jcbrady.bsky.social
Co-creator & Editor @epochemagazine
Writer, Reader, Composer, Designer, Philosophosaur. Philosophy PhD student at University of Sydney.
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Yeah, but what is though?
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They’re on @Space Station
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Damn you. Now it’s in my head.
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-it provides an opportunity to see that things are much more complex than the “you don’t know how lucky you are to live here, so tolerate the shit” propaganda on both sides. The fact this gets the US oligarchs and the Chinese autocrats panties in a twist is just icing on the cake.
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Likewise a lot of Americans think life in china is all gulags and censorship, people living in fear of speaking, all being forced at gunpoint into pledging allegiance to the supreme leader. Neither of these images are based on nothing, but when you connect and see how people are actually living-
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I see it as a giant blow to propaganda on both sides. The Chinese kids routinely imagine life in the US as just a never ending grind of gun violence, police brutality, bankrupting medical bills, and theocratic laws. Most would never dare travel thinking they’ll be shot for being not white-
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I lived in Beijing for 14 years. I think you need to look into these things more. Besides, this is a good news story, about kids across the world connecting. Wtf does it have to do with xi? You realize this is as much a nightmare for the central govt right?
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Like i said, have fun.
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Have fun in your bubble.
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Why would it? Where is your precious data stored? And what even is it?
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Google “credit rating”. If you think there’s a difference, regoogle “social credit” and this time pay attention to the adverbs “possibly” “potentially” “theoretically” in all of the reporting from that bizarre moral panic from a few years ago.
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And, equally, in the morning, a lot “Jesus we gotta slow this shit down” and somewhere on that seesaw the printable version emerged.
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But then it’s like: yes, but that’s not what glues the series together. It’s actually some dumb ass VR dream pulling Lamarck juice out of dna so we can learn about that incredibly interesting and self sufficient historical conceit.
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Like, watching the series from afar, I always thought: oh that’s a neat concept, a story about a secret assassin organisation, who’ve been present at every interesting moment in history. Man, they’ll squeeze endless games out of that. Clever.
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I think the first one I played was black flag. Hype was so big I just decided to check it out. I couldn’t believe that meta story and how tedious it was, and for what? Was there some earlier iteration where it made sense and was fun and interesting?