• callouscomic@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Doesn’t excuse this or counteract the amount of negative stuff, but I will never forget this interesting news like 10-15 years ago of a guy who saved someone’s life on the side of the road after a car crash.

    Apparently whatever he did medically he said he learned from I think the game was America’s Army, which was directly made by the US military as some form of simulation or something.

    I guess it was just interesting that it had real enough things that someone actually learned inadvertently how to save a life from a video game the military had involvement in.

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      3 days ago

      It wasn’t just real enough. The game contained an actual first aid learning tool, and test, which you had to pass in order to advance in the game. So anyone who learned it and learned to play medic got an actual first aid course by the US military for free.

      This is not meant to endorse anything one way or the other, I am just a video game nerd who thinks that America’s Army is a very interesting oddity.

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        2 days ago

        Yeah its honestly kinda an interesting concept, I feel like itd be an interesting way of earning stst boosts in certain games like say foxhole.

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        2 days ago

        Right?! Propaganda telling us who to hate? Evil. Propaganda telling us how to save a life, no matter whose it is? Sounds great to me!