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Comment: Bad timing (Score 1) 115

by Elwood P Dowd (#31744224) Attached to: Game CEO Sees "Gamification" of Work and Military

That wikileaks video has apparently been a bigger PR disaster for video games more than the US fucking military.

So much so that when SLASHDOT USERS see that the military might use video games, their concern is for the corrupting influence of video games rather than the corrupting influence of war.

The behavior of those pilots does not indicate the influence of video games but rather policy.

Men are capable of evil fucking things, with or without the assistance of video games, ak-47s, or predator drones. Some of those are more enabling than others.

The real point this PR roadkill is trying to make is that video games use techniques that would be useful in other contexts. Obviously this is true and fucking harmless, on its face. Unfortunately, his example is that they would be useful for helping to implementing corporate and military policy.

Comment: Re:$12,000 !!! (Score 2, Informative) 162

by Elwood P Dowd (#30685526) Attached to: World's First Integrated Twin-Lens 3D Camcorder

> Doesn't the $12,000 price tag rather defeat any savings in memory cards?

No. HD video fills up those $500+ P2 memory cards in minutes. They must then be swapped out for the next shot. If you can't afford $80,000 worth of video cards, you will need a person pulling the contents of those video cards onto hard drives full time during the shoot so that they can be reused.

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