Gwen

Dumbass in a dumb land

  • She/Her

I was born in the late Holocene and I've seen some shit



MOKKA
@MOKKA

Animated gif from an Episode of Gundam 00 where a big Laser Cannon destroys a Space elevator
At least have an idea about the Abyss before you talk to it.

This is a re-post from my personal website.

Let me tell you, I had some trepidation when I saw that People Make Games did a video about the military industry’s involvement in wargaming and the numerous connections between the games industry and the military. After all, they have a bit of a track record of missing structural and systemic problems in their video’s subjects and instead overemphasise the role of individual responsibility in them.
However, I was not prepared for a solid hour of barely challenged military propaganda, followed by a very weak and pointless call to action at the end, that frankly I didn’t bother to watch to completion, because in my eyes the damage had already been done at that point.

The video falls on its face right at the beginning and never really manages to get anywhere from there. It starts with them repeatedly mentioning how desperate the military games sector is for new game designers, when the game industry itself is currently in a phase of repeated mass layoffs, which causes a lot of anxiety and desperation within the workforce.

Honestly, the first fifteen minutes of the video almost sound like a job advert.


vectorpoem
@vectorpoem

Modern war is extermination, twice-euphemized: first as war, then again as "defense". You are harmfully, dangerously naive if that isn't in the very front of your mind as you peer into the world of geopol consultants and conference rooms and gigadeath spreadsheets, and you're just a simpering accomplice of evil if you see its true face and your first instinct is to gesture towards "nuance", full of "complicated feelings". What exactly is complicated about it bro?