OOPMan

Every successful sport in the world has ridiculously simple surface rules, so yes, they do know what they're talking about. The soccer rules can probably run up a couple of hundred pages if you take the referee side of things but as far as the average person playing/watching, it's "put the ball in goal, don't kick someone without hitting the ball first, a ball passing the lines goes to the opposite team of who touched it last, don't touch it with your hands and don't be offside". Any child can understand these rules and play 99% of the game without a problem.
Secondly, pretty much all sports with any degree of success, and this also applies to vidya, follows the mantra of simple to learn, yet hard to master. You can set up your own soccer pitch in the middle of a favela with a small rock/tin can/whatever as a ball, any two objects as goal posts (you don't even need two goals) and some slight rule modifications (typically don't hit the rock over knee height, which will also become the defeault height for goals). The more proper items you have (soccer pitch with lines, a real ball, a proper goal, real equipment like boots and shin protectors), the more complex it gets and the more you can learn/do.
It's also why LoL is such a popular spectator sport, ignoring that I personally feel it's boring. The spectator only has to learn a few basic item builds for the most popular characters to follow the drama of who gets the advantage first and the rules are extremely simple. It's also more complex for the people playing because timing matters a lot. What's the point of going to buy an item advantage if you lose a lane because of bad timing? CS is also a deceptively simple game for the viewers, literally just Point And Click, but much more complex for the players as they need high awareness, map knowledge, spray control and pixel perfect aim and reflexes. Just like with traditional sports, it also becomes more entertaining for the fans when they invest more in it. They will be able to predict the plays and enjoy the finer points of what's going on, while the average viewers just enjoys pretty lights and big numbers.
It's why @OOPMan is hilariously wrong when he says they advocate making games dumber, as skill level or complexity levels have nothing to do with it, it's just a presentation issue. They didn't change the rules of Poker to make it more fun to watch, all they did was add a new camera and some overlaying graphics to help the spectators. There's a reason why WoT draws a few thousand viewers while LoL draws 200k and it lies in how the games function and present themselves. WoT just isn't that interesting to watch for the average person (including WoT players!) because it doesn't contain any exciting moments or plays. 90% of games are decided in the first 30 seconds during initial deployment, as one team failing to predict what the other does results in losing tanks and there's pretty much nothing a single player can do vs that kind of HP advantage if the teams are even remotely close in skill. Meanwhile, the right teamwork and kill streaks can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in LoL or CS, all based on player and team skill. Holding your ult or your stun for just the right moment in LoL or taking a sneaky position in CS can do a lot to turn a game around and this is where the fun is for spectators.
You don't have to dumb anything down at all, you just have to design a simple surface layer that presents everything fun about the game and allows the viewer to follow it as it happens.

Wow. That Friday song is really bad. I actually prefer the Belarussian one. Lol.

Yeah, this is unpleasant aspect of our industrial food production system. Unfortunately, the problem is actually hard to solve.
Consider that for the purposes of producing eggs and meat, roosters are of less value than hens. They don't produce eggs at all and for the purposes of meat they're no better than hens and sometimes worse.
Thus, what to do with the roosters? The futuristic solution would be to genetically engineer things such that only the required number of male offspring hatch but of course this would set all the anti-GMtards in a total fluster. 
Economically, it doesn't make sense to raise the male young and thus they have to be killed before they end up costing more than they're worth (Which is probably pretty quickly given they won't produce eggs). Unfortunately none of the solutions available are really pleasant precisely because they need to be economical :-/
This, unfortunately, is a result of what happens when you mass-produce food on a large scale. Even the vegetarian/vegan option doesn't lead down a happy path because it's likely that in order to produce enough vegetables to feed the populace we would need to deforest the land further and this would have knock-on impacts on other ecosystems.
Despite what the green/vegan crowd likes to say, this is not an easy problem to solve. You can't simply say "You shall eat vegetables only" and be done with it. Various animals were domesticated for the reason that they're able to process inedible plants into edible meat and hence in order to replace them wholescale will take more effort than simply planting extra potatoes and beans :-)
The problem here, I think, is that the green/vegan crowd refuse to think about this stuff in-depth. They get so caught up in the emotive part of it that they fail to realise that modern food production is an incredibly complex system to tinker with.

Yeah, this is unpleasant aspect of our industrial food production system. Unfortunately, the problem is actually hard to solve.
Consider that for the purposes of producing eggs and meat, roosters are of less value than hens. They don't produce eggs at all and for the purposes of meat they're no better than hens and sometimes worse.
Thus, what to do with the roosters? The futuristic solution would be to genetically engineer things such that only the required number of male offspring hatch but of course this would set all the anti-GMtards in a total fluster. 
Economically, it doesn't make sense to raise the male young and thus they have to be killed before they end up costing more than they're worth (Which is probably pretty quickly given they won't produce eggs). Unfortunately none of the solutions available are really pleasant precisely because they need to be economical :-/
This, unfortunately, is a result of what happens when you mass-produce food on a large scale. Even the vegetarian/vegan option doesn't lead down a happy path because it's likely that in order to produce enough vegetables to feed the populace we would need to deforest the land further and this would have knock-on impacts on other ecosystems.
Despite what the green/vegan crowd likes to say, this is not an easy problem to solve. You can't simply say "You shall eat vegetables only" and be done with it. Various animals were domesticated for the reason that they're able to process inedible plants into edible meat and hence in order to replace them wholescale will take more effort than simply planting extra potatoes and beans :-)
The problem here, I think, is that the green/vegan crowd refuse to think about this stuff in-depth. They get so caught up in the emotive part of it that they fail to realise that modern food production is an incredibly complex system to tinker with.

OOP pretty much said what I came here to say.
I've spent my entire life on various farms and unfortunately, its life, producing food is a business after-all and making a profit is the main objective. There are various groups that scream and shout about how everyone should convert to vegan or organically produced foods, what they don't realise is that the world would probably starve if everyone converted to either or. Every day the population number increases and the amount of suitable agricultural land decreases, the need to produce more food with less resources is the main drive for the technology and practices, not peoples feels.
There's always a lot of negativity towards GM foods, but honestly they're already in widespread use across many sectors of agriculture and will become the staple in the future as they become more profitable and yield more produce with less resources. RR crops is a good example of a very useful and widely used GM food. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roundup_Ready_Crops
@Haswell
I love meat in all shapes and forms, except for veal... Eating a 4 day old bobby calf is just not very appetizing when you've spent several years dealing with them. That pale newborn meat is awful.
 

Wow. That Friday song is really bad. I actually prefer the Belarussian one. Lol.

Yep. You need to build a collection of different WoT clients in order to play replays.
Unless of course you film it and then keep it somewhere, that saves a lot of time.

Is it just me or is rap better when you don't understand the words?

I dug around for it. It's from this music video, the part from the gif is at 2:22
 

@OOPMan     The same can be applied to AW, IMO all three games are very different from each other and if people think simply applying WoT to either one will work......well lets just say they will be very disappointed. So in the same way WT-GF is different from WoT so is AW, weather it be class balance,(MBT master race) maps (terrible designs in favor of one class), game mechanics (spotting/camo), ect. 

I agree for the most part with @OOPMan, but WT;GF has its own fair share of issues, like BR, lack of 7.7-8.0 tanks for Germany and USA, and the fact that Soviet tanks are harder to kill than the others. It's not really Russian Bias, it's just the way the Soviets built their tanks.

@Crossfader @SmyleeRage 
WTGF has actually improved a great deal over the last year. But if you go into it expecting your WoT skills to translate you're not going to enjoy the game. Fact of the matter is, WTGF is very different from either WoT or AW.
For some people, different is worse. I used to feel different == worse in the case of WTGF as well until I actually stopped trying to pull WoT tricks in it. After that, the transition became a lot smoother.  
At the moment I prefer playing WT to WoT and AW for a number of reasons:
Artillery isn't horrifically broken Once you learn the mechanics, driving isn't that hard and 1-shotting opponents can be done pretty reliably.  Playerbase are effectively mute. There is no shit-talking, rage or other toxic salt for the most part. I think over the last 12 months it's only happened twice that someone actually got salty enough to directly spew verbal garbage my way. In WoT it happens just about every other match Air-battle events in AB are a fun diversion from ground combat It feels genuinely different from WoT, unlike AW I'm not saying you should try WTGF. I'm just saying you shouldn't dismiss it out of hand simply because at release it was truly horrific. Gaijin have made some genuinely good improvements since then and it's a much more enjoyable affair at the moment.

I am a mechanical engineer and I am pretty much sitting behind a desk and doing engineer stuff on my workstation. My boss is piecewise paralyzed and with an extra pedal he is able to do everything work related.
Don't worry! If you choose a proper field in the engineering it is still an option for you.

Wouldn't keep you out of engineering or math

^ that. Especially since they nerfed it in HD and it no longer gets as many troll bounces on it's turret.

We are not haters (at least I am not), but allowing everybody to keep guns is retarded.

God damn it, might as well join the haters.
 
 
 

Consider that most of us outside the US (I.e. A significant portion of the global population) get along just fine without carrying around devices that have one ultimate purpose: To kill.
You're welcome to do what you want in your country but consider that the rest of us outside of the US consider your ideas on this to be a little...strange. 

@KruggWolfyWoof Do you really feel the answer to violence is the threat of further violence? 

Consider that most of us outside the US (I.e. A significant portion of the global population) get along just fine without carrying around devices that have one ultimate purpose: To kill.
You're welcome to do what you want in your country but consider that the rest of us outside of the US consider your ideas on this to be a little...strange. 

Interesting topic. If the neighbourhood would be so bad that I would need a gun to feel safe I'd rather just move. I prefer our EU way where all the red shitters (in wot-terms) around me aren't carrying guns and can't get their hands on them easily.

Consider that most of us outside the US (I.e. A significant portion of the global population) get along just fine without carrying around devices that have one ultimate purpose: To kill.
You're welcome to do what you want in your country but consider that the rest of us outside of the US consider your ideas on this to be a little...strange. 

Consider that most of us outside the US (I.e. A significant portion of the global population) get along just fine without carrying around devices that have one ultimate purpose: To kill.
You're welcome to do what you want in your country but consider that the rest of us outside of the US consider your ideas on this to be a little...strange. 

They are vision periscopes used to help the commander see outside the tank. They are  smell sensors so the dedicated tank dog can smell enemies.

You need to switch to the special Port (Yokohama or something?) to enable the ARP content...