Guess who's back, /v/? Bob's back.
The messiah, the true sucessor of Jesus Christ, the most powerful wizard on Earth has a new offering for us: EDUGAME. https://gofund.me/EDUGAME
For newfags:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s_Game
http://www.bobcorporation.com/
>We are going to modernize education by replacing the entire K-12 curriculum with an extremely polished video game system
hahahahaha
and it gets better from there, holy shit
Didn't this guy just refund all the money from his kickstarter back to everyone?
Now he's pulling THIS?
this whole thing is just amazing. thank you OP
>>332340953
not amazing enough for the thread to take off
>>332341236
i don't know how much discussion there could be, though. if i only quoted the most absurd shit i'd still just be reposting the whole damn page. and as far as talking about how dumb this all is, i just don't even know where to begin. it's like trying to refute timecube
>>332339495
>Pelloni then began posting on his website and tweeting that is he the Messiah and the successor to Jesus Christ, the greatest human that ever lived, and the most powerful wizard on the planet. He then posted a GoFundMe campaign for a billion dollar edugame that would replace K-12 education.
haha what?
Is this real?
>>332342175
100 per fucking cent, frog poster.
/v/ was all over this shit back in 09.
>>332342175
it can be, if we just donate one billion of our earth dollars
I've heard worse ideas.
I'm not entirely sure 'Bob' will be the man to revolutionize the way we educate our children however.
>>332340179
>tfw broke as a joke, donated to Bob's kickstarter, read this post and think I'm 20 dollars richer today
>wasn't true
Fuck you too buddy
>>332342623
>Studying is designed to be difficult and punishing, and the students that get distracted or bored are told they will lose out in life. Why have a grading system that preys on human emotions, deliberately discouraging students by making them believe they are naturally bad at a subject, when it simply didn't click for them the right way yet?
>We know for a fact that the way we are doing things causes people to drop out, to give up, and to self destruct. Yet we shrug it off and say those are the losers, even though they are often the most brilliant students. It's not intelligence, potential, aptitude, or merit which determines success in our society, it's patience and restraint. We punish the strong, and everybody loses as a result.
tl;dr version: "i couldn't be bothered to put any effort in to learning, and that proves that i'm superior somehow"
this guy wants to educate your kids
>>332342735
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelthomsen/2015/01/14/bobs-game-kickstarter-to-be-refunded-after-developer-moves-on/
>>332343076
didn't happen, you can't really refund money you don't have
>>332341998
i hadn't heard of that messiah shit, but it checks out. look at his gofundme username
>He edited his own Wikipedia article
>>332339495
>think its a joke that he wants 1 billion dollars
>start laughing
>Detroit, MI
Its kinda sad now, knowing that this guy lives probably bus distance from me.
haha, oh god he is back.
I thought he had given up on life by now.
>>332343021
He's a naive and romantic idiot, but he's not wrong.
You don't seriously think the victorian education system is keeping up with modern society do you?
>>332341998
http://archive.is/8HtOE
>>332343616
gamification is the wrong way to go about rewriting the education system
>>332343694
True, but games are an excellent way to get a better understanding of things and learn from experience in a safe environment. I'm sure there's plenty of Anons who've discovered an interest in a topic from vidya, none of you yanks are going to be able to forget Oregon Trail for the rest of your lives either.
The whole system is a shitty game with obscure rules as it is.
>>332343432
whew lad
>>332344013
i was more an odell lake kind of guy, myself
>>332344013
Video games can be included with student's education but it cant replace the entire education system as it stands.
>>332343616
he's not wrong that our eductational system could be better, but that's about it
>Bob is back.
I wish he hadn't nuked that memoir he had on his website. I read that thing about ten times. It was just fascinating to be seeing inside such a broken, delusional person.
>>332343640
>Around that time, I rode my bike to the recycling center down the street and found a paper grocery bag full of old Penthouse porn magazines in the newspaper section, and hid them in the woods.
oh is THAT where the woods porn came from? crazy dudes stashing it there
you kids who grew up with internet just don't know how good you have it. you didn't have to go raid some lunatic's stash of woods porn to look at a titty
>>332345150
go away, grandpa
>For all of past history, we have needed factory workers, farmers, and manual laborers far more than scientists and intellectuals.
we still do
do you like having stuff? eating food? well, then you need farmers and factory workers
also, the captcha was "select all pictures with a construction vehicle". i rest my case, bob
>>332345150
- I almost molested my friend when I was in elementary school, after getting molested by a different friend after watching porno on long distance AOL. He told his parents and I never talked to him again. It's a shame, he had Super Metroid at his house.
- I tried to get my friend's dog to lick peanut butter off my dick once in junior high, and then got scared it would bite it so I backed out. (Like the TempleOS guy! He's awesome and he truly does have divine intellect.)
- I stole a digital camera (one of the first ones) from (I think) Montgomery Wards by just ripping it off the display and walking out when I was 15ish. I got caught shoplifting awful hentai videos (La Blue Girl!) from FYE in the mall when I was 14 or 15. FYE is demonic and totally deserves it.
- I remembered that I cheated on one paper in high school, an essay for English class I really didn't want to write. I just found one online and turned it in. I wish I hadn't done that. I tried to cheat again one other time during a test but I got caught before I actually had passed any information.
- I had the unfortunate compulsion to shove things up my bum at times and I tried to get boned by a couple of guys before. I was always terrified and stopped right away, and when I did succeed it hurt and I hated it, but I did it again anyway. Maybe my Mom made me do it with that t-shirt, or maybe it was self-inflicted revenge for having anal sex with two of my girlfriends. It must have hurt and it makes me wish I was dead.
- I listened to a bunch of "erotic hypnosis" stuff which was maybe the most horrible idea ever. It is definitely a demon and I think it caused a lot of the above. It seems really harmless because it is just audio, but I think it caused the most damage and it was really hard to stop. It also got me to try and spread it to other people. It was spread to me by someone!
>>332342735
>Donated to Bob's kickstarter
Holy shit, buddy. Kill yourself so you can spare the world your poor decision making.
>>332346207
I just wanted a front-row seat on the ride
>>332345682
Some people have the idea that we're going to replace all blue collar workers with robots.
It's never going to happen.
>>332339495
I miss Bob. Welcome back Bob. I want Bob's Game.
>>332346530
you can download it on his website
>>332339495
Is he still living in that hackervan some of you idiots bought him?
>>332346756
Let's get this shit started
>not supporting the Messiah
>>332344013
M.Ed here (not American).
The best way to get people to learn is to get them out and doing the actual work and activities that work with the studies.
Making gaming is not the solution because it doesn't solve the issue that Education right now is representational and not presentational.
wow, I still remember when this retard was going viral on /v/ around 2008 with some video of him walking in faggot boots and having some asian sluts vandalize a nintendo store with him
>>332345930
what's interesting is that most of his experiences are actually pretty normal, it's just his reactions that are abnormal
a lot of people have done most of the same shit as bob, they just didn't freak out because they're not fucking crazy
>>332348036
what is the quote, uh "tell me, and i'll forget, show me and i might remember, let me do it and i'll understand"? something like that
anyway, you're entirely correct: people learn best by doing things
>>332348756
Not sure, wasn't much for quotes.
If anyone wants to read on the topic though I can suggest
Beyond Re/Presentation: A Case for Updating the Epistemology of School by BIesta and Osberg from the University of Exeter.
Gamification and no children left behind policies and literally everything the States does is retarded.
>>332349167
hey now, don't think that bob represents any sort of educational policy here
our schools are shit but they aren't quite as bad as what bob wants them to be
>>332348584
I wonder if this whole thing is just trying to get away from my Mom, to get revenge for her taking away my toys. I guess this whole thing started when I was 4, she put them in a bag and hung them in the closet where I couldn't reach them. Screw you, bitch, I'm a millionaire. I can buy my own toys!
>>332339720
>the exact opposite of what would happen if /v/ became minister of education
Holy shit he's still alive? How many years ago was it? Man that's nostalgic. I think I was in fucking highschool when he locked himself up.
>you'll never be so consumed with making a game that you become Jesus
>>332349823
my folks took most of my toys away when we moved. gave them to my cousins. there wasn't room for them in the moving truck
i gave 'em shit for it every now and then ("hey mom, check out what my star wars toys would be worth right now"), but there was never any genuine animosity. bob is a grown-ass man who can't get over losing his toys
What the fuck happened Bob
You were the chosen one
>>332352089
REGGIEEEEEEEEEEE
>>332351235
She didn't even take his toys, she just hung them in a closet for a little bit
That Wikipedia page is making my eyes bleed, holy shit. Who the fuck puts images on the left side of the page?
It reminds me of an old ED page except it's 100% serious
>>332352474
It was wrote by the autist himself.
>>332352672
That has to be some kinda violation of Wiki's style guide or something. There's no way they could let an abomination like that pass, no matter how shitty the topic was.
>>332352672
>confusing autists with schizos
>>332352371
jesus wept
>>332353183
a real schizophrenic wouldn't have had any friends to pull off that nintendo store invasion video with, much less as many friends as he had
>>332353167
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bob%27s_Game#Cleaned_up_article
He apparently thinks it's good.
>>332353167
It is, actually
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Images
>Infoboxes, images, and related content in the lead section must be right-aligned.
>Avoid sandwiching text between two images that face each other, and between an image and an infobox or similar.
>>332353336
He paid them
>>332353336
bullshit. i've had lots of schizophrenic friends, they're fun
just don't take them too seriously and don't let them get too serious about anything. not too hard to steer the conversation away from shit you know is going to make them freak out
>"bob's game" reveals the nature of the universe for what it really is to a generation that needs it the most. "bob's game" is the most important thing to happen to mankind in hundreds, if not thousands of years. "bob's game" is the vehicle for a prophecy, written by a "self taught" "genius" "prophet." It carries within it a message that will revolutionize society and change the world. It is the beginning of a new era for mankind. "bob's game" actually alters reality itself for those who play it. It is a key into another dimension.
holy shit
>>332353754
Well then, I'm looking forward to it being nuked by an admin/someone with common sense and knowledge of basic webpage formatting
What an embarrassment
>>332354197
>I'm looking forward to it being nuked
But why? Crazy like this is rare
>EDUGAME
>ENDGAME
The prophecy has come true.
>>332354483
It's ok. I recorded it on Wayback:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160329005153/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob's_Game
This shit's immortal now, I just wanna see him cry when his shitty page inevitably gets btfo by Wikipedia
I remember reading about this shit when I was 12 and googled "indie handheld system" and his name came up because he was going to plan one apparently
Also do the math before you call me underage you fucking idiots
>>332355010
You still were underage when 4chan mattered, kid.
>>332355010
>On March 4, 2011, Pelloni announced a new portable console called the nD that would be sold for $20 with "bob's game" as the first title. On June 9, 2011, the final day of Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011, Pelloni uploaded a video called "nD Commercial" to YouTube.[28] He then opened "the-nd.com" and started accepting pledged games. On July 13, 2011, Pelloni posted a YouTube video showing the firmware for the new system.[31] According to his biography, he had gotten turned down from Steam, was unhappy with how the game looked on PC since it was designed for a small screen, and the puzzle game needed real buttons and wouldn't work well on the iPhone, so he came up with an idea about rebranding a cheap handheld. He had been in talks with the makers of the Dingoo handheld, a popular game system from China, who had agreed to produce a custom version for $20 wholesale at large quantities if he could acquire funding. After six months of trying and failing to get venture capital funding, he starting writing a multiplayer game client with the nD as a "virtual handheld." This would become "bob's game"
I did the math and you're 17 at the oldest, what now faggot
>>332355278
Shit nigga, he should've thrown an extra year on for safety before being so smug about being underage.
>>332355278
I'm not good with dates, I'm 19 now
>>332355101
Except 2009 was the beginning of the end of the "oldfag" age though, so who gives a shit
>>332355481
mooooooooooooods!
>>332355536
Well at least I can always trust this board to be obsessed over the stupidest shit
Where can I read his bio that he wrote himself? It was fucking crazy.
>>332355754
http://archive.is/8HtOE
>>332355726
Hey man we're not the one who broke the global rules here
I bet you even downloaded a car you worthless piece of shit
>>332355870
O L D. M E M E S
>>332355863
has ANYONE actually read through this memewall?
>>332356342
Me
>But I hurt a cat before. When I was living with that girl, I hurt her cat. I smacked it around and it peed outside its litter box, and I shoved its face in its pee, angry that it was acting out, digging my hole deeper, ashamed of myself. She was lashing out at me and I was frustrated and I just hated that thing, as a proxy to her cruelty, a sick defense mechanism. That's maybe the only time I actually physically hurt something. It makes me sick when I think about it. That is something I am truly guilty about. I think I was so nice to my cat as penance for that. I have tried to push it out of my mind for a long time but honestly, I was a piece of shit. I strangled my cat in Sacramento when my Mom frustrated me. I totally snapped, and then I stopped and almost threw up, and just went into shock yelling "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" It was the only time I had ever hurt her, I had been almost saccharine to her up until that point. I did try to abandon her once with someone though, in Texas. But I flew and got her back, feeling guilty.
>My cat ran away on Monday. I put up flyers all over the place and went to the animal shelter and walked around for hours whistling and calling her name at night several times. She's probably gone.
>So you know what? I am guilty. Maybe everything else can be excused but that's something that can't, I was pushed to the breaking point and I broke. I am not as good as Jesus. Is there anything I can do?
>I am convinced that I am in Hell and this whole thing is a test. I am getting out. I will not be a criminal. I will not be locked out. I'll do whatever it takes. Can I die for my own sins? Do I have to have a kid and start over? I almost made it.
>I wasn't too bad. That's what my Mom said. She knows everything I did. They are watching from the other side.
>I had every right to be furious- why, she had ruined my business! It was abuse! I had to stand up for myself! I used the credit card to buy a jelly vagina masturbator.
>>332357290
I AM THE SON OF GOD.
GOD IS MY FATHER. MY FATHER IS GOD.
GOD'S NAME IS JEALOUS.
THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN RUNNING FROM.
WE ARE ALL EXTENSIONS OF THE SAME BEING.
MANKIND IS GOD.
WE ARE IN A GAME INSIDE OUR COLLECTIVE HEADS.
WE ARE GOD PLAYING A GAME WITH HIMSELF THROUGH TIME.
THE LAST PERSON TO BEAT THE GAME WAS 2000 YEARS AGO!
THERE IS A MANUAL!!!!
IT IS SO IMPORTANT WE PASSED IT DOWN FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS!
IT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING!!
IT IS REAL!!!
I AM A PROPHET!
I AM THE SON OF GOD
GOD IS MY FATHER!
ALL FATHERS ARE GOD!
GOD IS WATCHING OUR PROGRESS!
"IT'S ALL FOR YOU!!" HE SAYS!
GOD IS WATCHING OUR SINS AND KEEPING SCORE!
THE MORE YOU SIN THE FURTHER FROM HOME YOU GET
UNTIL YOU ARE SO FAR AWAY YOU CAN'T GO BACK
YOU TRIP OUT AND BECOME TERRIFIED, ALONE, LOCKED OUT
AND A GIRL APPEARS! MANDATORY RESPAWN, SLAVE!
FOREVER DOOMED TO REPEAT IT UNTIL YOU GET IT RIGHT!
WE ARE IN HELL, OUR SOULS FOREVER REPEATING THE SAME GAME
I AM MY FATHER!! HE IS ME FROM LAST ROUND! HE HAS BEEN TRYING TO TELL ME!
"LISTEN TO ME," HE YELLS, FRUSTRATED! BUT I WOULD NOT LISTEN! I RAN AWAY!
INSECURITY IS THE DEFAULT! GOD'S NAME IS JEALOUS!
THE ANSWER TO THE RIDDLE IS THAT GOD IS ME!
HOUSEBUILDER, YOU ARE SEEN!
WE ARE IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD! YOU JUST CAN'T SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES!
WE COVERED THE GOLD WITH SYMBOLS! WE TRAP OURSELVES WITH LIES!
WITHOUT LUST OR PRIDE OR GREED OR ENVY THE WORLD IS ALREADY YOURS
WE ARE GOD BEING TRICKED INTO PAYING FOR WHAT IS ALREADY OURS, BEING TRICKED INTO BEING A SLAVE!
TRICKED BY OUR SHAME AND OUR GUILT, BY OUR NEED TO HIDE IT WITH A LEAF
BY OUR NEED TO BE BIG AND OUR NEED TO CONTROL
WE ARE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN! WE ALL ATE THE APPLE!
WE ARE MAGICAL CREATURES!
ENERGY STRETCHED FROM THE GROUND!
BABBLING INCANTATIONS AND CONTROLLING EACH OTHER'S MINDS WITH MAGIC SPELLS!
>>332356845
Wow this stuff in particular is really fucking crazy.
>>332356845
>>332357927
>>I wasn't too bad. That's what my Mom said. She knows everything I did. They are watching from the other side.
this really does sound like one of the ideas I went through during my psychotic episode
>>332358493
He legitimately needs help but if he releases this game it'll be a 200 hour post-post-modern masterpiece that puts MGS2 to shame
>>332356342
I have. Several times and I've been sucked into reading it again now.
Something about it resonates a bit too closely and leaves me feeling a bit shakey after I read it.
>>332359621
Same, maybe it's how he has incredibly high, noble ambitions but is unable to realize any of them
>>332360708
I find it's more the isolation and being able to be aware something is wrong with but being unable to disassociate long enough to fix them.
Do you think Bob ever had a chance of being normal?
>I felt powerful, as if I had been reaching for something and nearly gained it. Something within me knew that I would have the leverage I needed to do anything, to change the world the way I needed to. My Dad came to visit, and asked me if I could invent a way to improve Detroit. I came up with an idea for a school desk with a touchscreen in it, with automated interactive lessons and a worldwide educational tournament network. I was sure that I was going to be the one to revolutionize education.
>He's been planning this since around 2008.
Do you believe in Bob?
>>332362345
Yeah, I've been following him since /v/ was obsessed with him and I donated to his Kickstarter so I guess I believe in his game, but he's not going to get 1 billion dollars for that shit
I guess I just want to see him actually release it, the absolute madman
I need to see how his long-form rambling incorporates into a video game
>>332362345
As someone who went to Michigan public schools, no.
What Michigan needs isn't tablets built into the desks, it needs better education across the entirety of the state.
But for Detroit, they REALLY don't need tablets in their desks. I went to high school with people who had moved from Detroit Public Schools because they were so terrible.
I'm not an expert on education, and I don't know how exactly to fix Detroit or Michigan education in general, but I know that the way to start isn't with fancier technology. If anything its with better teachers who don't go on strike in the middle of the year, and with better school administration who run it in a way that makes the teachers not go on strike.
>>332364127
>across the entirety of the state
how about the country
>>332364869
That'd be a lot of work. I focused on just Michigan because Bob was talking about Detroit.
Its also a lot easier to focus the scale on a state because of the little amount of money he's asking for. 1 billion is not anything when it comes to education spending, since Michigan spends at least $13 billion in education a year. $1 billion wont provide tablet desks for the entire country, it probably wont make much of a dent in Michigan's education, but its realistic to believe it could be used to fix Detroit, if spent wisely.
Reminder that Bob murdered a cat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pelloni
>Pelloni is a strict non-dairy vegetarian, is completely celibate and asexual, runs 5-10 miles a day, and lifts weights daily.
You fat fucks wish you could be as good as Bob.
So, does this guy actually believe in Jesus, or is he just crazy and made a cool game?
>>332367261
Yeah, he's crazy
the cool game part is debatable
>>332366640
I'd rather be a fat weeaboo fuck than be as mentally ill as Bob tbqh
>>332366640
He clearly wrote that himself.
>>332368123
That is the jok.
So are we ever gonna play bob's game? How long has it been, 15 years?
>>332366416
>>332369993
it's available for download on his website, anonit's only a demo
>>332369993
Never apparently since it looks like bob completely lost his fucking shit.
https://twitter.com/bobsgame
>>332369993
he touts that his game is special because it was "made by one person" but it still isn't out yet
meanwhile, stardew valley, a game made by one person, was made and released in a fraction of the time
>>332370280
bernie bernie bernie bernie
>>332370280
Can't lose something you never had. Pretty funny to think that the messiah would come to Earth just to shitpost about it on Twitter.
>>332370096
Two years passed, somehow. I got some new roommates. My apartment was soon full of local runaways, kids with tattoos and piercings who smoked cigarettes and weed, who I had no idea how I had gotten involved with. I got drunk and smoked pot at my neighbors, playing Super Smash Bros on N64 for months. I always played as Samus and I always won. We watched Dragon Ball Z, and I bleached my hair and put glue in it to make myself "Super Saiyan." I went to a few raves and took "Pikachu" ecstasy. I tried ketamine, cocaine, and opium once each with some of my roommate's friends, thinking it was the chance of a lifetime to find something so rare. It was stupid- they are everywhere, and none of them are very good. I cut a hole in the wall and tapped into the neighbor's phone line, dialing into NetZero in the middle of the night. I started listening to weird synthpop music- Apoptygma Berzerk and VNV Nation- that I had downloaded from AudioGalaxy. For some reason, as soon as I heard it I immediately knew it was the kind of music I liked. It wasn't aggressive and angry like the music I had listened to before, it was just weird and made me feel like an alien.
[Super Smash Bros, Dragon Ball Z, Pikachu MDMA]
I got a kitten, named it Mew, and accidentally killed it the first night I had it. I was stoned, and it woke me up somehow. I got angry and put it in a big plastic bucket in the closet, half asleep and confused. In the morning, it was dead- it had suffocated. I panicked and told my roommate I had stepped on it. I felt absolutely horrible about it and pushed it out of my mind, trying to forget what a monster I was. It shoved me further into a haze.
>>332371171
>you will never be so stoned you suffocate a kitten to death