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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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I think it's kind of an online thing. Every boomer dad has an illustrated WWII encyclopedia cause their dad/grandad was a veteran and they think it's cool. I think for that reason there's a divide between people who got into it because their parents were into it and people that got into it because they played too many videogames.
Plenty of us also grew up watching Top Gun (loved American war movies as a kid) and played 1990s DOS military sims (anyone remembers Jane’s Combat Simulations with AH-64D Longbow Apache?) with low polygon count 3D graphics lol. Good times.
The Comanche game was great too, as well as Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters game too!
Yeah typically the younger video game players are groypers while the boomers are just garden variety chuds who hate nazis because their dad fought against them in the war.