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Thailand Imposes Gamers Curfew
bg writes "How addicted can you be? According to this article, Thailand will install a curfew to "protect" their childern from the addiction from Gaming. "Game servers, both local and overseas, will be blocked from 10.00pm to 6.00am daily from July 15 to Sept 30, while Internet cafes will also have their hours curbed to those times". Under particular attack is Korean role-playing game Ragnarok, which was introduced to Thailand seven months ago."
Remember, this is Thailand. During the hours from 10:00 pm to 6:00, that is where they want the children working.
I don't know what it is with Korean games, but the sounds coming out of the character's mouths never sync with their lips. I must have a slow PC.
That's horrible!! Those people may never know what it's like to do a 36 hour multiplayer marithon.
That certainly would be motivation to have a LAN installed and invite friends over for weeks at a time.
Hopefully it will prevent incidents like this, when gamers apparently don't know when to stop.
I wish they would come around to my apartment and *enforce* this curfew on me, personally.
Games should have a playing limit; If you play for more than 24 hours, it enforces you to shower, shave and eat something. You would have to present fresh evidence that these tasks have been done before unlocking the next level.
It would be for my own good :/
In a related story the US desides to block all porn sites during working hours.
"My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality." - Muad'Dib
Wait, corporations now own our children? Fuck, how long was I asleep for?
Placebo? Is that the art of convincing your enemy you hit him really without actually touching him?
Shouldn't you be out on a ledge somewhere?
"If God created us in his own image we have more than reciprocated." - Voltaire
Can you really imagine GW Bush getting on a podium and pointing at an initiative that came from Thailand as an example of a US initiative for children? Not only would it leave him open to attacks (Thai children's initiative? Is that something to do with the asian child sex trade?) but more importantly everyone should know by now that ALL GOOD THINGS COME FROM TEXAS. The moment Houston implements something like this (probably with a death sentence attached for violators) GW will round up Blair and hold a news conference. Besides, GW knows that only terrorists and file trading pedophiles use the internet, he's gotta wait until he gets the intel before he can try to have the marines land on the WWW
That's why you need to wear your tin foil hat! That way the government won't be able to read your mind.
Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. -- Emo Phillips
It's called a girlfriend.
When they finally take the ashtrays off restaurant tables, the sugar bowl and the salt cellar will look furtuvely at one another and wonder how long they have left.
"Anything not good for you is bad, hence, illegal. Alcohol, caffeine, contact sports, meat . . . "
"Are you sh**ing me? "
"John Spartan, you are fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality statute. "
"What the Hell is that? "
"John Spartan, you are fined one credit . . . "
"Bad language, child play, gasoline, uneducational toys, and anything spicy. Abortion is also illegal. But, then again so is pregnancy, if you don't have a license. "
Game servers, both local and overseas, will be blocked from 10.00pm to 6.00am daily from July 15 to Sept 30,
Without the annoying game traffic, it means more bandwidth available for surfing pr0n sites.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass