I mean you freak out over ToS, why bother breathing? If we start asking these questions we just force ourselves into endless quagmires of self-doubt and despair.
Thatâs the stupidest thing Iâve read in a long time.
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No I lol-ed at the concept of the oppressing majority that you are representing in the first place. Bottom line is be that majority or get out of itâs way, itâs the way of the world. Call it what you will, Iâll call it rationalism/realism.
We all know deep down but its still sorry to see especially when those same people were dead silent about the Amazon Rainforest, or clean water in Flint, Texas or anything else that could use more effort
A government actually condoning and trying to cover up the beating and arresting innocent civilians in the streets and you donât think thatâs oppressive?
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No need for despair. Just be disciplined, make no excuses, own your actions, basically live as a stoic thatâs all you can do. No need to put other people down.
Except those had nothing to do with Blizzard. Weâre seeing this here because it has a relation to the company.
I never said that itâs not oppressive, it just doesnât matter. They are under the government. Their government put down laws, they donât like those laws so they âfight their manâ but over their the way they handle law enforcement is much harsher. If you break laws over here you get a slap on the wrist, over there they break your legs. Thatâs them, this is us. Objectively we are better, but I donât live there, I canât say so I wonât and I wonât lose sleep over it either.
Fantastic, thanks for sharing. I can understand how you donât care about what seems so distant and doesnât really affect you here and now. Care about the present, too many things that may or may not happen in the future. You might die tomorrow and all your work and savings would have been for nothing.
China has for years already spread its influence beyond its borders. You can see it in the censorship and alterations in our entertainment such as movies and video games (this incident is an example). You can see countries compromising to deal with China. Same with businesses. It is only a matter of time that the influence will be much more apparent and direct unless there are people putting effort into fighting it. People who are outraged at Blizzard and doing something about it are trying to prevent this. You can call keyboard warriors doing nothing. But at least they are spreading the message on the internet and maybe a reader will become a fighter. The more people are aware, the more likely another person will do something about it. If you donât care, thatâs fine. Perhaps try to stay out of the way for those that do.
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Stretch any further and youâll break the line
So all of us who care about people over there or are empathetic about the Chinese government trying to overstep the original âone country two systemsâ agreement should be quiet because we make you uncomfortable or you think our protest has no power?
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And Iâm deeply disappointed in the part of the community that doesnât care about oppression, and think Activision being complicit in it is fine because they make a game they like.
They had a huge amount of latitude in how their interrupted the wording, and they decided that speaking out for your people to have rights, rights which China agreed to unambiguously in the deal they signed with the UK if what documents people have signed is what we care about, is controversial. By the standards of any decent human being, that really shouldnât be.
The human rights record of the communist regime in China is atrocious. Thatâs simply fact. If companies like Activision let them get their way and spread their influence beyond their borders where does it end? It either doesnât end, or it does. And if it does you might as well make a stand on something which is right because there will be a next time.
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Oh I would and normally it wouldnât even come up, I just saw so many people ranting about how evil Blizzard was like they were colluding with China the while time and just felt like ranting.
By the time WW3 ends the chances of China ruling the vast majority of the world are quite likely. Joss Whedon is a visionary lol
He doesnât care he says âBottom line is be that majority or get out of itâs way, itâs the way of the world. Call it what you will, Iâll call it rationalism/realismâ. Which just means he will try to side with stronger side. If he was put in the situation of the Tienanmen square massacre, he would of been one of the soldiers killing the protestors because thatâs the stronger side. I can understand his position.
Understand sure. Complacently allow to stand without challenging? No.
No you are well within your rights to support your stand and I am not, like I said earlier, entirely apathetic to the plight of the people over there. I just think that all the Blizzard hate recently has been unwarranted thatâs what this post was originally about. This was one big crap show where no one came out ahead and Blizzard chose to act in a professional manner that cost the company nothing but a loss of face, when everyone wanted them to somehow take some kind of noble moral stand because that is what a business does or is apparently supposed to do.
Otherwise please, just because I am jaded does not mean that the world does not need those who dream and fight , I have nothing against those that do I just donât like seeing undue hatred thrown out randomly when youâre trying to rally for a good cause.
Sadly not everyone has the intelligence to understand this. We live in a time where there is a lot of people like this, just look at the mess that the US is right now or the UK, and they made that mess happen due to their ignorance. We just need to let this thing run its course, I donât think anything big is going to happen because most people donât actually have the guts to do something about it, and those who do will be so few it wonât matter.
Apologies for making you feel like ranting lol.
hahaha You are forgiven. A good rant is good for the soul and a good conversation is good for the mind. 
At least youâre not one of the people trying to stop people from protesting or actually protesting against the HK protestors. Iâve met those people.
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