That's right. They targeted gamers. The most oppressed minority group in the world. I hope that Hexbear and the international community will stand against this brutal oppression. #GamersRiseUp :jokah:
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I never understood why they made it into an "addiction" that individual children need to be "cured" of instead of targeting internet cafes and intentionally addictive free-to-play garbage. Like, don't let people do heroin in a drug flop, that solves most of the issue right there.
edit: also the history of using psychiatric diagnoses to persecute people is long and troublesome
I never understood why they made it into an “addiction” that individual children need to be “cured” of instead of targeting internet cafes and intentionally addictive free-to-play garbage. Like, don’t let people do heroin in a drug flop, that solves most of the issue right there.
I would assume that its because this is a much MUCH easier solution to implement then tackling the free2play industry and the way they've made them addictive. There's just so much absolute garbage out there that's scientifically designed to keep you engaged.
Lol. Im all on board with addressing the systemic problems that create this kind of addictive crap.
I'm just saying...this is a much easier solution to implement.
right, and easy solutions are often poorly thought out, ineffective and cause collateral damage.
This does seem like unironically dumb "Nanny State" shit tbh.
People with phones that constantly prompt them to "take your turn!" in afk-style freemium games? Just consumer choice, my dude. Nothing to see here.
A government that mandates consumption limits in line with good health and wellness standards? Fucking nanny-state fascism I hate it.
its only online games and frankly minors should be banned from open text online games 100% not just during the night (things like hearthstone for example where you can only give canned answers are fine)
I was about to do a China bad but that makes sense, just play an offline game
minors should be banned from open text online games 100%
Wait, slow down. What's this about?
kids get groomed a lot and exposed to reactionary ideologies by playing online games
The overwhelming most common instance of "grooming" takes place within your immediate family and family-friend groups. Get this Stranger-Danger shit out of here. Same with "reactionary ideology". This isn't something that kids just find online. It's put in place by family, by the reactionary chuds scattered throughout schools, summer camps, and other children's care organizations, and by other kids with reactionary ideology.
Meanwhile, free-text online access is consistently one of the best ways to develop and use one's language skills. Literally learning by doing. Stripping people of the ability to converse in free text is fucking horrible, not only for one's social development but for one's own language development.
Christ, why not suggest kids be banned from the fucking gym while you're at it? God forbid they get out and play any sports, because there's no shortage of reactionary assholes doing Little League Baseball. Everything from the community pool to the school chess club is out, because God Forbid someone with a Trump bumper sticker show up and open their mouths. Just pack the kids in Styrofoam until they turn 30, lest they see or hear something bad.
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
Very clever honeypot by the hexbear mods to get g*mers to out themselves.
this is only bad because some people's internal clocks are ahead or behind so they are more comfortable being up late
edit: its only online games so nvmd
You know it's possible to change your circadian rhythm right? It takes a few weeks though.
that's different from what I'm talking about afaik, but I'm no expert
