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https://www.yog-sothoth.com/index.html/news/chinese-government-burns-call-of-cthulhu-supplement/
For many years, various publishers in the Americas and Europe have had their books printed in China as a cost-saving measure (including many in the RPG field). Often the primary downside of this has simply been the time taken for the books to arrive, but it appears there can also be another problem, as the publishers of The Sassoon Files (a Cthulhu-based RPG supplement) have announced that all print copies of their book have been destroyed by the Chinese Government – for unspecified reasons.
https://boingboing.net/2019/03/25/the-sassoon-files.html
Julio writes, "Sons of the Singularity is a small RPG publisher. Last year, they kickstarted The Sassoon Files, a sourcebook for the popular Call of Cthulhu RPG and Trail of Cthulhu RPG. As a lot of publishers, theydid[sic] the printing in China. The same day that the print was finished, a Chinese Government decided that it was "problematic", so they burned the entire print run. Targeting foreign publications is a first, specially when it seems there wasn't anything problematic (the supplement was based on Shanghai but was respetful and documented carefully).
https://sonsofthesingularity.com/setback-in-the-sassoon-files-banned-by-the-ccp/
We have suffered an unfortunate and unexpected setback with the off-set print run. On March 20th, the Chinese government ordered the destruction of our books. Although the printer returned our deposit, we need to find another printer and this will result in a delay in fulfillment. We are committed to completing the print run and fulfillment.
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Tuesday March 26 2019, @06:06PM (5 children)
Somebody needs to make a movie where tentacles start coming out of more and more places in China. It could be done as B-grade horror/monster stuff but totally inspired by their "polite society" having angered a monster or species they don't understand. It would be much like Godzilla is kind of campy, but has the subtext of nuclear issues. They could even do a sequel where a Pooh-bear fights a giant squid.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by https on Tuesday March 26 2019, @06:29PM (1 child)
I am wondering what possible confusion of ideas could lead someone to state that nuclear issues in Godzilla are "subtext".
Offended and laughing about it.
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Tuesday March 26 2019, @06:56PM
My exposure to Godzilla is limited to some old school badly dubbed stuff a long time ago. Based on your reply, I'm guessing they made this theme more explicit in later revisions?
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(Score: 5, Funny) by cmdrklarg on Tuesday March 26 2019, @08:05PM (2 children)
"Bother", said Pooh, as he slammed home the last clip.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @08:56PM (1 child)
You mean Pooh-Bear fights The Great Pumpkin over trade ... and they both lose.
(Score: 2) by Webweasel on Wednesday March 27 2019, @09:18AM
Funny, its actually been done.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tin-Pot_Foreign_General_and_the_Old_Iron_Woman [wikipedia.org]
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