I wonder what the boots of a bootlicker taste like.. some here might be able to tell.
Blizzard did the right thing. Games are games not political party.
First of all, Hong Kong's extradition bill was not quashed. Carrie Lam put it on hold in the hopes of sneaking it in later.
Secondly, the Hong Kong protesters have five demands, and here is why these demands are being made:
1. The complete withdrawal of the extradition bill - As mentioned before, Carrie Lam did not withdraw the bill. The bill is controversial because it allows Taiwan, Macau and China to request the extradition of any Hong Kong citizen to face trial in the mainland. It was originally introduced because someone last year murdered their pregnant girlfriend in Taiwan, flew back to Hong Kong, admitted to his crime but was unable to be extradited to face trial in Taiwan because they didn't have a formal extradition treaty with Hong Kong. This bill has many dangers, like China being able to request the extradition of Hong Kong citizens to face trial in China. Given China's free speech and human rights record, that's very scary indeed.
2. The government to withdraw the use of the word “riot” in relation to protests - The protesters are being labelled as rioters by the government and authorities and this is being used to justify suppression by force.
3. The unconditional release of arrested protesters and charges against them dropped - A lot of protesters have been arrested and charged by the Hong Kong police for rioting related offences.
4. An independent inquiry into police behaviour - This should go without saying. There have been documented cases of police brutality which has ignited the anger of the Hong Kong public.
5. Implementation of genuine universal suffrage - Not only do the public want Carrie Lam to resign, but they want completely free elections. Several years ago, China interfered with their last election and disqualified candidates they did not like from running.
Yes, yes it is, look it up yourself. That is netease. They are required to run blizzard china media team. As china doesn't like foreginers sending direct messages to their people... That's why they even have their own version of twitter
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They also make their own games. Tournaments. And partner with MANY other companies like Bungie when they gave them 100 million. They are also the ones making Diablo immortal
Much like Blizzard, Lam's government consistently did too little, too late - the 'extradition bill' was introduced in February, with the first protest at the end of March; protests hit a peak in the first half of June, with protesters listing demands that included, but were not limited, to the withdrawal of the extradition bill. (Full demands are: the total withdrawal of the extradition bill, the retraction of all references to the 12 June protest being a riot, the release of all arrested protesters; and accountability for police officers who used excessive force.) In July Lam declared the bill "dead" but still refused to withdraw it, and in September, she announced that the bill would be withdrawn in October and dismissed the protesters other demands. It has since emerged that Lam had to get Winne the Pooh's okay before withdrawing the extradition bill, which rather proves the protesters ultimate point: the PRC is not honoring its commitment to a half-century of non-interference with Hong Kong's internal government (and sets a bad precedent for the China - what other formal commitments will President Pooh be violating in years to come?)
"In today’s America, conservatives who actually want to conserve are as rare as liberals who actually want to liberate. The once-significant language of an earlier era has had the meaning sucked right out of it, the better to serve as camouflage for a kleptocratic feeding frenzy in which both establishment parties participate with equal abandon" (Taking a break from the criminal, incompetent liars at the NSA, to bring you the above political observation, from The Archdruid Report.)
You've failed me yet again Starscream.
1. yes the bill was too broad, but it is a messy situation on the status of Taiwan. Apparently China can't or won't recognize Taiwan (forget which), but in the end something needs to be done on a more limited sense, you can't just let a murder roam free but you also can't leave the citizens of Hong Kong open to persecution like that from China.
2.Not all the protesters were peaceful, some of what was going on could definitely be labeled rioting, which leads into
3. Not all arrested protesters were innocent of crimes, unconditional release is just a silly thing to ask for.
4. is definitely something anyone can agree with, police everywhere should always be held to a standard and if they overstep that it should be looked into, independently. This goes for every country, especially America right now.
5. Is just a bit much to ask, I know why they want it, and support their Ideal, but it'll never happen.
"In today’s America, conservatives who actually want to conserve are as rare as liberals who actually want to liberate. The once-significant language of an earlier era has had the meaning sucked right out of it, the better to serve as camouflage for a kleptocratic feeding frenzy in which both establishment parties participate with equal abandon" (Taking a break from the criminal, incompetent liars at the NSA, to bring you the above political observation, from The Archdruid Report.)
I love this, the dude in twitter isn't saying anything other than "this looks suspicous" and suddenly he is linguistics expert. People answered to that tweet "I'm also billingual and I agree with this". This is literally only real argument they have but for some reason news outlets are picking every single thing without actual checking the facts.
edit. The best part about this is that the february post that people are referring to is post about the layoff which is most likely written by someone not named Barack since its 100% corp speech aimed at employees while the new one is aimed more towards the gamers.
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Never got the under the radar now thing.
For a company whose playerbase would be at their peak during the weekends this is the worst time to put it under the rader. When there's no 8.3 update, no gaming news in general to come out. It's like the last thing that will be posted on MMOchampion frontpage for 2-3 days, stuck there for everyone to see front and centre when they log in.
If it is some "Trying to avoid media." well I don't think anyone in america thinks media runs 9-5 mon to friday. It's a 24/7 brigade that in reality needs to cut down in hours because of all the useless shit the 24/7 news media runs because they need to fill in the dead hours so sensationalise.
If they wanted under the rader it would be midweek when they're about to flood about 5 pages of new information.
They didn't even acknowledge the Weibo post. That's some next level under the rug shit. Fuck them.
Why are people so upset over King Kong... He is an angry gorilla?
This is no different than the NFL and Kurt Kaptain or whatever his name is. Its their league, their game, etc. They can do whatever the fuck they want. Frankly I don't give a shit about politics within a sport/game/etc. Keep that shit on your twitter or blog.
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