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    12/05/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2's Army is 26,000 Times Larger Than Sparta's
    The thing is that among those numbers are any number of actual soldiers playing the game... so actually we do have a trained army within our army of willing conscripts...

    would that make those actual trained vets and soliders turncoats?
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    Image of NeVeRMoRe666 NeVeRMoRe666
    12/05/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2's Army is 26,000 Times Larger Than Sparta's
    Too bad compared to real soldiers, MW2's "military force" is composed of nothing but a bunch of skinny, pale, limp-armed, gaming geeks.

    The only similarity really is the amount of profanity and homophobic slurs....

    [kotaku.com]
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    12/05/09

    @NeVeRMoRe666: Whatev! I could bench press a humvee whilst shooting at terrorists...

    you only described half of the gamer market though...

    skinny, pale, limp-armed, gaming geeks...

    over-weight, pale, flab-armed, gaming nerds...
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    Image of Shiryu Shiryu
    12/05/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2's Army is 26,000 Times Larger Than Sparta's
    What's the point of having 8 million soldiers that would run home to momma the first time a REAL bullet ran past their heads?

    PS: Also, coming from a guy who did real-life paint ball, trust me: walking while crouching -HURTS A LOT THE NEXT DAY!<-
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    Image of MarkoPolos MarkoPolos
    12/05/09

    @Shiryu: lol real life paintball. i did that also. also...whats the alternative to real life paintball...they have simulations now?? :P
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    Image of MeanMF MeanMF
    12/05/09

    @MarkoPolos: Sadly, yes.
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    Shiryu promoted this comment MeanMF was starred MeanMF was unstarred
    Image of Senecal Senecal
    12/05/09

    @Shiryu: I don't have to run anyware... she's right here with me.
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    12/05/09

    @MeanMF: oh right just saw the link. that's hilarious.
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    Image of Monoik Monoik
    12/05/09

    @Shiryu: Maaaaan, you're soooooo coooool...
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    Shiryu promoted this comment Monoik was starred Monoik was unstarred
    Image of lenandude lenandude
    12/05/09

    @Shiryu: Wait... Are you saying YOU wouldn't run home to your mom if a real bullet flew past your head? As for me, I'd prolly piss/shat my pants and pass out. Then who knows what would happen. I would probably bail as fast as I could. But I'm never joining the ARMY, Marines, Navy, or Air Force.
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    Image of Bricked Bricked
    12/05/09

    @Shiryu:

    I'm thinking more like 8 million, with 90% of them being the only trigger that they've pulled is L/R2 or L/RT.

    What was the point of this article? I think I missed it.
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    Shiryu promoted this comment Bricked was starred Bricked was unstarred
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    12/05/09

    @lenandude: My entire family all the way to great grandparents served in my countries military. I was the first not to do so and the frist to go to college. My favourite book of all time is "The Art of War" by Sun Tsu. My entire childhood was based around the concept that one day I would join the military. I didn't, mandatory service stopped a few years ago in Portugal. So no, lenan, I would no run home due to the possible misplaced sense of honour and duty passed on by my grand parents mostly. Fear? Ask any real life soldier and they will tell you they are scared every time a shot gets fired their way. It's what brings them home alive. Also, this is a quote from COD4 "War is delightful to those who have not yet experienced it." - Erasmus.
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    12/05/09

    @lenandude: By the way, I also shaped my entire life up to the age of 17 to join the Air Force (good grades, physical shape, etc). Then, they told me I was gonna need to use glasses... and that dream went down in flames... how ironic.
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    12/05/09

    @MarkoPolos: Airsoft is also pretty cool!
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    Image of lenandude lenandude
    12/06/09

    @Shiryu: I know. I just hate war. Would never join. I don't feel like putting my life in danger for my country is worth it. Thats not insulting the people who do. They have their reasons for doing it and thats their decision. But I don't want to. I can understand not running home because of your grandparents. That makes sense. I like playing war video games and watching war movies, but those are just movies and games. The idea of real war is not delightful to me.
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    12/06/09

    @lenandude: And paintballing is awesome.
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    Shiryu promoted this comment lenandude was starred lenandude was unstarred
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    12/06/09

    @lenandude: Indeed, it was JFK who once said "Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end on mankind". howeverm we as a spoecies seem to be really good at it. Far from me to advocate war, especially because my country was responsible for the conquering of over half the planet during the early centuries of seafare. I would not go to war to conquer other nations. I would go to War to defend my country, my home, my family, my friends. It is truly a shame people just don't understand we are all the same and we only have this little planet to live in. Hopefully, we will wake up while there is still time to do so.
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    Image of Asbestos_Underwear Asbestos_Underwear
    12/05/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2's Army is 26,000 Times Larger Than Sparta's
    Does not matter, the Spartans will hit their weakspot for massive damage and that'd be it.
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    Image of Karlott Karlott
    12/05/09

    In reply to Tropico 3 Review: Go Bananas For El Presidente
    I hope that "Dissidents shot" is an actual stat kept in the game, much as "Insolent Fools Choked" should have been an actual KOTOR stat.
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    12/04/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2's Army is 26,000 Times Larger Than Sparta's
    * More than 8 million times the size it should be.
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    Image of AncientUnknown1 AncientUnknown1
    12/04/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2's Army is 26,000 Times Larger Than Sparta's
    With 8 million (so far) potential DLC customers, I expect more this time around then a single measly map pack.

    Map packs are alright but what I really want is more guns and perks in my DLCs. I understand that could make an ufair proposition for non-buyers, so make the guns/perks updates free.

    But don't just offer new maps.
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    Image of dracosummoner dracosummoner
    12/04/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2's Army is 26,000 Times Larger Than Sparta's
    Then again, contrary to "popular" belief, video games don't actually train people to kill, let alone to know how to fire weapons properly, so perhaps it's a moot point?
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    Image of exion exion
    12/04/09

    @dracosummoner: then again, didn't a large army of Russian peasants chased away the Nazis with pitchforks and shitty sticks? [/historical ignorance]
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    Image of Wainut Wainut
    12/04/09

    @exion: That's what America did to the English. Granted, we didn't use pitchforks and sticks, but we were fairly untrained, you know.
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    12/05/09

    @Wainut: @exion:

    You both may have a point. I do hope my post didn't come across as anything other than an offhand joke, though.
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    Edited by dracosummoner at 12/05/09 12:06 AM dracosummoner was starred dracosummoner was unstarred
    Image of Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science. Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.
    12/04/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2's Army is 26,000 Times Larger Than Sparta's
    The numbers are impressive, but the effectiveness wouldn't be.

    That'd be like saying
    "My massive army of Iz can take down The Maxx!"

    Not so.
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    Image of Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science. Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.
    12/04/09

    Specifically at about 5:00 for those interested...
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    Image of D Mitsuki, Gotta have guts kid! D Mitsuki, Gotta have guts kid!
    12/04/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2's Army is 26,000 Times Larger Than Sparta's
    They also would be easily wiped out by any of the named armies in a second.
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    Image of (Zombie) WDYC (Zombie) WDYC
    12/04/09

    @(Zombie) D Mitsuki, Gotta have guts kid!:

    Even with lightsabers those 8 million players would be slaughtered by 1/4 of the 300.
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    Image of exion exion
    12/04/09

    @(Zombie) WDYC: not the dreaded 75!?
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    Image of CapnCourage CapnCourage
    12/04/09

    @(Zombie) D Mitsuki, Gotta have guts kid!: The modern forces, surely. But any of the peeps outnumbered 30000-1 would absolutely lose, for the simple reason that they would tire out before managing to kill 8 million people, and be strangled to death by the remainder.

    So, uh, watch out, Alamo people.
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    Image of D Mitsuki, Gotta have guts kid! D Mitsuki, Gotta have guts kid!
    12/04/09

    @CapnCourage: If 300 Spartan's had to fight 8 million people playing video games it would be a landslide victory for spartans.

    MAYBE the alamo people stand a chance, but that's even pushing it.
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    12/04/09

    @D Mitsuki, Gotta have guts kid!: Man, the 300 Spartans couldn't even win out against a few million Persians.
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    12/04/09

    @exion:

    Oh yes. the dreaded 75, 7-5

    You wouldn't know what hitted you even if had the chance.

    Plus being spartans, they wouldn't tire, I'd be more inclined to see at least half of the MW2 army run in fear while peeing their pants.
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    Image of gold163 (° д° ) gold163 (° д° )
    12/04/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2's Army is 26,000 Times Larger Than Sparta's
    That's an impressive figure for an army... But what does size matter when battles only have 18 people in them at a time?
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    12/04/09

    @gold163 (° д° ): ::looks at MAG::
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    Image of Chronixal Chronixal
    12/04/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2's Army is 26,000 Times Larger Than Sparta's
    As a 'United Kingdomer' I have to ask....Chiner?

    Otherwise, that's a fairly huge army. Although given a large portion are subject to blowing themselves up as a strategy, the advantage would dwindle rapidly.
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    12/04/09

    @Chronixal: You win the internet.
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    Image of jetRink jetRink
    12/04/09

    @Chronixal: I've always wondered why some English add the r to words ending in vowels. I've even asked a few when it didn't seem rude, and all of them claimed they didn't do it.

    I finally found the answer a few weeks ago. It's called the intrusive R and even has its own [en.wikipedia.org] page. To summarize, in non-rhotic dialects of English, which is most dialects in England today, an r sound at the end of a word is not pronounced when the following word begins with a consonant. I.E. "Car park" is pronounced "Cah park" or even "Cah pahk". The intrusive r appears as a hyper-correction, inserting itself between a word ending in a vowel sound, and another word beginning with a vowel sound. I.E. "The idea of it" becomes "The idear of it."
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    Image of Chronixal Chronixal
    12/04/09

    @jetRink: Oh, I see now. He meant in how we pronounce it. Sure, regional accents will do that, I'm sure I'm guilty of it myself. I thought the article was suggesting we actually refer to China as Chiner.
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    12/04/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2's Army is 26,000 Times Larger Than Sparta's
    Are these just from sales figures? Otherwise, how was the data obtained?

    If it's from sales figures alone then I'd say that it's a bit of a stretch to assume all 8 million sales of the game are still being played. There may be many copies not being played, there may be many traded in by now. I just find it hard to believe that 8 million people are currently playing MW2.
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    Image of AncientUnknown1 AncientUnknown1
    12/04/09

    @-MasterDex-: I would assume this number is from recorded Unique Users across Live, PSN, and IWNet.
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    Image of SEX_BISON SEX_BISON
    12/04/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2's Army is 26,000 Times Larger Than Sparta's
    The spartans were such noobs. All the riot shields they used to block the Persian's bullets were totally cheap and all they did was camp in a canyon.
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    Image of lolgreg lolgreg
    12/04/09

    @SEX_BISON: Whatever dude, the teams weren't balanced because there wasn't any sort of autobalance system.
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    12/04/09

    @lolgreg: It was plenty balanced!!! All 300 Spartans are Cal-M players! The Persians got stuck with casuals and Cal-O players!
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    12/04/09

    @troopzor: Balanced, maybe. The Spartans were dirty laggers though. Every time one of them made a move the game got a ton of slowdown.
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    troopzor promoted this comment SEX_BISON was starred SEX_BISON was unstarred
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    12/04/09

    @SEX_BISON: That's not lag, it's an old school game mechanic called bullet time.

    Got taken out cause most noobs complained that it was "Overpowered"
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    Image of D Mitsuki, Gotta have guts kid! D Mitsuki, Gotta have guts kid!
    12/04/09

    @SEX_BISON: QQ more noob, your just bawing because the ninja hacks you used failed.
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    Image of The Forgetful Brain The Forgetful Brain
    12/04/09

    In reply to What's In The Star Trek Online Collector's Edition?
    Ohh. Tempting, but I'd really like to get into the beta first... as soon as open is up, we shall see!
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