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The Chinese studio granted early access on the condition that topics like “feminist propaganda” and “Covid-19” go unmentioned. What followed is the Streisand effect in full force.

“I feel that it only served to bring more attention on Game Science’s culture of sexism,” linktothepabst says. “All they had to do was let the game speak for itself, but it came off, to me, like an own goal, effectively stoking the flames between the people who were using this game as weapon against ‘wokeness in games’ and those who can level-headedly either enjoy the game and criticize GS or just ignore the game altogether.”

It’s the Streisand effect in full force: Try to hide something, and it becomes all the more visible. “Nobody was going to bring up Chinese politics unprompted,” Zhong says, “but the topic was there as soon as they released those guidelines.”

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[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 121 points 4 months ago (3 children)

China has a weird approach to misogyny. Women are both empowered and belittled, and it's all over the media. Anybody who's read the three body problem trilogy (especially book 3) can attest to this.

[–] Glemek@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Especially book 3?? I stopped reading after the second because it was too much, it gets worse? wtf

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, so much worse, directed at both men for not being manly enough and women for being... well, not manly men.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I wrote off the novel when the author said that the Chinese people weren't ready for democracy

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[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The video series tried so hard to downplay that aspect of the books, but it felt like their overall plan was to plaster over & repaint the stains... until the whole thing was rotted through and the mask just slid right off. 😬

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago (13 children)

Don't bother with video series.

Read the content to enjoy what value exists, and criticize what issues exist. Reading is not voting or aligning, it's observing.

[–] Cagi@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I agree, but with a caveat. Pirate things from people who publicly espouse shitty views. Purchasing it is justifying it. JK Rowling has explicitly said she feels more empowered to be awful because people keep buying Harry Potter stuff.

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Fandom is endorsement; the HP IP has become a huge anti-trans flag.

Every time people invoke it, they wave that flag some more, and mark it as an acceptable thing to stand under.

Let it die, both financially and culturally.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

We're talking about pirating books? Nah, go to a library. They need the numbers to get funding.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago
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[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I read the whole series and somehow missed this, I did chalk up a lot of things to "must be a chinese cultural thing", like the whole idea of all nations actually working together or globally banning "escapism" and just suspended my disbelief, so maybe I glossed over that bit as well. Is there a good article that dives into this?

E: Found this article, that goes into it as well as other issues, well worth a read

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 42 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think they're doing this on purpose at this point. Wielding Streisand effect to the fullest of its potential to promote their game.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It backfired at that with me. I had my guard up when it popped up on my Steam queue, so even though I was curious about the game, it was a let's see that it's about and then move on for me.

In addition to the ccp stuff, it uses denuvo, so I wouldn't have bought it anyways, so maybe it didn't make that much of a difference. Though who knows, maybe I only noticed that because my guard was up; sometimes I forget to check.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Such a weird move to be like "we've picked a side in the culture wars, by the way don't talk politics about us"

[–] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There are two genders: male and political.

To people who want the status quo to exist forever (spoiler alert: it won't), anything other than strict conformity to the status quo is political. But that conformity, itself, is not a political position, because it is 'normal'.

They pick a side, then they pretend it's not even a side at all.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Also straight and political, white and political, etc.

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[–] Juigi@lemm.ee 24 points 3 months ago

CCP brainrot goes deep

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