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America's Army Comes to the Mac

Posted by pudge on from the mmm-aggots dept.

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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  1. Re:wow a game review from a non-gamer? fps tweak t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    "Strafe jumping", in the sense in which it was first conceived, consists of jumping, holding a strafe key, and jumping again as soon as you hit the ground. It's called either "strafe jumping" or "bunny hopping", but most frequently the former. "Bunny hopping" can also refer to an accelerated tapping of the jump key while going up stairs, and its context determines its meaning. Anything else you might be talking about does not fall under these two terms; they have been this way since they were discovered in the Q2 days (contrary to the other poster who mentioned Q1, strafejumping was certainly not possible in that game).

    You're hardly an authority on the subject if you start posts like this:
    obviously you are new to gaming since "strafe jumping" is actually called "bunny hopping".

    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?
  2. Re:OS handled just as sexual preference... by zpok · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why is this funny?
    I really don't get it.

    OK, aha, I get it, I'll just suppose for one moment every mac user is a homosexual, filtering out all women - including my wife - who own a mac, ... Nope, still not funny.

    I don't care how many macs you support, you're still an ass.

    The fact that mac users are supposed to be homosexuals doesn't bother me one bit, but the fact that there are so *fucking*many*scared*stupid*ignorant*little homophobes out there, and that some people still think it's funny ...

    In this audience no less.

    btw, this karma stuff is fun, let's see if it gets any better.

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    I think, therefore I am...I think.
  3. "America's Army": Your tax dollars at work by Zhe+Mappel · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Why the army would create a murder simulator and distribute it to kids is a question we ought to be asking as a democracy.

    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.