Gamers Beware: The Red Cross is Coming for Your Virtual War Crimes
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Welp time to fire Stellaris up again and commit some galaxy scale war crimes.
It's only a war crime if you lose, and baby, i save scum to all hell.
Me playing Stellaris: I will be friendly.
Also me: gotta take out my neighbor because the AI is stupid and trying to open the L Gates already and with the mods I run it will be the space roombas.
I always try to be friendly first and I always end more xenophobic than a 40k inquisitor
fuck off you have no power over me
laughs in possessed Theoden
It's retarded but there is some law that prohibits the use of their retarded red cross symbol for other purposes. Within the last year or two, a game I play had to slightly edit the appearance of an item that used the symbol. That item had been around for like 20 years with no issue previously....
Did Team Fortress 2 get grandfathered in or is the medic's symbol just different enough to dodge this bull shit?
I suppose I could boot it up and play a spy for a bit, to try some of that "war crime action" they're bitching about now too.
As far as I'm concerned, red crosses and blue helmets are only going to be anywhere near me for the same reason. It's convenient, therefore, that both give convenient points of aim.
The only response to this is to spam their social feeds with clips of our most heinous activities in-game.
Hell, even in Tears of the Kingdom I've been rocketing koroks off cliffs and drugging enemy encampments while standing back and watching them tear each other apart.
I'd say the odds are 50/50 they aren't already actively monitoring video games to see which players are prone to violence.
Based on recent actions I"d assume there are entire divisions of 3 letter agencies devoted to monitoring video game violence to 'detect mass shooters early' or some such bullshit.
Replace "detect mass shooters early" with "uncover and recruit conscienceless psychos and sociopaths that lack any degree of empathy who will fit right in to our ranks".
Sadly, this will work on some people - they've been heavily conditioned to feel ashamed and to respond to that shame with compliance.
Those people will virtue signal and/or parrot the narrative and push the overton window that little bit further toward 'It's totally their business to censor your games due to concerns about the fictional content you engage with in your home! You're not a war crime apologist, are you?'
Unless there's a counter-narrative from someone high on the progressive stack who can claim 'This campaign is harmful to people like me', in which case they'll bitch and whine enough that the campaign will be rescinded and apologized for.
Or it could just fizzle out without gaining traction. The Red Cross might not be sociopolitically relevant enough to introduce bills at the Progressive Extrajudicial Legislature.
I really want to know what war games are encouraging these "crimes". Most games don't let you do anything that the red cross is accusing of them of doing because it is simply not fun and pointless in a game.
Just in the games I have played in the past month:
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam: blowing the hell out of churches and schools with bombs napalm and flamethrowers, Using anti personnel mines (fougasse, toe poppers, and tripwire traps), a marginal case of using white phosphorus against troops.
Warframe: Using all three of Nuclear Biologial and Chemical munitions. Anti Personnel mines, extra judicial killings of politicians and the like.
Rimworld and Stellaris: No explanation needed.
Barotrauma: Mostly just targeting civilians and spreading biological weapons. (Death to the Honkmother)
This is obviously very anti-semitic of the Red Cross
Over there they're the red star.
if that link requires rego you can use this - https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/the-red-cross-wants-gamers-to-play-by-the-rules-of-war/ar-AA1bzqb1?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=18b8a087420341949029aa85e30d7ddd&ei=28
BRB, playing some more Fallout and shooting the shit out of raiders until nothing but a torso's left.
Idiots.
If you want to explain the horrors of war, you don't ban behavior, you show the problems to them. "This War of Mine" does a better job at explaining the suffering of civilians in war than any ban would do.
War crimes are a favourite pastime in gaming, I will continue to embrace, encourage and practice them with zeal.
Nobody agreed to play by those rules, you need to fuck off
If you can't war crime online, that only leaves one other place to war crime...
Which ones? I commit war crimes in Warframe with every weapon I mod, commit crimes back when I played Battlefield for using AA tank against infantry, then there's the chemical gas I used in R6....this is a long list..does time I did it count as I used biological warfare in the middle ages by firing dead cows using a trebuchet into a castle to start a plague. If I can rule out the middle ages that reduces my war crimes by a 1/4.