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I think we both agree-
I was talking to an education 'expert' a while ago who suggested that one thing kids miss out on today is being bored!
After a bit of thought, I tend to agree;
When I was young, with noting to do, and was bored, I found something to do - as you said, it might have been sitting in the yard playing with a stick, and I used my imagination to make it more fun.
As you said, parents often these days organise their kids to such an extent that, if there's a danger of boredom setting in they either jump in the car and take them somewhere, or sit them in front of a screen.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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The only zombies I saw whilst growing up were at the front of the class, mostly talking bollocks.
But it's an achievement thing, with a lot of violent games.
Rather than setting themselves to achieve something real, people have been more and more submerged into a reality where recognised achievements are things like watching particular movies or TV shows, or beating levels in computer games*, and these become the only achievements that they're willing to put any effort into.
Some game makers have responded to hard-core gamers' skills in achieving these completely pointless achievements by increasing the difficulty of games, whilst others try (much like TV and the movies) to appeal to the lowest common denominator, by making many of the achievements as easy as possible -- in the case of this game, that probably equates to killing unarmed, slow sprites.
We're all guilty of this achievement-placebo thing to differing degrees, and I think we're all aware that we're each capable of becoming the worst kind of couch/game potato, so we really shouldn't cast out motes, but it really does piss me off when I think that the vast majority of man's achievements are completely worthless, fabricated, entertainment-centred cr@p.
Why don't we have a colony on Mars? Why don't we know everything there is to know about our earthly biosphere? Why are there still mysteries of science and unsolved Mathematical quandaries?
Because we're too busy watching tivoed garbage and shooting for high scores to get our daily dose of achievement, that's why.
* Note how I cleverly avoided mentioning posting to message boards, here! That's an achievement in itself, so I'm done for the day!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Roger Wright wrote: I grew up with guns,...
And when was these gool 'ol days exactly?
Back when a kid could use a baseball bat to beat a bird, cat or dog to death and the neighbors just kept on walking?
Or when the cops and some good 'ol boys could head out for a night of drinking and beat up some targeted minority with no mind to the legality of such violence?
Or when a husband could head on home, use a switch on the boys, and back hand to the wife and little bit of rape on the wife if she wasn't in the mood?
Roger Wright wrote: They write violent games that artificially empower wimps who have no good reason to live or breed, by giving them the virtual power they could never hope to earn in a real world.
Certainly a better time when the football team could grab the "wimp" in the hallway, strip him naked, stick his head in the toilet and leave him in the hallway naked with his clothes gone. And perhaps with no more than a "boys will be boys" admonishment.
Sigh...the good ol' days...
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Apparently I grew up in a much nicer neighborhood than you... My condolences.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: Apparently I grew up in a much nicer neighborhood than you
Or the doors were thicker and the lawns bigger so you just didn't see it.
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Disgusting and depraved.  
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Has anyone ever worked with a big, mouthy ego type, so full of their own wonderfullness, just oozing smugness with every contrived sentence?
I have had the displeasure to have suffered such a person for a few months, and along with that, there has been a complete inability to actually produce anything. Endless excuses, delivered in an unctuous, self important way and whose solutions, described in a highly self flattering fashion, manage to totally avoid the fact that the problems were caused by the pillocks own stupidity! And the managers never realised!
Such is the depth of incompetence on display that not only has the company paid nearly 100K for a few days work, but the fact that it took many months to be half delivered, in a buggy and unfinished state, actually delayed and cost the company even more, and not only that, but the level of self satisfying noise emanating from this particular individual led to all kinds of bad decisions and erroneous paths of investigation being followed that the effect has been even more deleterious than is immediately apparent!
Has anyone else seen professional incompetence verging on outright fraud?
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Other than myself, no.
BDF
The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer.
-- PaulowniaK
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Has anyone else seen professional incompetence verging on outright fraud?
Obama.
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Big of you to admit these shortcomings. 
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These guys are great if you do not work with them, I went through 4 contracts in the 90s (about 3 years) repairing one guys screw ups, it generally takes a few months for an organisation to realise they have a fake on board but a good manager will spot it and chuck the guy.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: These guys are great if you do not work with them
I can see they make the real engineers look like gods. If the management ever notices...
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The guy I'm thinking of was his own worst enemy, we were members of the same user groups, and he could not help bragging about his new client, I would then get a prior victim to contact the new client.
He had a great line of bullshit and could sustain it for 2-3 months about the time the client was looking for real progress, oops!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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This prat has lasted 6 months. God knows how the managers haven't canned him ages ago, he has produced next to nothing in this time.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Has anyone else seen professional incompetence verging on outright fraud?
Have any of us not?
Bullsh1t is the main recourse of the incompetent.
Backstabbing comes a close second.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Backstabbing comes a close second.
Yeah, he has played that game too.
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A very funny book "How to be a Superwally" describes small motorbikes with the silencer baffles removes as having a high noise to power ratio.
You just described the human equivalent.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Flew back from Amman, having avoided radicalisation etc...Decided to watch the sequel to The 300.
5 Hour flight, so that finished, decided to watch Rev - a UKian comedy about an inner city vicar.
Rev had a warning about adult themes 300 didn't.
300: topless woman within 5 mins , weird sex scene with the ever delightful Eva Green, plus Gore & violence.
Rev: most offensive thing - Pomegranate and Pineapple tea.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Keith Barrow wrote: Pomegranate and Pineapple tea.
Sounds like an "adult theme" to me.
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Keith Barrow wrote: Pomegranate and Pineapple
Ah but were the pomegranates and pineapples topless also?
You can lead a developer to CodeProject, but you can't make them think.
The Theory of Gravity was invented for the sole purpose of distracting you from investigating the scientific fact that the Earth sucks.
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The pomegranates had their pips out and pineapples were hard core.
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How long did you think of that one?! 
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Keith Barrow wrote: , plus Gore
Al Gore recycled into an actor ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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