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Games That Shoot Back
syousef writes "A shooting game that shoots back, delivering electric shocks through the player's hips when they're shot, is being used for recruitment (Hey shooting people is fun) and training by the U.S. military. There's talk of developing it into a PC game. Here's a quote from the article: 'It has the same power as a stun gun. It knocks you down. You have to continue to work through the pain and keep on fighting, as that is what you need to do - to keep on fighting even when wounded.' I guess in Soviet America, games shoot you. How many law suits would this cause based on unknown heart conditions? I also hope there's some sort of built-in safety in case the thing starts to zap you repeatedly. (Deadly endless loop, anyone?)"
No, not anti-americanism just a quote:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/03/general.shoot/
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A three-star Marine general who said it was "fun to shoot some people" should have chosen his words more carefully, the Marine Corps commandant said Thursday."
Remember it is not volts that kill.
10,000 volts running through your body limited to 5 mA might tingle.
10,000 amps running through your body at 5 volts will make you a crispy critter.*
*actually it will take more then 5 volts to send 10,000 amps through your body unless you have been drinking a lot of Gatorade.
yes, in context,
""You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil," Mattis said. "You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.""
It's so easy to take things out of context but it also says something about the point you are trying to make.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
Get with the programme.. not mainstream, but certainly not new.
http://www.electrosexstore.com
http://www.peselectro.com
..don't panic
Yeah, but, in _my_ military, as much as I may dislike how the CinC chooses to deploy it, I want that sort of attitude. Granted, I don't want every gamer to think that way, but if the alternative is recruting people who are going to give up and run when they take a non-lethal bullet, bring on the realism. The whole point of an army is you train killers, not good people.
I, for one, welcome our new electronic overlords.
Well as you noticed, it does make you cramp up. If you were standing, it was probably difficult to stay that way. Had you been walking or running, the sudden jolt would almost certainly make you lose your balance, which makes it quite difficult to attack someone. That is the point -- not to stun someone, but to forcibly remove their conscious control over major skeletal muscles. This only needs to take place for a few seconds in most circumstances, allowing time to surround the tas-ee and (once the juice is off) pin him down. This isn't to say that the pain doesn't play a role in it, it's quite useful as an intimidation tactic. But the real point is to stop what someone is doing without the high risk of fatal injury that comes from firearms (even with beanbags and the like).
Another aspect is that there is no scatter, there is no projectile penetration, and there is no risk of shooting the neighbor or wife through the wall accidentally. If firing into a crowded space, or even into a fistfight, you wanna make sure you hit just your target (but if you miss and hit someone else, you don't have to zap them).
Mal-2
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
Do you happen to have a cite for the bullseye line?
Read 'On Combat' by Grossman (Of 'On Killing' fame) and Christensen. (Amazon).
I also don't recall any historical narratives citing any soldiers on a large scale not aiming at anything.
This is actually a well-established fact. S.L.A Marshalls study after WW2 found that only 15-20% of the individual riflemen actually fired their weapons at the enemy. Pretty controversial at its time.
For more on this, read 'On Killing' by Grossman. All your questions will be answered.
(Elegance is not an option)
The "builders" where trying to prove that you could make a battery out of a pot, metal core, and acid because a similar device was dug up in china or somewhere like that. It is obvious that it is possible because that is what a battery is; so, they altered the myth to what these ancient batteries might have been used for.
One thing they came up with was electrified acupuncture since it is something used today. Another thing was too see if it had enough current to electro-plate with. Surprisingly it worked well but there is no way the pepole of that time had the scientific knowledge to realize they could do that.
The last thing they came up with was for religious reasons. If you hooked a battery up to an alter or something and then someone touched it the alter would give a shock that due to there lack of scientific knowledge would seem to have come from God or a god. The shock they got from daisy chaining there pot batteries was not impressive so they hooked up an electric fence transformer. They then convinced Adam to touch there arch of the convent even though he had a suspicion they hooked up a more powerful source.
In the end he was not happy and really pissed which they showed on camera. Even though it was not close to a lethal current, I am surprised someone didn't get fired.
Being shocked through the hips cannot cause heart problems of any sort. Electricity has to path through your heart in order to mess up the natural rythem of the heart. More importantly stun guns operate on a super high voltage with extremely low current. It isn't voltage that can cause fibrilation but current. The number of electrons passing through a single point in one second. So over all tissue damage will be minimal, it is the force of these limited amounts of electrons that causes the red marks commonly found on stun gun victims. The tissue damage commonly resulted from electrical shock is due to the bodies resistance. The best example is to compare the body to a light bulb. With enough current, it heats up causing tissue damage. You literally cook. That is why defibrilation units cause skin to smoke and hair to burn because the amount of electricity forced through the heart is the same as is required to light a 60 watt bulb. Make no mistake, no heart problems can result due to this means of training.
The James Bond movie simply copied the same set-up from an earlier episode of the TV show The Avengers called "Dead Man's Treasure" where Emma Peel drove a race car simulator hooked up to deliver an electric shock to the driver when a mistake was made. Similarly shocking was another episode called "The Danger Makers" from the previous year where she had to walk along a see-saw holding looped wands around electrified tracks like you sometimes see on a smaller scale at carnival games.
There are no tentacles in Hentai games. A hentai game is just a dating sim with "money shots."
You call this a "dating sim with money shots"?!
(Link probably not safe for work; definitely not safe for anyone with a concept of "good taste")