LAN, WLAN, bandwidths and contents?

But SH is already on Earth from 2018?

The WoW community mostly consists of more or less annoying people who are especially interested in fantasy stuff, medieval festivals, math, and IT.
They can later take the jobs that are in demand in Industry 4.x.

Provided they are not burned out beforehand by some clueless parents in Mali...

Ok, this is the stereotype reversed now. But actively playing is still better than mindlessly consuming TV programming.

By the way, something has come of all the gamers I know.

Delicious.., I'll get popcorn

Above all WoW; right.

If Mali then really train; like CS and stuff.

Still somehow became something of me.

Now I finally remembered again why I detest public transport so much. Some time ago, there was a discussion about [Killerspiele] on Hart aber Fair, and since WoW was being hyped at the time, WoW was also the [Killerspiel]... that was when I understood that politicians have no idea and ARD/ZDF can only be for uneducated retirees. Since then, I have also been voting for the Pirates!

That was after a student’s rampage shooting. The student had previously spent years playing games rather isolated in his room, with a daily quota of >8h.

Then the usual disgusting CDU/CSU were given a stage, who exploited the case to bring an old demand for "killers game bans" back onto the agenda.

Because you know: when a young man shoots classmates with weapons from the shooting club after having isolated himself undisturbed by his guardians in his room for years, his computer games are mainly responsible.

The principle of talk shows is always the same, depending on the topic it makes your toenails curl more or less.
But those politicians or lobbyists are always given a stage who represent the most ridiculous positions. One has to let everyone have their turn.

Ergo: Playing computer games is clearly healthier than letting yourself become stupid through stuff like that. Especially if you have never really learned to shoot. In Mali or something...

to Evolith:
Your kids are obviously still small. But that will change. And when your son is always hanging in front of the console and always wants to play World of Warcraft and such, then you don’t give him a LAN socket, but take him aside and say, my boy, I see you are a hero, a fighter. We, Dad and I, therefore want to send you to the Bundeswehr so that you defend our fatherland in Mali or at the Horn of Africa, we will be proud of you, and if you fall for homeland and fatherland, we will cry, but also honor you. Boy, what do you think about that?
And then let him come....Karsten

Nice idea, but it won’t work. My husband and I are paintball players and thus deeply in the drawer of war-game enthusiasts.
No, he should play games quietly. I even find WoW (as a former WoW player) very good. It’s a thousand times better for me than if he played Wolfenstein. Since his father also tends to become addicted with these games, I know almost all of them. My task as a HeliMama then is only to limit consumption if necessary and to forbid one or another game if it doesn’t seem suitable for him.
My parents never had to do that with me, by the way. When a new Sims add-on came out, I basically spent the weekend in front of the PC. During my studies, we played WoW in the Horde for hours or sometimes Call of Duty during particularly boring lectures. There were times when it was downright excessive and times when you didn’t even look at the game. You were outside in the fresh air anyway, at the latest to drink. And oh wonder, I turned out okay, just like my gamer friends.

My youngest is 3. He still has very little to do with gaming. He will also be kept very limited for a long time, as far as I’m concerned. The older one is 16 and deeply into gaming.
I think it’s stupid to tell my kid how he should spend his free time. If he doesn’t want to go outside, fine. Let him stay inside. If the grades, household tasks and social life are right, he can game until he goes blind. I myself always hated it when my grandpa tried to tell me that at 14 I should properly and neatly enjoy ball games in the park. That was okay at 8 years old, but not anymore from 12/13/14! Incidentally, not even in my grandfather’s time. Most forget that at that age they started sitting in some dark corners smoking and drinking or doing other nonsense. Those were the outdoor activities. Well, and some had to help their parents in the barn.
Conclusion of this novel: Of course he’s getting his LAN socket.

: Yes, but how many people can even operate their router? Most haven’t even changed the password or use abc123 as their Wi-Fi password.