*THIS* is why the gaming industry needs to decouple from Chinese manufacturers.

Pardon my language, but: you have go to be fucking KIDDING me. From the latest update to the Tour de Lovecraft: Destinations Kickstarter:

The next step is obviously getting Tour de Lovecraft: The Tales and The Destinations to print, and if we get everything nailed down with our new Lithuanian printer this week, we should be on press next week.

Lithuania? Yes, Lithuania. Originally, we had planned to go with a Chinese printing house that I have some pretty extensive experience with from my day job, but we hit an obstacle: Thibet. On the World of Lovecraft map, we have Thibet (Tibet) labeled, in perhaps 8 point letters. But in China, that’s pretty much a non-starter, and no printer will touch it. We had thought we’d be able to move to a different printer than I have worked with that is based in far-more-permissive Hong Kong, but events in China caught up with us there, and *that* became impossible as well.

…We gotta stop using their stuff, folks. I know it’s cheap, but the goods are coming from a totalitarian dictatorship that uses our money to ever-more-comprehensively regulate its subjects. If you can’t even use the word ‘Tibet’…

Moe Lane

PS TIBET TIBET TIBET TIBET TIBET FREE HONG KONG AND FREE THE UYGHURS, TOO.

8 thoughts on “*THIS* is why the gaming industry needs to decouple from Chinese manufacturers.”

    1. Ayup. That’s when I stopped being kind of unhappy about the gaming industry using PRC manufacturers and started being vocally opposed to it.

  2. In the words of that viral rando protester* from Hong Kong a while back: “No Trust China. China is A**hole!”
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    *I truly hope he and his family are still okay.

  3. Free Hong Kong, sure – those people GET it.

    Free the Uyghurs? Participation in a barbaric cult eliminates 99% of sympathy there.
    They can wait till after HK.
    And after my nap.
    And after I shampoo a cat.
    And after about 1000 other things.

    1. Rooting for injuries is a lot easier when the sides are more evenly matched.
      (No, I’m not advocating arming the muzzies. History clearly shows that the backfire rate of that gambit approaches 100%.

    2. I get the sentiment, and maybe “free” is too ambitious, but Gulags and Genocide are entirely worthy clubs to beat the ChiComs over the head with. Repeatedly.

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