Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack

The Government of Ukraine plans to petition Valve, Microsoft, and Sony to remove Atomic Heart from digital stores in Ukraine, and will ask platform holders to consider “limiting distribution” of the game in other countries. At heart of the matter are the new first-person shooter's Russian roots. There are allegations that sales of the game directly benefit the Russian government and that the game is possibly being used to harvest user data. Ukrainian tech website Dev.au first reported on this, and PCGamesN has a statement in English directly from the Ukraine government:
“Regarding the situation with the release of the game Atomic Heart, which has Russian roots and romanticises communist ideology and the Soviet Union, The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine will send an official letter to Sony, Microsoft, and Valve requesting a ban on selling digital versions of this game in Ukraine,” says Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation, Alex Bornyakov.

“We also urge limiting the distribution of this game in other countries due to its toxicity, potential data collection of users, and the potential use of money raised from game purchases to conduct a war against Ukraine.”

“According to media reports, the game’s development was funded by Russian enterprises,” the statement continues. “Therefore, we call for all users worldwide to avoid this game. We also want to emphasise that the game developers have not publicly condemned the Putin regime and the bloody war that Russia has unleashed against Ukraine.”
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack
Feb 28, 2023, 08:45
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack Feb 28, 2023, 08:45
Feb 28, 2023, 08:45
 
Hey, some pepper in the stew makes it more savoury
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack
Feb 28, 2023, 08:32
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack Feb 28, 2023, 08:32
Feb 28, 2023, 08:32
 
WannaLogAlready wrote on Feb 28, 2023, 02:00:
Hi Quinn !
Hahaha, your posts are always fun to read, agree or not.

You are right, was doubtful when posting but seemed appropriate, and if it must be I'm sure the mods will be right in their assessment.

Sending you love man !

Hehe thanks! I was this 🤏 close to announcing my permanent goodbyes yesterday because I don't agree with the ridiculous policing going on here -- sure, it's relatively lenient here, but relativity can kiss my ass atm. The only saving grace was that Blue at least removed some of the other bullshit comments that weren't mine as well, before locking a particular thread I referred to in my last comment to you about irrelevance of opinions.

Instead of leaving I've instead decided to just call out the bullshit more. ✌️🤪
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack
Feb 28, 2023, 02:49
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Feb 28, 2023, 02:49
 
WannaLogAlready wrote on Feb 28, 2023, 00:44:
Ah yes, thought I had seen this repeatedly, no options for elucidating or agreements.

Just the usual "prove I'm the winner by relentlessly demeaning anything said" high school bully put down tactics.

Have fun

Yet you're the one putting forth two choices as the only ones that are valid. And when I point out how ridiculous and flawed that is, it's somehow "bullying" and "demeaning". Not to mention that you and others here are espousing rhetoric that supports blaming an entire country's populace and bullying them into submission.

Absolutely hypocritical & hilarious. The good ol' two for one deal.
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack
Feb 28, 2023, 02:00
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack Feb 28, 2023, 02:00
Feb 28, 2023, 02:00
 
Hi Quinn !
Hahaha, your posts are always fun to read, agree or not.

You are right, was doubtful when posting but seemed appropriate, and if it must be I'm sure the mods will be right in their assessment.

Sending you love man !
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack
Feb 28, 2023, 01:45
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack Feb 28, 2023, 01:45
Feb 28, 2023, 01:45
 
WannaLogAlready wrote on Feb 28, 2023, 00:44:
Ah yes, thought I had seen this repeatedly, no options for elucidating or agreements.

Just the usual "prove I'm the winner by relentlessly demeaning anything said" high school bully put down tactics.

Have fun

I think he learned it from two others on here. Not you.

Surprised you guys could continue this without comments removed or thread locked. After all, the subject is how Ukraine thinks about Russia. Your own opinions are irrelevant!
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack
Feb 28, 2023, 00:44
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack Feb 28, 2023, 00:44
Feb 28, 2023, 00:44
 
Ah yes, thought I had seen this repeatedly, no options for elucidating or agreements.

Just the usual "prove I'm the winner by relentlessly demeaning anything said" high school bully put down tactics.

Have fun
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack
Feb 27, 2023, 21:12
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack Feb 27, 2023, 21:12
Feb 27, 2023, 21:12
 
WannaLogAlready wrote on Feb 27, 2023, 18:38:
Were the WW2 german people innocently duped by the propaganda or chauvinistically cheering the slaughter till it reversed ? A mix, surely ?

Interestingly, you aren't looking for a dialogue at all:
talking in the 3rd person and your main argument seems to be a superior understanding.
Sorry if you feel bitter and alone in a sea of dumbness.

Anecdotic: I live in Argentina and have breathed corruption for 67 years

Wait, I thought they either deserved it, or they are the same as their rulers?

But now they can actually be duped? Or they're fully complicit in it via a government they can't control?

Fascinating, it's almost like there's no consistency in your assertions at all...
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack
Feb 27, 2023, 18:38
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack Feb 27, 2023, 18:38
Feb 27, 2023, 18:38
 
Were the WW2 german people innocently duped by the propaganda or chauvinistically cheering the slaughter till it reversed ? A mix, surely ?

Interestingly, you aren't looking for a dialogue at all:
talking in the 3rd person and your main argument seems to be a superior understanding.
Sorry if you feel bitter and alone in a sea of dumbness.

Anecdotic: I live in Argentina and have breathed corruption for 67 years
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack
Feb 27, 2023, 08:51
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack Feb 27, 2023, 08:51
Feb 27, 2023, 08:51
 
WannaLogAlready wrote on Feb 27, 2023, 06:56:
Razumen,
when the quality of the leaders is consistently inhuman over centuries, shouldn't you choose one of these?:

The peoples have the governments they deserve.
or
The people have the rulers that resemble them.

Nice false binary, looks like I found someone else that doesn't understand how corrupt governments work.
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Feb 27, 2023, 06:56
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack Feb 27, 2023, 06:56
Feb 27, 2023, 06:56
 
Razumen,
when the quality of the leaders is consistently inhuman over centuries, shouldn't you choose one of these?:

The peoples have the governments they deserve.
or
The people have the rulers that resemble them.
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack
Feb 26, 2023, 09:53
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack Feb 26, 2023, 09:53
Feb 26, 2023, 09:53
 
WannaLogAlready wrote on Feb 22, 2023, 22:24:
Acleacius wrote on Feb 22, 2023, 21:51:
PHJF wrote on Feb 22, 2023, 21:37:
RedEye9 wrote on Feb 22, 2023, 20:09:
I thought we were supposed to buy it to support the developers.
I dunno, I was thinking of claiming the game is mine by right and annexing it.
Without the murder, rape and destruction? How is this possible, don't you know how things work in mother russia today?
So true Acleacius, and things always worked so.

Mother russia's wretched people has been historically oppressed, carelessly starved, forcibly relocated, and outright murdered by the millions. And they seem to like it.

They just export their misery for the glory of their leader class.

"Yes, the suffering of the oppressed lower class is *flips over today's cure card* totally their won fault!"

Wow, what an bold and brave statement.🙄
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Feb 24, 2023, 02:52
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack Feb 24, 2023, 02:52
Feb 24, 2023, 02:52
 
JTW wrote on Feb 23, 2023, 22:01:
The Flying Penguin wrote on Feb 23, 2023, 15:11:
I think everyone just needs to make up their own mind. Not sure we should be banning games just because they're made by citizens of a country who's ruler is a justifiable pariah.

Applying pressure to the citizens of a country whose government is awful is the #1 way of combating that sort of problem. It's the first and foremost tool in the diplomatic playbook for forcing change without bloodshed.

The embargos and applying pressure is exactly the way, because it does at least 2 things: 1.) It decreases the quality of life of the people, which is the first step to a proper revolt and 2.) The Russian government will have little to no control over how Russia changes because of external pressure, which is perfect for break through the gears of lies and deceit that is their propaganda machine.
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Feb 24, 2023, 02:13
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack Feb 24, 2023, 02:13
Feb 24, 2023, 02:13
 
The person who said Russia can still be referenced as a 'commie' state still is really bad at understanding government types aren't they? The Cold war is over, what Russia is now is far from a communist regime. Its a Authoritarian Oligarchy with fake elections and everything to let the populace still think they have any power over government.
Rimmer: “Step up to Red Alert.”
Kryten: “Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb.”

ALSO: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
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Feb 23, 2023, 22:01
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Feb 23, 2023, 22:01
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The Flying Penguin wrote on Feb 23, 2023, 15:11:
I think everyone just needs to make up their own mind. Not sure we should be banning games just because they're made by citizens of a country who's ruler is a justifiable pariah.

Applying pressure to the citizens of a country whose government is awful is the #1 way of combating that sort of problem. It's the first and foremost tool in the diplomatic playbook for forcing change without bloodshed.
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Feb 23, 2023, 18:49
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack Feb 23, 2023, 18:49
Feb 23, 2023, 18:49
 
Cancel culture bad herp derp. Active genocide good/irrelevant? Is this where we at?

I'm sure theatres used these arguments to show Nazi propaganda in london during WW2. The greatest generation had no time for the woke mind virus!

I mean this seems a little more subtle than that but I'm not going to argue with the people actively getting ethnicly cleanesed. Ban away.
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Feb 23, 2023, 16:51
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Feb 23, 2023, 16:51
 
I can't believe Trump did this!
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Feb 23, 2023, 15:38
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Kosumo wrote on Feb 23, 2023, 14:03:
"Untill we see the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop, I have to believe it has copies of both Atomic Heart and Hogwarts Legacy on it and that makes his father a bad man!" - Tucker Kosumo
Mind Blown!
Scorpio Slasher: ... What about you boy, what do hate?
Marcus: ... Bullies. Tiny d*ck egotists who hurt people for no reason, make people lock their doors at night. People who make general existence worse, people like you.
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack
Feb 23, 2023, 15:32
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Momodious wrote on Feb 23, 2023, 13:34:
Any link I give you would not be credible by your standards. I'm not supporting Russia. I didn't call anyone racist. It's their American exceptionalism that is bullshit.

EDIT: And if you want to see what NATO's been up to for decades, watch "A Very Heavy Agenda" by Robbie Martin on Vimeo.
I disagree with American Exceptionalism too, we didn't invent it nor do we always get it correct.
But the big problem just like in Russia and most places it's the leaders, not the people.
As Goering said at Nuremberg ..
the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
In the US it's Corporate Greed, that rue's the day.
The one thing they all have in common is, The Ego of Man.

Well, I'll post a link, no idea if it's good enough for anyone but it is accurate.
Noam Chomsky on American Exceptionalism
Scorpio Slasher: ... What about you boy, what do hate?
Marcus: ... Bullies. Tiny d*ck egotists who hurt people for no reason, make people lock their doors at night. People who make general existence worse, people like you.
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack
Feb 23, 2023, 15:11
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Feb 23, 2023, 15:11
 
I think everyone just needs to make up their own mind. Not sure we should be banning games just because they're made by citizens of a country who's ruler is a justifiable pariah.

I can see both sides here, and I am undecided myself. It is just a game, but yes taxes will go to the Russian government. However, this is a drop in the bucket compared to oil profits, and we still have western aligned allies buying their oil. Maybe we should be doing more about that.

If you're uncomfortable with it, don't buy the game.

But on the other hand, IT'S A GAME. I have played countless war games where I have slaughtered countless Russians, Germans, Chinese, Japanese, soldiers from vaguely renamed Soviet satellite states, Iranians, Iraqis, Syrians, and even Americans, Norwegians, Brits, French etal in computer games. I'm not particularly tormented about it.

Do what you feel is right in your heart.

I probably won't consider this game myself, until maybe after the war is over.

'nuff said
DEI hire? Oh how cute, you think you found a way of being a racist without sounding racist. That's adorable!
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack
Feb 23, 2023, 14:16
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Prez wrote on Feb 23, 2023, 14:10:
All joking aside, I would love to go see Moscow just for the architecture alone. Don't know if I can be trusted drinking vodka though.

Baltika No. 3? A nice Russian beer.
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