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| Topic | What's the best game that takes place in the Han Dynasty? |
| Fenriswolf 07/15/20 10:05:17 AM #13 | Technically all the games you mentioned are mostly set after the end of the Han Dynasty. There is also Koei's Rise of the Phoenix, which is about the founding of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang's struggles against Xiang Yu. --- Hello |
| Topic | How did China maintain to control the virus but other countries still struggling |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 2:01:27 PM #99 | ssjevot posted... I already said I don't care about America. When I wake up tomorrow if you have anything worth saying that isn't just how bad America is I will respond. But if you can't form anything beyond "China bad, but let's not talk about that because America bad too!", I don't care. And yet you spent several posts attacking me and suggesting that I'm incapable of any personal thought without being paid, LOL. Put it this way. China is a developing country, and unlike you and I and pretty much most of Gamefaqs who grew up in developed countries, they have their own unique social problems, like being to feed their vast population and getting out of abject poverty. 100 years ago foreign powers set their capital on fire, and throughout the rest of the 20th century they had several devastating famines. In comparison, modern China, while having things which judged from a Western perspective are problems, are less of issues for the average China. To them, having experiences social turmoil not seen in developed countries, having long term security and the capability to swiftly resolve social problems is preferable to having liberty, which itself is relative not absolute. --- Hello |
| Topic | How did China maintain to control the virus but other countries still struggling |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 1:51:44 PM #98 | Highwind07 posted... Unfortunately some Chinese Americans are buying into their propaganda as well because of the harassment that they have received from all of the Covid-19 and anti-Asian sentiment here in the States made them fortify their beliefs in their heritage. There's more than that. Plenty of Chinese international students, many of whom were formerly non-political or pro- West liberals, return home as ardent Chinese nationalists because of the general ignorance and polarization in the Western world against Chinese people. Western society pigeonhole them as brainwashed by default and treat them not as people, but patients needing to be cured. https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2131738/how-chinese-overseas-students-are-learning-harsh Like I said before, feel free to disagree with me and others who share my opinion, but stop trying to deny people of their agency by suggesting that they're brainwashed or paid. Many Chinese are nationalistic because the country transformed from an agrarian backwater into the economic power it is today, and seeing how 100 years ago China was pillaged by foreign powers, while modern China lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, why should they feel proud? --- Hello |
| Topic | How did China maintain to control the virus but other countries still struggling |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 1:41:07 PM #95 | Blightzkrieg posted... The fact that you think this is an excuse (particularly given how many VPNs have been blocked in China in just the past two years) is really, really pathetic I don't care. You're conflating lack of access to particular media platforms with general ignorance about the world. Like I said before, reading a few internet articles does not make you more educated about a country than people with actual living experience. The average educated person in China is actually interested in learning about the rest of the world, and plenty of people ask me questions about my experiences whenever I go there. Meanwhile you Americans have unrestricted internet access yet still believe nonsense about vaccines causing development disorders but wearing a mask to prevent the spread of coronavirus is somehow evil. --- Hello |
| Topic | How did China maintain to control the virus but other countries still struggling |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 1:35:39 PM #93 | ssjevot posted... I live in Japan, I travel to China frequently. If you post Global Times, a literal Chinese propaganda site, as a source you're a Wumao or a pawn of them. It really doesn't make much of a difference. I don't like the US, so save me your whataboutism. I don't care how shitty the US is, because I don't have family at risk of persecution there unlike China. And how does that make you more knowledgeable about China than anyone else? How many years have you actually lived in China? If you think that Western MSM never collude with with their governments when it comes to selling war and regime change *cough*NY Times*cough*, you haven't read enough. ssjevot posted... Yeah mine was as well. I like that he thinks I don't know Chinese too. I will admit my spoken Mandarin is shit, but I read and write it just fine on WeChat. But no one can actually say what they really think about a number of topics on there, that's the real communication issue. One that he just wants to gloss over and pretend isn't an issue. LMAO. Have you actually talked to the people on the streets? Whenever I go back to Beijing, people actually ask me about how life in Australia and other foreign countries are, and whether my experiences confirm or differ with what they heard on social media. The average person is quite cynical about what they heard from the media and seek to find from alternate perspectives. I can't say the same about Americans who blindly accept what CNN and Fox regurgitates to them about the rest of the world, and the buck doesn't stop with China. --- Hello |
| Topic | How did China maintain to control the virus but other countries still struggling |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 1:28:29 PM #92 | teepan95 posted... What's a Wumao? I can hazard a guess but I'd like to know whether I'm correct or not  --- Hello |
| Topic | How did China maintain to control the virus but other countries still struggling |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 12:29:02 PM #80 | Blightzkrieg posted... Can people in China even read CNN if they wanted to? Yes. Despite what you may think, many Chinese use VPNs both for employment and personal use. The biggest barrier is language, and on websites such as Zhihou, China's equivalent of Quora, they regularly translate foreign news articles and discuss events in the USA and elsewhere --- Hello |
| Topic | Are phone sex operators still a thing? |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 12:26:19 PM #11 | I read a story that some creep goes around houses claiming that they're in a car accident and need to use the phone to call an ambulance, but dials a phone sex hotline instead. --- Hello |
| Topic | How did China maintain to control the virus but other countries still struggling |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 12:25:02 PM #77 | ssjevot posted... I can't decide if it's hilarious or sad that a dying video game message board has Wumao. It's hilarious that you think people who dare to differ from orthodox Western liberal thought must be brainwashed and incapable of agency. Reading a few CNN articles on China does not make you more knowledgeable about the country than people who actually speak the language and live there. --- Hello |
| Topic | What are the biggest retcons in media history? |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 12:12:59 PM #18 | Wuhan posted... Ill start. A similar thing happened with the book 2010 Odyssey Two, which is based on the 2001 A Space Odyssey movie's continuity rather than the book's. The climax of the book took place on one of Saturn's moons but the movie took place on one of Jupiter's --- Hello |
| Topic | China increases pressure on Hong Kong, gives police sweeping new powers |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 12:04:51 PM #55 | Philoktetes posted... the PATRIOT act is to keep us safe It's hilarious that you actually believe what the US government tells you. Tell that to the victims of the legislation who were later found to be innocent and/or had their rights violated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Antoine_Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Mayfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Lindauer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Al-Arian And China imposing communism in HK? Only if, considering that the people really running the show there are property developers with good connections to billionaires running the show in mainland China. --- Hello |
| Topic | China increases pressure on Hong Kong, gives police sweeping new powers |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 11:56:16 AM #54 | Philoktetes posted... it wouldn't of come to this if the protesters had remained peaceful :/ Pretty much. They got the extradition bill withdrawn but still continued engage in violence, including teens setting people on fire for daring to argue with them, and killing a cleaner with a thrown brick. It's amazing that the HK government had been patient with them for over a year of protests, in contrast to US politicians threatening shoot to kill only a few days after George Floyd's murder. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/10/asia/hong-kong-protester-shot-intl-hnk/index.htm https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/14/five-hong-kong-teenagers-arrested-over-death-of-man-during-protestsl --- Hello |
| Topic | China increases pressure on Hong Kong, gives police sweeping new powers |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 11:52:37 AM #52 | s0nicfan posted... It gets worse literally every day. Hong Kong is completely fucked. Cool, like the powers FBI has after the Patriot Act passed. But apparently it's only bad when China does it am I right? --- Hello |
| Topic | Remember when Rare was bought up for a huge amount of money by MS, and... |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 11:50:11 AM #9 | That's just revisionism. Rare has done plenty of average games every now and then, especially on the NES. Remember the WIzards & Warriors games? --- Hello |
| Topic | How did Bungie pull that off? they left Activision prison AND TOOK Destiny IP |
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| Topic | How did China maintain to control the virus but other countries still struggling |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 11:41:46 AM #70 | monkmith posted... you're going off on random tangents here. LMAO, says the person who randomly brought up Xinjiang when I mentioned Macau's similar law. Seeing the recent US protests and the US's history of interning its own citizens, it's more of a case of glass houses. monkmith posted... second. The first source conflates rote learning, a common feature in Chinese and other East Asian high schools, with brainwashing. LMAO The second source, again citing Zenz, manipulates birth data and failed to indicate the fact that Han birth rates also declined in the same period. Ever heard of Occam's Razor? https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1193454.shtml However, they fail to mention data of the natural population growth rates of the Han-majority counties in the same period, which shows a drop from 6 per mille in 2016 to nearly zero in 2017. A small inflection appeared from 2017's nearly zero to 2.5 per mille in 2018. Huang Wenzheng, a demographic expert, told the Global Times the decline in the natural birth rate cannot simply lead to a conclusion of a so-called "birth control campaign," as many reasons, including economic development, getting more people in higher education and decreasing fertility intention, may contribute to the result. Generally, many ethnic minorities in the world have seen their birth rates decline as their economies and education improves. --- Hello |
| Topic | How did China maintain to control the virus but other countries still struggling |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 11:27:38 AM #65 | WashYourHands posted... Whataboutisms You keep using that word, I don't think you know what it means. Pointing out hypocrisy and double standards, particularly with it comes to how different countries react to the same contextual situation ie the spread of coronavirus, is not "whataboutsm". --- Hello |
| Topic | How did China maintain to control the virus but other countries still struggling |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 11:17:05 AM #60 | And not surprisingly, Trump is cool with it: https://news.yahoo.com/five-bombshells-about-trump-from-boltons-book-201739765.html Another excerpt published by the Journal deals with conversations between Trump and Xi about the construction of concentration camps for Chinas largely Muslim Uighur minority, whose loyalty to Beijing is considered suspect by the regime. At the opening dinner of the Osaka G-20 meeting in June 2019, with only interpreters present, Xi had explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang, Bolton wrote. According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do. The National Security Councils top Asia staffer, Matthew Pottinger, told me that Trump said something very similar during his November 2017 trip to China. --- Hello |
| Topic | How did China maintain to control the virus but other countries still struggling |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 11:15:43 AM #59 | monkmith posted... cool. have we done that to about 2mil of them? did we sterilize them first, make sure they couldn't breed and 'spreed their religion'? So the US MSM says so it must be true? May I remind you that much of the claim comes from Adrian Zenz, a Christian fundamentalist connected with the NED trying to provoke regime change. Why? Because Xinjiang is a critical part of China's Belt and Road Initiative https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-uyghurs-problems-claims-us-ngo-researcher/ https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/09/uygh-m09.html Furthermore, do you remember the WMDs in Iraq which led to the destabilization of the entire region? Or the testimony of Nayirah which claimed Iraqi soldiers took Kuwaiti babies out of incubators, and only later it was discovered to be a PR hoax? --- Hello |
| Topic | How did China maintain to control the virus but other countries still struggling |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 11:01:00 AM #53 | monkmith posted... i'm sorry, are you saying the FBI and CIA routinely grab american citizens for online shitposters/community activists/news reporters and ship them off to a secret prisons? because if so man i'd be worried if i were you... They just do it to Brown people and call it extraordinary rendition. Meanwhile may I remind you that autonomy still remains? Macau passed a similar law in 2009 and I'm still waiting for the mass arrests being predicted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau_national_security_law --- Hello |
| Topic | How did China maintain to control the virus but other countries still struggling |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 10:46:39 AM #49 | ssjevot posted... Neither Taiwan or Singapore shut down and they have among the best numbers around. Korea and Japan also never did mandatory lockdowns and both have very low numbers compares to the West. The truth is nothing the West legally does will matter much at this point because of cultural issues and refusal to take advice from East Asian countries early on. They started admitting masks work like a month ago in most of the West and many still doubt it. That's because Taiwan and Singapore are tiny places with easily controllable borders, and so are Korea and Japan. In contrast, China is a developing country with the world's third largest landmass plus the world's largest population. Comparing the response between China and smaller Asian countries without accounting for these factors is just ridiculous. ssjevot posted... Hirunesukidayo posted... That's a false claim. https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-03-24/taiwan-says-who-ignored-its-coronavirus-questions-at-start-of-outbreak All Taiwan asked WHO was whether COVID19 can have H2H transmissions, but since the genome wasn't mapped until mid January they can't have a definite answer. The Taiwanese government which is currently involved in a spat with the Chinese government then falsely claimed that they "warned" WHO after the crisis worsened to score political points. --- Hello |
| Topic | How did China maintain to control the virus but other countries still struggling |
| Fenriswolf 07/07/20 10:38:24 AM #47 | LMAO, it's hilarious to see Americans who can't even locate China on a map let alone speak Chinese lecturing others about China. The Chinese government's missteps were during containment of the virus (hindsight is 20/20) but once they realized the extent of the spread they spared no expenses in imposing an absolute lockdown and travel ban, plus mandatory testing and wearing of masks. China and other East Asian countries experienced SARS and other infectious diseases before, they had the prior experiences, but sadly, the West spent the critical first months from whining about "civil rights violations" to claiming that their political system automatically makes them immune, not to mention outright denials like that coronavirus is no worse than the flu. --- Hello |
| Topic | China is sterilizing Muslim Uighurs in attempt to limit their population |
| Fenriswolf 06/30/20 6:49:27 AM #123 | The_Creep_2020 posted... Well, the Chinese were indeed victims then. Just as they are now victims of their own government. Says the White man, LMAO. Do you even speak Chinese? Reading a few CNN articles does not make an expert on China more than the people who lived their for decades, LMAO. Tyranthraxus posted... The people terrorized by the British aren't the same people Mao led a hostile takeover of the government with. Those people are still there in power making life terrible for everyone in China. According to who? Most people in today's China are content, with greater social stability and wealth and lower crime rates, and millions of people lifted out of poverty. And the Chinese civil war started because the KMT regime tried to wipe out the Communists, so they fought back, and millions joined them because they're tired of a government that treat rural people like crap. You need to reread your own history books if you think that the US's road to independence wasn't built on the dead bodies of Natives and Blacks. --- Hello |
| Topic | China is sterilizing Muslim Uighurs in attempt to limit their population |
| Fenriswolf 06/30/20 2:24:08 AM #102 | garan posted... The Chinese government is proof that there is no god. Riiiight, remember the century where Western colonial powers pillaged China and encouraged local civil wars so they could sell arms to both sides? Or the time where Japan invaded and engaged in brutal massacres of civilians that even embarrassed Nazi officials in China? Of course the US history textbooks gloss over that, they don't want to depict the Chinese as victims, but as pure evil commies. --- Hello |
| Topic | China is sterilizing Muslim Uighurs in attempt to limit their population |
| Fenriswolf 06/30/20 1:49:36 AM #92 | The_Creep_2020 posted... My dear Fenriswolf, are you being facetious? It's not a religious issue, it's an ethnic issue. The mess exploded around 2009 when Uighurs engaged in race riots against Han Chinese and Hui Muslims, and after the riots ended, the Chinese government realized that their previous policy of affirmative action isn't addressing the root causes of Uighur grievances, such as unemployment due to their lack of Chinese skills. To alleviate the problem, the Chinese government is engaging in mass education campaigns, proving at risk Uighurs with Chinese language and vocational skills and lessons in secular law so they can integrate with Chinese society. While I admit that it's sometimes unnecessarily harsh, the alternative is to ignore the situation and end up like Europe, where socially neglected Muslims are confined to ghettos and end up joining ISIS. --- Hello |
| Topic | China is sterilizing Muslim Uighurs in attempt to limit their population |
| Fenriswolf 06/30/20 1:39:12 AM #86 | ThisThing posted... https://i.imgur.com/v60fY9U.png That's the idiocy you actually believe when you consume fake news https://www.shanghaidisneyresort.com/en/attractions/adventures-winnie-pooh/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=338iWj670N4 Meanwhile, the Cheetoh clown you elected is complaining about Twitter censoring him LMAO https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/28/trump-twitter-google-not-partisan-bias --- Hello |
| Topic | China is sterilizing Muslim Uighurs in attempt to limit their population |
| Fenriswolf 06/30/20 1:35:41 AM #79 | China is forcing women to be sterilised or fitted with contraceptive devices in Xinjiang in an apparent attempt to limit the population of Muslim Uighurs, according to new research. The report, by China scholar Adrian Zenz, has prompted international calls for the United Nations to investigate. Ahh yes, Adrian Zenz, the Christian fundie with zero knowledge about China on the payroll of the US intelligence https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-uyghurs-problems-claims-us-ngo-researcher/ The second study relied on flimsy media reports and speculation. It was authored by Adrian Zenz, a far-right fundamentalist Christian who opposes homosexuality and gender equality, supports scriptural spanking of children, and believes he is led by God on a mission against China. As Washington ratchets up pressure on China, Zenz has been lifted out of obscurity and transformed almost overnight into a go-to pundit on Xinjiang. He has testified before Congress, providing commentary in outlets from the Wall Street Journal to Democracy Now!, and delivering expert quotes in the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists recent China Cables report. His Twitter bio notes that he is moving across the Atlantic from his native Germany. Before Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal questioned Zenz about his religious mission, at a recent event about Xinjiang inside the US Capitol, he had received almost entirely uncritical promotion from Western media. The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, which first popularized the millions detained figure, has also been able to operate without a hint of media scrutiny. --- Hello |
| Topic | China is sterilizing Muslim Uighurs in attempt to limit their population |
| Fenriswolf 06/30/20 1:33:27 AM #76 | Those evil Chinese, how dare they tried to put a stop to Islamic terrorists who are training child soldiers and murdering Christians in Syria right now https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/03/turkistan-islamic-party-continues-to-train-children-in-syria.php  --- Hello |
| Topic | China is sterilizing Muslim Uighurs in attempt to limit their population |
| Fenriswolf 06/30/20 1:30:51 AM #75 | UnfairRepresent posted... China is probably the closet state on Earth (other than North Korea) to being evil. Come again? https://news.yahoo.com/five-bombshells-about-trump-from-boltons-book-201739765.html Another excerpt published by the Journal deals with conversations between Trump and Xi about the construction of concentration camps for Chinas largely Muslim Uighur minority, whose loyalty to Beijing is considered suspect by the regime. At the opening dinner of the Osaka G-20 meeting in June 2019, with only interpreters present, Xi had explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang, Bolton wrote. According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do. The National Security Councils top Asia staffer, Matthew Pottinger, told me that Trump said something very similar during his November 2017 trip to China. Yes China is evil for copying what the US and other Western countries did for decades, like indefinite detention of terror suspects (Abu Ghraib, Gitmo). But invading the Middle East and creating a haven for terrorists and killing 200k civilians are somehow okay because they're just Brown people and not your own, right? --- Hello |
| Topic | McDonalds is turning away black people in China |
| Fenriswolf 04/13/20 12:47:53 PM #22 | boxington posted... ^ as terrible as that is, that's one person as opposed to multiple as your post stated, and I doubt that this whole thing is a backlash for his attack. No it's mostly a grassroots Chinese nationalist things. Reminder that in 1987 there were quite a few riots in China against Africans for allegedly "stealing their women" among other things. The protesters thought the government appeased the Blacks too much and gave them excessive benefits, and quite few of the students participated in the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests. Furthermore, anti-Black racism is quite common in Asia. Japan is notorious for its hostility towards Blacks and their media regularly scapegoat them for crime and unemployment. They're considered to be bottom of the ladder unless you're some Black celebrity. --- Hello |
| Topic | McDonalds is turning away black people in China |
| Fenriswolf 04/13/20 12:43:52 PM #21 | CrazyandLazy posted...
The fact that you think ethics exist under capitalism is a joke. Flockaveli posted... The world's just gonna let shithole China be shithole China because "Muh economy" Americans like you have no business calling other countries shitholes. --- Hello |
| Topic | McDonalds is turning away black people in China |
| Fenriswolf 04/13/20 11:25:14 AM #9 | Funkydog posted... What is the likelihood that this is just propaganda their government is spreading to take blame off themselves? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8184403/Coronavirus-patient-savagely-bites-nurses-face-bid-run-away-quarantine.html Come again? --- Hello |
| Topic | McDonalds is turning away black people in China |
| Fenriswolf 04/13/20 10:40:29 AM #4 | There was a huge backlash in China against Africans after a few refused mandatory temperature checks and attacked a nurse. --- Hello |
| Topic | Were arcades a big part of your life? |
| Fenriswolf 02/09/20 5:35:26 AM #50 | Arcades died around the time I was in my youth, so most of my time were spent in internet cafes. --- Hello |
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