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  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    That Blops2 summary implies the new cold war began because of something China did.

    In this timeline it’s 100% the US

    • then_three_more@lemmy.world
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      Or the Blops2 summary is American propaganda and purposefully avoids mentioning why China did what they did

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        call of duty is 100% propaganda

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          I haven’t played those games, but is the game aware of this, like Fallout 1? Or do you mean that the game itself is actual propaganda?

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            The game itself is actual propaganda for the American war machine

            • ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
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              Doesn’t the US army literally fund it? Or help fund it?

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                Probably. The US military regularly helps out Hollywood productions by giving them access to military hardware to film, with the small caveat that everything they say in the film has to be pro-military. According to Wikipedia, this is known as the Military Entertainment Complex.

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                  This I knew, but you need(ed) the hardware for movies. I am not actually surprised the military funds CoD though. There was an FPS specifically designed for recruitment as well.

          • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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            The US military helps fund it

      • VasovagalSyncope@lemmy.world
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        Tbf Russia installed Trump to damage the US, and Russia and China are allies.

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    Dear gods. Without rare earth metals the US could regress technologically. We’d likely revert to cathode ray tubes and other post WW2 tech. That is until fusion is sustainable and then we get fight over energy for some reason. Next thing you know it’s October 23, 2077…

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      Rare earth metals aren’t even rare though. They are just not found in concentrated form like gold. And metallurgists in the past had a hard time isolating the metals that’s why they called them rare.

      It’s just that China can mine them cheaply since the Chinese government doesn’t care about labor rights and the environment. Europe and Australia has rare earth metal deposits.

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        Europe and Australia do, but honestly, as a European, I’d rather trade with China than the US right now. Even though both are shit.

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          Why are we always having to choose the lesser of 2 evils! Where’s the fkn good option!!!

          • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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            Europe?

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            Have you met an Australian recently?

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        The US has deposits too. Some of the ones our military equipment needs most are found in Zinc mines and we let our refinery capability for them lapse in the 1990’s. So all we actually need to do is get a refinery built.

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          Yep just build a refinery over the Easter long weekend

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            It won’t take a super long time either once they plonk the “national security needs” tag on it to make it immune to impact assessments and such.

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        And that’s why all labour rights should be dropped!

    • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world
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      Some wastelander is gonna find my bottle cap collection and get as excited as a pirate finding a buried chest full of gold dabloons. If they don’t immediately go to New Vegas and visit Fisto then I collected them all for nothing

    • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
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      Luckily I’ll be a dead gonk by then… Wait, wrong universe. But no chance I’ll end up as a ghoul.

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        In the cyberpunk universe the tech exists that we could all still be alive, I mean look at Rogue, she didn’t age a day in 57 years.

        But I’m pretty certain I’ll be pushing daises by the time the bombs drop

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      If only we had an ally who needed our oversized military who also had a huge reverse of rare earth elements.

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        If only they were still an ally after the current shenanigans of the senile president.

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      Ooh I hope tubes come back. I need cheaper and better quality tubes for my guitar amp collection damn it!

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      October 23, 2077

      It will be the Black Friday before another Great Depression.

      …right?

      …right???

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    fact check, true. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Black_Ops_II

    Black Ops II’s single-player campaign features two connected storylines, with the first set from 1986 to 1989 during the final years of the First Cold War, and the other set in 2025 during a Second Cold War and rare earths trade dispute[15] between the United States and China.

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      you fact checked the fiction

      • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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        *explodes*

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        Fiction check.

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      A related tangent: Ghost Recon had a plot about Russia invading Georgia in 2008. That game was from 2001.

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        Yeah but Ghost Recon: Future Soldier has US soldiers protecting its universe’s version of Putin from a coup. Its set in 2024.

        It released in 2012.

        Sometimes they get it very wrong.

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          Or they got it very accurate? 🤷

          That sounds like what could happen.

          EDIT: I’m not saying we have to do exactly that. It just seems like the way Trump supports Putin feels like he would do this.

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            Then it’d be set in 2025. But I get what you’re saying.

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    besides robotic weaponry, we are literally in this timeline

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      We have robotic weaponry

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        i was assuming mech

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          Mechs exist, theyre just shite.

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            Yeah, people often forget that human like robots are shit in general. A flying drone is a lot more efficient at delivering a grenade than a running mech.

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              I get a little uncanny valley twinge comparing the T2 intro to the demo videos of the current state of ambulatory humanoid machines.

              It’s only a little twinge, thankfully. Bipedal humanoid mech is kinda silly, IMHO.

              Carcinisation is the way for terrestrial war-bots.

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                Crabots rise!

            • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
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              Turns out biological restrictions on things like wheels limit evolution

              • it's not often that shit just works@sh.itjust.works
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                CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

                • 🏳️‍⚧️MiaCD🏳️‍⚧️M
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                  username checks out X3 is it just me or do images from sh.itjust.works always take several hours to load?

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                  That works because the entire body is a wheel though, I’m talking about multiple wheels

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                Robots have a very limited scope of their functionality compared to animals. Legs are good when you have to perform loads of different tasks to survive: chase, hide, climb, tear flesh apart, etc. A robot which only needs to deliver a grenade to an enemy doesn’t need to do anything like that.

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                I’m confused. Are you saying wheels are better than legs?

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                  deleted by creator

          • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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            The battery tech is getting pretty good where exoskeleton can be quite small but still very useful. Being able to run a lot without losing fighting capabilities for a soldier is still an incredible advantage.

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      Did you forget about drones?

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        Also remote controlled tracked vehicles and robodogs have been used in ukraine.

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        Drones are unmanned vehicles

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      Yeah, we already have all those things apart from futuristic technology. But the boffins promise it’s less than 5 years away now.

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    Does this mean that 8 year old was right about my mum?

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      yes

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    Out of rare earth metals? Just start a war with cyber robots! They are built from wood and love.

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      A Magic Doll made out of Wood and hate is an alternative

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    Wait why all countries? What did Canada do?

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      Trade the refined products to the US

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        If they hadn’t noticed the rest of the world isn’t really looking up to the current USA either.

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          You don’t need to look up to a country to want to turn a profit right?

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          But some of them will fold. And china can’t be sure who will

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    Thd difference is that the president of US is female there, here is just a bitch…

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      what the fuck does that even mean

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        Took me a minute to decipher that too. But looking it up, the US president in the game mentioned above is a woman. So they are saying “in the game the president is a woman, in real life he (Trump) is just a bitch.”

        • Bloomcole@lemm.eeBanned
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          Well it could’ve been Copmala IRL, so almost a woman if you neglect that creature is a ghoul

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            Its okay we have a real life ghoul now in office!

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              So nothing has changed, the uniparty continuity in action

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                Cool.

        • S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Yup

      • irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee
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        Th[e] difference is that the president of US is female there, here [he] is just a bitch…

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    Ok, I’m calling shenanigans! Shenanigans!

    This is clearly a simulation let me out!

    • Acid_Burn@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave.

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    Life imitates art call of duty black ops 2

  • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
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    All my homies hate Chinese government

    • Bloomcole@lemm.eeBanned
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      All my homies hate the fascist US uniparty regime

      • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
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        One does not exclude the other

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          Poor thing, obsessed with China bcs they made you to for losing hard economically.
          And you only hate red MAGA, not blue MAGA so no.

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        I hate both regimes tbh

        • Bloomcole@lemm.eeBanned
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          OC you do, you’re told to

  • peteyestee@feddit.org
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    We are manipulated. Check out the documentary Century of Self by Adam Curtis.

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