• Cherufe [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Uncritical support for china in their opresion of gamers

      • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        how would you even enforce that? The police going to kick down your door after you play too many games of league of legends?

        • mittens [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          i dunno, here the only way to stop would be to ask for DoB when making an account and then limit access based on age. a measure that a smart 17 year old could easily circumvent if he just lies about his age.

          maybe tencent or whoever manages accounts on china asks for proof of age when making an account if you set your age to over 18 or whatever, like an ID. or maybe they don't do shit and expect kids to be honest.

  • auheben [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    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.

  • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    i can't believe you chapos act like china isn't committing a genocide right now. just look at what they're doing to the gamers of their nation

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    There was a joke twitter post saying China is putting gamers in concentration camps and no one got mad at it. As for the channel's problems, let me guess, "censorship"