Killing Floor in class...

[Meltigemini]

Alright, so Yomommassis and I have the same CS106 (Fundamentals of Programming) class...and I was wondering if you guys think it's bad that we play KF in class xD

But only on break, after finishing our work...and completely getting owned on WTFmut....

So, is it bad? :O

 

[comaryu]

Nope, back in high school, our exams would be late in the afternoon.

Never bothered to open my book.

Our school is half a mile from a pub, we'd ( the whole class and section of my batch) go there in the morning and play until there was 15 minutes left right before our exam starts.

When did i learn? on the way to school, half a mile + jogging + book open, on the way to school right before our exams. Oh and it wasn't just me, it was a whole batch lol.

Don't worry, right now i'm in college, and we got a pub in here. We play during breaks a lot. When u start bunking that's when it starts becoming a problem

 

[Meltigemini]

Haha we don't even have to leave class, we have it on the class computers. :O
That, Starcraft 1, and Doom haha We have the SDK for KF as well, we justified it as "We will mod in our free time"...so far we havent :O haha

 

[zfroggyman]

When i was in high school, (in a cal 3 class) after finishing everything, the teacher allows us to play games, so we had huge lan parties of CSS, halo1 , and sometimes starcraft

In fact, once our teacher played with us (he's a gamer too )

 

[Meltigemini]

Hell, when I was in highschool the teachers were too lame to let us do anything

 

[Deafmute]

I would totally play KF in class. Too bad my major is Veterinary Science - no LAN parties for me.

 

[Sammers]

No, it's not bad. I had this really really easy class last year(Introduction to database systems) and all I did during class was get my laptop out, mute the sound and play original C&C Red Alert with expansions. Lecturer thought I was taking notes the entire time.......with my mouse?

 

[Vaecrius]

I suspect it's probably less stress-inducing and easier on the equipment than the Bolo matches I played with my info tech class in high school.

 

[geronimo789]

Nah, i'm in computer sciences myself and we all do the same

Trackmania nations is quite popular, as is quake3 and UT2004. We had this epic 12vs12 UT2k4 instagib team deathmatch once Teacher asked why everyone was so tense.
And if we're in a classroom where the network infrastructure doesn't allow gaming (one .11G router for 20+ peops ...) someone in front center would just get a big laptop and play a movie with subtitles

But if you feel like you can't keep up then it might become a problem

 

[Agiusak]

Computer Science Well the computers at my school can't handle KF but I mean o: Games on an emulator while cussing out everytime I get shot/hit/die + Mapping for KF works for me

I mean it's prolly fine if you have all your work completed since the teacher doesn't usually move on with new things while everyone else (except you and a few others) are done with work o:

 

[slavek]

That's just awesome. Our highschool computers could not handle games. Crappy macs could barely handle typing on a wordpad app. Teachers had their towers in the classrooms but was strictly for teacher/school use only.

Although, one day when we had a school club day(Forced to go to school but no classes, just a day for clubs to recruit,etc) I brought a PS2/SNES and my history teacher brought his 360 and we had something similar to a LAN party in the classroom for a couple hours. When principle came, we changed the channel and pretended we were watching a PG13 movie, when she left, we would go back to fragging in GOW and playing street fighter etc.

 

[smilin]

I met one of my longtime friends (been 11 years now) because we were playing Quake 1 on lab machines in an EE class we had together.

My advice as an older (wiser?) gamer:
All things in moderation. Game hard now and you'll game less later. Game in moderation now and with some planning you'll game far more later..

Don't let grades suffer or you'll find yourself in a job that doesn't let you buy the latest video cards all the time.

If the class is that easy to you then talk to the professor to knock it out early (ask if you can skip ahead to final project). You can then take the whole class hour to play

 

[slavek]

Gaming in moderation . . . .
Don't let grades suffer or you'll find yourself in a job that doesn't let you buy the latest video cards all the time.

I just lmao. This is Sig worthy quote.

 

[Sammers]

Don't let grades suffer or you'll find yourself in a job that doesn't let you buy the latest video cards all the time.

To be fair, majority of games that require a good video card are crap
Nothing beats the old school games.

 

[Uk1t4k3]

To be fair, majority of games that require a good video card are crap
Nothing beats the old school games.

Which is the reason why many game developers go for Unreal Engine 3.0... affordable games which run well on low-end and mid-range cards.