modern wombat

what i learned from the game Modern Warfare 2:

  • the CIA is perfectly willing to slaughter hundreds of civilians as part of undercover op
  • all brazilians are armed to the teeth
  • the russian military gives each person a totally different brand and caliber gun
  • heartbeat monitors can detect if you’re friend or foe
  • and so can UAVs. they even mark foes with little red rectangles in real time
  • specops can drive snowmobiles one handed while shooting and reloading an uzi, but is completely befuddled by chain link fences and barb wire
  • it’s possible to get good consistant bandwidth in a remote mountain house (note! this one might not actually be true)
  • russia can launch a full land invasion of america with 1 day prep

and that famous part to MW2, the “kill the civilians” bit, it’s funny to me that it’s that big a deal. you’re playing a shooter and have already shot dozens of random people, will continue to shoot hundreds more, and because some of them are unarmed it’s a big deal? yes, they get hit in “realistic” means (as much as that applies for computer games) but so does every other character

cmon now, you call in airstrikes in crowded cities and grenade marketplaces, but apparently all those are abandoned and/or no one cares about brazilians.

eh, whatevs.