Why haven't governments seen the potentiality of using video games as replacements for actual warfare. They can still have artilleries, nukes and weapons when necessary but have their main battle within a simulated realm. I see the benefits being: Saves lives Improves negotiation Easily switchout people when needed Benefits gamers Brings the tech era into full blast
Altough the downsides could be: Bad net lag Sudden disruption in the network Only limited to certain countries Countries will still end up enforcing physical means Dev's can be bribed
The entire point of war is that you kill enough people that the opposite side no longer wants to risk any more of their own people's lives and they surrender. When you take all the danger away from the combatants, people will have no reason to stop fighting.
Ryan Thomas
>oh we lost a game >idc >let's fight them irl now NOOOO THATS ILEGAL THE UN SAID SO >lolk budd >invades entire nation
Brody Thompson
Those toys were fucking expensive and super shitty.
Luis Myers
Remember this shit? It's cost comething like £80 and it slowly waddled around the room and waved. I got this thing for Christmas as a child and had a hard fucking time looking happy for an hour and forcing myself to play with it. Christ, it was so fucking shit.
Because war isn’t actually a negotiated test of skill between two consenting factions, it’s actually a demonstration of power and physical domination over another force LOL
Dylan Adams
That’s the point of a war of attrition, but most wars are started with objectives in mind
Colton Hughes
I did say the downsides comprehensionlets but I do see your point
Brody Nguyen
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Gabriel Fisher
While it was dancing you could hit it's leg in a very specific way and the music would change. I only managed to pull it off twice though
Jaxon Jenkins
>GUYS guys, what if we made war but instead of killing each other we were playing vidya.
You know that people start fights over video games, right? You think a nation losing a game, if both sides even agree to it to begin with, is just going to surrender its resources? That they will no longer have a standing army when plenty of nations remaining uninterested in playing games, or wanting to fight after losing, still do?
Jonathan Roberts
>enemy country waltzes right into your capital while all your manpower is plugged into truck driver simulator 2k19 Great idea, OP. I think there was a Stargate episode about this.
Jaxson Jackson
you better not be talking about the "jokes on you you've been helping nazis" episode. What a pile of shit that was.
Tyler James
OP is literally 12 years old.
Aiden Turner
1. Nuke china. 2. Nuke NK. 3. Nuke Russia Worlds saved.
Wyatt Reyes
>implying you can glass all that land mass I'd say the survivors would form a super pissed super-nation but they probably all hate each other so much that that can't happen.
Dominic Rogers
Like that episode from the priginal Star Trek. Except you were executed irl if you died in the war simulation.
Andrew Wilson
It's called cyber warfare and to an extent, proxy wars where people fight in the backyards of other countries. Q
Landon Adams
That’s still for turf
Cameron Mitchell
Isn’t that the plot of War Games or some shit
Blake Russell
Holy shit my brother had one of these as a kid, was pretty cool.
Noah Rogers
This is the stupidest post I've ever seen on here.
I bet you didnt even know you could pull his vizor down casual.
Kevin White
I think the book Saga (or Epic, one of those two) had this as a concept.
3 main problems, 1 being that no nation with a strong enough military would willingly throw away their advantage how the hell would you balance it/who would develop it/who would host it, all of which would give an advantage to whoever created it And how would you enforce the outcomes on any group that lost?
Jordan Sullivan
TOS trek literally has an episode about this. If you are killed in the simulation you are sent to the gas chamber irl. There has to be some consequence for your actions.
Colton Gray
holy shit i had that raptor rc toy when i was young, was prety based desu
Brayden Walker
What kind of gamer would your country be Zig Forums?
Jackson Brooks
>still have this but lost the remote >lost all of the other stuff it came with too >robot's probably internally damaged it's a sad feel
