War is a Video Game?

Despite the arguments I get by making this point. War is not a video game and you can be trained using a video game. It is nowhere near what you need to survive in the field. I do believe you can increase your hand eye coordination with the simulations but if you think that will train you to be able to aim while on the run and with explosions going off all around you, you must be completely out of your mind. Do you even know how loud a gun is? That all alone will throw the common person off. Now shoot a moving target 100 yards away with mortars dropping around you creating mini shock waves around you and with return fire flying 10 feet over your head. No training simulation could ever prepare you for that type of mental punishment. No if you have an iPod in that's another story....

Our Presidential Candidates

Every time I hear one of these people open their mouths, I think why not Schwarzenegger? It just scares me that we are going to have a bunch of people running this country that either do not want to answer a question directly or have no idea how to answer the question. One of them might die during his first year in office and then we would get to see the hockey mom in action and that's just pitiful, this is the best our country has to offer... Fuck it I'm going to Canada if I hear one of these people speak again so I will be avoiding the television for the next four years of my life unless its not commercially interrupted or I put the DVD in.

Black Watch Play

This play was very well done and cleared a lot up in the reading of the screen play. You could even see the transition of the attitudes from pub scene to pub scene this way. I thought the actors did a very good job portraying the war and the effects of it on the human being. It slowly makes you go mad. It's very interesting to see up close how they used lighting and the televisions to incorporate the letters from the officer and the fight scenes at night while being bombed. My favorite part of the play would have to be the sign language scene when the men were receiving letters from home. I thought that was a very interesting approach and they pulled it off flawlessly.

Black Watch

Blah, blah, blah... Same story new names. I saw many similarities in Jarhead... Or was this Jarhead. Sex, booze and fantasies of getting your willy wet. It's been the same in every book we've read so far. Just change some names, get a catchy title and you got a money maker I guess. I was very disappointed after reading Shooting War but there were pictures which I guess made it better. But I can't believe that every soldier has the same ideas when at war. Let's read a book about a group of men that go in first on the front lines to clean out the buildings and set up the bombing runs and gather intelligence on secret bunkers. All of these books were quite similar and I'm just getting bored with the recycled story. I think Shooting War just appeased to my A.D.D. with its bright pictures and gory scenes. But in a nut shell everyone of these books, memoirs, graphic novels have been the same work wrapped in a different cover and its getting boring.

Video Game Violence

Still thinking about Shooting War and the way that the violence was depicted as a video game firdt person shooter and two weeks later this still bothers me. I will be the first to defend the video game violence because well its not real. I play a wide variety of games, mainlt shooters and even if the military is using these for training it can only go so far. I have no issue running out onto to a virtual battlefield and taking a few shots in order to gain better position on the enemy. But lets face facts that's not going to happen in real life. You get shot in real life you are not getting back up. I have family that was in the military and law enforcement. Most of these people who have been in combat situations cannot even watch others play these games now. My cousin was involved in a fire fight in the NYPD and she struck in the neck and killed. Tell me the a video game or simulation prepares you for that. That was an overwhelming scene for me because this is not a game and I thought that was a very upsetting image. Try aiming a gun with a grenade going off ten yards away from you, you're not getting that training from a video game.