Funny story maybe you guys will appreciate.
So one of my hobbies is Vietnam reenacting and my group had set up a series of pup tents and displays for the vets and the general public to look at and enjoy. I had my full M53 webgear rig set up, with helmet and rifle, for people to try on if they wanted. So, the kids that did the FPSers were all about getting their hands on the rifle and the helmet for pics.
And then I laid the webgear on them and strapped them in.
At first they were all "Oh cool! Look at me!" but after about 5 minutes of having it on them, the weight started to strain their backs. They never realized how heavy a rifle is, or a combat helmet, or even the equipment strapped on the web gear. Four handgrenades are heavy, and add to that 6 mags of 20 rnds each (more if you have a bandolier), plus two full canteens, with incidentals like shovel, flashlight, bayonet, combat knife, rain poncho, batteries for the PRC-25, 3 cans of rations stuffed in a sock... it starts to add up.
The punchline that made their eyes pop:
"Ok, now go low-crawl 20 yards to that picnic table, jump up on top, do 3 jumping jacks, run to the end of the parking lot, climb that tree, jump down, run back, low crawl the last 20 yards and then yell Boom-shaka-laka-boom! You do that in your game, right?"
It kinda put things in perspective for them. I aim to educate and to inform.
Seeing those moves in the video, with the characters hauling full packs and armor, made me laugh. But then, I fly cartoon airplanes and think I'm ready to pilot a real plane, so it's all good.
