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> But shortly after release, Chinese players found a poster hanging in the apartment that serves as the games’ setting that said “Xi Jinping Winnie-the-Pooh mor
by cocacola1 2y ago
> But shortly after release, Chinese players found a poster hanging in the apartment that serves as the games’ setting that said “Xi Jinping Winnie-the-Pooh moron”.
> Almost 10,000 negative reviews soon flooded the game’s review page. The developer, Red Candle Games, posted an apology saying it was “purely an accident” that the poster was left in the game.
10,000 negative reviews is wild for something so banal. I can't imagine defending a politician over what might be the mildest insult ever conceived.
- propoganda 2y agoThat’s because politicians here have lost your respect to such a degree that it’s unfathomable that you’d have any loyalty to them. It’s understandable of course, but it’s not the case everywhere. Old Russian joke about insulting Reagan in front of the kremlin etc.
- gambiting 2y ago>> that it’s unfathomable that you’d have any loyalty to them. It's unfathomable that anyone anywhere has "loyalty" to any politician. They are just doing a job - what do they need loyalty for? Especially from the electorate.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoLook, it may be unfathomable to your alien mind from outer space, but it is what it is. Human beings tend to entangle their sense of self with causes and people they care about, whether it's a politician, a singer, a sportsball player, or a spouse. You need to accept that if you want to understand humans.
- propoganda 2y agoCan only say it so many times, I suppose.
- hackernewds 2y agoGreat propaganda you have sold here, propaganda :)
- wiseowise 2y agoPolitician is just another administrative job. If you have “respect” to the point where you’re willing to destroy someone over mild insult you need to be isolated from democratic society. Obviously in this case it was most likely bot farm, but given 1,4 billion Chinese population I wouldn’t be surprised over a couple hundred million brainwashed to the point of frenzy.
- hyperman1 2y agoLooking at your username, I have no idea if this is a real comment, a shill for China, a troll, or sarcasm gone of the scales. That's an impressive amount of metagame for a sure-to-be-downmodded comment.
- dartos 2y agoA 9 hour old account too
- propoganda 2y agoGee wiz, that’s got us stumped! What are the implications there fellas??
- dartos 2y agoObviously a Chinese threat actor at work.
- macronitis 2y ago[dead]
- cocacola1 2y agoI'm loyal to nothing except the dream. https://blog.codinghorror.com/im-loyal-to-nothing-except-the-dream/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/im-loyal-to-nothing-except-the...
- TeMPOraL 2y ago> 10,000 negative reviews is wild for something so banal. I can't imagine defending a politician over what might be the mildest insult ever conceived. Imagine the poster unironically showed Trump dressed up to resemble Abraham Lincoln, and praised him as the great leader of USA. Or some such. Imagine what would happen in the reviews then.
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- patates 2y agoI strongly dislike Trump (let's keep it at that), but that is a good point. If I had discovered something like this in a game, I'd probably uninstall, perhaps mention that in my review if I have other things to say and move on. Many people would obviously do differently. However, if someone discovered something like this in a game that I own and called everyone to add bad reviews and others have been at work bashing the product... I'd probably say "meh" and not do anything. I find a line between these and while it's clear for me, I cannot put into words exactly why. Am I counting on the actions of others? Not sure. Now we have an ecosystem of very political communities online that expand into social media, games, news and even travel, and they are getting bigger. Would harsh reactions make everything better or worse? I don't know the answer but I follow my gut feeling and just ignore them.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoFWIW, the point I'm making isn't that this is reasonable behavior. Only that it's to be expected. Myself, if I saw a game insulting something or someone I'm emotionally attached to, I'd probably roll my eyes and continue or uninstall, depending on how my mood is ruined. I might think less of whoever put the insult there (or allowed it to stay), too. But many, many others would, unfortunately, voice their disdain more directly. I picked Trump as an example because, whatever you think about him, it should be easy for us in the West to imagine people going overboard in defending/dissing him too, because that has been, and is, repeatedly happening in plain sight for many years now. In this sense, it's the same reaction as 'cocacola1 is failing to understand.
- thayne 2y agoI'm doubtful most of those reviews were real.
- ben_w 2y agoOnly my belief that the Chinese government does propaganda would make me doubt any of it. One thousand British people downvoting something that mocks, say, Boris Johnson seems very plausible, even those Johnson is unpopular and the UK population is less than a tenth the size of China.
- im3w1l 2y agoThere are over a billion chinese people. 10,000 negative reviews means that ~0.001% of them felt strongly enough to leave a bad review in protest.
- vanderZwan 2y agoHow many of those reviewers actually owned the game?
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- andrepd 2y agoReview bombing is almost zero cost and standard practice nowadays every time some Internet hivemind decides they hate a game. 10,000 is actually not that much.
- cocacola1 2y agoI'm not sure the people on the receiving end feel the same way.