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.”
You don’t need to suspect you can check for yourself, modlog exists.
Just checked it myself. Turned out to be a load of Gamergate bullshit. Not surprised it got removed.
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Do you know what gamer gate refers to? It doesn’t have anything to do with gatekeeping is why I mention it.
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It was called Gamergate because of The Watergate Scandal. It was a fad for almost 40 years in US media to add “gate” to the end of whatever scandal was going on. Any gatekeeping meaning was added well after the fact
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That was a false allegation made by her ex boyfriend as revenge.
No, it’s called gamer gate because every major scandal is just called blah gate after watergate. It was not called gamer gate because of gatekeeping.
Dumb question: how do you check the modlog?
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You comments are probably not sexist, but they are likely misinformation. The comments in IGN are likely not mis-translation, since the Mandarin-spwaking community also had pretty big reactions to the comments and histories of game science. See: https://m.douban.com/note/776087909/ and https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/710811.html?amp (you can try to use google translate to read the article).
The screenshot in the IGN article, to the best of my knowledge, is correctly translated. The comments listed has as much sexual implication as the translation.
I use both Mandarin and English on a daily bases, and can translate between them pretty well. It would be great for me and others, if you can be more specific on which parts of the developer’s posts are mistranslated.
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It is in between, getting licked is the figurative speech for “unjust praises” with a hint of submission in the tone.
English also have a similar expression like “licking one’s boots”, but in Chinese it is more sexual, as it typically refers to licking something else. An alternative is “跪舔”, which means “kneel and lick”.
There are other comments in the article I linked:
That being said, I do not claim that the dev still holds this view point now. China is a rapidly developing country, and its ideology and culture can shift just as fast.
But I am very dishearten that they would mention “feminist propaganda” in their review bans. It seems like they are still not accepting of feminism.
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From my point of view, the IGN article doesn’t seem to have mistranslation, as you claim in your original article.
As for whether using clear sexual language in a professional environment is “sexism”, I think it could be up for debate.
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How are the lead graphics designers comments not sexist?
That is a good question, I know where the button is for the website (it’s in the sidebar, in my UI it’s green) but the app im using doesn’t have an obvious button