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Writing a British history of popular video games one sales chart #1 at a time. Now in 2012. He/him. www.superchartisland.com
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Not only does Sleeping Dogs (2012) feature the voice of future Oscar-winner Emma Stone, there is some incredible meta foreshadowing in one of the first lines spoken to her character being "you thinking of becoming Chinese?"

A screenshot from Sleeping Dogs (2012). Main character Wei Shen is on a motorbike with a white woman called Amanda (voiced by Emma Stone) behind him. He asks "So what brings you to Hong Kong? You thinking of becoming Chinese?"
Screenshot of an Entertainment Weekly article from 2015 titled "I'm not buying Emma Stone as an Asian-American in Aloha" by Chris Lee. The text reads: "Accepting Emma Stone as an Asian-American in Aloha requires a certain suspension of disbelief and no small amount of magical thinking. In the Hawaii-set romantic comedy-drama, she portrays Allison Ng: an aggressively peppy Air Force fighter pilot of Chinese-Hawaiian-Swedish decent who falls for an existentially angst-y military contractor played by Bradley Cooper."
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Writing a British history of popular video games one sales chart #1 at a time. Now in 2012. He/him. www.superchartisland.com
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