The Hong Kong Spirit Never Dies: From the streets to virtual life
“Be water, my friend”, Hongkonger Bruce Lee says. This is what Hongkongers have been doing: taking their protests to the streets, and even to virtual life during coronavirus lockdown.
The Nintendo Switch video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a social simulator in which players can decorate their own island and invite others to visit. It has become popular during coronavirus lockdown.
Joshua Wong, a Hong Kong activist, took his protests to the game last week and on Twitter posted a screenshot of his island decorated with protest slogans and his feeling about “Wuhan pneumonia”. The game has been pulled from China's grey market e-commerce platforms after Joshua posted the screenshot. Thus, many Chinese players blame Joshua on different platforms because of his post, without bothering about the fact that it is their government which strips them of their freedom. This weird phenomenon may be attributed to the success of Chinese brainwashing.
In fact, the purpose of the game is for players to relax themselves and realize their wishes in the simulator. Players in Hong Kong have been using the game to help keep alive the flame of the pro-democracy protests. The number of protests in Hong Kong is decreasing due to lots of external factors, but it does not follow that we Hong Kongers are forgetting about our demands and what we have lost in the movement. We are still insisting on the belief in democracy and presenting it on different kinds of platforms, whether in reality or virtual life. It is because we are Hongkongers, we are flexible without losing sight of our identity and pursuits.
As the lasting line in V for Vendetta goes: "And ideas are bulletproof"; we Hongkongers, the freedom fighters, will fight on unto victory, in this life as well as in others.
#HKprotests #Hongkonger #China
#FreedomFighter #Democracy
#AnimalCrossing #NintendoSwitch #JoshuaWong
Source:
https://twitter.com/joshuawongcf/status/1248494508146221058
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/nintendo-game-pulled-from-chinese-platforms-after-hong-kong-protest-12631310
https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/03/animal-crossing-new-horizons-used-hong-kong-pro-democracy-protesters-demonstrate-12502539/
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzQWYHHqvIw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNFfG541MYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeJbG3ZFXGw
“Be water, my friend”, Hongkonger Bruce Lee says. This is what Hongkongers have been doing: taking their protests to the streets, and even to virtual life during coronavirus lockdown.
The Nintendo Switch video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a social simulator in which players can decorate their own island and invite others to visit. It has become popular during coronavirus lockdown.
Joshua Wong, a Hong Kong activist, took his protests to the game last week and on Twitter posted a screenshot of his island decorated with protest slogans and his feeling about “Wuhan pneumonia”. The game has been pulled from China's grey market e-commerce platforms after Joshua posted the screenshot. Thus, many Chinese players blame Joshua on different platforms because of his post, without bothering about the fact that it is their government which strips them of their freedom. This weird phenomenon may be attributed to the success of Chinese brainwashing.
In fact, the purpose of the game is for players to relax themselves and realize their wishes in the simulator. Players in Hong Kong have been using the game to help keep alive the flame of the pro-democracy protests. The number of protests in Hong Kong is decreasing due to lots of external factors, but it does not follow that we Hong Kongers are forgetting about our demands and what we have lost in the movement. We are still insisting on the belief in democracy and presenting it on different kinds of platforms, whether in reality or virtual life. It is because we are Hongkongers, we are flexible without losing sight of our identity and pursuits.
As the lasting line in V for Vendetta goes: "And ideas are bulletproof"; we Hongkongers, the freedom fighters, will fight on unto victory, in this life as well as in others.
#HKprotests #Hongkonger #China
#FreedomFighter #Democracy
#AnimalCrossing #NintendoSwitch #JoshuaWong
Source:
https://twitter.com/joshuawongcf/status/1248494508146221058
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/nintendo-game-pulled-from-chinese-platforms-after-hong-kong-protest-12631310
https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/03/animal-crossing-new-horizons-used-hong-kong-pro-democracy-protesters-demonstrate-12502539/
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzQWYHHqvIw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNFfG541MYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeJbG3ZFXGw
Twitter
Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷
Oh no, Xi Jinping banned #AnimalCrossing in China (apparently because I play it), and these angry gamers are blaming me everywhere instead of blaming their own government lol 🤨🎮🎮
#Game #BruceLee
#StreetFighterII in #NintendoSwitch replaces the flag of Hong Kong game character with China's Emblem
Source: Stand News #Feb19
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#StreetFighterII in #NintendoSwitch replaces the flag of Hong Kong game character with China's Emblem
Source: Stand News #Feb19
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#Game #BruceLee
#StreetFighterII in #NintendoSwitch replaces the flag of Hong Kong game character with China's Emblem
#Capcom has recently released a video game Capcom Arcade Stadium in #NintendoSwitch, which contains 32 classic games such as Street Fighter II: Turbo.
A Japanese user recently noticed that the flag of a Hong Kong game character, Fei Long, was changed to the flag of the People's Republic of China and shared the photo on Twitter.
The photo has caused some heated debates, and some criticised that the company's political correctness has gone too far.
"Fei Long" was a game character in Street Fighter II in reference to Bruce Lee. In the game, although his representing country was shown as Hong Kong, the national flag beside it was the flag of China.
Some users pointed out that it was not the first time Capcom has replaced Hong Kong’s flag in its games. Since 2018, Fei Long’s representing country flag in Street Fighter II in arcade game version has been replaced from the British Hong Kong flag (Dragon and Lion flag) to the regional flag of Hong Kong in order to “follow the trend”.
Source: Stand News #Feb19
https://www.thestandnews.com/culture/switch-%E7%89%88-%E8%A1%97%E9%9C%B82-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B%E8%A2%AB%E6%94%B9%E9%85%8D%E4%BA%94%E6%98%9F%E6%97%97/
#NationalFlag
#StreetFighterII in #NintendoSwitch replaces the flag of Hong Kong game character with China's Emblem
#Capcom has recently released a video game Capcom Arcade Stadium in #NintendoSwitch, which contains 32 classic games such as Street Fighter II: Turbo.
A Japanese user recently noticed that the flag of a Hong Kong game character, Fei Long, was changed to the flag of the People's Republic of China and shared the photo on Twitter.
The photo has caused some heated debates, and some criticised that the company's political correctness has gone too far.
"Fei Long" was a game character in Street Fighter II in reference to Bruce Lee. In the game, although his representing country was shown as Hong Kong, the national flag beside it was the flag of China.
Some users pointed out that it was not the first time Capcom has replaced Hong Kong’s flag in its games. Since 2018, Fei Long’s representing country flag in Street Fighter II in arcade game version has been replaced from the British Hong Kong flag (Dragon and Lion flag) to the regional flag of Hong Kong in order to “follow the trend”.
Source: Stand News #Feb19
https://www.thestandnews.com/culture/switch-%E7%89%88-%E8%A1%97%E9%9C%B82-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B%E8%A2%AB%E6%94%B9%E9%85%8D%E4%BA%94%E6%98%9F%E6%97%97/
#NationalFlag