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Why A Video Game Does Not A Soldier Make

My grandfather fought the Nazis and was wounded. For years afterward, father recreated that war in games in his Brooklyn neighborhood, where some of the children playing had lost their fathers overseas. War games always require two sides, and someone in Brooklyn always had to play the Germans.

Xbro5699d ago

Good grammar in the title.
"Why A Video Game Does Not A Soldier Make"

Has the writer ever herped so hard that he derped?

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socofsnails5699d ago

Even though I disagree with him, it's a well written piece. I heard on my way home from work - it's definitely worth listening too as well.

Fishy Fingers5699d ago (Edited 5699d ago )

It's actually an (extremely) old play on words, most famously,

"one swallow does not a summer make" - Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. Basically, one smart dude.

HolyOrangeCows5699d ago

I knew people would come in here like "LOL Im teh gramar notsee" and think that they were correcting the title.

Jayjayff5699d ago

that would be different since translations get messed up if you do it literally.

dillydadally5699d ago (Edited 5699d ago )

People, please stop mocking the headline. It is correct. You are wrong. You only show your lack of knowledge by mocking it and look stupid to those more knowledgeable of the English language. It's a correct construct that younger people won't have heard as much. You want a source? I used to be a journalist and an editor and have been writing professionally for years. Listen to Fishy Fingers - he is spot on.

The Wood5699d ago

you and fishy are right but you have to see the funny side. People dont speak like this any more...Shakespeare isnt on mtv and olde english is the name of a cider. Mixing modern terms like video game and old English just isn't kool or apparent to all.

I do love Shakespeare though, Quentin Tarantino, eat your heart out

UnwanteDreamz5699d ago

" People dont speak like this any more"

True but you have to admit it sounds more intelligent than "OMFG youz guyz aint soldirz 4realz"

Plus all those commenting learned something.

The Lazy One5699d ago (Edited 5699d ago )

Since when did it matter if a headline was how people speak or not? It's still correct. All the 1.X comments up there ^ make me feel bad for the state of education in the world.

edit: The ones down VVV there too.

ReservoirDog3165699d ago

I knew there had to be some reason why they worded it like that.

Learn something new everyday.

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Anorexorcist5699d ago (Edited 5699d ago )

a videogame does not a legendary, multi-million album-selling rockstar make.

You hear that all you pathetic inbreds who decided to drop out of high school to practice Rockband and Guitar Hero full-time?

wat6345699d ago

Excuse me, but how you use the word "retarded" is foolish.

Retarded means someone with mental problems, your sentence should be like:

"Foolish the headline is"

See it wasn't that hard, was it?

gcolley5699d ago

retarded used to just mean someone with mental problems, it has evolved. do you live in a cave by any chance? and why is the title foolish? ok, maybe because of the target audience. all they hear is yoda talking

karl5699d ago

or maybe

"retarded the writer is.. "

he is not though

Jack-Pyro5699d ago

All of you are in the wrong.

Retarded simply means "To Hinder"

I could say that somethings growth was retarded due to outside circumstances, an idea was retarded by close minded people.

Could all of you stop having such retarded grammar skills, please.

UnwanteDreamz5699d ago (Edited 5699d ago )

Actually

Retard is to hinder.

Retarded is the characterisation of retardation.

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mastiffchild5699d ago

Headline is perfect grammar. Old construct from an adage, but perfectly decent grammar and you make yourselves look daft by rushing in without thinking whether the English on show might actually be a lot more correct than the English most of us use on here. Silly sausages.

SKUD5699d ago (Edited 5699d ago )

LMAO at the headline. Classic N4G.

gcolley5699d ago

do you mean classic n4g as in let's all focus on the title and miss the point of the article?

FwanK5699d ago (Edited 5699d ago )

Because you bleed to death?

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EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch

EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.

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peppeaccardo70d ago

When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!

badz14970d ago

cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla

HyperMoused70d ago

TTK for BF employees needs adjusting

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EA makes layoffs at Skate developer Full Circle

The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.

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Profchaos82d ago

The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result

isarai_lee82d ago

It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way

badboyz0982d ago (Edited 82d ago )

🤣🤣🤣

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US Lawmakers Urge Review Of EA Sale

The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers

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Trilithon116d ago

lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6

lodossrage116d ago (Edited 116d ago )

Wait,

The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.

NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.

thorstein116d ago

No. There were elections and some of the scum were replaced.

TheColbertinator116d ago

Different elections. Different scum. Same results.

rlow1116d ago

i know its a long shot, but i hope this gets shot down.

ZwVw116d ago

EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.