They weren’t talking about video games in general though were they. They listed two very clear examples of US military propaganda, one of which isn’t even a video game.
Also the US military has been literally directly involved in CoD development for many years.
For anyone interested in, not really on topic but i just remembered this great vid. It goes really into depth about what torture is, how it relates to torture in real life and why the way it is used in these games is pretty questionable, especially considering they are basically developed as ads for the US military.
Doesn’t excuse this or counteract the amount of negative stuff, but I will never forget this interesting news like 10-15 years ago of a guy who saved someone’s life on the side of the road after a car crash.
Apparently whatever he did medically he said he learned from I think the game was America’s Army, which was directly made by the US military as some form of simulation or something.
I guess it was just interesting that it had real enough things that someone actually learned inadvertently how to save a life from a video game the military had involvement in.
It wasn’t just real enough. The game contained an actual first aid learning tool, and test, which you had to pass in order to advance in the game. So anyone who learned it and learned to play medic got an actual first aid course by the US military for free.
This is not meant to endorse anything one way or the other, I am just a video game nerd who thinks that America’s Army is a very interesting oddity.
They weren’t talking about video games in general though were they. They listed two very clear examples of US military propaganda, one of which isn’t even a video game.
Also the US military has been literally directly involved in CoD development for many years.
For anyone interested in, not really on topic but i just remembered this great vid. It goes really into depth about what torture is, how it relates to torture in real life and why the way it is used in these games is pretty questionable, especially considering they are basically developed as ads for the US military.
Youtube - Analyzing Every Torture Scene in Call of Duty — All 46 of Them
The U.S. military is also happy to lend personnel and equipment to any U.S. film or TV production as long as it glorifies them.
Doesn’t excuse this or counteract the amount of negative stuff, but I will never forget this interesting news like 10-15 years ago of a guy who saved someone’s life on the side of the road after a car crash.
Apparently whatever he did medically he said he learned from I think the game was America’s Army, which was directly made by the US military as some form of simulation or something.
I guess it was just interesting that it had real enough things that someone actually learned inadvertently how to save a life from a video game the military had involvement in.
It wasn’t just real enough. The game contained an actual first aid learning tool, and test, which you had to pass in order to advance in the game. So anyone who learned it and learned to play medic got an actual first aid course by the US military for free.
This is not meant to endorse anything one way or the other, I am just a video game nerd who thinks that America’s Army is a very interesting oddity.
Yeah its honestly kinda an interesting concept, I feel like itd be an interesting way of earning stst boosts in certain games like say foxhole.
Thats the kind of propaganda i can get behind. First aid simulator funded by the US gov lol
Right?! Propaganda telling us who to hate? Evil. Propaganda telling us how to save a life, no matter whose it is? Sounds great to me!