Halo/other video games at School

CMBaller Goat

It seems these days, now that everyone is well into the second quarter, that, during study halls or any class where computers are used, people (mainly guys) use the time to play video games on the PC, most notably Halo: Combat Evolved and Counter Strike. At my high school, huge LAN games are created, where 12 or more people from around the school are playing in huge slayer matches. I am guilty as well, as I also participate.

So I pose the question, do any of you play video games on PC at school, and what are your thoughts on doing this?
 
My high school gives out laptops for the year. We definitely have a huge problem with that kind of stuff.
 
Every time I see someone using up a computer for addictinggames or Facebook games or some other bullshit timewaster when every station at the library is used I want to hurl stones of fire at them. We have a games room with computers and consoles set up. Use them. The games room is even in the goddamn library.
 
Brood war all day erry day.
Firestorm can you not ask people to just get off? If ever someone was wasting time on a computer I'd just tell them to get the fuck off I had work to do. And if they didn't get off I'd get the librarian. I guess it was/is different in highschool though.
 
Well, I've graduated college by now, but last time I checked, League of Legends was still really popular (I haven't played it at all). There were some StarCraft players, and occasionally people would still boot up Team Fortress 2, as well (the latter of which I actually DID play). Personally, my preference for Steam games was Sam & Max.

But being game design majors, this is completely justifiable. ;)
 
I remember when Halo and CS found their way onto the school hard drive files, meaning anyone could access them. Class would quickly turn into a Blood Gulch war, people using random nicknames. It was always fun to come out of the class and find out who was playing under what names.

That was a few years ago though, but great times.
 
I don't find it justifiable to play during class and I'd be distracted if someone was doing that ?_?


I mean, I'm a slacker like no other, a lot of my books I haven't even read past the first chapter, but I appreciate the jobs of my teachers enough to at least tune in to their lectures whilst they're being given. Maybe it's because I'm a community college student though.
 
Everyone wasted so much time at Digipen playing indi multiplayer games. Those were some good times though. Got to play the precursor to portal before portal came out.
 
we had the halo demo on our computers back in high school. shit was so fun. didnt have CS though :(
 
Oh and yeah my first two years were basically Super Smash Bros. Melee ev-er-y day. In second year Team Fortress 2 came out so that was added to the mix. Then my friends and I had too different schedules to really play often :(
 
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Back when I was at high school Call of Duty 1 and Warcraft III were the LAN games of choice. We never had 1.6 unfortunately.
 
Krul said:
I remember when Halo and CS found their way onto the school hard drive files, meaning anyone could access them. Class would quickly turn into a Blood Gulch war, people using random nicknames. It was always fun to come out of the class and find out who was playing under what names.

That was a few years ago though, but great times.
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That's exactly what happened at our school. On the shared servers, some people uploaded the full halo and cs files to some random folder under Math or something, so the teachers never find them, but all the students know where it is. When you have computers in the AP and Honors Physics rooms, and everyone uses a computer, and the teacher can't possibly see what you are doing if you sit in the back, it might be hard to resist temptations.
 
A lot of Halo and SC:BW populated the monitors of most every male student in my old IP class (grade 9). Flash games are still really popular, either on miniclip (school internet filter is lulz) or just on USB. On the FTV computers with editing software (some old version of Avid), you can also play Microsoft Space Pinball, which is great once you've finished editing.
 
A friend of mine has a ton of games uploaded to the school network. Including Pokemon and at one point Halo and Minecraft.
 
I played all of Starfox 3D and Mario 3D Land in design class because it was literally 6 hours of free time for the last few classes. Otherwise it just gets really hard to find a free computer in an art school. ):

I brought my laptop for PO, but I find I can't focus enough to actually EV train or anything. I play me DS during lectures and stuff.

It is really strange because almost nobody I've met so far plays video games, save for a handful of girls. Even then some of them are just LOL ASSCREED OH I LOVE EZIO. no guys in sight, so nobody to play anything with.
 
Yes, I am also having troubles putting PO onto my flashdrive, as the servers to play online won't load, however teambuilder and everything else works. Any suggestions?
 
Strange that you'd mention that, as I play Halo: CE during my CAD (Computer-Aided Drafting) class after I finish my "assignments", which are usually just isometric drawings that we complete on the school's computers. One of my friends got Combat Evolved on a flash drive and downloaded it to the CAD comps. Multiplayer servers and everything. The teacher really doesn't care, haha. I've probably played some of you guys before.
 
we don't use internet and computer room so much, I played computer games at school when I was in the primary school, we ran in the room to get the pc who has the Spiderman game and Soldier of Fortune and sometimes we litterally fighted for that PC
 
Professor Lamb said:
Huh, I tried doing that before but the servers list is always empty. I tried to use the Advanced Connection feature to connect to the Smogon server but that didn't work either. How do you do it?
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I don't know. I just copied the whole Pokemon Online file on to my flash drive. Go to school, put my flash drive in one of the school computers (which is connected to the internet, of course), go to the the Pokemon Online file, and click the Pokemon Online.exe file, and normally access the game as if I was at home.
Also, if this matters, I'm using the newest version of Pokemon Online, and a Windows version.

Along with Pokemon, I play Touhou, and DS at school.
 
Y'all are lucky they block the living shit out of everything at my high school.

Hell I can't even get on anything at explains anything about a video game.
 
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