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Ban Fortnite, Says Prince Harry (gamespot.com)
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, is calling for the ban of popular battle royale game "Fortnite." The prominent member of the British royal family visited a YMCA in West London and spoke to mental health experts about addictive games and social media, saying that the latter is more addictive than drugs or alcohol. From a report: "[Fortnite] shouldn't be allowed," he said. "Where is the benefit of having it in your household? It's created to addict, an addiction to keep you in front of a computer for as long as possible. It's so irresponsible. It's like waiting for the damage to be done and kids turning up on your doorsteps and families being broken down." He also suggested that social media is "more addictive than alcohol and drugs." Further reading: Fortnite Creator Sees Epic Games Becoming as Big as Facebook, Google; and 'Fortnite' May be a Virtual Game, But It's Having Real-life, Dangerous Effects.
And dungeons and dragons while you're at it
Get back to work peasants. These castles aren't going to build themselves.
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It's an outdated concept, a relic from when we we're uncivilized.
It has done more damage than drugs or alcohol.
He's a prince and he's the one complaining about other people being in fantasy land?
I didn't vote for him
This, from a country that has convinced their populace that "skunk" cannabis is 500 times as strong as normal cannabis and can cause mental illness.
They have as many propaganda issues as America, but seems more than willing to blame everybody else for their problems.
saying that the latter is more addictive than drugs or alcohol.
Well, when someone gets cirrhosis of the liver from Fortnite or overdoses on PUBG, you let me know.
I am your King!
I didn't know we had a king...
I thought we were an autonomous collective..
I have trouble believing Fortnite is more addictive than drugs or alcohol, both which actually make you feel good for a while before making you feel like garbage.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Nothing good ever came from them
Ban people from having kiddos if they're not up to the task of actually being a parent.
If you NEED the Government to step in to keep your kids from playing a game, you are doing it wrong on multiple levels.
And get off my lawn...
However, the nanny state has proven to have limited success. There will always be losers who can't manage their time or their impulses, and society will always have to deal with these people the best they can. Be it pot, or gambling, or video games, it all comes down to who has the coping mechanisms to succeed in the world, and who is going to waste their lives doing whatever the current cool thing is, in this case Fortnite.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
For dat fortnight?
>TV LICENSE
>PRON LICENSE
>KNIFE LICENSE
>BREATHING LICENSE
THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF BONGLAND
What's with this new era of banning everything?
So far where I live they've banned:
Smoking in the park
Smoking at the University
Menthol cigarettes
Plastic bags (this got un-done by the State)
Styrofoam carry out containers
Trisodium Phospate (This really pissed me off because it's a GREAT de-greaser, and it's very safe)
NYC tried? to ban large sodas.
Just stop it. You're not really doing anything.
Whats next. PUBG? Halo? CoD? MoH? CS? LoL? DotA? Destiny? Diablo? StarCraft?
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... royals trying to tell the commoners how to enjoy their time and get some semblance of escape from the fuckshow that is the real world.
A much worse addiction still is monarchy. Look at how many lives have been destroyed by it. Most of those born into its seductive grasp refuse to drop it.
... to keep me up all hours in front of the peecee.
Yeah, how could interactive fiction from a company that hired psychologists
You act like that means it would be MORE effective.
You get a chemist and a psychologist in a room and see who can come up with the more addictive product...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Britain has much bigger problems than Fortnite, maybe he royals should do something about that.
Why the fuck would there be a YMCA in Britain? What does the A stand for there? Anal?
> Where is the benefit of having it in your household?
It's fun. Fun things make you feel good. That is the "addictive" quality. We must ban all fun things because people enjoy them.
Where is the benefit of having a royal family that dresses up as SS soldiers for halloween?
Why doesn't this guy make like his mom.
Fortnite didn't pop into existence all on its own. A company created it specially to be addictive so that they'd earn more money. Banning Fortnite just means another one will come along in a year. If they actually cared about what they were saying, then they should be banning the use of physiological manipulation in products. However since nearly everyone uses physiological manipulation, such as the colors at McDonalds, grocery store music, every instance of A/B testing, etc... then good luck trying to put that cat back into the bag.
The only solution I can think of is better education on how to level up your self-fortitude and constitution. I do know doing that is easier when you don't feel your life sucks. As someone with a really crappy life and no friends, I'm addicted to audio books.
Hmm so Fortnite wasn't really on my radar at all until I read this and was like hmm what's all this, then?
Oh it reminds me of the year or so of my life I devoted to Half-Life deathmatches.... totally not going to.. oh heck, lets have a look-see.... .. 1 year later... fuuuuuuuccccc....
The Digital Sorceress
drug deaths per year in the UK: 247 in 2015 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34...
alcohol deaths per year in the UK: 5,843 deaths in 2017 https://www.independent.co.uk/...
number of kids having died from the fortnight dance: none.
*the total count of entitled celebrity pseudo-rulers riding the coat-tails of an increasingly wasteful and arrogant theatrical monarchy into the apocalypse of Brexit remains uncounted, yet is at least 1.
Good people go to bed earlier.
The King fell ill, after eight helpings of grape marmalade. Marmalade is now banned from court.
Faith: Belief in Truth. Superstition: Belief in Falsehood.
The Prince did not grow up on a housing estate, where in the past (pre-social network, or games) the entertainment was hanging around on a street corner getting up to no good. There is many a household where the parents are happy that the children entertained in the house, rather than doing drugs on the street...There is also a reason why violent crime has dropped in the recent years, less youths hanging around... The average Joe does not have entertainments like weekly international travel, fancy cars, helicopters, butlers and personal chefs...they have games like fortnite to take away the disappointment of daily existence.
Commoners unite!
Have you paid your fair share of tribute to the warlord?
Royalty shouldn't be allowed.
I'm sure he would have said the same thing about Pokemon Go last summer if he hadn't been otherwise occupied with his wedding. Another way to phrase the headline would have been "Man from famous but declining hereditary line publicly jumps on game-bashing moral panic bandwagon - absolutely no one surprised."
Says the guy who can have basically anything he wants.
social media is more addictive then crack or meth, and I'm sure he has a wealth of experience with all three.
ban tranny porn?
Fortnite is FAR less of an economic drain for the U.K. than the continued waste of having a pointless "Royal Family" monarchy that doesn't even serve a real political purpose anymore!
But that said? I gave Fortnite a try and the game held my interest for no more than an hour or two. I know they keep downloading regular updates to it, so it's possible if I got in the mood to play again, I'd enjoy another hour or so of game-play in it? But I already paid to purchase PUBG first, when it was all the rage -- and played it a bit until I got bored with it. So Fortnite *really* just felt like another PUBG after that.
I see no reason it's any more addictive than any other online game? It just depends what an individual finds the most entertaining and compelling to play, and how much free time they have to invest in gaming. Sure, many kids or teens get hooked on video games and spend too much time on them. But the same parents who gripe about such things are often seen spending too much of their own time at casinos, gambling, or doing other things we could say are "bad for you" and should be banned. In the end, it's simply part of being human.
On how this man thinks, kinda scary.
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If we are going to retain royalty, can we at least play by the traditional rules where if you kill the king, you get to be the king.
Fortnite actually is deliberately designed to be addictive. Tencent bought 40% of Epic games back in 2013 with the explicit intention of making addictive games such as Fortnite that could wring as much money out of players as possible. In 2018 Fortnite brought in $2.4 BILLION in revenue, for a game that is ostensibly "free to play".
4 prominent employees including Cliff Bleszinski left Epic after the merger due to Tencent's involvement in the company, their plans for monetization of games or both.
This video covers the general structure and psychological manipulations that the game uses to get kids to keep playing and keep spending money and also talks about the 'in-game concert' that Slashdot had a story about last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"more addictive than drugs or alcohol"
For gambling susceptible perhaps, but most people playing a game can move on to other fun things without bad affects. Are you going to ban alcohol, tobacco, sugar, caffeine, pornography, BBC, sex, and many other potentially addictive things, Harry?
Origin of royalty:
first there were farmers who worked on fields and fed animals - it was/is very hard work. Then some asshole got ingenious idea - hey wait a minute - why should i work so much if i can simply go and kill some farmers and the rest will be in great fear and will give me all i want. Many assholes did the same and they begin fighting among themselves too. In the end the 'best asshole' was declared king and thus the 'elite royalty' was born. So in short - kings are just common bandits who were lucky to be left standing after the slaughter.
After some time passed the 'elite asshole' though to himself: why should i have to fight so much, this is too tiresome not to mention dangerous. Its better to just create a nice power structure, me on top with each link having subordinates who do their bidding. Its much cleaner and stable system. In time every such power structure degenerates and starts smelling awful - then it collapses and is restarted. Everything that happened in human 'history' is just a variation on this theme - nothing original or new really.
Today you have 'rich assholes' who again don't do any useful work but just extort everyone else to do their bidding. There were some attempts at 'communism' but again nothing really new - again there were assholes who took all the power and everything was just a fairy tale full of lies. 'Humanity', it never really changes - same methods - different 'names'.
If playing a game involving massive interaction, problem solving, and math skills is sooooo addictive shouldn't we use that to treat other addictions?
There seems to be an unspoken rule in Britain at the moment where is seems that no one can blame parents of any wrongdoing of their child. Knife crime rising (still no where near gun level in America before you start), blame the teachers and NHS frontline nurses for not checking/reporting it. Video game addiction, blame Fornite. Huge increase in mental health problems due to social media, blame Facebook.
As a teacher at a normal British comprehensive, the vast majority of these issues stem from poor parenting, but more and more blame seems to go elsewhere.
Saying that, we're also in a current situation with Brexit where not a single politician will ever say the words "the voters got it wrong and maybe we should deal with the underlying issues of why they voted that way rather than commit economic suicide", so maybe we just don't like blaming the root cause of issues because they'd be too hard to fix.
Doom, World of Warcraft, and hell I think even Bejeweled and Farmville probably make the same list. Every year, or every other year people are crying the same thing about what ever the new hot game is out there.
Well, when your dad is Prince Homeopathy, and a guy who has great quotes like as “the Westernized world has become far too firmly framed by a mechanistic approach to science.”, or whatever the hell that means (it's towards the last third of the article which details the general buffonery he's been known for for 45 years), then it really should come as a surprise if the Prince opens his mouth and says the kind of dumb shit that runs in his family.
Although.... he isn't wrong about social media, so, six of one half dozen of the other I guess.
When you're rich and royalty, you have no need for something like a game. "Ban it, the peasantry shall thank me later." he says off his throne completely unaware of the real world.
On premium memberships and skins? A generation is losing their allowance to one company...
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I just switched off fort nite and told my kid to stop Messing about chatting with his mates and go out and shine up the yacht. Those fuckers do not look after themselves you know
Bloody cheek of it
"Where is the benefit of having it in your household? It's created to addict
The same applies to TV, games, playing cards, dice, books that aren't textbooks, alcohol, coffee, tea, sugar, etc. There are lots of things in the household that you don't really *need*, aren't required to sustain life, and you may use only because you enjoy it, not because there's any practical use/requirement.
Entitled, staggeringly wealthy hereditary royal scion decides he doesn't see the need for something, his reasonable suggestion is to ban it entirely.
Old autocratic habits die hard.
Tell you what, Harry old chum, when you have the same entertainment opportunities that the rest of us have and have to measure COST as part of the value calculus, then we'll listen to what you have to say, what-ho?
-Styopa
So all of these Battle Royale games stem from a series of mods created by "Player Unknown", and they just happen to turn out to be the most addictive games ever? WAKE UP SHEEPLE! The proof of alien social engineering is right there in your face! God bless the Prince for pointing this out to us.
Alternatively, Harry may just mistakenly think the game mode is called "Battle Royals" and he's worried it's teaching the peasants to revolt.
If you're going from that angle, it's unfair to single out Fortnite. Many games now use similar monetization mechanics including mechanics borrowed from gambling. And mobile games have done so for much longer than PC games. Banning Fortnite will not solve this problem and it's incredibly naive and short-sighted to think something else won't appear that's the same or even worse (and in fact it probably already has).
Instead of listening to them? Curious...
Wonder if he asked any of them whether they thought Fortnite should be banned? Or just told them it should be banned....
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Fortnite is bigger than Jesus!
Sure, the addictiveness is there and it is intended and designed in. But "banning" is would just be another step into an even more authoritarian state that censors and controls everything its citizens are allowed to see, are allowed to read and are allowed to play. That is a vastly more serious problem as European history of the last 100 years nicely shows.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
A surprisingly moralising road for the next gen of the monarchy to walk down. They are dinosaurs and know full well that they could all be told to fuck off within a generation - so sitting in palaces at taxpayers expense moralising at us all is a risky strategy if he wants to keep his jobseekers allowance.
So you want random dictators for life...
That's not how a constitutional monarchy works, and not how the monarchy in the UK works.
Their role is ceremonial and ambassadorial, and brings with it a lot of benefits in addition to the billions in tourist dollars they help bring in. Things like unifying otherwise divergent interests in the nation, playing a non-political (in US terms, non-partisan) role in representing the nation abroad, playing a key role in bringing the commonwealth together which provides real political value (stability, influence) and economic value (trade, and, again, stability).
Their role has nothing to do with passing or enforcing laws beyond the purely ceremonial--not exactly the makings of a dictatorship.
Trump and the bulk of our government are all members of Royalty. We just don't call them that, but they got where they got because of enormous amounts of money and connections given to them by their parents; e.g. hereditary. Also they consistently argue that they're ordained by God (e.g. prosperity gospel); e.g. divine right of kings.
A ruling class by any name would oppress as much.
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Yes, but what is the consequence? There is no objective scale for "addictiveness" of games. Hence anything that could be done would just bring in censorship and a brief look at European history makes it amply clear how bad that idea is.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Have you watched the video?
No?
Go watch the video and you will see why Fortnite brought in $2.4 billion in revenue last year.
It is not the same as "other games" and hence why it IS fair to single out Fortnite.
They seem so friendly and proper on the outside, but the more you get to know the Brits, the more you realize how medieval they are in their thinking. Be it their government or the average citizen. If I had to pick the first-world country most likely to bring back witch hunts, it's the UK. It's really unsettling.
We should be building a world where instead of banning âoebadâ things, we elected the ones that really brings realistic alternatives. But no, we just vote for morons with hating tastes matches ours
20 Years ago...
"[Everquest] shouldn't be allowed," he said. "Where is the benefit of having it in your household? It's created to addict, an addiction to keep you in front of a computer for as long as possible. It's so irresponsible. It's like waiting for the damage to be done and kids turning up on your doorsteps and families being broken down." He also suggested that social media is "more addictive than alcohol and drugs."
You have no real power, and apparently no real intelligence. Remember your funny nazi uniform costume, Harry?
By banning something, you create an aura around it that will cement it as something kids will REALLY want to do, even more so than now.
It's a fad, and all fads have their adherents but it will pass. Don't be like every asshole government leader and think you can engage in mind control.
Wise words coming from somebody who married a darkie.
Sure, I completely agree.
On the other hand, children aren't allowed to go to casinos until they turn 18.
I don't have the answer, but pretending there is no problem, or that it's fully up to parents to monitor, does not seem to be the answer either.
He doesn't complain about the unhealthy addiction the general population has with royalty.
The taxes, "advice" and rules of a UK tyranny.
In the US the people have the freedom to enjoy what they want in their own "household".
The pursuit of Happiness.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
with that teabagging?
Smoke even more pot.
When the product that the psychologist designed is available... on expensive hardware that is required to play and easily monitored/controlled by parents...
vs. a product that requires only $5 and a sketchy friend with a lot of ziplock bags.
I know which choice I'm putting MY money on...
Fortnite brought in $2.4 billion
Aww, what a cute little revere stream you have built up! How cute!!
Compared that is to the $400 BILLION dollars in global drug trade. That figure is from 1998. Do you think that number to be higher, or lower now?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Didn't his secret police have an order to kill anyone giving him drugs?
Look it up, if they haven't scrub that from the net yet.
Charles's son Harry is obviously a chip off the old block, and is just as shallow and ignorant as his father. And, just as happy to offer his royal opinion on things about which he knows little.
Fortnite and PUBG are boring as fuck. Nothing happens in a regular match 75% of the time. Even Apex which is signifacntly faster has huge downtime.
It disgusts me people would rather play these games than other options but then the other 'modern' options are all garbage I suppose. Still sucks I have thousands of hours in games where you get instant action and they're all dead now.
... people addicted to the royals too ? :) =D
Bye Royals ! ;) =D
Casinos are different: That is a physical location dedicated to gambling, and no uncertainty about it. There can be one additional step before banning things: Make the game purchase-only for adults. Sure, enterprising kids will still get access, but that is the price of freedom. You cannot have safety and freedom at the same time. And sacrificing freedom has time and again proven to be an extremely bad idea.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I don't watch videos. If it's a well thought out idea, it should be written down. Videos, by definition, are designed to detract from whatever thing you're trying yo say.
I don't respond to AC's.
Nuke the UK
...must be quite the steam fanboy.
Oh well, your loss then. I didn't make the video so I have no control over whether it's content is written down or not.
Also the video is actually showing stuff on screen and talking about it. So a written transcript would be far less useful than a video for this topic.
You can also regulate things. The regulations can include banning of components or concepts without banning the overall product, as well as putting restrictions on components or concepts without banning the overall product.
and Crown Princess Ivanka
**Life is too short to be serious**
And Spain, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Venice, Florence (I'd say all the Italian republics but for San Marino), Athens, Manchukuo. And if you admit hereditary republics as monarchies, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, and maybe the United States, India, Pakistan, Equatorial Guinea.
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Men with no respect for life must never be allowed to control the ultimate instruments of death.
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Let everyone have children. Than the ones unfit to be parents will let their kids waste away playing videogames and that genepool will be eliminated.
Wait I just realized Fortnite is an Eugenics conspiracy.
**Life is too short to be serious**
They brought in that much money due to the popularity of the game, not due to the game model. As already been said, this addictive game model is nothing new.
Candy Crush brings in close to $4M A DAY, on just a single platform (mobile). Are you going to ban that too?
How the fuck does he even know what trisodium phosphate is; How does he care enough to post about it.... and not know why it's banned??
He's a fucking dishonest liar. A big baby who can't handle being told no.
Ruining the earth for his kids. BAWWWW I WANT TRISODIUM PHOSPHATE!!! Simple green smells funny and gives me dishpan hands!!!! Oh. My. Dishpan. Hands!!!
Stealing from their retirement because he doesn't like taxes
... They want you to be addicted to the treadmill so you'll keep playing and eventually hit the threshold where you are likely to buy in game things.
If a game has items for purchase in game, you're being psychologically profiled and manipulated to buy them.
people are encouraged to have kiddos so the ruling class can use them as labor, pawns, toys and soldiers. We won't be banning anyone from having kids. We'll ban them from doing things that don't benefit, enrich and amuse the top 1%. Like we always have. Even while those 1%ers indulge themselves in the very things they banned, like they always have.
You'd think after well over 2000 years of record history we'd have figured this shit out... Doomed to repeat it I guess.
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Royalty shouldn't be allowed. Where is the benefit of having it in your country? It's created to addict, an addiction to keep you subservient to another human for as long as possible. It's so irresponsible. It's like waiting for the damage to be done and kids turning up on your doorsteps and families being broken down. The stupid need to be ruled by a dynasty is more addictive than alcohol and drugs.
I used to think that, but looking at the United States right now I'm seeing the advantages of a constitutional monarchy.
If the so-called royal family has any power, even if they devolve some of it to a deliberative or representative body such as a parliament, if they can in fact take it back, then the parliament has no real power, just what is allowed to them by their inbred, blue-blooded masters.
If the, again, so-called royal family does NOT have the ability to claw any power back, they are not really a royal family. They are a publicly-supported entertainment that the people, through their elected representatives, suffer to call themselves the royals and pretend they are special, for what is ultimately, at the end of the day, the amusement of the people. LOOK, they can say, WE HAVE PAGENTRY! WE HAVE ROYALTY! WOOO!
Pshah. They have bullshit, one way or the other. If you will permit me to quote a queen, (Cersei Lannister)... POWER IS POWER.
You either have it or you don.t.
Holy shit the community on slashdot is vile.
Barking up the wrong tree much?
What we do need is a ban on exploitative capitalism. There, I've said it, cue the "omg communist" scare trolls.
But here's the thing: When making $$$ is the only purpose of anything, then there's nothing wrong with predatory game design, where you intentionally build in addiction using psychologists alongside coders. And it's not just Fortnite, it is almost every mobile game for the past years. More and more desktop games. And most of social media.
We could try to stem the flood with more regulations, forbidding certain titles, oversight committees, court cases, sending SWAT teams into game development studios and Facebook's headquarters and basically re-creating the War on Drugs because that worked so well and nobody has seen any drugs since the 90s and all the drug lords are impoverished today...
Or we could see the root cause and that's our unhealthy fixation on $$$ and our total neglect of everything else that makes a human and a society. If you are left-wing, you see in the environment and the influence of corporations on politics how this is wrong. If you are right-wing, you see in the falling apart of families, the disappearance of values from society and politics and the ever-expanding government control how that is wrong.
But we're too busy arguing over Clintons e-mails or Trumps hair-style to see that under it all we're really the same - except for the 0.1% of winners who're taking our humanity and turning it into profits. The makers of Fortnite are really the low-end of that bunch. And slowly we're all turning into such people because economic pressure makes sure that you, too, think more and more about money and less and less about other values.
You guys all didn't get what the zombie apocalypse really is about. Hint: The zombie virus is a metaphor.
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I know I have to type something here so something, something, quick brown fox...
Anytime a game reaches a certain number of concurrent players / accounts everyone starts claiming game addiction doom and gloom. Fortnite is simply the latest incarnation of this phenomenon. People will eventually tire of it's features and community, just like they have with any other largely populated game. Epic will eventually jump the shark and start allowing pizza delivery through an in-game feature and that will signal it's decline. :)
I spent the better part of a decade in the games industry as an engine programmer before I had a realisation that I had outgrown games and was viewed them as a waste of time for adults.
These "Free to Play" games that make money from microtransactions are designed to be addictive in just the same way that poker/slot machines are. Before I got into the games industry I did some contract work for one of the large poker machine manufacturers.
I've played a few of these type of games that have been big in recent years and they do lure you in with fast progress before you hit a "grind wall" where they make it just as easy to progress if only you'd spend some money. If you don't want to spend money, enjoy your days-long grind to progress.
Former colleagues/friends from the games studios I worked at are working for the studios behind these games and I found it absolutely stupendous to hear about the amount of money these games were bringing in. It's widely known that most of the money comes from "whales" - a handful of users who are so addicted that they plow thousands of dollars into them. This is the same behaviour we see in casinos and on poker/slot machine venues.
As much as I appreciate and admire the artistry and technical excellence that goes into game development, I find the motivation behind these games to be distasteful and this is the point I agree with the Duke of Sussex on.
The ultimate problem with Fortnite addiction is that parents aren't being what I consider responsible in teaching their children the importance of moderation and delayed gratification.
I have a lot of time for the Duke because like most of the British royals he's put his balls on the line by not just serving in the military, but actually being deployed in combat in Afghanistan. Just such a pity that he married that older divorced American.
The real information here is that Prince Harry sucks at Fortnite and is a whiner. The end, move along.
This is a hacked account, for which the owner can not be held responsible.
Only floppy spineless extremist right-wing Catholiban neocons ("dems") and utterly insane extremist right-wing Catholiban neocons ("reps").
Reagan would be called a leftist commie by what you call the "dems" today.
There are no conservatives either. Destructives would be more correct. Or just plain pussies. Not that your "libs" are much less of that.
Oh, and call me when the USA becomes a democratic state. (No bullshit like the "electoral college", nor the oxymoron of a "democratic representative".)
Sadl, human hunting is too. ... luckily.
Not that that would stop them from eradicating each other,
As a German ...
Trump ticks all the same marks as Hitler except for the intelligence.
A country that lost its pride and desperately longs to get it back. ... Check. ... Check. ... Check. ... Check. ... Check.
Populist speeches promising to make ecerything great again.
A president constantly daring to circumvent the democratic process and just decide to do what he wants.
A poverty-stricken population with low education and no employment perspectives.
A history of massive warmongering (and a insanely huge budget for it too.)
The only difference is, that Hitler was much better at making speeches as he was much smarter, and that the Nazis knew how to dress well, while all hope is lost on Trump's followers.
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o harry
You just know he wants to.
I believe chess has been played for over a thousand years. Now that's addictive! Maybe we better look into banning that too.
It is not too different from drug addiction. People playing hours at a time, while their real life slips away. They could be learning a language, or an instrument, or a working toward a degree, or reading books that broaden their knowledge and horizons, but instead they are glued to a virtual world that leaves them with nothing except for memories of non-real experiences. It is not too different from masturbating all day.
hasn't fartnite run its course yet? It seems like those things only last a year or so and then the kids are on to the next thing.
Everyone needs a form of entertainment. What is his? How is his form of entertainment any better than playing video games?
Might as well also ban fun.
Fun activities tend to be done more than not fun ones. It's a plain, simple fact of nature. For example:
On balance, people fuck more than they get root canals. Root canals are actually really good for you; fucking, by contrast, can have a lot of unintended and unpleasant side effects, that last for days, months, or years beyond the handful of minutes of pleasure that can be derived from such an activity as sex. You see, if you have a tooth in your mouth, (your own, obviously, not someone else's... why do you even have that in your mouth?!? Spit it out!) that has decayed to the point that the root is compromised, and has become infected with bacteria, the tooth can't really be saved at that point without a root canal.
A root canal is essential under these circumstances because without one, the tooth can suppurate, resulting in inflammation so painful it interferes with activities of daily life. Allowed to continue to fester, the pocket of bacteria can erode into the jaw bone, spread throughout the body, causing a condition known as sepsis, or septic-shock, in which a previously sequestered bacterial infection suddenly gets direct access to the blood stream. It is, I understand, a horrible way to die. A cursory internet search turned up this, (https://www.new-horizons-dental.com/blog/post/top-5-reasons-not-to-delay-getting-a-root-canal.html) list of reasons NOT to put off getting a necessary root canal. If you actually NEED one, they are literally lifesavers.
By contrast, fucking, while it can be SUPER fun, can lead to the spread of sexually transmitted infections, including herpes, gonorrhea, hepatitis, genital warts, the dreaded human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV for short, and worst of all, a parasitic infection that men can spread to women that causes their abdomens to swell up, resulting in bouts of insanity, cravings for strange foods and food combinations, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, accompanied by sudden weight gain that goes on literally for months, generally culminating in a bloody, screaming fit which can last between 15 minutes and over a day, in which the parasite is expelled from the body amid agony on the part of the infected woman. The nightmare doesn't end there, though. The end result is often extremely expensive, for both the woman AND the man who infected her through sexual contact. And all this assumes she doesn't at any point complain that the activity in which she became infected was non-consensual, the result of coercion, or the threat or use of force. Should this occur, the man can find himself locked in a giant cage with other men who are believed to be incapable of adhering to broader society's rules.
Either way, the adventure in parasitism doesn't end there. The parasite, shortly after being expelled, latches onto the chest of the victim whose body it has just burst forth from, and continues to drain her of precious nutrients and minerals. While incubating inside her, the parasite effectively rewires her brain causing her to care for, and even be willing to kill or die if necessary, to protect this screaming, demanding, smelly, selfish little beast. To quote world-famous physician Gregory House: Many women learn to embrace this parasite... name it, dress it up in tiny clothes, arrange playdates with other parasites...
Fucking, as an activity, can be conclusively shown, I believe, to be FAR more dangerous and detrimental for all concerned, than an allegedly addictive video game. BAN that, I say, PARTICULARLY among people who are basically parasites themselves, such as members of so-called "royal" families! MAYBE, with a little luck, we can put a STOP to that happening, and what a wonderful world it would be.
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
I'm sorry, but ""It's not fair!" is not an argument, it's a child's reply. It doesn't change anything about the facts about how and why Fortnite works as it does.
"Everyone else does it too" has never saved anyone's butt when caught doing something wrong.
I banned it from my home because I have a kid that was totally addicted to it. To the point where school results, social relationship, sports results and overall behavior were ... degraded ... Eventhough he could only play about 5-6hours a week! But he kept thinking and talking about it all day long.
But it's different to everybody! My other kid does never get addicted to video games.
I think my older one gets addicted to anything in fact - that's why he is so good in maths and sports though.
I think parents should be aware of how to deal wih videogames addictions - it would be way more benefical thant any gouvernment measure or celebrity speech.
I'm waiting for Pseudo the Torie Toadie to comment...
This is an april fool's joke video. You are dum.
Why did people in the US leave and overthrow Great Britain?
- Telling people which churches to go to and what to believe about the Bible
- Restricting trade and banning international commerce
- Telling people where they could and could not live
- Heavy taxation to finance their wars
In other words they wanted to take everyone's freedom away. Now that America is out of the British Empire its economy, wealth, and population far surpass it's mother country which still thinks it knows better! Maybe England should start learning from the US how to succeed.
the American ruling class long since figured out that calling themselves Kings and Queens was just painting a big bullseye on their backs. This way they've got all the advantages and none of the downsides.
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should mind his own damn business. I bet that was wifey's idea.
Harry's in a helicopter
Way above the dessert
Shooting at the ground below
With an automatic weapon and
He's so high that he's not sure
What he's even shooting at
But sergant major told him
That it's probably Afghanistan
And Harry's so brave
He's so courageous
He's been bragging all about it
In today's newspapers
It didn't feel like murder
When he sent them to their grave
It was just like he was playing
A computer game
The problem is that for all content like games, movies, books, the decision is quite fuzzy and that invites misuse and censorship. For a casino, there is nothing fuzzy.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Social media makes it much easier to control the masses.
People in power want nothing more than everyone being cataloged and analyzed, ready to be influenced by targeted campaigns for said people in power.
Itâ(TM)s parents that donâ(TM)t provide boundaries, controls and limits around entertainment and consequences for violating them. Add to this that Itâ(TM)s politically incorrect to say someone is a bad parent and we all now have to pay for the consequences as a society of people who grow up without goals, self-discipline and yet have an attitude of victimhood and entitlement.
A compromise could be for him to lead by example and to exclude from his social networks anyone who does not follow his lead.
I think it should not be banned because kids deserve a chance to relax, have a break and have fun
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