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Do US Special Forces Get Affected by Trash Talk?

- By - Source : Tom's Guide US

Smacktalk on the battlefield -- does it matter?

Like it or not, trash talking is a part of competitive activities such as sports and even online gaming. The sort of things you'll hear from a Halo or Call of Duty match are definitely things that the gamers' mothers would never approve of, but that's the kind of hostile environment that some gamers make for themselves today.

Perhaps trash talking gives one a competitive advantage over his or her opponents. But what happens when we apply Call of Duty trash talking to someone who has seen real Modern Warfare action?

Rooster Teeth attempts to find out in a Mythbusters-style video. Check it out below.

Trash talking gamers

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danorou 12/05/2010 6:27 PM
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Genius!

elcentral 12/05/2010 6:37 PM
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lol play halo aour clan tag is gay. at least they flame them self as much as they do him.

chickenhoagie 12/05/2010 6:38 PM
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chickenhoagie 12/05/2010 6:44 PM
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freakin hilarious video btw..favorited for sure:)

chess 12/05/2010 6:53 PM
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for the control test, they should have timed him. It seems like his 2nd time around, he was shooting much slower

jaysbob 12/05/2010 7:06 PM
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I hear there's no spawn points in RL

samdsox 12/05/2010 7:26 PM
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Personaly i would rather see next weeks episode. :)

ehanger 12/05/2010 7:32 PM
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Im surprised the guy didnt shoot them

liveonc 12/05/2010 8:08 PM
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ehanger :
Im surprised the guy didnt shoot them



It is surprising that he didn't shoot them, what if Osama talked that way too, wouldn't he shoot him either? ;-)

aleh1811 12/05/2010 9:26 PM
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Definetly would have shot them.

cronik93 12/05/2010 9:43 PM
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Myg0t would have done better at the trash talk and trolling....

ben850 12/05/2010 10:00 PM
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"Would you like to meet the guys who have been talking to you for the last 10 minutes here?"

"NAH F*** THAT"

LOL

Kryan 12/05/2010 11:08 PM
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LOVE the middle finger bit :D

cmartin011 12/06/2010 12:27 PM
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i found that fun.. a well oiled military machine with a sense of humor love it!

tsnorquist 12/06/2010 1:48 AM
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Society would be better off with 10 rounds down range on those 3 slobs.

Nice shooting Shane!

Xatos 12/06/2010 3:12 AM
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Pretty terrible shit talkers. And this test was more for fun, it wouldn't have much effect on a 13-year professional anything. He's a badass though.

luc2k 12/06/2010 6:47 AM
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Fullscreen button on the player PLEASE!

http://code.google.com/apis/youtub [...] rs.html#fs

Anonymous 12/06/2010 1:08 PM
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bustapr 12/06/2010 2:00 PM
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rule of survival #105... never challenge a guy carrying a real AR...

Camikazi 12/06/2010 2:43 PM
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ehanger :
Im surprised the guy didnt shoot them


Seems to me he got really close to turning the gun on them a few times there.

chunkymonster 12/06/2010 3:26 PM
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"It's a lot harder when the targets are shooting back at you."

Great line by Shane!

Funny video.

liveonc 12/06/2010 6:36 PM
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jaysbob :
I hear there's no spawn points in RL


Only in Unreal Tournament.. ;-)

mikem_90 12/06/2010 6:58 PM
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jaysbob :
I hear there's no spawn points in RL



Well, there are, but the respawn timer is 9 months followed by a good 18+ years of time in the tutorial.

K-zon 12/06/2010 7:02 PM
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Its probably a fairly bogus article really, but on the ideas of rather to really say to much to someone with a gun holds firm. And rather to say anything without as well.

igot1forya 12/06/2010 7:21 PM
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War-time trash talk is no new concept where the objective was to disrupt moral of the troops. Wiki Tokyo Rose for more info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Rose

jerreece 12/06/2010 7:38 PM
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bustapr :
rule of survival #105... never challenge a guy carrying a real AR...



Except they clearly stated in the video it was an M4. The AR is the civilian version. Same, but not.

blackmancer 12/07/2010 11:01 AM
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I just wanna know, in a real war zone with bullets being fired and your guys yelling, how your supposed to hear (let alone care) about someone yelling "numbnuts, shoot straighter, were not at home in the toilet!" ??