Gonna go out on a limb and say that the same fatties playing computer games all day won't be chomping at the bit to go outside and bust their dick on a farm all day.
Mechanic simulator is decent at teaching you how cars are put together. Not enough bloody knuckles and cursing though. You'll never have to extract broken bolts, or tap new holes, or weld sleeves to engine blocks.
extract broken bolts
I have gotten entirely too good at this over the years. Fucking rusty pieces of shit.
Pretty sure my entire curse word collection comes from working on old cars that small a bit but need to be running in the morning
I remember I was removing this transmission on a Ford Explorer, bolt came out without a problem the first time I replaced the transmission. The second time I couldn't get it to budge with fire and my 1/2" impact, I had to whip out the 4' 3/4" braker bar, snapped the bolt at the head. I never yelled "motherfucker" so loud, enough it scared the shop cat.
Ye I've had to extract mounting bolts from new cars that have never had a brake/disc change and the thread is always fucked because the metal it's made from is shite lol.
Modern society is unfulfilling
Not surprising considering everything else is a shitty remake or a boring ass battle royale
Not going to lie. A farming simulation would never occur to me as enjoyable, let alone of broad appeal.
reality sucks. take power washing for example. the first couple minutes is fucking magical. but then you remember that water(and gas) and all the fancy soaps require money, so you got to do it efficiently; that you can easily damage non-stone things with the power, so you gotta do it carefully; wearing wet clothes sucks, and the sun or cold exerbate the wet clothes problem, so you best do it properly and deal with wet clothes, or prance around and wave the wand like a faggot in an effort to stay dry; thus powerwashing simulator and its halfassed reality comes to the rescue.
I have the Euro Truck simulator. It's kind of relaxing and all you're doing is picking up and dropping off trailers. I'd see myself enjoying the farming one.
Then you don't understand clownworld.
I guess not.
I have several hectares of pussy willow, ready for harvest.
Excellent, we'll be able to stock our empty store shelves and farmer's markets with virtual crops.
1.5M users who have probably never even taken care of a house plant.
Does Call of Duty make great marksmen?
Speaking as a firearms instructor of 40+ years, what I noticed most from the advent of FPS is the reduction of what we called "lag time".
Before, there was a noticeable split second of hesitation between the moment the student aligned the sights with the target and moment he squeezed the trigger. The point is to generate hits. If you aim at a target and the sights are in the middle, and you fire, you will hit. The sight picture is NOT going to get better over time. So hesitation is counter-productive. You will always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
We had various training devices that assisted us in reducing various shooting problems. We had devices that we could attach to the sights so we could see what the student was seeing when he fired to look for sight alignment and sight picture problems. We had linkages that we could attach to the trigger so we could pull the trigger for them, so they could concentrate on just aligning the sights
I noticed that the FPS's seemed to help reduce the hesitation to fire, to train out the "lag time". It trained the eye/mind/trigger finger connection, that when the sights land on center mass of the man-shaped silhouette, you fire. It accustomed the player to getting an immediate result from this through positive feed-back. Reducing lag time.
And keep your hat on. Don't misunderstand what I'm saying. I'm NOT saying that, "Video games teach our children to be killers!!11!!". No video game ever made is going to change someone's morals and turn them into a murderer. But, simply from a firearms training aspect it reduced the hesitation to pull the trigger when the sights were on the target. That's all. Period.
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