"It lets you create a Wall of Light."
"A what?"
"A Wall of Light. You use your Wall of Light as a force multiplier to get inside the other guy's OODA* loop and dominate the battlespace."
"Shut up."
Jargon. The bane of any right-thinking individual.
*OODA: Observe, Overreact, Destroy, Apologize.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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According to Surefire's ads, that really works. However, it only works if your opponent is a young Asian male.
Then again, since most witnesses seem indicate that "Sum Yung" Guy is the usual suspect, maybe the ethnocentric nature of white light isn't necessarily a disadvantaged. All the non-Asians can be handled the old fashioned way: disruption of the OODA loop via ballistic disruption of the cardiovascular and/or neural network.
For a minuet I thought that "Wall of Light" was some D&D wizard spell that I wasn't aware of.
Gamers are huge on the jargon as well
-Weer'd
Yikes! Air Force Flashback!
Tactical tommies ... gunstores would go bankrupt without them.
"OODA: Observe, Overreact, Destroy, Apologize."
Bwahahaha
Re: OODA loop...
As one of them retired Air Force pukes myself, many could stand to learn from the late Col. John Boyd.
There will always be those who find a handy catch-phrase and use it ad nauseam. Perhaps they're fair game for ridicule. However, I'll always give the benefit of the doubt to John Boyd and his original acolytes.
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