{"id":7180,"date":"2023-05-15T08:44:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zoha-islands.com\/?p=7180"},"modified":"2023-05-15T08:44:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:44:26","slug":"in-russia-ukraine-news-is-censored-but-counter-strike-is-extremely-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/in-russia-ukraine-news-is-censored-but-counter-strike-is-extremely-popular\/","title":{"rendered":"In Russia, Ukraine News is Censored, But Counter-Strike is Extremely Popular."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-header\">So Reporters Put the Truth About the Invasion in a Secret Room Players Can Only See When They Die.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-body\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XLcpNHnh_zo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Amazing cyberpunk-made-real story of the month, made possible by the fact that Counter-Strike Global Offensive is <a href=\"https:\/\/afkgaming.com\/csgo\/news\/7857-which-country-has-the-largest-percentage-of-the-total-csgo-player-base#:~:text=They%20collected%20data%20from%20over,the%20CS%3AGO%20player%20base.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">extremely popular<\/a> with young gamers in Russia (most of them either in Putin&#8217;s military or likely to be conscripted into it), but where news of the nation&#8217;s real invasion of Ukraine is censored.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hs.fi\/ulkomaat\/art-2000009555855.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Here&#8217;s what Finnish reporters did<\/a> with a user-made CS:GO map:<\/p>\n<p>When a player\u2019s avatar dies, the game view changes: For a while, the player can go through walls or fly around the map. At this stage, they can also find the secret room hidden underground&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There is a light above the door. This is a hint that taking a closer look at the object may reveal something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There are stairs leading to an underground room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">First, the player sees a wall with a headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Next to the headline, there is a map showing how many civilian targets in Ukraine have been hit by Russians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Another wall displays a news item on the Bucha massacre. When the player comes close to the images, they hear a Russian voice-over on their radio telling them what the images are about: Ukrainian civilians murdered by Russian soldiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hs.fi\/ulkomaat\/art-2000009555855.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read the English-language story here<\/a>. The CS:GO map <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=2969831273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;de-voyna&#8221; is available on Steam<\/a>. Consider giving it a good rating, so that more players will see and experience it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<div class=\"entry-more\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341bf74053ef02b751801b13200b img-responsive alignnone\" title=\"Counter Strike free room Ukraine info Russia\" src=\"https:\/\/nwn.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bf74053ef02b751801b13200b-500wi\" alt=\"Counter Strike free room Ukraine info Russia\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have A Great Week From All Of Us At Zoha Islands and Fruit Islands<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Reporters Put the Truth About the Invasion in a Secret Room Players Can Only See When They Die. Amazing cyberpunk-made-real story of the month, made possible by the fact that Counter-Strike Global Offensive is extremely popular with young gamers in Russia (most of them either in Putin&#8217;s military or likely to be conscripted into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/in-russia-ukraine-news-is-censored-but-counter-strike-is-extremely-popular\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3,4,5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}