A new video game allows users to play as Palestinians killing IDF soldiers on Oct. 7; but aren't most video games violent?

Its creator argued that the game is no different from numerous games that allow users to kill Arabs

  • Thistlewick@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    601·
    8 days ago

    If I can mow down Arab and Russians and Chinese soldiers in any number of American video games, why not Israelis?

    The article talks about gushing blood and gruesome visuals as if CoD didn’t ask us to commit a terrorist attack in an airport 15 years ago. At least this game narrows your targets to IDF soldiers, according to the article.

    Also, the game historically has had ~25 concurrent players at any given time. I don’t think this game is as important as certain people would want you to believe.

    • Draconic NEO@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      71·
      7 days ago

      It’s because right wing people are simping for and sticking up for Israel, and the IDF. Notice how in the Article it’s LibsOfTikTok who’s calling out the game and encouraging its removal from Steam?

      Edit: For people not in the know LibsOfTikTok is an alt-right American internet personality, and also apparently a news curator now. They push a lot of anti-trans hate and alt-right talking points on Twitter, and they’re probably a terrorist too.

      • theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        85·
        8 days ago

        The IDF is objectively, by every definition, a terrorist organization. And the US, EU, Israel, and other such white settler countries already paint all arabs and Palestinians as terrorists.

        Oh and for good measure, Hamas isnt a terror org. It’s a non profit created by a guy whose family was killed by terrorists.

          • theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            7·
            8 days ago

            If your family was kidnapped tortured, or in the best case scenario killed, every day, for longer than anyone in your family remembers, and will be for as long as you choose to stay alive, you might want to fight. There’s a reason Holocaust survivors tend to avoid Israel, bad memories.

              • theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                6·
                8 days ago

                You keep changing the subject, so I’ll just end with; until Israel stops committing genocide, especially the most well documented genocide in history, it will keep getting attacked. That’s how oppression works, the oppressed fight back. Something no living Israeli knows.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    191·
    8 days ago

    its creator, a Brazilian man named Nidal Nijm

    OH MY GOD IT HAD TO BE A FUCKING BRAZILIAN!!! 😆😆😆😆

    Also, as many on the thread pointed out, so did the creator:

    Nijm has a point about the violence normalized in the video game industry; many of the most famous, lauded and widely-played video games feature graphic violence, often directed against Arab enemies. Call of Duty has several installments featuring Arab militant enemies, and it’s the entire plot of games like Six Days in Fallujah.

  • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    8·
    8 days ago

    From the headline, I was ready to read about shooting civilians and bombing waterworks, schools and fucking hospitals. What a yawnfest bull-shit pile of a story.

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
    84·
    8 days ago

    “all violence inflicted on Palestine by Israel is self defense” is only true on opposite day and is only as true as the corollary because turnabout is fair play.