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OlavoThis Chines are crazy.... lol let then spend they're focking lives whit games, who cares? If they die in cyber cafes, AS BETTER! less stupid people in the world, and the game goes on for those who think.
On this I have to agree with DragonElement
MiranoxThe simple fact is that today you can make a business out of almost anything. This situation is the same as people selling porn. It's sick, it destroys people's lives and we can't stop it.
Kinad off-topic but what fo you see as wrong with the sale of porn? As long as it is properly restricted and the people involved are doing it of their own free will I see nothing wrong with it.
SeaGull1723I'm Asian but never stepped foot on Asian soil.
For the reference, the majority of the farmers you see are actually Indian instead of Chinease. I could bring up the article but meh a bit lazy.
I can understand the viewpoint that Asians now ruin. Unfortunately, Europe and America is different of course so I have my high doubts not everyone understands the Asian politics and so forth. Remember China is under Communist rule, and the game time limitation is enough of an example how Communism take away freedom (not that I support the idea but it's the truth.) And that being many of the Chinese gamers are poor.
Sounds like I'm bashing my own countrymen? I face the facts. Just camp or let their items sit in my mail for 30 days just to piss them off. It's just another matter that you have to find your way out of them.
I'm sure many people will hate me for saying this but like many ideas Communism works in theory but not in reality, but then again, does our current capitalist society work?
The restriction on game play time is simply a response to the growing health and safety risk proposed by gaming in poor countries, NOT a restriction of freedom because of communist rule, would you trade the possible deaths of countrymen for a slight restriction on gaming time?
You could call restrictions on having nuclear weaponry in your possesion a restriction of freedom but you don't, why? Because it makes sense to restrict something that can kill many people, it's the same thing with China's restriction of gaming.
DragonElementAnd whether you believe me or not, virtual reality is next. It won't be soon, but when it does come, you can bet that it's gonna change a lot over the course of at least 50 years, and you can bet we'll be seeing things far worse than this.
I have long beleived that the greatest threat to the human race is ourselves, the only part of my view that has changed over the years is how we are most likely to destroy ourselves. Once it was the threat of nuclear war wiping out almost all living creatures, now it's virtual reality.
A lot of people play computer games because the reality they live in is to horrible for them to handle. This is especially true in poorer countries like China and India. Thousands are killed every day by war, famine, natural disaters and thousands of other causes and yet only a handfull of people do anything about it, AND WE SEE THIS AS NORMAL! It is NOT normal that alot of people do not ever TRY to help these people, and it's even worse that large "charities" are taking most of the donations they receive for themselves.
Your conscious mind may not think that the world we live in is such a twisted place but I'm betting your subconscious does. With more and mroe people going to computer games, books and videos to escape from reality, virtual reality may spell the end of the human race, or at least the parts with the technology. People will refuse to leave VR and forget about their physical bodies, they will live and die inside their fantasy.
But in the same way VR could help the human race better itself, by creating the first true united world, even if it IS a virtual one. And if you dig deeper you find more layers behind this, for if the technology is created to simply fire the correct electrical pulses into the brain that we feel, smell, taste, see and hear what is not real, then what is real? Is the "virtual" any less "real" than what we assume to be reality?
So, to finish, go out and do something to help the world. Not in some stupid hippy love everything way but do something that will actually help people who live in worse conditions that yourself. Go join Greenpeace or something, just do SOMETHING, ANYTHING to help the world climb out of the pit it's sunk into.
Shados, signing off.