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the facepalm... my god...

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and it isn't the first time...

 

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Even for China — often the butt of Western gamer jokes about Internet addiction, boot camps to cure it, and neglectful, obsessed parents — the report sounds bizarre: A couple there are in jail, accused of selling two sons to child traffickers, and using the proceeds to buy virtual items in free-to-play games.
 
Yet it isn't the first report of Chinese parents selling children to fund a gaming habit. Three years ago, a story out of the same province of southern China told of parents selling three children, with the proceeds funding their collective gaming habit.
 
First, this week's story, reported by a television station in Guangdong. The couple in question is described as young and unwed and in a jailhouse interview the mother described her plight: Neither child was a planned pregnancy, and the father (pictured) had no intention of supporting them. The first child was sold to traffickers from Fujian, according the report; when they sold the second, the baby's paternal grandfather turned them in.
 
"[The father] likes buying items in online games, and he likes staying out all night at internet cafes," the mother said. [stories use pseudonyms for both of the accused.] Not only were the children seen as a drain on the money he'd spend on those games, the proceeds from selling them went to fund the habit.
 
Internet addiction has become a top-of-mind subject for a country where it is officially classified as a clinical disorder and so-called "boot camps" exist to wean youngsters off their screen addiction. Child trafficking, whether actually selling a child or forcing one to beg, is a visible problem in China and criminal punishments go all the way up to death. This latest story unites the two controversies.
 
The parents are being held in jail awaiting trial.
 

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Well, you gotta pay for that DLC somehow.

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finally. the facepalm has been implied

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Well at least the children are safe now from their maniac parents.

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I wonder what game they were playing. It wasn't CSGO because they mentioned the parents playing a F2P game.

 

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Well at least the children are safe now from their maniac parents.

they aren't they are in the hand of the smugglers, police is searching for them

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they aren't they are in the hand of the smugglers, police is searching for them

Yeah, if you watched the video you would know lol.

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I wonder what game they were playing. It wasn't CSGO because they mentioned the parents playing a F2P game.

probably something that only works in china F2P games are very P2W there because it way more profitable that in other place, i wouldn't be surprised if lots of user blows the equivalent of 100$ in very few items

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terrible news but this ain't tech news

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I didn't think Second Life even existed anymore O.o

It does. And it is jusst the biggest piece of glitchy shit ever... Clipping, all the clipping.

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