That's the beauty of college these days! You can major in Game Boy if you know how to bullshiat.

We just finished level3 and need too tighten up the graphics a little bit.

badscooter: We just need to finished level3 and tighten up the graphics a little bit.

Not that we need college credit to establish that video games build crucial skill sets (and these kids should be learning to voraciously read and write before anything else), but the only people who think exposing kids and young adults to complex systems is stupid are the people who never had the capacity to understand and/or manipulate those systems, i.e. "people who suck at video games".

Jesus, are we still teaching kids that if they complain enough, the workplace is going to conform to their personal "style?"

MAD magazine did it.

I recall seeing an article about doting parents fondly imagining the brilliant future in store for their scion in video gaming. The only unrealistic factor was the salaries offered in the imaginary want ads.
Way low by today's pay scale. Inflation makes fools of us all.

Scoot951: Bloody William: A relatively new, technologically advanced, interactive medium is used as an educational aid? THE HORROR!

This is certainly preparing them for the real world where they'll be able to write software and build bridges by playing racing games.


That's how my CEO negotiates things like GMP and Fee with Owners - best lap time gets their way.

I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to learn how to play video games.

Probably not hundreds of thousands but I don't want to know the real total.

Hello. My name is Harry. From 1976 to 1985 I was a video game addict. I'd lie to play video games, I'd steal to play video games. I would do anything short of actual labor in exchange for money to play video games.

I used to exchange dollars for token in one arcade where the exchange rate was favorable and then take those tokens to an arcade where their exchange rate wasn't very good. I knew which arcades took Aladdin tokens even though they weren't an Aladdin's Castle Arcade and I knew which arcades got new machines and when.

I knew I had a problem when I ran over that pedestrian with my car and he didn't turn in to a tombstone. I sought help but was turned away. The state didn't consider video game addiction to be an addiction. The feds laughed at the concept that a human being could be addicted to a bunch of noise and colors. Oprah laughed and told me to put on my man pants.

The only thing that saved me is that the arcade industry collapsed and video games are difficult to come by. I think I would have a complete and fatal relapse if someone were to develop a home arcade system. It would be even worse if someone were to develop games that one could play in a browser or on their portable phones.

I just have to take it one day at a time and think of Valerie Bertinelli sitting in a bubble bath every time I want to go down to the mall, past the mall thugs and put 5 tokens in to a Star Wars Video game and play it. Oh why doesn't R2 ever increase the shield strength?