'Minecraft' Partners With United Nations For COVID-19 PSA Campaign (hollywoodreporter.com) 60
The sandbox video game Minecraft has teamed with the United Nations for a PSA campaign that aims to spread helpful information and health tips amid the coronavirus pandemic. From the Hollywood Reporter: In an official blog post on Tuesday, a spokesperson from the game's Swedish developer wrote, "At Mojang, we find that distributing factual information is incredibly important, as that information will help people make informed decisions, which in turn may save lives. One thing we're doing to help is teaming up with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and their partner, Heart17. Together, we'll spread the word under the banner of #TomorrowTogether."
The blog post noted that over the next week or so, Minecraft's social media channels will be devoted to sharing crucial health advice derived from the World Health Organization's safety recommendations. There will be three videos in the campaign that replay guidelines about practices such as handwashing and social distancing. "So if you suddenly come across a Creeper asking you to wash your hands, don't worry: their agenda has not permanently changed," the blog post continued. "In the game, they still want nothing more than to get cozy with you and proceed to blow up. But in our social channels, and for the time being, they also want to help put an end to the pandemic."
The blog post noted that over the next week or so, Minecraft's social media channels will be devoted to sharing crucial health advice derived from the World Health Organization's safety recommendations. There will be three videos in the campaign that replay guidelines about practices such as handwashing and social distancing. "So if you suddenly come across a Creeper asking you to wash your hands, don't worry: their agenda has not permanently changed," the blog post continued. "In the game, they still want nothing more than to get cozy with you and proceed to blow up. But in our social channels, and for the time being, they also want to help put an end to the pandemic."
Re: I'd rather watch movies (Score:3)
Wait until you've seen Hospital Bill!
Re: I'd rather watch movies (Score:2)
I misread that as "dictator".
Appropriateness: Checks out.
U.N. (Score:1)
Ending Cold War: fail
Ending dictatorships: fail
Ending world hunger: fail
"Wash your hands": success!
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Why did you leave out the first half of that tweet? Was it to make it sound like the WHO was making the claim?
Propaganda.
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Was it to make it sound like the WHO was making the claim?
WHO repeating the claim made them complicit (especially as Taiwan had told WHO it was human-to-human transmissible). Just like when Trump said he trusted Xi and China’s handling of the coronavirus, it made him complicit:
JOE KERNEN: --are there worries about a pandemic at this point?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: No. Not at all. And-- we’re-- we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s—going to be just fine.
JOE KERNEN: Okay. And
U.S.A. (Score:1, Troll)
I agree. We are much better!
Starting Cold War: success
Starting dictatorships: success
Starting world hunger: success
"Wash your hands": fail!
Stupid U.N. just doesn't know how to define success!
It was a joke! (Score:2)
Jesus fucking Christ! OF COURSE they did not *literally* "start world hunger"! How triggered-stupid must one be, to take something obviously impossible so literal?
But the USA and its corporations and military certainly did a huge share of exploiting countries, in the footsteps of the colonialists to which starting it can be attributed the most!
Oh, and Russia started the cold war aswell. Thank you, Captain Obvious! Yeah, that toootally means the USA didn't and I thought "only" the USA did, because you liter
Re: U.S.A. (Score:2)
You call that crap "food"?
Chicken on drugs, dumped into bleach and ammonia because they lived and were slaughtered in such dirty nasty conditions, they would otherwise not be fit for human cunsumption?
Diabetes bombs made from white powders and chemicals that sound more like and are closer to a bioweapon than anything found in nature?
Stealing people's spring water and selling it to them in plastic bottles that dissolve estrogen-like substances into it?
Vegetables sprayed with so much poison, they got white sc
PSA: Trump trolls got mod points again. (Score:2)
Acting like triggered toddlers with autisic asperger's, who can handle neither reality nor a joke.
Predictable as hell. And easily controlled by their master for exactly this reason.
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Ending world hunger was a resounding success. Activists had to rebrand their efforts from "ending hunger" to "ending food insecurity" and define "food insecurity" as something which included things like "skipped breakfast" to continue funnelling money from donors.
Many of those morbidly obese Americans? They're food insecure because they often skip breakfast in favour of snacking many times later on. Word hunger is beaten. But you should still keep on paying.
Re: U.N. (Score:1)
The March of Dimes was started to fight polio. After polio was cured, they had a whole set of barnacles built up and an operation to collect funds. So instead of shutting down they 'repurposed' to 'fight' birth defects.
Never tell a do-gooder that they did good and should move along. They've got a salary to collect.
We solved this problem, let's solve the next one (Score:2)
Ending world hunger was a resounding success. Activists had to rebrand their efforts from "ending hunger" to "ending food insecurity" and define "food insecurity" as something which included things like "skipped breakfast" to continue funnelling money from donors.
Yes, people fail to notice when things go right; they only notice when things go wrong. The fight against mass starvation turned into the fight against "hunger", and nobody noticed. The fight against people literally dying from no food turned into the fight against "food insecurity", and nobody paid attention. Most of the world starvation that happened in the 1950s and 1960s was solved -- and the predictions of hundreds of millions of people starving in the 70s and 80s didn't happen. And nobody cheered
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Never tell a do-gooder that they did good and should move along.
They did move along you idiot.
Going from polio to infant mortality is moving on.
Errrrrrr.... (Score:2)
Minecraft is still Microsoft, right?
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Are you asking if it's okay to hate Minecraft because Microsoft bought Mojang?
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I think they're asking if the headline translates to "Microsoft partners..." and the answer is absolutely yes. My brain actually translated it for me, I literally thought that's what it said. And effectively, it does.
Re: Errrrrrr.... (Score:1)
There is still a cross platform java version of the game. But Microsoft is working hard to push the console and Windows 10 versions of the game, complete with oodles of paid-for DLC and whatnot.
The hard core fans are sticking with the mod-able java game, though.
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Technically, yes, and Bedrock Edition definitely so. Mojang still runs Java Edition and Microsoft took a surprisingly good and thorough hands-off approach.
At one point one of Mojang devs bitched on Twitter about problems running the game after Windows 10 installed some updates. Once I reminded him he's technically a Microsoft employee, he had a bit of 'whoah' moment.
PSA: Trump trolls got mod points again. (Score:2)
Calling Trump fans mentally retarded is not an insult. It is a verifiable scientic fact.
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Stop trying to make "streets ahead" happen.
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They have a class system and currency. They are not communist. They are in fact strong on capitalism, and extremely authoritarian. They're just a fascist capitalism.
Re: The same UN and WHO (Score:1)
They are a flagrant example of the failures of Communism. Are you a Trotskyite trying to promote the one true Communism? Try selling your defective goods someplace else.
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I'm just someone who can read. Try it, it really helps
Their statements are at odds with themselves (Score:4, Interesting)
At Mojang, we find that distributing factual information is incredibly important
Minecraft's social media channels will be devoted to sharing crucial health advice derived from the World Health Organization's safety recommendations
Which is it? Factual information or WHO recommendations? The way they handled this pandemic means you can only have one of the two.
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Which is it? Factual information or WHO recommendations? The way they handled this pandemic means you can only have one of the two.
If your only choice of information was Trump or the WHO. Which would you choose?
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Probably the one under a hell of a lot more scrutiny. Luckily the world isn't as black and white.
So you can't even bring yourself to admit the WHO gave better advice than Trump.
You know Trump is just using it (and you) to deflect attention away from his own failures.
Re: Their statements are at odds with themselves (Score:1)
Trump didn't "give advice", he closed the border. To great effect.
But it doesn't matter. You buzzsaws are going to rip away at Trump as your primary objective until you get some Democratic stooge into office.
I almost dread Trump getting re-elected because it means anti-Trump crapflooding from you tards for four more years.
Biden is the new Bob Dole, though, so we'd better get ready for it.
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Trump didn't "give advice", he closed the border. To great effect.
You're delusional.
But it doesn't matter. You buzzsaws are going to rip away at Trump as your primary objective until you get some Democratic stooge into office.
You're also trying to deflect from Trumps obvious incompetence.
I almost dread Trump getting re-elected because it means anti-Trump crapflooding from you tards for four more years.
Biden is the new Bob Dole, though, so we'd better get ready for it.
Trump is excellent at getting his followers lining up behind him and defending the indefensible. Just as you are here. He probably will win the election.
Don't pretend for a second that that is the same as being a good leader, or even being capable of making good decisions.
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No. It is the same as one or two more supreme courtappointments, though.
And those of us opposed to a 'strong executive ' powerful Federal govenment get four more years of a mediocre president, so that the powers of the executive will be reduced more and more by the rest of the government. Having a guy like Trump in office is an excellent motivator for reducing the power and reach of the Federal executive, something all real conservatives support.
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Pointing out Trump is an incompetent fool who is trying to deflect attention away from his numerous failures isn't anti-American or pro China, pro CPC, pro WHO or even pro Democrat.
It's just how a democracy is supposed to work. "leaders" who can't lead shouldn't be allowed to hide in the shadows blaming everyone else for their mistakes.
People like you who are completely blind to anything your own team does wrong, is what is dividing America.
We stand together, strong, against those who would divide us.
Yea, sure you do...
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There it is again. People taking the CPC's side and attacking America. Why are you on Team China and not Team USA? There you are, trying to divide us into warring camps again. We are all Americans. We stand together, strong, against those who would divide us.
A person professing to love their country while still pointing out it's flaws, calling out bad leadership taking their country down the wrong path, and acknowledging past mistakes is a patriot. A person professing to love their country without doing all that is simply a fanatic.
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Looks like someone took the blame bait
PSA: Trump trolls got mod points again. (Score:2)
Very predictably skewed moderation once again.
Currently... (Score:2)
For about a month now the 'splashes' (diagonal yellow text that appears on top of the Minecraft logo in main menu, normally chosen from a couple hundred (or thousand?) catchy phrases), display various advice regarding the coronavirus situation. Short little things, 2-4 words, like "Wash hands" or "stock up but don't hoard".
Is that a reasonable use of development funds? (Score:2)
So, why the hell would the UN Development Program be involved? Is that how it's supposed to use its resources? Is there a rational relation to it's purpose? Are they a gatekeeper for WHO recommendations and guidelines, or operating outside th
Forget the curve, Flatten The Fear (Score:1)
This is the most deplorable kind of propaganda. Targeting children. How about teaching some basic math like calculating a percentage.
Here's one:
( 179,725 global COVID-19 deaths / 7,800,000,000 global population) x 100 = 0.00230416666
Yes that's ONLY 0.0023% of the world population; a rounding error at best.
Note: The deaths are known to be exaggerated as many are counted without testing to confirm.
World Confirmed: 0.033 %
World Deaths: 0.0023 %
US Confirmed: 0.25 %
US Deaths: 0.014 %
Meanwhile in the ONLY count