Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
No thanks, I played Frog Dissection on the C-64 and once was enough,
Awww yeah, we're getting back into free-games. The Number is
salivating already.
* Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
https://store.steampowered.com/app/645630/Car_Mechanic_Simulator_2018/
The best thing about this game is that you don't have to
wonder what it's all about; the title tells you everything
you need to know. It's basically yet-another-workplace-sim,
this one focused on building cars. Is it the deepest
simulator with revolutionary gameplay that will teach you
how to build and maintain cars in real life? No, but you get
to tinker with car parts and then drive your creation on the
track to see how well you did. It's far better than a lot of
the newer asset-flip workplace sims, anyway. So get out your
grease guns, scrounge the junkyard for parts, and build
that hotrod of your dreams that you never could in real life
because of a lack of time, money, and space.
You've got until the 27th to claim this freebie. Drive fast! Also,
there's some free DLC available too, so be sure to grab that as well.
I'll say.
phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> wrote at 16:19 this Friday (GMT):
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
Awww yeah, we're getting back into free-games. The Number is
salivating already.
* Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
https://store.steampowered.com/app/645630/Car_Mechanic_Simulator_2018/
No thanks, I played Frog Dissection on the C-64 and once was enough,
I'll say.
But consider all the technical advances in dissection in 30 years!!
On Mon, 8 Jun 2026 15:00:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> said this thing:
phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> wrote at 16:19 this Friday (GMT):
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
Awww yeah, we're getting back into free-games. The Number is
salivating already.
* Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
https://store.steampowered.com/app/645630/Car_Mechanic_Simulator_2018/
No thanks, I played Frog Dissection on the C-64 and once was enough,
I'll say.
But consider all the technical advances in dissection in 30 years!!
I remember "Operation: Frog" on DOS. Well, saying 'remember' like that implies I played the game back when DOS was still a going concern;
actually, I only discovered the game five or ten years back, as I was building up my collection of DOS games. Back when I had to actually
dissect a frog, there were no computer games. We had to rip apart the
poor beastie for real.
Regardless, it made me wonder if there were any modern incarnations of
that sort of game; perhaps an edutainment title for the kiddies of the
2020s? And the best I found was a VR game for the Meta Quest headset.*
Which, admittedly, is technically much advanced over the fairly static
images from the DOS days... even if the actually frog still has a
somewhat cartoony look to it. I guess you don't want to make things
look TOO real when it comes to dissection.
Although you have to wonder how many schools have VR headsets.
Seems like that's a better way to do frog dissection. My daughter had
real dead frog dissection in her 7th grade class last year. They had it
for open house, so we could go in and see the frogs being dissected.
The smell was unpleasant, but not too bad for dead frogs.
On Tue, 9 Jun 2026 09:55:08 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
said this thing:
Seems like that's a better way to do frog dissection. My daughter had
real dead frog dissection in her 7th grade class last year. They had it
for open house, so we could go in and see the frogs being dissected.
The smell was unpleasant, but not too bad for dead frogs.
I'd rather they just did away with the thing entirely. I'm not really
sure what an actual dissection --whether real or virtual-- really
teaches kids over learning where the body parts are on a picture.
Except maybe to identify the kids who get too much glee out of
chopping apart living creatures so they can get the help they need?
But if you gotta have it in junior high... ten points to the school
that uses something like Surgeon Simulator* instead. It has about as
much relevance and teaching possibility as a real dissection, but is
cheaper and more fun ;-)
On 6/8/2026 8:57 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jun 2026 15:00:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> said this thing:
phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> wrote at 16:19 this Friday (GMT):
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
Awww yeah, we're getting back into free-games. The Number is
salivating already.
* Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
https://store.steampowered.com/app/645630/Car_Mechanic_Simulator_2018/
No thanks, I played Frog Dissection on the C-64 and once was enough,
I'll say.
But consider all the technical advances in dissection in 30 years!!
I remember "Operation: Frog" on DOS. Well, saying 'remember' like that
implies I played the game back when DOS was still a going concern;
actually, I only discovered the game five or ten years back, as I was
building up my collection of DOS games. Back when I had to actually
dissect a frog, there were no computer games. We had to rip apart the
poor beastie for real.
Regardless, it made me wonder if there were any modern incarnations of
that sort of game; perhaps an edutainment title for the kiddies of the
2020s? And the best I found was a VR game for the Meta Quest headset.*
Which, admittedly, is technically much advanced over the fairly static
images from the DOS days... even if the actually frog still has a
somewhat cartoony look to it. I guess you don't want to make things
look TOO real when it comes to dissection.
Although you have to wonder how many schools have VR headsets.
Seems like that's a better way to do frog dissection. My daughter had
real dead frog dissection in her 7th grade class last year. They had it
for open house, so we could go in and see the frogs being dissected.
The smell was unpleasant, but not too bad for dead frogs.
Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
On 6/8/2026 8:57 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jun 2026 15:00:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> said this thing:
phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> wrote at 16:19 this Friday (GMT):
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
Awww yeah, we're getting back into free-games. The Number is
salivating already.
* Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
https://store.steampowered.com/app/645630/Car_Mechanic_Simulator_2018/ >>>
No thanks, I played Frog Dissection on the C-64 and once was enough, >>>>> I'll say.
But consider all the technical advances in dissection in 30 years!!
I remember "Operation: Frog" on DOS. Well, saying 'remember' like that
implies I played the game back when DOS was still a going concern;
actually, I only discovered the game five or ten years back, as I was
building up my collection of DOS games. Back when I had to actually
dissect a frog, there were no computer games. We had to rip apart the
poor beastie for real.
Regardless, it made me wonder if there were any modern incarnations of
that sort of game; perhaps an edutainment title for the kiddies of the
2020s? And the best I found was a VR game for the Meta Quest headset.*
Which, admittedly, is technically much advanced over the fairly static
images from the DOS days... even if the actually frog still has a
somewhat cartoony look to it. I guess you don't want to make things
look TOO real when it comes to dissection.
Although you have to wonder how many schools have VR headsets.
Seems like that's a better way to do frog dissection. My daughter had >>real dead frog dissection in her 7th grade class last year. They had it >>for open house, so we could go in and see the frogs being dissected.
The smell was unpleasant, but not too bad for dead frogs.
Ooo flashback to grade 10 biology class, dissecting worms, frogs, fish.
Hate the smell of formaldehyde.
Heck, I think I might have gotten a better learning experience from
the GHOUL system used in the first "Soldier of Fortune" game. Shoot a
bad-guy in the gut and learn, "oh, so THAT'S where the intestines
are!";-)
On Tue, 9 Jun 2026 09:55:08 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
said this thing:
Seems like that's a better way to do frog dissection. My daughter had >>real dead frog dissection in her 7th grade class last year. They had it >>for open house, so we could go in and see the frogs being dissected.
The smell was unpleasant, but not too bad for dead frogs.
I'd rather they just did away with the thing entirely. I'm not really
sure what an actual dissection --whether real or virtual-- really
teaches kids over learning where the body parts are on a picture.
Except maybe to identify the kids who get too much glee out of
chopping apart living creatures so they can get the help they need?
But if you gotta have it in junior high... ten points to the school
that uses something like Surgeon Simulator* instead. It has about as
much relevance and teaching possibility as a real dissection, but is
cheaper and more fun ;-)
* this game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/233720/Surgeon_Simulator/
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