rather than sacrifice one of their talent
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Dec 17, 2020 18:02
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sincx posted:1. lol """gamers""" it's more chinese netizens, who have the thinnest skin I have ever seen for people rah-rah about their empire. It's like if there was a bi-weekly freedom fries / dixie chicks incident.
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Dec 17, 2020 18:05
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