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U.S. Army to compete in SFV tournament
- Thread starter MrCarter
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this sucks. I remember a recruiter at my high school back in the day thats job before that was playing on the army baseball team. He was talking to all the kids about how the Army paid him to play baseball. The reality is that everyone that signs up needs to understand that they ARE going to iraq, afghanistan, syria or someplace like it. They are not getting paid to play video games.
Sorry I don't particularly appreciate the organisation that raped my home country and forced my family to flee. I guess when those soldiers massacred my family's village, it was just a couple of bros having fun!
"A few bad eggs" this is the same argument they use for cops who ventilate innocent black people on a regular basis
This isn't actually true at all, you're more than likely to get stationed in Japan than the middle east, depending on branch. People actually begged to get deployed nowadays.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...sence-overseas-is-at-its-smallest-in-decades/ (there's more troops in afgan right now, but it's still no where near the non-combat zones)
please don't spread lies ok thank you!!!!
Yup, and nothing about this event says otherwise. I didn't enjoy the Army too much, but most recruiters won't bs you on that, so I don't know what you're trying to get across. I was HR, (S1 for those of us who served), and I remember thinking that I wouldn't ever deploy because of my MOS, but my recruiter set me straight on that pretty quick. There's no manipulation here, just the Army taking steps towards improving soldiers morale as part of the new MWR mission I keep hearing about, and it looks like they're doing great work. I can tell you for sure that if this type of recreational activity was more widespread when I was in, it probably would have helped my depression a lot. There's nothing to be outraged over here, this is good for soldiers, and if you don't know the stress and heartache of being a soldier and you're taking umbrage with this, then you need a reality check. Being in the Army fucking sucks, but at least they're trying to give soldiers more chances to have fun now. This is all good man.
This is a recruitment tool. Very cool, but they're very clearly trying to get people to join as recruitment has been tougher the last year (for obvious reasons).
I do like that this five Soldiers more to do, however, along side their battle buddy's. Gaming in the military is pretty big, and the MWR has been quickly adapting to accommodate those societal changes in the military.
Full disclosure, I'm prior service.
I do like that this five Soldiers more to do, however, along side their battle buddy's. Gaming in the military is pretty big, and the MWR has been quickly adapting to accommodate those societal changes in the military.
Full disclosure, I'm prior service.
You're always free to open your own topic. :)
What time do the games start at? I see dates but I'm not seeing times.
To paraphrase someone although I cant remember who "we judge ourselves buy our best intentions but our adversaries by their worst results"(im sure i butchered that). people that shit on the US military judge it by the bad eggs. not fair but good luck changing minds
There is going to be 7 guiles and 1 cammy in the top 8, and the cammy player will absolutely body everyone.
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In the interest of not derailing a thread about a video game tournament, we simply are asking that we keep the scope of thread somewhat narrow. There are plenty of other threads where you can discuss your opinion on the military as a whole and its other actions.
I think it's gonna be an interesting curiosity to watch for a little while.
Kinda sad that this had to be pointed out.
But on topic, this sounds really cool. I'd love to see how deeply these actually play out compared to the pros.
If you take out the context of it, it's just another group hosting a sfv tournament.
That's news worthy how?
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It's news worthy because the growth and exposure of fighting games is getting bigger and bigger every day.
Sure any random group hosting a tourney is newsworthy it appears, shrugs it's the admins website so I can only follow the rules they lay down. Fuck yeah more SFV I guess
This. Soldiers get stir crazy, and being stir crazy when you're treated like shit all day never has good results. This will be great for blowing off steam
Well, the Air Force used to be called the Army Air Force or something, so there's that.
This is open to more than just Active Duty it appears
Im just not ok with the idea that the military is selling itself to people for something other than it is. They should be talking about their mission and how important that is as opposed to letting people believe the.y are going to play video games professionally.
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"Giving these soldiers something fun to do other than just let Joe drink themselves stupid on a free weekend is always a good thing."
this is a decent argument.
It wasnt about how many were there, it was about often you were there. the rotations were faster and longer than normal in modern warfare. I persoanlly knew many soldiers that quit in their 16th to 19th year(not re-upped and throwing away retirement) because they were facing their 3rd plus deployment of 12-18 months.
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"Giving these soldiers something fun to do other than just let Joe drink themselves stupid on a free weekend is always a good thing."
this is a decent argument.
It wasnt about how many were there, it was about often you were there. the rotations were faster and longer than normal in modern warfare. I persoanlly knew many soldiers that quit in their 16th to 19th year(not re-upped and throwing away retirement) because they were facing their 3rd plus deployment of 12-18 months.
During my deployment the "Fobbets" (asswipes who never left the FOB) played Street Fighter 4 competitively against each other. Held FOB tournaments and what not. I'm still salty that even though I had the same MOS as them and we were in the same company my ass was out the wire basically the whole deployment sleeping in ANP stations for weeks.
Soldiers tends to be huge gamers just because a gaming system is cheap and constant entertainment for the long term.
While I was in the Military Street Fighter 4, Fallout 3/New Vegas, Bioshock (the first one), and Guitar Hero (lol drinking time!) were huge in the barracks.
Edit: Soldiers, Marines, Air Men, Salors, and Cost Guard comes from all walks of life. From the projects of the South Bronx (like me) to the Hill Billies from the mountains of Tennessee (like one of my buddies). A lot of the time it's the higher ups forming these types of events and grunts like guys like me who would have to give up their personal time to make the higher ups look good. Just saying, the US Army is a faceless war machine with its history both good and bad that's made up of people that you would see at you grocery store or neighbor.
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Military has marketing deals with all the major sports leagues if Im not mistaken si they are a huge player in sports advertising
The forums didn't shut down either, just went to a more affordable host.
The CIA funded Capcom in the 90's! What do you think Guile's purpose was?
That's freaking AWESOME!
Glad to see soldiers having fun, they gave their entire life to the country (doesn't matter which country), I think it's ok to have some activity like this once in a while.
Hope they don't get destroyed on stage though, that would be...yeah.
Glad to see soldiers having fun, they gave their entire life to the country (doesn't matter which country), I think it's ok to have some activity like this once in a while.
Hope they don't get destroyed on stage though, that would be...yeah.
Military is a cracker-eating bitch for some people, it seems. I hate the idea of military force being a regrettable necessity in our world, but I'm well aware this is not a thread to discuss that.
