Blizzard Boycott? - WAN Show Oct 11, 2019

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🗓️ 12 October 2019

⏱️ 378 minutes

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Timestamps (Courtesy of Cahenvels)

0:32 Topic rundown
1:32 Intro
2:08 Blizzard has Hearthstone player Blitz Chung suspended for 'liberate Hong Kong' statement
4:20 Linus Brb, James takes his place. Topic remains the same.
5:55 Linus Returns, topic remains the same.
6:44 Blizzard aware of political repercussions in the Chinese market.
8:45 Blizzard also ceases work with both casters involved in airing Blitz Chung's statement.
10:55 Mark Kern's chinese statement tweet PT 1
14:10 Blizzard CEO statement (J. Allen Brack)
19:47 Officially not really chinese statement thing PT 2
20:57 Separation between entertainment and politics
26:10 Linus asks Luke how he would handle the blizzard situation
29:16 Linus's take on how he would handle the blizzard situation
32:05 What about Colin Kaepernick?
33:00 Reacting to chat
38:48 Apple removes Hong Kong protest map
44:33 Google has also removed Hong Kong Protestor game
45:23 Steam to make local multiplayer games online (remote play together)
46:45 LTTstore.com New water bottle colors
47:07 Steam subject continues
48:55 PT 2 high refresh rate latency test announcement ft. Michael Grzesiek (Shroud)
50:17 Lan parties going 'retro'?
51:45 Sponsor MOS Organizer
53:17 Sponsor Honey
55:09 Sponsor Private Internet Access
56:51 Stadia 'thing'
63:20 Superchats

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0:00.0	And it is when show time again.
0:02.6	Okay David, no problem, you got this, all good, bra.
0:07.4	We have a lot of great topics for you today.
0:09.8	Things happen, things, some people are mad.
0:12.0	Some stuff happen this week
0:14.8	Everyone's mad the the Chinese are mad the people who aren't Chinese are mad and that's basically the whole world if you think about it.
0:23.4	Yeah.
0:24.4	It's like those two books, what they teach you in Harvard Business School and what they
0:28.0	don't teach you in Harvard Business School and what they don't teach you in Harvard Business.
0:29.4	I now know everything.
0:31.0	Thank you very much. So Blizzard banned a pro hearthstone player for supporting the Hong Kong protest.
0:37.0	We're going to get into that...
0:38.0	And the commentators and took his money and ban him for a year.
0:40.0	I said we'll get into...
0:42.0	There's way more news than that. I said we're going to get into it.
0:44.7	Okay.
0:46.7	Apple release Hong Kong protest map. App. App.
0:50.5	No yeah not a map. It's a map app.
0:52.8	Well, okay, fair enough.
0:54.3	In news that people are not as riled up about,
0:58.5	Stadia will use AI to predict gamers actions
1:01.9	for negative latency. This is hilarious. We are that much
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