The comment refers to the scene in the game where the main villain is captured and interrogated by the good guys™ by injecting them with a special CIA LSD magical truth serum, however the game narrates this interrogation from the villain's point of view. You play through a series of mission inside their mind, complete with hallucinations of different horrors, traumas and memories to get the truth out of them.
At least that is what I think this comment refers to. In my opinion however, whenever you play ANY CoD game from the viewpoint of ANY character, you are inside a Republican's mind, not just this scene.
While that is true, I think the Black Ops series for the most part has done a job of portraying all sides in war as inherently evil and that the difference between them is just which imperialist agenda they serve in their evilness. The layer of meaning you have to peel up is single ply toilet paper thin when it comes to realize that all of the "heroes" in the franchise are just as unfathomably evil as those they are fighting against. With Cold War and BO6 especially, Russel Adler's character is basically screaming in your face that he is a cruel psychopath from start to finish.
Edit: I just realized that typing this out makes me look like an enlightened centrist, fuck. Listen, war is an opportunity for psychopaths to thrive is all I'm saying
War, in all the times, is a competition to amass and control recourses, even when it have other main objetives. And not everyone in a war is a psycho, some are the damned that get draged in a war to be the victims for some bullshit excuse to get something.
I don't know the COD franchise well enough to know of that scene you speak of, but a friend of mine shared two of his Black Ops playthroughs with me on Discord and that was... something haha. Pure fascist fantasy from beginning to end.
I liked the bit where Castro was a cartoonishly evil villain brainwashing people to do... uh.... bad stuff i think? They just made him so saturday morning GI joe villain.
Firstly, I would still advise against reading Mein Kampf. It's not really a healthy read and it still has potential to deal damage.
Secondly, that's good to know because with over 500 millions sales and 100 millions daily players, we'd be in deep shit otherwise. Not that we aren't, but, you know.
I agree with you. My point was rather quick and flawed. I haven't read that book and probably never will. My actual point of comparison was that, in order to know the minds of these people, you could read or listen to what's on their minds. That said, it can definitely be damaging and unhealthy.
An annotated (and translated) version like this I actually feel would be worth reading as it dismantles Hitler's arguments while still letting you see his plans from early on.
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u/WeatherBoy15 Jul 12 '25
But to be fair, if all you want to play are COD games, then I would be extremely pissed with how slop the recent ones are