Warcraft-Roko

I’ve re-subscribed.

[daredeviil]

ICE made a decision to order all international students whose universities are online to leave the country or risk facing immigration consequences and getting deported which essentially means that students will have to decide between leaving the US or risk their health. many countries don’t even have their borders open and some people may not even have places to go so please sign this petition which requests that international students get the option to finish their degrees and remain in the USA

[sammyblep]

this is an official whitehouse.gov petition - americans, PLEASE sign this and don't let our country's obsession with deportation ruin even more lives

[hyrude]

itch.io is offering a 743-game bundle including night in the woods, oxenfree, and overland, for as little as $5! just skimming the list, i also see tons of lgbt+ and poc-centric games available. 100% of contributions go to NAACP legal defense and educational fund and community bail fund. if there’s a game you were already thinking of buying, spend that money here instead and get an extra 742 as a gift! 

[heartsings77]

[warcraft-roko]

I’ve been raiding Icecrown for awhile, enough on my priest that I’m pretty sure I have most, if not all the cloth transmogs. However, I finally got this guy after I helped my sister run a Northrend dungeon, and she was like: Aight I don’t need you anymore.

So I was like: well, I haven’t raided Icecrown yet... so let’s just go ahead and do it.

I literally got nothing for my character, no transmogs whatsoever. Plus, she’s lvl 103 and for some reason Icecrown was HARD. Like I almost died fighting one of the abominations. By the time I got to the Lich King, I was like: “Yep, probs gonna die.” But I didn’t... and I still didn’t get a transmog... but I got this handy dandy mount, so I got that going for me.

[warcraft-roko]

Can y’all guess what this has to do with WoW?

[warcraft-roko]

Blizzard very poorly tries to rectify the situation

https://i.redd.it/fh2yha6fn0s31.png

[warcraft-roko]

Update: The mods at r/Blizzard had received incorrect information. The poster of the Blizzard-China flag had removed it, because they felt disgusted at the profit Reddit got from it and that it was being used for profit on T-shirts and mugs. I removed the post out of respect for the creator of the photo.

[pigeoncovenist]

fuck you blizzard 

[new-bitch-who-dis]

Blizzards official statement for western audiences vs. its official statement for its chinese audience.

Keep in mind that Blizzard is an American company.

[harmonicstupidity]

Welcome to Eorzea, WoW refugees.

[firstborn-of-akatosh-deactivate]

Not to be an overly political conspiracy theorist on main, but to kinda give people a scope of how all this shit ties together and exactly how gross it is. Tencent owns stocks in both Reddit and Blizzard, and closely works with the Chinese government to monitor citizens online activities in China (and sanction them because of it). This isn’t ‘just’ Blizzard acting on their own volition to punish someone for breaking a rule, whatever their press release says. I know I still have a few followers who grudgingly support Blizzard, even I do from time to time, but this is literally a US company getting it’s arm twisted by the Chinese government to hush up the extreme brutality the police are inflicting on the citizens of Hong Kong. Don’t let them shut this down and just ignore it. I don’t care how much you like Warcraft or Overwatch, heads need to roll over this.

You guys know how much I hate dragging real life geo-politics and depressing shit into my blog that is 99% dumb, light hearted video game lore and cute lizard pictures, so you know it’s gotta be pretty damn bad when I feel morally obligated to post about it. If y’all can get this news circulating in Blizzard-related communities that would be super. I know we’re all tired and anxious and just want to enjoy our video games but this is bigger than “don’t you people haves phones” and other dumb but ultimately harmless shit they’ve said. This sets a truly dangerous precedent and it can’t be allowed to stand.

[catchymemes]

[maximumslap]

by @Frocharocha/Reddit

So people have been trying to make Mei a Hong Kong resistance icon.

edit: the author has endorsed sharing and reposting in this Imgur post. edit 2: and now on reddit.

[Image description: poster with flat black background; flat white graphic chibi depiction of Overwatch character Mei waving the flag of Hong Kong with joyful smile; top writing in gray: “Mei is fighting for her rights”; bottom writing in white: “But she can’t do it alone”; bottom hashtag in red and white: “liberate hong kong”]

[proxysart-retired]

The world is worth fighting for 🌍✊

[bastarte]

Mei stands with Hong Kong

[selephi]

“Our world is worth fighting for” -Mei

[troutpopulation]

THE WORLD IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR

[the-roko-sims]

I don’t know how many of y’all know about what’s happening with Blizzard, but they overreacted to a player voicing pro-Hong Kong sentiments during a post-game interview. They banned him from Hearthstone championships and removed his prize money, and from what I have heard, fired the two people interviewing him.

Freedom of speech is a precious right. Blizzard, an American company, has shown they’re not willing to defend it.