Only a few bites because people, understandably, aren't biting that headline.

Share a screenshot of the article instead and they'll be all over it.

You know both telephone and internal combustion engine well enough to do that?

I'd fail without Wikipedia to check the facts.

Could you add the US to the graphs, as EU and West are hardly synonymous - even as it descends into Trumpgardia.

In the US the barrier to firing workers is much lower than in other countries. Even layoffs for purely arbitrary or personal reasons are easy and hard to challenge in courts. This is one of the reasons companies have little free capital and choose to lay off many workers as soon as the market looks to be turning. But it also has positive economic impacts as well. That said, EA are a bunch of greedy cunts, and I try never to buy anything new from them anymore (just buying used where they don't get a cut, if they released any games worth owning).

If there're family in the PRC, they could certainly be on the hook if you're spotted at events Beijing deems sensitive (things to do with Taiwan, Xinjiang, Tibet, the '89 Massacres, 66-77, etc.)

I'd also reckon that your family grew up either with direct experience of, or in the spectre of, the Cultural Revolution. The psychic damage of that can not be understated.

It' s also that the social contract in China is very different to that of the US and Anglophone/European culture countries.

There are valid, logical, reasons for your family's point of view. But it is also a viewpoint that is willing to tolerate a bad society in order for an adequate life personally.

The blockade power stations and airfield quite often.

But those ones barely make news, let alone front page news.

Also major motorways outside a large city is much more like marching your protestors down main street in Birmingham, US or marching on a capital city, getting those city centre shut down for Blacks and Whites alike than sitting in a Blacks only eatery.

I agree with your last paragraph fully.

I'd also say Anarchism is more a process than an end goal.

Ironically in the 19th centuries Europeans were all clamouring to have definitive proof that Homo Sapiens evolved within their borders to prove that they were the greatest and most fully evolved humans.

Out of Africa had to work pretty hard to become accepted.

And is very much based on skeletal records.

We acknowledge that the game is a work of fiction. Historical fiction, but fiction none-the-less.

If every fifth character is also black, I think there is a point that can be made about verisimilitude and taking liberties; but since we know he really existed and that there has been debate on what he did, having a work of fiction that portrays him as a samurai under Nobunga doesn't seem unreasonable.

To compare, we know that Leonardo Di Vinci didn't hand out guns to people or build functional flying machines - but we know he designed all sorts of stuff ahead of its time, so it kinda fits in a fictional story with him in.

But only one of those seems to draw huge amounts of complaints online... And it's actually the less historically accurate one.

There is a baseline of quality that is hard for a plucky individual to match outside of mono-medium media.

While it is possible for good video games to be produced by a single indivudal or very small team, it is a lot of work on their part and hard to do if worried about paying for food, rent, etc.

Filmic media (is there a good noun that joins movies and fiction TV shows as a unified object?), a solid level of difficulty above that.

Still not giving screen time to my favourite stemmy brassica: asparagus lettuce/莴笋.

Or is it the state just protecting and strengthening itself while using language to pretend it is on the side of the people?

The state will never execute, or legislate, our way to a better society.