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The members of the American University team that held up a "Free Hong Kong" sign during a match have all just been handed 6 month bans.

Oooh, you're just adorable.

ESL and Riot are capitulating to China's demands with regard to HK, apparently.

EDIT Apparently an Overwatch for Switch launch event was also canceled. Whadya know.

I examined the carrier model in the Editor, and it is so incredibly faithful to Makato's rendition.

Blizzard finally issued a statement on the matter. In my opinion, it's full of bullshit.



In the words of Alarak:

"You lie with such conviction. It's almost admirable."

"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"

In the midst of Blizzard's ongoing silence, there are small tidbits here and there.
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Several Blizzard employees walked out and demonstrated at the Irvine campus yesterday. A friend also said they plan on demonstrating today, too.

Apparently, another Blizzard-sanctioned event elicited Hong Kong statements. The player's camera feed was almost immediately cut before the coverage ended prematurely.

Moreover, various...

I love that Mei is becoming a symbol for opposition. Unfortunately, I read her voice actor is pro-CCP.

So I've spoken with a friend of mine who works for Blizzard. They are of the mind Blizzard...

Oh, is that what made their LAN decision for them? I never realized. I never realized so many of those things were due to the Chinese market. Jeez.

EDIT

There's some discontent within Blizzard....

Yong Yea responded to the controversy:

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EDIT Oh dear, NPR is getting in on the action too.

I can and will do both, thank you very much. Good to know you're giving them a pass, though.

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

A Hearthstone player was disqualified from competitions upon voicing support for Hong Kong, and the two...

I wonder about that. It's stated that Terrazine is a gas that comes from the Void, so I'd think its composition would be homogenous regardless of its origins. Of course, it could have some...

Potentially. Also keep in mind the Chain of Ascension, which would retroactively explain Nyon's force's continued loyalty to him. These Tal'Darim may have even been "exiled" from the main body,...

Dude, we were given the "reason": Alarak stated that Nyon had gone insane from harvesting terrazine. The writers didn't consider from the outset the overarching story where the Tal'Darim were...

*shrug* I just assumed it was the same material as the Keystone, and was likewise a type of programmable matter whose true form was in some implicate order or quantum non-local hidden variables; or...

I mean, Misla's probably right in this instance. The Tal'Darim of WoL act against the wishes of Narud in WoL, then are suddenly his servants in HotS, and are completely transformed in LotV into...

Alarak explained it (read: retconned) that Executor Nyon and his forces were sent to harvest terrazine, and were driven insane by it. So apparently they cut ties with the main Tal'darim body and went...

From what I've been able to gather, the protoss have an empathic, communal link that exists at an instinctual level; it's probably an autonomic process. Amon wanted to use this as his means of...

A brief digression from the current discussion, but I totally forgot about the high detail mission screen depicting Zeratul with a pair of stalkers. Considering the metal and proportions (their heads...

Zeratul's death isn't entirely unique. The one other disintegration-in-death I know of was Ma'lash's death at the hands out Alarak. Perhaps having their bodies infused with so much corrupted void...

We're discussing it because the opening cinematic depicts a zealot's body collapsing to the ground while blue energy erupts from his body. You can see the zealot fall to his knees and slump to the...

Actually, Sandwich, I really like that idea. It would explain why Lasarra died a bloody death, but Templar combust. If there is a physiological component to psionics, it could be a response to...

The only thing I can think of is a parallel with the God Emperor of 40K. Though his body is dead, his mentality and psychic power are confined to his body by the Golden Throne. Perhaps the Ihan Rii...

Huh.



What!? They didn't EXIST until the second great war! D:

I'm sorry, but the Golden Age skin set is probably the single laziest reskin set I've ever seen...