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Funnily enough, I actually used to play America's Army 3, a game which explicitly was funded by the DoD. It was pretty fun, not gonna lie, much more tactical th
by satvikpendem 2y ago
Funnily enough, I actually used to play America's Army 3, a game which explicitly was funded by the DoD. It was pretty fun, not gonna lie, much more tactical than many other shooters during that time.
- atrus 2y agoIt also convinced me to never join the army, because I was a bullet magnet haha.
- satvikpendem 2y agoHaha, I would never dream of actually getting shot at, lol.
- switchbak 2y agoOperation Flashpoint (early version of ARMA) did that for me. You sneak around for an hour, then get shot in the face and it's all over. Imagine that, but for your life ... fuck war.
- ekidd 2y agoI remember speaking to several of the people who worked on America's Army back around 2007, when Counter-Strike was all the rage. I think this was at the GDC. The people I spoke with were from the Army. And they found CS-style games agonizing to watch. So many people running around with no plan, so much friendly fire, so many unrealistic tactics. You could practically see them shudder. They also had some people who worked in logistics. I remember one of them saying, "If the United States decides to invade a country, the software we wrote could calculate how much toilet paper we'd need."
- DonHopkins 2y agoBut by your own measure, you're not killing actual people, so why waste your time? Do you finally get it now?
- satvikpendem 2y agoMy work is not killing actual people, so your analogy is flawed.