Tax Payer $$$ Goes to Development of Violent Video Game & Recruiting Tool

Kevin Spidel

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Sat Dec-10-05 07:53 AM
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Tax Payer $$$ Goes to Development of Violent Video Game & Recruiting Tool

The Army has created a "real life" type shoot and kill'em video game to be used as a recruting tool for our youth.

Amaizing what our tax dollars go to!

See this: http://www.americasarmy.com/gallery/videos/AA_SIZZLE.mov

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Poet Lariat

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Sat Dec-10-05 08:06 AM
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1. This fits right in with what's been happening for the last

30 plus years; The desensitization our citizens to current and future wars, through images of violence and killing. How many murders and violent acts per week do you imagine that the average 10 year old would see on the Tube if allowed to watch without adult supervision? Too many.

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blogslut

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Sat Dec-10-05 08:11 AM
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2. Think Hillary will condemn it?

n/t

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HysteryDiagnosis

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Sat Dec-10-05 08:17 AM
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3. "Cuz ya see, a democratic nation doesn't glorify war, killing,

blowing people apart, a democratic nation is peaceful, kind and gentle and it tries to impart that onto its younguns"... would make a nice quote.

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Deja Q

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Sat Dec-10-05 08:23 AM
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4. Taxpayer money also goes to giving foreigners education, jobs, H1Bs...

That's far more sick, IMHO.

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madrchsod

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Sat Dec-10-05 08:25 AM
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5. my son, who is a avid game player,said

that this game is really good and must have been developed by a major game company. i wonder who got the contract?

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Kagemusha

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Sat Dec-10-05 08:37 AM
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6. I've read long stories about this... one was in the Guardian I think?

Basically, the army brought in all sorts of video game bigshot types to get their input into making this into an effective game with effective marketing; patriotic or thrill-oriented game people gladly participated. A fair bit of money went into this, yeah. But I think it's more accurate to say it was developed with input from multiple major game companies rather than *a* big game company itself.

Still, that's not much of a nuance when you get down to it.

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Rocknrule

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Sat Dec-10-05 02:39 PM
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7. After releasing this

the government better not bitch about videogame violence ever again

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proud2BlibKansan

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Sat Dec-10-05 02:40 PM
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8. They also train soldiers using video games

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