Yeah, whatever, you enjoy your oppressed gamer spiel. At the end of the day, its not doing to change that limiting online playing time for kids is nothing even close to LGBT or minority oppression we see in china. You know, the kind that also applies to adults?
But if you really think online gaming is perfectly harmless.. you really need to re-consider your previous statement. Not that its the state's job to regulate that, but i'm not going to cry over it being regulated when it comes to kids[its impossible to hard-enforce anyway]
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Anything can be harmful. Gaming does not have any inherent harm attached, unlike drugs and alcohol.
It's not oppressed gamer, it's oppressed population. Your government has no business limiting your Internet access, your education or deciding how you would spend your free time.you enjoy your oppressed gamer spiel
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That's an issue with a school system that has you sit on your ass for half the day with no physical exercise. You wanna blame something for the back pains, blame sitting in a cubicle/chair all day at work/school.
Which is why a lot of things are limited when it comes to kids.
alcohol is fine in moderation.
All governments do when it comes to kids.It's not oppressed gamer, it's oppressed population. Your government has no business limiting your Internet access, your education or deciding how you would spend your free time.
lmao crying opression over online vidya for kids though
Last edited by JohnBrown1917; 2021-09-05 at 07:12 PM.
yeah, we have different rules for kids all over the world, who knew.
Keep on missing the point.What government in the civilised world gets to cut off my Internet to 2 hours a week? lol.
Seems more like your site, they probably agree with you on how limiting online gaming time for kids is somehow worse than oppressing minorities and LGBT folk.4chan called they want their shitposting back
Nice backpedaling, it was a direct response to me calling you out over caring more about online game for kids than any other issue. Again, far more people are harmed by any suppression of LGBT rights or minority rights than a kid only being able to play for 3 hours a week.
Parents limiting gaming time must probably be child abusers by your logic.
Last edited by JohnBrown1917; 2021-09-05 at 08:39 PM.
Depends on your definition of harm. I find the government deciding how much I can use my PC to be a deprivation of liberty, and since a totalitarian government that spies on me is bad, no. You are incorrect. There are far more children than LGBT people in CHina, and this affects parents, too. Maybe I want to play WoW with my kid and I can't because of the government.
Nice backpedaling
Not a backpedaling at all, you don't get to put words in my mouth.
I refer to my initial question. Are you just... socially inadequate?Parents limiting gaming time must probably be child abusers by your logic.
The issue isn't the government limiting gaming time, it's the government deciding how I can use my free time. It doesn't matter if they limit gaming, TV or books. It's no business of theirs.
This is some dystopian shit, and I'm done replying since no one should have issues understanding this.
Last edited by starstationprofm; 2021-09-05 at 09:21 PM.
It is understandable in the context of how China's youth is taxed with the responsibility of taking care of their elders and how their schooling system is structured where your grades will determine the rest of your life much more so than for us in the west.
We also have to take note that gaming in China is not done from a PC as it is done here, mobiles are a far more popular and accessible platform this is also why Tencent has gotten so big due to being a key player on everything mobile but that is worthy of another discussion.
I do think there is some merit in their approach as parents sadly do not always know best, but i do have other concerns about this beyond just how effectively this can be done on a large scale, it does seem to ruin childhoods or at least it takes a part of the children freedom and also free development out of their hands, pair this with an increasingly effort to make their lives all about "for the glory of the motherland" with a heavy nationalistic undertone seems troublesome in the long run.
Mind you that China already has re-education boarding schools to send troublesome ( kids that do not score well in school) kids to, what is something parents do make use off.
At one end i looks like it might produce quite hard working and educated young adults but the problem i see here is you cannot treat people like machines they have other needs, emotional needs and this seems to be more and more neglected in a race to become the worlds leading nation. I am of opinion that this is going to just create a greater group of extremes (read generation that rebels against the establishment) and this might come back and really hurt their dream of turning every soul into a good contributing member of society, however they seem to be trying to take control of everything they for example have an official party rapper to promote the state to counter the rap and hiphop scene in China.
China is actually a quite fascinating country if you are able to not let your biases dictate your thinking and are able to not look so binary at the nation as a whole.
“My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.”
― Anthony Hopkins
You can enjoy video games and whatever other forms of entertainment in your free time too, one doesn't replace the other. You can be a metalhead, a weeb, a rapper, an anime freak whatever and be gainfully employed and have active and healthy social lives. Attempting to restrict people from having fun to somehow squeeze more work hours out them is fucking pointless and is likely to make the original problem worse.
A healthy work-life balance is one where you work to live and not live to work. Take out of the "live" bit and all you end up with is an apathetic dead society that hates itself.
Japan has experienced this and the US is experiencing it too (more and more noticeably too), tho in the US we spent decades convincing people that "consuming" is a substitute for living, a trick people are buying into less and less.