Thailand considering tighter cybercafe curfews to curb game 'addiction'

LMAo
I was about to say the same thing.
I actually first read Thailand considering tigger uppercut

comeon, why no Sagat or at least the guy from Ong Bak in the pic?

Asleep at the helm..

No shit. Doesn't Thailand have bigger fish to fry? Hell, doesn't the rest of the world have more important shit they could be worrying about?

This is precisely why when all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!" We must look down, and whisper "no."
(saw it for the first time today)

jokes aside: well put, WRE.

You should be happy someone has to do the time anymore in Thailand. If you have just moved there recently, you probably wouldn't know about "Moo Ham", whose road rage ended in him plowing over multiple people. He didn't do any time--didn't even apologized. His mom did apologize though.
A few months later, he plowed over a few more people. Still no jail time.
At least he didn't attempt to blame video games. They just straight up admit that the guy has psychological problem. Why did he keep getting handed a key to a nice new Mercedes, no one will ever know.

But yeah--Authority and parents are so oblivious to technology in Thailand. And it won't improve anytime soon. No one are genuinely interest.

Fact #4 about Thailand for you: People forget REALLY quickly. Even the worst knee jerk reaction will end because people lose interest after a week. Hell, people manage to forget about 2 consecutive coups within 2 weeks after the media stops reporting it!

Actually, Thailand never try to get rid of coup-every-other-year mentality. We know that democracy doesn't work in our country, and the only thing we can do is to end a gov't in a coup. I wish you can see how marred the gov't was before the coup. At least a few corruption cases (each costing millions of dollars) pop up every week. The gov't got caught red handed, and their response was "wait another 3 years until the end of the election term, then we'll quit".

This is but one of the less knee-jerk reaction on gaming. At least it's better than the "white games" initiative. The push toward locally developed, cultural education game was utter crap. And the gov't just keep trying to say how good they were.

No Thai government has been free of corruption on a rampant and grand scale, the current one included (this has been proven long before, when they were in power). So, to say that the Thai government is corrupt (including the ousted one) is akin to saying that the sky is blue, and this is true for all Thai governments. The difference is that the country was actually going somewhere back then as opposed to the years of the PAD and now. Now, it's been established that as long as you have a mob, you can do anything, including gain power, and do it with impunity (none of the mob have been arrested... they took over the country's airport and ruined the economy for crying out loud). Also, you'll notice that about the only major party not affected by the coup's twisted constitution is the current ruling party. That's what you get from a constitution drafted by committee headed by a closet-case transvestite, and passed by the slightest of margins (most likely because the people wanted it to be over with, rather than wanting the constitution itself). Look at it like this: The TRT party wins landslide victory, gets power. PAD comes in. Coup. TRT dissolved, heads banned from politics. It's back as a new party, wins landslide again. PAD comes back. Party dissolved again (with many other parties), and back again. Wins again. PAD comes back. Finally, so that the PAD, a minority, can be appeased, and so that the country can actually function, the one remaining, undissolved party gains power. So, again, it has nothing to do with the democratic process.
As to the government's incompetence, the Thai meteorological agency recently issued a warning not to use cell phones during thunder storms. Man, don't they watch Mythbusters? Or have an internet connection?

Sure is. I'm tired of all this crap revolving around "game addiction". They're acting like the devil has unleashed terror to the world, causing children to do "evil deeds". Bull crap, and I thought we were over all of this.

I was actually waiting for a This is sparta reference.