#2 2009-01-04 22:54:39
Any day now the game machines will be moved into private booths. A vibrator pad will be activated by shooting in the general direction of the trolls/enemy of the game the potential recruit is playing. We can look forward to a military that associates killing with sexual pleasure!
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#6 2009-01-04 23:35:56
Damnit choad! I had thought that Rogers was finally getting ready to make his big push toward world domination. I was ready to sign up so long as all soldiering could be performed from an indoor facility with central air and heating.
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#7 2009-01-04 23:46:32
Zookeeper wrote:
Damnit choad! I had thought that Rogers was finally getting ready to make his big push toward world domination. I was ready to sign up so long as all soldiering could be performed from an indoor facility with central air and heating.
Enders Game
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#8 2009-01-05 00:00:04
I think you're all missing an important point. The Army's planning to set these things up in shopping malls. When is the last time you went to a shopping mall? Creepily empty, wasn't it?
The Army is about to spend $$ in a venue that is dying as we speak. They'd have about as much luck reaching the youth of America if they set up recruiting stations in soda shoppes.
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#9 2009-01-05 04:01:11
Conversations with recruiters might take place in an adjacent room or the central lounge area, where there were comfortable leather chairs and a soundtrack of Jane’s Addiction and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. But on this afternoon, the only action was on the video games and simulators.
Give a teenager free, cutting edge video games and you've got a potential recruit.
The three simulators play out missions to support the delivery of humanitarian aid in Iraq or Afghanistan; unlike in the video games, the participants do not come under fire.
Yeah, humanitarian aid. And you don't get shot at. Riiiight.
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#10 2009-01-05 08:13:06
Games such as these help create more effective killers. The army has done lots of studies on it, I might recommend On Killing by LTC Dave Grossman. The idea is that it's difficult to kill someone, we have a built in prohibition against it. These games, and the use of pop-up targets that fall down when you hit them for live fire training, helps defeat that prohibition.
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#11 2009-01-05 13:17:13
Zookeeper wrote:
Damnit choad! I had thought that Rogers was finally getting ready to make his big push toward world domination. I was ready to sign up so long as all soldiering could be performed from an indoor facility with central air and heating.
Yeah, that drew me in too. Suckers.
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#12 2009-01-05 13:29:52
George Orr wrote:
I think you're all missing an important point. The Army's planning to set these things up in shopping malls. When is the last time you went to a shopping mall? Creepily empty, wasn't it?
No, not at all. Malls seem just as busy as ever here in the Dallas area.
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#13 2009-01-05 14:57:07
orangeplus wrote:
Games such as these help create more effective killers. The army has done lots of studies on it, I might recommend On Killing by LTC Dave Grossman.
A damn good book - I'm going to second that recommendation.
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