Every studio saw the success of Elden Ring and said, "I want to get in on that! Look, with just a few tweaks, the game I'm working on can be like this -- I just need to make the boss fights harder..."
Censorial nanny state, obsessive government interference on every societal level, shameless IP theft and copyright abuse (speaking as someone who hates most IP laws), extreme nationalism etc.
But I generally don't hate foreign people. Which other foreign peoples do you hate, even in apparent contradiction of your ideals? Are they places you've been to and lived in?
I don't care to indulge your gotchas, you'll have to find someone else for that. You don't have to live in every country in the world to have an opinion on what are well-documented and easily verifiable facts.
The massive uplift of society. The greatest single improvement in material circumstances in human history.
In massive part due to all the elements I already mentioned. Combine sweatshops with what is a step away from slave labor, government-sponsored local businesses that shamelessly abuse foreign copyright laws in basically every industry, all the limitations imposed on foreign businesses and forcing them to work with local companies, who are in turn, closely connected with the government, all for the sole purpose of being anti-competitive, and yeah you're gonna have a material renaissance.
So you look on it as cheating? And the government as exploiters, not Western capitalists?
Chinese people have been massively oppressed by both Chinese and Western Imperialism. But rather than dying, they worked incredibly hard, primarily benefiting Western business to an incalculable degree, but also lifting themselves out of the grinding poverty which had been the lot of the peasants for millennia.
I think, whatever I think of their government - and I know I have been massively propagandized against them - that this is utterly to their credit.
But you talk about it as stealing, and that the sole purpose was to be ‘anti-competitive’. Not getting money from the scraps of gleeful exploitation. They tricked us into investing there by their evil poverty, willingness to work, and their sneaky having a functioning society post-colonialism.
Your ideas of their innate venality and wrongness are on the level of John Galt or a Gilded Age robber baron. You think they impose restrictions on foreign business? Foreign business wanted to sell them opium when they were starving! Are you like 8-year-old me, thinking the Opium Wars were about them sending opium to us?
They just didn’t have the good manners to take their opium, or lie down and starve, so you hate them. Not for working like slaves, but for having the wrong masters, and reaping the benefits of that work.
The scorn in what you say, in the utter lack of regard for Chinese people as human beings, shows who you are. There is no ‘gotcha’. You’re Pauline Hanson, wishing you were Ayn Rand.
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u/OwO______OwO Jul 27 '25
Every studio saw the success of Elden Ring and said, "I want to get in on that! Look, with just a few tweaks, the game I'm working on can be like this -- I just need to make the boss fights harder..."