Are Video Games Teaching Kids The Skills They Need For The Apocalypse?

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Are video games like Fallout 3 teaching our children the skills they'll need, like gathering dew from human skulls, when their world eventually turns into a brutal hellscape? A video debate helps you decide.

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Once again, The Onion AV Club knocks it out of the park with a great debate about whether of not kids will truly be prepared for the end of the world with their video games, or are these cotton-candy games making it seem deceptively easy?

Thanks Jess.

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DISCUSSION

I've had all the skills I'll need for the coming doom.

I can forage for fruit and "power pellets". I have extensive training in avoiding brightly colored ghosts. I can also prepare and serve their delicious flesh when the ghosts become dark blue.

Post-Apocalyptic Caterer!