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    Are Video Games Teaching Kids The Skills They Need For The Apocalypse?

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    Image of SinisterBill SinisterBill
    02/27/09

    In reply to Are Video Games Teaching Kids The Skills They Need For The Apocalypse?
    I'm hoping I can use the technical repair skills from my youth to curry favor with our robot overlords.
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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    02/27/09

    @Pwnieboy: Your skills won't be needed but it shall amuse us to have you polishing jet nacelles for a few hours before we convert you and the rest of the "goodlife" to fertilizer!
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    02/27/09

    @corpore-metal: what do you need fertilizer for? If I'm going to go, I want to go for a good, legitimate reason.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    02/27/09

    @LittleDragon: To raise crops for biofuels, lubricants, and Killer Green Bud. that's right the Robot Takeover begins at 4:20!!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    02/27/09

    In reply to Are Video Games Teaching Kids The Skills They Need For The Apocalypse?
    I've had all the skills I'll need for the coming doom.

    I can forage for fruit and "power pellets". I have extensive training in avoiding brightly colored ghosts. I can also prepare and serve their delicious flesh when the ghosts become dark blue.

    Post-Apocalyptic Caterer!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/27/09

    @Grey_Area: You just have to work out the logistics between infinite supplies of ghosts and 4 power pellets per, uh... level.
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    Image of bluewyvern bluewyvern
    02/27/09

    @Grey_Area: I can deflect projectiles headed towards me with my trusty paddle!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    02/27/09

    @bluewyvern: Old Skool!!
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    Image of Adah Adah
    02/27/09

    In reply to Are Video Games Teaching Kids The Skills They Need For The Apocalypse?
    The Road taught me that the first thing you do to survive the apocalypse is to get plenty of ammunition for your 9mm.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    02/27/09

    @Adah:

    What Fallout taught me is that 9mm is pretty weak. 10mm or .40 is what you need.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/27/09

    @ManchuCandidate: I stay with the special Chinese assault rifle that you can find at a particular broken down diner... twice the damage, 1.5x the ammo capacity, and can be repaired with normal Chinese assault rifles!


    Either that, or sniper rifles. *drool*

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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    02/27/09

    In reply to Are Video Games Teaching Kids The Skills They Need For The Apocalypse?
    Hee hee. I love the Onion but I am more troubled by the fact that it has been increasingly prophetic in the last few years and humor is less ha ha and more the equivalent of whistling past a graveyard.


    Most of these kids will find out the the hard way, like my 1st Person Shooter addicted friend who played paintball the 1st time, that it is much harder and physically strenuous in real life.


    1st Person Shooter Boy isn't in good health, no idea of what real infantry does and not as good a shot as he thought he was. Still sulks about it. Heh.

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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    02/27/09

    @ManchuCandidate: when you look though a post-apocalyptic lens, that's just as bad as the DDR people who think that all manner of jumping around is actually considered acceptable dancing - that should be done in public, while NOT playing DDR.


    eh.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/27/09

    @BeccaSaurus Rex: That explains a lot, actually. If they have a problem with my spasming on the dance floor they should tell me to my face, not throw drinks at it!
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    Image of Illogic Illogic
    02/27/09

    @crashedpc: Yeah, thats just encouragement really. Yey free drinks!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/27/09

    @Illogic: OONTZ-OONTZ-OONTZ ARGH the alcohol BURNS!
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    Image of kelmeister kelmeister
    02/27/09

    In reply to Are Video Games Teaching Kids The Skills They Need For The Apocalypse?
    I argue that we'll also need smokers if we're going to survive the apocalypse. Because someone's going to have to have a Zippo on them to explode various things. Plus we all know you look way cool if you've got a Camel dangling from your lips while you mow down the undead with a flame thrower, cancer sticks or no.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    02/27/09

    @kelmeister: The only reason I still smoke is so I can carry around my Zippo.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/27/09

    @Grey_Area: Mine has the Jack Daniels logo on it! Conveys two vices at once!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    02/27/09

    @crashedpc: corporate. whore.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/27/09

    @Grey_Area: Damn right.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/27/09

    In reply to Are Video Games Teaching Kids The Skills They Need For The Apocalypse?
    Fallout 3 has taught me that I can freeze time any time there's an enemy within range and allow me all the time in the world to pick and shoot at any part of it I want. And hopefully watch it explode in a Bloody Mess (tm).
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    02/27/09

    In reply to Are Video Games Teaching Kids The Skills They Need For The Apocalypse?
    and THIS is why I love the Onion News Network - on a more mundane note, I was pondering yesterday that when the robots/computers take over, I'll have nothing practical to barter with my fellow humans....


    does knitting count as a survival skill??? people will definitely need clothes after the robots stop supplying us.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/27/09

    @BeccaSaurus Rex: Humans will not need clothing once we have rendered them into literal elbow greas- uh, I mean, YAY SWEATERS
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    Image of Clarox Clarox
    02/27/09

    @BeccaSaurus Rex: It all depends how you frame it. Instead of saying "I can work with computers" you can say "I have extensive training in combating computers".
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    02/27/09

    @BeccaSaurus Rex:

    Every struggling freedom fighter needs a Jayne hat. Only you can provide our brave warriors with this essential item of apparel.
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    02/27/09

    @Clarox: talk about padding a resume - i was thinking more hunting, fishing, building, etc - but that'll work just fine.
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    02/27/09

    @Belabras: yes - hats to identify which nomad clan you're with!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/27/09

    @BeccaSaurus Rex: I'd like mine bright neon green with a disco ball on top:


    [i.gizmodo.com]

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    Image of bluewyvern bluewyvern
    02/27/09

    @BeccaSaurus Rex: Judging by sheer population count, the Jayne clan seems to be doing quite well for itself.
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    02/27/09

    @bluewyvern: yes, but the r2d2 clan is threatening their dominance and sovereignty - because i'm a skilled hat-maker, i choose to remain uncommitted to avoid alienating either tribe.
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