When I was young and stupid I pulled out just before I formally enlisted. Thinking about it now I’d only join up again if my country was invaded nothing else. I’m not dying just so you can get cheap oil.
You do understand that there is no oil in Afghanistan, right? China is actually getting a hold of most of the natural resource rights.
Greetings fro Afghanistan. I have the answer to all your questions about the military; if you have other options, explore those first. Explore as much as you can. Be like Indiana Jones with your options. Once the shine wears off, it REALLY wears off.
How is your experience like?
WELL, people being in charge of other people based on time in service presents the obvious sort of problems one might imagine when putting someone who has no leadership skills into a leadership position. You will frequently find yourself being a tool to make someone you've never met look good. The idea that someone you can't stand being around everyday would risk their life for you, and vice versa is a pretty comforting feeling. The major problem serving presents is the way it sort of limits your options as far as school, travel, and family relations are concerned. I'm just in the national guard, but, I know a few guys who have been working 6 years on a 4 year degree just because of deployments and other things. If you have no other options (like me) as far as school goes, it's a pretty great choice. If you have anything even remotely better, do that first. If you can get in school, do that. It will be an infinitely better choice than this. The national guard is a pretty nice way to make a few extra bucks every month though, and, you do get some opportunities to do some cool things every now and then.
Greetings from* Afghanistan. I have the answer to all your questions about the military; if you have other options, explore those first. Explore as much as you can. Be like Indiana Jones with your options. Once the shine wears off, it REALLY wears off.
Left 4 Dead 2 comes to mind. Used to run around as Coach singing "I got a baseball bat, a baseball bat, a baseball bat" with my friends. More recent I'd say Saints Row The third was pretty fun co-op. Good for doing the boring activities like escort or the tiger one. Portal 2 was pretty fun even if it was rather short co-op.
My buddies and did L4D ladders for a while. It was fun for a bit, but, the scheduling sort of sucked the fun out of the game for me T_T.
@CookieMonster: I feel like Halo is still one of the best games to play on Co-op. There are always enough enemies and weapons for you and your buddy to share; I felt like even with the extra person, the fights aren't so short as to be boring.
edit: not to mention the firefight in recent installments.
Remember those days as a child when you were hanging out in your buddies basement on some old rickety couch, on the crappiest tv in the world and got your co-op on? I want to remember those days. The days with Gunstar Heroes, Battle-toads, and Bomber Man. A few years later it was *jet-force* gemini and gauntlet; Baldurs gate and halo. Marvel ultimate alliance and army of two. What game gave you the most hours of fun?
edit: I spent countless hours on Guantlet 64 with my two Neighbors.
I think a game mode with a mole would be cool. Team based type stuff, where you're going after specific objectives, and the mole had a specific objective to disrupt and had a special set of abilities in order to hide his interference would be sort of cool.
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