Posted on 03/04/2014 8:26:45 AM PST by Impala64ssa
America's kids have been suspended for pretending that pencils were guns, but an Ohio school may have topped that. A 10-year-old student at a Columbus elementary school was handed a three-day suspension for making a finger gun and pretending to shoot a classmate. The suspension letter more formally referred to his weapon as a "level 2 lookalike firearm," reports the Columbus Dispatch. Devonshire Alternative Elementary School's principal says students have been frequently told not to play pretend gun games, with a district rep saying kids were warned consequences would follow.
Those consequences hit hard last week for fifth-grader Nathan Entingh, who says he was "just playing around"; the rep said Nathan pretended to shoot another student "kind of execution style" in the head. And the "victim" didn't even see the mock execution, which was instead spotted by a teacher. Nathan's dad seems dumbfounded: "It would even make more sense maybe if he brought a plastic gun that looked like a real gun or something, but it was his finger." (Almost exactly a year ago, a Georgia teacher was suspended over a finger gun of his own.)
Not sure if this is what we've been looking for, but I'll wager that we will be seeing this descriptive again. And again.
We need a gamer person to tell us how many hit points a level 2 lookalike firearm would have, then we can determine its ultimate usefulness. Maybe we can find the manufacturers instruction manual. I'll bet we could even find a parts list... ;-)
I'm not a gamer person, but I can say that Frank has shot many people and animals with Spot and Stripe - in their alternate modes as machine guns - and none of the targets has experienced any reduction in life, limb, or health factors.
It only does Psy damage to weak Cog level enemies.
I think it is a 1d5 die damage modifier, if that.
Aha, the expert is heard from!
(I actually kind of understood that. Quite clever!)
No mindflayers were harmed in the creation of those stats.
Annoyed, yes.
Harmed, not hardly.
Great. Annoyed mindflayers. Where’s the Raid Flying Pest Killer?
Never mind take an eye out, a sling shot could destroy an entire solar system. *sharp intake of breath*
Under the sink behind the adult proof child safety locks.
Hiding under the Blythgryth..
Dreaded automatic assault sling with one hundred rock drum magazine detachable bayonet clip folding stock muzzle flashsuppressor!
Oh, freep. Do we have Blythgryth under the sink again? I told the kids to stop hiding cookies under there, and now look what’s happened.
Heads will roll.
The blgthrgths give off a warning buzzrattle as you try to disturb their nest.
Exits are to the north, east and west.
What do you do now?
:>_
Go north, out the kitchen door to the back yard.
I’m threatened by an enraged cardinal and a nervous mourning dove. What now?
Would you believe that once upon a time, schools had an issue with text adventures?
Then Ultima II came out, and they had an issue with that.
The computer teacher smirked about it, closed the door, and then ran us through text adventures as well as programming one in BASIC.
LOL.
It’d be the most awesomely useless sling ever devised.
Hit the deck, your ship is dismasted, sir!
Never go bow on into a blgthrgths nest.
And it all happened only two miles from land.
what?
They were just getting TRS-80s in my high school, my last year (1984). We learned you had to strike the keys very lightly - not like on the manual typewriters in the typing lab! - and how to program very basic BASIC.
No adventures. It was boring.
Best part of this, I’m having an Infocom game moment in my head where the enraged Cardinal is going off about sports, and the nervous mourning dove is upset over the news.
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