Libs are angry 
about it, as expected.
When you point out that this is no different from all those US military propaganda games, they are quick to bring up that this is uniquely evil because it covers a currently active war. As if there weren’t a bajillion military games set in the Middle East during the “War on Terror”. 
They truly have a selective memory.
You also assassinate Qassem Soleimani in the first mission of the game I think? Because he worked with ISIS and the Mexican cartels (in the game, obviously not in real life). Being a while since I played the games, especially the newer ones I’ve played very little of, so it could be from a different call of duty game.
Just looked it up, in the first mission of the sequel, Call of Duty Modern Warfare II 2022, you guide the missile to assassinate Soleimani during an arms deal between Iran and Russia, but Soleimani is called “Ghorbrani” in the game, and the assassination takes place in a fictional country, not Iran or Russia.
literally soul-killing to be working on that game and able to see the specific events and movies and state department narratives that every single level was cribbing from and not be able to say anything because no one fucking cares. Like having the CIA protagonist allying with a group that’s clearly a stand in for the PKK but also a level where the plot twist villain turns into Assad by Gassing His Own People and the fact that battle royale map was explicitly (as in that was its dev name and the layout is the same) based on Donetsk well before the Russian invasion like why did that not raise any alarms??
Anyway, not really related but this is the guy who wrote the first two Black Ops games. If you were wondering.
Incredibly confusing 5 seconds where I thought that was the same Dave Anthony from The West Wing Thing and The Dollop
That game also depicts a war crime that’s essentially the Haditha Massacre but perpetrated by the Russians
That means Valve is financially enabling a military-affiliated project
Disgusting! I’m just gonna play more call of duty instead.
Further, as spotted by Game Informer, the Ukrainian Centre for Countering Disinformation has already had its eye on Squad 22: ZOV, describing it as “a key element in brainwashing the population, reflecting the Russian government’s version of events regarding the invasion of Ukraine and glorifying military service”.
Do you think they’d have a statement from whatever the Russian equivalent government org would be if there was a similar Ukrainian game?
There are similar Ukrainian games. Including STALKER 2 which used Azov soldiers as voice actors
don’t forget the infamous swastika bullet pattern
It’s only brainwashing when liberals don’t like it
I’ve posted about a couple of those games already. They’ve been out EARLIER into the SMO
When will Hamas release a paramotor flight sim
Romhack of Pilotwings, when?
There was a literal U.S. army propaganda FPS game series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America's_Army
That game was absolute shit. I got it when military recruiters came to some picnic event our school was having. One of my friends said it didn’t work and I found it boring as hell.
Lmao I was into it for some reason, IG cause it was free and I never had CoD or counterstrike
I didn’t have those either but I just wasn’t feeling it at the time
It was a pretty good mil SIM from what I remembered. It was hard and unforgiving, but yeah
This is why it’s getting harder for me to see a point in talking to these people; the fact that they’re unable to see the double standard makes it feel pointless. Unless the media tells them to see it that way, they won’t. You and I can point it out to them, but unless they read an article about it and they feel like it’s coming from someone more intelligent than them, they won’t hear a word of it; never mind that they have a brain of their own they can use to think with; they’ve decided to delegate the thinking function to people they consider smarter; the reasoning, the history, the context, etc., none of this matters, the only thing that matters is hearing it from someone they consider smart.
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Usually they see the double standard but say “you’re just a Russian/Chinese bot doing whataboutism” and “at least we have freedum unlike those inherently evil [BAD COUNTRY]'s people”
However, if the opposite happened and there was a game where you played as the Noble Azov defenders, I’m sure they’d be all honky-dory with it
There are games where you play as Ukrainians in the current war against Russia. There was a Fallujah game, too, not that long ago where you can only play as the US. These people are fuckwads.
Can’t be any worse than any COD game or whatever games ukraine is producing about the war
We played America’s Army in my high school while the war in Iraq was in full swing
How distasteful. I definitely didn’t grow up playing NovaLogic’s Delta Force, CoD, Battlefield, the Ghost Recon where you liberate Moscow, etc etc
As if there weren’t a bajillion military games set in the Middle East during the “War on Terror”
I think most of those were set in various Madeupistans or had some kind of corny Tom Clancy bullshit plots with moustache-twirling villains rather than being this ripped from the headlines
I don’t really see how setting your
Army goodgame in Carbombya or Qurac is much better than a real placeThe generation of animus is there regardless
In the America’s Army FPS game allies always looked like the US also, the enemies always vaguely less white with AKs, the teams were ‘offense’ and ‘defense’ but you were US no matter what, against the ‘others’.
A free-to-play game set in an active conflict that’s being promoted by an organisation that tries to get young people to enlist in the armed forces to fight in said conflict is a new level of ghoulish imo
Set in the fictional Republic of the Ostregals
The comics tell the story of U.S. Soldiers deployed to a tiny foreign nation in the middle of a chaotic conflict. The description for the series reads: “From the seemingly insignificant country of Czervenia, President-General Adzic and his army set upon a campaign of annihilation against the neighboring Republic of the Ostregals, setting in motion a mysterious plan that could change the course of world power forever. America’s Army must create new experimental combat teams, forged together in secret Proving Grounds, and uncover the General’s insidious plot before time runs out.”
Like I said, it’s all mostly been silly GI Joe nonsense instead of actual conflicts the US is involved in, even in this Army recruitment tool. I think the 2012 Medal of Honor game that glorified bearded operator thugs was set in Afghanistan during the War on Terror, but I obviously never played that. There was also the cancelled game, Six Days of Fallujah that was talked about a lot specifically because it was set during an actual battle
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1548850/Six_Days_in_Fallujah/
Was uncancelled
Of all the cancelled games in the world why did this one have to come back
Blame Marty O’Donnell, the former Halo composer, who’s a massive chud who apparently really wanted to see this terrible idea become playable.
Yeah, I joke about how mainstream American military good slop is, and that’s its own thing, but while this may not be a BIG step up, it still is one in that it’s just a straight up depiction of the current conflict and I think that’s new.
Talking about russian propaganda games, i feel the need to plug Syrian Warfare
and Terminator: Dark Fate Defiance 
(both made by the same developers, even though the terminator one refuses to say so on the steam page for some reason) they’re not like other RTS games out there that i know. They share similarities with say, stuff like Company of Heroes or Men of War, but they’re still a very different system that is both simplified in unit management (no more micro-managing inventories 
) but will also kick your teeth in very hard for any mistake, they’re hard and they’re very good, folks!nice, looks like they’re reusing those western vehicle assets from Terminator
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