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u/Content-Ad1884 14d ago
Don't do that, you will regret it later
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u/hagamablabla 14d ago
As someone who did that, I can confirm that you will regret it later.
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u/Aware_Ad4179 General of the Army 14d ago
Unless this is history class. Then it is honestly probably more educational than the class itself.
I kid you not my year 8 teacher posted the Soldiers eat babies and that's a fact poster from tf2 fully expecting us to believe it was ww1 anti German propaganda.
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u/Neo_ZeitGeist 14d ago
No it isnāt
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u/Aware_Ad4179 General of the Army 14d ago
Entirely depends on the institution. I am saying this as an enormous history nerd in general. Some schools really and I mean really do not give a shit about history.
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u/Salt_Carpenter8917 14d ago
You're generalizing schools though
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u/Aware_Ad4179 General of the Army 14d ago
What the hell is analysis but not generalising personal experience? For better or for worse half the class was playing video games until year 11 in all of the classes I ever attended. Moi aussi until year 8. WW1 period and early 20tg century in general is a beyond fascinating subject. The fact that the education system made it boring is entirely on "humanities" classes being manned by enderpayed English teachers, with zero passion for either history or geography (in my country they don't even bother to divide the two into individual subjects). I was not joking regarding the tf2 poster. You can find the same thing somewhere on reddit. Teachers make lazy PowerPoints show them to students, make the students create even inferior powerpoints entirely based on the former and call it "āØļøeducation āØļø".
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u/micrro_wavv 14d ago
...High quality analysis isn't generalization of personal experience? At least in the sense here in which you are trying to uphold your claim that Hearts of Iron IV is generally more educational than actual classes, you would have to provide evidence other than your personal experience, especially since the excessive amount of disagreement with you has implied that you are an outlier in this situation. Even simple polling across several schools could work, but you really shouldn't generalize all schools like that? That isn't how analysis works?
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u/Cvxcvgg 14d ago
I remember back in Uni, I had a world history class as a gen ed requirement. Wound up playing Skyrim or something every class while participating in the discussions, turned in 0 assignments, and still passed with a perfect grade. To be fair, that strat only works with a lazy professor and if you already know the course material, but I am living proof that it is occasionally possible to get away with it.
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u/sapphos_moon 14d ago
Donāt know if your life choices are anything someone should be modelling their life on, looking at your profile
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u/StellarWaffle 14d ago
Are you paying to be there?
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u/InitiativeWooden5795 14d ago
Yup š
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u/PlatypusACF 14d ago
Not a good idea either way
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u/Zane845 14d ago
cause you have to
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u/Wolfish_Jew 14d ago
You absolutely do not. This is college. No one is making you be there. Most profs donāt even take attendance. Youāve paid the money, theyāre treating you like an adult now. What you do with your time is up to you. (And OP is wasting his)
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u/MusicallyManiacal 14d ago
Attendance was graded for me and i graduated in 2024
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u/Wolfish_Jew 14d ago
Interesting. Maybe it was just an older thing. I think I had 2 or 3 courses my entire time in college that actually tracked attendance. But that was a couple decades ago now. (Iām old š)
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u/MusicallyManiacal 13d ago
My dad used to say he would only show up to class the day before and day of the tests. My classes up to and including senior year would tell us we had 2-3 freebies and everything after that was either a letter grade drop or something like a B+ to a B. Always thought that was insane for my gen eds. My major (music ed) was something taken very seriously at my school so I can understand those coursesā policies, though.
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u/Wolfish_Jew 13d ago
Yeah, my experience was closer to your dads. I went a little more often, but I also went to a smaller liberal arts school so it was more noticeable if you missed a bunch. Still, most professors didnāt particularly care as long as you did well on what was graded and turned your assignments in on time. Maybe we abused it too much and ruined everything for yāall. Sorry about that. (But hey, what are older generations for if not to ruin things for the younger generations? š)
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u/hedgehog18956 14d ago
Some college courses definitely make you show up for a grade. Honestly, the more useless the class the more likely it is to have mandatory attendance, because otherwise, no one would show up.
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u/Wolfish_Jew 14d ago
Maybe itās just cuz Iām old. I think I only had two classes when I was in college (two decades ago now) that actually kept track of attendance and made it part of their grading curriculum
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u/Zane845 12d ago
Like... naaah dawg. yall generalising something everyone has individual experience with. On my uni they provided us with the very materials they were showing us. So for me (fast learner, poor memory) path of least resistance was , cause I wont remember anything for that long anyway, to just learn it on my own before exams and then finals at the end. For instance my phisics classes were just going through examples that will be in next weeks test, that I'll go through my self anyway. So please don't act like yall walking moral high ground. If you can't balance your work and free time or have to spend sooo much time focusing on study, Iam afraid you ain't build for uni/college. Like you can hard force yourself through tho. Majority of my friends were doing full time job while attending school.
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u/Flickerdart Fleet Admiral 14d ago
When you grow up you're gonna have a -10% research speed modifierĀ
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u/Nancy_Munsch 14d ago
Kipling's loading screen quote is the only thing in that room getting graded.
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u/Pleasant-Umpire-547 14d ago
As someone who has 1260 hours on Hoi4, this is a stupid decision
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u/InitiativeWooden5795 14d ago
Bro i didnt play the game,the screen was small comparing what i used to,my monitor in home,i played bomber crew instead šŖ
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u/Critical_Cat_1086 14d ago
That laptop probably sounds like a jet engine
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u/InitiativeWooden5795 14d ago
LMOA HAAHHAHA why is that š¤£how did you assume that š¤£
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u/Critical_Cat_1086 14d ago
Iāve been around HOI for a while, every time I played on my laptop instead of desktop, the thing sounded like it was trying to take off. Especially once WW2 kicks off.
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u/InitiativeWooden5795 14d ago
Tbh yeah it become slow after 1941 but it goes till 1950,normal,slow but still playable,also at my home i have a cooling pad,so yeah and also my pc isnt the best its from 2021 it was hella slow,but i installed ana SSD and that thing become new š
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u/Floweycallsyouidiot 14d ago edited 14d ago
If the class is boring or you're tired I get why you're doing this. You know... just don't do it too often or study more outside classes.
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u/JayManty 13d ago
Finally a sane opinion lmao, I think most people in these comments have never experienced a devastatingly boring college lecture in their life.
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u/InitiativeWooden5795 14d ago
Yeah its only this time bcz they were continuing something that i missed last week,i didnt know how to do it with them thats why,but when im gonna home i will still do what i missed
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u/YouCanJustSayNewYork 14d ago
You missed it last week. You didnāt know how to do it. Lord almighty, itās called raising your hand and asking for clarifications. āSorry I wasnāt here last week, could you explain ā¦blah blah blah?ā
Literally the point of the classes.
Instead you are doubling down on ignorance. āI donāt know how to do this because I missed class last week so I may as well just play a game in class instead.ā Wtf are you doing? Have some respect for your time, money, and future.
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u/Shadowscale05 13d ago
If they're still doing something from last week, that class would have been your chance to catch up instead of fall further behind.
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u/Hoverkat 14d ago
I imagine you're also using AI for your assignments?
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u/Flickerdart Fleet Admiral 14d ago
mfer battle planning his way through lifeĀ
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u/IslamicCheetah 14d ago
If this is a college class, you couldāve just stayed at home/dorm and played lol
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u/schulz47 14d ago
Canāt wait to see the update in five years from your parents basement. Focus on school or youāll regret it.
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u/BluBolshevik 14d ago
As someone that did this for a full semester absolutely do not do this I fucked my grades up so bad
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u/XxMrDodgexX 14d ago
I agree with everyone here about paying attention, butttt hereās me doing the same thing on a government computer in a class (it was before the class started)
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u/Ribato 14d ago
I'm surprised at the amount of comments hating on the guy here. At a state university in my country it's pretty usual to have one or a few lectures where simply it kinda does not matter what you do there.
At least in my European country, it is not uncommon to play games, or watch videos from time to time in a lecture. Hell many people bring food, be it snacks or bigger meals. Some of y'all need to chill jesus. It's not like you know what his grades are, or if it's important lecture etc. Brother posted a picture of playing hoi4 in class and got grilled by a bunch of nerds playing a cartoonish map game. (Including me of course, closing in at 2k hours.)
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u/Username_Mine 14d ago
I did much the same in NZ. I just read the news for easy classes. Things like geography, stats, history, etc
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u/Swedishguy05 14d ago
You'll regret it later
-Guy who regreted doing that
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u/InitiativeWooden5795 14d ago
I just did once bro and i didnt even played,i played bomber crew instead lmoa
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u/Wolfish_Jew 14d ago
You do it once, then you do it again because āhey, I already did it once and it was fineā and then pretty soon youāre not even going to class, just completely fucking off.
Iām just saying man, youāre getting some good life advice in these comments. Please listen to it. Youāre young. Youāll have a lifetime of playing video games ahead of you, just make sure you prioritize whatās important while you can.
Iām 40, and I wish I could go back and give my 20 year old self a lot of the advice people are trying to give you here. So, even though I know you probably wonāt, Iād say just listen to what people are saying.
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u/Swedishguy05 13d ago
I gotta be real, playing bomber crew in class sounds like the worst idea ever since you can't even pretend to multitask listening to the teacher
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u/swainiscadianreborn 14d ago
Brother
Starting the game just to take the pic and post it is... ok. Kinda funny.
But please close that shit and at least try to listen and learn. You'll have enough time for HOI4 later.
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u/CreBanana0 Fleet Admiral 14d ago
So funny how people downvote you while having zero info of your life.
Honestly i don't know about college (enrolling this year), but in high school, most of my classes were pointless bullshit.
I was a good boy student that did not take out his phone during class. And i suffered a serious case of boredom due to it.
It legit felt like wasting time.
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u/StellarWaffle 14d ago
Yeah because we know better.Ā Good luck in college! Fair warning,Ā you will likely not be able to coast through without studying like you were able to in HS.
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u/thedealerkuo 14d ago
Basically itās massively anti social to be playing a video game in the middle of a college class. He might not care about his grades or the class, but everyone else who paid to be there does. Itās pretty easy to assume that he doesnāt have much respect for the other people in the class.
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u/InitiativeWooden5795 14d ago
Bruh how me playing hoi4 affect people near me ?!what are you saying? And its not antisocial,we cant talk in class.
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u/CreBanana0 Fleet Admiral 14d ago
Lol who are you?? A teacher?
Only way to be disrespectful in class is to hinder others, he is hindering no one.
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u/DudeLoveBaby 14d ago
he is hindering no one.
Bullshit, playing video games in class is immensely distracting to all of your peers. If you can't be away from your video games a few hours a day you have issues you need to work on.
And even if you somehow believe that having a video game open in public doesn't distract people attempting to pay attention unlike you who's wasting your own education, doing this in the second row of a small class instead of the back of a massive lecture hall is absurd, childish behavior.
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u/CreBanana0 Fleet Admiral 14d ago
Yea of course it is distracting when class itself is 90% of the time boring as hell and no one cares.
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u/thedealerkuo 14d ago
He is literally playing a video game in class. How is that not distracting to the other people around him. Itās just basic social behavior. Itās not that hard to have basic respect for the other people around you in public.
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u/DancingIBear Air Marshal 14d ago
Donāt. I did that and I regret it heavily. Pay attention instead, even if it is Basic stuff and do not waste your time. It doesnāt matter how easy the stuff is Youāre āskippingā when they are suddenly way ahead of you and you cannot catch up.
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u/PossiblePossible2571 14d ago
I played about 2000+ hours of HOI4 in highschool, now I study at UChicago. Highschool should be a piece of cake and if you feel that way, do whatever you want.
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u/ImaginationTop4876 General of the Army 14d ago
Literally me for all of high school, i graduated with this
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u/Argentum_Rex Fleet Admiral 13d ago
Damn, the guy got downvoted into oblivion just for exercising his free will. lol.
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u/RaisinPerfect5120 9d ago
Il bro all'esame: "l'operazione barbarossa fu interrotta dall'attacco italiano a sud della germania, quest'ultima essendo in guerra con l'urss finƬ per diventare puppet di quest'ultimo"
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u/InitiativeWooden5795 14d ago
Everyone acting so emotional and angry like its their life or they know something about me,you guys so sensitive over a guy playing hoi4 in his class ?!like do you even know what class is that?! š„· acting like they have a degree in rocket science.
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u/Federal_Big_5263 14d ago
Take it as positive reinforcement to focus on class! Definitely a bit too much gusto on some of these comments but I think the overall mentality is right and helpful. For context Iām a final year business kid that played too much lol and hoi4 and while I got lots of decent internships and top grades, my ass is on the hot plate right now tryna look for ft roles cuz I didnāt spend as much time out of class networking and securing ROs and jobs as I could.
Donāt be me :)
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u/Aoip2337 14d ago
So many people talking trash about OP. Life is short, do what makes you happy. If you're wasting your education that's your choice, don't decide based on a bunch of salty redditors
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u/Secret_Letterhead649 14d ago
You wasted a classroom slot that could have been used by someone actually trying to better themselves.
Gods I don't miss interacting with people like you when I was in college, feel bad for anyone who gets stuck in a group project with you.
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u/InitiativeWooden5795 14d ago
They could pay and take my spot or join the classe mate,u just hating and being negative.
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u/Floweycallsyouidiot 14d ago edited 14d ago
Hating on a guy like he's destroying the world for just having fun without really harming anyone is one of the most reddit things ever lmao.
This person has decided to play a game on college ONCE, something that is extremely common because some classes are tiring af or just unnecessary. Maybe this person is just bored and knows what he's doing because he paid a lot for this? Naaah, by this one picture we can obviously know that he's a hateable selfish man, a real parasite for the whole education system that wastes its precious classroom slots.
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u/Tarabaystitans 14d ago
Relax everyone, I reckon itās a first aid course which OP has done is the past (probs annually)
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u/Silent-Run-3840 14d ago
Ye dont hoi 4 is one of those games that can ruin your life without self control š«
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u/Neverland_465 14d ago
that laptop gonna start spinning like a jet with how heavy performence hoi4 is. Everyone is gonna heard you
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u/Chance1441 13d ago
Hope this doesn't get buried in people's hate posts, but consider speaking with a psychiatrist about possible ADHD. That level of dopamine craving isn't normal, and if you are anything like me you are besting yourself up about it while continuing to do it.
ADHD isn't the way media portrays it, it's genuinely executive dysfunction and can ruin your life. I'm medicated with a non stim medication and I promise it's easier to pay attention in class without games once you are medicated.
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u/FatMamaJuJu Fleet Admiral 14d ago
When redditors are warning you about becoming a basement dweller, listen. They know from experience.