Fresser.

Cooper Union provided merit-based full scholarships to every one of its students for over 100 years. They gave me one (I graduated in 1995) and I teach there now. For many who go there, who worked hard to get there, this is the only chance at an extraordinary education.

The institution has been financially mismanaged in a rather shocking way. The future of fully funded scholarships for talented and dedicated students has now been thrown in the garbage. It has been publicly stated that the roadmap for the future will include tuition.

This will end one of the most unique, most important, most progressive, and most successful experiments in merit-based education in the United States. Tonight at 9PM please attend this important meeting. 

For context, it’s important to note that President Jamshed Bharucha just arrived, and cannot be held responsible for what’s happened quietly over the last 10 years. But what happens now is totally up to him, and it starts with getting a clear picture of what’s going on. Please attend this historic meeting and help spread the word.

In case I need to make it clear: this is so muddle-headed and wrong that it makes me wish that games could back to that period when no one believed that they were important.

Are you a gamer? Are you a game designer? Are you currently designing bullshit badges for users that don’t give a fuck, or worse, that they care so much they’re ignoring real life? In that case, I have a clarion call I hope you will hear.

Stop trying to make games better. They are fine. It’s life that is broken. Start fixing that.

Our schools are broken. They churn out people with little initiative who can’t find jobs anyway. The system is no longer levelling people up properly.

Rewards are being disproportionately placed in the wrong hands. Our smartest people go into banking because they receive massive compensation and no downside. They are the min-maxers, the munchkins of our world; they have found the loopholes and been led down the wrong path because of it.

Occupy Wall Street is full of people who want the game world to work better. But no one is fixing it because they’re too busy on their own personal World of Warcraft. This is bullshit and it’s killing us.

Our games are rigged in the wrong direction. This is so obvious is needs no further argument, so I will move on to people that are doing it correctly, and what further steps we can take to solve this.

killscreendaily:

File this one under “British People!”

Anyways, the makers of a recent documentary on the Northern Ireland conflict confused videogame footage for actual war footage, and slipped it into an ITV (the British TV channel that isn’t the BBC) documentary. The game comes from Arma 2, an…