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ioncannon

#1 March 13, 2009, 01:23:05 pm

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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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Vellfire

#2 March 13, 2009, 01:25:11 pm

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They're going to be disappointed, that's all I can say.

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big ass skelly

#3 March 13, 2009, 01:31:02 pm

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Semper games..

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Barack Obama

#4 March 13, 2009, 01:54:43 pm

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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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big ass skelly

#5 March 13, 2009, 01:58:24 pm

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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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Vellfire

#6 March 13, 2009, 02:02:33 pm

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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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ioncannon

#7 March 13, 2009, 02:24:07 pm

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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

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tuxedo marx

#8 March 13, 2009, 06:06:47 pm

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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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Boulvae

#9 March 13, 2009, 11:07:32 pm

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Finally, the military is seeing the light.

A tool is a tool regardless. I mean if you suck, you suck, and not even the most perfect tool could save you. And if your damn good then even with the worst tool ever conceived you could chug out some high quality shit.

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Barack Obama

#10 March 14, 2009, 12:11:16 am

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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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Chaos Emerl

#11 March 17, 2009, 01:22:12 pm

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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."

what

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#12 March 17, 2009, 01:58:44 pm

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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.. ?

That’s right, you have the young gaming with the old(er), white people gaming with black people, men and women, Asian countries gaming with the EU, North Americans gaming with South Americans. Much like world sporting events like the Wolrd Cup, or the Olympics will bring together different nations in friendly competition, (note the recent Asian Cup; Iraq vs. Saudi Arabia, no violence there) we come together. The differences being, we are not divided by our nationalities and we do it 24-7, and on a personal level.

We are a community without borders and without colours, the spirit and diversity of the gaming community is one that should be looked up to, a spirit and diversity other groups should strive toward.

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Kaworu

#13 March 17, 2009, 04:30:31 pm

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I'm a lv57 ork mage, I think I'm way overqualified for this kids stuff

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Eike

#14 March 17, 2009, 09:07:33 pm

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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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Barack Obama

#15 March 17, 2009, 10:54:14 pm

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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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#16 March 17, 2009, 11:06:01 pm

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your 42 virgins are all nintendorks.

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Barack Obama

#17 March 18, 2009, 01:07:16 am

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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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calumks

#18 March 22, 2009, 09:00:09 pm

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I wish i could help them! It would be so fun.

Cheese is good so very good. If you don't like cheese please kill ur self.

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Barack Obama

#19 March 23, 2009, 07:21:01 am

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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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Warped655

#20 March 23, 2009, 10:17:15 am

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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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