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Playing a “Modern military shooter” is super depressing (hexbear.net)
submitted 6 years ago* by to c/main@hexbear.net
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It’s always the same thing. Russia bad, Middle-East bad, China bad. USA saves the world.

I like playing Ace Combat because the nations and geopolitics are made-up so it doesn’t feel like you are sitting down and watching U.S. military propaganda for 10 straight hours.

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[–] 1 point 6 years ago

I've always thought of Call of Duty as a Michael Bay style game; mindless military propaganda with lots of explosions.

They're fun on a surface level, but they're also perpetuating the military industrial complex. I'm sure they have helped immensely with boosting the amount of youth enlisting.

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    [–] 1 point 6 years ago

    ...but REALISM bro.

    What do you mean COD is political?

    It's just a GAME bro.

    Politics - keep that shit out of my games, I just want to GAME bro.

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    [–] 1 point 6 years ago

    Insurgency: Sandstorm was going to be YPG/J vs ISIS but they toned it down to not piss of Turkey or something. Still, it stands out that you're playing as (presumably Kurdish, since you can play as a woman on the "Security Forces" side) local security forces instead of the US or something.

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    [–] 1 point 6 years ago

    TV: cops and lawyers are good bro I swear

    Movies/Video Games: AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!!!

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