Same goes for the bizarre take that Reagan in Cold War was some witty parody and not the libertarian techbros at Activision going "Hey, cool funny wholesome Reagan".

  • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Call of Duty is and always has been blatant propaganda.

    If you don't believe me, keep in mind that the very first mission in Black Ops 1 requires you to kill Fidel Castro.

    • OllieMendes [he/him,any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      I tried to replay BlOps recently and the first scene a guy says he knows where Castro, it went over my head as a kid but he says "Castro is held up in a plantation... it used to be my plantation". Like, holy shit, CoD is being sympathetic towards a literal slave plantation owner.

      • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It's supposed to go over your head. Call of Duty is effective propaganda that grooms children to be soldiers for empire.

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Technically slavery was abolished in 1886 but the work conditions were obviously still bad and probably had similar relations to slavery.

      • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        That shit always gets me when this is brought up. Like they couldnt even kill him in their propaganda wet-dream wankery.

        :fidel-cool:

    • 6bicycles [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      There's honestly sort of a big shift after 4 from the dumbest movie brained guys you know trying to hamfist some war is bad commentary into their action movie in a sort of heart in the right place type deal to just discarding any notion that war isn't the coolest shit ever. Yeah the russian campaign of the first one especially was really bad but to be fair, World at Wars campaign is a rip-roaring russian revenge against the nazis with your buddy Reznov and it owns. The parts in the pacific fucking suck major ass though

  • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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    3 years ago

    CoD is made with the lowest common denominator in mind every time, any resemblance to concept that require more than two braincells to comprehend is purely coincidental.

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      3 years ago

      also i will never tire of sharing this story, but development builds of MW 2019 had chomsky and greenwald quotes about the ideological construction of "terrorism"