all first person shooters are engineered to make it more palatable for you to kill someone for your country.
What…what the fuck does that even mean?
I’m prepared to kill and die for my country cause it’s a job that needs to be done since assholes like you are too busy sitting on your asses acting all high and morally mighty when you’ve probably never done a goddamn thing for this country that allows you to have the freedom to say stupid things.
hahahahahaha oh god hahahahaha jesus christ oh man this is perfect this is great this is the best one.
People are trying to joke and be funny and ironic about this but the US Army literally promotes FPS games.
The US Army literally made a series of FPS games to try and desensitize and directly recruit people. That is a real thing that happened. Video games can be and are utilized as recruitment tools by plenty of organizations.
“One study found that the game had more impact on actual recruits than all other forms of Army advertising combined,”
The army has studied and utilized FPSes in training scenarios and virtual experiences.
The OP isn’t a joke. It’s a real life thing that has and is actually happening. But keep laughing and jerking off about your video games and how just because you don’t know about it or can’t see it, it obviously doesn’t actually happen.
This is just is; all this. it has been done and it is disturbing as hell. A lot of FPS games are… propaganda. There’s just nothing else to call it. People have noticed, it does exist, people have been using games as a means to try and influence people for all sorts of things. Extra Credits had a good video on the topic actually.
And take note also with the whole incident with Independence Day: Resurgence and actual military sponsorship of the movie and website content. America’s mindset is extremely military and these concepts of freedom and protection and bravery being constantly pressed in games and Hollywood and what have you, is certainly an ongoing problem that at least seems to be getting far more prevalent, or at least more noticeable now.
… It’s pretty gross and it extends beyond American borders, even if the ability of American military to recruit is obviously limited to their country.
As an outsider, I see this influence pervasively in American perception of the world and American attitudes, in the way America thinks about its relationships with other people, about how it perceives threats, and how it tries to resolve it’s problems. Guns, military, freedom, protection being tied up to killing the “bad guy”, using force to get their way, might makes right, bullying. Doesn’t anyone look at the prevalence of military and patriotic content and wonder about it?
If you want to learn more about the origins of the FPS genre and why it was specifically the United States that kicked it off, check out this video by Extra Credits as well: The Myth of the Gun
“"In the United States we have the concept of the ‘Citizen Soldier’, the heroic everyman who will rise up and fight for his ideals needing only a weapon and a cause. This conceptialization of what the ‘true warrior’ is is what allowed western developers to do away with surrogate heroes like Solid Snake and allow the player to jump in and actually ‘be the hero’.“
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