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Offline kvuo75

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Re: Why are the majority from the U.S. oN here?
« Reply #30 on: July 02, 2008, 03:22:30 PM »
Quote from: Yarbles on July 02, 2008, 10:27:41 AM
Proportionately we would be 15% then as in 1 in 5. Do you think we have that many?

My squad has 2. (I am not letting you know who the other one is  :lol). Thats one in 15 ;)

Its along time since ive seen a brit whos not with you or the 71st and I am looking for them.


shame on you.. we have 3 !!!

(assuming you mean non-american members)

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Re: Why are the majority from the U.S. oN here?
« Reply #31 on: July 02, 2008, 04:07:03 PM »
and if you didn't notice, yarbles, i'm a brit too. :)  $15 dollars is nothing, minimum hourly wage is $11, i think 1.5hrs of work for a month of AH isn't a bad deal at all.


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Re: Why are the majority from the U.S. oN here?
« Reply #32 on: July 02, 2008, 04:19:08 PM »
Quote from: Panzzer on July 02, 2008, 12:32:50 PM
Why limit it to the English speaking world? With the current Euro/Dollar exchange rate, for the 9.50 euros I spend on this game a month I couldn't get two pints at the pub...

But the Finns are over-represented.  What's up with that?
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Re: Why are the majority from the U.S. oN here?
« Reply #33 on: July 02, 2008, 04:23:01 PM »
'Cos there's nothing else to DO in Finland :aok
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Re: Why are the majority from the U.S. oN here?
« Reply #34 on: July 02, 2008, 06:07:46 PM »
Quote from: SD67 on July 02, 2008, 04:23:01 PM
'Cos there's nothing else to DO in Finland :aok

Motorcycling is all year around no matter where you live. All you need is spikes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJJn3m9WWZA&feature=related


I would find plenty to do in Finland, Winter is Ice Speedway then Autumn,Spring,Summer great expanses of forrests and tundra for dirt/adv riding.

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Re: Why are the majority from the U.S. oN here?
« Reply #35 on: July 02, 2008, 07:00:53 PM »
Quote from: MajIssue on July 02, 2008, 09:29:46 AM
According to the US Census bureau, 301,139,907 persons reside in the United states as of July 1997. More than the rest of the English speaking world combined!

Not quite.  Total English speakers in the world is somewhere between 500 million and 1.8 billion, depending on what level of literacy/fluency you choose.

US has around 260m English speakers.
EU has around 230m English speakers.
India around 90m.
Many others under 100m.

Wikipedia has a list.
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Re: Why are the majority from the U.S. oN here?
« Reply #36 on: July 02, 2008, 07:01:04 PM »
India is the largest english speaking nation
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Re: Why are the majority from the U.S. oN here?
« Reply #37 on: July 02, 2008, 07:02:33 PM »
HTC advertises here.
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Re: Why are the majority from the U.S. oN here?
« Reply #38 on: July 02, 2008, 08:04:41 PM »
I think it has lot to do with just more folks in the US liking on-line war sims (i.e., cultural of a sort).  It's not just propensity for on-line gaming, either -- it's the type of on-line gaming, too.  For example, lots of South Koreans play on-line games, but I don't think we have many South Koreans playing AH.   There are more US players in WWIIOL, Battlefield 1942, etc.
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Re: Why are the majority from the U.S. oN here?
« Reply #39 on: July 02, 2008, 09:51:12 PM »
Quote from: Brooke on July 02, 2008, 08:04:41 PM
I think it has lot to do with just more folks in the US liking on-line war sims (i.e., cultural of a sort).  It's not just propensity for on-line gaming, either -- it's the type of on-line gaming, too.  For example, lots of South Koreans play on-line games, but I don't think we have many South Koreans playing AH.   There are more US players in WWIIOL, Battlefield 1942, etc.

THis too. I agree with Brooke. American's love violent video games perhaps more than other countries.
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Re: Why are the majority from the U.S. oN here?
« Reply #40 on: July 02, 2008, 10:00:49 PM »
Quote from: DaveJ on July 02, 2008, 09:51:12 PM
American's are arguably more prone to violence than other countries.

That's a crappy thing to say!
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Re: Why are the majority from the U.S. oN here?
« Reply #41 on: July 02, 2008, 10:12:20 PM »
Quote from: Donzo on July 02, 2008, 10:00:49 PM
That's a crappy thing to say!

Its true though. Americans like violent video games. Thats what I meant to prone to violence. Perhaps I should edit that..
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Re: Why are the majority from the U.S. oN here?
« Reply #42 on: July 02, 2008, 10:12:30 PM »
Quote from: DaveJ on July 02, 2008, 09:51:12 PM
THis too. I agree with Brooke. American's are arguably more prone to violence than other countries.

There is no such thing as a violent video game, I have never drawn a single drop of blood in a game. And in AHII, you aren't even shooting at another human-shaped pixel, it is machine against machine. Well, except for chutes and paratroopers, and they are mostly just dots.

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Re: Why are the majority from the U.S. oN here?
« Reply #43 on: July 02, 2008, 10:13:48 PM »
Quote from: BnZ on July 02, 2008, 10:12:30 PM
No, too many Americans are apathetic, tamed,  and prone to putting up with ANYTHING rather than taking the slightest legal/physical risk. A dirtbag could probably walk up the average middle-class American male and call his wife a (insert filthy word here) and stand a good chance of not being hospitalized. This is a fact I report with sadness and shame. And this apathy extends to putting up with a minority of the population from who we get most of our violence and criminality (both on the street and in government.)

Look at my edited post above. I didn't mean to have it posted it in the context you're taking it in.
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Re: Why are the majority from the U.S. oN here?
« Reply #44 on: July 02, 2008, 10:14:25 PM »
Quote from: DaveJ on July 02, 2008, 10:12:20 PM
Its true though. Americans like violent video games. Thats what I meant to prone to violence. Perhaps I should edit that..

You should!  Because that is just crap!
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