An older man was yanked away from his PC by his granddaughter. She thought he was too old for League of Legends and was just embarrassing the family.
The Asian-focused site 2p reports on a strange phenomenon. It is a video showing a gray-haired man being pulled away from his PC by his granddaughter. He was calmly playing a game of League of Legends.
2p states that the girl is apparently his granddaughter and she pulls him away saying, “League of Legends is for young people. Grandma has already prepared the food. So stop playing the game. You are embarrassing us.”
The young man next to the mismatched pair seems to find the situation quite amusing.
In the video, the man valiantly defends himself. But 2p says : Ultimately, he gave in, turned off the PC, and went home.
PC Bangs are a big deal in Asia
Mein-MMO says: It’s strange when gaming takes place in public like in China.
There, gaming has developed differently than in our context. In the West, there were once the large arcades with slot machines. We have shifted gaming into the players’ homes – we play on home consoles like PlayStation 4 or Xbox One within our own four walls.
In China and South Korea, however, gaming has remained in public. In PC cafés, the so-called PC Bangs, online games are played excessively. PlayStation 4 or Xbox One hardly play a role in Asia. The social life of a generation partially takes place in these PC Bangs, which replace clubs and associations as they are common in the West.
There are interesting considerations as to why this is the case:
- Poor hardware at home.
- The “One-Child Policy” in China means that siblings are missing at home, and players yearn for company.
- Asians simply have fewer problems playing together in public than we do.
Asian developers who come to the West marvel at how our gaming market functions at all without the crucial PC Bangs, so deeply are they rooted in daily life.
In any case, this difference leads to strange situations like this one.
Strange things happen in China:
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