'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

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-warfare

I'm not quite sure how my Stardew Valley experience applies, but Sir yes Sir!

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treadful@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 1y

My favorite part of milsim is the sim.

TommySoda@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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.

CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y

Yeah! I’m here to fuck your moms, not kill them!

CameronDev@programming.dev · 12 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Stardew is resource management and logistics, two important things for a military :D

JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y (3 replies)

You can't "misplace" $2.4 trillion in assets in Stardew Valley can you?

Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I got a bunch of ancient wine in my cellar I forgot to sell...does that count?

JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Depends on if you're using it to find anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua

CameronDev@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y

Prismatic Shard -> Trash can

ikidd@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (2 replies)

This is where my time playing Leisure Suit Larry comes in...

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 1y

It takes leather balls to play rugby.

Will never forget that joke.

Also get me some spearmint flavored lubbers

ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y

War is like scoring with a hot babe.

ladicius@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I was was really good at space invaders, like really good, 40 years ago.

Rozlif@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1y

hey I've seen that film!

DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

We must construct additional pylons!

Comment105@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

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.

DandomRude@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Ender's Game -> Gamer -> the plot thickens.

radicalautonomy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
codapine@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

Wargames (1983)