Everything I know about urban planning I learned from SimCity.
Everything I know about managing an NFL franchise I learned from Madden.
Everything I know about martial arts weapons I learned from TMNT.
(Somebody needs to get a video game done quick on Early Modern Philosophy. My dissertation will be done 2 months later.)
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1 mjonthemove replied // Apr 8, 2009 at 9:04 am
ditto on simcity!
2 peter added // Apr 9, 2009 at 12:00 pm
there’s a great editorial about why video games are better than real life in the Guardian weekly a few weeks ago. It basically says that video games are way better because you’re constantly levelling up, and usually without the hard work it takes to do something in real life. The author related it to learning how to juggle: congrats! you now have the skill of juggling. but in the scheme of things, so what. it’s juggling. It’s not flying around kicking people in the face, like a black belt in karate. Which takes years to attain in real life. But in video games, you just need to find the black belt itself, and then you’re ready to start the flying kicks.
3 Andy added // May 1, 2009 at 1:28 pm
I’ve always wanted to juggle. I am the guy on the sideline when someone is juggling saying: man! that is cool! But…. oh the pain of not being coordinated!
Truthfully, my favorite part of this post (it is a great post) is the CATEGORY: animadversor. Much more fun than just another “uncategorized”.
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