Overwatch (Blizzard, 2016) Video Game • Page 216

Her character mirrors Hsien-Ko from Dark Stalkers, so I took this from her wiki.

Geong Si, Jiang Shi (Putonghua), Kyonshi (Japanese) or Kuang Shi (Cantonese) are the vampires of Asian myth. They are caused by demonic possession of a person and said to have a dark appearance. They have physical bodies, but they are not alive, nor have will or thought. They are closer to Haitian zombies than to anything else in widely-known Western folklore. As it grows in powers, it gains new skills with their kind, among them rumored to have the ability to fly.

Before the Civil War and before World War II, it was said that the undead still walked the roads of rural China in parades marching toward their ancestral villages in Asia. Buried away from the family, a dead Chinese had no feasts, no paper clothes, slaves, boats, food, or incense burnt to him, since all these things are in the hands of his descendants. Such is the spiritual importance of the Chinese ancestral village.

When a Chinese person is killed, there are several ways to return their body to native earth, but the less-than-rich rural Chinese once used this form of underground railway. A medium or priest, especially a Taoist priest who had toiled in a specialized apprenticeship, would be hired by the village to bring their dead home, walking them along the roads, perhaps as one still sees geese herded down multi-lane highways in modern China.

Spells had a part in this ritual and in controlling the dead when they were made to walk, but there is nothing special or extraordinary about spells in the Chinese world. A wide variety of spells were usually written out on red paper called Dzi Dzat, the generic name given for the paper grave goods and ancestral sacrifices burnt to make a comfortable life for the afterlife.

Paper and bamboo mansions were burnt at regular festivals. These dwellings for the spirits of the dead were filled with paper representations of everything the ancestors knew or had wanted in life: favorite food, books, signs of rank, a pleasure boat or a young mistress, all in painted and folded paper.

In some accounts of the Kuang Shi, a spell glued to the face of the body is the medicine that makes it move. This method is favored in popular film, since it is visible to the camera, and the viewer can always tell a Kuang Shi by his label. Traditional accounts do not agree on this point. In modern Asian films, the Kuang Shi is the slave of the character of an evil Taoist priest, who launches platoons of these animated corpses at heroes at movies. This picture of Kuang Shi in current films does not represent their old form. Nevertheless, the Kuang Shi remains one of the current, tangible, commonly believed myths of Asia.

 

I also wonder if this means we get the HOTS skin for D.Va.

 

Damn, that's pretty wild

 

very excited for this high fives all around sorry i havent been posting in here much i got kinda burnt out on this game

 

I’m getting back into overwatch to rule the world.

I stopped playing right after the summer games started.

 

this might be a weird thing to complain about but going from destiny 2 which has such smooth shooting back to overwatch felt awful.

everything in overwatch felt slow and clunky so now I’m messing with everything to try and get that same destiny feel.

 

I kind of felt like the opposite actually. Plus the framerate is much higher than Destiny.

I've returned to OW since there's really nothing to do in Destiny right now.

 

I'm just killing time until that Destiny 2 PC release.

 

Man Spends One Year Making Overwatch Themed Anime Tribute

 

Halloween Event is live! 8 new legendary skins, endless Junkenstens Revenge mode, new cosmetics, its all wonderful

 

BEST SKIN

 

Need the new sym skin

 

I might pick up that anthology if I see it at any comic shops/book stores.

 

Oh boy... 6000 coins and I need like 3 skins this event...

 

Zarya's skin is everything. Kinda bummed Dva and Sombra don't have Halloween skins

 

yeah i don't care this time around. already have witch mercy so i'm good. i want d. va, tracer, and sombra skins.

 

I got like 6 boxes in an hour of playing and I’m good.

 

Not really feeling any of the new skins except maybe Sym. I think I'll get Imp or Devil Mercy with 1/3 of the 3000 I saved up and work towards 3000 again--those and Sigrun are the only legendaries I don't have for her.

 

Old Halloween Reaper Skin>getting hit by a car>new Halloween Reaper skin

 

hah, got Sym and Zarya already. I guess I can stop playing now.

 

Loving the new skins. I got last years Reinhart cause it was only 250 and then we won Zaryas skin in a box which was pretty cool. Guess now I need to play as her more often haha.
Also since I wasn't around for last years event everything is new to me so that's fun. I really like the junker game.

 

Skins I have so far from this event: McCree, Ana, Mei

Need ASAP: Sym, Zarya & Zen

Eh ones I could live without: Torb & Reaper

Seasonal events like these always suck me back in because they normally make the maps looks nice and have some decent skins and this Halloween one has been no different, good job Blizzard

 

Got Mei in a box and bought Zen's. Hoping for Symmetra at some point.