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Antipathy
Profile Joined June 2008
United States222 Posts
January 26 2012 00:06 GMT
#21
This is pretty normal at the UW. The undergraduate library computer lab is a freaking League of Legends LAN center all day long.
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GigaFlop
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States1146 Posts
January 26 2012 00:41 GMT
#22
One of my friends used to play WoW during class in High School. He even paid monthly for a proxy program that would let him connect to the servers.
As for college/uni, I've only seen one person playing games in class on a laptop. Games on smartphones are more popular here.
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calgar
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States1277 Posts
January 26 2012 00:57 GMT
#23
On January 26 2012 09:06 Antipathy wrote:
This is pretty normal at the UW. The undergraduate library computer lab is a freaking League of Legends LAN center all day long.
That's hard for me to believe. I think my school has higher social stigma against it than average or something. The only thing I've seen is one guy playing runescape a few times. More embarrassing than any other game I could imagine.
Jhax[IRE]
Profile Joined November 2011
Ireland47 Posts
January 26 2012 01:20 GMT
#24
I watch streams sometimes on the college computer sometimes when I have like 3 hour breaks or even in the library on my laptop when I'm taking a break from studying, but wouldn't really play games, would be far too noisy for other people and I hate noisy people in the library...
Eogris
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States148 Posts
January 26 2012 01:35 GMT
#25
On January 26 2012 09:57 calgar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2012 09:06 Antipathy wrote:
This is pretty normal at the UW. The undergraduate library computer lab is a freaking League of Legends LAN center all day long.
That's hard for me to believe. I think my school has higher social stigma against it than average or something. The only thing I've seen is one guy playing runescape a few times. More embarrassing than any other game I could imagine.

A few at my university play LoL in the food court while wearing furry tails...


Atleast they have each other.
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Pawsom
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States928 Posts
January 26 2012 01:36 GMT
#26
On January 26 2012 09:57 calgar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2012 09:06 Antipathy wrote:
This is pretty normal at the UW. The undergraduate library computer lab is a freaking League of Legends LAN center all day long.
That's hard for me to believe. I think my school has higher social stigma against it than average or something. The only thing I've seen is one guy playing runescape a few times. More embarrassing than any other game I could imagine.

How is it embarassing?
Pawsom
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States928 Posts
January 26 2012 01:37 GMT
#27
On January 26 2012 07:40 Alejandrisha wrote:
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On January 26 2012 07:37 Pawsom wrote:
On January 26 2012 07:34 Endymion wrote:
On January 26 2012 07:30 MisterD wrote:
i've seen those in lectures over here, not just library. But then again, university education is almost free over here, so a lot more idiots run around in the first few semesters than else where..


lol i saw this indian kid playing MW2 in the front low of a lecture once, with the touch pad on his laptop of course... of course he get removed from the class roster about a week before the final when our prof noticed


Prof is a power hungry dick. If the kid is smart enough to pass the class without paying attention why does that bother the professor so much?

But yeah I see kids playing WoW, SW, SC, etc all the time at school.

because sitting behind some one dicking around on their laptop is distracting. though the prof would be the one to object to that before students would



DId he have sound on?

Regardless you don't drop someone from a class without warning them and potentially screwing up their semester or worse.
heroofcanton
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States167 Posts
January 26 2012 01:47 GMT
#28
My friends and I used to bring AoE2 on flash drives and play using the schools LAN. Good times.
The hero of Canton, the man they call me.
Chaggi
Profile Joined August 2010
Korea (South)1936 Posts
January 26 2012 06:54 GMT
#29
At University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, at around like 12-1 at night, a group of Korean guys and their girlfriend's come and take over this huge computer lab and they basically play SC until like 4-5 AM.

I know this I often study that late, and I'm looking and seeing like oh... the Koreans are back
zalz
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Netherlands3704 Posts
January 26 2012 08:27 GMT
#30
It's not that strange.

I would never do it because I couldn't play a game without a mouse to save my life. All I play these days is LoL. I think the ammounts of clicks would have me out of the room within five minutes.

But it's not that strange. Some people go and just surf on the internet during a lecture. It's not that impossible to pay half attention. If the lecture is incredibly boring it might even prevent you from going into a comatose state.
Bswhunter
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Australia954 Posts
January 26 2012 09:26 GMT
#31
Friends of mine play warcraft n shit on laptops, all suck.
Need to spend less time with them this year.
Stop browsing and do whatever it is you're supposed to do. TL will still be here when you get back
Tommylew
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Wales2717 Posts
January 26 2012 09:48 GMT
#32
when i was in college you could never get away with playing games, the would awlays be someone walking about and they were so strict....lol

Dont think we would of ever done work fi we could of got away with it!
Live and Let Die!
calgar
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States1277 Posts
January 26 2012 16:44 GMT
#33
On January 26 2012 10:36 Pawsom wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2012 09:57 calgar wrote:
On January 26 2012 09:06 Antipathy wrote:
This is pretty normal at the UW. The undergraduate library computer lab is a freaking League of Legends LAN center all day long.
That's hard for me to believe. I think my school has higher social stigma against it than average or something. The only thing I've seen is one guy playing runescape a few times. More embarrassing than any other game I could imagine.

How is it embarassing?
I personally think it is because that's the game all my friends and I played in 4th grade. Here we are 10 years later and someone still hasn't grown out of it. It's not like its a classic, its the same old stale repetitive click click with no thinking required.
Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
January 26 2012 16:46 GMT
#34
I thought I'd chime in, I once saw a guy scrolling through a hentai site at the library. It was quite special.
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
Disregard
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
China10252 Posts
January 26 2012 16:54 GMT
#35
I remember my first semester I took a MIS/CIS elective and a small group of us would be on TL watching streams all the time. Of course the class was a breeze
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Neelia
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany599 Posts
January 26 2012 18:11 GMT
#36
On January 26 2012 09:01 Nuttyguy wrote:
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On January 26 2012 08:37 Baum wrote:
Someone should step it up and go ask one of these fellows why they do it.

Probably a change of scenery when gaming, or they live at home and they cant camp at home playing games all day.


Where I study there are cafes with free wifi for the students where you can spend your time/don't have to buy anything. It's more comfy there and you don't distract people who want to learn something. But dunno, there where still several people in my classes who played wow all day :/

I wish they'd just shut down the wifi in the lecture rooms cuz 99% of the people using it just surf at failblog/facebook/whatever and distract other students -_-
QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32075 Posts
January 26 2012 20:44 GMT
#37
On January 26 2012 07:40 Endymion wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2012 07:37 Pawsom wrote:
On January 26 2012 07:34 Endymion wrote:
On January 26 2012 07:30 MisterD wrote:
i've seen those in lectures over here, not just library. But then again, university education is almost free over here, so a lot more idiots run around in the first few semesters than else where..


lol i saw this indian kid playing MW2 in the front low of a lecture once, with the touch pad on his laptop of course... of course he get removed from the class roster about a week before the final when our prof noticed


Prof is a power hungry dick. If the kid is smart enough to pass the class without paying attention why does that bother the professor so much?

But yeah I see kids playing WoW, SW, SC, etc all the time at school.


because it's distracting for everyone else sitting behind him to have a kid sit in lecture playing an fps o.o but seriously why would you ever go to lecture just to game out... just stay at home.


I never how this could be any more distracting than someone taking notes??

people show up because lots of professors have stupid attendance rules to make up for their inability to hold the attention of the room. That, and the off chance there is something said in class that is important, you are there.
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Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-26 20:59:28
January 26 2012 20:57 GMT
#38
On January 27 2012 05:44 Hawk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2012 07:40 Endymion wrote:
On January 26 2012 07:37 Pawsom wrote:
On January 26 2012 07:34 Endymion wrote:
On January 26 2012 07:30 MisterD wrote:
i've seen those in lectures over here, not just library. But then again, university education is almost free over here, so a lot more idiots run around in the first few semesters than else where..


lol i saw this indian kid playing MW2 in the front low of a lecture once, with the touch pad on his laptop of course... of course he get removed from the class roster about a week before the final when our prof noticed


Prof is a power hungry dick. If the kid is smart enough to pass the class without paying attention why does that bother the professor so much?

But yeah I see kids playing WoW, SW, SC, etc all the time at school.


because it's distracting for everyone else sitting behind him to have a kid sit in lecture playing an fps o.o but seriously why would you ever go to lecture just to game out... just stay at home.


I never how this could be any more distracting than someone taking notes??

people show up because lots of professors have stupid attendance rules to make up for their inability to hold the attention of the room. That, and the off chance there is something said in class that is important, you are there.

Keyboards are fine, but many mise clicks really loudly. That's all I can think about. Little bursts of crazy clicking could really bother me.

Note: At my uni, there are 2 bitches (pardon the vocab) with really fucking loud ASUS laptops that sound as loud as my god damn razer blackwidow. It's annoying as all hell.
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
Snuggles
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1865 Posts
January 26 2012 21:06 GMT
#39
I've never ever seen anyone play games in class before. I mean there's always people browsing random stuff like tumblr and facebook, but never playing a video game all-out in the middle of class. It's just bizarre imo lol.
QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32075 Posts
January 26 2012 21:10 GMT
#40
The only thing I could see would be keyboard sound, but so many people use their laptop for notes these days anyway that it would just be drowned out in a sea of the same noise

Still don't get people being distracted by it visually though. Why aren't you focusing on your notes, the professor, or some hot gir lin class like a normal person? Weirdos. Let me slack off in peace
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