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America's Army Comes to the Mac
mrpuffypants writes "Not to leave all of the Mac community out in the rain the U.S. Army has released a Mac version of America's Army. Now get out there and train for Iraq, maggots!"
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I wonder if Icculus (Ryan C. Gordon) of Loki fame had anything to do with this?? Oh yes he did.
:)
It shouldn't have been that hard to port the code for the linux client over to mac os, since both architectures are similar. Regardless, good job Icculus
In linux libertas
Now that the Macintosh has joined the ranks, "don't ask, don't tell" is in full force. (it is just a joke macaddicts...I support macs as part of my job...)
"What we do in life echoes in eternity." Maximus Decimus Meridius
This seems like a rather bad idea on the army's part, in my opinion. I would think that since Apple has such a small slice of the market share that they would not even bother with a release, and more importantly, I wouldn't expect as many Mac users would be potential conscripts. I don't have any hard evidence for that, but considering myself (a long time mac user) and most of the other appleholics that i know, the mac user/pacifist overlap is pretty large...
I bet the fed is finally trying to convert us sunflower-loving hippies using a really cool game. So. Tempting. Must. Resist. Cool. FPS.
... KABOOM!!
Blam blam!
Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat!
Nyyyyyyyyooooooooooooo BOOM!
While the performance is understandably poor on my dual 800 (1.5 gb, GF3... I get around 20 fps) the game has real potential. Unfortunately its close quarters combat is quite flawed. Strafe jumping junkies who somehow manage to squeeze full-auto fire out of their M16A2 abound. Disappointing, to say the least. Looks like the devs kind of gave up on polishing the gameplay about 5/6ths of the way to completion. All that would be required to fix this is a simple realistically correct adjustment: You can't strafe jump while holding a full-auto assault rifle. Or, at least, my knowledge of the human body doesn't state that it's true. Who knows what genetically engineered super soldiers the Army is cooking up these days, though ;) I think perhaps some chained-jumping handicaps like those in RtCW, I think it was, would be appropriate. But, there are a handful of weapons to use, and sniping is appropriately difficult (though I haven't had a chance to try out it outside of the training field... yes I am an Exper Marksman :) ). So, to sum up... A game with strong potential, but it needs polish. And more FPS.
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Come on, you apes! You wanta live forever?
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Lying about sex with your intern, not impeachable.
In case you didn't know, Clinton was impeached.
What, no bittorrent link? Every mirror I've found is slow as hell.
If you get really high scores, do you get a knock-on-the-door in the middle of the night and whisked away to a secret CIA training camp? ;-)
-psy
Why are there "quotes" around "License:" and "System Requirements" ?
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http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games_dem
Phillip
even if the start up screen does say "YMRA EHT NOIJ"
Can someone post a bittorrent link? The only thing they are charging for is a broadband link ($5.95). The other links are slow as crud. So I think it'd be just peachy if bittorrent helped us all out a bit.
http://www.bigfatonline.com/armyops-mac-170.tar.bz 2.torrent
I had grabbed the first half of it from an official mirror before I gave up and went to the torrent, so I can guarantee that if it's trojaned, it's trojaned in the second half :)
You think this is bad, just wait until "F/A-18 Hornet: Operation Iraqi Freedom" ships. Actually, I heard that the Windows version just shipped.
Some of us have joked that there won't be any air-to-air combat in in.
"Common Sense Ain't" -Unknown
Its a joke, laugh.
/. on the Internet?"
/.ers are, however, considering that the name of the game is "America's Army"...
/.
/. "Get out there you chiggers and train for the US!"
"Honestly, this is a freakin' *WAR* people, its not a video game, and its not a walk in the park."
Yep, and I think the person who wrote that--along with every other person here--knows it. I made a comment above which is a Heinlein quote along the same lines, but I don't support our president in this (sorry, I didn't vote for him either).
It is also well known that "America's Army," the video game, is a recruiting tool for the US Army. Expect us to "show a little humor" with respect to that.
"What would you think about that if you were an actual Iraqi, reading
I'm not in Iraq and I imagine a very small percentage of
"Wait, lets change this video game a little bit and rename it to "Washington DC Terrorist Attack - Kill the President before He Rapes The World", and port it to Nintendo."
False analogy. The two are not comparable on any level.
That being said: Go for it. Announce it on
You won't get moral outrage from me over it being sold--I won't purchase it, I won't play it, and I won't encourage others to play it, but I won't claim that it shouldn't be sold. Part of that "freedom of speech" thing.
"Does that then make it okay for someone to say "Play this game then go there, Brother, and kill the infidels!""
I wouldn't be insulted if the Information Ministry or Military in Iraq released a game called "Saddam Hussein's Army" and someone posted on
Seriously, you are being oversensative. None of us care.
I'm opposed to the war, I still got a chuckle out of the "train for Iraq" line.
"Can Americans not plainly see that their perpetual arrogance and cultural irresponsibility is causing them more trouble than its worth?"
Can the hypothetical "rest of the world" (meaning you) see that sterotyping and generalized racism is causing us all more trouble than its worth?
""Americas War" is *NOT* something to be proud about, or defend eagerly, or even participate in willingly."
I'm not, I don't, and I'm not. Your point?
"It is the product of a sick and twisted culture!!"
Stop making leaps of logic that Orwell's Ministry of Truth would be proud of and you might get people to listen to you. Ranting about the Evils of America(TM) gets you nowhere in discussion, informing others, or in changing anyone's minds.
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"I wouldn't expect as many Mac users would be potential conscripts."
/confessed MacAddict since 84.
Demographically higher educated (with me being an exception), allegedly more creative, and capable of enduring sustained ridicule for years, it seems Mac users would be perfect officer materiel. In the armed forces as in the tech industry, someone must lead. Apple does ergo, Mac Users. Or should that be ergot*?
*The dried sclerotia of ergot, usually obtained from rye seed and used as a source of several medicinally important alkaloids and as the basic source of lysergic acid. In other words, Nature's own LSD.
This is not the end. This is not the beginning of the end. Rather, it is the beginning of Ender's Game for beginners. Or something.
"What would you think about that if you were an actual Iraqi, reading /. on the Internet?"
In Saddam's Iraq, the Internet read you.
Watching Cowboy Bebop in my jammies, eating a bowl of Shreddies.
ArmyOps Tracker
You can track you all sorts of stats with the game. I love using it to track how many points I need to gain honor and seeing my frag rate. I didnt discover this online tool for almost a few months. If you are curious, you can see mine...My AA stats. Another cool feature is the signature file which is like a banner ad of your stats.
I can wait til I turn my 600mhz iBook into a server!
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Probably didn't take much more than a recompile on a Mac to create this "port".
This is a GOOD THING and the sort of thing we need to see more of. Develop cross-platform games with cross-platform APIs. Give "Linux gaming" and "Mac gaming" both a shot in the arm with the same code.
Hey, we're not talking about Clinton bombing an aspirin factory on bad info here! He's not even President anymore.
Oh... oh, you were talking about Bush.....
obviously you are new to gaming since "strafe jumping" is actually called "bunny hopping". also you cannot fire while jumping. you can fire while strafing back and forth. i assume that you started today, you probably havent played many of the maps and maybe still in the MILES (laser tag) maps like MOUT and Tunnels. Those maps are intro maps you will see how the game can excel when you are on a large outdoor map like Radio Tower or a FPS killer map like Bridge.
.50 caliber sniper rifle, m4 with laser sight,grenades, flash bangs, smoke nades plus the enemies counter weapons.
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When AA was first released, I thought of it as Counter Strike 2 with all the cheats removed which is one of the reasons I stopped playing CS. But I discovered that AA was team orientated. If you can find your nitch on a squad, you can really dominate.
Some things that you missed that I think should be noted:
- you can shoot through doors now and bullets can ricochett and kill you
- TK (that is "team killing) is a huge no-no
- You will need to learn the Rules of Engagement (ROE) which have a negative effect on gaining honor.
- You get bonus honor for being squad and fire team leaders.
- You need to know your CEM (Combat Effectiveness Meter), the higher it is, the more accurate your shot is.
- To forgive ppl, when you are TKed accidently. Apologize when you TK someone.
- There's many different qualifications such as Airborne School, Sniper School, Mtn Range division, etc... by passing those schools, new maps open to you.
- The higher your honor the better your chances are of getting the weapon you requested.
- Game weapons (depending on map and team size): M16, Saw, m16 w/ 203 grenade launcher, regular sniper rifle,
Coming in AA 1.9, two new classes: Medic and Special Forces. I am looking forward to becoming a medic (although its not like a true medic, but a combat medic with a gun -- read americasarmy.com). Rumors are that you need to have a 35+ honor to be a medic and 50+ for Special Forces.
I've logged 70+ hours into this game, playing for a few days then stopping for a week or so (depending on work and life duties). So I feel qualifed to review the game.
overall for a free game, its pretty damn good. the FPS are quite good if you have a good video card. a gf3 is okay. i dont think my 600mhz iBook with its ATI 16mb video card could handle it, but maybe it will be okay as a dedicated server.
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fps tweak
http://75thrangers.us/portal/modules.php?name=F
a quote from the post...
" Ok I was gettin like 23 fps on bridge SE, and i new
i could do better. I have a radeon 9200 128mb. So a
Dev told me that i could tweak the Cache size in the
armyops.ini file and it would help alot. The default
is 32. If you haev a 128 mb card set it to 128 mbs, 64
card =64 cache. I went from 23 fps to 60! "
i have an ati 9000 128 pro...i made the changes and it didnt seem to do much. i had my friend make changes to and he has a gf4 ti 4200 128 and he didnt notice any changes.
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There is no point in arguing with you, you are convinced that you are right and are more concerned with yelling than with truth.
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Prove me wrong.
"*point #1: "Americas Army" vs. "Kill the President Imperialist", training tool or not, are in fact perfectly comparable as an analogy. There is nothing 'valient' about Americas Army that isn't 'valient' about a Muslim going off on Jihaad. Those guys that strap bombs to themselves and go off to make damage where they can, think they're 'valiant, brave, and justified' as well."
This would be calling the US Army "terrorists" and equating military action with terrorism.
Oh please. There was a reason that rules of war were drafted and the provisions for minimizing civilian casualities and dressing as soldiers in battle.
You don't think the government's cause there is justified? Great! Neither do I.
How would you respond if I started painting you in with Schröder on every decision he made?
"why? Because, as a joke, it will only be funny to Americans."
I've done a fair bit of technical writing; I've learned a bit of German, Turkish, and Spanish; traveled abroad; and I lived for a year with a Chinese roommate. One of the first things you learn is that humor is different in every culture and doesn't tend to transfer across country lines.
Hell, I don't even get some of the humor people in New York consider hillarious and I certainly don't find anything funny about the brain-dead humor of some of the movies we've had. Why should you define humor as only what both people in the US and Iraq both would find funny?
Also, just because we joke about something does not mean that we do not take it seriously. Sometimes the things a people take most seriously are the topics we joke about.
" Yeah, yeah, beat the "freedom" dead horse again. "
Simple. if you were to publish a game by the aforementioned title I would say "go for it". Stop having a knee-jerk reaction to the word "freedom".
"*point #4: Americans are not a 'race'. They are a cultural entity defined by their own borders and their own deeds."
We are several cultural entities thank-you-very-much (the people in New York bear very little resemblance to the people in Texas) and we do not appreciate being stereotyped and verbally-attacked on the basis of what our leaders decided to do.
Please, btw, *what* deeds have *I* done "as an American."
"This is not racism, this is not stereotyping:"
Which is why you start off the title of this thread as:
"I hate this IRAQ Flippancy of Americans."
"this is taking offense to a mob-happy joke mentality about something which is seriously important to the rest of the world"
What makes you think it isn't to us?
Look. The War in Iraq is something we regard very seriously.
That said, America's Army is not about Iraq per se. It is a recruiting tool and it is supposed to glorify things and play to a culture which gets off on first person shooters.
We know it is a recruiting tool, don't be surprised that we are going to joke about its status as such. We are currently at war with Iraq, great, where are the jokes about the status of this game as a recruiting tool going to go?
Tell me, does this (part of a) poem offend you?
Life is a trifle
Honor is all
Shoulder the rifle
Answer the call
A nation of traders
We'll show what we are
Freedom's Crusaders
Who war against war
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This is truly amazing. Compared to you, the American right wing looks almost rational.
More evidence that shows that republicans are idiots, and only care about what you do in your private time.
These fuckers are going to get us all killed.
A good post, and more thorough than my own. But no, I didn't mean bunnyhopping, I meant strafe jumping. I am a fps gamer and have been for past, oh, 8 years or so. It's not strafejumping like in q1-3 but strafejumping it is indeed. Bunnyhopping is, IMHO, something different than the behavior I mentioned. Thanks for the vid card tip... My GF3 is 64 mb so I'll give it a shot.
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Just played for a bit (I'm not saying what time zone I'm in!) and my first impression was surprise at the languages being used in chat.
I know non-English-speakers are not unusual in FPS games, of course. But something about the in-your-face stridence of American military machismo in the game made it an odd cognitive dissonance.
I can see a Huey Long (or Joe McCarthy) figure showing a screenshot of dudes blasting people with their m1a4 or whatever, talking in Czech... and then McCarthy lambasting the Army for training the next generation of terrorists.
Or do I just need my morning coffee?
Now that I have a new powerbook I want to kill kill kill
Does this remind anyone else of the 80's movie The Last Starfighter where the goofy kid living in a California trailer park gets the high score on a video game and gets recruited by the "Star Leauge" to save the Earth or Universe or Star Leauge or something like that?
This really could become some next generation of recruitment.
I mean, think of the possibilities for NASCAR to recruit top scorers for Gran Turismo, or the National Football Leauge to recruit top scorers of Madden 2004. Heck, if you can wiggle your fingers fast you must be able to do the real thing too. I'd hate to get in a kick boxing competition with the high scorer of Dynasty Wariors 4. I bet that overweight 12 year old would use the old A-B-A-B-B on my ass and the next thing I know he'd be holding my beating heart in his hand!
All of a sudden I miss the 80's
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
Hold on there chief, don't go making threats against our commander in chief. You may not like him, but why threaten his life? Do you know him personally? Is he that bad of a Guy?
I agree with you when you say that America's War trivializes war, which is not a good thing. And I will skip making the ever-so-obvious troll about Mac users getting it last because they are gay or whatever, or a joke about "don't ask, don't tell". Just don't threaten OUR president.
The army really is always fighting the last war...
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I'm amazed that one of the retards hasn't modded you insightful yet.
What alternate universe are you from?
I live in Dallas, TX and while Dallas may bear very little resemblance to NY (we have fewer tall buildings), the people here look the same. Name a race, creed, or country of origin and Dallas has it. We have super-rich people here (like Jerry Jones and Mark Cuban), and super-poor people. I guess I don't understand where your comment came from.
I only bring this up because your comment makes you sound a little shortsighted. Texas isn't a bunch of cowboys and rednecks. Sure, we have them here--as does NYC--but there's more to Texas than what you see on TV.
I most certainly didn't threaten your president any more than your 'just a joke' video game threatens the lives of any average every day Iraqi's.
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You're hardly an authority on the subject if you start posts like this:
Since it's, well, wrong. Perhaps if you played competetively you'd have some idea what you were talking about. 70 hours on a game? That's outstanding. I play Q3 competetively and, if I had to estimate, I'd guess I've played an average of three hours a day for the past four years, or 4,380 hours. So I feel qualified to tell you that you're a pretentious cocksucker.
Find a fucking clue before you belittle other users, eh?
Join the Army, they said.
See the world, they said.
I'd rather be sailing.
You've got the sound right, but it's spelled "niche", not "nitch."
Remember:
Upon my honor,
I saw the Madonna
Standing in a niche
Above the door
Of a high class whore
And a first class son of a bitch
--Dorothy Parker
thats right, no anti-war, no pro-war, no nothing.
You can ask.
We can ignore.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the frying pan.
And you, madam, are very ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.
You, Sir, can STFU!
Good to see you know who to support. I do wish though GWB would start the torturing, raping, and murdering of those ragheads though. They deserve it. We need to get the fsck out and let them have Saddam back. You'd like that. I surely would. I would love to see how many tens of thousands saddam kills his first day back in power. Send a message to GWB, tell him we want saddam back!
PC^KILLA.
"...then I took a dozen rounds in the chest. It was... a bummer..."
Are you joking or massively misinformed?
Or trying to spread misinformation?
All mac users are either women or gay men. Anybody that's ever done tech support knows that. They aren't interested in the army at all, just the army's men.
I love how you can post complete untrue bullshit and the moderators will mod you up if it sounds good. There should be some sort of basic intelligence test before someone is allowed to moderate anymore.
Hard as it may be to believe there are, in fact, Mac users who are very intelligent who volunteered to be bullet sponges...and in a few cases, bullet magnets in the Marines...
Rush, Hannity, and O'reilly are such an embarassment to most republicans it's not funny. I can remember when being a republican meant something more than shouting biased garbage louder than God himself, and turning every conversation into a kindergarten level debate over non-issues. I for one miss the good old days when it was about doing the right thing and not making weak excuses for a terrible president.
LSA, what's in ergot, doesn't occur in a large enough quantity to be realistically made into LSD. However, it does occur in hawian rosewood seeds and morning glory seeds in sufficient quantity. Let me assure you. Just about any LSD made in huge quantity is made in beakers and extracted with a suspension medium. Don't know where you got your fact from, but they are wrong.
Since 99.999 percent of mac users are women and gay men, I think your hypothesis is incorrect.
No, it's you who's massively misinformed, you silly AC:
p ec ial/clinton/stories/impeach122098.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/s
There's a difference between being impeached and being removed from office.
I have to agree - being able to think for yourself is generally an impediment to obeying orders.
This release isn't training the kiddies to kill Iraqis, it's training kiddies to kill Syrians, Irianians and North Koreans. And if the French show some spine and stand up to them, then it'll be France next. Educate yourself on the "NeoConservative" agenda.
Download is damn slow (12kb/s) Anyone have a mirror?
To make this game perfect it needs a few things:
First, when you try and log off, you should stand a good chance of being told you'll have to wait another month or six before you can stop playing and attempt to log off again.
The reasons given for your missions should bear little to no relation to reality.
Massive extra point bonuses for securing oil wells.
And most importantly, if you die you never, ever get to play again.
Insanity is the last line of defence for the master diplomat. But you have to lay the groundwork early.
I think you meant "fag magnets".
And Gay. You missed they are probably also gay.
. . . but only if I can fight against America.
Otherwise it's kind of boring.
This really is a true statement. And you really are a bunch of strutting self-important techno-wannabees. And Macintoshes really are for the trooley stoopid among us.
Oh come on, you know 76.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Thanks to this game the US Government will never be able to ban violent video games! To do so would be an admission of hipocrisy. (Of course hipocrisy itself will continue as usual.)
The US Army has realized that video games enhance reflexes, improve perception of peripheral visual information, and teach tactical skills. So it's ostensibly about killing other humans (just like Vice City). Details, details. The point is the skills it imbues, after all.
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My mother's family is from Cleburne going back four or five generations.
/singular/ "American Culture."
My father's family is from Fort Worth, he was threatening to fly to texas and get some dirt to spread around the operating room when I was born so I would be "born on Texas soil".
I'm quite familiar with Texas and their culture--from how they greet each other on the street to their humor to their way of life, is completely unlike anything I've seen in, say, Manhattan.
My sister was born in New York, I was born in Washington DC, went to college in Colorado, and I've spent most of my life in New Orleans. Each place has a different culture--we have a few similarities, but there is no
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Today the Department of Defense released a tape reported to be of Saddam Hussein. Translated from Arabic, Saddam Hussein remarked:
"Macintosh users are loathesome degenerates and deserve to be treated like the animals they are. Everyone knows that Bill Gates invented the GUI. He is the true visionary, not this charlatan Steve Jobs. This Apple just copies everything that the great Microsoft develops. Their pathetic company will be crushed. They will be blown away like dust and be forgotten. That Macintosh is condemned and will roast in hell under the whip of Satan."
For more info, please contact your local U.S. Army recruiter.
Nope, your wife is not a homosexual. I can personally vouch for that and so can pretty much the entire merchant marine.
Fucking, scared, stupid, ignorant, little ass.
The answer might seem obvious - i.e., you can't have cannons without fodder for them - but recruitment isn't the only reason.
Recruitment may not even be the primary reason. The ranks of Walmart America are very deep; there are plenty of the working poor who can be drawn upon to fight our imperial wars without recourse to a draft that would be politically unpopular with the chattering classes.
No, one of "America's Army"'s unspoken purposes is cultural adjustment, or as the army likes to say, pacification. It's supposed to make you feel good about our noble wars of liberation, to innoculate you against thinking about why the rest of humanity regards them as wrong. You may be certain neither you or yours will ever join the army, but that's sort of the point. Vicarious "patriotism" breeds moral passivity: it becomes that much easier for you to accept the status quo when you have fun pretending to be a hero in "America's Army." They also serve, who only sit and click...
So click away. You paid for this, after all. Unfortunately, somewhere overseas, and much more expensively, so has someone else.
Ignoring whatever other points you think you are making, since when does anyone need Apple's permission to release software that runs on a Mac?
B.R.A.S. =
Breathe
Relax
Aim
Squeeze
At least that was the mantra for basic rifle marksmanship when I went thru Army Basic Training almost 11 yrs ago. The way you practice this is by dry-firing the M16A2 (I actually had an A1 issued by accident but the bastards caught me on my first day out in the range, dammit!). You put a dime on top of the deflector and you try to squeeze the trigger without dropping the penny.
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What a freaking jackass you are! How could you possibly be so insensitive? I mean, I was deeply, personally offended. you are a BAD BAD PERSON.
And may you rot in hell, sir.
War is the terrorism of the rich and terrorism is the war of the poor. Just like "erotica" and "pornography."
"Rules of war" are nonsensical, and do not apply to the victors in any case. Tommy Franks is up for war crimes *already* in at least one European country.
So give me a break that on this "war vs. terrorism" bullshit. Your other points are fine, but the idea that nations have any interest in pursuing fabricated "rules of war" during a conflict is incredulously naive.
You can whine me a river about how the US has gone out of its way to avoid civilian casualties--it doesn't make it true.
Violence is violence is violence.
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"a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM"
duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....
Yes, that would be slow. What is it, 10 years old?
And what does it have to do with this discussion again?
Just for the record, I'm a Mac user, a 30-year veteran of the United States Army, and a homosexual. And proud of all three!
I'd like to see some of you twinkie-eating PC maggots go on two tours of Vietnam, and then tell me I'm not the man you are!
____
p.s. Since you have no sense of humor, I'll explicitly inform you that this is a joke, thus there is no need to respond.
You don't get it, do you? Anyone can develop whatever he/she wants for whatever platform/environment. Thing is, Apple provide the download and the commercial blah blah around it. By doing so, they indirectly approve the goal of this game. And no, the goal of this game is not to give you a good time. The indirect goal of this game is to establish a foundation, i.e., support for military actions like the one in Iraq. It's propaganda and Apple act like an errand-boy. FYI, see for example http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ and http://www.sklar.com/texts/gulf-war-media.
Him: reasoning.
... come on. Get your act together.
You: sloganeering!
I mean, I agree with you, but
True enough, but then, it's fractal -- each place is actually a bunch of places, again with its own culture.
...
I was born in Texas, grew up in Colorado, joined to Army and went to Georgia, transferred to the AF and went back to Texas, then to Nebraska, then to East Anglia (UK), then to Qatar, then to North Dakota, then got out and came back to Colorado.
Houston, TX, where I was born, is not Wichita Falls, TX, where I went to tech school. Omaha, NE, where I was stationed, is not the same as the little farming towns that make up most of the state. Rural Cambridgshire, where I was stationed, is not London. Qatar, which is fairly liberal as Gulf states go, is not Saudi Arabia is not Kuwait. Denver, the place I know best, is not Boulder is not Pueblo is not Ft. Collins is not Colorado Springs. Capitol Hill, the Denver neighborhood where I live, is not Globeville, where I work, is not downtown is not Brentwood is not Park Hill is not Federal Heights is not
You get the idea. Any geographical area can be broken down into smaller and smaller units, each with its own distinct culture. And yet it's also reasonable to group these units into larger ones, which do have their own culture: Cap Hill, Denver, Colorado, the US, the English-speaking world.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
um... did you just reply to your own post?
Anyway, I honestly don't think that there is anyone who is properly informed (i.e., not ignorant) who would want to play a soldier going to a remote country to shoot people for no legitimate reason. And overall, mac users seem to the better informed part of the population.
YarrRrr
Well thats a little hard, seeing how the topic of the story is a port of a highly politicly controversial game.
YarrRrr
In Soviet Russia, gun's name simple! KALASHNIKOV!!
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obviously you are new to gaming since "strafe jumping" is actually called "bunny hopping".
To put it in a less flamy manner than the AC below, its obvious that *you* are the one who is new to gaming. Bunny-hopping was a term that got popular after Half-Life was released, especially the Team Fortress Classic and Counter-Strike mods came out, but the technique was called strafe-jumping long before that, mostly in Quake 2.
So how does this game measure up to reality? Does it come with a "forged intelligence random generator" i.e. "We have intelligence that has tried to purchase from " How about a virtual snub to the UN "We don't need your approval to go to war, but we sure as hell need your help cleaning up the mess we made" Or does 1 random recruit die every day from a guerilla attack, just to spice things up. I want a game where i can put dubya in the targets!
yeah i sure did reply to my own post. just to heighten the air of absurdity for the post.
it was really fun to watch the parent got modded to +3 Funny, then down to 0, Troll, and finally to -1 Flamebait.
I feel as though my post has led a full, productive life, with all the myriad ups and downs one can expect from an uninhibited existence.
"America's Army", now 99% subliminal message free!
Um, I'd mod down the funny, and mod up the Insightful on parent.
Just a word to the wise. I purchased this game last week when it got announced and they charged me 3 times for it: $17.85 for this crappy game! I wrote to their customer service and after 2 days was told that there is nothing they will do about it. This is a total scam.
That is so true. That and being gay means you'll be a shitty soldier.
Well, for me, the game is just for entertainment, since I already fully supported the action in Iraq before I had even heard of this game.
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There are no great FPS games on the MAC.
That's why so many people are staying with their PC clones.