>that guy who wrote a college paper on video games What was

I wrote a senior high school paper on BioShock and the application of Objectivism in society

Was about brapcbroing and I got Meme+

Test: cuck

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I wrote a history report on the development of mother 3
got a B+

I didn't
it was in high school
and it was about sandman comics
I don't even know why

>>387900249
thankfully i was too self aware to do shit like that

>>387900576
That's as far as you could possibly take it because Bioshock is very high school level philosophy.

gamergate
B+

>>387900249
I wrote a report about flexible circuitry and OLEDs and used a Wii for the second half of the PowerPoint presentation.
I got an A for that portion of the assignment

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I had to take a philosophy class a while ago. The professor didn't give a flying fuck about anything, half the time he would just talk about his weekend. As a final project he asked us to write an essay about literally anything, I just had a couple hours to write it so I just started to write about Castlevania. Got an A on that class. I heard that the dude got in jail because he was in a relationship with a student.

>>387900249
I wrote about cyberlaw and got an A, does it count?

>>387901006
I wrote about DMC4 and got SSS

I did and wrote a qualitative study on player immersion in video games, causes and effects, and how it effected players enjoyment of game in general.

as my paper for a BA of game-development. In the end I'm glad I didn't go further into game development.

My university's humanities department actually offered a course on video games in my last semester there but I didn't take it because I'm not that much of a faggot. I think it was just about storytelling in games because I knew a guy in it who wrote about omnipotent narration in the Stanley Parable or something.

>>387900249
Did one on Eve Online for one of my final presentations I had to make to pass school. It wasn't good, but good enough to pass.

I'm too dumb for college

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>>387900249
I failed my A levels because I'm a fucking spacker, why would I be in uni?

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>>387900249
I wrote 12 pages on John Carmack and got a 99%.

>>387900878
I appreciate your opinion, thank you.

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Not a college paper, but a lecture for a conference once, that I presented on three occasions.

It was titled I think something like "The Act and Play: Relationship between Videogames classical Media" for a conference about encouraging cross-department cooperation between classic media studies, organized by the department of Theater. It was about Pic related and how it handles narrativity compared to more classic media.
No grade, but I got a reasonable good reception, considering that my audience was largely a bunch of 50+ years old classic East-European literal and theater scholars.
Damn those were good times.
I also used several games as illustrations for my lectures. I had my students play Factorio to teach them about principles of emergence and cybernetics, for an example.
I regretted doing it. Few of them got hooked up and it did not improve their study morale or results.

I wrote a highschool paper on how emulation was never going to be stopped, I predicted that the DS was going to be emulated very easily. I got an F if I'm not mistaken.

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>>387901209
I'd seriously like to read that. I'd definitely like to see how you quantify and define factors in this study. Not being ironic.
But it does seem more like a subject for experimental psychology or cognitive sciences... Is it published somewhere?

a really autistic kid did a long presentation in high school about "the history of video games". it was the most boring thing and he took about half an hour. i think the teacher gave him a sympathy A

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>>387900576
>thinking Bioshock is an example of practical application of Objectivism in society

>>387900249
My BA three years ago was about debunking the myth of causation between violence and videogames.

My final paper for my first year of college's English 1 class was about why video games should be considered art.

I got a 93 (in a class where the professor graded harshly and had a policy of never giving 100s because "no paper is perfect") and the professor told me it was one of the best argument papers she had ever had in her class and asked if she could use it as an example argument paper for future classes.

>>387901868

No, not published. It was years ago, and written in Swedish.

I based my study off another previous study, which helped define a lot of concepts, so you might be interested checking them out, if you can find a copy:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.118.3278

>>387900249

Video games as a language-learning tool, applying actional methodology and intercomprehension to self-learning. Got an A or some shit.

>>387902445
That is interesting, thanks. It's not exactly my field of expertise, but I was always wondering about more grounded investigation into concepts of immersion based around empirical or quantifiable models. Seems to me that it really might be interesting from a neuro-cognitive level too. Also, I need a scientific, quantifiable proof that Icepick Lodge are objectively the most immersive games ever made by human kind.

>>387900249
Wrote my college capstone piece on Bakhtinian Theory of Novelization with Bioshock as the framework.

Got a 100 and a thank you note for not writing about feminism like the rest of the class.

A friend of mine wrote a paper on gamer gate. Got 98% if I recall.
Another did a slide show for the rate of catching Pokémon for math.

>>387900249
I think the worst I ever did was write a report about video games and the correlation of aggression. It was a very normie tier paper overall.

back in high school though I did plagiarize the opening lines from MGS3 in a history paper though.

>>387901171
Underrated post

I did an English paper on the relationship between violent aggression and playing violent video games. Couldn't find any research with strong correlations between the two but their was some research that had a small positive correlation.

I wrote about how a lot of modern video games were designed with a skinner box based model to keep players hooked through repetition and reward in my social psychology class. I used Pokemon GO and WoW as prime examples.
got an A on it. Would have been an A+ but the teacher was strict and took off points for organization because I said "uhh" during two parts in my presentation

I did worse.
I wrote a game fanfiction for a writing assignment in highschool. It was for Morrowind.
The teacher was really eager to send it to national Young Author Talent competition because he loved it, and was really mad when I declined.
I never had the heart to tell him that the "really vivid world I've build" was not exactly from my own imagination.

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Ps4 v Xbone
Gave me a C+ when I turned it in a week late
Also made us do peer reviews
One of the two people who reviewed mine praised me for bashing Xbone and the other person said my criticism of the Wii U was unecessary when I had made a small remark on how it was dead

>>387901721
that sounds awesome. Is there a copy of it online?

In high school we were assigned to write about a story that fits the "hero's journey" archetype. I wrote mine about OoT. I got an A and the teacher said I had the best paper in the class, which really surprised me. He didn't even play Nintendo games.

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>>387901721
You set them up to fail by giving them vidya

I know the professor didn't read papers as he would grade all 300 of his students papers within two days as he would submit them in at turn it in to see if anyone plagiarized.

Wrote my paper on cyber security and used Watch Dogs as an example.

I did a presentation about the probabilities behind Xcom in one of my math classes when Xcom 2 came out and I was playing it endlessly.
I got an A. The only person who really knew what I was talking about though was this middle aged black guy who also happened to be playing it at the time.

>>387900249
Shit dude, I wrote my capstone thesis and did a presentation on the benefits of edutainment in teaching History. Beat the hell out writing about "aqueducts" or "or why the m14 cost the US vietnam" that my other classmates wrote about.

>>387904258
Well OoT is the perfect example no matter to whom if you provide the context. It was the same for me too.

literally nothing wrong with it. Did it with gamergate in social psychology, it was on topics in the past 6 months...I didn't even give two fucks about it, but wanted to know why all the stupid shitposting was about that fall

>>387904076
No. Never translated it, never reworked it into an article, never published it or anything. It was a weird thing that my friend roped me into, honestly - I talked to him about Pathologic in a pub one day and a did not know that his Theater Theory teacher is sitting at a table next to us and listening to us until he walked straight to me and told me I should give a speech about it at the conference they were preparing.

So I did it, was then asked by to repeat it on two other random (much smaller) occasions, and after that, I never returned to it. It's not even related to my own studies, honestly.
And it was almost ten years ago.

>>387904305
Possibly. But one of them did actually asked me if I would want to follow up on it on it under his guidance, so I guess there might have been a little more to it than that, and like four of these old guys asked me how could they go about looking into games like that themselves.

>>387902217
Share anon ill give it a read

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>>387900249
I wrote a report on Guilty Gear XRD

I got an A on it

>>387900913
Ah, the normiest of the topics you could have picked.

>>387900728
Cultured posting is not allowed pls go

Wrote a paper on development of assets used in video games.
Dedicated a heafty section to prerendered assets so I could talk about Resident Evil for pages.
Got an A and my computer technician diploma.

>>387902138
and you failed

>>387900249
I used the DotA API to get ward data, and considered all ward positions (within a positional ±) as network of nodes with weighting based on frequency. I used this to do a network analysis of the vision over the dota map, and tried to derive optimal simultaneous wards (and counterwards) from it. Plenty of path analysis and things like that.

To be honest it was more a demonstration of an understanding of concepts than anything of particular value. Think I got 85% or so.

>>387904618
I still have it but I'm really embarrassed by it now. If I were to do it again today, I would approach the subject much differently because my opinions have changed since I wrote it several years ago. Also, one of my biggest problems with it is how generic I was; I gave no examples of games I consider art. The professor, obviously, was more than fine with the paper but I look at it now and I cringe.

Here it is, with the identifying features like my name removed:

https://pastebin.com/mUnu0qsd

Despite my problems with it, feel free to let me know what you think if you read it. Just keep in mind that this is several years old now and it's not how I would do it if I were to do it again today.

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I wrote about ESports. Specifically Dota 2. No one seemed to care until I mentioned how much money was being won. Then they seemed at least mildly interested.

>>387905351
A one pager counts as a paper somewhere?

But yeah, it's rather typical of a first year undergrad report. Single argument, deductive, opinion based.

Mine was about Megaman X. I got a 96 or something around there

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>>387900249
videogames were taken
I had to choose mangas
Got the maximum score and the professor asked me a copy of it to make the kids of the other classes interested in studying through stuff they liked
I've never sent him a copy because it was actually photoshopped to make the characters in the scans I've used say the things I needed

there was in preschool some shit where we had to draw something with a circle and one with square
autistic 5 year old me drawed neversoft logo with the circle,fucking tony hawk autism

>>387902016

>look at other societies that emphasized the " individual "
>Murrica
>it's a chaotic, low IQ shithole

Ehhhh

>>387900249
I wrote mine on animation and got away with citing Sleepycast more than once because my professor didn't know any better. Got an A

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>>387901171

I've written a few tbqh, the best was probably studying market share and creative direction of sony and nintendo starting at the 5th generation of consoles


the most interesting for sure was about gmod sex and sfm porn as a means of exploring queer identity

>>387901171
I turned in a blank page about DmC and got the same grade

>>387900249
I'm writing a paper on how vibeo gaems affect brain development.

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>>387900249
tfw wrote a review for Fallout New Vegas in high school
teacher liked it

>>387906216
>look at other societies that emphasized the "community"
>they all fucking collapsed after decades of genocide and starvation except for North Korea

Ehhhhhh

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>>387906758

You know, just because I oppose one extreme does not mean I favor the other extreme. Did that thought ever occur to you?

>>387900249
how moores law affects electronic entertainment. got a C cause my professor use to work at AMD

>>387906216
>it's a chaotic, low IQ shithole
Look, I make fun of America as much as the next guy, but their problem is not in low IQ. They have average of 98, the same as Australia, France, Denmark, or Czech Republic, and one point bellow Sweden, Poland and Germany.

Sadly, IQ alone does not mean that much. America is a shithole (and it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better) but it has nothing to do with IQ.

>>387900249
Talked about Deus Ex in an ethics class.

I'll take a 90.

>>387907351

I didn't mean literal intelligence quotient. I meant a more ephemeral sort of madness that is not confined solely to idiots. It's like a cultural rot. I live here, and I still don't know what exactly caused this, but it's pretty horrifying to witness up close.

>>387906597
>I'm writing a paper on how vibeo gaems affect brain development.
So... are you just reporting on that Molecular Psychiatry article about games and neuroplasticity, or are you actually doing some deeper research?
And if you do work with more sources - or even research you have done - care to share a bit about it. I'm rather interested.

>>387900249
I took game design classes as free electives and actually did write a paper on a game. It was about how Yoshi's Island looks like a kids game but is ball-breakingly hard. Don't even remember what the main topic was.
Got an A

Essay on Fallout, and choice. Karma, etc.
Got a good grade. Referenced 1,2, 3 and NV.

>>387905437
My school had a final senior project and i did mine on esports too, though i had a more generalized approach. Actually got an A even though it was a school for tryhards

>>387907548

This. I'd be interested to see actual physical side effects in brain development, in the same vein as children who learn music at a young age develop a distinctive wrinkle in their brain that is absent in other people. Do video games do something similar?

>>387907474
>I didn't mean literal intelligence quotient.
Well, don't say IQ then. Say "intelligence" or "education" or "level of discussion". You can call US "radicalized" or "anti-intellectual" or "ideology obsessed" and I think nobody would take an issue with that. But IQ is IQ - it's a technical term.

It's like calling Russians "alcohol dehydrogenase-deficient" because they are all mean drunks.

I had room in my schedule my junior year of college so I took a fun extra course on game design and narrative. Wrote my final paper on why "cinematic" game design from the current generation is trash compared to the design of even simplistic games from years earlier (used Kirby's Dream Land 3 and Mega Man 2-5). Ended up with a 93 but my professor disagreed with me on the quality of The Last of Us.

>>387907548
>>387907719
I'm at the stage of collecting sources, so there is no actual text just yet, but if you're interested, you can leave your email and I will send it to you as soon as I finish with it.

>>387900249
Robots in Literature (English 102)
Wrote on Deus Ex and Transhumanism.
I want to rip my dick off and throw it in the river by UNR

Literally wrote a paper about DaS and got an A get fucked.

>>387907474
>president who is literally only good at dividing people of different cultural backgrounds and aggravating people who oppose him, making them focus on issues that are petty or don't exist at all.

Feel like that has something to do with it. I am also not proud of my country as of late and its gonna go downhill further from here.

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I got really invested in a games development course at college. The first year was supposed to be half theory and then learning programs like 3DS Max and UDK, and then the second year would be entirely the later. It didnt turn out that way and was pretty much just written work about random shit,
like media. Overall it was a terrible decisions and I am living with the consequences today

I wrote up an incredibly long piece on platinum games and clover studios around the time MGSR was being hyped, I wrote about how they started in capcom, then became clover studios and then platinum, and how the team changed over the years and the various projects.

I got the highest grade possible,
they called it like distinction plus or some shit,
it was probably the hardest ive ever worked on something

I fucking hate platinum games they have released nothing but shit recently

>>387907854

Alright, alright, you have a point. Figurative language in sociopolitical discussions is just a way to create misunderstandings.

I will strive to be more literal.

>>387900249
I wrote one on TF2 and got a 97.

I wrote my dissertation on the potential use of kantian ethical systems in artifical intelligence if that counts

Persona 3's aspect on self-destructive humanity.

Got a 20.

>>387900249
About pathfinding on square and hexagonal maps in strategy games
then I wrote crude 3D bomberman clone with multiplayer (client-server) to pass 2 classes at once - Networking (UDP, TCP, transport protocols - mostly server side) and Computer Graphics (OpenGL - client side)
I also wrote simple Scorched Earth clone in Matlab

I studied CS so people writing games or using games as an examples of some algorithms (AI, pathfinding, pattern rec, etc.) wasn't that uncommon

>>387900753
I did a HS paper on Grant Morrison's Batman. Got A-.

>>387905351
You're right it's terribad.

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>>387901371
Got a B and 2 Ds, with Ds in general RE and General Studies, what about you my man?

>>387906884
There's an objectively shitty extreme and you're bashing the other extreme that's worked.
You get an R for retarded.

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>>387900249
I wrote a presentation on atmospheric story telling and used Majora's Mask as the focal study point.

My professor loved MM and helped me out during the presentation. It was pretty cool.

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>>387900249
How retarded do you have to be to write about video games?

>>387905351

it's only like 5 paragraphs. you can't critique something that doesn't even have enough content/space to actually say anything of substance.

at least you can form a sentence, but what kind of shitty community college considers a 1-pager a "paper"? my thesis was something like 80 pages and it was rare where we could submit something less than 5 or so pages.

>>387900249
In HS, I tried to debunk Ebert's claim that games weren't art and got an A.

Where I to rewrite it, I would change a couple of things (mainly my examples), but I was mostly happy with it.

I wrote a paper on the ethics of pre-purchase methods and kikestarter as a college freshman. This was a few months after the whole Colonial Marines shitshow, so there was plenty to work with. Made a 100.

I wrote an essay on the competitive pokemon community

>>387909567
You get an R for Right Wing.

>>387910153
I did the same thing for a college level course. Same result.

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>>387910304

Got an A

[s] College is a joke

>>387900249
>tfw straight up copied Uncharted 2 for my Film Class homework and got full marks
really activates the almonds

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>>387905351
>Went to college and used the 5 paragraph structure

>>387909335
>Ds in general RE and General Studies

how

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>>387900249
I got a real degree so I wasn't ever in a class where I had the option to do it.

>>387900249
I did an economics paper on the diablo 3 real money auction house and the importance of a higher power to have some degree of control over the amount of money in flow.
Got an A+, but it wasn't all on Diablo 3. It was just an example I used.

>>387910526
>>387910325
Same image applies to your non rebuttal.

Wrote a economic analysis paper on Nintendo focusing on rise and fall in sales on each console along with controlling demand with fake shortages (amiibos and nes classic)

Got an A

>>387910706
How has the other extreme you described worked? Our capitalism has regulations because people can't be trusted to treat their employees well in an unregulated market.

>>387900249
I wrote a paper on 19th century European politics, got an A+
Prof took me aside and asked what my research methods were
I didn't have the heart to tell her that I was mainly relying on my 500 hours of Victoria II

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>>387910575
this desu
>americans take worthless humanities classes even in STEM degrees

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Two years ago, we had to take a weird class on ethical business in technology or something. Nothing related to programming in the slightest, it was pretty boring and the lecturer was some failed game designer in his 50.

The first assignment we were given was to write a guide on how to do something technical, he said you could do it on vidya games, so I wrote a guide on how to get an S Rank in Mission 36 of MGSV. I got 50%, since he said there would be no need to read something like this when you could just watch a video. I heard others did similar things like how to beat a boss in Dark Souls.

I still have the PDF if anyone wants to see.

>>387900878
Philosophy itself is high school level shit.

>>387911134
>I still have the PDF if anyone wants to see.
Why not.

Wrote a paper about worldbuilding and used Morrowind as an example of how vidya can do it just as well or even better than other mediums.

>>387910848
Capitalism is a big failure machine. Everything is in a state of eventual failure. The other extreme is the same exact thing. Both guarantee you eventual failure. The difference is that in capitalism you have the opportunity to make money during this never ending state of failure and rebirth.

The beauty is you don't even need capital to succeed in the capitalist system. You have a good idea and you can build businesses using a number of models like subscription, pay in advance etc.

>>387911578
You literally do need capital, otherwise you can't afford anything. The amount might vary, but it depends entirely on what you want to achieve.

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>>387911413

Found some random site to upload to.

http://docdro.id/4k5R4Lc

I did a presentation on indie games when I was 18 and put Undertale as an example

>>387911723
>not understanding why you don't need capital using customer funded models like pay in advance and subscription
Daft cunts will be daft cunts regardless of the system they're under.

>>387912027
You have to have a product to offer in the first place you daft prick. How are you going to advertise your wares with no capital?

I think for a "review a piece of media" essay I wrote about Bioshock Infinite and how it was a let down in comparison to the original Bioshock.
I think I got a decent grade on it

>>387912169
No, you don't. Ask Dell.

I remember doing a report on ingame economies primarily focused on tf2 and csgo. It got pretty high marks iirc

>>387911723
>>387912169
PIA let's you ask just enough up front to build your product then collect profits after you give them the product.

Pull your head out of the Shark Tank ass.

>>387900249
Wrote two of them, and got A's on both of them. They were for throwaway credit requirement classes so I regret nothing.

>>387912836
>throwaway credit requirement classes

why is this a thing? what a fucking joke

>>387911284
You can't do philosophy in high school.

>>387913267
I did

>>387913319
Huh, cool. You can't do it in the UK, anyway.

>>387913426
>you can't think in the UK
Sounds about right ;)

>>387913426
then how did I do a philosophy and ethics GCSE

>>387913708
I don't know. Does that really exist? I've never heard of it.

Psychology 302 - "World of Warcraft: A Case Study of Operant Conditioning in Media"
A-
I deserved higher but the teacher was a SJW and I mentioned belf and nelf T&A.

>>387913178
Hasidic Hebrews are likely at fault for this.

>>387913765
maybe not anymore because I did gcses in 2011

I had an English class with a pop culture focus for my GE requirements during college. One of our assignments was writing media reviews. I wrote one about SMT Nocturne, I got a 5/5 on it, although the media reviews were minor assignments. I wrote a major assignment (media analysis) about Sekien no Inganock, which is technically a game I guess.

>>387900249
I wrote mine in a high level ethics class postulating that it is an unethical programming practice to release unfinished content and charge money for it

basically I did a 10 page long argument against early access games

went over pretty well. Had discussion on both sides and people seemed to enjoy it

then again this was for my CS Masters so I assume most people in the room like video games

>>387913880
I did mine in the same "set" as you, so it shouldn't have changed. We just had the standard options plus a FEW weird ones (media studies, basically).

>>387913918
>English class with a pop culture focus
AAAAARGH

>>387914015
Better an English class with a focus on the romans and Greeks.

>>387914015
It was that or one with a food focus, or women's history as a focus.

>>387914118
Better yet, an English class with a focus on Shakespeare and Anglo-Saxon poetry/pornographic riddles.
>>387914201
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH

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>>387913918
>>387914015
>>387914201
>american universities

>>387903987
jesus, this kinda broke my heart

>>387900249
I wrote one about RPG's as a form of inspiration for the individual using the premise that they are one of the only ways for someone to feel heroic thanks to the destruction of tradition and myth of the post modern society

got an A

>>387900249
Silent Hill movie paper for my victorian horror novels class.

A+ baby, I had a cool (and young) professor.

>>387914261
>>387914249
That's all that was open. I realized right before the term started that I had an opening in my schedule and could squeeze a GE class in. Those three were the only ones left open at that point in time because nobody wanted them. It wasn't as bad as it sounded, we mostly focused on classical literature and cinema with a sprinkling of modern works, aside from a brief section about comedy where we studied Arrested Development and some other sitcoms. The full classes were all the "basic" classes without a special focus and the ones focused on classical literature. Also a nature course.

>>387914249
>>387914118
I meant than. I'm sick of the fucking romans and Shakespeare and homer and all these useless fucks I read about in freshman hs.

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In my college World Lit class we had to give a book we read a 20 minute "soundtrack" and write an essay xplaining each song choice and the scene they would go with. I wrote about Murakami's After Dark and used The Cowby Bebop OST

>>387914671
Too bad nigger

>>387900249
I wrote a paper on the application of spacial division algorithms to reduce the asymptotic runtime of collision detection and handling in half life for my computer class. I got a B- because white men apparently have enough advantages.

>>387900249
samus other m

about how they made samus a weak female basically

>>387915502
It is too bad college is being watered down to the retards on affirmative action level. That and the GPA gradual rising higher and higher our degrees are going to be worthless.

>>387915920
No it's too bad you don't want to study the only people worth studying you self-lobotomising pleb.

Did a speech about metal gear solid 3 for my public speaking class.
B+

Don't think I ever spewed so much bullshit in my life

My class was pretty autistic. I was in the group that made a presentation on esports back in like 2010. Other groups did "do video games make kids angry?" and some other shit like that.

>>387916040
I'm sorry you never stepped into an AP or Honors English class in your HS but that's freshmen HS level shit. Even the regards in normal or slow English covered it all by Senior year.

I'm sorry you're slow but why do we cater to the lowest common denominator?

>>387900249
The fuck "college paper" even is? Education system in my country doesn't have things like college - after finishing your secondary school you either go working or enroll for the university.

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I copied word for word one of the dream stories in Lost Odyssey, got a 10/10 and won the writing "contest" (was compulsory for everyone). The jealous look on every teenage girl that took their dumb stories way too seriously when this dumbass pseudo-Chad took the prize was so worth it.

>>387916414
>I'm sorry you never stepped into an AP or Honors English class in your HS
I'm English, so we don't have that stuff. We had to make do with shitty 20th century American lit and the occasional Shakespeare play (never the good ones).

In any case, by no means is it lowest common denominator just because your school was smart enough to teach it. It simply means that, later, when you are older, you should study them more seriously.

Otherwise you're stuck with pop culture and women's studies.

>>387916414
>lol yeah even the retards in slow english covered [the Western Canon]

>>387915920
>>387916040
>>387916414
I'm sorry your education system is this fucking bad you are doing shit you don't need, but picked anyway while in the uni.
Oh, wait, it's not an uni. It's a college.

Anglosaxon education model is just fucking retarded.

>>387909271
I once used Marvel's Civil to explain Neorealism and security theory in my IR theory class

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>university
>essays
Is everyone on this board a humanities-studying pansy?

>>387908212
>president(s)

>>387900249
Talked about SOMA with a philosophy prof when it came out. Would do again.

I wrote about some guys experience with fallout 3 and how it cured his depression. The assignment was to pick a story from the norton reader (book about multiple topics with response essays you have to write) and that story was in there I got a 100 on the paper and an A in the class. I was so confused because the topic was so retarded but was super easier to write about

Back in 2012, my last year of HS, I wrote how books were becoming obsolete due to videogames being more immersive and having better ways to tell their stories just to spite my (insert your mother language here) professor because I thought her subject and herself were a fucking living joke. Got a 9 because no matter how much she hated me it was a solid presentation because I'm a natural good speaker.

My opinion hasn't changed a bit.

>>387916505
People in the USA use "college" and "university" interchangeably. They're the same thing in American English.

>>387914924
sounds like something I would do tbqhwyf

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>>387917367
I wouldnt hold it against anyone for skipping Austen or Dickens desu.

I used raid leading as an example of "leadership skills" during a job interview 8 years ago. I did not get the job.

How MGS2's gameplay and story work together to create and anti-violent narrative
B+[\spoiler]

>>387917660
burgerclaps have to take humanities modules even in STEM courses

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The most autistic paper I've done during college was a /tv/ related paper on kinography and Akira kurosawa films. It went alright, got an 8. I got a better grade on another paper though. I talked about how Ted Kaczynski was right and people were fucking dumb. His methods were bad but his ideas were right. It was a paper on ethics.

>>387909271
Sounds fun. What was it about?

>>387918958
>Had to take some humanities class
>Some fat liberal bitch talked about privilege and we constantly watched episodes of the Proud Family

I just wanted to study plants, not gorillas.

>>387918958
Is this real...? Now I can kinda understand why /pol/ hates Uni so much.

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>>387919889
GE classes are cancer.
The wholeistic approach to education should end Freshman year of HS.

i don't remember the prompt at all, but wrote an essay intricately describing a touhou boss battle
i got a b-

>>387910878
I'm in STEM and we have an obligatory English class where we learn how to write research essays academic style.

>>387900249
In my bullshit English comp 2 course I wrote a paper about my FFXI linkshell as a discourse group and just really bullshitted the whole paper but got a perfect score on it

>>387918958
It's true everywhere for stem you dumb shit. Almost everyone has to take a single course in philosophy. Then there is chemistry, which is nearly a derivative pseudoscience anyway, programming, which is humanities because it is about learning languages. And then you have to take complementary / perspective courses, which include pseudosciences (humanities) like finance, economy, design, presentation/communication of science, etc. These garbage courses and fields require essays.

t. mathematician

>>387921517
I want to study math should I?

>>387921517
>It's true everywhere for stem you dumb shit

I didn't do a single humanities class in my 3 years BSc and 1 year MSc.

>>387921517
>Chemistry is a pseudoscience
I'll let derivative slide, but c'mon lad.

>>387909335
BCD. Missed both my offers obviously.

>>387900249
Daily reminder that Korra is shit.

>>387900249
my friends wanted to do that, so I said fuck off and did a show 'n tell about the godfather movies, with a corleone family tree I made

>>387921995

At least we got decent porn out of it.

>>387921736
No. >>387921794
No.

>>387900249
I didnt becuse I went into STEM and we dont do that kind of bullshit.

>>387922587
ur gay and ur shit's all retarded. Also semi on-topic I've not once been forced into doing anything linguistic/humanities/anything that wasn't science in my 4 years of STEM.

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>>387922531
Indeed.

Im doing my final thesis related to video games. is too see if kids pick up words in english using games. Well be using ocarina of time...probably.

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>>387923425
>_______

>>387923105
Maths is not for everyone. You have to be very interested in it to not kill yourself from overworking, that's all I'm saying.

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>>387923425

>>387923853
I was talking about the chemistry shit. Maths is pretty miserable unless you're naturally gifted and hard-working, saw my fair share of students I tutored for Uni entrance exams drop that shit first-year because they didn't have the latter.

>>387913959
Sounds like you went to a spastic public school you fucking moron.

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>>387921517
I wonder who is behind this post.

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>>387906539

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>>387921517
>chemistry is pseudo-science
my nigga what the fuck

>>387914437
>jesus, this kinda broke my heart
If it makes you feel any better, I got an award in the same competition few years later, in Highschool category, for a story about magical creatures living side-by-side with normal people in Bergen, and send the diploma with my best regards to that teacher.

>>387924646
It literally says mahematician. What are you wondering about? How?

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>>387900249
The closest I got was having to do a short prompt on memes. Why would anyone think its a good idea is beyond me.

Not a paper, but we had contemporary Sci-fi Literature course in Uni provided by the department of General Linguistics, which was lead by really geeky people.

We most focused on short stories with various philosophical and scientific implications, but a lot of game-related shit was brought up in the process.
I remember we talked about Braid when we discussed problems of determinism, Deus Ex when we talked about cyberpunk and information control, and Talos and SOMA when we read Greg Egan's Jewelhead stories.

Those classes were some of the most fun I've ever head.

>>387926635
>Braid when we discussed problems of determinism
Uh, meant to say Bastion.

I made a Red vs. Blue reference in a paper on Socratic irony. That was it. Pretty sure I got an A.

>>387926419
Wow what vapid bullshit. I can't believe that teachers actually make you do retarded shit like this.

Most college professors don't give a shit about the subject of your papers as long as it fits the assignment requirements and you follow the rules.

Not in college, I did do a paper on the advances of video games and what its like to have a job as a video game designer in highschool.

Its usually easy to right about something that interest you, of course not every teacher lets you pick what you want to write about when it comes to papers.

>>387930361
Oh i got a 97/100 points. It was split up into a paper and a short video presentation. The video being 20 points, and the paper being 80, had some small grammar issues which knocked off 3 points.

>>387900249
>Relation between autism and video games
>got 10/10