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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        Oh, sweetie. Gargling whatever your owners throw at you doesn’t make you gay, and your sloppy attempt to imply homophobic intent seems on-brand for your flaccid routine here. Do you even know what an original thought is, after having so much of your rhetoric unloaded deep inside you? 🤪

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          OK, let’s go with this, then. “He’s undeniably right as per my lack of addressing anything he says, but fighting misinformation is obviously something only a slave does. Heh, checkmate <2012 facebook emoji>”

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          I would like to thank everyone in this comment thread for making me suicidally depressed. Good job dipshits.

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            Don’t be such a gay homophobic libtard chud.

            I read that entire thread and it looked normal to me.

            Also, by the time you read this I will have already dropped a toaster into my bathtub.

            Which may, or may not, be related to that totally fine comment thread.