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Every week there's at least one weird story to come from the gaming industry and this has to be one of the strangest at its surface level. It's hard to imagine that an entire country such as China would have a problem with a bear whose only real problem is that he has no real problems, but when you look a little deeper into Chinese President Xi Jinping and his relationship with the honey eating bear, this strange headline begins to make more sense.
Source: https://techraptor.net/content/kingdom-hearts-3s-winnie-the-pooh-might-be-censored-in-china
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Kingdom Hearts 3's Winnie The Pooh Might Be Censored In China
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27 2018, @06:02AM (4 children)
You can see it. Too bad the censorship is extending to video games. The Chinese people should not be denied circuses when they are already denied politics.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Mykl on Tuesday November 27 2018, @06:20AM (2 children)
I don't think the resemblance to Jinping is that strong. Pooh's body shape and color is clearly a better match to Trump. Probably his intelligence too...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27 2018, @06:35AM
Yes, BUT on the other hand on the asshole scale the Pooh is pretty much the Antitrump.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Tuesday November 27 2018, @09:26AM
I say Trump's coloring is closer to Tigger's orange than Pooh.
Of course Tigger is much more lovable than Trump. And like Pooh, probably more intelligent too!!! (I heard that Trump has already requested the results of an IQ test for comparison.)
With the upcoming G-20 summit in Argentina, maybe we can get some photos of Trump with Xi... than compare them with Tigger and Pooh.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Wednesday November 28 2018, @12:14AM
Perhaps the studio should license Sonic the Hedgehog to play the part of Pooh [freworld.info] in any Chinese release. Then the mod community could release a patch restoring Pooh to his rightful place in the cartooniverse.
(Score: 5, Funny) by ilPapa on Tuesday November 27 2018, @06:52AM (3 children)
I believe it's entirely unfair to characterize Pooh Bear as having "no real problems". You guys have never had to deal with a severe honey addiction.
He keeps refusing to go to rehab, and the last time he relapsed he was found peddling his ass at the bus station, hoping to score a quarter-jar. And when I say, "his ass", I'm not referring to Eyeore.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27 2018, @05:12PM (1 child)
Not to speak of all the times he has gotten stuck in a tree trying to get that last drop of honey.
(Score: 4, Funny) by bob_super on Tuesday November 27 2018, @06:01PM
He'd be more employable if he put pants on.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday November 28 2018, @04:30AM
In any case, as anyone who's read the Appendix to the Apocrypha of Milne's extended works knows, Pooh has major problems [skrause.org] as he goes "OWT CHAGIG THE DRAGGN".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27 2018, @08:32AM (2 children)
Yep, some leaders seem to see things that aren't there.
Here is another one:
Communists caused the producers of the childrens show Pat & Mat to have Mat's shirt made grey instead of red, because they thought it was to made fun of communists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_%26_Mat#Controversies [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27 2018, @12:32PM
Cool story bro, except that:
> This section does not cite any sources.
Since April 2017.
This just REEKS of credibility.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Tuesday November 27 2018, @06:37PM
It is not about Ji seeing things that are not there. On the Chinese net it became a meme to compare Ji to Pooh and it was catching on enough that the government felt they needed to crack down to maintain Ji's image.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 4, Funny) by Nuke on Tuesday November 27 2018, @09:24AM
You've all got it wrong. This is about Pooh's scat fetish.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27 2018, @01:40PM
In the United States you get censored for outing a pedophile [theothermccain.com] or opposing the implementation of hard-right Sharia law [thegatewaypundit.com].
(Score: 4, Informative) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday November 27 2018, @03:59PM (1 child)
So, we are doing clickbait now?
Here [euronews.com] is the picture they don't want you to see.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 3, Informative) by Kalas on Tuesday November 27 2018, @07:18PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 29 2018, @03:33AM
Assuming this is reproducible, we know you can get things banned in China by creating a meme associating it with their leader. Any thoughts on how to exploit this?
Any pouty pictures of popular Chinese cartoon characters? Perhaps try to get references to an entire species banned? Maybe use gimp to get a start on banning the bull [squarespace.com]?