Using PR for RL stuff

ConscriptVirus · Post by **ConscriptVirus** » 2008-01-19 16:57

ive spent some time tweaking my computer mainly for PR. learned a bit about my computer.

Post by **77SiCaRiO77** » 2008-01-19 16:58

ZaZZo wrote:Better English is all I can think off.

same here .

Michael_Denmark · Post by **Michael_Denmark** » 2008-01-19 17:20

Listing what seems to be the common stuff so far:

Improved English langue skills
Improved PC knowledge
Socialising with people not being from your own tribe
Improved tactical Paintball skills
Improved knowledge about military topics
Taste of firearms
Improved moderator knowledge

Sabre_tooth_tigger · Post by **Sabre_tooth_tigger** » 2008-01-19 18:09

Gamer uses virtual training to save lives - Video Game Feature - Yahoo! Video Games

FoW_Strummer · Post by **FoW_Strummer** » 2008-01-19 18:53

I have learned that in PR, like real life, people have an amazing lack of ability to COMMUNICATE, work together, and function as a cohesive group. That being said it has reinforced the idea that most people will leave you holding the bag when the going gets rough...THANKS PR..

STRUM

charliegrs · Post by **charliegrs** » 2008-01-19 19:10

well ive started to take up modelling {i want to model a RPG-18} and map making. my goal is to become a contributor to this mod in some way but as of now im still very novice, however, many people who have made mods in the past have gone on to lucrative careers in the gaming businesss {the counter-strike team comes to mind} so i guess i could say im learning something that could be used IRL.

Post by **Rudd** » 2008-01-19 19:18

I do the AA 1st aid training to help my St John's Ambulance training

Learned tonnes about computers, the military, social skills.

My english has suffered terribly!! I say Fall instead of Autumn and accidentaly wrote 4 instead of four in a lab report...man my supervisor was pissed...

Morgan · Post by **Morgan** » 2008-01-19 20:33

Learned that the German army's name is the "Bundeswehr" on these forums. That cropped up in an a level mock the other day. I was the only person in our class to get the question right...

Wasteland · Post by **Wasteland** » 2008-01-19 20:49

I played laser tag a few days ago with a bunch of friends. I gave the girl I'm seeing a five minute lecture on tactics and we pwned everybody.

s3v3ndust · Post by **s3v3ndust** » 2008-01-19 21:21

I've improved my knowledge on weaponry and modern day military facts, thanks to this game, google and wikipedia of course.

But to sum it up, I've learned how to cooperate with other people in game and out. To achieve a huge task, you must work with others to achieve it.

Wasteland · Post by **Wasteland** » 2008-01-19 21:27

I think ArmA and Che Guevara have helped me more from a "how to survive as a guerrilla when the Chinese take over" standpoint. Just stuff like ambush tactics and whatnot (establishing a killzone, L shaped ambushes, contact initiating weapons, etc.).

BloodBane611 · Post by **BloodBane611** » 2008-01-19 23:18

I gave the girl I'm seeing a five minute lecture on tactics and we pwned everybody.

Ah that is fantastic dude. I could never get my girl to do anything like that.

Michael_Denmark · Post by **Michael_Denmark** » 2008-01-19 23:22

Who knows, maybe stuff like Project Reality is somehow showing parts of an official future educational system?

Thus maybe no more PISA tests but PING tests?

Anyway, seems that some players actually are learning something from playing this great game (Modification!) Sorry EA

Thanks to EA and the PR DEV team, for making all this stuf possible in the first place.

Think some of us simply owe you our respect for what your doing.

DEV TEAM =

Wasteland · Post by **Wasteland** » 2008-01-19 23:25

@Bloodbane: It was pretty simple stuff really. Mostly explaining some hand signals (the place had really loud techno and I didn't want to shout over it, giving away our position), telling her to present as small a target as possible but shoot lots and fast, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, to always watch where I was scanning and scan in the next most likely area of contact.

That last part is the only one I really developed from playing PR.

Post by **Outlawz7** » 2008-01-20 00:50

ZaZZo wrote:Better English is all I can think off.

x2, people ask me from where I learned English so well

Post by **OkitaMakoto** » 2008-01-20 00:55

I think the forums have taught me the most. How to deal with ridiculous/ignorant/uninformed people and still come across as a civil, people loving human being who, hopefully, holds people to high/realistic standards consistently so that they can better themselves and respect the people around them. Hey, I do what i can, you know?

It really tries my patience both on the forums and in-game. Its also shown me that I can have an addiction and still get good grades in school.

<3
Okita

USMC_Cook · Post by **USMC_Cook** » 2008-01-20 02:17

I've learned what a lot of gamer lingo means. I'm not really much of a gamer (I gave COD4 a chance, but PR's the only game I really play), and I'm a pretty new to the gaming community. I've played a little bit of CS, and I played BF2 for a couple weeks when it came out, but now I'm married with a kid, and my life has changed a lot. Instead of going downtown on Friday nights, I play PR. And PR, at least to me, is just as much fun as spending seventy bucks to get drunk and then get punched in the face because my friends are idiots, and all in the hope of meeting Ms. Right Now. Well, that was pretty fun, too. But PR is still a blast!

Before I started playing PR, I didn't really know what stuff like P@wn, NooB, l33t, and other lingo meant. To be honest, I still don't know what most of it means. I'm really not a fan of the lingo, though. Whenever I see someone type something like "l33t" I just picture some pimply faced teenager in his mom's basement. No offense to the pimply faced teen, we were all there at one time in our lives, but I'm pretty sure a majority of the PR community are adults. I feel like the old man who hears a kid say "that was sick, bro," and wonders what the "expletive" that kid was talking about. I'm guessing that in time, I'll adopt the lingo. But for now, I'm just the old geezer (all of 25yrs old) shaking his head at "those darn kids on their skateboards!"

Wow! I just went off on a rant. I am an old man, "sniffle."

Freelance_Commando · Post by **Freelance_Commando** » 2008-01-20 02:29

duck when bullets fly over your head!!!
Molotov choktails hurt!!

unrealalex · Post by **unrealalex** » 2008-01-20 03:25

Makes me wonder if having played PR would make one more experienced in a real military conflict. I think it would.

BeerHunter · Post by **BeerHunter** » 2008-01-20 08:32

unrealalex wrote:Makes me wonder if having played PR would make one more experienced in a real military conflict. I think it would.

Kinda like MS Flight Sim preps you for a qualifying flight on a 747 under IFR conditions

:mrgreen

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