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#31

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Grey Fox - December 03, 2024, 03:27:52 PM

There isn't much left left for the left of the Quebec left to go.

Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo English is a stupid language Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo.

#32

Off the Record / Re: South Korea declares marti...

Last post by Grey Fox - December 03, 2024, 03:26:28 PM

That was a wild 7 hours.

#33

Off the Record / Re: What does a BIDEN Presiden...

Last post by Sheilbh - December 03, 2024, 03:22:33 PM

Interesting - feel like we could do with even more of those points of gratuitous mercy now.

#34

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Norgy - December 03, 2024, 03:17:44 PM

The NDP is pretty close to our left. We've moved right, most of us. Just not to, well, you know, authoritarian dictatorship right.

#35

Off the Record / Re: South Korea declares marti...

Last post by HVC - December 03, 2024, 03:14:12 PM

So basically a YOLO coup?

All the cool kids are doing it.

#36

Off the Record / Re: South Korea declares marti...

Last post by Sheilbh - December 03, 2024, 03:13:10 PM

So basically a YOLO coup?

#37

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by HVC - December 03, 2024, 03:02:11 PM

I am all for Canada and the United States of America joining into a large bigly superstate. It'd mean the US get actual social democrats as citizens.

I wouldn't go that far. Our lefties are still right of your lefties... just not as far right as our southern neighbours.

#38

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Norgy - December 03, 2024, 02:49:34 PM

I am all for Canada and the United States of America joining into a large bigly superstate. It'd mean the US get actual social democrats as citizens.

#39

Off the Record / Re: South Korea declares marti...

Last post by Zanza - December 03, 2024, 02:43:53 PM

Supposedly the president said that he will accept the parliamentary vote and let ft martial law.

#40

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by viper37 - December 03, 2024, 02:34:21 PM

You bolded the wrong part, not unsurpringly.

However, I have also played Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Nijm is definitely making a fair point. His description of how the game treats Iraqi soldiers doesn't even convey how fully dehumanized they are in that game, which seems especially in bad taste now that it is widely agreed upon that what the U.S. military did to Iraq was one of the worst mistakes in the history of foreign policy. This is not to mention countless other Call of Duty and other first-person shooter games in which Arabs, Russians, and other nationalities are treated as nothing more than canon fodder. If you, like me, played video games your entire life you probably have killed hundreds of thousands of Arab video game NPCs. Fursan al-Aqsa's violation and the reason the UK appears to have deemed it "extremist" is that in this case the player character is a Palestinian and the enemies are Israeli soldiers.

Another notable difference is that while Call of Duty has increasingly flirted with referencing real and current conflicts (the first Modern Warfare, which has levels that resemble the U.S. invasion of Iraq but takes place in a fictional country, came out only four years after the invasion), the Operation al-Aqsa Flood Update is referencing a shocking attack that is just over a year old, and is now still an active war.

Again, my professional opinion as someone who reviewed video games for many years is that Fursan al-Aqsa sucks, and also in bad taste if you choose to judge it in that way. As Nijm points out, the same is true for Call of Duty. Valve so far has not made the distinction between the two, but the UK government has.

bad game, but nothing different than any other shooter of the genre with regard to contents, except that you are killing Israelis instead of Arabs or Russians.