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"Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda (www.eurogamer.net)
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Libs are angry maddened 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". picard

They truly have a selective memory.

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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 61 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Remember when Call of Duty spread disinformation blaming Russia for a real-life US war crime?^[https://www.newsweek.com/call-duty-modern-warfare-highway-death-russia-gulf-war-1468207]

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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??

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anyway, not really related but this is the guy who wrote the first two Black Ops games. If you were wondering.

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Incredibly confusing 5 seconds where I thought that was the same Dave Anthony from The West Wing Thing and The Dollop

[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

They always tell what’s going on, leftist are just no looking into the right places.

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

That game also depicts a war crime that's essentially the Haditha Massacre but perpetrated by the Russians

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 50 points 1 month ago

That means Valve is financially enabling a military-affiliated project

Disgusting! I'm just gonna play more call of duty instead.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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?

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There are similar Ukrainian games. Including STALKER 2 which used Azov soldiers as voice actors

[–] CredibleBattery@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

don't forget the infamous swastika bullet pattern

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

It’s only brainwashing when liberals don’t like it

[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

No. There are probably a dozen slava ukraini games.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

I've posted about a couple of those games already. They've been out EARLIER into the SMO

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When will Hamas release a paramotor flight sim

[–] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Romhack of Pilotwings, when?

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

Destiny's fans have entered the chat

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

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"

[–] Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There was a literal U.S. army propaganda FPS game series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Army

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lmao I was into it for some reason, IG cause it was free and I never had CoD or counterstrike

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[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

It was a pretty good mil SIM from what I remembered. It was hard and unforgiving, but yeah

[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Us army game depicts american war crime as russian one. Literally uses evil muslimstan as their setting for the billionth time: I sleep

Russia does the same: HOW DARE YOU!

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 month ago

Russia does the same:

It is even the same? Do this game blatantly lies, projects and dehumanizes the enemies?

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago

Can't be any worse than any COD game or whatever games ukraine is producing about the war

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

We played America's Army in my high school while the war in Iraq was in full swing meow-tableflip

[–] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

How distasteful. I definitely didn't grow up playing NovaLogic's Delta Force, CoD, Battlefield, the Ghost Recon where you liberate Moscow, etc etc

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't really see how setting your Army good game in Carbombya or Qurac is much better than a real place

The generation of animus is there regardless

[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

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'.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Of all the cancelled games in the world why did this one have to come back

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Blame Marty O'Donnell, the former Halo composer, who's a massive chud who apparently really wanted to see this terrible idea become playable.

[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Some people just cant even leave fictional arab civilians unkilled.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lmao, this is what his game studio has amounted to? michael-laugh Kinda funny seeing him going from palling around with Paul McCartney back when Destiny 1 was being made to dumpster diving this limp troop-fellating trash from the dustbin of history and being online 24/7, commenting on every Youtube video made about the Bungie Halos. The guy was so annoying that he even got banned from the fucking Halo subreddit (presumably before it was known he was a rabidly right-wing Facebook boomer.)

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

His studio is so successful it doesn't even have its own page on Wikipedia. I definitely remember people knowing or at least suspecting he was a chud at least as far back when Destiny 1 came out, since he had made a bunch of anti-abortion tweets.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm sure Gamers were more than willing to look past his "personal political opinions" back when it was less socially acceptable for them to just embrace them wholeheartedly

In old articles, interviews and blog posts on the Bungie website back from the Halo days the other devs would often talk about how Marty was by far the oldest and most conservative member on the team

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Because they can indulge in all the orientalist tropes in peace. They also need to do less research in actually portraying the country they are bombing (for fun).

[–] CredibleBattery@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Talking about russian propaganda games, i feel the need to plug Syrian Warfare assad-must-stay and Terminator: Dark Fate Defiance artificial-intelligence (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 sadness) but will also kick your teeth in very hard for any mistake, they're hard and they're very good, folks!