Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022): Thread 1 - Ukrainian Liars vs Russian Liars with Air and Artillery Superiority

[Thiletonomics]

IIRC Modern Warfare 2 wasn't banned in Russia though I don't know if they removed that one level, that even led to butthurt here in the states.

So it does seem like shit is getting worse while the standards for Call of Duty in general have fallen as well. Apparently in Black Ops 2, they had the player working with the Chinese as well and that same concept was in BF4 as well.

BF4 was banned iirc in China because of a different reason lol, one of the DLCs had Chinese maps and the Chinese were mad that it mean Chinese soil had been invaded.

The Russian bad guy stuff has been there even before Call of Duty though Call of Duty 1 and 2 had us fighting as a Ruskie and World at War and Battlefield 3 was the last time the player could play as a Russian. One of the Medal of Honor old school games had the player helping out Russians in Berlin.

But in general it has been Russian bad guy or for a while Middle Eastern bad guy before the soycucks got mad.

And even in those games, the Middle Eastern antagonists wasn't a specific country like how Russia and China (although China is depicted less often due to things such as BF4's ban in China) get depicted as antagonists in FPS games. It's called some sort of made-up country, i.e. OpFor in the Modern Warfare games, or a group of Middle Eastern countries, i.e. the Middle Eastern Coalition in Battlefield 2.

Given current events, if Russia is no longer acceptable to be called the antagonist country in games, then which county will take that role?

 

[Johan Schmidt]

New Babylon Bee meme
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https://babylonbee.com/news/uyghurs-in-chinese-concentration-camps-fly-ukrainian-flag-so-people-will-pay-attention-to-them

I don't even think the Uyghurs care about their own genocide at this point, lol.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

And in the Modern Warfare games, the Middle Eastern antagonists wasn't a specific country like how Russia and China get depicted as antagonists in FPS games. It's called some sort of made-up country, i.e. OpFor in the Modern Warfare games, or a group of Middle Eastern countries, i.e. the Middle Eastern Coalition in Battlefield 2.

Given current events, if Russia is no longer acceptable to be called the antagonist country in games, then which county will take that role?

Well they tried north Korea for a whole, but outside of the mercenaries game, it was just too laughable to take seriously.

 

[Matt Damon]

Given current events, if Russia is no longer acceptable to be called the antagonist country in games, then which county will take that role?

Domestic whites with evil seditionist intentions. It's the next logical step.

 

[Hackallier]

Ukranian SF in Irpin.
The guy with the red pouches is carrying a medical bag and wearing an eclectic mix of British MTP camo supplied by western nations

 

[Psychotron]

Given current events, if Russia is no longer acceptable to be called the antagonist country in games, then which county will take that role?

India

 

[Kane Lives]

And even in those games, the Middle Eastern antagonists wasn't a specific country like how Russia and China (although China is depicted less often due to things such as BF4's ban in China) get depicted as antagonists in FPS games. It's called some sort of made-up country, i.e. OpFor in the Modern Warfare games, or a group of Middle Eastern countries, i.e. the Middle Eastern Coalition in Battlefield 2.

Given current events, if Russia is no longer acceptable to be called the antagonist country in games, then which county will take that role?

Jesusland.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Well they tried north Korea for a whole, but outside of the mercenaries game, it was just too laughable to take seriously.

Homefront is another example, although North Korea was depicted as the "Greater Korean Republic", as the North and South somehow re-united, with Kim Jong-Un in power.

Also, IIRC, China was originally going to be the antagonist faction in Homefront, but was changed to North Korea instead, to avoid losing out on potential Chinese sales. The game still failed though.

Battlefield 4 also had a DLC map that takes place in North Korea.

 

[Dave_Ph]

In this case, elections truly are irrelevant.

American maximally-interventionist foreign policy is functionally identical between parties.

Ahhh. Nope.

 

[Arc]

Reminder to die for your country even if you don't fight in the war just to stick it to Putin!
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Aren't donations per definition voluntary?

 

[The Ugly One]

Well they tried north Korea for a whole, but outside of the mercenaries game, it was just too laughable to take seriously.

The main reason Russia keeps coming up is if you need a Great Power-style antagonist, well, you can't choose China without getting locked out of a huge market. Russia's really the only choice. They're big enough in the minds of Americans to seem credible, but small enough in reality to not have to care if they ban your game domestically.

 

[Prester John]

I think it's going to be a Russian pyrrhic victory. Putin was planning on a quick and decisive takeover like he got in 2014. He will undoubtedly win a war of attrition, but in doing so he has:

-killed white civilians on camera.
-gotten thousands of his troops killed
-already has an anti-war movement in his own country. He didn't have a justification like 9/11, and Ukrainians are not that different from Russians, so they can't just be dismissed as terrorist-loving pinkos.
-gotten kicked out of SWIFT, collapsed the Ruble, and shocked the energy market.
-done this in the spring, giving the US and its oil-producing allies like Norway and Canada time to increase production before winter to make it bearable.
-re-invigorated NATO at a time when enthusiasm was waning because globalization had people thinking war was obsolete.
-the Americans who sympathized with Putin because he was friends with Trump haven't formed a coherent isolationist or anti-Ukraine movement (there will be no US intervention, but that's out of a desire to not go nuclear, not a desire to let Russia have Ukraine).

Tldr Putin is speedrunning the Iraq War, and the Russian economy cannot absorb the impact like the US economy did.

The War on Terror cost $8 trillion.
Russia only has about $1.7 trillion, much of it now inaccessible.

I want to support Putin because he's against Globochomo. But he's playing right into their hand.

I do really wonder what Putin thought the endgame was.

 

[Dave_Ph]

METRO

It’s political party time with world leaders for George Soros’ son​

By Jon Levine and Melissa Klein
February 26, 2022 | 9:52am

He started his own foundation, the Alexander Soros Foundation, in 2011.Jared Siskin/PMC
Alexander Soros, the heir apparent to left wing billionaire George Soros’ political and philanthropic mission, has traded selfies with beauties and bros for handshakes and hugs with world leaders.
The 36-year-old son of the Democratic mega-donor just attended the Munich Security Conference in Germany, where he joined heads of state occupied with the looming threat of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Soros, who in younger days was snapped partying in the Hamptons — where he had been described as “making out with the babes” at East End hotspots — now fills his social media feed with photos of political heavy hitters. He welcomed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to a dinner put on by his dad’s Open Society Foundations in Munich; posed with and praised Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California, and posted snaps to his Instagram shaking hands with the prime minister of Kosovo and president of Rwanda.

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Redditors have arrived

 

[Thiletonomics]

Jesusland.

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Is Hawai'i also part of the USC, given how it's as Blue of a State as the Pacific Ocean?

 

[bebopsingh]

Redditors have arrived

Oh no that can't be them.

You see alot of them are anti gun and yet they expect to go over there and not handle a weapon, like motherfucker what the fuck are going over there for then?

 

[Hackallier]

Eastern Operational-Territorial Association of the National Guard of Ukraine on Facebook:

Dear Ukrainians!
— A Russian enemy plane dropped heavy aerial bombs on the military camp of the 5th Slobozhansk Brigade on the night of March 5, 2022.

Four servicemen were killed. There are wounded.

Fighters of the brigade clear the rumble.

Despite the loss and serious damage to the infrastructure, the Guards are steadfastly defending Kharkiv together with the Armed Forces, the Territorial Defense, the National Police and the Security Service.

We will fight for Victory!

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

Russia's #1 torrent tracker is officially unblocked. It's habbening

What's the name of this tracker? So I can be sure to, uh, boycott it.

 

[Dave_Ph]

Domestic whites with evil seditionist intentions. It's the next logical step.

Next?
Try to keep up

 

[Mussi]

Oh gee wee. Poor USA minding its own business in one color revolution after another. If only the Russian government would stop bullying other countries just because Washington financed, armed, and supported a government overthrow there (and is currently backing similar elements within Russia itself).



Wouldn't be surprised if the USA is behind this, too. If Navalny is in power in Russia within three years, I will concede that Washington's spooks are actually really smart, not really stupid.

The fucking LDPR will take power before Navalny.

 

[Grand Wizard Wakka]

The main reason Russia keeps coming up is if you need a Great Power-style antagonist, well, you can't choose China without getting locked out of a huge market. Russia's really the only choice. They're big enough in the minds of Americans to seem credible, but small enough in reality to not have to care if they ban your game domestically.

The Great Evil has to also be a useless entity nobody will miss or lose anything from "boycotting" or turning to rubble. That's why all the people who CARE SO MUCH about innocent people and think its so important to do something about evil are silent when it comes to China or Saudi Arabia. Also why people will make a big fuss about boycotting products they dont use/consoom anyway, posted from their iPhones.