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Julio Cruz posted:being the most morally repugnant Call of Duty is honestly a pretty big achievement when you consider that one of the previous ones forced you to carry out a massacre in a civilian airport To be fair to that one, it let you skip that mission, it didn't force you to open fire, and it did so with the - shallow, yes - intent to say "villain bad". That and the real villain ended up being the US army.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:To be fair to that one, it let you skip that mission, it didn't force you to open fire, and it did so with the - shallow, yes - intent to say "villain bad". That and the real villain ended up being the US army. Yeah, I'd argue that that scene was gratuitous and in poor taste, but at least it was being honest who the loving bad guys were. Not saying "actually, it's the national bogeyman who killed those refugees and fleeing soldiers"
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Yeah that was just before CoD became a full on military propoganda machine for fascists.
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Julio Cruz posted:being the most morally repugnant Call of Duty is honestly a pretty big achievement when you consider that one of the previous ones forced you to carry out a massacre in a civilian airport This gets mentioned a lot, and I feel like I'm okay with the game having that kind of level in it as a way to get beyond the Michael Bay Explosions Hoo-Rah stuff and make the player feel genuinely uncomfortable doing something. I don't necessarily want to say that CoD treated that level 'with respect' I suppose, but within the context of the game it felt pretty awful and I got the impression that was on purpose. Straight up saying "Yeah this massive, horrific tragedy was The Bad Guys" when it was us, then pushing your game as a realistic depiction of events is a little different though.
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Surprise T Rex posted:saying "Yeah this massive, horrific tragedy was The Bad Guys" when it was us
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Guavanaut posted:https://twitter.com/juanittoburrito/status/1188499425041121281 I’m pretty sure it’s downright incorrect as well, I recall that to use an US DoD assets in a game or film you need clearance, and they won’t give it if they don’t like the narrative.
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Red Oktober posted:I’m pretty sure it’s downright incorrect as well, I recall that to use an US DoD assets in a game or film you need clearance, and they won’t give it if they don’t like the narrative. https://twitter.com/jpVari/status/1188637192182259712 However, if the government subsidises a thing, that's interfering with the free market.
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Red Oktober posted:I’m pretty sure it’s downright incorrect as well, I recall that to use an US DoD assets in a game or film you need clearance, and they won’t give it if they don’t like the narrative. https://youtu.be/sQSpHi7OOHA Good video on the subject. (If it's the one I remember, I'm in work, can't listen to confirm)
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OwlFancier posted:https://twitter.com/jpVari/status/1188637192182259712 so, it's optional, and they opted to do it, so they didn't do it, because it's optional and they opted to do it *turns to camera* this is your brain, on worms
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OwlFancier posted:https://twitter.com/jpVari/status/1188637192182259712
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mehall posted:https://youtu.be/sQSpHi7OOHA There's also a good one by Pop Culture Detective (former editor for Feminist Frequency)
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OwlFancier posted:https://twitter.com/jpVari/status/1188637192182259712 Ah but you see, the US military uses guns and guns = freedom, ergo the US military = freedom. QED 
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"hey nigel how many layers of of brexiteer are you on" "idk my dude, 5 or 6?" "you are like little remoaner, watch this" https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/nigel-farage/caller-accuses-nigel-farage-remainer-gobsmacked/
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Borrovan posted:You need to combine the lens with the Staff of Ra and place it where you can see the beam of light shining through the dungeon to focus it onto the rune & open the secret area Game? Don't you mean Raiders of the Lost Ark?
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Julio Cruz posted:being the most morally repugnant Call of Duty is honestly a pretty big achievement when you consider that one of the previous ones forced you to carry out a massacre in a civilian airport Blops has triumphant and cheerful napalming of the viet cong. AW (I think) has a beach assault that's clearly invoking the D-Day landings a la Saving Private Ryan. Except you're in the bunkers, in the Nazi position, mowing people down by the dozen as they come out of landing craft. You also get to drone strike them! No Russian is not even close to the low-point of CoD.
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ShadowSpectre posted:"hey nigel how many layers of of brexiteer are you on" bahahaha
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Scikar posted:Game? Don't you mean Raiders of the Lost Ark?
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Someone should make a horror game set in the middle east that just straight up replaces the monsters with US soldiers and gratuitous deaths with your family being shot in the loving face for no reason. I mean Spec Ops: The Line kinda did this?
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Scikar posted:Game? Don't you mean Raiders of the Lost Ark? Both Raiders of the Lost Ark and a 5-man instance in WoW (Maraudon?). I can't imagine where the devs got that idea from.
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As a dummy Canadian I've seen a lot of Remembrance/Armistice/Whatever Day commodification coming from the UK and I'm wondering what the hell happened? I won't deny that the same thing happens in Canada (and I'm sad to say I'm almost definitely ignorant of just how scummy the commodification gets) but holy hell does it look like the UK loves to merchandise the poo poo out of millions of dead soldiers.
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Borrovan posted:That too but there's totally a text adventure or something where that's the solution to some puzzle & it's been bugging me ever since I made that post You have to do something similar with a curtain on a tiled wall in Zero Escape: 999
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Fucks sake. Shadow cabinet are going to abstain, try to call Lib Dem/SNP/government bluff. Apparently: they also recognise the one line Bill is likely to pass, but believe Labour Mp’s ‘aren’t in a good place’ in GE and refuse to vote for it. They have hosed it
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Arcsquad12 posted:As a dummy Canadian I've seen a lot of Remembrance/Armistice/Whatever Day commodification coming from the UK and I'm wondering what the hell happened? I won't deny that the same thing happens in Canada (and I'm sad to say I'm almost definitely ignorant of just how scummy the commodification gets) but holy hell does it look like the UK loves to merchandise the poo poo out of millions of dead soldiers. Old gammony eople get angry and scream at people who wear the white poppy (which remembers everyone who died in war, not just soldiers).
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In other news, there's a guy stuck upside down at the top of a 270ft chimney in Cumbria. https://twitter.com/naim_asghar/status/1188748621791006720 This fella has a solution though. https://twitter.com/naim_asghar/status/1188775763102834689
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Pesmerga posted:Fucks sake. Shadow cabinet are going to abstain, try to call Lib Dem/SNP/government bluff. https://twitter.com/rowenamason/status/1188824859939344394
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alphabettitouretti posted:In other news, there's a guy stuck upside down at the top of a 270ft chimney in Cumbria. I've rescued many cats stuck like this the solution is to cut down the tower and let him land on his feet.
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Arcsquad12 posted:As a dummy Canadian I've seen a lot of Remembrance/Armistice/Whatever Day commodification coming from the UK and I'm wondering what the hell happened? I won't deny that the same thing happens in Canada (and I'm sad to say I'm almost definitely ignorant of just how scummy the commodification gets) but holy hell does it look like the UK loves to merchandise the poo poo out of millions of dead soldiers. 
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https://twitter.com/pippacrerar/status/1188824161193529349?s=21 https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1188822382829592576?s=21 https://twitter.com/benkentish/status/1188826317216735233?s=21 https://twitter.com/uklabour/status/1188826455305621504?s=21 This isn’t a party that’s sure of itself, it’s a party that’s suddenly dropped all talks of elections in its advertising and is now in damage limitation mode.
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Pesmerga posted:Fucks sake. Shadow cabinet are going to abstain, try to call Lib Dem/SNP/government bluff. I get that this might not be a good look, but it's pretty bizarre how this story goes from an unsourced tweet (literally just "I'm told") and then by the end of your post it's past tense as though this has already happened.
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ShadowSpectre posted:"hey nigel how many layers of of brexiteer are you on" So obviously the new hardest of hard brexits is to not only leave the EU with no deal, but to sever all contact with them and refuse to acknowledge that the rest of Europe even exists at all any more.
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The labour party is not suddenly afraid of an election you nit, they've been doing nothing but push for election prep for the past several months. What they're trying to do is maximise damage to the tories before they call one so that they have the greatest possible chance of winning it. Because they have to overcome literally every challenge to do so. The right is, presently, united behind the tories, the idiot middle class is rallying behind the liberals because they fundamentally do not want a labour government, thus it is incumbent on labour to damage them all as much as possible. The fact that an election is going to be extremely difficult is not new, the fact that the labour therefore wants an election when they have the greatest likelihood of winning it, is not new. Stop catastrophizing like a lunatic at every opportunity, it's stupid. Literally yesterday: https://twitter.com/JonAshworth/status/1188407449633591296 OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Oct 28, 2019 |
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Rarity posted:People would save themselves so much stress in this thread if they waited to get mad at things that might happen until they actually happen Would it make you mad if I said this might make me mad?
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Labour votes for an election, Labour doesn't vote for an election. In a weeks time no one will remember and we'll be into the campaign or gearing up for the next vote to crush boris. Literally the only people to care are those who have made their own choices.
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Maybe you’ll take it from a massive cheerleader then. https://twitter.com/aaronbastani/status/1188827158397046784?s=21 https://twitter.com/aaronbastani/status/1188831061817602049?s=21 This looks really loving bad.
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Rarity posted:People would save themselves so much stress in this thread if they waited to get mad at things that might happen until they actually happen lol @ polls and rumors but also lol @ blackpilling yourself over HoC shenanigans.
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