Teaching Apocalyptic Survival Skills With Video Games
The experts debate:


Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?

I personally think that these experts are providing us with a disservice by not recommending a more well-rounded selection of games to educate the younger generation. The young gamer who confines himself to a single game genre may be cutting himself off from a broader understanding a multitude of valuable survival skills.

For example, let's talk about the acquisition of water for a moment. Gamers specializing in particular genres or categories of games will exhibit the preferences to the following solutions:

FPS Gamer: Kill everyone who might attack you. Storm their base. Take the water that they drop or that are found inside of crates which can be easily destroyed with a single crowbar hit.

Real-Time Strategy Gamer: Zerg rush the enemy compound and seize control of their moisture collection factory.

RPG Gamer: Kill all the mutants, take their gold or bottle-caps, and then use it to buy water at the conveniently located stores which have water in infinite supply and at a fixed price.

Turn-Based Strategy Gamer: Assign X survivors the task of collecting water. Sell the excess to neighboring camps for money with which you can buy weapons to eventually conquer them.

Casual Gamer: Find the hidden water bottles in rooms filled with cluttered junk and seahorses in the wallpaper.

Adventure Gamer: Find a human skull lying nearly hidden amongst some rubble. Find a cracked vase. Find a stopper. Find some ceramic bond. Use the bond on the vase to repair the crack. Leave the skull in a specific place at night to collect the morning dew. Pour the dew into the vase. Stopper the vase with the stopper. Drink it the next time you are thirsty. Adventure gamers fortunately only have to do this once, after which they will never feel thirsty again.

Rhythm Gamer: Dance and play air-guitar in the street until someone takes pity on you and gives you water.

The MMORPG Gamer: Spend two hours each day looking for a water-collection group, until you say, "Screw it" and grind it out solo.

The Sports Game Gamer:Manage a team of water collectors, but only one member of the team can really collect the water at a time.

The Third-Person Action Gamer: Just run around the wasteland jumping from ruin to ruin and occasionally performing timed sequences of simple actions to have water magically appear in your inventory.

Did I miss any?

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