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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.
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It's an outdated concept, a relic from when we we're uncivilized.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
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
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.
I don't personally know anyone hat plays DND, but plenty of people who play fortnite.
That says a lot about your social circles. I know a bunch D&D players but no one who plays Fortnite. Among all my friends and relatives, my dad is the only person who watches TV -- and most do read books (including dad).
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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
Whats next. PUBG? Halo? CoD? MoH? CS? LoL? DotA? Destiny? Diablo? StarCraft?
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The fuck it did. You cant prove it. Y'all might be figment of my imagination.
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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.
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.
Ban rock music
And dungeons and dragons while you're at it
And the waltz! And pool halls - that starts with "P" and that rhymes with "T" and that stands for trouble! And hemp - oh, wait, we did that one.
And most importantly - Blame Canada!
There's always a moral panic over something. People seem to like them. After all, it can't be bad parenting, it must be something else making my teen act like a teenager.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Says the guy who can have basically anything he wants.
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.
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?...
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.
They have as many propaganda issues as America...
They have the same propaganda issues as America, largely due to the owners of the propaganda organs being the same people.
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
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).
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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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."
with that teabagging?
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.
GW Bu
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**
there is a Dick and Denial group?
You know, Asking for a friend..
At any time the monarch could desolve parliament and start issueing edicts I believe.
Nope, that's illegal. And we know this because Charles I attempted pretty much exactly this, was successfully prosecuted for it, and lost his head as a result.
And that's only in the UK. Other countries have a written constitution which limit the powers of the sovereign explicitly. In Australia, for example, the constitutional effect of dissolving Parliament is forcing a new election.
As far as I know, there is no country in which H.M. can legally raise taxes without the consent of Parliament. This has been the case since 1215.
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