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fact check, true. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Black_Ops_II
Black Ops II’s single-player campaign features two connected storylines, with the first set from 1986 to 1989 during the final years of the First Cold War, and the other set in 2025 during a Second Cold War and rare earths trade dispute[15] between the United States and China.
you fact checked the fiction
*explodes*
Wait why all countries? What did Canada do?
Trade the refined products to the US
If they hadn’t noticed the rest of the world isn’t really looking up to the current USA either.
You don’t need to look up to a country to want to turn a profit right?
But some of them will fold. And china can’t be sure who will
Does this mean that 8 year old was right about my mum?
yes
Thd difference is that the president of US is female there here is just a bitch…
what the fuck does that even mean
Took me a minute to decipher that too. But looking it up, the US president in the game mentioned above is a woman. So they are saying “in the game the president is a woman, in real life he (Trump) is just a bitch.”
Life imitates
artcall of duty black ops 2Out of rare earth metals? Just start a war with cyber robots! They are built from wood and love.
A Magic Doll made out of Wood and hate is an alternative
That Blops2 summary implies the new cold war began because of something China did.
In this timeline it’s 100% the US
Or the Blops2 summary is American propaganda and purposefully avoids mentioning why China did what they did
call of duty is 100% propaganda
I haven’t played those games, but is the game aware of this, like Fallout 1? Or do you mean that the game itself is actual propaganda?
The US military helps fund it
The game itself is actual propaganda for the American war machine
Doesn’t the US army literally fund it? Or help fund it?
Probably. The US military regularly helps out Hollywood productions by giving them access to military hardware to film, with the small caveat that everything they say in the film has to be pro-military. According to Wikipedia, this is known as the Military Entertainment Complex.
Tbf Russia installed Trump to damage the US, and Russia and China are allies.
We are manipulated. Check out the documentary Century of Self by Adam Curtis.
Dear gods. Without rare earth metals the US could regress technologically. We’d likely revert to cathode ray tubes and other post WW2 tech. That is until fusion is sustainable and then we get fight over energy for some reason. Next thing you know it’s October 23, 2077…
October 23, 2077
It will be the Black Friday before another Great Depression.
…right?
…right???
Rare earth metals aren’t even rare though. They are just not found in concentrated form like gold. And metallurgists in the past had a hard time isolating the metals that’s why they called them rare.
It’s just that China can mine them cheaply since the Chinese government doesn’t care about labor rights and the environment. Europe and Australia has rare earth metal deposits.
The US has deposits too. Some of the ones our military equipment needs most are found in Zinc mines and we let our refinery capability for them lapse in the 1990’s. So all we actually need to do is get a refinery built.
Europe and Australia do, but honestly, as a European, I’d rather trade with China than the US right now. Even though both are shit.
Why are we always having to choose the lesser of 2 evils! Where’s the fkn good option!!!
Have you met an Australian recently?
Europe?
And that’s why all labour rights should be dropped!
Some wastelander is gonna find my bottle cap collection and get as excited as a pirate finding a buried chest full of gold dabloons. If they don’t immediately go to New Vegas and visit Fisto then I collected them all for nothing
If only we had an ally who needed our oversized military who also had a huge reverse of rare earth elements.
If only they were still an ally after the current shenanigans of the senile president.
Ooh I hope tubes come back. I need cheaper and better quality tubes for my guitar amp collection damn it!
Luckily I’ll be a dead gonk by then… Wait, wrong universe. But no chance I’ll end up as a ghoul.
Ok, I’m calling shenanigans! Shenanigans!
This is clearly a simulation let me out!
You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave.
besides robotic weaponry, we are literally in this timeline
We have robotic weaponry
i was assuming mech
Mechs exist, theyre just shite.
Yeah, people often forget that human like robots are shit in general. A flying drone is a lot more efficient at delivering a grenade than a running mech.
I get a little uncanny valley twinge comparing the T2 intro to the demo videos of the current state of ambulatory humanoid machines.
It’s only a little twinge, thankfully. Bipedal humanoid mech is kinda silly, IMHO.
Carcinisation is the way for terrestrial war-bots.
Turns out biological restrictions on things like wheels limit evolution
Robots have a very limited scope of their functionality compared to animals. Legs are good when you have to perform loads of different tasks to survive: chase, hide, climb, tear flesh apart, etc. A robot which only needs to deliver a grenade to an enemy doesn’t need to do anything like that.
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username checks out X3 is it just me or do images from sh.itjust.works always take several hours to load?
That works because the entire body is a wheel though, I’m talking about multiple wheels
I’m confused. Are you saying wheels are better than legs?
There’s probably a reason why cars have wheels not legs.
The battery tech is getting pretty good where exoskeleton can be quite small but still very useful. Being able to run a lot without losing fighting capabilities for a soldier is still an incredible advantage.
Did you forget about drones?
Drones are unmanned vehicles
Also remote controlled tracked vehicles and robodogs have been used in ukraine.
Yeah, we already have all those things apart from futuristic technology. But the boffins promise it’s less than 5 years away now.
