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Jesus christ. It's a party game for children.
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this is 2 years old apparently.
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United States12607 Posts
This is pretty awesome, but it's not like they're taking it for academic credit - "0-1 credit"? It's the equivalent of an athletics class or something.
There are a ton of silly college courses...I'm taking Wine Tasting this year and there's also a Windsurfing class at my college, for example. SSBM actually seems like it fits in with the other "fun" classes out there today.
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Hey cool finally a course that you can waste your time on and amount to nothing instead of doing something useful like math.
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Are you freaking serious?
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i wonder how they'd go about teaching ssbm since some characters are naturally better than others. "Okay class, choose a character. Fox or Falco."
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United States20661 Posts
Whatever. We have a StarCraft class. 1 credit.
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Would be awesome if they did Third Strike instead of SSBM. Use university funds to invite guest lecturers Kuroda, J, KO, Ino, and Boss :D
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Yeah, there really is thaught everything today
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Canada3500 Posts
On August 22 2008 04:52 Last Romantic wrote:
Whatever. We have a StarCraft class. 1 credit.
Any good stories from that class?
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Canada7170 Posts
tbh I think this course is more useful than a lot of other courses out there.
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The fact that a school would waste their budget on some bullshit like this is ridiculous...
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On August 22 2008 05:49 Hawk wrote:
The fact that a school would waste their budget on some bullshit like this is ridiculous...
They don't have to spend anything really. Its probably taught by some grad students who basically set the course up themselves and teach it just to get some experience talking and teaching students. Its obviously just a blow off/fun class for students which is basically just like a lot of the many althletic classes that are run at every university. Its just something for students to have to relax a bit. I took a bowling class my senior year for 1 credit and it was all run/set up by a kinesology grad student who can do everything themselves for such a simple course. 1 credit is nothing when you need like 130 for a degree (and plus you dont get an actual grade so you cant use to buff your gpa either). I say cheers to them for recognizing that gaming has become a very popular past time for this generation.
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If you wanna go deeper, I'd argue that all that shit (bowling, etc, all those required phys ed classes) along with required at classes, etc is bullshit. I came to college to learn my major, not shit I'll never use again. Stuff like that is in place to generate $$$
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ssbm is definitely in the higher tier of skill games, below things like street fighter, starcraft and virtua fighter but it's still pretty high. Not the worst choice by a country mile imo!
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On August 22 2008 06:15 HamerD wrote:
ssbm is definitely in the higher tier of skill games, below things like street fighter, starcraft and virtua fighter but it's still pretty high. Not the worst choice by a country mile imo!
Yes but it's still incredibly shallow because games are limited to rules, anyone could understand the theory of games unless they're really really complex, in which case you're still better off studying something that applies to the real world.
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On August 22 2008 04:52 Last Romantic wrote:
Whatever. We have a StarCraft class. 1 credit.
Cal really has a starcraft class? I am so there. 
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On August 22 2008 04:52 Last Romantic wrote:
Whatever. We have a StarCraft class. 1 credit.
do u get an automatic A if you beat your professor in bo7? if so, i'm in.
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United States9107 Posts
On August 22 2008 04:44 Frits wrote:
Hey cool finally a course that you can waste your time on and amount to nothing instead of doing something useful like math.
ummm lol
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On August 22 2008 08:00 CapO wrote:Show nested quote +On August 22 2008 04:52 Last Romantic wrote:
Whatever. We have a StarCraft class. 1 credit. do u get an automatic A if you beat your professor in bo7? if so, i'm in.
Lol, what if like Nada shows up as the teacher? That would own your GPA, I think. ^^:
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On August 22 2008 04:45 Centric wrote:
Are you freaking serious?
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LOL I'M GOING TO OBERLIN XDDDDD
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On August 22 2008 05:58 Slaughter)BiO wrote:Show nested quote +On August 22 2008 05:49 Hawk wrote:
The fact that a school would waste their budget on some bullshit like this is ridiculous... They don't have to spend anything really. Its probably taught by some grad students who basically set the course up themselves and teach it just to get some experience talking and teaching students. Its obviously just a blow off/fun class for students which is basically just like a lot of the many althletic classes that are run at every university. Its just something for students to have to relax a bit. I took a bowling class my senior year for 1 credit and it was all run/set up by a kinesology grad student who can do everything themselves for such a simple course. 1 credit is nothing when you need like 130 for a degree (and plus you dont get an actual grade so you cant use to buff your gpa either). I say cheers to them for recognizing that gaming has become a very popular past time for this generation.
BTW, this class (if I'm not mistaken) is taught during winter term, which is basically 4 weeks of "personal growth" study (aka anything). As far as i know anybody can teach a class of basically anything they want, not specifically grad students (and there aren't any grad students at oberlin, anyway)
edit: nvm about the winter term thing, but it's a student-run thing and I doubt the college puts many resources into it
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