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Today's Gamers, Tomorrow's Leaders?
slash-sa writes "Video games have become problem-solving exercises wrapped in the veneer of
an exotic adventure. In today's fast and rapidly-changing business environment,
the strategic skills they teach are more important than ever. From realistic battlefield simulations to the building of great nations, from
fantastic voyages through worlds of mythology to conquering space, "Generation
G" could well offer the answer to unlocking
great 21st century strategists and leaders."
Congratulations, you made it to the Senate.
Unlocking funds.
Congratulations, you made it into the White House.
Unlocking interns bras.
Congratulations, you became president.
Unlocking WMD.
liqbase
welcome our pasty-white girlfriend-less overlords.
Go and build a gamey gamey
Get those losers out of their basements
Leaders of the world...
I'm sure we'll all be glad that Johnny got his PhD in BattleCruiser 2000 when the aliens attack us.
LEEEROOOOOOYYY JEEEENNNNKIINNSS for president!
Actually, the way he blundered in to the mission reminds me of someone.
GW Bush doesn't have a warcraft account does he?
liqbase
nope he has a much bigger better toy collection.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
We need to find a Moon Master to defeat the Gorgotron somehow! Think of the Mooninites!
The game.
How about we just recognise that since his very dawn, man has filled his life with things he *MUST* do in order to survive (i.e. eat, hunt, have sex, etc.) & things he *LIKES* to do when he's not doing the things he *MUST* do (i.e. eat, play games, have sex, etc.) so that computer games are just another facet of the the things man has always done to entertain himself?
Also, can we make the assumption that any human being with an IQ higher than a sub-normal woodlouse knows that *REALITY* is *OUTSIDE* of his head and *FANTASY* is *INSIDE* it? Therefore , in all likelihood, the online *FANTASY* persona a gamer portrays in a game (or indeed elsewhere online) is probably far removed from the *REAL* person in *REAL* life. Thus, a great "Commander Napoleon Patton" in Battlefield 1942 might well be "Little Mister Sheepman Incarnate" in real life.
Now, can I please get back to my game?
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
*starts teabaggin*
male's creating female avatars in mmo's to get free gifts?
comment first, facts later. http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
"Ladies and Gentlemen of Congress, I come to you with a heavy heart. The {insert country here} have just attacked {tiny little country}, a small, peaceful nation with a great and long heritage whom we have sworn to protect by treaty. I come to you today to ask of you something that may cost us dearly in blood and treasure, but it must be done!"
"I ask you to authorize a Declaration of War. I ask you to allow our troops to pwnz0r the bitches, to be in their factories killin' their d00dz, and to unleash the righteous Zerg Rush of justice! It is our destiny to LOLZ at the n00bz, who have shown the audacity to utilize their aimbots and wallhacks of evil upon an innocent populace!"
"I will not lie to you. It will not be easy. But with the skillz, with the tenacity, and with a few tricks up our sleeves, our troops will come home in glorious victory, and our friends in {tiny little country} will be showerin' the eternal props at us. We shall be putting the deagle to the heads of those evil, heartless camping bastards in {insert country here}! We will never abandon our friends! We must do what is right. Thank you."
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
You forgot...
7. Outsourcing. Why bother gaining your own experience, weapons, and gold, when you can pay some chinese hack to do it for a fraction of the cost!
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
Great Britain Representative: That "AssMan24" is just a pathetic camper! Look at him! Camper!
Russian Delegate: In Soviet Russia Base Camps You! Hahaha... I AM THE ASSMAN!
US Appointee: Fucking nubs, you better turn on teh ha40rs cuz I'm gunna pwn you all next round!
UN President: Hey! No talk of hacks! I'm demorecording this and it will be reviewed. If I see any sign of cheating your entire team will be banned from competition!
Yep... it's going to happen.
There are only 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don't.
...time to export some more democracy!
The lessons learned from playing adventure games should work well in real life:
1. Take everything that isn't nailed down.
2. Touch everything.
3. Put everything on everything until something happens.
--Rob
Towards the Singularity.