There’s an uncomfortable comfort in shitposting through the coolzone again after all these years. And yeah, I do kinda want to see some kid micro-ing a few hundred drones through an air-defense network.

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    StarCraft has been dominated professionally by Europeans for years now

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      Some Europeans can compete but they are outliers and it’s still accurate to say that Korea produces the best players. If Starcraft ability turned out to be a valuable skill during a civil war (it won’t) then it is definitely fair to say that South Korea has the greatest reserve of it taking into consideration the great many retired pro-players (who do not compete anymore in the now dead scene for table scraps).

      Europe has got many more current and ex pro FPS players which is probably more likely to be actually transferable (but not really).

      If any skill were actually transferable to a civil war it would be organizational skills (of real people not the magic absolute orders of RTS) so as much as I hate to admit it the gamers you actually want on your side is the ex-WoW players.

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        You definitely don’t want 1v1 gamers. But counterstrike, dota, LoL, MMOs, all the team games probably have very transferable skills. The inside of a modern tank, turret/machine gun control looks very similar to many game interfaces, drones definitely.

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          AFAIR the US military decided to control their drones with an Xbox controller partly because most kids would be already familiar with it

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              I mean, it’s a good decision. Even from my own experience, when getting invited to play FIFA on a friend’s Xbox (360), never having played anything on an Xbox before, the controller wasn’t the reason I’ve lost badly, it being somewhat intuitive and handling reasonably smoothly

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            Not an expert but heard this only really applies to light quadcopters. A large part of modern drone warfare are fpvs which are a lot harder to fly and require specialized controls (and training for them).

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      I had a friend who was a pro starcraft player a few years ago. He drank ½-1 gallon of 3.5% milk every day and was thin as a reed and pale as a ghost.