Weird 2010's gamer nationalism meets china bad.
"Oh no, kids won't be able to use games to escape reality now" — Good, have them play outside or read a book or something.
"Horrible, I couldn't live without games" — Yes, this law is attempting to help people before they become like you.
"New generations won't grow up to be gamers now" — How will society survive!
"It's about controlling freedom of thought" — Ah, yes, this will stop the great dialogue had by fourteen-year-olds in LoL game chats.
I am definitely making a value judgment based on WoW. Not Battlefield Bad Company 2 which I could pick up and put down pretty easily, and I also played with friends and met cool people on servers and ventrilo and mumble. I do think online communities can provide social needs just as good as a physical community; but there is something tangible about physical communities that we have to cultivate, because tangibility makes actions a lot easier to maintain, recurrence builds habits, and solidifies networks. While I am of the opinion that the digital is also material, digital spaces are also at the total mercy of Capitalist enterprises (except for small arks and holdouts like this place).
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yeah, everything in moderation. which I think the chinese are trying to accomplish. Moderation.