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.
What's a skinner's box?
It's like a box you put a rat in and it pushes a button and sometimes the button triggers a mechanism to provide the rat food.
I think the inconsistency makes it more addictive. Intermittent randomized rewards are often compared to this.
https://behavioralscientist.org/21st-century-skinner-box/
https://youtu.be/MOgowRy2WC0
I read "21st century Skinner box" to the tune of "21st century schizoid man." It honestly fits perfectly in terms of meaning.
I heard the guitar riff
A Skinner Box is a often small chamber that is used to conduct operant conditioning research with animals. Within the chamber, there is usually a lever (for rats) or a key (for pigeons) that an individual animal can operate to obtain a food or water within the chamber as a reinforcer. So, the games where its just a big stream of content and you press the button and get the reward feel like that. With Ghost of Tsushima its "run here, listen to peasant talk, kill 6 to 12 mongols, get cosmetic item, repeat"
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