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That's not it, but it'd be pretty effective to paint the other side as ridiculous with an incomplete picture. Check who wrote this piece. My best guess is Winn

by xfs 8y ago

That's not it, but it'd be pretty effective to paint the other side as ridiculous with an incomplete picture. Check who wrote this piece. My best guess is Winnie the Pooh was a hint that prompted people to look for more political innuendos, which they found plenty, mostly consisting of ethnic slurs at the mainlanders that mapped exactly to IRL Taiwanese slurs against the Chinese. This game was praised with a passion in China for its quality but people felt betrayed when they found out they are being played.

duxup 8y ago
So is that other content you're talking about actually in there?
- xfs 8y ago
  I found this link from r/Games to be more informative https://www.spieltimes.com/news/xi-jinping-winnie-the-pooh-moron-found-in-devotion-game-is-being-review-bombed-by-chinese-players/ https://www.spieltimes.com/news/xi-jinping-winnie-the-pooh-m... Again, much cultural context is lost in presenting this issue as merely censoring Winnie the Pooh. Remember, the Winnie the Pooh meme was invented by Chinese netizens to mock Xi. They continue to do so, but things stop being fun and games when the meme is used to mock themselves.
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JohnJamesRambo 8y ago
Nope it could be just that. There’s a lot of weirdness in China about Winnie the Pooh because the dictator in charge there is sensitive about his physical resemblance to the character. You can google it and find lots of articles about it.
- arthurcolle 8y ago
  https://www.google.com/search?q=winnie+the+pooh+xi+jinping&oq=winnie+the+pooh+xi+jinping&aqs=chrome..69i57.4304j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=winnie+the+pooh+xi+jinping&o... Really not seeing any resemblance... ?
  - JohnJamesRambo 8y ago
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/china-bans-winnie-the-pooh-film-to-stop-comparisons-to-president-xi https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/china-bans-win...
jojojojos 8y ago
Taiwanese here, I can tell you it's mostly just that - they make fun of Xi's appearance. But since the joke and the term "Winnie the Pooh" is entirely blocked in China, which is totally absurd, it becomes a meta joke about China's twisted policy, implicitly.

by xfs 8y ago

duxup 8y ago

So is that other content you're talking about actually in there?

xfs 8y ago
I found this link from r/Games to be more informative https://www.spieltimes.com/news/xi-jinping-winnie-the-pooh-moron-found-in-devotion-game-is-being-review-bombed-by-chinese-players/ https://www.spieltimes.com/news/xi-jinping-winnie-the-pooh-m... Again, much cultural context is lost in presenting this issue as merely censoring Winnie the Pooh. Remember, the Winnie the Pooh meme was invented by Chinese netizens to mock Xi. They continue to do so, but things stop being fun and games when the meme is used to mock themselves.
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JohnJamesRambo 8y ago

Nope it could be just that. There’s a lot of weirdness in China about Winnie the Pooh because the dictator in charge there is sensitive about his physical resemblance to the character. You can google it and find lots of articles about it.

arthurcolle 8y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=winnie+the+pooh+xi+jinping&oq=winnie+the+pooh+xi+jinping&aqs=chrome..69i57.4304j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=winnie+the+pooh+xi+jinping&o... Really not seeing any resemblance... ?
- JohnJamesRambo 8y ago
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/china-bans-winnie-the-pooh-film-to-stop-comparisons-to-president-xi https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/china-bans-win...

jojojojos 8y ago

Taiwanese here, I can tell you it's mostly just that - they make fun of Xi's appearance. But since the joke and the term "Winnie the Pooh" is entirely blocked in China, which is totally absurd, it becomes a meta joke about China's twisted policy, implicitly.