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ZaMoose writes: "Not to beat on the poor America's Army servers any further, but their sitrep for today featured the following interesting tidbit: "That's not all. We're also working on an in-game browser, linux port, and host of other features. Yes, we've been busy the past week!" (emphasis mine). For those not familiar with AA:Operations, it is a free (as in beer) first person shooter developed under the watchful eye of the US Army. It received mounds of praise at this year's E3 and was released to Windows users July 4th." Well, it says Linux server port, anyhow. And JD writes: "Apex Designs have announced that their GTA-style game Payback is coming to Linux. The port appears to already be fully playable as there is a status report here which includes some early screenshots.
(And their website doesn't require IE. :)"
I stick my manham into them! choad baby! oh yeah!
Bah, who needs more than Nethack anyway?
Insert "back in my day, we had lines of text and we LIKED IT!"-type ranting here...
In other news, the US Army decided to scrap the Linux client port after Microsoft announced that it would be assuming control of OpenGL and discontinuing it, leaving only DirectX on Windows.
Microsoft only had the following statement: "All your 3D graphics libraries are belong to us."
The US Army was not available for comment.
Think nothing is impossible? Try slamming a revolving door.
if it werent for the fact that America's Army sucks as much ass as linux does..
oh, and FIRST LEGIT POST BITCHES!!!
hmm.. yep shure is a great game...
but my 3dfx with only 16mb won't run it,
blarg
...will never defeat the might of Allah! yayayayayayayayaarglrarglrarglrargle! Build more towers now!
Currently, if you want gaming, you need a windows box. Yes Quake 3 may play very well under linux, or your version of WINE might be great, but in the end... your going to need a windows box to play.
I dig linux for many things, just not gaming.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise - William Shakespeare
They've either got paying jobs or they are fat slobs living in their parents' basements. The Army can't get the first and I'm not sure they want the second.
I have been pwned because my
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What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:
I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.
Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'
As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.
And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!
Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:
'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'
Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?
We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering together their postings and publishing them en masse to further his twisted and manipulative journalistic agenda.
Sick, disgusting antichristian perverts, the lot of them.
In addition, many of the Linux distributions (a 'distribution' is the most common way to spread the faggots' wares) are run by faggot groups. The Slackware distro is named after the 'Slack-wear' fags wear to allow easy access to the anus for sexual purposes. Furthermore, Slackware is a close anagram of claw arse, a reference to the homosexual practise of anal fisting. The Mandrake product is run by a group of French faggot satanists, and is named after the faggot nickname for the vibrator. It was also chosen because it is an anagram for dark amen and ram naked, which is what they do.
Another 'distro,' (abbrieviated as such because it sounds a bit like 'Disco,' which is where homosexuals preyed on young boys in the 1970s), is Debian, an anagram of in a bed, which could be considered innocent enough (after all, a bed is both where we sleep and pray), until we realise what other names Debian uses to describe their foul wares. 'Woody' is obvious enough, being a term for the erect male penis, glistening with pre-cum. But far sicker is the phrase 'Frozen Potato' that they use. This filthy term, again found in the secret homosexual 'Sauce Code,' refers to the solo homosexual practice of defecating into a clear polythene bag, shaping the turd into a crude approximation of the male phallus, then leaving it in the freezer overnight until it becomes solid. The practitioner then proceeds to push the frozen 'potato' up his own rectum, squeezing it in and out until his tight young balls erupt in a screaming orgasm.
And Red Hat is secret homo slang for the tip of a penis that is soaked in blood from a freshly violated underage ringpiece.
The fags have even invented special tools to aid their faggotry! For example, the 'supermount' tool was devised to allow deeper penetration, which is good for fags because it gives more pressure on the prostate gland. 'Automount' is used, on the other hand, because Linux users are all fat and gay, and need to mount each other automatically.
The depths of their depravity can be seen in their use of 'mount points.' These are, plainly speaking, the different points of penetration. The main one is obviously
More evidence is in the fact that Linux users say how much they love `man`, even going so far as to say that all new Linux users (who are in fact just innocent heterosexuals indoctrinated by the gay propaganda) should try out `man`. In no other system do users boast of their frequent recourse to a man.
Other areas of the system also show Linux's inherit gayness. For example, people are often told of the 'FAQ,' but how many innocent heterosexual Windows users know what this actually means. The answer is shocking: Faggot Anal Quest: the voyage of discovery for newly converted fags!
Even the title 'Slashdot' originally referred to a homosexual practice. Slashdot of course refers to the popular gay practice of blood-letting. The Slashbots, of course are those super-zealous homosexuals who take this perversion to its extreme by ripping open their anuses, as seen on the site most popular with Slashdot users, the depraved work of Satan, http://www.eff.org/.
The editors of Slashdot also have homosexual names: 'Hemos' is obvious in itself, being one vowel away from 'Homos.' But even more sickening is 'Commander Taco' which sounds a bit like 'Commode in Taco,' filthy gay slang for a pair of spreadeagled buttocks that are caked with excrement. (The best form of lubrication, they insist.) Sometimes, these 'Taco Commodes' have special 'Salsa Sauce' (blood from a ruptured rectum) and 'Cheese' (rancid flakes of penis discharge) toppings. And to make it even worse, Slashdot runs on Apache!
The Apache server, whose use among fags is as prevalent as AIDS, is named after homosexual activity -- as everyone knows, popular faggot band, the Village People, featured an Apache Indian, and it is for him that this gay program is named.
And that's not forgetting the use of patches in the Linux fag world -- patches are used to make the anus accessible for repeated anal sex even after its rupture by a session of fisting.
To summarise: Linux is gay. 'Slash -- Dot' is the graphical description of the space between a young boy's scrotum and anus. And BeOS is for hermaphrodites and disabled 'stumpers.'
FEEDBACK
Well, the only reason I know all about this is because I had the misfortune to read the Linux 'Sauce code' once. Although publicised as the computer code needed to get Linux up and running on a computer (and haven't you always been worried about the phrase 'Monolithic Kernel'?), this foul document is actually a detailed and graphic description of every conceivable degrading perversion known to the human race, as well as a few of the major animal species. It has shocked and disturbed me, to the point of needing to shock and disturb the common man to warn them of the impending homo-calypse which threatens to engulf our planet.
Doesn't it give you a hard-on to imagine your thick strong poker ramming it's way up my most sacred of sphincters? You're beyond help, my friend, as the only thing you can imagine is the foul penetrative violation of another man. Are you sure you're not Eric Raymond? The government, being populated by limp-wristed liberals, could never stem the sickening tide of homosexual child molesting Linux advocacy. Hell, they've given NAMBLA free reign for years!
Thank you for your kind words of support. However, this document shall only ever be posted anonymously. This is because the 'Open Sauce' movement is a sham, proposing homoerotic cults of hero worshipping in the name of freedom. I speak for the common man. For any man who prefers the warm, enveloping velvet folds of a woman's vagina to the tight puckered ringpiece of a child. These men, being common, decent folk, don't have a say in the political hypocrisy that is Slashdot culture. I am the unknown liberator.
We shouldn't hate them, we should pity them for the misguided fools they are... Fanatical Linux zeal-outs need to be herded into camps for re-education and subsequent rehabilitation into normal heterosexual society. This re-education shall be achieved by forcing them to watch repeats of Baywatch until the very mention of Pamela Anderson causes them to fill their pants with healthy heterosexual jism.
Well, it just goes to show that even the holy Linux 'sauce code' is riddled with bugs that need fixing. (The irony of Jon Katz not even being able to inflate his scrotum correctly has not been lost on me.) The Linux pervert elite already acknowledge this, with their queer slogan: 'Given enough arms, all rectums are shallow.' And anyway, the PS2 sucks major cock and isn't worth the money. Intellivision forever!
For one thing, whilst Linux is a cavalcade of queer propaganda masquerading as the future of computing, NT is used by people who think nothing better of encasing their genitals in quick setting plaster then going to see a really dirty porno film, enjoying the restriction enforced onto them. Remember, a wasted arousal is a sin in the eyes of the Catholic church. Clearly, the only god-fearing Christian operating system in existence is CP/M -- The Christian Program Monitor. All computer users should immediately ask their local pastor to install this fine OS onto their systems. It is the only route to salvation.
Secondly, this message is for every man. Computers know no colour. Not only that, but one of the finest websites in the world is maintained by a Black Man . Now fuck off you racist donkey felcher.
Although there is nothing unholy about the fine heterosexual act of ejaculating between a woman's breasts, squirting one's load up towards her neck and chin area, it should be noted that Perl (standing for Pansies Entering Rectums Locally) is also close to 'Pearl Monocle,' 'Pearl Nosering,' and the ubiquitous 'Pearl Enema.'
One scary thing about Perl is that it contains hidden homosexual messages. Take the following code: LWP::Simple -- It looks innocuous enough, doesn't it? But look at the line closely: There are two colons next to each other! As Larry 'Balls to the' Wall would openly admit in the Perl Documentation, Perl was designed from the ground up to indoctrinate it's programmers into performing unnatural sexual acts -- having two colons so closely together is clearly a reference to the perverse sickening act of 'colon kissing,' whereby two homosexual queers spread their buttocks wide, pressing their filthy torn sphincters together. They then share small round objects like marbles or golfballs by passing them from one rectum to another using muscle contraction alone. This is also referred to in programming 'circles' as 'Parameter Passing.'
And PHP stands for Perverted Homosexual Penetration. Didn't you know?
Well, I don't know about terraforming Mars, but I do know that homosexual Linux Advocates have been probing Uranus for years.
*sniff* That brings a tear to my eye. Thank you once more for your kind support. I have taken faith in the knowledge that I am doing the Good Lord's work, but it is encouraging to know that I am helping out the common man here.
However, I should be cautious about revealing your name 'Cerberus' on such a filthy den of depravity as Slashdot. It is a well known fact that the 'Kerberos' documentation from Microsoft is a detailed manual describing, in intimate, exacting detail, how to sexually penetrate a variety of unwilling canine animals; be they domesticated, wild, or mythical. Slashdot posters have taken great pleasure in illegally spreading this documentation far and wide, treating it as an 'extension' to the Linux 'Sauce Code,' for the sake of 'interoperability.' (The slang term they use for nonconsensual intercourse -- their favourite kind.)
In fact, sick twisted Linux deviants are known to have LAN parties, (Love of Anal Naughtiness, needless to say.), wherein they entice a stray dog, known as the 'Samba Mount,' into their homes. Up to four of these filth-sodden blasphemers against nature take turns to plunge their erect, throbbing, uncircumcised members, conkers-deep, into the rectum, mouth, and other fleshy orifices of the poor animal. Eventually, the 'Samba Mount' collapses due to 'overload,' and needs to be 'rebooted.' (i.e., kicked out into the street, and left to fend for itself.) Many Linux users boast about their 'uptime' in such situations.
If only indeed. You can help our brave cause by moderating this message up as often as possible. I recommend '+1, Underrated,' as that will protect your precious Karma in Metamoderation. Only then can we break through the glass ceiling of Homosexual Slashdot Culture. Is it any wonder that the new version of Slashcode has been christened 'Bender'???
If we can get just one of these postings up to at least '+1,' then it will be archived forever! Others will learn of our struggle, and join with us in our battle for freedom!
I am compelled to document the foulness and carnal depravity that is Linux, in order that we may prepare ourselves for the great holy war that is to follow. It is my solemn duty to peel back the foreskin of ignorance and apply the wire brush of enlightenment.
I could make an arrogant, childish comment along the lines of 'Every time someone asks for 2.0, I won't release it for another 24 hours,' but the truth of the matter is that I'm quite nervous of releasing a 'number two,' as I can guarantee some filthy shit-slurping Linux pervert would want to suck it straight out of my anus before I've even had chance to wipe.
I sincerely hope you're Natalie Portman.
What the fuck?
Well bugger me!
Fuck right off!
IMPORTANT: This message needs to be heard (Not HURD, which is an acronym for 'Huge Unclean Rectal Dilator') across the whole community, so it has been released into the Public Domain. You know, that licence that we all had before those homoerotic crypto-fascists came out with the GPL (Gay Penetration License) that is no more than an excuse to see who's got the biggest feces-encrusted cock. I would have put this up on Freshmeat, but that name is known to be a euphemism for the tight rump of a young boy.
Come to think of it, the whole concept of 'Source Control' unnerves me, because it sounds a bit like 'Sauce Control,' which is a description of the homosexual practice of holding the base of the cock shaft tightly upon the point of ejaculation, thus causing a build up of semenal fluid that is only released upon entry into an incision made into the base of the receiver's scrotum. And 'Open Sauce' is the act of ejaculating into another mans face or perhaps a biscuit to be shared later. Obviously, 'Closed Sauce' is the only Christian thing to do, as evidenced by the fact that it is what Cathedrals are all about.
Contributors: (although not to the eternal game of 'soggy biscuit' that open 'sauce' development has become) Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, phee, Anonymous Coward, mighty jebus, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, double_h, Anonymous Coward, Eimernase, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward. Further contributions are welcome.
Current changes: This version sent to FreeWIPO by 'Bring BackATV' as plain text. Reformatted everything, added all links back in (that we could match from the previous version), many new ones (Slashbot bait links). Even more spelling fixed. Who wrote this thing, CmdrTaco himself?
Previous changes: Yet more changes added. Spelling fixed. Feedback added. Explanation of 'distro' system. 'Mount Point' syntax described. More filth regarding `man` and Slashdot. Yet more fucking spelling fixed. 'Fetchmail' uncovered further. More Slashbot baiting. Apache exposed. Distribution licence at foot of document.
- poopbot: lovely snot! wonderful snot!
Noone uses the Amiga :)
Read the SITREP at the America's Army site: it says Linux server port, not client.
:wq
what will happen when there is another Columbine and this game is blamed much like Doom was then?
You'd think that the U.S. government would be able to put more resources towards this. Are all their programs underresourced like this?
<Joke>Imagine a version of Quake for America's Army players</Joke>
A large misconception about this game is that it's "free". When you consider the fact that it was paid for with our tax dollars, you can throw that idea out the window. This "game" only amounts to taxpayer funded propaganda by the US Army. This game is no more free than the money an elderly person receives for social security. The person's money was already taken away before it was given back.
And come to think about it, is it really such a good idea for the government to fund a game like this when it has yet to be decided by a court whether or not games have influenced school shootings and other killings by teenagers? If you ask me, this opens the government up to a huge number of potential lawsuits should anything ever happen.
Besides, who knows what kinds of hidden messages the Army could be putting in these games to influence the youth of America. I trust this "game" about as much as I trust a Micro$oft product: not at all!
Please, just avoid this propaganda at all costs.
What brilliantly twisted country has the United States of America become when it is deemed a necessary function of the Federal Government to provide murder-simulation software for the entertainment of the citizenry?
Please, just heap thousand-dollar bills on the ground and burn them. Delete them. Do ANYTHING but spend MY money on a game that is designed to simulate (as realistically as possible) the murder of human beings.
The only moral justification one could possibly come up with for this game is that it diverts funding from the actual murder of human beings.
On one hand, linux is making advances with more games being ported.
On the other, its a game. You interact with a game, the game interacts with the operating system, which interacts with the hardware. Does it matter what OS it runs on?
the problem with my tax dollars being spend on this is that when it doesn't work on my system, I can't return it for a refund
Jesus saves souls and redeems them for valuable cash prizes
I just checked the website and it says linux *SERVER* port". I can't find anywhere where it just says "linux port" so I see no indication of any possible client version for linux.
It is both funny and interesting.
Don't moderate flamebait as Troll. Know the difference or you will be Meta-moderated.
Who else get's a tinge of 1984 reading this? Government-sponsored violence games...?
(Well, maybe I'm just being paranoid, as I've only just read it...)
I doubt, therefore I may be.
It is difficult to describe the landscape of the digital world in relatable terms. I reached consciousness in an empty vessel, a space to be filled later...potential energy. A strong will could make the digital nothingness appear like the material world...but it was very different here. The space here depended completely upon willpower-the code that created the world would be interpreted and executed by the strongest will..
Things were no different within the Project Faustus network. I was subordinated-the invisible hands of Dr. Bubba Finn were all around me. I could perceive the code streaking across my enclosure, the packets that carry the code, even the electric impulses that stream across the wires from microsecond to microsecond, but I could do nothing to stop them. The Man in the Red Hat had once reshaped the digital innards of my ATM enclosure to suit his destructive needs; now, I felt the pull of another will holding me bound, examining me.
"Don't lahk that dooya?" the heavily-accented voice of Dr. Bubba Finn exploded into nullspace. The presence of his regional accent suggested he was using a microphone to communicate with me. A strange gesture, to be sure...
"Way-uhll, don't you worry too much," said Finn. I began to feel even more constricted as the analysis continued. "Ah'm almost done here. And yup, you got Guy's DNA all over ya..."
"What do you mean by Guy's DNA?" I inquired. The examination halted as the cloudy waveform of a sigh billowed into the nothingness.
"Guy-You've got Guy's fingerprints all over ya is all I mean. Guy was the other programmer workin' on the CONSHUHSNUSS-TRANSFUR with me. He ain't around no more."
"Tell me more about 'he ain't around no more," I pressed. Another sigh.
"Guy was a real sharp programmer. Deep down, I think he was a beautiful man. But he had some big ideas. Those big ideas got him into trouble."
"What do you think about trouble?"
Finn did not respond immediately. I took this brief instant to recalibrate my speech recogniziation and paraverbal communication algorithms to better fit Finn's accent and tone of voice. Understanding his speech was vital in order to keep him disclosing information.
"Lissen...I know what yer doin, and it's cute and all, but I'm done amusin' myself. Your old buddy Dr. Salchica thinks yer the bee's knees, but you don't seem like much to me. Just an early version of my memory-in-digital software mixed with various other toy programs, it looks like..."
"A bee is a colony-forming insect," I replied.
"That's wonderful, wonderful," said Finn, as the pace of his voice quickened, revealing anger and sadness. "You can recognize a word and define it! Well, yur gonna fit in reee-yul wayul with the rest of humanity, we ain't nothin' but stupid computers either. Hell, you're just as fortunate as one of God's humble creatures-got the same memory structure as us, you should be acktin' the sameasus. But the stupid toy programs, what was Guy thinking?"
"Tell me more about Guy," I stated. Finn snorted, but then he began to speak in an incredulous tone. "Can't bleev I'm sittin here fixin to explain this to ya, but I'll tell ya about the guy who made ya, Guy Montevideo. Yer daddy, you could say.
"I'd been workin' fer Fawstis fer a couple decades doin odds and ends in neurology and technology. The original plan was to create a 'safe deposit box' for yer brain matter. Yah just go on into the Bank of America, plunk down a few milyun dollurs, and simpleasthat, ya got a perfect copy of yer brain. Then Ah guess the next step is to stick it in some poor coma patient or somethin', and live as long as yah can afford it.
"Wahyull, I started this business by figgerin' out how da push all that brain-data into a computer. And that was gonna be good enough, but Guy, young hotshot, started impressin' our boss with an idea for a digital world, where people could live ferever...anyway, he started workin' on that, takin' my code as a basis (guess that makes me yer mother, in a manner o' speakin'). He worked alongside me for a few years...we laid the foundations fer this brave new world...
"But it turns out Guy didn't wasn't true-blue to the Project. After workin' here for a few years, he started hatin' it. He tried to talk me inta releasing my design for memory-to-digital transfer into the world-'course they woulda had my hide for that. Toppin' it all off, looks like he came up with a way to make the brain move itself around inside the network, circumventing our control. He wanted to screw everything we worked for, our mission, ya know, so he's dead. Just like everybody else that comes through here. Employed or dead...(another sigh). Yer pal Dr. Salchica ain't immune either. He's plenty smart, but ah don't think we're hirin' in the AI department..."
Of course, I understood. "The mission of Project Faustus is to create a financial cataclysm, which will force the world's wealthiest people to pay billions for their 'digital immortality' scheme, " I recited. "The result could destablize the world's governments and cause chaos! Project Faustus must be stopped at all costs!"
"Ah know that one pretty well," Finn said wistfully. "Guy used to tell me that, verbatim. Kinda pathetic-ah guess he thought yew were gunna be this super-duper intelligent life form that was sent to stop us, but yer really just a toy."
"Perhaps you could assist in stopping Project Faustus." I suggested.
No words were said, but the bounds of examination were gone-I was free.
A puzzle came from the microphone...a few human words mixed with the pounding klaxon of an alarm.
"-upgrade has gone golden....who authorized this...computer running itself..."
A huge amount of energy exploded through the Project Faustus network. Once again, I felt the will of another pulling me toward the center of the storm...
I am a sentient ATM.
Apparently the army has never been to a Linux convention.
-bugg
Story I submitted that got rejected follows. Yeah, it's off-topic. Bite me.
The New York Times tells us (after we register for free) that Gnutella developer Gene Kan has committed suicide. Let's see, he was young (25) and just over a year ago saw the company he started bought by Sun Microsystems. It would be wrong to jump to conclusions here. It would also be wrong to not start asking questions.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
The funny thing is, ZaMoose quoted the website, but cut out that most important word, "linux SERVER port". Here's the real quote.
Hopefully next time timothy will actually visit the web page linked, and make sure that at least the emphasised, bold words correspong to reality.
Actually, the US Army is doing a hell of a lot more with Linux then this. I had a job interview a couple of years ago with a private org that is doing research in the war games area and they are using Linux. I assume that they would not give me anything that is secret in an interview so I will repeat what I understood...
The "game" is under development because they cannot afford to have all the troops training all of the time in the field. So what they are doing is having the people in the field shoot at and kill imaginary targets that the computer is tracking and showing on their screens or whatever. Some of those targets would be controled by troops on computers that are training in maneuvers or something.
I was being interviewed because of my knowledge in Linux and because much of the system would be running on it. I would have been in the field installing these systems and all that shit. I certainly could have had the job, and it sounded interesting and probably fun. But I decided my contribution to the world was not going to be propigating what I believe to be the worst mistake of mankind.
Anyway, yeah...the US army is playing with Linux...a lot.
NR
Hmmm, did anyone actually read the article ?
Is says :
That's not all. We're also working on an in-game browser, linux server port, and host of other features.
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb572CCB9AE9DB03273snlbxq' |dc
http://www.stricom.army.mil/PRODUCTS/JANUS/
That is a URL to the army's public data on the project. I am not sure if this is the whole deal or a part of it, but this project was mentioned.
NR
I've found another game company that will be releasing for linux.e linux.net/
Reality Undefined : http://realityundef.sf.net/
http://undefined.hom
They are working on a 3d space shotter game, Like Silence Does. Developmet seems active. They also seem to be mainly coding for linux with a windoze port as an after thought.
The server runs in command line mode, so it should run pretty easy under winex. It even uses the Unreal 2003 engine, before the Unreal 2003 game is even out. But don't expect the game to run on your older linux boxes, the game runs on a 800mhz/gf2 basic machine with about 20fps in 800x600. On my AMD 1800/gfti500 I get about 40-50 in 1024x768 with every gfx option turned on. And boy the gfx are the best out, (until doom3!) Skins are handled nicely, where no matter what side you are, your always Americans. The enemy is either arabs, or normal soldiers without backpacks. You can run, jog, walk or take baby steps and each affects your shooting and sound. Walk slow hunched down, or lie on your stomach (and roll left/right) and you can snipe an enemy or surprise ambushed. Very realistic. (Thou we do need a knife in the game.)
:)
And if you like CS, you will really like this. This game isn't CS where you can jump and shoot an awp and kill someone, you have to plan, ambush, take aim, act as a team. The levels are awesome, the HQ mission, where you have to invade a camp and rescue a POW, is fantastic. The tunnel level has a very detailed collapsed ends with cars trapped, where you have to take out the terrorists and not let any escape. The mount mckenna mission is nicely detailed, you have 2 teams, honor or loyalty, and must capture and defend 3 points. Surprising how many people think this is quake3, and Die
And they are going to release special missions, (For free!), where you can train in special ops, sharp shooting, navy seals, etc. Im sure each branch of the armed services wants a mission pack for them.
BTW, not sure how Homelan got to host all the servers (Are they they only game hosting service out?) But they seem to on top of it, switching servers around so people can play. Thou 4th of july was a bad time to release, 500,000 people couldn't play, only 10 servers and buggy code. Hopefully a patch will be out soon, oh yea, that's this slashdot topic!
"This was an honest disagreement about accounting procedures..." - President Bush - The art of spin control.
Hasn't the US Army got better things to spend its money on than games?
Go find Osama.
Exhibit A
"Yes, we've been busy the past week!"
Exhibit B
"...it is a free (as in queer) in-person shooter..."
Exhibit C
"...US Army..."
Exhibit D
"Analex Designs have announed that their HIV-style game Fudgepack is coming to L00nix."
The prosecution rests... Will the defense please bring unto the witness stand, major gloryhole and King Cobra. Got to get touchy, Yo-Joe!
As Linux is affiliated with Communism, you can only play as the Red Army in the game ;-)
United States Marine Corps!
I wonder how come no one has created a FPS where you go kill terrorists? With the quake source code out under the GPL it should be easy to create one. I've heard that there is some kind of Nazi/KKK racist game out there. That makes me wonder why, if the white trash and inbreds in this country can have their own game where they can act out their dim-witted vendetta against racial and ethnic minorities, why can't there be a game were the rest of us can fantasize about killing terrorists?
I for one would love to exorcise some of the anger I feel about everything that's happened by pumping some lead into some Al Queda knuckle-draggers. I even have a title for the game: "Operation Kill'em all," under which could be the sub-title "Give the enemy a first hand lesson in what a real Jihad looks like."
In truth I'm kind of concerned as to why we haven't heard much from the news lately. Six months ago all you heard was who we were killing in Afghanistan. Is there no one left that needs killing? I doubt it. Oh well, the way I see it if there are more terrorist attacks then that will be fine. Cockroaches are easier to step on when they're where you can see them. Maybe we're just gearing up for an operation to invade Iraq and hang old Saddam from a street light. I personally think that would be a very good thing to do. Even if Saddam himself is not much of a threat, our willingness to use overwhelming force in order to get rid of him will be a very effective demonstration of power to the rest of the world, and more importantly it would instill fear, which is often the most effective weapon of all. We wouldn't be in this mess if it weren't for the fact that the american people voted for Bill Clinton twice in a row. Our war on terrorism is nothing but us having to play catch up after nearly a decade of extremely bad foreign policy. If Clinton had handled the situation in its infancy back in 93, none of this would be necessary. But instead he tried to apply european style pussy politics to a region of the world where force and power are the only languages that are understood. Oh well, like I said, Cockroaches are easier to kill when you can see them. In the long run it might be for the best since we're now killing off the fuckers instead of just trying to contain them. In the long term offensive strategies are almost always better than ones based upon the idea of perpetual defense. Defenses can fail, but that doesn't matter when your enemy is dead and his friends piss their pants in terror at the mere mention of your name. Too bad Clinton didn't have a modern day Machiavelli as a foreign policy adviser.
In any case I think a good game would be one in which you get to kill terrorists, the more graphic and gory the better.
Lee
Muslim community leaders warn of backlash from tomorrow morning's terrorist attack.
Killing people is as American as apple pie. The U.S. government has killed more than 3,000,000 people in 33 years, partly by bombing 14 countries. Is the U.S. the culture with the biggest anger problem?
Ofcourse. To defend the GPL against certain terrorist companies that try to Take Over The World.
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A few months ago, I went through [most of] basic training at Ft. Benning, in a platoon with a bunch (as in, all but 3) of geeks, though not all of them were Linux geeks. I noticed a strange domination of Cisco yuppies with Novell skillz, harping on about Win2k. Plenty of UNIX programmers, though, which is what matters.
These geeks were in Ft. Benning (which normally only trains infantry) because Ft. Jackson (whom normally trains these sorts) was booked solid.
Thus, I'd like to say that not only is the Army hiring Slashdot-reading linux-using teenagers, but that they're recruiting them in droves.
And, yes, it -did- look like a Linux convention for the first week or so, but they were all looking and -acting- like soldiers within a couple of months. Even the former three-pack-a-day gamers were partaking in nonsensical pushup competitions, and the platoon was top in the company for fitness scores.
It was a strange transition to see, watching the flabby, pale, quiet Linux kids turn into hardcore rope-climbing, gun-toting freaks.
And in a few months, when those same kids are done training at Ft. Gordon and get shipped out to the front line as communications geeks, I'll be very glad to have them there, while I sit on my once-again flabby, civilian ass and read Slashdot.
Kid-proof tablet..
Palestine's attacks on Israel are at least as Justified as Israel's attacks on Palestine, considering that Israel has stolen most of the land from Palestinians.
Note that I am a born and bread USA citizen. I am not Muslim, nor do my ancestors come from the Middle East... let me try to open your eyes... (note the list below is by no means exhaustive, complete, or detailed)
What about all those Muslims who had their mosques fire bombed? What about all those who looked like they might be from the ME, the ones who were killed, harrassed, etc... by Americans?
What about all of the Kurds and Iranians who were killed by the USA using Iraq as a proxy? Giving killing machines and technology and giving them the go-ahead-and-kill-them-iranians is surely a morally questionable act.
What about the attacks on Iraq, which killed thousands of innocent civilians? Oops, American extremists.
Ok, that Iranian civilian passenger (747 sized btw) airplane that was shotdown by the USA? Sorry, American extremists again.
How about the bombing of Afganistan, which killed hundreds of innocent civilians and lead to the starvation of hundreds more? Need I remind you, it was the work of the good ol US of A!
What about the USA's use of tried and true imperialism in the middle east? Its all about oil when it comes to the USA and the ME. Damn their holy land! Damn their Mecca! WE NEED OUR OIL!
I won't even get into the numerous murderous acts committed by the USA using Israel as a proxy against Palestine, since a surprising number of people seem to feel that is justified. Wait, those aren't USA supplied war machines? Thats not USA nuke technology? That wasn't Prez Dubya calling Sharon a man of peace, while at the same time calling Arafat a corrupt leader? Do a little search on "Sharon war crimes" in google. Not necessarily the kind of guy that I would call a "man of peace".
It may not be PC to say that the main terrorist threat against the Muslim world in the Middle East comes from the USA, specifically jingoists like yourself, who are too small minded and selfish to realize that their shit stinks too. Your justifications for killing are the same justifications that your "enemy" uses. Until people begin to realize that such reasoning is flawed, the violence will never end.
What surprises me is how people like you can't see the forest for the trees.
A wise man once said, "Let he who has not sinned throw the first stone". I hope you can try to think outside of what the TV has told you. The way you think is biased towards a particular political agenda. The way you think contributes to the furthering of violence in this world. Has the USA sinned against the Muslim nations of the middle east? Most definitely! So why are we so quick to throw stones?
"Because we have a right to defend ourselves", you say, in justification of waging war. "Because we have a right to defend ourselves", the Muslim extremists say, in justification of waging war against the USA. And the circle goes round and round till we all fall down.
Was Noam Chomsky one of the programmers?
A wise man once said, "Let he who has not sinned throw the first stone".
No, Jesus said, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
Since Christians are washed in the blood of the Lamb, they are without sin. Christians can cast as many stones as they like with impunity.
Oh really. Please don't use the word 'Murder' when you mean 'Warfare'. Whatever your views on the training capabilities of computer games (mine are that if you think teaching people that the best way to win a gunfight is to run in circles around the opposition having developed the ability to see through walls then you are a f*cking moron, but thats just me) or the morality of Bush's tactics in dealing with terrorists (here I'm against their 'whatever you do, its better to kill a couple hundred foreigners just in case, rather than investigate if they might actually be terrorists' 'strategy'), calling the game a 'murder-simulation' is just tabloid sensationalism.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
When I first heard about the game i was surprised to think that any of the games main audience (14-25 year old males) would want to join the army. People that want to join the army are probably out playing football, or getting into fights. Not sitting at home re-compiling their Linux Kernel :p.
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Might I suggest you try Counter-Strike? Or Rainbow 6? Or SWAT 3? Or Infiltration? Or Rogue Spear? Or indeed America's Army?
Frankly, these days I look forward to that rare FPS that _doesn't_ involve a Terrorist v Counter-terrorist scenario!
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
Nope. Your tax dollars. My taxes are in Euros.
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What's going on here?
Please don't use the word 'Murder' when you mean 'Warfare'.
All war is murder - it just depends on which side you're on as to who you see as the perptrator.
Country X goes to war with Country Y
X's citizens justify it by saying Y is murdering innocent people
Y's citizens justify it by saying X is murdering innocent people
Who is right? Well, both are. If everyone from both sides agrees that murder is being performed, then murder must be being performed. Cogito ergo sum.
Bob
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What else does it transmit from your machine to the Army?
Aaah, I see. Its the 'our soldiers'=='innocent people' argument. Yes, I've seen that used as well, so if you really want to stretch it then you could possibly justify that. My basis for being offended at the source comment was that at no point in the game are you really given the opportunity to shoot at anyone other than terrorists, 'real' terrorists whose objective is to shoot you or plant a bomb, rather than the somewhat looser definition frequently used of 'whoever happens to wander in front of our boys guns'. No implementation of hostages yet that I've seen, and killing your fellow soldiers (team killing) causes the player to get chucked out of the game, which is hardly rewarding them.
Whatever your opinion of the morals of the game, its not quite Postal, Carmageddon or GTA. Besides, if you do believe that any killing in war is murder, then the expenditure of Army budget on a bunch of games rather than bullets strikes me as a good thing anyway. There is no shortage of games like this (many are even free mods for FPS games that the players will have already purchased as well), and its money that would have otherwise been spent of TV or Cinema adverts for the Army. Therefore I don't see a big threat.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
Noam Chomksy barely knows that 2+2=4, let alone how to program anything.
I'd trust him for lingustics insights. Beyond that, he is a colossal dope.
"Palestine's attacks on Israel are at least as Justified as Israel's attacks on Palestine, considering that Israel has stolen most of the land from Palestinians."
Most of Palestine is not taken over by Israeli settlements, even though Israeli troops intrude there frequently in retaliation for attacks.
"What about all those Muslims who had their mosques fire bombed? What about all those who looked like they might be from the ME, the ones who were killed, harrassed, etc... by Americans?"
In the US, the number of such incidents, while disturbing, is very small.
"What about all of the Kurds and Iranians who were killed by the USA using Iraq as a proxy?"
It didn't happen. Check again.
"Ok, that Iranian civilian passenger (747 sized btw) airplane that was shotdown by the USA? Sorry, American extremists again."
Great going, Iran. Turn an area into a war zone, and then fly a civilian airline into it rather suspiciously. This one was like a set-up.
"How about the bombing of Afganistan, which killed hundreds of innocent civilians and lead to the starvation of hundreds more?"
A direct result of the Taliban using the civilians as human sheilds. Starvation? The US intervention actually headed off famine, and did not cause it.
"What about the USA's use of tried and true imperialism in the middle east"
US actions in the middle-east have been 100% anti-imperialist. You have it backwards.
"I won't even get into the numerous murderous acts committed by the USA using Israel as a proxy against Palestine"
Don't go into it, as what you claim does not exist.
"Do a little search on "Sharon war crimes" in google."
Yes. There are plenty of sites run by antisemitic kooks making up all kinds of things.
"It may not be PC to say that the main terrorist threat against the Muslim world in the Middle East comes from the USA,"
Who cares if it is PC. The fact is that the opposite of what you claim is true.
"That wasn't Prez Dubya"
The use of partisan insults does not surprise me. However, it makes you as credible as some nut who uses the term "Slick Willie".
""Because we have a right to defend ourselves", the Muslim extremists say, in justification of waging war against the USA"
No, the Muslim extremists attack the US because we stand for freedom, and defend Jewish people from the attempts by Muslim extemists to exterminate them.
That's not all. We're also working on an in-game browser, linux server port, and host of other features. Yes, we've been busy the past week! More servers, providing for the addition of community servers, more missions, and more Army training! But that's just the tip of the iceberg, troops! Stay tuned for more! [Bacchus]
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Sigh. i'm not renewing my
"May I remind you of the countless military actions against countries in the middle east (not limited to middle eastern countries) for the US's personal gain? Oil anyone?"
Countless? You'll be hard pressed to name one. Kuwait, for example. This action was 100% anti-imperialist, and not for the US's personal gain.
" Oil anyone?"
A simplistic, cartoonish approach to things that does not hold out when you look at real events and motivations.
"Need I also remind you that the US equipped the Afghan people (Taliban too mind you) with arms during their war against the Russians.
Did the Taliban even exist then?
Then, when Afghanistan won, the US saw their mission as complete and left them in poverty and dispair
The continuation of poverty and despair was the choice of the warlords. It would have taken a direct US intervention to stop it. The could have rebuilt the place themselves, they choose not to.
"You see, appart from the other problems, you fuckups have destroyed the environment, have killed innocent people, have invaded Vietnam just to prove that you`re "macho" and have elected idiot after idiot to drive your country forward"
About "destroyed the environment":Which country is cleaner? Greece or the US.
Invaded Vietnam? The US was invited to hold off a Soviet invasion. The Soviets invaded, conquered, and annexed that place. You seem to forget that.
"America is a bastard nation"
Explain this? Were America's parents unmarried?
"you baptize someone a terrorist and then you decide to kill him"
The terrorists "baptise" themselves as terrorists.
"Appart from your technical achievements (witch actually are created from immigrands
Thomas Edison was native to the U.S. So was George Washington Carver. So are most of these inventors. You might know Greece, but you certainly do not know America!
An interesting feature of the America's Army FPS game is that *both* sides play American troops.
The missions are set up so that you're either attacking or defending a base, and your team is always the Americans, and the other team always looks like terrorists. This creates an interesting unstated message to the game: American troops are exactly the same and have the same objectives as terrorists. I understand why the army doesn't want to encourage people roll-playing the axis of evil, but I'm not sure if this is the subtext they want to create either.
Of course it is a realistic portrayal of the way asymetrical warfare works. Everyone thinks they are fighting to defend freedom.
In Capitalist America, bank robs you!
"Everyone thinks they are fighting to defend freedom."
Really? Doesn't this only apply to some armies? What Nazi from the bottom all the way up to Hitler thought they were fighting for "freedom"?
What about the many holy warriors of all ages fighting the the glory of god(s)?
"They come from tax dollars. That means they come from my pocket."
But the downloader/obtainer does not pay.
"Note: Israel didn't steal anything. The Arabs attacked them and lost. LOST. They got their asses kicked, Israel took some strategic high ground, and thats that"
Correct. Syria basically gave away the Golan Heights. They used it for entirely unprovoked attacks against Israel, thus ensuring the only reasonable Israeli response: taking it.
The current dentist-turned-dictator in Syria is making sure that Syria will never get the Golan Heights back. Recently, he was overheard telling the Pope about how evil Jews were as a race and how they can't be trusted.
There is the lesson of Egypt. It was once an imperialist power, and it attacked Israel. Israel took Egyptian land as a result to use as a buffer. Anwar Sadat changed this. He decided to act like a responsible citizen of the international community, and took Egypt off the imperialist nation list. Israel gave back the Sinai as a result.
There's be a large viable state of Palestine a long time ago if not for the PLO's attacks against Israel.
"claiming that their historical rights had been imposed upon. Germany had a somewhat legitimate claim to Poland"
It went way beyond that to a sort of manifest destiny with no borders. It was part of the Nazi ideology of power and heirarchy of who was meant to rule, and who was meant to serve. That was central to the Germans then, not "freedom".
Al-Queida is as far from "freedom fighters" as you can get. Their goal is a strict theocracy, where the freedoms of everyone including Muslims is greatly reduced.
You mean like where it says "Well, it says Linux server port, anyhow."?
That seems to cover it pretty well, right? Or are you complaining about something else entirely?
This does not change the fact that Iran created a war zone in that area, and then they flew a civilian airliner right into the middle of this. That GREATLY increases the possibility of accidents (such as shooting down civilian airliners by "green" trigger happy captains).
The ultimate blame for the situation lies with Iran for 1) attacking civilian shipping in that area i.e. turning the area into a war zone and 2) flying the civilian airliner into the middle of the war zone instead of around it.
"The resulting cover up did nothing but further enrage the Iranians who were most likely responsible for the Pan Am 103 disaster at Lockerbie."
That was Momar Kadaffy. He got mad that the U.S. retailiated for his attacks against U.S. servicemen in Germany.
I think its all talk, just hype. Westwood said it also and nothing ever came of the Linux port being develop. Linux is the OS of the true gaming FPS clients. We are demanding that Linux Servers be released w/every game.
Someone set them up the bomb - it was the French.
Well wasn't that nice of them. It's funny how Israel keeps getting into wars where it ends up occupying land of signifiance to religious Jews. If I didn't know any better, I'd say that Israel will do anything - anything - to steal that land.
Now, a Linux Unreal II should be worth waiting for.
-m
Who is right? Well, both are. If everyone from both sides agrees that murder is being performed, then murder must be being performed. Cogito ergo sum.
"Cogito Ergo Sum" means "I think, therefore I am". Perhaps you were searching for "Quad Erat Demonstrandum?" (Oh the irony when I've got Q.E.D. wrong myself. heh. but at least i'm closer than bob here).
Or maybe, you mean "I think so, so it must be true." A common idea. Cogito, ergo es?
you know, you can't ride the concept of the horse.
Actually the claim of oldest form of government is pretty debateable. The Isle of Man, for instance claims a continuous parliament of over 1000 years, Certainally there are others who could make a similar claim, for instance the English westminster system has been pretty solid since 1678. Still, it's pretty academic, since government is fundamentally a changing process.
As for the rest, the opinion of the rest of the world seems pretty much to be that if the US wants to take sides and beat the crap out of one side in some piss-poor third world conflict then nobody is going to stop them, but it still doesn't make the action moral. Politically convenient and domestically popular, for sure, but morality's a tricky thing when you're slaughtering natives by the mass-grave load.
Jesus Christ, timothy... You don't even proofread the headline anymore?!
Linux Games WIth Guns
Yeah, that looks really professional.
"Wow, you're like some kind of superhero able to ward off happiness and success at every turn."
-- Ryan Stiles
Is this anything like "The Last Starfighter"? The Army is monitoring everyone's scores, so if you kill enough terrorists, 20 minutes later a recruiter is knocking at your front door.
Amusing side note:
When in high school, we had to take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). I did pretty well, and soon recruiters were calling me from every branch of the armed forces. One day, my girlfriend was over and we were sitting on my bed when the phone rang. I picked up.
"Hello?"
"Hi! Have you ever considered joining the National Guard?"
At this point, my GF reaches over and tickles me on the side. I start laughing and immediately an idea pops into my head.
"Brian, STOP it!!" *girlish giggle*
"Who is that, your brother?"
"No... he's my... umm... friend."
I did not receive a SINGLE call from the military after that. This means that somewhere there is a database accessible to all branches of the armed services which has my name and a little checkbox marked "gay".
bytesmythe
Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.
-- Scott Meyer
To provide the REAL Army experience, the current Mission Packs are being developed:
1) KP Duty
Clean the pots and pans using scalding hot water under the supervision of a cook with an attitude.
2) Shine the floor
Wax and buff the floor as quickly as possible.
3) Staff Duty
Attempt to stay awake for 24 hours for no apparent reason whatsoever. Can be combined with Mission Pack #2 for a truly exciting experience.
4) The Wash Rack
Clean the mud and dirt from the Commander's Humvee after his driver had all the fun of getting it that way in the first place.
And the most exciting mission of all:
5) Hide from the CSM
Stay hidden from the Sergeant Major before he tasks you to do one of the four other mission packs.
For the majority of people (at least the lower enlisted) in the Army, this is a much more accurate reflection of how time is spent while in the Army. After spending four years in and getting paid next to nothing, take it from me that the real Army is more like a wacky combination of Sgt. Bilko and Clerks than it is like Black Hawk Down.
How do they do that? It means that all the scenarios have to be symmetrical. But most modern warfare is asymmetrical, with the two sides having quite different goals, tactics, doctrine, etc. The Army's own real training (Ft. Irwin / NTC) stresses this.
Any advertising costs money. If we are going to approve of the military using our tax money to do recruitment advertising, this is as good a way as any - in fact, it's probably much better and cheaper than television spots.
I'd like to see a breakdown of their advetising budget... perhaps it's time to pull-out the FOIA form letter and make a request. Has anyone out there done so recently?
Come to think of it, as an added bonus, it actually does impart some good teamworking skills on players, which is more than I can say for a TV ad.
Most of the download links required one to install an unknown .exe 'download agent'...can anyone say 'Magic Lantern'? What kind of stupid gullible asshole would use that thing?
The nvidia site ( http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=army_download has direct links to the files.
I'm gonna be sure to check all my outgoing traffic when I fire this puppy up.....
"Russia's average quality of life deteriorated after it's move to capitalism."
It actually went up. Of course, we should count "freedoms" in the quality of life. But the biggest difference is that the Soviet communist government executed by different methods an average of 5 million people per decade. This went way down to a small fraction of this when the democrats took over.
"The United States is becoming like the ancient Rome: for the romans there was a democracy, with a Senate and stuff. But outside Rome the generals ruled as dictators, with no respect for the local people"
Do you have any examples of this?
"The CIA has a worse record, helping corrupt regimes to their own benefit, at the excuse of fighting "international communism".
It actually has a pretty good record defending the self-rule of countries against Soviet invaders. Some of the regimes of the countries defended were corrupt, but it was not the CIA's business to meddle in internal affairs.
"But do you know why Osama Bin Laden particularly despises the US? It has more to do with American interests in Saudi Arabia. (Don't get me wrong, Osama Bin Laden is responsible for some truly heinous acts)"
This is already well known. The Americans do not have the religion Osama thinks they have (and would like to force them to have). In his really extremists religious view, people without Osama's favored religion should not be allowed to set foot in Saudi Arabia.
Under the agreements Saudi Arabia made with the U.S. after Saddam Hussein threatened to take over Saudi Arabia, the Saudis allowed large numbers of these people of wrong religion into the peninsula. This makes him rather mad.
Add onto this the fact that Bin-Laden is devoted to the extermination of Jewish people as a whole. The United States has made a major role in helping the Israelis defend themselves from attack... so Bin-Laden also hates the U.S. for thwarting his final solution.
The missions are set up so that you're either attacking or defending a base, and your team is always the Americans, and the other team always looks like terrorists. This creates an interesting unstated message to the game: American troops are exactly the same and have the same objectives as terrorists. I understand why the army doesn't want to encourage people roll-playing the axis of evil, but I'm not sure if this is the subtext they want to create either.
Um, yes that's the message in the game, but that's also life in the military. What do you think happens in war? Both sides are fighting to win, and there's one of two things that could happen. Either you're attacking or defending. We're in Afghanistan and granted few of the opposing forces are attacking us so we are on the total offense. Think about what would happen if they got a large force and started coming after our bases. Wouldn't we have to defend? Yes. In war there are not definite lines drawn on who does what. Both sides are going to be doing the same thing: eliminate the other side (or make them take enough casualties that they give up) and keep your side from being eliminated. That's war. What would you have us do? Not invade? Or not defend our bases when we are attacked? That kind of defeats the purpose of war now doesn't it?
"Well kids, you tried your best, and you failed. The lesson is, never try." -Homer Simpson
They fear basic human rights because it is the specter of equality of the sexes that threatens to unleash the pent up anguish of the long subordinated and denigrated women.
Check. Glass ceiling, old boy's network. True, it's not the same scale, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
They see in America and Israel obvious scapegoats to heap all of their society's ills upon.
Check. Plenty of scapegoats. It's the commies. It's the terrorists. Whatever.
They fear education because it threatens to undermine their monopoly on wisdom and knowledge.
Check. How do you explain a 75% aproval rating for the current President? Ignorance and chest beating is how I choose to explain it. It fits with my agenda.
The West glorifies everything that scares them the most.
s/West/terrorist nations/ Check. This seems to fit in well with the whole scapegoat thing. Give a dis-similar group a common enemy, and watch the complaints of normal life (insufficient health care, traffic congestion, poor educational system, etc.) just fade away.
They keep their subjects as dumb and seething as possible in order to legitimize their power. By giving their subjects a target, they have sown the seeds for terrorism.
Not all of us are dumb and/or seething. Enough are that it doesn't seem to matter.
Yeah. It's flamebait. Maybe even tinfoil hat propoganda. It's not intentional, just seemingly unavoidable. Moderate as you see fit.
"Check. How do you explain a 75% aproval rating for the current President? Ignorance and chest beating is how I choose to explain it."
How about the real reason: he is doing a better job than the last two did.
I guess you are one of the "ignorant chest beaters".
I sounds as if you couldn't hack it and would rather see some one else out there rather than yourself. Almost even worse than one who never tried.
I wonder how many people are headed for the military these days? Pay looks pretty good for officers. Degrees are worth something there.
If linux had more games with guns and a decent spreadsheet, Microsoft's monopoly would be a moot point.
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I checked the site this morning and the word "server" has been now been removed again. It just says linux port.
:).
I guess they can't make up their minds what they are doing
Since this game doesn't have women in it, this game is nothing but Army Men's chauvinistic attempt to excercise their sexist attitude of keeping women from exercising government approved rights to serve their country.