The gamer gets 5000 credits for the kill. He purchases a new 4-pack of explosive drones and a 12-pack of Monster energy. The system logs where the kill happened and, when the area is confirmed to be clear, a scavenger is dispatched to collect the victims rifle and thermos, which will both be melted down for raw materials. The scavenger leaves the rest.
WAR! What is it good for?
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ceenote@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
tetris11@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
why the hell does a coffee company want to align itself with firearm users? There are so many different coffee-consuming customer bases they could pander to, and they want to go for the 'aard maan crowd
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Feels before reals. They buy it bacase “Black Rifle”. It could taste like shit. They pour a cup and, “This stuff tastes like shit lol.” and they’d keep buying it because Black Rifle pisses off the libs, it has a gun on it, and the makers are making the brainwashed snowflakes feel manly for having Manly Gun Label Coffee.
EpeeGnome@feddit.online 2 hours ago
Whenever a company makes their whole image about something that has nothing to do with their actual business model, I immediately doubt the quality of their product or service. Especially if that image comes with an overtly political agenda. If their thing is something I like or care about, I’ll consider the possibility that their quality might, maybe, be decent, but this particular company is one where I intend to let my assumption stand untested.
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
Same, they’re just pandering to a guaranteed base instead of actually bettering their product
hansolo@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
When virtue signaling is your advertising, you don’t have to think real hard.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
There’s a MAGAt brand for a lot of things. It’s one of the ways you know the whole damn thing is a grift.
Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
I said to my kids the first time Trump was voted in that there is the market of suckers that will but any garbage so long as you Mega market it. My kids are good people so didn’t take advantage of that but we have seen so, so many businesses that have popped up, not just Trump family stuff, to take advantage. Sometimes I wish I wasn’t moral and ethical. The grift is so easy against 25% of the population in (every?) country.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
That and the very obvious, extremely transparent fucking astronomical grift happening before our eyes.
youngskywalker@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Illlusion no coffee is “strong” enough so insert man thing + advertising to vets and repubs
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 hours ago
War has brought us countless technological advancements like radio, which led to cell phones and the vast interconnected network we all use every day in modern times.
So the answer to “War, what is it good for?” is “absolutely nothing.”
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Porn did more. Probably.
Ageroth@reddthat.com 4 hours ago
Definitely no chance those things could be developed without the incentive to kill other people behind it
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
war also ruined bread
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
carbon-fiber barrel
My immersion is ruined by the mention of the material that cracks if someone sneezes too hard nearby.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I also love the idea of him bringing a long term supply of HRT onto the battlefield. T vials much like E really want to be stored at room temperature (20-25 C, with short excursions of 15-30 C), so even if he was the badass he thinks he’s a few hot days away from ruining his supply
theneverfox@pawb.social 9 hours ago
He’d probably have a fancy insulated case… One that he didn’t read the directions on, which say “for short trips” and “keep of direct sunlight”
The case gleams, prominently clipped to the combat webbing, very much in direct sunlight
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Yeah, TRT – when you make your own – is the Cetricel White of the Jem Hadar from ST:DS9.
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 50 minutes ago
Isn’t the point of ketracel white that the Jem Hadar didn’t naturally produce something necessary it provided them?
bashibazouk@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Mack Bolan bullet porn for the modern battle field.
A good response to those espousing their 2nd amendment spiel: ya but how’s your drone skills?
Carmakazi@piefed.social 10 hours ago
The idea that skrangly gamers are going to dominate wars from their basements using remote weapons is kind of a silly cope. Ukraine isn’t throwing out their rifles or tanks or anything just because drones exist. Drone warfare isn’t rendering all conventional warfare obsolete, it’s supplementing it and forcing it to evolve in its consideration.
99% of 2A types are simply not ready for warfare of any kind through, and that goes beyond just the considerations of drones.
harcesz@szmer.info 2 hours ago
Yeah, conventional military force is still in use but supposably over 80% of kills in Ukraine are done with drones, and drones shape anything that can happen on a battlefield now. So I’d say its safely on the side of domination.
Tho technically its usually basements very close to the frontline, which a decent chance of being razed by enemy drones or artillery
decolo@piefed.social 10 hours ago
The story is clearly not about ‘war’ though, more like full societal breakdown with capitalist influences
AmyAye@nord.pub 8 hours ago
The real problem with 2A types.
When the military is facing another country, they have to worry about civilians and potentially inaccurate location data and how other countries will react etc.
It’s as much a thinking diplomacy game as it is shooting shit.
If the government decides to go full authoritarian on its own people, they will just blast the entire 5000 person rural town with a load of napalm and let everyone else know that any other local militias thinking of playing hero will get the same, so buck the fuck up and get in line citizens. Because the normal “rules of war’ aren’t going to mean shit to a violent fascist authoritarian take over on local soil.
theneverfox@pawb.social 9 hours ago
It’s exaggeration… The people flying the drones are generally very physically fit and flying by fiber optics out in the field so the drones can’t be disrupted. They’re also carrying weapons and other heavy gear, and escorted by friendlies, in case someone tries to get the jump on them
But it’s funnier to play into the fact that drones are genuinely dominating the battlefield
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
True, you need boots on the ground, but more importantly you need the right boots on the ground. These guys fantasize about being the “operator” type special forces, which just fundamentally aren’t able to gain or hold territory, just like drone operators can’t. Drone operators however are great at kirking enemy infantry and equipment for cheap with low risk.
shalafi@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
My now-legal sawed-off shotgun loaded with cheap #8 birdshot would like a word with that drone.
Clasm@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Congrats! You got the first one, but what about drones two through ten?
lime@feddit.nu 11 hours ago
tom clclancy has gone woke
Magister@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
😂 😂 😂
hansolo@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
I just had a flashback to a place I worked at where this guy who was a client was an “author” that wrote the worst drivel that was all about the stuff his shitty James Bond ripoff carried around. It sounded like the whole first half of this, entirely unironically.
green_goglin@thelemmy.club 5 hours ago
lulz
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
This hits different when you read it in the Houthi dialect of Arabic
stembolts@programming.dev 3 hours ago
(Dune chant plays) yaraaaaaaaaa
tangosox@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
.jpg.jpg.jpg … super compression!
Technoworcester@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
I delivered the picture by drone…
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Broken Image
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
real
and thats why you gotta get EW right (which is done by biggest nerds you’re likely to know)
esc@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Ew is hard, you can’t really saturate the whole spectrum, and it’s pretty easy to adapt to by changing frequencies.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
The sheep will spend it’s entire life fearing the wolf, only to be eaten by the shepherd.