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.

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.

  • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
    3·
    13 hours ago

    They came from the response to rising right wing authoritarianism

    No I do not condone or endorse tankies, just telling you why there are so many of them now

    • anachronist@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      I dunno how much I buy that. America’s been going fasc for most of my adult life. Under Bush we had the patriot act, “enhanced interrogation,” “extraordinary rendition,” etc. Sure we didn’t have masked brownshirts pulling people off the streets (of America) yet but everyone could see where it was all going and people were incredibly upset.

      The Putin and Xi-loving tankie seems to be an artifact of the internet. It’s the meme-internet trajectory of “haha” to “ha ha only serious” to “seriously.” It’s a way to revel in the base pleasures of the malevolent thug without having to be Pro-trump, Pro-America or Zionist.