@UX1∴73C Chinese localisation doesn't indicate investment or ownership. There are plenty of localisers that localise to Chinese that aren't based in China.

Is there a single game with Chinese localization that can safely be bought without directly or indirectly supporting China? At this point, anything with Chinese characters is a landmine and anything with Japanese characters might be as well.

@denzilb55 thank you for the update, I will remove the curation.

Hello, our game Metavoidal is reported as "Owned by China" under Astrolabe Games. There was a period where Astrolabe was going to market and publish the game. However, development was fully funded by ourselves - and we are a small South African indie studio based in Cape Town called Yellow Lab Games. We have since bought over the publishing rights from Astrolabe, and so have no affiliation with China and so we ask that you reconsider your review of our game:

https://steamoss.com/steamstore/app/2221780/Metavoidal/

Sure, Hamas can still be considered to pursue genocidal aims. I'm glad we could at least agree on something.

I also agree we have a semantic mismatch. If you wish to continue, then I would need to ask what I did in a previous comment, which is for you to offer your personal definition of genocide and explain what the basis for it is.

The point of my argument here was that I believe there is enough grounds to state there is moral equivalency between the actions of the governments of Israel and China. You had explicitly denied this so I felt obliged to point out what I consider to be selective morality.

Ultimately, if you reject the legitimacy of my sources and definitions, then I can't argue my point any further. No debate works when we can't agree on a truth. If you don't wish to continue, then I'm fine with leaving it here and letting people judge your stance as they wish. I made my statements in good faith and I'm confident our arguments speak for themselves.

If you're really going to stick to that definition of genocide, then the UK was genocidal retaliating against Hitler's Germany, which means we fundamentally aren't talking about the same thing.

Hamas is clearly still a genocidal entity. On October 7 2023, they fired 4,000 rockets into Israel targeting specifically civilian infrastructure, parachuted into Israel killing exclusively civilians, taking hundreds hostage. It has been since it's conception and it is to this day. Hamas is only having to "resist" because it's outmatched, because it turns out not a lot of people want to help terrorist rogue states.