As much fun as a shooter can be, I would not want to die over and over in real life.
Also Germany banned and censored Killerspiele (killing games) for years and talked down on those creepy gamer bunch. But now that it’s convenient…
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I’ll never forget the day a friend and I were leaving a gamestop and a us army recruiter approached us and said “Do you wanna live the Call of Duty life?”. I didn’t want to be disrespectful, so I said “No, I don’t think so.” and kept on walking. When we got back to my friend’s car I immediately said “Does he realize how many times I die in that game?” and we both burst out laughing.
“Nice kill count, bro and 0 deaths! Damn, want to do that for real? :D”
Last time I was at ComiCon there was a booth for the US military and a booth for THC/CBD right next to each other and there was a pack of half a dozen furries checking out both of them.
Didn’t read the article but just wanted to mention, they always did this for years
Yep, it’s very standard.
The articles first words are “for the past 10 years” and we are all sure its probably longer than that
Ok yeah, having admittedly only read the headline, my first thoughts were “this doesn’t seem that unusual”. They’re not the only military to do this kind of recruiting either. Hell, the US army actually made a videogame.
Not only Gamescom, they are basically on every exhibition in Germany.
Uhm. Not new? Is being done by almost any country on any bigger event? Including blue light forces? How is this even news?
Same in Italy. I’ve seen police/army booths in all gaming conventions I’ve took part in, even years before the the Ukraine war.
Maybe it’s an unpopular opinion, but I’m not particularly offended by it. I think it makes sense for cyber security/high tech jobs to look for recruits in a place that’s full of nerds that could fit the criteria. And I also know that there are many train/aviation/weapons enthusiasts in the gaming world who could do that shit for a living.
That being said, I don’t think that a recruitment booth in a gaming convention is particularly effective at reaching potential candidates. If somebody wanted to join the army, they probably already did. I don’t know anyone who was on the fence, and decided to enlist after visiting the army booth in a gaming convention lol
I suppose, if they keep doing it, that it’s somehow more effective than I think it is?I don’t know anyone who was on the fence, and decided to enlist after visiting the army booth at Gamescom lol
The idea is, like of most marketing, probably more that some people might not have been very aware that it was an option and that there are these kinds of jobs in the army.
“Check it out, we have so many career options! You can help kill innocent brown kids from an air conditioned chair! You can help kill innocent brown old ladies while standing up in the heat! So many options!”
Oh yeah, that makes sense.
And I also know that there are many train/aviation/weapons enthusiasts in the gaming world who could do that shit for a living.
How many days has it been since a classified breach happened on the WarThunder forums?
~71 days (wikipedia page)
I don’t have a ton of world experience, but I’ve attended a con every year for the past several years and there’s always army booths and police booths.
At most mid-size or larger festivals I’ve been to. Game, food, or music, you’ve got military recruitment, police, pretty much every local org,
tbh I wasn’t sure who was cosplaying and who wasn’t. They were everywhere lol.
The entire German Army is an cosplay- and neonazi social club, that’s what it’s there for. Oh, and for massive amounts of ammo to disappear and strangely reappear in the hands of far-right militias.
You need to stop drinking paint, it’s not healthy.
Got any actual points to argue?
The German Bundeswehr is completely riddled with (Neo-) Nazis and Fascists and has lost around 48.000 rounds of ammunition and more than 60kg of explosives that reappeared in the hands of a neonazi militia, and that’s just a single incident.
It’s bizarre that people pretend that the existance of a well-armed national army is somehow good for them as citizens? All that you get from your country being able to “defend itself” is a higher likelyhood of being put into the meat grinder that is war.
Freedom is worthless when you’re dead. Anyone who says they’d rather die defending their nation than being ruled over by another nation is either a liar, an idiot or a lunatic. (Talking about a capitalist nation being attacked by another here, wars of extermination are an obvious exception, since you’re not defending your nation but the people around you)
Given the advances in drones, they will need more people who can fly them and whatever else they invent. Video games sounds like the perfect hobby for the tech to do so.
Or we could just stop bombing brown people for no reason.
But we won’t. And theres enough gamers who lack empathy to train a whole new kind of soldier.
It’s also about just being familiar with the controllers in general.
This is a reconnaissance drone controller that doesn’t need that much experience FPV ones are a bit more involved.
Let’s play Games
Cringe.
Been doing so for as long as it exists. Secret services too.
That was supposed to be a secret
