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 !games@hexbear.net, 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.

  • Detun3d@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    I had been seeing and muting tons of hate speech (even explicit calls for torture and murder) posted by Hexbear users but didn’t want to take the easy path of blocking a whole community or instance. I don’t wish to believe everyone registered there is like that. Today I got banned and labeled reactionary for calling out in a single comment that one of their user’s “background check” on a French gamedev was equivalent to those done at US airports. I had it coming I guess? 🤔

    • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Unfortunately, most of their users are like that. They’re not widely defederated without good reason for it. Their behaviour both in and out of their instance is nearly as atrocious as the authoritarian regimes they cheer on so much.