Dad Hires Digital Assassins To Murder His Son (Digitally)
from the awwwwwww dept
While the overwhelming evidence continues to show that video games aren't responsible for turning children or adults into little murder monsters, that doesn't mean there are no negatives to gaming. I don't have children, but I imagine some parents can find it a pain to get their kids to take care of their responsibilities when all they want to do is play games. The question is what do you do about it?Well, according to one dad in China, you murder the s%@$ out of you kid over and over and over again. Digitally, that is.
Frustrated by his adult son's incessant gaming habit, a man in China reportedly hired a number of in-game master "hitmen" to annihilate his son's avatar over and over again in an attempt to deter him from playing.
Quoting China's Sanqin Daily, Kotaku reports that the fed-up father, identified only as "Mr. Feng," decided to embark on this cyber murder plot as his son seemed incapable of pulling himself away from the computer long enough to find a job.I have to admit, I love this guy. Your kid likes to play games too much? Hire a bunch of better gamers to make his gaming life a digital nightmare. I imagine if the kid wouldn't stop playing basketball, Dad would get LeBron James on the phone and hire him to shadow the young man and block every shot he attempted.
Regardless, I think we may have to tip our hat to this guy. It would have been quite easy for him to blame the games, call it an addiction, or do any number of things to abdicate his responsibility as a parent. But no, Mr. Feng scrapped some money together and paid people to digitally shoot his son. That is parenting, people.
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In fact it's quite ethical and well thought out on the fathers behalf.
Bullying is continued harassment, in no way is this actual harassment since its part of the rules of whatever game the son is already playing online and there is always the chance for the avatar to be destroyed/killed within game anyway.
The only place this could backfire if if the son gets good enough at the game to then destroy the assassins, who in that instance might then (they would be silly not too) offer him a job as a 'cyber assassin', therefore fulfilling the fathers original goal to get his son working.
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Instead, his father tried to alter his son's experience in his virtual world, to make his son no longer *want* to play.
Now, his son has found out his father was behind it, so he may end up going back to play anyway, but it does appear at least to have encouraged his son to stop and think about what was going on and why.
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Want some, real cheap.
Only down side is, this house I live in gets pretty cold.
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A lot of parents generally take the all or nothing approach, do it now or else. Completely ignoring the point that there are more convenient points to stop at (ie waypoints / save points, in between multiplayer matches, etc). It's really rather unfortunate because in a lot of cases waiting for that point of convenience is within 5 minutes.
In such cases it's easy to get upset at being inconvenienced for no discernable reason. When a scenario like that is constantly repeated well, it's not a good situation for anyone.
In the particular case in the highlighted article, seems to me that by the time they need to be looking for a job, a parents ability to enforce their will upon them is quite limited. This method leaves the choice up to the kid, "Yeah sure you can keep playing, but I've hired cyber goons to repeatedly gank you, good luck =). I'll call them off if you do as you were asked and make an effort to find a job."
It's a rather ingenius way of dealing with the somewhat extreme situation in his hands. As for being expensive, well this did happen in China...
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abdicate
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There's a service to start
Come One! Come All!
Is your child engaging in too much HALO? Have they abandoned shoveling the driveway in lieu of World of Warcraft? Are you tired of having to move their feet to vacuum the living room floor?
Fear Not! We have the answer!
Our experienced Digital Assassins will kick their ass so quickly that they will spend more time creating new characters than actually playing! We can make their gaming experience suck so badly that shoveling the walkway sounds GOOD!
Then there is the flip side...
Come One! Come All!
Would you like your gaming experience to not suck? Are3 you tired of our experiences gamers killing you as soon as you enter?
Fear Not! We have the answer!
Our experienced Digital Assassins will stop kicking your ass so quickly for the low, low price of $10 per month. Or, perhaps you REALLY suck and would like one of our Digital Assassins to follow and protect you? We can offer that service for an additional $7 per month! For $15, we will target the avatar of your choice for 30 straight days simply because you don't like them!
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From: xX Jimmy Hoffa Xx
Message:
That's a nice Spartan you've created there. Would be a shame if something were to happen to it. We can protect him for 800MSP a month.
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Minimal Requirements:
No less than five years experience
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Must frag target no less than twenty five times an hour
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Base Pay $8 per hour plus $.50 per frag commission
If you are interested call me at 555-555-5555
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While EVE doesn't have a problem with contract killings, (Death is a big deal in this game) but doing so over and over again is considered griefing and will earn you a ban.
Online game companies already go after gold farmers because they make the game less fun for everyone else. Next thing you know there will be a huge crackdown on organized griefing for the same reason.
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I like it
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...is she over the age of 18, per chance?
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Have (digital) sword. Will travel(digitally).
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Meet me at the Pig and Whistle Tavern in the Stormwind Old Town, we'll talk details there. I'll be the lvl 90 rogue sitting in the corner.
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Especially considering the "kid" is 23 years old. How about, "Get a job or get out"?
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The Law of Unintended Consequences is not Mocked
"Another implication of the one-child policy is what's referred to as the 'little emperor' syndrome. Some social psychologists contend that many Chinese children, because they have no siblings, are not properly socialized into society. And in fact, these so-called Chinese singletons have been accused of being over-indulged, lacking in self discipline and having no adaptive capabilities."
Do the math.
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The real problem is bad parenting.
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im thinking of a experiment done where they repeated the "heroin is addictive" rat experiments but they went out of their way to treat the rats well, and they found they can make heroin non-addictive if they give the rat a non-awful life
now what does this have to do w/ videogame addiction? well u kinda have to be far more unhappy then a rat in a cage to find video games addicting, right? and then form a practical stand point what does "addiction" actually do; if not a emotional release valve. now what can we say about removing a release valve does, the pressure will either move up towards a higher tier release valve or fail to release at all; and these "happily ever after" i stopped a addict storys by using any other means then solving the root issues are in fact just ticking time bombs or issues the kid were already working on; without ur meddling(and u made their life harder while they were working on it)
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Instead the son's learnt behaviour and responsibility of his OWN actions has everything to do with it.
Though with your 'hugfest' response to is this cyberbullying above (read my response) I can see how you are jumping to conclusions based on fallacious hearsay, rumour, and unscientific evidence [your "well u kinda have to be far more unhappy then a rat in a cage to find video games addicting, right?" response speaks volumes]
Yes there might be underlying psychological or psychiatric issues, though blaming it on 'bad parenting' is just another form of avoiding consequences and self responsibilities for the actions of others.
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im thinking of a experiment done where they repeated the "heroin is addictive" rat experiments but they went out of their way to treat the rats well, and they found they can make heroin non-addictive if they give the rat a non-awful life
now what does this have to do w/ videogame addiction? well u kinda have to be far more unhappy then a rat in a cage to find video games addicting, right? and then form a practical stand point what does "addiction" actually do; if not a emotional release valve. now what can we say about removing a release valve does, the pressure will either move up towards a higher tier release valve or fail to release at all; and these "happily ever after" i stopped a addict storys by using any other means then solving the root issues are in fact just ticking time bombs or issues the kid were already working on; without ur meddling(and u made their life harder while they were working on it)
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internet spin on an old techniqe
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Certainly better
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Your house, your rules.
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Perhaps there's a way of applying the same concept to the actions of copyright maximalists and patent trolls. We need to brainstorm.
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What if he becomes so good even the mods cannot kill him?
This very well could be the end of the world ..... of warcraft.
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What if he becomes so good even the mods cannot kill him?
This very well could be the end of the world ..... of warcraft.
Well, maybe the son can get a job killing other unemployed gamers then his dad would be proud!
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Indeed. But hey, why let parents be parents when we can screw the internet with filters and produce infantile adults by severely limiting what children can experience or insanely increasing the age bar to whatever the legislative way. You know, for the children.
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Go and read the original story in Chinese and you'll find no facts. No names, even (just Feng). No corroboration. Just a urban legend that Westerners can now enjoy as news.
http://sinopathic.com/lost-in-transit-oration-or-there-are-no-ws-in-sensationalism-let-alon e-5-of-them/
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