Morons yammering away in your headset can be off-putting to the average gamer toiling through a round of Call of Duty online, but how does it affect the combat capacity of an actual, trained soldier in the field?
Machinima specialist Rooster Teeth's new series Immersion seeks to find out, having US Special Forces veteran "Shane" fire twenty rounds down a firing range with an M4 carbine. His first ten shots are in sweet, blissful silence.
His second ten shots are with the comedy crew from Mega 64 giving him shit through his headpiece. Will he buckle under questionable statements about his junk? Under offensively homophobic slurs? What about racial shit inside his brain right now?