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John Romero, the Man Behind the Hype
rockstarenvy writes "In a recent interview with the Escapist, Russ Pitts reveals a lot about who John Romero really is. As Romero puts it: 'After 10-plus years of reading about yourself, all the good and bad, it all just becomes irrelevant after awhile. I know what I'm capable of doing and the people I work with are united in our mission, and they treat me just like they treat each other. The whole fame thing doesn't come into play when we're in development, because we're all a team. I know some of my guys read a lot of forums and sometimes they'll see some remark that someone clueless made and show it to me, chuckling because they know the truth of who I am and how I work. The media personification of John Romero is not who John Romero is.'"
IMHO public schools are inherently evil. No matter how irresponsible they are, no matter how bad they are, no matter how incompetent they are, they are still entitled to coerce people to give them funding. That takes away direct accountability to results in one way or another, and always ends up with strange consequences (eg students get neglected to the point that some break and go off the deep end). Instead of trying to make a bad system work, why not make a bad system good. For the longest time the system in HK was completely private, and we didn't have zillions of uneducated dweebs like pundits predicted. People kicked in grants, schools awarded scholars, parents offered extra funds. Did some students slip thru the cracks, sure, but anyone would be a fool to think that it isn't happening just as much in the public school system already. Even the teacher of the year in NYC three times in a row said that the only way to fix public schools was to shut them down. Columbine was a hint of the fundamental problem and blaming it on video games is disingenuious.
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My first thought was "Night of the Living Dead", but no, that was *George* Romero.
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