Random Rants LXXII - What is wrong with us?

[Snerk]

Al Quaida flight sim?

 

[Broken_Erika]

Unless it's Moon Nazi's. We need more Games with Moon Nazi's

Al Quaida flight sim?

It's a Blast!

 

[Lexicus]

Somewhat politically incorrect, I would also be interested in games which depict traditionally bad guys as good guys.

How about a game where you play as the insurgents fighting against US troops occupying Afghanistan? How fast do you think the "totalitarian politically correct crybaby left" crowd would be howling for blood?

 

[Synobun]

How about a game where you play as the insurgents fighting against US troops occupying Afghanistan? How fast do you think the "totalitarian politically correct crybaby left" crowd would be howling for blood?

I think both sides of the political spectrum would have a meltdown about it, honestly. People aren't great at separating narrative from reality.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

How about a game where you play as the insurgents fighting against US troops occupying Afghanistan? How fast do you think the "totalitarian politically correct crybaby left" crowd would be howling for blood?

This is better:

Afghanistan...that has possibilities. Lead your ragtag band of resistance fighters. Make contacts with wealthy Arabs to secure funding, and manage arms deals with CIA operatives. Defeat superior Soviet forces and then melt away into the darkness. Jockey for position with other warlords. Maintain control of critical poppy resources in preparation for the randomly timed Soviet withdrawal. Can you survive for the duration and found al-Queda?

I've been thinking ever since I posted that that it has great potential as a strategy game. You have to fight the Soviets to build your reputation with the people and impress your international patrons, but every action against the Soviets is a potential disaster. Any direct conflicts with your rivals before the Soviets withdraw can have a huge negative impact since it can be portrayed as aiding the invaders. Cooperation with a rival in an attack that damages their forces more than your own but can be exploited to improve your rep more than theirs would be a top play.

When the Soviets withdraw, at a randomly determined time that varies every play, you'll need weapons to wrest control from your rivals so you'll need weapons. The CIA isn't trying to provide you such a stockpile, they have to be convinced that you are using what they provide against the Soviets or they won't provide more. Stealing from your rivals, tipping the Soviets about the locations of rivals' caches, doing more with less so the CIA believes you are running low when you aren't; all part of the game.

Pander to your Saudi patrons, balancing religious fervor with naked immorality. Reveal that your rival's out of country meeting with his patron, where he received his funding to continue the glorious jihad, took place in a New York brothel so he is condemned by the Imams, while keeping a tight rein on the fact that you know because you were there too.

 

[choxorn]

We should pitch a FPS where the player character is an African Communist guerrilla fighting against white colonial rule in southern Africa.

I can already see the outcry from the right about how this game is just another part of the Cultural Marxist SJW assault on America and Freedom.

 

[Takhisis]

We should pitch a FPS where the player character is an African Communist guerrilla fighting against white colonial rule in southern Africa.

We already have a hugely successful series of games in which you have to fight against US security and defence forces, sell drugs to children in the form of ice-cream, set buildings on fire, mow down passersby with flamethrowers and machine guns, so why not?

 

[Lohrenswald]

I think my microfone is damaged somehow :/

wish I wasn't so terrible at maintaining headsets

 

[Broken_Erika]

Each and every last microphone i've ever owned has ended the same way. Submerged in my breakfast cereal or coffee cup, with the exception of the one that i spilled a full cup of coffee on just after i got it out of the package....... Their average life span was 3 days.

 

[Cutlass]

Barnes and Nobel had some books about the National Parks on discount. So I get them, and one has a section on some Canadian national parks as well. But they only cover the most remote and least visited of the Canadian parks, ones that aren't really accessible at all, and not by car.

 

[Takhisis]

There's a reason why there are on sale at a discount, after all.

 

[Ajidica]

We should pitch a FPS where the player character is an African Communist guerrilla fighting against white colonial rule in southern Africa.

Back in college I was working on a Civ4 mod set in Cold War Africa (1960-1990) where you could play out the storming of Elisabethville by United Nations forces, the Portuguese Colonial Wars, the Kenyan Border War with Somalia (Shifta Rebels), and the battle of Cuito Cuanavale but the scale of it eventually overwhelmed me - and I couldn't do any coding besides changing values in xml files.


EDIT: Just saw an add on youtube that really annoyed me. Apparently a fast food chain has an app that allows you to order from an app and then have an employee bring the food out to you. How lazy do you have to be that waddling in to the store is too much effort? Heck, or even the limited activity required to lean out the car window when doing drive through?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Barnes and Nobel had some books about the National Parks on discount. So I get them, and one has a section on some Canadian national parks as well. But they only cover the most remote and least visited of the Canadian parks, ones that aren't really accessible at all, and not by car.

Which park is that? (up in the Arctic, I presume?)

There are currently argumentsdiscussions going on whether or not to include Lake Louise in Banff National Park as part of Calgary's bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics.

EDIT: Just saw an add on youtube that really annoyed me. Apparently a fast food chain has an app that allows you to order from an app and then have an employee bring the food out to you. How lazy do you have to be that waddling in to the store is too much effort? Heck, or even the limited activity required to lean out the car window when doing drive through?

A customer on horseback or on a bike who isn't wearing a shirt would appreciate this kind of service, as you're not allowed to ride a horse or bike in the drive-through, and if you're not wearing a shirt you're not allowed in the restaurant.


Rant: Yesterday I made arrangements with someone on Kijiji to buy two bookshelves they were selling. Today I got an email: "Sorry, but my husband sold them to someone else."

Thanks a lot, husband. I was counting on those shelves to hold a significant number of books.

 

[Zkribbler]

Just saw an add on youtube that really annoyed me. Apparently a fast food chain has an app that allows you to order from an app and then have an employee bring the food out to you. How lazy do you have to be that waddling in to the store is too much effort? Heck, or even the limited activity required to lean out the car window when doing drive through?

Sounds like an updated version of the 1950s-60s drive in. [See the opening scene in American Graffiti.]

 

[Kyriakos]

EDIT: Just saw an add on youtube that really annoyed me. Apparently a fast food chain has an app that allows you to order from an app and then have an employee bring the food out to you. How lazy do you have to be that waddling in to the store is too much effort? Heck, or even the limited activity required to lean out the car window when doing drive through?

It actually can be useful to people who aren't lazy, eg people with speech problems.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Sounds like an updated version of the 1950s-60s drive in. [See the opening scene in American Graffiti.]

Drive-ins were still a thing here in the early '70s, with A&W. The food was served on a tray that was hooked to an open car window.

 

[Cutlass]

Which park is that? (up in the Arctic, I presume?)

There are currently argumentsdiscussions going on whether or not to include Lake Louise in Banff National Park as part of Calgary's bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics.

The ones mentioned in the book, a couple would be accessible, the others not so much. Torngat Mountains, Labrador upper peninsula. Sirmilik and Ujjusikalik, Nunavut, which is Arctic. Nahanni, Northwest Territories. They look like they could be beautiful. But they are in such remote locations that they're just not for the casual traveler. Some of the American parks in Alaska are like that as well. No, or very little, road access. You fly in, or you walk in. Either way, you're beyond the range where you might get help if you get into trouble.

 

[Ajidica]

It actually can be useful to people who aren't lazy, eg people with speech problems.

Didn't actually think of that.

Rant: The weather sucks this weekend. Going to hit 98 with 80% humidity. If I wanted this weather I would live south of the Mason-Dixon Line. At least there are Waffle Houses there.

 

[Synobun]

There's a crow on my street that keeps doing low fly-bys over people's heads. I assume it has a nest precariously close to human traffic, or maybe it's just overzealous.

Today, it decided to escalate the conflict and started attacking me. Not cool, crow. Not cool.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Drive-ins were still a thing here in the early '70s, with A&W. The food was served on a tray that was hooked to an open car window.

They still are here. Sonic.