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The Chinese Socialist MMOG

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the little-red-mmog dept.

GP writes "How different is China? In the online game version of the idealized Socialist state, you gain experience points by 'doing good deeds' and 'thwarting spys'. You can even meet Chairman Mao!" From a great writeup by Scott Jennings on the game: "And now we have the online MMO version, 'Learn From Lei Feng Online', which allows you to... mend socks. Again - not making any of this up. To quote from the original Xinhua story 'For beginners, sewing and mending socks is the only way to increase experience and to upgrade,' said Jiao Jian, a six-grade pupil in Yuexiu District, quoted by the newspaper. He then continues. 'Every time you are promoted to a higher level, your clothes will become more average,' he said. I'm pretty sure this isn't a translation screw up. The longer you grind, the more you look like everyone else. I guess new users wear designer pastels or something."

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  1. wee! by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's the Razon Ramon Hard Gay MMORPG!

    Can you repeatedly go "SEI!" if anyone tries to flame you too!? :D

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  2. Re:Easy way to install rootkits onto computers by heinousjay · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Anything in the way of proof for these assertations? I suspect it's just your hatred of all things American, but I decided to give you the benefit of the doubt.

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  3. Re:Hmm by TheOrange · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Haha. You retard. You are so fucked up you equate putting your parents into an old folks home with killing a baby. Not only that, you have the balls to call it perspective. Let me ask you, is belonging to a different culture justification for denying people rights we consider fundamental? I mean how far can we take this perspective thing? Kill people for speaking out against the government? Hang women for having sex out of wedlock? Kill and eat one and other? I mean, please, oh wise and cultured one, let me know when it stops being "cultural" and starts to be a fucking problem...

  4. Re:Hmm by Trogre · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't know. Is it any more than in countries that kill baby boys and girls if the mum finds them inconvenient?

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  5. Here in the USA, our government would NEVER by Ellis+D.+Tripp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    produce a propaganda videogame to indoctrinate impressionable kids with jingoistic bullshit, right?

    http://www.americasarmy.com/

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  6. Re:A good fit by Detritus · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Communism is a mountain of corpses. By their acts you shall know them, and not by their words.

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