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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."
They obviously are better educated than you also.
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.
Compared to Rage or Grand theft Auto, that doesn't sound worse.
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it's going through them right now. Same thing happened here but it was Mortal Kombat.
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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.
Worlds biggest democracy arrests children for playing games.
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Aside from the fact half the population still doesn't have access to a toilet, Indian "middle class" is not on par with other counties with smaller middle class populations. Even screened windows are a luxury item in India. I suggest you actually spend time in India rather than browsing Wikipedia.
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.
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.
Caste is as bad as socio economic oppression, racial bias etc. Hinduism is not all about caste as your media/mind may have you believe. Dont believe everythink you think. Think twice before you judge, moreso before you type. Google is your friend. http://www.ece.lsu.edu/kak/cas... . Spock out.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
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.
the global explosion of radical Islam
Really poor choice of words there, pal... and a case in point.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
In India, we Hindus cherish peace of mind more than money
Well sure explains why they've been fleeing to Canada for the last ~50 years, for the explicit purpose of getting more money. And why we basically have a low-scale ethnic war in Brampton, Ontario between Indian Hindus and Pakistani Muslims, more so with the current crop of 2nd generation kids who are muslims who think that bashing some Hindu's on a Friday night is the height of fun. Which I'm sure makes plenty of sense, not so much over here. The funny thing is, money(wealth) can create an amazing amount of peace of mind. It can save your life, improve your standard of living, get more people away from hand-to-mouth starvation. My guess is, if Norman Borlaug hadn't decided to fix India's food crisis ~40 years ago, you wouldn't be here. That, is a great example of western wealth and western humanitarianism changing things for the better.
Have your big box dollar stores and mansions given you peace of mind? Have they now? I think not, seeing the aggression that typically spews from the western world.
Well yes. See, if you really want to look at "aggression of the western world" let me paint you a picture. Where we threw off the olde days of religion, then fought each other over trivial territorial issues, got bored of it, then decided that conquering the world had a nice ring to it. The irony of course is that despite your complaints over it, the fundamental impact of that western culture on India was so fundamentally transformative that you basically decided to shatter your society twice as hard with the existing caste system, and then piss up wind on the peons at the bottom daring to try crawling up from it to the point that the 'poorest' were the most likely to GTFO and become wealthy to escape the mess.
Simply, you should be glad that "western society" isn't say as aggressive as even 80 years ago. If it was, the stunt with the nuclear reactor and breaking treaties and in turn going nuke-hot would have led to a hot fast war.
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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?
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!
Wow, aggressive and threatening. Please, conquer your own mind and leave the world as it is. Nobody needs you saving it.
If you think that was aggressive and threatening, you don't know much history. That was stating of reality, I mean in your case these days I'd be more worried about China and them back-channel arming Pakistan.
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Ooos, did i say we dont need you saving the world? I meant exploiting s/saving/exploiting
Funny, it sure looks like you need the Americans to do that for you. You can't even keep ships safe from pirates in your own territorial waters, and go running to either Japan, S.Korea or the US who all have a regional defense agreement with each other to cover the that type of stuff.
But, exploiting hmm. Well, considering westerners were using sanitation 500 years ago and you're still dumping untreated shit and piss directly into the streets. I'd say you should be happy that someone is taking care of the issues you have, so you can actually fix your country.
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