Correct Me if I'm Wrong Here

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So, I could be narrow-minded, but wasn’t there practically riots when Blizzard suspended a player for mentioning something about Hong Kong during a live stream? Something about how Blizzard shouldn’t support the CCP in their crusade against freedom?

Hol’ up a minute though. Riot Games, who is owned by TenCent, which is mostly owned by the CCP, drops a hero shooter, and all of a sudden everyone is on the hype train for a game being released by a government that is entirely anti-freedom?

I guess I’m confused, are we boycotting the CCP as Blizzard fans still, or was that just a temporary thing to get upset about because Twitter told us to? :man_shrugging:

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this
notice how people here still play the game? yeah, not everyone got on that blind twitter hate train. the OW team wasn’t even involved in that debacle

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Ahh, so the “Free Hong Kong” Mei skin was just a “woke” moment that we collectively had, but actually had no vested interest in. Got it. xD

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BRUDDA.

people are hypocrites
Nothing surprising

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I thought you two were the same for a second!

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No people never really cared or wanted to show “real”.
If you did support that movement you would be active and voice your mind in other news platform not a video game forums of a company rofl

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I genuinely thought, Wait I commented on this thread till I read the name.

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If anything, I’m glad that I could bring two brothers together lol

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I am still waiting for a response from my brother :sob:
Also nice beard. :eyes:

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lol, my icon actually isn’t right still. I was still set on my rustclad during week two and just changed it since archives is over

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The protests are still going, it’s just that covid-19 caused some of the protests to be cancelled or lay low for a bit

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Oh, I know the protests aren’t over. They won’t be for a long time. Convenient timing on the whole COVID-19 thing. Tin Foil Hat Intensifies

Just curious as to how the community went from “Screw China, they’re authoritarian bastards!” to “Shut up and take my money China!” xD

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Just came in to say that I love this word and it makes me smile when people use it. <3

Have a good day. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I didn’t know that Winnie-the-Pooh is the CEO of Riot Games :woman_shrugging:

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Yes, once again, people used their internet rage to get it all out instead of actually doing something about it.

I know a few people who were raging about it in person but not on twitter or the forums; and they actively stopped supporting blizz and others. Imiss u lazypeon :c if you ever see this…

One of the few drawbacks to living in an information age I suppose.

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Riot Games is owned by Tencent. Tencent is pretty much just an extension of the Chinese government if you look into their operations. The government of China and massive corporate entities in China have a much different relationship than what you’re used to seeing in… “normal” countries.

So yeah, in a way Winnie-the-Pooh owns Riot Games indirectly.

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People are dumb and they are looking for something to complain about/be part of so they jump in the hatetrain, but most of them are completely harmless and would never actually do something about it, it’s just words on the internet.