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Thank's PFC Madsen, that's really helpful.

Thank's SGT Beard. I'd say a book about the Somme is grim as a very grim thing.

Thank's guys. My broadband signal has been really bad since June so I'm very much regretting doing internet based research. I don't know for sure because customer service aren't really that helpful but internet blinks on and off when it gets cloudy or rainy and we've had about four or five clear...

Hi folks, Sorry I haven't been in touch. I had  bereavement issue which caused me to lose the plot and any motivation to do mental labour. However, I have to pull the finger out and start writing something so I was wondering if any of you could send me a link to a good Jester video which...

Hi folks I hope all is well. I meant to post a message saying I'd be away for a while but my internet was down the evening I left. I'm down in Kerry in a secluded bungalow until Sunday 17th. I installed teamspeak before I left so I'll get back to this when I readjust to 'civilisation'.

Will do. Thank's man. Busy right now but I look forward to a chat.

Thank's folks I'll download TS asap. What time is good to catch a session? its 22:20 here in Dublin as I write this.

Thank's CPL. Specter, I promise I'll leave politics at the door. It was mentioned above that you only play against AI. Why is that? I watched loads of Jester814 clips and the most enjoyable were the large scale coops and I assumed the enemy were other milsim gamers. The AI must be pretty good in...

Thank's guys. Firstly, SGT. LaPrade, it may be a game but Huizinga suggests that play is primary to and a necessary condition of the generation of culture. Google Homo Ludens if you are interested ... the wiki page provides a good summary. The concept of culture is not very well defined in that...

Thank's man. So leadership comes from proficiency in all the lessons learned in OSUT? That's a kind of learning by emulation type of deal. Do any of you have any interest in the philosophical underpinnings on leadership? I read /Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters/ and...

Ok so I'm seeing a little bit of a pattern here and that's why I'm glad I was too sick to write that questionnaire. My thesis will be strongest if I describe what I find here as opposed to writing about what /I think/ about this place. So the pattern I'm seeing relates to what impressed me most...

Thank's guys and I agree with SPC Grimm regarding CPL O'Neill legacy - wow. Closest I come to that is my father was a member of that famous Irish revolutionary movement but he left after his mother and aunt convinced him to do so. CPL O'Neill, as you say, this community is made of people from...

I have to apologise for how half-arsed my 'research' looks. I got a dose of shingles in the middle of researching and writing my final two essays and it really kicked my arse. If you've never had shingles think bad flu times 2 or 3 for three weeks and you'll understand. Both essays were 4000...

Well, what's interesting about the 506th is that all of our operations have some sort of backstory to it, there's a reason why we're in these 'countries' and the missions we accomplish. So yeah it's open world, but we're limited by, like you said, orders and in a way, the story. However, the...

Thank's man and good luck with the BA. I was just thinking today about the grammatical aspect of some games as in having to follow story-lines and not being able to interact with scenery which is only backdrop etc. I was thinking since Arma3 is considered an open world this wouldn't be an issue...

Hi folks, Thank's again for showing interest. There seems to be ten of you and since I needed between ten and fifteen participants I'm happy. I still haven't written up the questionnaire but I'd like to get a bit of biographical info to get the ball rolling. It doesn't have to be an essay but...

Thank's guys! Here is where I'm at right now. I handed in the last of my term papers on the 31st of May which left me exhausted so I'm taking a little break. My next step is to write up the theoretical chapter but I'll draft a questionnaire before I get stuck into that and post it here. I hope...

Dear All, My name is Dave and I'm a 43 year old dude doing an MA in anthropology at Maynooth University. I'm doing a research project on virtuality and the imagination and I'm looking to talk to combat veterans, non-combat veterans and folk who have never been in the military who play Arma III...