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www.gaming4veterans.org #veterans #11b
NazgulJim
Gaming is Great! But with limits. I can dit 12hrs a day if allowed.
CommentRick
I was not in the military.. but was a passenger in a major car crash. Video games are how i cope with the fact i cant do parkour anymore.
MyHumourProbablyIsntForYou
As a Veteran Gamer (No, not a Gaming Veteran), I can still relate.
Greeneyeddevil
Didn't a study say that combat games allow vets to relive traumatic combat experiences with no danger, which helps them process the trauma?
BIGWHITESEXY
I agree wholeheartedly with alot of what y'all have said and thought. I'm a 100% unemployable so I game to escape. Just joined the G4V.
TheAccursedHamster
Gaming saved my life growing up, it gave me an outlet to deal with a lot of the horrible shit that happened to me.
NibblesAndBitsNeverQuits
None of these people play Dota 2. That community will give you PTSD
SoloToplaneOnly
I met a wonderful and special person through gaming. <3
TheManInTheWall
Of course the media will mostly ignore this because it doesnt provoke enough of a reaction and therefore wont sell well
HalTheMisinterpretivePornStar
This makes me happy ????
MasticatingMastodon
Are you not sure if you're happy?
FarFromBitten
Well then... see you in the battlefield! And thank you for your service!
TheManEric
11B? Pffft. 11C all the way! Launching metal dildos all day.
PrettyTallPaul
Metal dildos lol!
whitewaterboatman
I started gaming when I enlisted. I did so that no matter where I was in the world or what I was doing I could share moments with my family.
whitewaterboatman
Years later and it's still bringing us together for moments of fun. Friends and family all play together so we can interact and have fun.
iamdanman
No need to convince me
IAmArthurKingOfTheBritains
You guys wanna play some Medium Video Games?
FaoySamfs
Check out www.militarygamers.com It's service members you can link up with to play anything out there. Platform, PC, MMOs, FPS, you name it.
Nova5269
Saving for later, thank you
MetalRearSolidVThePhantomPeen
Just... just don't let them play Insurgency.
ThatGuyWhoThinksEveryoneIsAPineapple
Or Rising Storm Vietnam...
RyanScheer
They're researching how gaming will eliminate Alzheimer's disease. Also, race car driving games is proving to make younger drivers better!
Hybris51129
Can confirm used to practice driving in Midtown Madness 2 and later on in games like 18 wheels of steel and Euro Truck Sim 2
ICanChangeMyUsernameWheneverIWantButIDontBecauseIAmGodDamnLazy
Euro Truck Sim 2 multiplayer is an interesting experience. You'll see people abiding traffic laws and then see a dude trying to drift.
BrobiwanKenobro
Stress free? Man I wish lol
shoutcake
I have PTSD from being a bdsm/torture sex slave for a year. Video games keep me alive, I can interact with people from the safety of my home
shoutcake
This allows me to slowly get used to people again and helped my anxiety, paranoia and fear.
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
They should give war veterans a video game system of their choice...or...well, give them anything at all for their service, really.
storytimegal
I'm not a veteran but gaming has helped me a lot! As a child I was ran over by a drunk driver and had severe brain damage. After my (1/?)
storytimegal
Body recovered from the physical injuries my brain was still having trouble catching up. I suffered from delayed reaction time as (2/?)
storytimegal
Well as a few other issues. I don't know where I would be without gaming. It's crazy how something so simple can change your life. +1
DwigtSchrude
My cousin has autism. now I don't know how to explain it properly, but gaming helped him use critical thinking and he felt a sense of 1/2
DwigtSchrude
achievement every time he beat a level. Crash, RE, Bioshock.. today he functions MUCH better in every day life. I am certain gaming helped.
SilleeCookie
As a gamer and serviceman. I will need to check this website out. Game on my brothers and sisters!
CatBlaster5000
Same same, and same same.
KamSolastor
Hooah
vixiecat
Stack-up.org is also a very good one <3
kah929
Thanks for your service brother!
ICommentWhenImDepressedToMakeMyselfFeelBetter
As a disabled prior service member, stay at home father, and avid gamer, can concur.
ThatGuyWhoThinksEveryoneIsAPineapple
That, and games are fun. Also great methods of storytelling, like movies and books.
aalcoholism
That's why I play. I love the story-line that is provided paramount to any difficulty or online communities. I like to get lost in a story!
governmentgavemeagun
How many generations got to live during the birth of an entirely new art form? Not many in recent history only Photography&cinema, now this.
MyUsernameDoesntCheckout
That and video games, albeit sometimes unrealistically, portray consequences for audience actions. You control the scenario.
spudpicker
As an English teacher, I wholeheartedly agree. Too many people overlook the intricate worlds and creative stories made by game writers.
DarkUranium
Or the creations made by players. Minecraft, Terraria, Gnomoria, ...
ILikeSciFi
Scrap mechanic, ksp,
CthulhusGreasyBallsack
I don't, TES, Fallout, The Last of Us, Beyond: Two Souls, and endless others, I connect to their interactive, 10+ hour long storyline (1/2)
CthulhusGreasyBallsack
(2/2) much more than I have any 2 hour movie or series.
BottomKek
I got called "nigger" by a twelve year old once
thezale19
You're probably white too, huh?
Thismanneedsaname
Ask him if he's a "fat kid in his moms basement" next time, Really seems to hurt their feelings! old vet , aka 1CAV COL_D
chrisdafish
When I was 13 an adult made fun of me for not being able to walk on a broken leg
XaviersSnakeArm
I keep getting yelled at by Russians and Brazilians every match on csgo
Sherl0ck
Good times, huh?
MyHumourProbablyIsntForYou
You probably deserved it lol.
DorianPineda
If you mp, then it's gonna happen
DorianPineda
Play*
HonestCommentFarmer
Bitch, please, I've been called a cunt-gargling dick rag before. 'Nigger' is peanuts compared to that.
JosephMoestar
Just a cunt-gardling dick rag? Your drill-whatevers must've been uncreative.
cptcr
no, no... he meant while gaming. fucking cunt-gargling dick rag. you never get things right
naytorin
Just once?
NotTheUsernameYouAreLookingFor
Maybe they meant once a hour?
bobbidiboopy
Try minute lol
EricFromAccounts
Just don't give them a headset/mic for multiplayer COD or they'll fucking RUN to iraq and syria where people are more decent and civilised
OddOod
Fucking christ CoD is toxic
ICanChangeMyUsernameWheneverIWantButIDontBecauseIAmGodDamnLazy
Don't let them play Counter-Strike, either.
Tilted9000
The aim system makes me angry.
ICanChangeMyUsernameWheneverIWantButIDontBecauseIAmGodDamnLazy
It does take some getting used to. Like, there's no bullet travel. I'm pretty awful at it myself, but I do find it fun now and then.
DarkUranium
Serious question: When did this start? I remember playing CoD4, and I've never, ever seen or heard anything toxic. (1/2)
DarkUranium
I did mostly play a few years after release, though, *and* pretty much exclusively in hardcore servers. Maybe that is a factor. (2/2)
EricFromAccounts
You got me. I've never attempted it PURELY b/c of the horror stories I heard. Why shell out £/$/€ to confirm that shitty kids are shitty?
Individualsocksinthewashingmachine
Yeah hardcore didn't have as much shit talking because if weren't paying attention you got farmed so badly
Individualsocksinthewashingmachine
I played COD4 at release, I'd say halfway through modern warfare 2s lifetime it really started going downhill. Then MW3 happened
DarkUranium
Ah. I never played MW2 or MW3. Or anything after MW1, really.
Individualsocksinthewashingmachine
MW2 was quite good, MW3 was total shite
IamMelonLordeYaYaYa
do you think veterans will be surprised or offputt by 12 year olds on COD?
Sherl0ck
Do i really need to find that pic of the 12 year old who was apparently a sniper and also fucked your mom?
DannyTheInfidel
Lol wut
TinySatanicHamster
The majority of people that use voice chat on CoD are squeakers yelling slurs and how they fucked your mother last night.
Secsletariat
I used to chant "Gay Power" during the loading screens (no speaking identifier appears). Helped to weed those people out early for muting.
PrincessDonaldTrumpBANNED
I used sing the song that never ends. Usually people would join me. Sadly, they did not know what it was.
Aksuuuh
PrincessDonaldTrumpBANNED
I fucked my mother last night. That's how I know they are liars
JarlPastrami
Oedipus? is that you?
EricFromAccounts
High five, bro! That's a rare score!
DannyTheInfidel
Hmm. I play a lot of Battlefield and that's all I say to my friends in party chat. Except I fuck their dads lol
DuckTapeAl
Bet you're hype for this game then: http://store.steampowered.com/app/654880/Dream_Daddy_A_Dad_Dating_Simulator/
DannyTheInfidel
I mean... I already have Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2016 if that's what you're wondering lol
BeepBoopBlorpSchlorp
Your username is very appropriate.
sykoticflaw
You vastly underestimate just how quickly we veterans can put an uppity entitled child in their place.
Individualsocksinthewashingmachine
You vastly underestimate uppity entitled children
pancreas
you vastly underestimate uppity children on the internet.
MrAwful
Is there like a special thing you do that you learned in the service or... (genuine question)
MrLobstrosity
Twelve year-old potty mouth has nothing on combat veteran potty mouth. (2)
MrLobstrosity
I'd say that few things in this world are as vile as the shit people talk about after spending a significant amount of time deployed. (1)
sykoticflaw
Yep.
MrAwful
So when the kids start spewing their shit, you pull out the honest to god, lived it real deal?
Nova5269
That and general every day bullshittery, conversation and new guy hazing is enough to put them in their place
Rasdwatrium
They shouldn't play Escape from Tarkov or PUBG then I think.
chrisdafish
They should play Spec Ops: The Line
PancakeFaker
Surprised no one has mentioned Planetside 2 in this thread.
Hammerhead777
I play PUBG with my veteran friend, best god damn squad leader.
DarkUranium
Sorry for the off-topic, but how is Escape from Tarkov? I'm looking forward to that game, but waiting for release. It's tempting, though ...
Rasdwatrium
With the upcoming beta we will know. Sounds good so far afaik.
TheShadowsLengthen
I don't know much, but I watched a lets play. I don't really stress easily from video game, but just the eerie silence and the darkness...
ImHereToGetDownvotes
Basically, it looks like the dark zones of The Division except ALL of your stuff is lost on death and that's all there is to it.
DarkUranium
I never played The Division, so I honestly don't know. Are they keeping their promise of having first-person only?
ImHereToGetDownvotes
From what I've seen, yes.
Milchsteak
I think ArmA can trigger some PTSD for real.
DarkUranium
Or Squad, I'd imagine.
SirMuffinCat
Squad is apparently pretty bad for that
GuntherHunter15
And the Red Orchestra/Rising Storm games
TFor
I've had some of my arma unit's members step away from the controls during some missions.
TheShadowsLengthen
Depends. Some vets have become addicted to the adrenaline rush of combat, and can't find it in civilian live. Games may come closer...
MountainYankee
gives you a sort of rush when you have to run, take cover, and return fire, even player encounters are risky as fuck in that game 2/2
MountainYankee
I could understand that. there are times where I am playing miscreated, and out of nowhere gunfire will open up from somewhere, and it 1/2
WonderHowManyCharactersICanTypeBeforeIReachTheLimit63Apparently
DOOM seems like an adrenaline rush + the angriest mofo ever.
Rasdwatrium
Hm, is that so? Here in Germany we don't have the whole veteran yadda yadda as much as the US so I wouldn't know.
TheShadowsLengthen
I think it's valid for vets of all nations. Some are hurt by war, some are unmoved, and a few can miss it... It's rarely spoken of.
Rasdwatrium
Oh, not denying that, it's just that we luckily are not confronted with all that military bullshit anymore because we don't send our troops.
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NorthCrown
Sure, but if you have ptsd from serving in, llet s say Iraq, then a game like Squad could bring that all back rather than distract you?
TheShadowsLengthen
Certainly. But I don't think someone with PTSD would play a warfare game willingly, unless he has even deeper issues to solve...
KlutzyZ
Diagnosed PTSD jere, and videogames are rarely realistic enough to cause a panic attack,
TheShadowsLengthen
I don't really know much there. But the sound design of Battlefield games, the unforgiving gameplay of the Arma series and the stress... 1/2
Grudgebearingmidget
I wouldnt say I have a severe case of PTSD, but I AM jumpy around loud; unexpected noises. My brain can recognize "These noises aren't real"
Grudgebearingmidget
Year of route-clearance (AKA IED hunting), if anything, its made me interested in seeing a game made from an insurgent's perspective.