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Fps: the US military thanks you for training for infantry in your spare time.

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.

It also convinced me to never join the army, because I was a bullet magnet haha.

Haha, I would never dream of actually getting shot at, lol.

Operation 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.

I 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."

Of course it is agonizing, CS doesn’t try to replicate real world scenario. In real life if you die - you die, you don’t get to respawn with $800.

You sure?

I haven't tried it myself, but heard that this is indeed the case.

But by your own measure, you're not killing actual people, so why waste your time?

Do you finally get it now?

My work is not killing actual people, so your analogy is flawed.

Gonna enlist and be the first man to rocket jump

Finally my 14 years of TF2 will pay off. Do they have sticky bombs too?

Or Quake 3!

Practicing point and click skills probably won't to help much with your firearm accuracy. Or cardio.

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