Eurogamer: "Newsflash! Games are pretty good, aren't they? The fact that the BBC's Panorama has taken approximately three decades to work out what some of us sussed out the first time we clapped eyes on an arcade machine in the early eighties is investigative journalism at its most biting. In other news, food is pretty tasty, and some people eat too much of it.
In fairness, some people are just plain stupid and do things to excess, but is that the fault of videogames and the people that make them? Should we be encouraging them to make them less entertaining so that we can go back to smashing up bus stops for kicks? I don't know about you, but I've got a particular bone to pick with those irresponsible folk at HBO for continuing to make TV shows that render me powerless, and nail me to a chair for hours at at a time. Sometimes, I feel literally paralysed with entertainment."
Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environment or EDGE is the U.S. Army and Homeland Security Department's $5.6 million VR simulation program, that has played a prominent role in the training of fire departments and police agencies and how they should respond to school shootings.
Good old US. Always treating the symptoms -- never the disease.
“With teachers, they did not self-select into a role where they expect to have bullets flying near them. Unfortunately, it’s becoming a reality,” Griffith said. “And so we want to give them that chance to understand what options are available to them and what might work well for them.”
How about, instead of this, start requiring training in storing and using guns to require a gun license. And if you fail to safely store the gun, and it ends up in the wrong hands, you go to jail for negligence.
I completely agree, but then there's the black market which is a thriving business in the US...
There's an old Arabic saying that roughly translates to "preparing the medicine before the strike"
The context being: You know you're gonna get striked, so you set up some BS counter measures so you don't get blamed later, thats the medicine part. Why not prevent the strike before it happens? Isn't that the whole point?
There's also a fine line between being brave and being stupid, the wrong move in inexperienced hands could make the situation x10 worse. Ask any cop.
I got into a fist fight the other day on the side of the street, it was stupid of me to go down and face two guys by myself. But turns out they were pussies and the driver got an ass whipping hell never forget.
I was lucky though, he had his window down the whole time I was tuning up his face, and he was trying to reach for his knife the whole time. I was satisfied with the beating and left. People got out of their cars trying to cool down the situation and the guy immediately drove off.
I tried opening his door, which he locked upon seeing me approach his window, but it escaped me at the time that I could have opened his door from the inside. These are the kind of stupid no brainer things you don't realize only after the situation ends, and then it's too late.
Point being trying to be a hero is dumb when the odds are stacked against you, and in the case of school shootings the odds will always be against you.
In my case I wouldn't have brought my fists to a knife fight if I had known beforehand that he had a knife. I would have came down with a weapon to, or drove off.
These people are asking teachers to spontaniously react to a student whipping out a GUN, sounds like a recipe for disaster...
Everyone has a plan until they get shot in the mouth...
If you've been in a situation that requires quick thinking before you know you can never be fully prepared. It's easy to say I'll do this and that but this isn't a game it's real life.
Casualties are bound to occur if you don't prevent these incidents before they occur.
A vr experience that teaches staff to spot weapons and security at school doors would have made more sense.
Rush, by Ketchapp, is a new iOS and Android game where you try to make your way down a track for as long of a time as possible so that you can score as many points as possible. You can earn gems and unlock new balls, as well as new tracks. While you have to pay for most of the new balls, there are five secret balls that you can’t unlock with just gems, and there is a cheat that lets you get them all instantly.
Rush is Ketchapp’s latest endless game for the iOS and Android platforms. Your goal is to roll your ball down a path and work towards the highest score that you can get. You can gain levels, collect gems, and unlock all sorts of new balls and tracks as you go.
