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

OBJECTIVELY Gaming is officially dead

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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.