Apparently the enhanced editions of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy released today removed the Russian audio track and edited/removed certain references to the USSR - Lemmy.zip
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From what I’m reading, these changes were already present in the console ports released last year, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 also doesn’t have a Russian dub.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/39086280

My first months on Lemmy were spent on Lemmy.world, which was the biggest instance at the time. I had no experience with Hexbear because .world had defederated that instance. I sometimes saw it being described as a “tankie” instance, but it was nothing specific.

After I moved to .zip, I came across [email protected], which seemed to be free from anything overtly political and reminded me of r/Gamingcirclejerk, so I subscribed to it and occasionally made comments related to gaming.

Today I made multiple comments to a post about an article on the STALKER game developers having removed the Soviet symbols and the Russian audio in the remastered edition of the game. I would argue that in the thread, there were no comments from me that could be construed by a reasonable person as defensive of Nazism, fascism, or even hinting at it. For example, in one of the comments, I linked a Ukrainian law that prohibits the use of Nazi symbols, though I highly advise looking through all my ten comments as to avoid any misunderstanding or false impressions.

Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.

The thread containing all of my untouched posts is still available via lemmy.zip. My comments are also available for viewing via my user page. They are not available on hexbear due to the ban.

  • Rose@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    Yeah, and I suppose that seeing their support for the LGBTQ+ community for example, it just doesn’t click that they could be supportive of the other things they support. Russia notably outlawed “the LGBT movement” as extremism and prohibited transitioning before Trump did the same in the US. So while I had an understanding of what a tankie is, that contradiction worked against me and must have made me think those people could be reasoned with on other issues.

    • SolOrion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      Yeah, Hexbear cannot be reasoned with. There’s a handful of people from that instance that will be polite about it- there were users I didn’t mind when we used to be federated with them. The vast majority are going to be incredibly condescending while they post awful reaction images.