'If you're a top gamer, or a coder, your country needs you': The UK Defence Secretary wants gamers for, y'know, real-life warfare
I'm not quite sure how my Stardew Valley experience applies, but Sir yes Sir!
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/if-youre-a-top-gamer-or-a-coder-your-country-needs-you-the-uk-defence-secretary-wants-gamers-for-yknow-real-life-warfareOpen linkView original on lemmy.zip
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My favorite part of milsim is the sim.
Call me crazy, but I don't think most gamers actually want to kill people. I prefer no real world consequences when I shoot people.
Yeah! I’m here to fuck your moms, not kill them!
Stardew is resource management and logistics, two important things for a military :D
You can't "misplace" $2.4 trillion in assets in Stardew Valley can you?
I got a bunch of ancient wine in my cellar I forgot to sell...does that count?
Depends on if you're using it to find anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua
Prismatic Shard -> Trash can
This is where my time playing Leisure Suit Larry comes in...
It takes leather balls to play rugby.
Will never forget that joke.
Also get me some spearmint flavored lubbers
War is like scoring with a hot babe.
I was was really good at space invaders, like really good, 40 years ago.
hey I've seen that film!
We must construct additional pylons!
I was tanking and wiped three times on the sea giant in Siege of Boralus yesterday, at Mythic +3, before I remembered the giant statue in the middle of the area blocks the wave attack.
Top gamer.
Ender's Game -> Gamer -> the plot thickens.
How about "Go to hell, Shakira?"
Wargames (1983)