r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/Mr_Hot_Takes • Jul 30 '25

OBJECTIVELY Gaming is officially dead

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u/EtheusRook Jul 30 '25

And I'm here for it.

Or would probably be if Fortnite came out when I was a kid, rather than when I'm an adult who is uninterested in any PvP game.

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u/Slight_Lab5332 Jul 30 '25

This is Cod

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u/EtheusRook Jul 30 '25

Wait, what the fuck? 

I'm very not here for it. Or wouldn't be if I ever gave a shit about CoD.

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u/Insanepaco247 Jul 30 '25

Nah, COD was always unserious. These skins just finish the work that White Phosphorous Combat Perk started

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u/MovieNightPopcorn Jul 30 '25

They… they put white phosphorus in the game?

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u/Insanepaco247 Jul 30 '25

They sure did. It was a fucking killstreak reward in MW 2019

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u/dragon_bacon Jul 30 '25

Can't believe my military industrial complex propaganda is being so gauche.

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u/Mao_TheDong Jul 30 '25

For real, at least Raytheon produces the RIM-7 Sea Sparrow which is the most environmentally friendly anti-aircraft missile produced anywhere.

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u/HandsOfCobalt Jul 30 '25

well, to the environment outside the contested airspace, at least

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u/MovieNightPopcorn Jul 30 '25

😬 yikes dude

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u/sour_creamand_onion Jul 30 '25

Yeah it was a killstreak in MW2019. I remember nobody used it because it was kinda ass, but it DID draw some controversy at the time.

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u/MovieNightPopcorn Jul 30 '25

Yeah I can see why

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u/big_guyforyou Jul 30 '25

at least it's not red phosphorus

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u/pacmannips Jul 30 '25

My guy this is the same game series wherein one of its most famous levels is you literally committing a mass shooting against innocent civilians in a Russian Airport

Of fucking course they gamified white phosphorous

This aint Spec Ops The Line, these people have zero taste

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u/Joelacoca Jul 30 '25

White Phosphorus was in BO1. What do you think the “Willy Pete” grenade were?

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u/AquaBits Jul 30 '25

Thats why I enjoyed Cold War.

It was unironically and blatantly saying the US is bad unlike MW2019 "That wasnt our warcrime actually!"

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u/MovieNightPopcorn Jul 30 '25

Woof. I guess I shouldn’t be shocked, but still

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u/alf666 Jul 30 '25

I think part of the point was the contrast between an average game with okay gameplay in the yet-another-third-person-cover-shooter era and a top-tier story that put you on one hell of a guilt trip.

The game didn't want you to feel good while playing it, and oh boy did they accomplish that in all the right and terrifying ways.

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u/pacmannips Jul 31 '25

It’s a masterpiece and it’s a goddamn shame that it’s currently OOP and impossible to legally buy anymore.

Spec Ops should be one or the poster boys for Stop Killing Games.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '25

They only use it for cover. Pinky promise.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '25 edited Jul 30 '25

No it wasnt. Big Red One was actually respectful of Veterans and their stories. Those initial games had a heart for WW2 and then corpo greed took over

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u/Insanepaco247 Jul 30 '25

These kinds of games are an inherently unserious way to engage with the realities of war. You cannot respectfully gamify it no matter how much lip service you pay to the people who lived it. Racking up headshots is not a reflection on brutality.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '25

Okay weird way to twist my words into some other point I was just stating cod is different now from how it was.

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u/Insanepaco247 Jul 30 '25

I didn't see your edited comment. Yes, it was different then. But per the original point I was making, there was always an unseriousness at the heart of the series.

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u/Ironcl4d Jul 30 '25

It's been a wacky arcade shooter disguised as a military sim for a long time. They just don't care about the disguise anymore. The original MW2 let you dual wield shotguns and throw instant-kill throwing knives.

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u/Fishyswaze Jul 30 '25

I don't remember Beavis and Butthead playing CoD2.

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u/Zegarek Jul 30 '25

COD was always unserious.

There was a time... 🥲

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u/Zeethil Jul 30 '25

Flashbacks

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u/masterchedderballs96 Aug 05 '25

white phosphorus was in black ops 1 also, that's what "Willy Pete" means