Portal 2 Release Disrupts Educational System

[exfileme]

The release of Portal 2 has apparently halted the earth's rotation for the day so that fans can play Valve's highly-anticipated sequel.

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[11796pcs]

Wow, this sounds like an advertisement for Valve... good work Tom's! Now you have set a precedent and have to do this for episode 3 as well.

 

[jhansonxi]

"Due to the high number of students that are feigning illness to play Portal [2], there will be no class tomorrow, April 19."

Sounds like a lame excuse for the teacher to play Portal 2.

 

[LuckyDucky7]

That picture was on Failblog, BTW.

And it's not disrupting the people who actually have exams at this point in time- such as myself.

If it was high school/other I'd be playing Portal 2 now!

 

[aftcomet]

I call major BS. No educational institution would do this. NONE.

 

[linford585]

[citation][nom]aftcomet[/nom]I call major BS. No educational institution would do this. NONE.[/citation]

No where here did it say that an entire university was shut down. A professor canceled their class, as they may do, at any time, to their own discretion.

 

[maestintaolius]

I don't care if it's so awesome that the radiance shining off of it will power my house with free energy for 1000 years. I'm still holding out for the inevitable 50% off sale.

 

[bustapr]

WTF, I was going to buy the ps3 version for my little brother when I had the money, and I already bought the pc version. if I had known I could save 40 bucks with the ps3 version I would have bought that!

Valve seems to be screwing me intentionally lately!

 

[TheCapulet]

[citation][nom]jhansonxi[/nom]"Due to the high number of students that are feigning illness to play Portal [2], there will be no class tomorrow, April 19."Sounds like a lame excuse for the teacher to play Portal 2.[/citation]
An excuse, sure. But hardly lame.

 

[maestintaolius]

[citation][nom]linford585[/nom]No where here did it say that an entire university was shut down. A professor canceled their class, as they may do, at any time, to their own discretion.[/citation]
My old ChemE professors would just have taken a mental note to test heavily on anything lectured on that day and held class as normal.

 

[ithurtswhenipee]

[citation][nom]aftcomet[/nom]I call major BS. No educational institution would do this. NONE.[/citation]
Spoken like someone who has never been to college.

 

[f-14]

meh before all this steam b.s. we just played as a LAN in class and used our headphones. it brought juvenile 3rd grade hijinx back into play on a grand scheme to disrupt your opposition with a spit wad on their laptop screen around their recticle as they were trying to shoot you.
ya we got lectured about other things then class material on those days.
i miss college, i would go back and do it all again for another degree in something else except nobody leaves their wifi areas any more and the dude you just shot a spit ball into their ears turn out not to be the jerk that kept cappin you with an invincibility hack because he's on a different server or in a different session of the same game +_+
and yes i have had a professor un officially cancel a class by giving out a book reading assignment inorder to sit down and play with the rest of us,twas the best!

 

[eddieroolz]

Several graduate student friends of mine just skipped work on their projects to play this.

 

[nebun]

this is sad...i personally would never, ever stand in line just to get an over-rated game unless you pay me 1 billion...zillion dollars

 

[web11]

Too bad portal gives me motion sickness 🙁 I've had Portal 2 for the 360 for a week now but haven't bothered to play because of that.

 

[lilotimz]

so thats why i have spring break this week.... woot

 

[pacapaca]

[citation][nom]nebun[/nom]this is sad...i personally would never, ever stand in line just to get an over-rated game unless you pay me 1 billion...zillion dollars[/citation]

Digital download...

 

[growup]

[citation][nom]pacapaca[/nom]Digital download...[/citation]


DERP! LOL

 

[agnickolov]

I think Best Buy had it for $35 for preorder... Amazon.com too. Not any more, however...

 

[pclee]

I think steam is ending the age of RTFM. Who's gonna bother to RTFM when you can download the game and you would have to transfer the pdf to an e-reader or other device before you could take it to the "reading room" (that's the toilet folks)? Anyway...to Portal 2!