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China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week

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Post by ethagknight »

danudey wrote: post #713
namelessoracle wrote: post #7

I have mixed feelings about this. Younger me learned a lot of problem solving skills and most importantly spent a lot of time learning how to read by playing RPGs and games that required lots of reading. My reading skills would not have been as advanced if i wasn't playing text heavy games that had a lot of plot like Square Enix games and the CRPGs of the time. Modern games though are clearly designed to get you as a…

My 6yo son really, really wanted to play Breath of the Wild. He loves Zelda, my wife loves Zelda, my best friend's girlfriend is over the moon with Zelda, etc. I always played Link in Mario Kart, to the point where, when he was 2 or 3, he was in Best Buy with my wife and saw a Breath of the Wild Switch case and said "is daddy!" Of course, after a few requests a year and a bit ago, my wife had to give him an ultimatum…

What other games do you recommend? …uhhh asking for my 6 year old son who loves Super Mario 3D World… Zelda BoW is my next purchase

I fortunately bought a used Wii U bundle with a stash of games and controllers off eBay pre pandemic “for the kids” and I realized while playing with them that I far prefer them playing games than staring at the TV. We are talking and laughing and arguing and explaining the whole time during Mario. Kids TV shows just seem to send kids to this zombie state. I hadn’t considered the reading aspect of certain games.

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Post by WhyNotHugo »

3 hours a week seems SO extreme.

As an introvert kid, socialising mainly happened via video-games for me (and most of my circle of friends). With 3hs a week of ANY social interaction, I doubt I'd ever had made any friends, or developed ANY social skills at all.

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Post by stjohnswarts »

namelessoracle wrote: post #7

I have mixed feelings about this. Younger me learned a lot of problem solving skills and most importantly spent a lot of time learning how to read by playing RPGs and games that required lots of reading. My reading skills would not have been as advanced if i wasn't playing text heavy games that had a lot of plot like Square Enix games and the CRPGs of the time. Modern games though are clearly designed to get you as a…

I don't. This isn't about just video games. It's about the CCP controlling everything down to the most minute aspect of everyone's life in China. At some point the people will revolt and it won't be pretty with a nation of 1.4 billion in civil war. I don't see how anyone in the west could think this is a good thing. I can understand this from parents, not from a government.

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Post by stjohnswarts »

lhorie wrote: post #91

People talking about the benefits of games reminds me of people talking about the benefits of, say, a glass of wine with every meal: it's worth looking into but at the same time it's the sort of thing that obviously doesn't scale linearly with the amount/intensity of consumption. I similarly have mixed feelings as well, but for slightly different reasons. I've read about studies that say that musical training (which…

How about that old timeless classic pricipal of "my time is my time and not my government's" . We're not talking about parents limiting VG time, this is a government controlling the most minute details of everyone's social life.

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Post by rowanG077 »

BobJackienine wrote: post #925
danudey wrote: post #713

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My 6yo son really, really wanted to play Breath of the Wild. He loves Zelda, my wife loves Zelda, my best friend's girlfriend is over the moon with Zelda, etc. I always played Link in Mario Kart, to the point where, when he was 2 or 3, he was in Best Buy with my wife and saw a Breath of the Wild Switch case and said "is daddy!" Of course, after a few requests a year and a bit ago, my wife had to give him an ultimatum…

Every modern gamer knows that this is an exception nowadays most kids just want to play a looter shooter point click rinse repeat for a thousand hours

Yes Zelda BotW being the 33rd(1) most sold video game ever shows that this is an exception!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam...

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Post by drywater2 »

mrobot wrote: post #745

Good. I ruined my damned brain playing stupid first person shooters for disgusting amounts of hours from like age 12-22. Aside from the social life i lost out on, I really think my brain is permanently deprived of chemicals.

Same. I feel like games are fun, but at some point there are diminishing returns and negatively affect your social life.

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Post by mrtranscendence »

zerocrates wrote: post #551
A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote: post #400

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obligatory Disco Elysium mention, but it still proves your point, because it is considered so unusual by today's standards.

Though Disco Elysium is now almost-totally voice acted as well.

For what it's worth, I ended up reading and skipping the dialog more often than not. There's just so much text that having to wait for the narration felt interminable. It's great voice acting, though.

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Post by agentwiggles »

fomine3 wrote: post #812
agentwiggles wrote: post #653

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The difference, for me, is consumption vs production. If you spend tons of time learning an instrument, you will probably find yourself interesting in creating music. Maybe it's not going to be playing in a band, or recording albums. It might just be playing music around the campfire. But that is an activity in which you are producing something, bringing music into the world. I feel the same about any of "the arts".…

Totally agreed. Paradox is that most sports are basically same as non-exceptional games you said, but it treated very well from society.

That's true - although the physical activity from sports is probably a net good for _players_ on average. I enjoy lifting weights, but that doesn't really fall into either of my categories - I'm not really consuming or creating anything when I'm lifting. You could argue maybe that I'm 'consuming' my workout plan (which I didn't create). Or that I'm 'creating' muscle, but that's a bit of a stretch :)

Either way though, I agree that _watching_ sports TV is firmly in the "consumption" category.

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Post by missingrib »

rank0 wrote: post #235

I am appalled by all the supportive comments in this thread. Why are HN users so comfortable with authoritarian government? It’s about more than just online games. It’s about control. I’m sure the great firewall is perfectly fine as well?

HN users are extremely contrarian.

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Post by bigbob2 »

fma wrote: post #599
bigbob2 wrote: post #511

Really strange decision to make in the middle of a pandemic. You would think they would be encouraging activities which enable social distancing, not banning them.

Chinese citizens: "What pandemic?" The Chinese government was able to control the pandemic because they are authoritarian. Meanwhile Florida just received 14 portable morgues. Before I get the "Fake News" crowd coming at me...I was on a video conference call last week with my Chinese counterparts in my company (my first meeting) and I was taken aback when everyone in the conference room didn't have masks...then I rem…

I mean the virus came from China so I guess they didn't do that great of a job of controlling it. Not only that but can we really trust the numbers China is reporting? They have been completely non-compliant with investigations which could have resulted in saved lives. Lots of people (most?) in the US seem to have the same brazen attitude of not wearing masks in crowded spaces. Not long ago CDC was advising that people who are fully vaccinated don't need to wear masks in crowded public spaces.
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