A new game was released yesterday on Steam depicting Russia's invasion of Ukraine, claiming to be "officially recommended by the Russian Military".
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Can I smack a downed drone with a missile launcher?

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Of course Steam would allow this.

Notorious libertarian Lord Gaben has no issue taking fascist money.

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Imagine getting thousands of kids addicted to gambling, while people still sing your praises. Cool world, cool people 👍🏼

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So Russians are fascist now?

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… now?

Is water wet?

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This game probably sucks. But I do want to play a game where you get the full russian conscript experience. Cruel and incompetent leaders, squad mates you can’t communicate with because you don’t speak the same language, equipment that doesn’t work right or that you are not trained to use making bootleg alcohol that can make you go blind and a button that lets you commit suicide.

I am sick of being special ops or some lame shit in every military game.

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that game blocked in Ru region in steam

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The ol Ender’s Game approach. Interesting move. Let’s see how it plays out.

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Sacrifice then all

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Politics aside, this is just Door Kickers with russian AI images all over. At least be creative when making propaganda.

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The last time a Russian had a cultural achievement that impressed the world they had a tsar. There is nothing worthwhile coming out of Russia anymore.

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Tetris is great and Nightwatch/Daywatch were fun movies to watch. The subtitles were dome in such a unique way that made the experience more compelling.

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Nightwatch was fine. Daywatch not so fine.

Tetris slaps. But that was the last time Russia added to human culture

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Great movies, and so were the books they’re based on.

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Nah, the last time they did that was 1985, when Tetris came out.

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Tatu were pretty good.

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A tsar? What? I’m not even defending the USSR, but there were great cultural achievements coming out of Russia and the larger USSR, both critical and propaganda, in literature and film.

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I don’t think they remove military propaganda from Steam. Fascist military sims from fascist countries are specifically allowed.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/203290/Americas_Army_Proving_Grounds/

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Me seeing you reply with that GIF, then reading your username:

"encounter and interact with civilians“

That’s one way to say SA/shoot them indiscriminately after kidnapping their kids

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I’m going to pirate it then go and sabotage the ruskis

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I thought to do the same, but I don’t want Russian software on my pc. Who knows what backdoors are built in.

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The developer better avoid driving any cars lol

Just going to install the game to leave a negative review because if anyone deserves a review bomb it’s this.

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Yunarmy: putana yugend

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Time to start posting reviews with:

  • “This game is impossible to win!”
  • “I was told I could take Kyiv in 3 days. I’ve been playing for 1,190 days and I’m still not even close to Kyiv.”
  • “Why is my enemy using smart guided anti tank rockets and my soldiers are riding bicycles and wearing Adidas knock off sneakers into battle?”

Who knows? Maybe the Russian military is out of tactical ideas and trying to crowdsource a military strategy from gamers to take Ukraine because they can’t do it themselves.

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“Blatant land and money grab with impossible grind. Offers pay 2 win, but even pay 2 win doesn’t get you through the grind. I’m selling all the oil I can for in-game currency and it’s not even making a dent. Huge rip off”

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“In a February 2022 blog post the dev team said they would release a new Kyiv map in 3 days, it hasn’t been mentioned ever since”

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When I got captured I was treated better as a POW than when I was treated by Russia.

I don’t understand the goal of this game. Is it to loose as much friends as possible? Because that’s the only thing I’m good at.

This game is not realistic at all. I can’t even rape and torture anyone, like I did at the front lines.

How come there are modern weapons in this game but we have to use WW2 weapons in real life?

I could go on and on…

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I mean, the US put out the game America’s Army as a recruitment tool.

Passably decent multiplayer shooter for its time. Good enough to kill some time with.

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Duh,just rocket jump all the way to Kiev. If you go fast enough no one will be able to stop you.

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Someone needs to do a mod where your armour is tissue thin and there are waves of fibre optic drones coming down at you.

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Also, the soldiers are on crutches and there are side missions to loot toilets.

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Another thing to add to my list of why steam is a fucking shit hole since green light went away.

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Yes… Because all those games where you play as some American grunt fighting in the middle East is something totally different and not comparable at all.

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A small fraction compared to the indie games and puzzlers, or are you one of those just shut the whole thing down so nobody is happy kind-of people?

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No, I’m one of those “I hate double standards” type of people.

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There’s always Counter Strike if you’re on the side that the terrorists are the good guys

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I want to see you explain how Spec Ops: The Line is the same thing as this propaganda shit piece.

I get the gist, I agree that games like America’s Army shouldn’t be on Steam but you can’t just broad stroke all “grunt in the middle east” games as propaganda. They can end up being something totally different and not comparable at all.

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Texas sharpshooter.

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I’m not sure I follow. Are you acknowledging the very fallacy you stepped into?

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And it looks like you don’t understand what the fallacy means.

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Okay dude. Come back when you’ve stopped being a cryptic little shit and can communicate like a normal person.

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Back in 2018, Steam stated its approach to content on its platform was "to allow everything onto the Steam Store, except for things that we decide are illegal, or straight up trolling".

A social media account linked on Steam to the game’s developer includes a post suggesting Ukraine’s refusal to surrender will provide “a lot of content to make more missions in our game”.

I’m pretty sure that qualifies.

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