{"id":48091,"date":"2021-08-31T20:36:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T00:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48091"},"modified":"2021-09-08T00:15:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T04:15:50","slug":"thats-one-way-to-approach-the-overpopulation-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48091","title":{"rendered":"That\u2019s one way to approach the overpopulation problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Not sure how they\u2019re going to make this work but ok<\/a>: China, the country, has decreed that those under the age of 18 years are now forbidden from playing more than three hours of video games a week; an hour a day only on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 8-9 pm local time<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to go out on a limb and say that within those who will have to deal with transition, the suicide rate just might go up.\u00a0 Considering the country is already facing an overpopulation crisis, this might not actually be the worst thing in the world to happen.\u00a0 Clear way for a newer, fresher generation of Chinese, who weren\u2019t raised and became video game-obsessed, mouth-breathing troglodytes.<\/span><\/p>\n

All seriousness though, I\u2019m very curious to know just how the entire country<\/em> is going to enforce this mandate.\u00a0 When it comes to online games and mobile games, I can kind of take some wild swings, mostly on account of a nation that\u2019s extremely big brother-ey in the first place and can probably try to implement shit to try and prevent their minors from unauthorized gaming.\u00a0 I\u2019ve already heard things about how some games will require cameras in order to play so that facial recognition can be implemented, but I\u2019m sure that\u2019ll lead to legions of masked gamers to try and circumvent the measure.<\/span><\/p>\n

But what about offline games, like consoles, arcade cabinets and shit like PSPs or 3DSs that can be played without an internet connection?\u00a0 I\u2019d have to take a guess that the console business is about to start doing very well in the near future if kids will be relegated to playing offline games by themselves or with their siblings, neighbors or with actual other human beings in the room.\u00a0 There\u2019s no way offline gaming can actually be enforced, and I\u2019m going to guess most parents will be so desperate for their kids to get out of their hair that they\u2019re not going to enforce this rule in the privacy of their own homes.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then we get to China\u2019s rich eSports culture, to where they\u2019re always among the world\u2019s best when it comes to all sorts of competitive gaming.\u00a0 But as I\u2019ve learned from my years of following the pro League of Legends <\/em>scene, pro players often times are starting their careers as young as 16, which means they\u2019ve been practicing and developing since they were way younger than that.\u00a0 Sure, I\u2019m sure there\u2019ll be all sorts of exceptions for those in careers and professionals in gaming, but with an entire country now limited to just three hours a week, the well of future players is about to get very, very shallow real quick, and I\u2019m curious to know what the future of eSports in China is going to be with this mandate in place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, another potential blowback to this law is that there\u2019s absolutely nothing that says a guy can\u2019t become a video game-obsessed cretin after they hit 18 and beyond, with the only difference is now that they\u2019re adults and can act like dicks as adults as opposed to being shithead pre-teens and teenagers.\u00a0 All of the educating and social graces they are believed to have developed from having their gaming being limited, all go flying out the window when 18-year old Xin Peng realizes the handcuffs are off, and then spends the next five years of his life glued to League of Legends, getting dominated by 14-16 year olds in Korea, Denmark, Russia and even maybe Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the end though, I don\u2019t think much is going to be made from this.\u00a0 If it doesn\u2019t blow up in their faces from the onset, it\u2019ll probably be a law that\u2019s so loosely enforced that it might as well not exist at all.\u00a0 And even if it is something that is enforced seriously, China is also one of the greatest cheating cultures on the planet, and no serious gamer would be above cheating over their own country\u2019s laws in order to have a nice marathon session of Counterstrike<\/em>, whether it\u2019s manipulating their IP, wearing a mask to circumvent facial recognition, or any sort of measure in order to get around the law.\u00a0 After all, this is a country where teenagers go to tremendous lengths to cheat during high school entrance exams, for something they don\u2019t even want to do, so imagine just how far they\u2019ll go when it comes to gaining something they do?<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, it\u2019s stories like this that kind of make me scratch my head and wonder why China is actually seen as this threat to the world when it comes to economics, business and general population.\u00a0 They can barely keep their own population in check so much being a threat to other countries in the world outside of building Chinatowns all over the world.\u00a0 But I could be wrong, and this could be a game-changer of a law that ushers in a generation of better adjusted, more mature and intelligent and successful Chinese citizens that are better than everyone else in the world that were raised on video games and other brain-rotting content.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t take that bet though.\u00a0 I\u2019ll keep my eyes on suicide rates among minors in China for the next year instead.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not sure how they\u2019re going to make this work but ok: China, the country, has decreed that those under the age of 18 years are now forbidden from playing more than three hours of video games a week; an hour a day only on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 8-9 pm local time I\u2019m going to … Continue reading That\u2019s one way to approach the overpopulation problem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72,30,83,19],"class_list":["post-48091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-government","tag-justice","tag-observations","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48104,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48091\/revisions\/48104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}