Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer

Post by jiggawatts » Wed, Oct 09, 2019, 9:05 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #46

ddtaylor wrote: post #15

As much as I want to think change will happen, it's much more likely this will be a few weeks of PR and ultimately nothing will change. For something to change people have to vote with their wallets. In this context that means cancelling subscriptions or dropping games they are already playing in favor for ones by competitors with better integrity, and I don't see that happening. Diablo players could go to Path of Ex…

A common albeit reductive meme around the entire controversy is that Blizzard games were already declining in popularity (especially Starcraft and HotS) so it's easy to boycott them. Path of Exile is an interesting case as I know a lot of Diablo players went there since Diablo III is effectively on life support (including myself), but the resurfacing of the Tencent ownership news is causing ethical complications: htt…

Post by _bxg1 » Wed, Oct 09, 2019, 9:06 PM UTC

pvg wrote: post #82

_bxg1 wrote: post #56

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Historically communist countries have been pretty fascist, but communism itself (in theory) is about workers' rights and the elevation of the little people. I don't know how genuine Mao was about those ideals, but Xi is dropping all pretense by intentionally targeting labor movements. So he shouldn't even get to hide behind a flawed idealism. He has no idealism except power.

You're just ascribing the negative aspects of communism-as-realized to fascism but this seems trivially ahistorical. The internecine conflicts in communist states were much more pronounced than in the fascist ones, perhaps in part because communism was always a more complex and developed movement ideologically.

Post by lilyball » Wed, Oct 09, 2019, 9:09 PM UTC

kop316 wrote: post #66

procinct wrote: post #62

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Source on Apple giving iCloud keys to China?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351 They allow a Chinese company to manage iCloud data.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 09, 2019, 9:11 PM UTC

dvtrn wrote: post #79

chrisweekly wrote: post #57

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(replying on behalf of gp) Of course such clues exist; it's unlikely s/he was personally confused. Which has zero bearing on the quality of the title. The fact that it _requires_ parsing and reliance on clues indicates poor word choice. Synonyms abound, and better ones would have made for a much better title.

"Staging a walkout" seems like a phrase that, unless one is an ESL speaker or otherwise don’t speak the language you'd have to be actively and conscientiously misinterpreting when reading the title in whole. But point taken...I suppose.

Post by jcims » Wed, Oct 09, 2019, 9:13 PM UTC

dvtrn wrote: post #42

jcims wrote: post #32

I know it's the original but this title is turrible. 'Staged' - usually means faked 'Protest Banned Pro-Hong King Gamer' reads like they are protesting the gamer

Synonyms and context clues exist, you know.