Yesterday a Chinese gamer/cosplayer posted this post on Weibo.
(This is screen cap because the post was deleted. Recommend using they/them refer to original poster because they stated in their bio that "my sex is a mystery")
Translation:
"#isopstillalivetoday#
To new friends and old friends who don't know what happened to me:
Shandong Qingdao West Coast Political Security arrested me and my colleagues in fan-translation group as spies/traitors because of my involvement in the localization of HOV IV mod Millennium Dawn.
What's funny is that we weren't even that involved in this project. We only worked on it for about half-a-month then gave up on it.
Police interrogated us about seven or eight times questioning whether we had accepted funds from foreign agencies or were involved in the development of the game.
Then they found out they had caught a bunch of weebs, who weren't even pro-America or pro-Japan or all that, but were Marxists at heart.
The police felt embarrassed. They didn't set us free, didn't even send us to a detention center. They just kept us in the police station for 28 days（maximum legal limit.) After we were released they didn't even ask for bail.
While we were in there, my lawyer tried to reach for me but was ingnored. He tried asking the Procuratorate, but the Procuratorate said they didn't know shit about my case.
After my release, the Political Security still called me several times urging me to "redeem my crime" by reporting more "problematic" games and mods.
Both my lawyer and I thought: fuck them.
We are now pressuring the Procuratorate and trying to find their mistakes.
I can't swallow this."
annotation 1: The original post used "50w" to refer to spies/traitors.The thing comes from the fact that under Chinese law, someone who catches a spy can get a reward of up to half a million yuan.
annotation 2: The"detention center" they talked about is not the same as those "detention center" in Xinjiang.It's kind of like a jail in America and holds people for shorter periods of time.
The mod:
steamcommunity.com
If my picture doesn't show then view this reddit thread with similar translation:
www.reddit.com
(This is screen cap because the post was deleted. Recommend using they/them refer to original poster because they stated in their bio that "my sex is a mystery")
Translation:
"#isopstillalivetoday#
To new friends and old friends who don't know what happened to me:
Shandong Qingdao West Coast Political Security arrested me and my colleagues in fan-translation group as spies/traitors because of my involvement in the localization of HOV IV mod Millennium Dawn.
What's funny is that we weren't even that involved in this project. We only worked on it for about half-a-month then gave up on it.
Police interrogated us about seven or eight times questioning whether we had accepted funds from foreign agencies or were involved in the development of the game.
Then they found out they had caught a bunch of weebs, who weren't even pro-America or pro-Japan or all that, but were Marxists at heart.
The police felt embarrassed. They didn't set us free, didn't even send us to a detention center. They just kept us in the police station for 28 days（maximum legal limit.) After we were released they didn't even ask for bail.
While we were in there, my lawyer tried to reach for me but was ingnored. He tried asking the Procuratorate, but the Procuratorate said they didn't know shit about my case.
After my release, the Political Security still called me several times urging me to "redeem my crime" by reporting more "problematic" games and mods.
Both my lawyer and I thought: fuck them.
We are now pressuring the Procuratorate and trying to find their mistakes.
I can't swallow this."
annotation 1: The original post used "50w" to refer to spies/traitors.The thing comes from the fact that under Chinese law, someone who catches a spy can get a reward of up to half a million yuan.
annotation 2: The"detention center" they talked about is not the same as those "detention center" in Xinjiang.It's kind of like a jail in America and holds people for shorter periods of time.
The mod:
Steam Workshop::Millennium Dawn: A Modern Day Mod
If my picture doesn't show then view this reddit thread with similar translation:
Reddit - Dive into anything
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