Blizzard go full Neville Chamberlain

Winckle wrote:Right, Karl and I are going to lock this thread after China have offered us a generous amount of money to help with hosting costs.

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

Interesting to see Nike taking part in backing censorship.

"Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything".

Presumably the something they believe in is the same something as the other companies on the list.

Balladeer wrote:Presumably the something they believe in is the same something as the other companies on the list.

Or "even if it means sacrificing everything" doesn't mean an actual financial cost.

I'm sorry to have to tell everyone, but Trelliz has decided to leave GRcade permanently.

Winckle wrote:I'm sorry to have to tell everyone, but Trelliz has decided to leave GRcade permanently.

Seems fair. Got to protect the forum’s mon- I mean appearance.

I have received funds via wire transfer, I don't even know what currency china uses but that's probably enough zeros.

Goodbye forever

Yuan count your social score.

It's weird that I have no memory or knowledge of that in my brain. It's probably because globalisation refers to sodding everything in US dollars, including Chinese investments overseas - which is the most we generally hear about it.

Counting the zeroes: yuan two three four...

(Also renminbi which I think is another name for the same thing.)

Green Gecko wrote:I have received funds via wire transfer, I don't even know what currency china uses but that's probably enough zeros.

Goodbye forever

Bye, are you by any chance going to live in one of those awesome copycat towns they seem to love building? The English village towns they have look pretty great

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Peter Crisp wrote:
Green Gecko wrote:I have received funds via wire transfer, I don't even know what currency china uses but that's probably enough zeros.

Goodbye forever

Bye, are you by any chance going to live in one of those awesome copycat towns they seem to love building? The English village towns they have look pretty great .

Look out for the horrible geese.

Trelliz wrote:

I am deducting 100 social credit points for this post.

Balladeer wrote:
Peter Crisp wrote:
Green Gecko wrote:I have received funds via wire transfer, I don't even know what currency china uses but that's probably enough zeros.

Goodbye forever

Bye, are you by any chance going to live in one of those awesome copycat towns they seem to love building? The English village towns they have look pretty great .

Look out for the horrible geese.

To be fair if that's the worst crime the village suffers from then I think we'd all be fine with an angry goose.

Peter Crisp wrote:
Balladeer wrote:
Peter Crisp wrote:
Green Gecko wrote:I have received funds via wire transfer, I don't even know what currency china uses but that's probably enough zeros.

Goodbye forever

Bye, are you by any chance going to live in one of those awesome copycat towns they seem to love building? The English village towns they have look pretty great .

Look out for the horrible geese.

To be fair if that's the worst crime the village suffers from then I think we'd all be fine with an angry goose.

Plus I bet the goose would be delicious in pancakes.

Balladeer wrote:Counting the zeroes: yuan two three four...

(Also renminbi which I think is another name for the same thing.)

Ah that's it, I watch quite a lot of Chinese films/TV and they basically say "wan", or at least that's what my dumfuck imperial English ears here.

So, send m0ar wan please.

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Talking about Hong Kong on Blizzards forums will now get you a 1000 year ban...

I guess this is what happens when you do billions of dollars of business as part of a global enterprise in authoritarian quasi-communist state.

Jenuall wrote:
Tafdolphin wrote:
Cheeky Devlin wrote:Qikz has been awfully quiet about all this.

Would be interesting to see his take on things due to his Starcraft casting.

I honestly wouldn't blame him for not expressing an opinion given, you know, what happened to the other guy.

Peter Crisp wrote:Why the hell are Blizzard doing this?
Surely they can do what pretty much every other company ever has done and simply say "The views of our players or staff members playing the game don't necessarily represent those of Blizzard itself!" and boom, problem solved.

The times, they are a-changing.

https://futurism.com/china-hong-kong-ce ... sts-tiktok

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/09/nba-sho ... -cruz.html

https://gamedaily.biz/article/626/horro ... xi-jinping

twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1181974464516374528

Update on the Apple entry from that tweet list - they did let the app in to the appstore, but then they banned it again:

Apple removes app used in Hong Kong protests after pressure from China

Apple has removed HKmap.live, a crowdsourced mapping app widely used by Hong Kong residents, from the App Store. The app and accompanying web service has been used to mark the locations of police and inform about street closures during the ongoing pro-democracy protests that have engulfed Hong Kong this year.

I saw a tweet earlier that basically said “Apple would have removed an app keeping Anne Frank safe from its App Store if it protected their market share in Germany”.

Rightey wrote:Talking about Hong Kong on Blizzards forums will not get you a 1000 year ban...

I would deliberately make myself immortal, wait 1000 years and then post “strawberry float you” just out of spite.

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