Philly columnist defends FPS-infused Army Recruitment Center

"There's no subterfuge in giving someone an accurate picture of the army experience."

Of course, by that same argument, children should be permitted to drink and buy porn as well. Some "conservative".

Oh, and "accurate"? Please. I reality, when you die, the game is over.

@rowd149:

Simulation is a very important part of training. It's knowing what to expect that prevents people from getting killed in a combat situation. Before a solider gets to a combat zone they will have experienced simulated combat in varying degrees in all sorts of simulated warfare. The simulations will range from role play to having live weapons fired at them (a side note, I've never heard D&D players bitch about the Army's use of role play).

A video simulation, like America's Army is exceptionally effectivel in training and demonstrating the usefulness of strict squad tactics, which in turn provides the soldier in the faith in a technique needed to keep ones' head under fire and perform that technique strictly. It's PROVEN to be useful and increase comprehension in the recruits who have played it opposed to those who have not.

Also, in giving the soldier what to expect, America's Army does a bang up job. Have you played that thing? You have to go through training to do anything in that game and it's a big long boring wait through speeches by non-coms explaining the most trivial details of a job. Just like the real thing. Sigh.

But why, Tracy, are we exposing children to military training?

"accurate" ?

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Ameri-union holo-vid press previewlease on the Ameri-channel:

" Warning what you are about to see contains graphic depictions of religious imagery"

[begin video] A smartly if non-adventureously dressed reporter in a Nan-Tek Uni-suit reports.

"Marcus Svjord reporting live in front of what used to be the Ameri-union trade commission annex after it was savagely attacked by the chigs that dreadful Octnember day, Octnember 37th the Year of Our Enlightenment. Where an insectoid intelligence used bio-mechanization to destroy the city known as The Legs of Atlas, commonly reffered to as The Towers. The Towers have since been remade into an AU Army recruitment center and informatabase.

But now so called truthers challenge the ethics of such centers now popping up worldwide to combat a threat that they contend is entirely man-made. Evidence has shown that most of these 'truthers' belong to religious sects banned many centuries ago but now have a sort of immunity as the statute of exceeded exceeded expectations and limited limitations have now set in.

Speaking of evidence let's hear some of theirs from our stock holo-vid verified veri-real footage caps from last yearnium. Remember viewers, our holo-vids use tacti-sense technology and the religious iconography may be disturbing and graphic to young viewers."

[Some feed perturbance occurs as your viewall adjusts and focuses on a latin-negronese man of Ameri-union decent also wearing a uni-suit, but with a cross.]

"Yes I'm a Redubyacan. George W. Bush was a great forefather, a savior of the Republican party and the visionary that gave rise to this great Ameri-union. So we took his name and honor his faith based politics by incorporating faith into our daily lives. And YES we grow chicken in our back meter where it can eat grass the way nature intended instead of slurping cryochic patches. Now I know you're going to try to use these facts to detract from my position that the attack on Atlas' legs from Klendathu on Octnember 37th was an inside job. The premise is really quite simple and sublimely elegant...and it goes something like this. How the fuck did some bugs from another galaxy just shit out a meteorite that flew across the galaxy and destroyed a city without being detected and pwnverized by the over-sat satellite defense system? HOW?"

[End previewlease holo-vid. Would you like to know moar?]

[Begin Sublimad] This previewlease brought to you by the makers of Nan-tek Unity suits. Allowing your body to naturally absorb and breath purified air through your skin so that your nasal cilia and mucus don't have to.

I hate Franklin Mills Mall. Too much crime around there. They used to have a Rainforest Cafe, but now it's all garbage. Most of the people that go there will find this lucrative.