I just got promoted...

[Aeson]

Why do these spammers keep popping up?

Asher has been posting here for years, he was hardly "popping up"

[BeBMan]

Someone please send a SEAL team after them.

[giblets]

Why do these spammers keep popping up?

[Asher]

no thanx YOUR post

[Aeson]

I pwn america's army. I perfected the "shoot your paratrooper squad on the way down, then land on a tree and snipe the ones you missed so you can pad your stats by headshotting the opposition without anyone stealing your kills" tactic.

[Zoetstofzoetje]

Don't remember the source, am sure about the story though.

[giblets]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Army - this is one of these games, used to 'prime'.

i heard it at a conference in germany in 2008, from a scholar who specialized in usefulness of computer games.

Nothing about D-Day in that article. Looks like a recruiting gimmick.

[Hauldren Collider]

America's Army is a recuiting tool. It was a video game made by the Army to get teens to enlist.

[-Jrabbit]

Last I saw, he was in the sports forum arguing with Kenobi...

[self biased]

pimpin' ain't easy.

[Zoetstofzoetje]

Where IS Albie anyway? Running errands on a rough schedule?

[Zoetstofzoetje]

Then it has to be true.

yes.

[DaShi]

Then it has to be true.

[Zoetstofzoetje]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Army - this is one of these games, used to 'prime'.

i heard it at a conference in germany in 2008, from a scholar who specialized in usefulness of computer games.

[giblets]

Actually, wargames were initially sponsored by the U.S. MinDef when they discovered later on that a lot of soldiers on the beaches of Normandy had not fired a single shot. So the population had to be mentally prepared to kill.

Interesting, could you link to a source that says this? I would like to read more about it.