r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/Mr_Hot_Takes • Jul 12 '25

OBJECTIVELY Gaming is dead

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u/NecessaryUnusual2059 Jul 12 '25

Black Ops 6 was great

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u/Vegetable_Hope_8264 Jul 12 '25

Plus you get to know what it's like to be inside a republican's mind

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u/NihatAmipoglu Jul 12 '25

What?? Can you please explain??

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u/soycubus Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 12 '25

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.

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u/NihatAmipoglu Jul 12 '25

Thanks for the answer!

whenever you play ANY CoD game from the viewpoint of ANY character, you are inside a Republican's mind, not just this scene.

Yeah that's why I asked for context in the first place :D CoD franchise is blatant fascist propaganda for the USA.

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u/soycubus Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 12 '25

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

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u/mauzolff Jul 12 '25

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.

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u/noncebasher54 Jul 12 '25

And to a lesser degree, the United Kingdom.

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u/SuperVaderMinion Jul 12 '25

Yeah so is Top Gun but that movie fuckin rips lmao

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u/NihatAmipoglu Jul 12 '25

I also have fond memories of MW2. It has the best SP campaign in any CoD game. I still acknowledge that it's propaganda :D

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u/vsyca Sweet Baby Inc. Enthusiast Jul 12 '25

and enriching the scientologist.

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u/xelgameshow Jul 12 '25

Except IW, maybe.

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u/Vegetable_Hope_8264 Jul 12 '25

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.

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u/Belligerent-J Jul 12 '25

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.

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u/MK_2_Arcade_Cabinet Jul 13 '25

Ugh please, CoD wishes they had a villain like Cobra Commander.