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  • ultraviolet [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Good luck avoiding Chinese products when western capital has offshored basically all manufacturing to China

    • Anemasta [any]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, if you're boycotting Xiaomi by buying an iPhone, your phone has probably been made on the same plant in China.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Someone should make /r/buychineseproducts as a counter subreddit and just fill it with fantastic promotional material and beautiful images of Chinese landscapes and cities everyday.

    Pretend it's a satire subreddit of blatant open propaganda. Keep pretending it's a satire subreddit until it's massive. Every satire subreddit on reddit does fantastically well and then stops being satire later down the line as people buy into it unironically.

  • CredibleBattery [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    these people are nothing but massive racists who have ''evolved'' so to say; instead of seeing a Chinese person/thing and calling it a slur, they just bring up the Uyghurs/Tiananmen Square/Free tibet with the purchase of an East Turkistan

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    lmao they made an entire subreddit? Good luck with your crusade. All that talk about TikTok being a Chinese spy tool and it's still one of the most popular apps.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It's psychologically manipulative and exploits its players with a lot of refined and perfected monetization tactics.

        The player base, consequently, doesn't just dish out a lot of money for it, but also gets really defensive if the waifu treats are criticized. In fact by saying this here, I am likely to get one (or more) treats defenders really upset and weird about it, like when I criticized a similarly exploitative (but even greedier) eternal alpha tech demo called Star Citizen.

        • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          but also gets really defensive if the waifu treats are criticized. In fact by saying this here, I am likely to get one (or more) treats defenders really upset and weird about it,

          Weird to frame it this way without mentioning the struggle between meta slaves and people who just want to play whatever they want. Too many people treat a casual single player RPG as some sort of e-sports competition. They wish it was the old MMO where everyone was competing for the same loot or it realy matters if you farm the same shit artifact dungeon in 30s instead of 1:30s.

          As I see it people just want their favorite character to be op and had no problem criticizing mihoyoverse when they though Yae miko was trash lol.

      • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Its a good game with very high quality assets, music, voice acting, good story. There are obviously weak points but it is not worse than wasting your money on yearly AAA FPS and battle pass dlc bullshit. Also it runs well enough on a potato you don't need to mortgage your house to buy a gaming PC. Obviously if you have problems with gambling you should stay away, but that also goes to any AAA game with loot boxes too.

        Ignore the haters on this website, anything to do with anime here is guilty by association with weebs, very easy to dunk on shit they have no clue what they are talking about or hearsay.

        • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          I might give it a go, of all my vices gambling thankfully isn't one of them. I basically refuse to drop more than 5-10 $ on F2P games and don't mind having to grind out game currency.

          • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Yeah, eventually most people buy the monthly $5 pack because its good value. F2P experience is pretty much take 1:30s to clear a dungeon instead of 30s and you just need to save 2-3 to guarantee the character you want and every time you roll should end up getting a few 4* as compensation. In the long term if you play long enough you'll do even the max difficulty content just fine.

            People actualy want the game to be harder because they think its too easy, but MHY knows what they are doing to keep the millions of casuals.

      • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        It's basically Breath of the Wild but jank and with 100% more creepy anime girl collector gacha bullshit

        which does mean it's a fun game fundamentally, but not really groundbreaking

        • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah I understand a game with such a high percentage of weeb fan service is likely to be a toxic waste dump of opinions but sometimes I'm surprised.

  • jackmarxist [any]
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    2 years ago

    Sorry but I need my waifu more than the Uyghurs help from white people

  • knife [any]
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    2 years ago

    :wojak-nooo: nooo don't buy Xiaomi, you have to spend 3x the price on some shit Samsung with a bendy screen!!!

  • save_vs_death [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    "r/avoidchineseproducts" is just the saddest thing i've seen all week, people posting about how they found a fucking ladle or lightbulbs that were not made in china; if anything it highlights how barren of a concept this is

    • CTHlurker [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Pretty sure there is an entire industry in the West of people taking Chinese / Asian-produced goods, and just changing a label somewhere so they can say made in America / made in Europe.

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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        2 years ago

        Virtually all "made in USA" products are like this at this point. Made abroad and then they have a machine in Nebraska or something that attaches a little piece to the rest. Tons of cars are built in Mexico and they just screw down the last screw on the seats in the US, Can openers are built in China and then they attach the rubber handles in the US

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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        2 years ago

        Virtually all "made in USA" products are like this at this point. Made abroad and then they have a machine in Nebraska or something that attaches a little piece to the rest. Tons of cars are built in Mexico and they just screw down the last screw on the seats in the US, Can openers are built in China and then they attach the rubber handles in the US.