U.S. President Barack Obama has endorsed the National STEM Video Game Challenge, a campaign to "promote and support student learning" in the areas of science, tech, engineering and math (STEM) by developing video games. Says the President: "Our success as a nation depends on strengthening America's role as the world's engine of discovery and innovation. I applaud partners in the National ...
Read full articleOriginally posted by flyingpen:1 in 1000 is still really really bad.
Finally something Obama did right.
Originally posted by KillerBug:Absolutely.
Yup...they are all the same scum. Don't believe that they are enemies; they all work towards the same goal; only their paths are different.
...But this article isn't about the rape of our economy for the last 10 years...it is about a $50,000 prize for writing a video game that kids won't want to play, a $25,000 prize for a game written by a child (not even kids will want to play that) and a $25,000 prize for making a video game for people who can't afford to buy it. It is all about serving those who do not want to be served, and serving those who do want to be served with something that they don't want.
BTW...Mr Obama has done many thing correctly during his reign...every morning he ties his shoes, puts on a suit, brushes his teeth, and does any number of other things very well. It is just that whole "running a country" bit that he has trouble with.
Originally posted by KillerBug:Yes but can many others do much better, could you? I couldn't. It's not easy running a country, because yea its the top seat but you still have rules to follow and people that still need to agree with you to get shit done. You can't please everyone, and that's the toughest thing about being President. Now I not saying he good or bad, nor will I comment on Bush. Obviously there are some Presidents better than others, but in the end every single one of em did something to piss off the majority of the nation at one point. I guess my point is, in Obama's shoes, he's doing the best he can with what he was given.
BTW...Mr Obama has done many thing correctly during his reign...every morning he ties his shoes, puts on a suit, brushes his teeth, and does any number of other things very well. It is just that whole "running a country" bit that he has trouble with.
Originally posted by Mysttic:Agree with everything here, Obama was given a country on the verge of collapse. We'd be complaining (today, 2 years later) no matter if McCain was president, if Arnold Schwarzenegger was president or if a talking dog was president.
Yes but can many others do much better, could you? I couldn't. It's not easy running a country, because yea its the top seat but you still have rules to follow and people that still need to agree with you to get shit done. You can't please everyone, and that's the toughest thing about being President. Now I not saying he good or bad, nor will I comment on Bush. Obviously there are some Presidents better than others, but in the end every single one of em did something to piss off the majority of the nation at one point. I guess my point is, in Obama's shoes, he's doing the best he can with what he was given.
Originally posted by baxter00:
BTW...Mr Obama has done many thing correctly during his reign...every morning he ties his shoes, puts on a suit, brushes his teeth, and does any number of other things very well. It is just that whole "running a country" bit that he has trouble with.
Originally posted by llongtheD:@baxter00
Originally posted by baxter00:
BTW...Mr Obama has done many thing correctly during his reign...every morning he ties his shoes, puts on a suit, brushes his teeth, and does any number of other things very well. It is just that whole "running a country" bit that he has trouble with.
Please run for office. Any office. I understand the right to free speech and all, but everyone likes to slam so hard and stupidly. I'd love to see everyone that thinks/feels/knows/says they can do better, run for office. The average person, which you and I are, doesn't and wouldn't know how to handle the majority of problems ANY president has had to deal with. You think you can, but you can't. Get some perspective, get some experience, get some people interested in you, then run for office.
Good luck.
Quote:There isn't anything wrong with cracking open a book; I don't think Obama or this article is saying lets replace our education system with video game learning. It's simply adding a medium or rather another tool to learn from. When done right video games can actually teach you a lot. Hell I really got into reading books after I started playing RPGs on Nintendo back in the 80s. So I can throw the question back at you, what's wrong with using video games as an added learning tool?
Back to the point of the article... I'm all for anything that aides in learning, but whats wrong with "cracking the books?" I guess with the culture we live in, we need to be constantly entertained.
Originally posted by Mysttic:I agree with what your saying, and wasn't trying to imply that Obama was saying replace our system with video game learning. Hopefully in the years/decades to come it doesn't become the primary tool. I just think there is more room for free thought, when not guided by software.
Quote:There isn't anything wrong with cracking open a book; I don't think Obama or this article is saying lets replace our education system with video game learning. It's simply adding a medium or rather another tool to learn from. When done right video games can actually teach you a lot. Hell I really got into reading books after I started playing RPGs on Nintendo back in the 80s. So I can throw the question back at you, what's wrong with using video games as an added learning tool?
Back to the point of the article... I'm all for anything that aides in learning, but whats wrong with "cracking the books?" I guess with the culture we live in, we need to be constantly entertained.
Now keep this in mind, I said added and not primary. Video games should never ever take the lead as a learning resource for kids or adults, that would be plain stupid.
Originally posted by Mysttic:I agree with everything here as well. The thing I hate most about critics is that 99.9999% of them just complain until they are blue-in-the-face. They've never been in the position before, they almost never offer suggestions to fix the problem and when the problem is fixed they aren't grateful instead they just start on the next "issue".
Yes but can many others do much better, could you? I couldn't. It's not easy running a country, because yea its the top seat but you still have rules to follow and people that still need to agree with you to get shit done. You can't please everyone, and that's the toughest thing about being President. Now I not saying he good or bad, nor will I comment on Bush. Obviously there are some Presidents better than others, but in the end every single one of em did something to piss off the majority of the nation at one point. I guess my point is, in Obama's shoes, he's doing the best he can with what he was given.
Originally posted by Mysttic:I agree with everything here as well. The thing I hate most about critics is that 99.9999% of them just complain until they are blue-in-the-face. They've never been in the position before, they almost never offer suggestions to fix the problem and when the problem is fixed they aren't grateful instead they just start on the next "issue".
Yes but can many others do much better, could you? I couldn't. It's not easy running a country, because yea its the top seat but you still have rules to follow and people that still need to agree with you to get shit done. You can't please everyone, and that's the toughest thing about being President. Now I not saying he good or bad, nor will I comment on Bush. Obviously there are some Presidents better than others, but in the end every single one of em did something to piss off the majority of the nation at one point. I guess my point is, in Obama's shoes, he's doing the best he can with what he was given.
Originally posted by KillerBug:School in WoW. Thank you, that made my day. Would it be a snow day if the servers are down?
Why can't we have real learning games? There are already a truckload of educational kiddie games...I'll be impressed when someone makes a game that plays like Bioshock, yet teaches trigonometry...maybe they could even add schools to WoW...if they did that, then the 8-20 wasted hours a day of every WoW user could go towards an education.
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