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Cities In India Ban 'PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' Over Fears It Turns Children Into 'Psychopaths' (yahoo.com)
Player Unknown's Battlegrounds is facing a "ferocious" backlash in India, Bloomberg reports:
Nowhere has resistance to the game been quite like India. Multiple cities have banned PUBG, as it's known, and police in Western India arrested 10 university students for playing. The national child rights commission has recommended barring the game for its violent nature. One of India's largest Hindi newspapers declared PUBG an "epidemic" that turned children into "manorogi," or psychopaths. "There are dangerous consequences to this game," the Navbharat Times warned in a March 20 editorial. "Many children have lost their mental balance...."
What's different about India is the speed with which the country has landed in the strange digital world of no laws or morals. It skipped two decades of debate and adjustment, blowing into the modern gaming era in a matter of months. Rural communities that never had PCs or game consoles got smartphones in recent years -- and wireless service just became affordable for pretty much everyone after a price war last year. With half a billion internet users looking for entertainment, PUBG has set off a frenzy.
Over 250,000 students entered one recent PUBG competition, according to the article.
At least one local minister criticized the game as "the demon in every house."
What's different about India is the speed with which the country has landed in the strange digital world of no laws or morals. It skipped two decades of debate and adjustment, blowing into the modern gaming era in a matter of months. Rural communities that never had PCs or game consoles got smartphones in recent years -- and wireless service just became affordable for pretty much everyone after a price war last year. With half a billion internet users looking for entertainment, PUBG has set off a frenzy.
Over 250,000 students entered one recent PUBG competition, according to the article.
At least one local minister criticized the game as "the demon in every house."
I thought they were all dirt poor.
I don't think its the game turning people into psychopaths... it looks like power-tripping is doing a much better job of that, maybe they psychopaths in government like to be an inclusive club, no 3rd party imitations allowed?
I t certainly explains the huge number of people parachuting into the countryside and shooting everybody in sight.
What's different about India is the speed with which the country has landed in the strange digital world of no laws or morals. It skipped two decades of debate and adjustment, blowing into the modern gaming era in a matter of months.
The modern gaming era began long before 1999. Pong was one of the earliest video games. That came out in 1972. The modern gaming era is almost 50 years old.
My grandma was concerned it would make me worship the devil.
In india there are sudden and large shifts happening because everyone can get a smart phone. And the older generation is all up in arms because the changes to society, loose morals of children, women on street corners, devil worshipping, lack of respect of the eldars, etc etc etc.
Give it twenty years and the old folks will have died off a bit, the younger folks will have had their own kids and this won't be a problem anymore.
The UK government has been taken over by psychos using the techniques of social media and gamer culture.
Compared to Rage or Grand theft Auto, that doesn't sound worse.
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Just like China they ban foreign competitors with fake concern trolling bullshit.
it's going through them right now. Same thing happened here but it was Mortal Kombat.
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All you have to do is stand still like you're camping and a bot comes along every time. Most players are completely unaware that they're the ones being gamed.
Good. Ban it in China next. Fucking cheaters the whole damn country.
Must be a mistake. Have your lawyers start calling after you circle back. Very sad. They must have left out the page that listed the actual numbers and response times. Probably conveniently on the floor of a Muslim print shop somewhere
The only folks who HAVEN'T been psychopaths in the western nations have been the kids.
It's all the non-game playing adults that seem to have gone bug-nutty.
Bill got caught lying 12-25 times repeatedly stating "Blood plasma is sterile" and then later that "The Chinese Govt does not directly censor Chinese citizens" and other absolute bullshit head-in-ass retard-level lies. You're not trustworthy.
You are not a source of information that anyone should or even could trust, knowing your dishonest history. Sorry. That's what accountability means when you get caught lying repeatedly, over and over, even after directly corrected.
You're a liar, Bill.
Bill got caught lying 12-25 times repeatedly stating "Blood plasma is sterile" and then later that "The Chinese Govt does not directly censor Chinese citizens" and other absolute bullshit head-in-ass retard-level lies. You're not trustworthy.
You are not a source of information that anyone should or even could trust, knowing your dishonest history. Sorry. That's what accountability means when you get caught lying repeatedly, over and over, even after directly corrected.
You're a liar, Bill.
It's a GNAA membership post, possibly. Or masking as one.
Sadly, despite updating the copyright and changing the name to Tim Cook, the shitpost is the same as it ever was. They need new copy.
Worlds biggest democracy arrests children for playing games.
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Does a dog know the difference between play fighting and real fighting? Yes. If any dog in the park crosses that line they all know basically simultaneously. Do you really think children are less perceptive of the difference between real and play? If not that kid has a problem and video games have nothing to do with it.
Why did you lie about there being a sealed indictment?
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Sealed. It means it's not opened yet. Even a retarded Republican traitor can understand how this works, one imagines...
Social media is "turning" people into "psychopaths". Adults who should know better believing in anything they read and then forming angry murderous mobs to carry out justice.
Those who do not learn from commit history are doomed to regress it.
India is a Hindu country.
"I'm not sure you comprehend how many kids then had regular access to an Atari, Odyssey 2, Amiga, Apple II, or regularly hung out at the local mall's arcade. " Fewer than the number with smartphones today, as a % of kids.
The "modern gaming" set as kids have exploded it in the last 20 years is a much larger proportion of kids than D&D MUD nerds in the 70's. That's just a hard demographic fact.
" The first generation are now in their forties and fifties, and mostly understand the appeal, and as such aren't as scared shitless by the way kids get sucked into these games." -The games have changed.
The motivating factors that socialize children have changed. I was there when Mortal Kombat's gore scared the church crowd, that's not related. Loot boxes, shaming, hacking, doxxing, bullying, these are serious things.
Those didn't really exist in the size, scale, scope, or speed of escalation in the 70's, 60's. Sorry. That's also just a hard fact. It's not "video games" as a general thing, it's what they specifically are reinforcing in society.
Fantasy violence isn't so bad by itself. MMO wolfpacks targeting people for real-life consequences, SWATTING, etc? That's not your grandpa's colecovision.
PUBG is banned in India
Haha
Modern gaming is about portability and realism.
The subject matter, morality, and choices you make in games have not changed.
In fact I think some games have become LESS complex. You can argue that your grinding and milling and crafting is more complex than the arcana in Ultima or the six person full gear layout of an AD&D pools of radiance type game.
But violence is violence, realistic or not. "Satantic" or "demonic" content (as the indians prefer) has been argued about "modern approaches" since Communism and Bepop.
Swatting? No, that is new because police are *trigger happy* now. If police didn't shoot first and ask later swatting would be related to a brief "knock-knock" "oh, you're playing games?" question and it wouldn't make a splash. Cops killing people is what swatting is all about.
You want to feel special, but you are not, unless you want to count police killing people in their homes playing games as 'modern', which i guess it could be since its broadcast online while its happening, but thats not what the article is talking about, is it?
...but we're foolish to believe that violent and anti-social media (of all types) does NOT have the potential to influence a percentage of our population which is more susceptible to influence and manipulation.
The problem is that this debate has almost always been polarized, black or white, when it comes to adults. Certain adults should never drink, certain adults should never consume this type of media.
I include so-called social media, as it ends up used, in the category of anti-social media.
The fact that we haven't created real laws, and sociatal pressures, to prevent young minds from exposure to it (like we have alcohol) is a shame and at least some component of our rise in apparent mental illness and anti-social behavior.
We're all cursed to "live in interesting times", I am extremely concerned about the life and worlds my kids will have.
Manorogi does not mean a psychopath.
Mano = of the Mind
Rogi = Diseased
Manorog is a general term for any mental illness.
Indians generally have a very poor concept of mental illness. It is held as a taboo and not openly discussed. Politicians are typically ill advised and are no better than public. The only thing mental that Indians talk about is meditation, not things like depression, dependency or mania.
This is probably just India's delayed reaction to the same gaming addiction that China was handling in its own way. I am not saying it is proper, but everyone is confused on what to do when their kids become zombies before the screens, stop studying and ignore their family for the screen.
MMO wolfpacks targeting people for real-life consequences, SWATTING, etc? That's not your grandpa's colecovision.
And isn't your {insert latest popular console or computer gaming platform here} neither, here around in the "rest of the world".
Swatting is a very specific problem of the US - a country whose police has tons of big toy that they are itching to send whenever some actions is happening.
The rest of the world doesn't even have "Swat" to begin with and wouldn't understand why sending military-like tanks whenever somebody phones in telling they "heard gunshots".
In other word, the problem aren't the games, the problem is your dysfunctional country where it is possible to send tanks at somebody else's house with a simple phone call. What is wrong with you guys ?!
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India is a Hindu country.
Over 20% of India's population (260 million people, enough people that the non-Hindu population alone would make India the 5th most populous state in the world) would disagree with you, no matter how hard the BJP is trying to claim otherwise.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
lack of respect of the eldars, etc etc etc.
Everyone knows that this is a problem and that it might let Chaos triumph, yet everyone's afraid to be accused of heresy if they dare to voice their concerns...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
good thing India has it's priorities in order.
banning and arresting people for playing PUBG is a more urgent matter then dealing with all the rape problems they're having.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Why do posts like this stay up for >30 minutes, and the posts where I make fair, rational points both sides can relate to are deleted in 10 minutes? Maybe I didn't say libzzztard or consurrvturddd enough times?
I remember when Ozzy Osbourne music was the root of all of this evil for teens.
At least one local minister criticized the game as "the demon in every house."
Now we know where Jack Thompson retired to after he got disbarred.
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Just think about it. What if, you were minding your own business, and then suddenly a wave of relatively inexpensive, highly portable VR headsets that covered all the six senses emerged from Dubai. The kids and young adults got hooked in, arabic became the coolest language in town and suddenly you also find out that they are having huge tournaments playing jihad wargames. How would you react?
Granted, parts of the example might be over the top - but it's important to realize how these sudden social, economical and cultural changes are affecting emerging countries. As someone here already mentioned, they've never had the time to gradually adapt like we did (and even then, for us it went pretty fast -- and we still have a lot of ethic/moral concerns yet to be addressed). I can only imagine how it must be to be a parent, watching my kids yearn after something so extremely different and unknown. Seeing them adapting foreign cultural norms (that might totally crash with my own upbringing) and experiencing the feeling of having absolutely no control. Is it really that strange they're going nuts about it?
Religion has created more psychopaths than any game or games ever will.
Worlds biggest democracy arrests children for playing games, yet allows call center scammers to bilk old Americans out of their life savings.
So, the way I see it, India has huge social problems .. you know, like gangs of people raping women on buses.
To me, India demonstrates a really scary fact about humans .. that we're all just barely above animals, and all of our talk about being enlightened and moral is just window dressing.
Video games isn't the issue here, but the fact that humans are barely above the level of barbarism, especially when you factor in archaic bullshit raping women in retaliation for crimes of male relatives.
Indian society, and indeed all human society, is at any point only just barely above the level of complete barbarism.
GNAA is classic slashdot. right up there with Natalie Portman's hot grits in soviet Russia, you insensitive clod.
I see no one is actually from India. Porn and PUBG are the biggest bandwidth consumers in the cheap 4G market of India, and the biggest 4G provider "Reliance" is currently financing the central government. Notice how it says "western India" because western states in India are currently ruled by the same party BJP. Since they cannot directly ban either Porn or PUBG they have taken other routes such as bribing a judge to pass "ban porn" judgments and banning PUBG via flimsy "health" reasons. The older generation doesn't understand the internet, and young people aren't voting anyway.
Great! It's ok to play Dungeons and Dragons again now!
And it is possible there are a few in their eighties or nineties who were the originals.
My dad was a gamer back in college in the 80s in his early 30s, held on just long enough to get me into videogames, then decided it was pointless and moved on to other enjoyments in life. I was talking to a guy in his 60s at an electronics store the other day who was looking for something to buy for his grandson. He looked a little lost, but when I asked him about it, he wasn't lost at the subject of games, but rather that all they had on the shelves was steam cards and boxes that all said they only included an online code inside. Having been a gamer like me back in the 80s (or perhaps earlier on mainframes) he found it extremely weird to buy copies of games that didn't include physical media and felt like it was giving less value as a result.
So no, the original video gamers are even older than you think, and may even predate that if you get into RPGs and prior to them, wargames, which may date back decades or centuries without including even older and simpler games.