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April 26, 2006

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Boot Camp mandatory for Army on the Mac

Posted Apr. 26, ’06, 10:09 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Games

Drill SergeantListen up, maggots. If you want to be a soldier, you can’t be using some pansy, candy-colored computer, you hear me? No operating systems with glowing blue buttons or stop-light colored controls in the army, got it? And absolutely none—that’s none, private—of this thinking different garbage. You’ll think what I tell you, and if you want to be a soldier, you’ll be using Windows.

What’s that? You want to know why? Because America’s Army doesn’t support the Mac any more, soldier. Hasn’t in versions. You’ve just been lucky enough to have some poor independent programmer making it work for you. But he’s done now; finished, kaput. So if you want to keep running America’s Army on that pathetic hulk you call a computer, it’s Boot Camp for you, maggot. No ifs, ands, or buts.

Now, drop and give me twenty. One handed!


9 Comments

Alain Paradis said:

Dan Moren,

As much as I appreciate humor, please stop writing stories this way. We have no idea what it's about.

Lately, I have found myself automatically skipping to the second paragraph of each story to get to the point.

In this army story, one can read the whole thing without knowing what it's about at all!

Humour is good, but could you please tip the balance back to actual reporting?

April 26, 2006 12:08 PM
M Navarro said:

You might want to get a different picture. That is a picture of a Marine Corps Drill instructor, not an Army drill sergeant. I know this because I served in the Corps.

April 26, 2006 12:09 PM
kMoney said:

Alain Paradis,

I see you don't understand that this is a casual blog with informal and often humorous takes on Mac news. Now please take your humorless self to MacCentral

Thank you, that is all.

April 26, 2006 12:44 PM
Dan said:

Calm down, y' big butt cheek.

April 26, 2006 1:42 PM
Cyrus Farivar Author Profile Page said:

Navarro,

Do you have a better picture of an Army sergeant?

April 26, 2006 1:56 PM
Dan Author Profile Page said:

That ought to be a more accurate picture. Apologies for the initial incorrect graphic.

April 26, 2006 2:18 PM
exnihilo said:

If you want actual objective reporting, you'd best avoid blogs.

April 27, 2006 5:25 AM
Tim Author Profile Page said:

Is America's Army a game? Sorry for sounding ignorant here...

April 27, 2006 6:07 AM
Dan Author Profile Page said:

Yep, America's Army was a squad-based tactical shooter whose development was sponsored by the U.S. Army; it was intended to be used as a recruitment tool.

April 27, 2006 8:56 AM

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