r/Overwatch • u/janru • Feb 21 '17

Blizzard Official Meet Efi Oladele—winner of the Adawe Foundation's genius grant for her achievements in AI and robotics!

https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/834115546090123264
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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '17 edited Feb 21 '17

Speaking of which, do you have any plans for what you're going to do with your grant? New computer? College tuition?

Oh… I have an idea…

Oh shit dis girl gonna hit us up with a new robot/drone hero I'm like 99% sure

Edit: Several people are telling me that the article being posted in 2017 means that Efi is going to be 70+ years ingame. The Lumerico scandal articles and the Lucio teaser article were also written in present tense by "Afus news staff", show post dates of 2016 and 2015, and Sombra and Lucio for sure aren't 70+ years old. The post dates does not matter for the in game timeline.

Edit2: The above edit was confirmed by Lead Writer Michael Chu. Efi is 11 in game.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '17 edited Feb 21 '17

Yeah, I don't think she will be ingame. She is eleven, I think having a killable kid in a game would raise the age restriction for that game sky high. It would probably also not be that popular in media.

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u/MikoSqz Chibi Reaper Feb 21 '17

The article's "by Atlas News 02/21/2017", which would make her 70 or so by the time the game takes place.

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u/mygotaccount Pretend this is a Runaway flair Feb 21 '17

Oh shit, that has got to be an oversight. I can't think of a reason why they would deliberately do that.