• tekato@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    A Russian official has said that the game could face a total ban in Russia

    The whole article is based off this unnamed “Russian official” btw.

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    8 days ago

    This year, Russia also took control of Chornobyl,…

    This year again? I thought they dug their trenches in radioactive soil in the first year of the invasion.

  • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldOP
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    It will most definitely be banned (they even shut down one of the few Ukrainian language libraries in russia before the full scale invasion) and likely it won’t be available in russian anyway.

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      Good. Hopefully russia also bans all the games portraying LGBT characters and ethnic minorities, so I can fucking play Overwatch without running into these assholes every other match

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        I am surprised it’s not already banned. They were going to ban Duolingo because of presence of animated LGBT characters. Duolingo caved and made a custom “LGBT free” version for the russian market.

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    8 days ago

    The question is whether they have the intention of publishing it in Russia in the first place.

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      Russian users can still use workarounds to purchase from the steam store. I believe this is a big business for some enterprising users in other countries.

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    8 days ago

    It’s maybe my fault.

    I immediately abandoned BF2042 after the second invasion of Ukraine because it was full of Russians and ‘expat’ or not I ain’t cosplaying as those assholes.

    • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldOP
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      I can’t even watch russian movies or listen to russian music (even artists that have openly opposed the full scale invasion). It just gets me in a bad mood.

      Any time I see a russian flag on the internet, it’s like seeing a nazi flag. I start thinking “Why the fuck is this here?”.