Stupid. Just stupid. Protesting against the Army because they have video games to recruit people to the army? The anti-war people say they're trying to militarize the kids, but I'm pretty sure people above the age of 18 play video games too. Hell, while we're at it, let's protest against video games itself!

Surely the issue is that the army is trying to equate playing games with warfare, suggesting that war is all about shooting nameless enemy forces and blowing shit up.
More people should learn about the real complexities of war.
That said, the Royal Navy used to have recruitment posters outside of cinemas that showed Bond films (he's a commander in the Royal Navy you see), but they don't do that any more.

Why stop with the army or video games ?
Let's just protest about everything.
First order of business, let's protest against purple t-shirts. Next is feathered birds.

I'd much rather have those posters than video game centers... Bond is way classier.

Not to mention infinitely spawning enemies who look exactly the same as one another
Though Singapore has never been in any wars, once you leave the army, it's easy to see why using digital forms of media like games and videos can easily attract enthusiastic young men to join

It's still getting people to sign up for something they may not fully understand. Do people get some sort of "cooling off" period once they've signed up, to allow them to quit if they realise it's not what they thought?

If there are people enough retarded that the Call of Duty games are the most reallistic games ever made (yes, they exist, sadly), then I believe some really stupid people will join because of a game, thinking it will be just "PEW PEW PEW, I have won. What's the next mission?". But reallity and game are two totally different words.

playing america's army never even remotely made me want to join the army
what kind of idiot thinks the experience would be just as fun when, in the game, they can log on for an hour or two and play a fun mission, and in reality you would have to live it for years and NOT be able to go back to living in their mom's basement whenever they got tired of the experience.

you know, I hear imagining your enemies as people who look exactly like one another really helps in systematically eradicating a race of peoples.

I don't see the big deal. Whether we like it or not these ARE technically adults. Their choices are none of our business. And PLENTY of people in the military (ie, by brother and essentially every single one of his friends that I've met) play video games now and then, some very often in their free time. One of his fellow officers is even a raging nerd (I talk to him the most because we have the most to talk about).
Video games are just something young adults do these days. There's nothing wrong with the military obliging them. I sincerely doubt they're gonna win over any kid that wasn't already seriously considering it, and if it wasn't games it'd be music, movies.
I spoke to a recruiter (AND my brother), and there's no a single military man who would ever tell a kid or even insinuate that combat is like a video game. We're putting words in their mouth. All they're doing is providing the entertainment required to get the young men in the door. Like I said, if it wasn't games it'd be movies, tv shows or music.
And let's all remember recruiters got a real raw deal:
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Beside America's Army, it's not like the military is actually making the games.

Is anybody really playing America's Army anymore?

It still has a cult following, and I'm sure AA 3 will draw more people in.

or yknow, died

People join the army with full knowledge that fighting is quite likely and may lead to death. If people are genuinely stupid enough to join because they think it'll be like a game then they will make excellent front line bullet sponges whilst soldiers who know which way to point the gun can take advantage of the distraction that fire team retard creates.
Sure if people are lying about army service being like a game then its despicable, it'd be like someone selling a mac to a n00b as a gaming computer. Besides, the last time there was a flap on about this, I seem to recall mention that they only allowed adults to enter the centre anyway.

Wait what, there was a 2?! That just blew my mind.