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[QUOTE]ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. --
A video game that's fully funded by a Department of Defense grant has some parents questioning its violence.
Some parents said they were not happy after Action 7 News presented a story about an after-school program that uses the game.
Students are blasting and learning at the same time, but some parents have their concerns.
"We are feeding the addiction of these children to video games," parent Marlene Perrotte.
School officials said the game covers math that ranges from basic properties to algebra and simply reinforces what the students have learned in class.
"This is something that just like a 21st-century flash card really," said Gary Bodman, with Madison Middle School. "They can use jetpacks and at the same time they have to know what the associative property is."
Critics said the game has too much violence to be in school.
"They were all excited … because of the violence," Perrotte said.
School leaders said the students are getting ahead with the game and said that they're not shooting at people.
"Anything we can do to meet the kids on their own grounds and educate them is to our advantage," Bodman said.
Critics said they believe it's a disadvantage if students can't recall what they've learned.
"What the recall is, is not the prime number they were talking about, but rather getting through to the enemy," said Perrotte.
According to one parent, the enemy right now is the school system that has placed this action-packed learning tool in front of students.
The school system said they'd be more than happy to let concerned parents play the video game to get a better understanding of its usefulness.[/QUOTE]
Watch the video, I wanna play that game.
lol soccermoms
i'm so gonna put this video in my HLDJ library
Hahaha, this almost sounds like something out of the onion.
I love soccer moms, they make something funny to laugh at when they wounder why their kids hate them.
I don't even know what that game is about and it looks like it has more depth than most FPS games today.
Fucking soccer mums, I despise such fools, whining about such trivial things.
Over-protective parents strike again.
The game looks cool, seems to be based on the Tribes 2 engine by the looks of it.
We used to play zombie flash games at my school.
[QUOTE=ironman17;22468242]Fucking soccer mums, I despise such fools.[/QUOTE]
The lady in the video is a stupid dyke.
Bored housewives who need something to whine about.
Her husband probably hasn't touched her in 20 years.
[quote]The school system said they'd be more than happy to let concerned parents play the video game to get a better understanding of its usefulness.[/quote]
Yeah, but then the parents would know that the video game is harmless and they wouldn't have something to blame when their kids starts smoking or gets a girl pregnant because they're horrible parents who'd rather keep their kids in a great big rubber ball away from love, fun, swearing, conflicts and any other experience that is an essential part of growing up, than educate and guide their kids.
[QUOTE=Fangz;22468308][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b196/Starmenclock/crazylady.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
That is a man. :colbert:
Where's the video, I don't see it.
Never mind, it didn't load the first time I opened the page.
A practical use for the concepts is the absolute number one way to learn something well. And they want to rob these poor kids of that?
Fucking idiots.
It's even co-operative, wtf? How can that be bad?!
[b]HOW CAN THIS BE BAD?!?![/b]
[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;22468456]Soccer man?[/QUOTE]
Soccer-man, Soccer-man! Doing all the things a Soccer-man can! Wine about things he doesn't know, oh yeah! He is the Soccer-man!
Aw, we had this at my school last year, was a load of fun!
Yeah dood dis game is bad fo da chiddren!
Nao let em go hoem n play modern wofare
[QUOTE=Drag0nSnak3;22468386]That is a man. :colbert:[/QUOTE]
that [b]IS[/b] a man!
[QUOTE=Fangz;22468308][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b196/Starmenclock/crazylady.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Jack Thompson?
NO! YOU CAN'T ASSOCIATE FUN WITH LEARNING! God people piss me off.
Whoa, I've played that game at my school. The "violence" is shooting these crab things with a little laser blaster thing.
Those damn spoilde brats, how dare they having fun while learning something?
Games =//= Real Life.
I guess some idiot dumbfucks never understood this.
Just found the game's website:
[url]http://www.dimensionu.com/math/[/url]
[QUOTE=Sinistersmog;22469267]Jack Thompson?[/QUOTE]
That soccer mom is a spy!
I remember in the third grade we played quake 3 during our free time in the computer mac labs. I now have become a serial killer that prances around, jumping 30 feet into the air and shoots people with rocket launchers and rail guns. Video games are a bad influence.
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