Pentagon says Nintendo makes males weak; suggests Halo & Call of Duty

I've always said that Nintendocels/JRPGcels are soft. Something about the nature of those games encourages delicacy. I'm more of a first-person shooter; a Halo/COD alpha dog. I love the feeling of tearing another man down until there's nothing left. It's that killer instinct inside of me, that Genghis Khan-Esque bloodlust.

Pentagon worries its weak ‘Nintendo generation’ breaks too easily to withstand war

Department of Defence wants less Super Mario and more Call of Duty among its ranks

The US military has entered console wars.

As the threat of Russian aggression in Ukraine ramps up, the Pentagon is worrying its incoming batch of soldiers from the "Nintendo Generation" are too soft to withstand the rigours of real-world combat.

“The ‘Nintendo Generation’ soldier skeleton is not toughened by activity prior to arrival, so some of them break more easily,” said Army Major Jon-Marc Thibodeau in a press release from the Military Health System.

Gen Z, or 18-to-25-year-olds, are especially at risk for being too soft-skinned to even graduate from basic recruit training without injury due to their "more sedentary lifestyle compared to previous generations", the release said.

"We see injuries ranging from acute fractures and falls, to tears in the ACL, to muscle strains and stress fractures, with the overwhelming majority of injuries related to overuse," said Fort Leonard Wood’s physiotherapist, Army Captain Lydia Blondin.

Later on, the article talks about the benefits of playing video games. It also suggests COD and Halo for maximal alpha male development.

“People who play video games are quicker at processing information,” Dr Ray Perez, of the ONR’s Warfighter department, said in a statement. “Ten hours of video games can change the structure and organization of a person’s brain.”

The benefit to cognitive control, top-down attention, peripheral visual processing comes primarily from first-and third-person shooters like Call of Duty and Halo; that would be the Xbox and PlayStation generation.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nintendo-generation-pentagon-ukraine-russia-b2021972.html?amp

Yeah... Not the place.

Average Nintendocel testosterone level: 125 ng/dL

Average First-person Shooter testosterone level: 1012 ng/dL

But halo bombed on PC... people dont want halo.

Use to have tits and girl voice until playing COD.

Now i'm racist. And hate woman.

First-person shooters like Halo and COD basically rewire your brain and turn you into Jason Bourne.

Alpha.

They clearly meant Nintendo in a general sense like how your mom used to call every console on earth "the Nintendo".

Why should that moniker apply to the snowflakey post gen-Xers? In my day everyone not to savvy about console games just referred to all console gaming as Nintendo. It would have been more fitting to be an interchangeable label for the Oregon Trail generation. Even now I just assume the real audience for Nintendo devices and games are older nostalgic whores. These post gen-Xers that self describe as gamers would rather stream people playing games than play them themselves.

Jugding from OP though they seem to slam what they refer to as the "Nintendo generation" and not Nintendo gamers themselves, rather though they do press certain benefits of gaming overall.

Let's blame video games for younger generations not wanting to murder and die over these old people's greed.

The baby boomer generation grew up with forms of video games, but these games didn't progress until they were in their 30's (pong, mario bros, etc.). Boomers view video games as toys for children and not as a form of entertainment. These old people can binge Netflix or scroll through social media apps for hours and yet look down on someone playing a game with a controller for 20 minutes. (My dad is one of them. Ignorance is bliss.)

The boomer generation and mentality needs to go. The world will be a better place once that mindset has been diminished.

This is the same Pentagon that botched the American withdraw in Afganistan and is spreading "woke" propaganda in the armed forces. China and Russia must be happy on what they are seeing!

Internet in general makes bitches out of dudes.

Meh...there isn't anyone I know who would fight against Russia over some shit happening in Ukraine.

I'd play any of the games though. Mario isn't my thing but cod and halo I do enjoy.

I wouldn't trust a guy named Claudia.

I guess the Pentagon didn’t get the memo that Halo flopped when it comes to pc sold numbers

@theam0g: "Let's blame video games for younger generations not wanting to murder and die over these old people's greed."

lol@ "old people's greed"

I saw this on Facebook and posted about it as well. They say the "Nintendo Generation" has weak skeletons.. the only problem with that is that I would consider the Nintendo generation to be born between 85-88 meaning they would be the same age that I am. Let me just say that after two combat tours in Iraq while serving in the Marine Corps and getting injured and medically retired my skeleton hurts like hell every single day.. lol. What I'm getting at is if they are saying that people in their mid to late 30's are starting to break down after serving for likely 15+ years and/or did several tours to either Iraq or Afghanistan... well, yeah I would say they are probably right.

To put this all in perspective I wouldn't say that the mid 90's or later is the Nintendo generation and therefore proves the point the person in question has no idea what in the hell they are talking about.

Nintendo making males weak.lol

A better take that, would atleast have some weight, is video games in general make males weak.

If anything because it's sit down entertainment where you sit on your ass

It doesn't take a genius to realize playing videogames is not going to make you stronger like actual physical activity does.

stupid boomer take, no different than some old guy binging tv land eating moon pies, or zoomers binging tick tock, yeah sitting around consuming entertainment all day does not make you stronger or in better shape. Embarrassing statement by the pentagon. As if the grease balls binging warzone all day are "strong"

We live in The Onion now. 😄

The only solution is to switch to an all-girl, super-hot military where they wear kevlar bikinis and engage in sexy hand-to-hand combat.

Yeah no kidding.

Even on a Nintendo thread cows can't help being triggered by halo 😂

Halo 9 out of 10,HFW 8

Lol Nintendo gamers throw a pokemon ball at tanks and then panic and run away when nothing happens? XD

LOL

I mean.. LOL

Is this real?

Fixed. XD

PRIVATE YOU PUT YOUR PANSEY ASS ANIMAL CROSSING DOWN... and play Ratchet and Clank instead. XD

@HalcyonScarlet: xD Jesus..

But 18-25 years olds are more likely to be grown up with Halo and CoD.

Where do I surrender?

@simple-facts: Simple-minded, Halo Infinite has a 87 metacritic, HFW has a 88. So do scores still carry weight?

@fpsgod: NO! They don’t require your brain into Jason Bourne. It rewires your brain to make you think you* are Jason Bourne, but in reality you’re morbidity obese, mistake your own man-boobs as muscle.

*When I say, “you,” I don’t mean you personally but in general. Pls don’t take offense

Makes sense. ;o

Here we goooo. lol :P

The ”Nintendo Generation” is like 35-45 though. They’re either commanding in the military already, or too old to join. It’s the kids raised in the rise of the movie game era that they should be looking at. The PS3 is what ruined the American male…

A study about Nintendo from the republican pentagon? Yeah, no thanks, their hot takes are always the worst. Nintendo games make you smarter, not dumber thank goodness.

Nintendo games do involve killing and eliminating an enemy. Look at Zelda for example

@uninspiredcup said:

Use to have tits and girl voice until playing COD.

Now i'm racist. And hate woman.

The important questions we should be asking is why does this kid have man arms. Looks like the Pentagon has been creating super soldiers with kids again.

Wanna paint grenades into Pokemon balls later?

Hey Sargent Claudia, get a load of these Pokemon balls

I bet this military guy has never played Mario Kart with his significant other ... loser takes off a piece of clothing. If that doesn't make you "manly", nothing will.

Link might look girly but his kill count is that of a god. He's literally a one man army. If anything is going to inspire a man to pick up his weapon and fight for his country, it's a demi god like Link. If anyone is to blame for the pussyfication of man, look no further than sjw woke content constantly degrading men and women.

@vfighter:

You and metacritic have something in common

You are both irrelevant on GAMESPOT.

8 out of 10,crying won't help you here 🤣

Gamespot themselves do meta like review roundup articles for basically every big AAA game. The GS score is the only thing that matters narrative died here years ago, and I've seen you yourself tout meta scores when it suits you.

@fedor:

GS trump's metacritic,crying won't change that simple fact.

But your bu bu bu but GameSpot reviews died damage control was funny 🤣

HaH!

@simple-facts: Gotcha simple-minded, scores don't matter now...yet they do also. Nice flip flopping 🤭

HaH

This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read.

Just had a flashback lol.

It seems to me that they only want you to think that war is like a video game, they want you to forget that you are killing a person, and mainly that you do not think about your safety and go as a cannon fodder to the front like in a classic FPS video game with regeneration of health. "Nothing bad is going to happen to you in war". 

The difference with reality is that if your arm is blown off, it will not regenerate like in Call of Duty. On the other hand, judging a person by their likes/hobbies seems the worst to me and it could get to happen that you underestimate them widely and end up going wrong. Even playing an FPS as a fan is not going to prepare you for what a war is. 

A person who is not usually aggressive does not mean that he will not defend himself/herself or that is not more intelligent in his actions than someone who plays Call of Duty.

Everyone has the right to relax with the hobby they want. If those from the pentagon analyze their soldiers and/or enemies in that way, that is, in case they play Mario or Call of Duty, the truth is that the chair is too big for them. On the other hand, 

I do understand that there are times that require a certain level of "skeleton".

It appears this topic struck a nerve with many posters.

If we go by fist games nintendo is more like Gen X,sony milenial, ms gen z.