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Portal On the Booklist At Wabash College

Posted by Soulskill on from the take-that-ebert dept.

jamie passes along this quote from a post by Michael Abbott at The Brainy Gamer: "This year, for the first time, a video game will appear on the syllabus of a course required for all students at Wabash College, where I teach. For me — and for a traditional liberal arts college founded in 1832 — this is a big deal. Alongside Gilgamesh, Aristotle's Politics, John Donne's poetry, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the Tao Te Ching, freshmen at Wabash will also encounter a video game called Portal. "

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  1. Re:Coordination? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Portal, at least for the PC, is really, really easy to finish.

    Honestly, I played it through a couple months back on my laptop, with the touchpad. Nobody's going to have trouble because it's technically demanding; if there's any issues, it'll be because they're too dumb to figure out what's next, and also too lazy to look up a walkthrough online.

  2. Re:Cliff's Notes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not only that, but Portal isn't culturally relevant and it's not public domain. This will only cheapen the works of the books and the memory of their authors.

    "Wabash College" will also become a laughingstock, if it isn't already. It already can't be very prestigious since it's just some tiny, mickey mouse school.

  3. Re:Coordination? by morari · · Score: -1, Troll

    Everyone knows that women are equally inept at video games and driving.

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    "He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune