Portal becomes part of the syllabus at Wabash College

Next year: Half life.
For Biochemistry: Left 4 Dead.

Someone should just start a full on Video Gaming College. Get a degree in button mashing. It'd be great.

The portals in this image make no sense.

It's all for science...you monster.

Ugh. Is this training students to create more pretentious gaming podcasts? Is there going to be a section on how to have the "is gaming art" discussion for the 1000th time?

I play games to have fun. I guess other people have fun with games by taking a medium that was never intended to be deep and inject a lot of meaning into something that was designed just to be fun and entertaining.

This is certainly required course material that I wouldn't be trying to sell back to the college bookstore at the end of the semester.

It started slowly. Hardly anyone noticed when they took Wabash in 2010. But by 2020 we had senators making obscure gaming references during debates. People started getting nervous, but we couldn't act fast enough. With the 2024 elections, it was all over. A new era dawned in the shadow of that towering figure. It was President Fils-Aime's world and, well, non-gamers weren't welcome in it.

We tried to fool them. People rushed to Gamestop in the hopes of getting their hands on anything that would keep the Gamers' discerning eyes away from their families. But they were lambs rushing to slaughter. We should have known Gamestop wasn't safe, but there hadn't been another place to get games since 2015. In our panic we rushed right into the lion's den. It was an expert trap, but then that was gamers for you.

The QA camps were tough. 21 hours testing, 3 hours everything else, it was, with nothing but Cheetos and Mountain Dew to sustain us. The Companion Cubes made us powerless - too insane to resist, just sane enough to work. I spent 7 long years there. It was then that the rebel devs came for us. It took 7 years, but the Resistance rose.

They were only about 100 strong, but they had the soul to get the job done. The Gamers had grown complacent, had grown weak. The Resistance fought with tactics they'd never seen, and despite their superior numbers and firepower, the Gamers really didn't stand a chance. And when Sharpshot Dunaway took out Fils-Aime himself, they had won. We were free.

Anyway, Billy, that's why my fingers are always orange. Now you'd better get going or you'll be late for school.

Prof: ``Why the hell are you playing a game in my class?``
Student: ``It`s our homework sir, we have to get past level 10 before class today!``

Best.College.Ever!

I love the fact that college students are the ones who made Portal, and now it's being used in a seminar to help teach students.

Damn, I love that.

I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.