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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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[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 123 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 months ago

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. 😬

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

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. 😶

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Huh? What do you mean about the last bit

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Reading is not voting or aligning

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh, well, fuckem, why would I consider them?

I don't think about totalitarian states at all, outside of specific conversations about em

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Because, that's where the author is from? 😶

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

That's fair but my original comment in thread was my personal opinion on consuming written content.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm not sure you're grasping the weight of the fact that such a work of post-hunanism fiction even made it out of China at all, given the government's centuries-long tradition of heavily-filtering "art" in every form...

(edit: I'm leaving the misspelling in for the stupid pun.)

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

No, I agree, that's of interest. But my comment was my opinion about how the rest of us can consume written media.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago

Oh, I didn't know that you were excluding 1.4B people in the general statement. My bad. 😅

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Obviously as a western commenter, sharing my own opinion on media consumption, I'm only speaking to the sphere of ... Reality, which I inhabit.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 months ago

There's so much to unpack there. 😅

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Who cares?

Like I didn't think of the Taliban when I wrote it either.

Shared my opinion for the world I live in.

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