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Title: UK Airforce Searching for Gamers
Post by: ioncannon on March 13, 2009, 01:23:05 pm: Looks like in the UK, the Royal Air Force is looking for gamers to fly their unmanned drones, instead of pilots. Looking at the picture in the article, it would make sense, looks like a really detailed video game. Link to the article: http://kotaku.com/5164562/royal-air-force-prefers-gamers-to-pilots
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Post by: Vellfire on March 13, 2009, 01:25:11 pm: They're going to be disappointed, that's all I can say.
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Post by: big ass skelly on March 13, 2009, 01:31:02 pm: Semper games..
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Post by: Barack Obama on March 13, 2009, 01:54:43 pm: there's been a few reports of people getting some pretty bad stress disorders from jobs like that though

i guess when you see comrades dying on the screen and not being able to do anything about it as well as realizing that you're actually killing human beings via remote control it becomes a little hard to deal with.
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Post by: big ass skelly on March 13, 2009, 01:58:24 pm: Nah people who play lots of violent video games are desensitized to violence anyway I read about it in a newspaper

rag dolls can only get you so far.... I wanna see some napalmed baby
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Post by: Vellfire on March 13, 2009, 02:02:33 pm: Quote from: DietCoke on March 13, 2009, 01:54:43 pm
there's been a few reports of people getting some pretty bad stress disorders from jobs like that though

i guess when you see comrades dying on the screen and not being able to do anything about it as well as realizing that you're actually killing human beings via remote control it becomes a little hard to deal with.

Maybe they should use the Ender's Game method and tell them it's a game when it's real.
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Post by: ioncannon on March 13, 2009, 02:24:07 pm: Quote from: Velfarre on March 13, 2009, 02:02:33 pm
Maybe they should use the Ender's Game method and tell them it's a game when it's real.

Until they start TKing each other and t-bagging the corpses :laugh:
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Post by: tuxedo marx on March 13, 2009, 06:06:47 pm: surely it would make more sense to employ radio-controlled aircraft enthusiasts (i.e. people who actually care when the expensive equipment is destroyed)? there's no lives in real life!
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Post by: Boulvae on March 13, 2009, 11:07:32 pm: Finally, the military is seeing the light.
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Post by: Barack Obama on March 14, 2009, 12:11:16 am: Quote from: Rockman on March 13, 2009, 06:06:47 pm
surely it would make more sense to employ radio-controlled aircraft enthusiasts (i.e. people who actually care when the expensive equipment is destroyed)?

Yeah except the military doesn't really care when expensive equipment is destroyed to begin with.
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Post by: Chaos Emerl on March 17, 2009, 01:22:12 pm: Well obviously they'd have to be trained like any other soldier would. It's not just like "HEY, HERE'S THE CONTROLS, GO KILL PEOPLE."
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Post by: `~congresman Ron paul~~ on March 17, 2009, 01:58:44 pm: did you read the article? the point is that they require next-to-no training.

edit: oh, well, do they have to go through boot camp before that.. ?
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Post by: Kaworu on March 17, 2009, 04:30:31 pm: I'm a lv57 ork mage, I think I'm way overqualified for this kids stuff :fogetlaugh:
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Post by: Eike on March 17, 2009, 09:07:33 pm: wow i love killing fake people but i've always wanted to try killing real people maybe i'll give this a go

Hrmmmm, this doesn't feel right right. Also dying because of the actions of a 'young gamer' is downright embarassing
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Post by: Barack Obama on March 17, 2009, 10:54:14 pm: Quote from: Eike on March 17, 2009, 09:07:33 pm
wow i love killing fake people but i've always wanted to try killing real people maybe i'll give this a go

Hrmmmm, this doesn't feel right right. Also dying because of the actions of a 'young gamer' is downright embarassing
Embarassment is a pretty moot point when you're a crater
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Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on March 17, 2009, 11:06:01 pm: your 42 virgins are all nintendorks.
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Post by: Barack Obama on March 18, 2009, 01:07:16 am: the afterlife consists of a neverending game of wii bowling with all your dead heros and a bottomless keg of PBR
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Post by: calumks on March 22, 2009, 09:00:09 pm: I wish i could help them! It would be so fun.
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Post by: Barack Obama on March 23, 2009, 07:21:01 am: Quote from: calumks on March 22, 2009, 09:00:09 pm
I wish i could help them! It would be so fun.

wouldn't it be awesome to ghost those sandniggers from the safety of an office behind a monitor???

fuck yeah, you could be all sitting there drinking some Mt. Dew while you plant a nice hellfire missile on a fuckin' hadji family's front porch with your UAV

GET SOME
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Post by: Warped655 on March 23, 2009, 10:17:15 am: While I think it'd be probably fucked up to kill people remotely... I definitely prefer that to seeing them face to face. Especially since that means they would also likely kill me...

and also I'm pretty sure they aren't sending remote planes in to kill random innocents... what your implying with your "Hadji family porch" comment...

Then again you never seem to be serious about anything DC so I don't even know what to say to you 99% of the time.

oh and fuck Mountain Dew... that shit tastes like what I imagine piss tastes like. How it became the "gamer drink" or became popular at all I'll never understand. (though the "Live Wire" variant is ok)
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Post by: Alec on March 23, 2009, 12:53:24 pm: Quote from: warpped655 on March 23, 2009, 10:17:15 am
oh and fuck Mountain Dew... that shit tastes like what I imagine piss tastes like. How it became the "gamer drink" or became popular at all I'll never understand. (though the "Live Wire" variant is ok)
not standing up for mountain dew but your imagined sense of taste sucks. it tastes nothing like piss.
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Post by: Vellfire on March 23, 2009, 01:45:49 pm: If your piss tastes sort of like carbonated corn syrup and orange juice maybe you should see a doctor.
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Post by: Rowain on March 23, 2009, 03:29:09 pm: i've played a lot of videogames with gratuitous violence but if I got behind a drone and saw actual people dying I think I'd crack in about 10 seconds.

Gat damn I hope this doesnt become the new rallying cry for videogamers. WE'RE DEFENDIN OUR COUNTRY.
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Post by: Barack Obama on March 23, 2009, 04:20:12 pm: Soon all wars will be fought in the virtual world...

World war 3 will be an MMO
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Post by: Warped655 on March 23, 2009, 06:09:10 pm: Exaggeration.

I've never tasted piss. Originally assumed you guys haven't either. Now I don't know.
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Post by: Alec on March 23, 2009, 06:36:13 pm: see no? "tastes like piss" would be an exaggeration. "what i imagine piss would taste like" really isn't it's like you're saying that's what you think piss would taste like.
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Post by: Barack Obama on March 23, 2009, 06:46:34 pm: In school I was called a nerd... They laughed at me for bringing my laptop to school and tried to make it look like an accident when they bumped into me in the middle of a game and mess me up.

Not anymore. Now I am a warrior. With 32 confirmed kills, and about a quarter more unconfirmed by my own personal tally, there is no question about my skill in taking another man's life. They can't laugh at me now... They won't. Because now they know that if they do try and pick on me, I can kill them.

I know I can kill them...
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Post by: Farren on March 23, 2009, 08:19:15 pm: Ace Combat 7: Black Skies of Iran
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Post by: ioncannon on March 25, 2009, 03:14:33 pm: btw, these drones are for recon, so there isn't any killing in this case... for now. Actually I wonder if there are any weapons on these drones, to protect it from getting shot down or something.
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Post by: Eike on March 25, 2009, 07:49:59 pm: Quote from: the
Oh, and in case you were worried about these "inexperienced" pilots being given command of anything truly dangerous, you'll be happy to know that, yes, Reapers are often armed. And armed to the teeth, as it's able to carry laser-guided bombs, air-to-ground missiles and, soon, air-to-air missiles as well.

they are actually even called REAPERS. is there a quicker way to impress 'gamers'? maybe paint some tits on the side or something

also in the uk we don't have mountain dew, or at least i've never seen it. but thats ok because our gamers drink a little something called IRN BRU
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Post by: Vellfire on March 25, 2009, 09:20:22 pm: i feel like you're bound to have mountain dew somewhere, if i could find one in iceland there's bound to be mountain dew somewhere in the uk
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Post by: Ryan on March 25, 2009, 09:21:22 pm: Im Pretty Good at halo, i bet theyll hire me
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Post by: big ass skelly on March 25, 2009, 09:40:54 pm: Nah velfarre we dont' have any, not a drop
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Post by: Vellfire on March 25, 2009, 09:58:25 pm: Quote from: Mark on March 25, 2009, 09:40:54 pm
Nah velfarre we dont' have any, not a drop

are you serious? dang, it's pretty bad when iceland beats you in american drink availability
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Post by: Barack Obama on March 25, 2009, 11:34:02 pm: Quote from: Mark on March 25, 2009, 09:40:54 pm
Nah velfarre we dont' have any, not a drop

How do you game without fuel?
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Post by: big ass skelly on March 25, 2009, 11:40:35 pm: Trust me we get by. if you don't believe me gimme your gamertag and I'll show you bitch
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Post by: Barack Obama on March 25, 2009, 11:48:23 pm: Heh look at this noob with his xbox toy...

Get back to me when you get a real console and log on to the playstation network
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Post by: big ass skelly on March 25, 2009, 11:58:25 pm: truth be told I don't even have an xbox. I used to have this gameboy shaped "bath toy" though and I owned at it :-)
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Post by: Vellfire on March 26, 2009, 01:23:20 am: So Mark you guys don't have mountain dew, does that mean you also don't have those gamer razors either? You guys must be a bunch of sleepy, hairy dudes over there!