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Black Myth: Wukong Devs Told Streamers to Avoid Politics in Their Playthroughs. It Backfired (www.wired.com)

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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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[+] [email protected] -70 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I have yet to watch a video where anything mentioned in this "article" was brought up. The only place I have seen any of this is on Lemmy (and I would assume other social media if I used it), and I saw people questioning if this list of topics even went out to anyone.

This article seems like more "both sides" story telling trying to get clicks from the "woke" pitchfork brigade trying to find more things to clutch their pearls about.

Edit - Just to make my position clear. I 100% believe that the accusations against those in charge at Game Science, and since I do not easily separate the art from the artist I have not bought the game. My comments above were in regards to this click bait article bringing nothing new and taking a "both sides" approach to a topic that was thoroughly covered over a week ago when the game released. As an article like this that is void of details, and adds nothing new to the discourse, is posted for the sole purpose of getting clicks from the upset toxic anti-woke crowd. I have also yet to watch a video where any of this has even gotten a mention beyond an acknowledgement from one creator that there was a "controversy" surrounding the game. I have also not seen a US content creator who got an early access copy, so none of them would have gotten this "do/don't" list to begin with. I have also not read any reporting on if this actually went to everyone from the studio itself, or if whatever PR company was handling each region for release was the one creating/sending out this list.

If anyone actually cares, the IGN article actually covered the issues with this studio and the culture of China as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Woke pitchfork brigade

Nothing you say is ever worth paying attention to if you use phrases like this

give the document a read yourself

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1aKlZvxWxbPOzldSUdc6CaHmoy80Fl7W_wQt-Ex-vl0k/mobilebasic?pli=1

Published by https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YVuo-oqw2EU

https://videogames.si.com/news/black-myth-wukong-streamers-feminist-propaganda

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the additional sources! And for the discipline.

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 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. 😬

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All of what you said is true, and I mildly regret giving the video series a chance, NGL. Also, that last bit doesn't really jive with totalitarian states like PRC's China. 😶

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Huh? What do you mean about the last bit

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.

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