Taiwan banned Black Myth Wukong. Taiwanese 18-25 year olds now:

teens when they cannot play the monkey game:

Imagine this being Taiwan’s blue jeans and pizza hut moment lol

Did the USSR ever have this kind of soft power with any of their products? I genuinely don’t know if they had any tv shows, films, games, or music that NATO residents would try to pirate or get ahold of in big numbers.

Surely there still isn't a person alive who doesn't want a Lada
- Funny enough, Soviet cars are one of the biggest reasons I hear NATO residents talk about how bad the Soviet Union was. “They had terrible and inefficient cars!”
Cuban cigars and rum are definitely something Americans want but can't have
- We can buy the rum by going to Canada, don't know about cigars. IIRC it's technically illegal to bring it back to the states but border agents don't care (provided you're white enough).
Tetris
- That came pretty late in the Soviet union's time
The AK rifle. Good ones cost thousands of dollars in the US (or maybe $600 if you’re lucky) because of import bans (both China and Russia). And most of them are Yugo or Romanian
all I can remember is some types of high-quality caviar
Finland wasn't a NATO member but some US media was censored or banned for being anti-Soviet during Finlandisation
you specifically asked for cultural products and I responded with retail goods and appeared to have kicked off several similar replies. I'm sorry

the first game that is both based and woke

cool that "accomplice of the CCP" is 中共同路人, "Chinese Communist (Party) Same Road Person". interesting mirror of the term "capitalist roader" in Maoism

I think "fellow traveller" is a better translation
- yeah, you're right. it loses some specificity towards China but has the advantage of being an established term that is more recognizable

I can't keep up with the culture war stuff. Is the game chud or woke? Based or cringe?

It’s a good game, sir
- it's wet
- devious...
It's both at the same time.
Woke - because it's Chinese evil SeeSeePee brainwashing
Chud - because Gamers™ align with the claims(?) of sexism within the company that made the game.
The game itself is unremarkable in terms of culture war stuff.
Some of the developers said some insulting bullshit about female gamers a while back and the company has a few vocal techbro creeps, and a female game reviewer said there weren't enough female characters, so the chuds rallied to culture war on the side of the game.
Monke

Fascists are going to have a conundrum on their hands, do they back the game because somehow it's "anti-woke" or do they go against it because evil SeeSeePee is brainwashing RoC youths?

They're pushing anti-game journalism and anti-feminism because of that one IGN article that pointed out the dev's sexism that one time.
So yeah, they're trying to do culture war with it. But also from what I've seen it's not something any of the usual people with political clout are talking about. It's the audience of chuds doing the culture war with it, the real fascists are shutting the fuck up about it not wanting to boost a Chinese product.
- Hmm yeah you're spot on. Gamers™ really are awful people.
  I get the feeling this won't last for very long in the chud space because of the game coming from China. Let's see I guess.

Wake me up when they make Dark Souls meets ROTK

ROTK
Rage Ogainst The Kachine?
- Romance Of the Three Kingdoms
  Either that or Return Of The King
  But context leads me to believe it is the first thing
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Well, there's that Team Ninja game which I guess is more Sekiro Three Kingdoms as a prequel.
- rise of the ronin? is that any good?
Dynasty Warriors Origins is like Dark Souls if you were 500x stronger than in Dark Souls
- Dynasty Warriors Origins
  The hell is this shit, a single character in Dynasty Warriors?
Please fucking no, we didn't had good ROTK game since 10, and you want them to mix yet another strategy series with a fucking fingertwister.

Does anyone have a solid source for this? The only actual article I could find says that it's specifically not available on the PlayStation Network because there's some sort of security verification process required that the team didn't know about until it was too late because it would have delayed the launch date. The Steam version seems to be unaffected.

https://tw.news.yahoo.com/獨家-中國3a大作-黑神話-悟空-沒上台灣psn原因出爐-042603511.html

If I had a VPN which had servers in Taiwan I'd check myself, but SteamDB seems to corroborate this. Compare the SteamDB entries for Wukong and Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni. For the former, prices are listed for all currencies (including Taiwan Dollar); for the latter, no prices are given for AUD, which makes sense because the game is banned for sale in Australia. Not conclusive evidence, but personally I'd avoid spreading this around unless you can get some strong confirmation to avoid ending up with egg on your face.

I don't have a source I took a tweet at face value. It could actually be completely made up or whatever and I made an oopsie by not checking! Ehe!
- I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
  yewtu.be
  inv.nadeko.net
  yt.artemislena.eu
  piped.video
which makes sense because the game is banned for sale in Australia
nevermind I can't read

Hell yeah, I don't know anything about this game but I'd feel the same way if my gov banned Dyson Sphere Program or Amazing Cultivation Simulator.

Monkey game isn't even that good. Nine Sols fox game much better.

It's actually banned? Why this game in particular though?

Chinese soft power created through entertainment can and will climb if they support these industries.

It seems that most of China’s state support for these industries are either foreign investments in existing games, propaganda movies, or lame ass gacha bullshit.

Yeah sadly the abject defeat of USSR in the culture war taught them nothing. COMRADES, LENIN WAS RIGHT YOU MUST WIN THE MEDIA even if it means filling the world with slop, let it be prosocialist slop.