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Did anyone else write about games for homework assignments in school? I remember I did a walkthrough of the Metroid Prime frigate for a language arts class, which is pretty amazing since it’s the tutorial section that lasts 15 minutes.  I also did some kind of character analysis and picked Link as my example, talking about his courage, wisdom, etc.
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Not a video game in and of itself but I definitely wrote a book report on one of the Halo tie-in novels in like 6th grade. Didn't get a very good grade but hell. You want me to write a book report a week you're going to get some video game tie-in novels.
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Mar 12, 2023 00:57
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My dad called my grade 4 teacher and asked her if I could do a "video game report" every week instead of a book report. At the time I was super disappointed when she said no but now, like, c'mon dad.
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Mar 12, 2023 00:59
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as a creatively bankrupt child, if we ever had to do any creative writing poo poo in english i would just steal characters from whatever i was playing. chrono trigger and ff6 for sure
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Mar 12, 2023 01:00
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Arrhythmia posted:My dad called my grade 4 teacher and asked her if I could do a "video game report" every week instead of a book report. At the time I was super disappointed when she said no but now, like, c'mon dad. Lol
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Mar 12, 2023 01:04
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ahh found the post. treasured memoryHolePisser1982 posted:in fifth grade we had to do history project where you and another kid were to make up a historical civilization, and my partner was the braindead kid in the class. But a day or two after it was assigned he gave me like five pages of bizarre but detailed lore, so I rolled with it and did a bunch of maps and portraits around what he wrote. I found out months later everything he gave me was copied from the Shaq Fu game manual
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Mar 12, 2023 01:14
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I definitely managed to convince an English teacher to allow me to do a 'book report' on ff7, which I was really excited about because I had found a fansite that detailed the whole plot and pointed out the parallels in the Kaballah that I could borrow points from which was good since we were learning about mythology and archetypes at the time. At any rate I got two pages in, realized I was in way over my head and pretty much slapped a conclusion on there before I even left Midgar
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Mar 12, 2023 01:15
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I also had a build-a-fake island civilization assignment and while most of it was pretty normal I did make the island designated SR388
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Mar 12, 2023 01:19
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HolePisser1982 posted:ahh found the post. treasured memory lmao
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Mar 12, 2023 01:20
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In my 7th grade art elective I tried to recreate a picture from the link to the past manual of the master sword in the woods for a still-life assignment. My teacher showed me how to draw swords better by erasing mine right in front of me and drawing a more realistic one in it's place lol
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Mar 12, 2023 01:21
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HolePisser1982 posted:ahh found the post. treasured memory lol
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Mar 12, 2023 01:22
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HolePisser1982 posted:ahh found the post. treasured memory lmao
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Mar 12, 2023 01:22
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One time in 8th grade English I couldn't think of a writing subject so I just scribbled down something about Friday Night Magic. My teacher liked it enough to share with the class and I wanted to die from embarrassment.
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Mar 12, 2023 01:30
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HolePisser1982 posted:ahh found the post. treasured memory lmfao
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Mar 12, 2023 02:13
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hd to write a short story in 6th grade so i went and stole poo poo out of the d&d rules cyclopedia and came up with a badass adventure. the paper was only supposed to be two pages but i got so hyped up i wrote like ten, teacher gave me an A+ pretty much based on length alone
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Mar 12, 2023 02:16
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I did a book report on a Blaster Master novelization and both my mom and my teacher flamed me IIRC.
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Mar 12, 2023 02:19
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in biology class we were supposed to come up with a metaphor for the structure of a cell and do a piece-by-piece explanation of how every part of the cell fits the metaphor e.g. "the ribosomes are like mailmen, the mitochondria are like a power plant" I put together... probably about 18 pages of silent hill lore including illustrations and diagrams I think I got a B+, which was more than fair because the project was definitely more about silent hill than it was anything else. I don't think that now, as an adult, I could even track the metaphor if I could see what I wrote, it was literally just explaining the lore of silent hill and then going "so the fog is kind of like cytoplasm"
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Mar 12, 2023 02:33
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HolePisser1982 posted:ahh found the post. treasured memory lmfao
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Mar 12, 2023 02:37
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HolePisser1982 posted:ahh found the post. treasured memory lmao
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Mar 12, 2023 02:54
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i did a short story in grade 4 about ness and jeff beating the poo poo out of the mani-mani statue because i was obsessed with my copy of earthbound and the strategy guide lol
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Mar 12, 2023 02:59
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HolePisser1982 posted:ahh found the post. treasured memory Lmao
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Mar 12, 2023 03:01
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In 3rd grade I wrote a short story based on the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon (the goofy one) and in 4th grade a poem about Donkey Kong Country
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Mar 12, 2023 03:02
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Wrote a short story in first grade that was about a kid investigating mysterious events and finding the Mega Buster. The word processor program we used had a maximum page count of 5, so I couldn't finish it because I wrote too much and got in trouble for not completing the assignment. Pretty much gave up on school at that point.
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Mar 12, 2023 03:04
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oh yeah I forgot I went to a summer camp where we had to do a PowerPoint presentation, and I chose Phantom Crash for Xbox lmao
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Mar 12, 2023 03:33
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HolePisser1982 posted:ahh found the post. treasured memory lmao incredible
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Mar 12, 2023 03:43
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HolePisser1982 posted:ahh found the post. treasured memory lol. we had to write about what society would be on mars and i copied alpha centauri verbatim. i talked about how there would be drone riots and people would consider nerve stapling an atrocity and didnt explain what either of those were. the teacher probably thought i was nuts.
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Mar 12, 2023 05:25
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ion like 5th grade i wrote an entire picture book of the story of links awakening and played it off as my own except at the end everyone became friends and nobody died
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Mar 12, 2023 05:29
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i made a "video game" in some lovely free fps game engine as my visual for a presentation in english class in high school. i don't really remember what it was for but i remember i spent all my time making this really big elaborate cathedral and it took me like 3 seconds to walk through it while presenting and i didn't really have anything else to show good scam though because it gave me an excuse to go to the library to work on my project, which actually meant playing flash games on addicting games dot com
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Mar 12, 2023 05:57
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it’s not like, a game per se but I definitely wrote about exploring an abandoned mental hospital for some standardized test and retrospectively thought I should be flagged for being a psycho
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Mar 12, 2023 07:54
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I had to write a report on communication and wrote about 40 man raiding for WoW.
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Mar 12, 2023 09:48
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Arrhythmia posted:My dad called my grade 4 teacher and asked her if I could do a "video game report" every week instead of a book report. At the time I was super disappointed when she said no but now, like, c'mon dad. i learned to read very early in large part due to playing a lot of Nintendo with my brother. this teacher is a retartd imo
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Mar 12, 2023 17:17
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had to do a presentation in middle school so i used a vcr to record clips of me playing mario 64 and some animations I made in mario paint so I could have mario as my copresenter. i think thats the hardest i ever worked on something ever for school of any level lol. i later used that vcr to record three runs of MYST for the sega saturn (both brothers and then true ending/speedrun)mbt posted:lol. we had to write about what society would be on mars and i copied alpha centauri verbatim. i talked about how there would be drone riots and people would consider nerve stapling an atrocity and didnt explain what either of those were. the teacher probably thought i was nuts. lol SMAC ftw Smirking_Serpent posted:oh yeah I forgot I went to a summer camp where we had to do a PowerPoint presentation, and I chose Phantom Crash for Xbox lmao drat i aint thought about phantom crash in a longlong time. i remember being so stoked when 360 was backwards compatible with it lol
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Mar 12, 2023 18:22
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Did a research project for science class in middle school on the effects of caffeine on reaction time. My tool for measuring reaction time was Samurai Kirby from Kirby Super Star
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Pretty sure on at least two occasions when phoning in a creative writing assignment I just ripped off the plots from Morrowind in-game books but was smart enough to remove any explicit Elder Scrolls / game stuff. one of them was The Horror of Castle Xyr, the one you can do a stage play of, but it was changed to Castle McGraw and set in the Glasgow dockyards in the 70s and I got marked down for fart jokes "ruining the story". No memory of how this worked exactly
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Mar 12, 2023 19:05
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Arch Nemesis posted:Did a research project for science class in middle school on the effects of caffeine on reaction time. My tool for measuring reaction time was Samurai Kirby from Kirby Super Star Hell yeah!
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Mar 12, 2023 19:07
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i wrote an essay about Roblox in 5th grade and one of the soccer players called me a fag
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Mar 12, 2023 19:28
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HolePisser1982 posted:ahh found the post. treasured memory lmao
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symbolic posted:Roblox in 5th grade 
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