War is now Popular Culture

I was very excited to hear the conversation that this topic brought up while in class. Mainly because I personally find war very scary, yet interesting but also because I find it insane that people can actually be influence to put their lives on the line during combat because of a two dimensional game. I applaud those who are willing to fight for their country with their very own lives; however I do believe it takes a certain person, a certain personality, or a certain trait mentally to make someone want to be in such a predicament. I don't want to believe that Call of Duty or Battleship or any other kind of violent game can be determinant of a person doing such. In reality, there's a lot more to war than being good at shooting. For example, the best Call of Duty player in the world said that to be where he is now, ranked #1 and playing COD for hundreds of thousands of dollars; he had to become great at more than just shooting. Games have maps that you can memorize, care packages that give the user some type of superhuman power, and multiple lives that you can be careless with. Knowing where people re-spawn and juggernaut outfits to stop bullets from penetration make playing video games fun in a sense and allows users seem psychic. In reality, missions are completed with finesse and persistence. It's not about running around and trying to kill as many people as you can. This is sort of a misrepresentation of war in my eyes. You only have one life on the real battlefield, it's incomparable!