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You wouldn't have time anyway.Under 18? What kind of bullshit is this? How long can you game above 18 if you study University or have a job?
You wouldn't have time anyway.Under 18? What kind of bullshit is this? How long can you game above 18 if you study University or have a job?
I spent a year and a half teaching kids in primary and junior high schools in japan, still live here, and so many of them said all they do at home is play fortnite, so many of them said they slept at 4am the night before, so many of them said they want to be pro gamers, i'm talking about kids between 6 and 12 years old, losing so many hours of sleep, at such a crucial stage in their development... it was really awful
i totally support a gaming restriction for these kids. of course, their parents should have more control over them, but a lot of their parents are super busy and just want to relax at home ,so they don't care what's keeping their kids quiet. most of the parents pass out many hours before the kids do~
totally support this.
in fact, anyone who is against this is being willfully ignorant to the consequences of sleep deprivation, and also ignorant to how fucking useless being good at fortnite is.
edit: reading other comments, i'm just despairing at the way gamers have come to bend their perceptions of reality to accommodate their firebrand positions. Who gives a shit if it's the governments' or the parents' responsibility? These kids aren't fucking playing the game because they like it, they're playing the game because their vulnerable brains are getting rewired by the addictive reward mechanisms and addiction mechanisms that the makers of the game built in. They're losing sleep, brain cells, education, because a few companies have worked out a perfect formula for permanent profits.
If you had any sense of goodwill towards your fellow man you would be sickened that these companies manipulate kids who are too young to think for themselves into severely undermining a very important period in their lives for the sake of profits. But no, if it's anti game it must be the same as families saying Quake, or Marylin Manson, inspired Columbine so you have to take a stand against it. You're thoughtless and there are kids in Japan with severe health and social problems who you don't give a shit about.
They're not playing some underground rebellious title that we need to band together to defend, they're playing fucking fortnite, or they're playing gambling apps on their smartphones with real money requirements whenever possible, it's hardly gaming mozart people.
Thats because its a privilege. Its not a right. These kid nowadays demand their electronics!!! You will ruin their lives if they cant play fortnite with friends!!An hour a day and you're mad? I was only allowed gaming on weekends and holidays. Weekdays my console was locked up in my dad's closet.
Kids these days.
Not saying I disagree...but how do you feel about hardcore drug use such as heroin. Should it be illegal? Legal?How sure is everyone this isn't April fool's?
Yes, the world ought to orient itself towards your opinions, like a field of sunflowers towards the centre of the solar system. After all, if you've declared your opinions to be common sense, totally impartial as you are, what else is there to discuss, to argue about, right? Evidently, you mean well, therefore everyone should just follow along and take your word for it. You mean well, as have all the authoritarians in past millennia. Every single attack on personal freedom has been dyed in the pink of "it's for the greater good, even if you yourself don't see it for now ".
How original of you.
It's the parents' job to decide, not yours, not the government's.
By government, what is really meant is other human beings temporarily holding office. These human beings have no right to encroach upon the freedom of other humans when the latter are in no way trespassing upon the rights of any third-party. And if you do think the government have such right, have I got an extensive list of things that you won't be able to do in your private life starting tomorrow, because I have decided, in my infinite wisdom, they are detrimental to you, and an equally long enumeration of things you will be compelled to do in the private sphere, for your own good, and against your will, that is.
What if I, as a parent, want my kids to play 3 hours per day? What if I've observed that playing 1,5 hours per day renders them less stressed and thus their study time more focused and productive? What if I'm a single parent and my schedule requires my kids to stay put for 3 hours a day while I do the cleaning? What if 3 hours a day seems to speed up their cognitive development?
What if?
What's it to you, again?
Just who the fuck you seem to think you are to dictate how I run my life, the lives of my kids? Kids you don't know from Adam? Who the fuck you think you are to encroach upon my freedom, when I'm not in the slightest encroaching upon yours or anybody else's, eh
My life, my household, my kids, my computer, my monitor, my living room, my time. Not yours.
You run your private life however the fuck you please. I'll do the same.
So basically you're saying you choose not to be convinced by me because you can't handle the fact that positive common sense trumps your rage. Look mate i can't do anything about your hateful response, urprobablyright, fact is though i think this one is a no brainer. And no amount of your indignant message caused me to revise my position.
So basically you're saying you choose not to be convinced by me because you can't handle the fact that positive common sense trumps your rage. Look mate i can't do anything about your hateful response, urprobablyright, fact is though i think this one is a no brainer. And no amount of your indignant message caused me to revise my position.
I honestly appreciate the amount of time and thought you put into your response to my post.
Di di ditto
The article was orginally posted on the 19th , it just resurfaced because it goes into effect todayHow sure is everyone this isn't April fool's?
Haven't you got other threads to salivate over
Take a breather, manlet.
You're a drive-thru. I didn't even have to park the car on my way to other threads.Haven't you got other threads to salivate over
Well you just keep on driving savvy manYou're a drive-thru. I didn't even have to park the car on my way to other threads.
Keep clutching pearls like a little bitch and then b-b-backpedaling when someone laughs at you.
So basically you're saying
you choose not to be convinced by me because you can't handle the fact that positive common sense trumps your rage.
Look mate i can't do anything about your hateful response, urprobablyright, fact is though i think this one is a no brainer. And no amount of your indignant message caused me to revise my position.
I honestly appreciate the amount of time and thought you put into your response to my post.
Well you just keep on driving savvy man
DAFAQ DID I JUST READ
I have no idea. I can only assume this is some kind of right wing buzzword for "liberal bullshit", I'm not a liberal as you would call it and i don't pay any attention to that particular flamewar.Cathy Newman's
Maybe in the future you'll be able to put out an argument that isn't fallacious.
Appeal to Common Sense is a logical fallacy,
Source: Appeal to Common Sense Fallacy
Your assertion that I'm acting out of rage is also unsupported.
You have not established why the government should have the right to interfere in the private lives of citizens.
So while surely in the future you'll be able to offer non-fallacious arguments, that time, regrettably, hasn't come yet.
Leave it up to the authoritarian to regard and misconstrue any rational criticism as hate. Yes, any criticism directed at your fallacious arguments is "hate", the all-encompassing trendy comeback of the would-be despots.
But just how is this new law going to be enforced? It turns out that the onus of enforcement will be left to parents to figure out themselves.
Why would you google scat in the first place if you don't want to see any?PRO TIP: Never Google scat with safety filter off.
I happened upon it a while ago because I was looking for a GIF of Scrat (the little squirrel from Ice Age) for my stream and misspelled it .Why would you google scat in the first place if you don't want to see any?
I have no idea. I can only assume this is some kind of right wing buzzword for "liberal bullshit", I'm not a liberal as you would call it and i don't pay any attention to that particular flamewar.
Couch you position how you like, i think it's perfectly fine for me to think kids aught to be [what i said in my original post, in case dundunwhatsit is watching and will say I'm rephrasing shit]
I refer you to your original post lol
That crap you say about me not providing evidence is well worn forum nuke tactics, my reply to your post was deliberately brief and vague so telling me it was such doesn't matter much
So you're a republican.
I'm not from the states. I was giving an opinion not a fucking legal thesis, you certainly gave a few choice opinions yourself without the benefit of footnotes.
I don't even know what that means.
The only totalitarians i can think of are the ones who pedalled your values of inflammatory language and burning any charitable view as being pansy.
And before you go saying you haven't been spewing hate, read your op again.
Not that it'll do much good. I think i wrote good stuff in my op and, in future, I'm only interested in discussing that. With people who don't ask me who the fuck i think i am.
Look, i get it, you guys have been on forums for ages and you're really good at zero'ing in on anyone who is going against your ironclad views and picking them apart. This is your kingdom, fine. But go flit around a new carcass.
Edit: a fair few people who responded to my post were positive or thoughtful or similar. You two are the only ones who took your disagreement this far. That's one in the plus column
This is a parent's job, not the fucking government.
Sure but kids don't really listen to their parents.
News to me.
And the problem of addictive content isn't exclusive to videogames.
Call me vapid
Yeah schools would invite a white guy who doesn't speak the language to come in and have a talk with 80% of the boys and a fair chunk of the girls in their grades about the evils of videogames. I suppose you wouldn't care to hear that I actively discouraged any kid who came to me saying they love fortnite: "Remember to get enough sleep, or you brain will break!" or stuff along those lines~
I'm not a religious person and I don't know what you mean by 'social justice throwaway' but it sounds to me like you're using a blanket term to ignore social problems that are very important to people because it makes you feel like your opinions carry a fiery weight.
You know what leads to totalitarianism? People who go against common sense laws because they have a pugilistic contrarian instinct. You may feel offended by my word choice but the way you knee-jerk aligned yourself against it without perceiving my wider argument is pretty telling, wouldn't you say? ... call me vapid.
I have no idea. I can only assume this is some kind of right wing buzzword for "liberal bullshit", I'm not a liberal as you would call it and i don't pay any attention to that particular flamewar.
Couch you position how you like, i think it's perfectly fine for me to think kids aught to be [what i said in my original post, in case dundunwhatsit is watching and will say I'm rephrasing shit]
I refer you to your original post lol
That crap you say about me not providing evidence is well worn forum nuke tactics, my reply to your post was deliberately brief and vague so telling me it was such doesn't matter much.
So you're a republican. I'm not from the states. I was giving an opinion not a fucking legal thesis, you certainly gave a few choice opinions yourself without the benefit of footnotes.
I don't even know what that means.
The only totalitarians i can think of are the ones who pedalled your values of inflammatory language and burning any charitable view as being pansy.
And before you go saying you haven't been spewing hate, read your op again.
Not that it'll do much good. I think i wrote good stuff in my op and, in future, I'm only interested in discussing that. With people who don't ask me who the fuck i think i am.
Look, i get it, you guys have been on forums for ages and you're really good at zero'ing in on anyone who is going against your ironclad views and picking them apart. This is your kingdom, fine. But go flit around a new carcass.
Edit: a fair few people who responded to my post were positive or thoughtful or similar. You two are the only ones who took your disagreement this far. That's one in the plus column