Categories: Gaming

It’s no secret. The Chinese love their online games. In fact, when you think of PC gaming, the image of a short, socially inept Asian teen soon follows the image of a bratty, overprivileged Yankee brat swearin’ at everyone. And its not only the kids and teens. Even the adults are playing it. Apart from manufacturing counterfeits of popular Western brands, it seems to be their favourite pastime. Well now it’s gotten so bad that the Chinese government is considering clamping down on the amount of hours under-18s can spend on the computer playing online games. If they play for more than three consecutive hours, the points they score are halved. Guess they’re really into roleplay. I mean RPGs. Don’t get freaky and start making plans to go to China.

Those who play for five hours will get no points and be warned that they are entering “unhealthy game time.” Did you know that over 10% of them are classified as “addicted?” C’mon guys. There must something else you can do to escape the harsh reality of your rigid, communist society? How about girls? Well, you’ve got that “two kid” rule, so you have to be extra careful when firing your guns, if you know what I mean. Bonding with nature? Oh, right. Very little nature can be found in an industrialized country with over a billion locals. I’ve got it. How about good ol’ fashioned books? Meh, not such a good idea. And besides, in most classes the Asian kid is automatically the smartest anyway. And I know y’all can’t blog because the Chinese government isn’t too big on free speech. So I guess you should play on with all your wizards, knights and trolls. Just don’t do it too much. Because like Mama said, you’ll go blind if you click it too much.