Its creator argued that the game is no different from numerous games that allow users to kill Arabs

  • Thistlewick@lemmynsfw.com
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    13 days ago

    If I can mow down Arab and Russians and Chinese soldiers in any number of American video games, why not Israelis?

    The article talks about gushing blood and gruesome visuals as if CoD didn’t ask us to commit a terrorist attack in an airport 15 years ago. At least this game narrows your targets to IDF soldiers, according to the article.

    Also, the game historically has had ~25 concurrent players at any given time. I don’t think this game is as important as certain people would want you to believe.

    • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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      13 days ago

      I can’t speak for every case of those game’s and their stories and missions, especially since I don’t play CoD, but the majority of those targets you’re shooting at are actual terrorist groups.

      And with statements like:

      Its creator argued that the game is no different from numerous games that allow users to kill Arabs

      He’s basically equating Palestinians, or Arabs, with Hamas. So he is basically saying that Palestinians / Arabs are all terrorists, just like he’s basically saying the IDF are terrorists. At that point he might as well go the next step and add the ravers to slaughter and rape.

      Also, the game historically has had ~25 concurrent players at any given time. I don’t think this game is as important as certain people would want you to believe.

      Certain people? Who?

      • theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.works
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        13 days ago

        The IDF is objectively, by every definition, a terrorist organization. And the US, EU, Israel, and other such white settler countries already paint all arabs and Palestinians as terrorists.

        Oh and for good measure, Hamas isnt a terror org. It’s a non profit created by a guy whose family was killed by terrorists.

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            13 days ago

            If your family was kidnapped tortured, or in the best case scenario killed, every day, for longer than anyone in your family remembers, and will be for as long as you choose to stay alive, you might want to fight. There’s a reason Holocaust survivors tend to avoid Israel, bad memories.

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              Oh yeah? Does that also apply to the killings of the butcher of Khan Younis? Or the that of the theocratic regime in Iran? Or the rocket strikes of Hezbollah? Or the massacre of the rave on Oct. 7th? Just trying to figure out which murders you deem justified.

              There’s a reason Holocaust survivors tend to avoid Israel, bad memories.

              As if you care about holocaust survivors, considering how you people abuse Jews outside of Israel and end up defacing holocaust memorials for your agenda.

              • theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.works
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                13 days ago

                You keep changing the subject, so I’ll just end with; until Israel stops committing genocide, especially the most well documented genocide in history, it will keep getting attacked. That’s how oppression works, the oppressed fight back. Something no living Israeli knows.

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          Oh and for good measure, Hamas isnt a terror org. It’s a non profit created by a guy whose family was killed by terrorists.

          An organisation whose main ambition is the destruction of an entire nation and its people is not a terrorist organisation?

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            12 days ago

            Correct, the destruction of a nation that has no right to exist and has spent its entire existence commiting ethnic cleansing and genocide. That’s not terrorism, that’s fighting for freedom.

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      11 days ago

      It’s because right wing people are simping for and sticking up for Israel, and the IDF. Notice how in the Article it’s LibsOfTikTok who’s calling out the game and encouraging its removal from Steam?

      Edit: For people not in the know LibsOfTikTok is an alt-right American internet personality, and also apparently a news curator now. They push a lot of anti-trans hate and alt-right talking points on Twitter, and they’re probably a terrorist too.

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        12 days ago

        Yeah, that’s not the best example. I think the ac-130 mission is a much better example because I don’t remember it getting a lot of controversy despite it being pretty non-chalant about you decimating the ground forces like it was just another day in the office (or rather in the air). It’s the ultimate “dehumanize the enemy” mission because you could replace the targets with pretty much anyone and the mission would play exactly the same.

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    13 days ago

    We have so many games with the same concept, but yet doing it against Israel is a big no no.

    Fuck off already Israel.

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    12 days ago

    I bet the creator of this lazy asset flip is thrilled about this publicity.

    Edit: for some reason replies think I’m being sarcastic.

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    12 days ago

    From the headline, I was ready to read about shooting civilians and bombing waterworks, schools and fucking hospitals. What a yawnfest bull-shit pile of a story.

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    12 days ago

    its creator, a Brazilian man named Nidal Nijm

    OH MY GOD IT HAD TO BE A FUCKING BRAZILIAN!!! 😆😆😆😆

    Also, as many on the thread pointed out, so did the creator:

    Nijm has a point about the violence normalized in the video game industry; many of the most famous, lauded and widely-played video games feature graphic violence, often directed against Arab enemies. Call of Duty has several installments featuring Arab militant enemies, and it’s the entire plot of games like Six Days in Fallujah.

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    13 days ago

    “all violence inflicted on Palestine by Israel is self defense” is only true on opposite day and is only as true as the corollary because turnabout is fair play.

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    12 days ago

    Is literally nobody going to mention the fact the title of this post says “on October 7th” as if the game is about Oct 7th when it infact was released in 2022. The posters a liar, the article is a liar both to make this seem worse than it is.