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#pictures of me after I try to catch up to OWL #but litchairaly all the teams are scuffed #if i watched contendies i might be better off #but Spitfire bitch I breathed

jermaimagines

i was put on this planet to make evil posts

dawnofslime

unown

unfortunately god made me a gamer so I’ll never find love

mercyofficial

https://kotaku.com/blizzard-suspends-hearthstone-player-for-hong-kong-supp-1838864961

incorrect-overwatch-quotations

Sombra: 1 universe, 9 planets, 7 seas, 7 continents, 809 islands, 204 countries, and yet I still had the unfortunate luck to meet you.

Sigma, from the other room: There are EIGHT planets-

Sombra: VIVA LA PLUTO FUCK YOU!

lemongrace

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The Hong Kong/Mei thing is incredibly brilliant on the part of the protestors.

The PRC, whenever a fictional character or symbol becomes a symbol of resistance, protest, or ridicule to its ridiculous corporate fascism, tends to respond by banning the source materiel. It banned fuckin’ Winnie the Pooh because memers kept posting pictures of Pooh side-by-side with Xi Jinping in the same poses.

So in response to Blizzard deciding to get down on all fours and open wide for the PRC, the HK protest movement responded by trying to make Mei, a Blizzard character of Chinese origin, once of the faces of their movement. Should they succeed, this is a big win-win, because then the PRC has two choices. They can lower the boom, and ban Mei and/or Overwatch from China, which would be a big deal for Blizzard.

This, of course, will weaken the PRC’s hand with other corporations or entities going forward, because if you bow to Chinese pressure but China fucks you over anyway, why bother bending the knee?

Or they can ignore it, giving a protest movement an unbanned and quasi-legitimate rallying symbol. There’s no downside.

It’s especially brilliant because the PRC fuckin’ LOVES Mei-Ling Zhou. She’s precisely the face China wants to present to the west and to the developing world; a cheerful lover of science, socially responsible, benevolent, friendly, not at all crazy evil.

These are crazy times we live in, friends.

lorthemar-therons

“every time blizzard purports to make a game about a better world, battling against an unfair status quo, or empowering marginalized people, think about this. think about the company’s real world actions when money is on the line“

frosty-the-snowgain

Billion-dollar corporation pays lip service to being woke while being willing to sell their own mothers for another rusty dime? Say it ain’t fucking so

yimones

they would give him all their heals😌

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mister-christmas

Blizzard: *won’t cut ties with China*

Fans:

coldgoldlazarus

I’m very confused, but I guess support this?

da-boy-o-kultur

Basically Blizzard banned a Hearthstone player for supporting the Hong Kong protests. They also took away the prize money he won. So gamers are now retaliating by attempting to make Mei a symbol of Hong Kong protests to get Blizzard in trouble with Chinese censors.