• Azarova [they/them]
    hexbear
    68
    2 months ago

    at some point i feel like militaries are going to start screening out WT players because its apparently such an intelligence risk lmao

    • barrbaric [he/him]
      hexbear
      56
      2 months ago

      US immigration adding on "Do you currently have or have you ever had an account on the War Thunder forums?" to the questionnaire.

    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      51
      2 months ago

      Sorry son, you aren't allowed to be drafted for thr next ethnic cleansing. We found a War Thunder account from your house. Security risk. Hope you understand.

      • Mokey [none/use name]
        hexbear
        52
        edit-2
        2 months ago

        sitting in concrete wall room with just a table, a single light and a polygraph machine nervously sweating

        Son, have you ever had a War Thunder account?

        N...No

        WEEEOOOOOOWEEEOOOOO polygraph off the charts, guy shoots me in the head

        • Egon [they/them]
          hexagon
          hexbear
          40
          edit-2
          2 months ago

          sitting in the same concrete room. Two exasperated agents stand in front of me. A desktop monitor and a keyboard is now on the desk

          "Okay sir, let's go thru this again. We are going to hand you some classified documents and what are you going to do?"

          yes-honey-left Not leak them on the warthunder forums.

          "And if someone on the internet calls your favorite tank gay?"

          I immediately grab the classified documents and start typing away. Nothing happens on the monitor

          "Sigh RESET THE SIMULATION"

  • TheWurstman [he/him]
    hexbear
    56
    2 months ago

    Need access to classified documents? Just call a nerd wrong on the internet

    • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
      hexbear
      29
      2 months ago

      Funny thing is, at least in the US, documents with different classification levels may contradict one another. I had a coworker who used to work on threat modeling code for USAF training sims, and as the story went, they would go to a classified-secret level meeting where the presenter would say that such-and-such surface-to-air missile had X capabilities, and then another classified-top-secret meeting later that day would list completely different capabilities. They would still have to write the training sim code according to the secret-level intel; I'm guessing this is so that if there was a leak, it wouldn't reveal that the DOD had the real info all along and risk either outing their sources or causing tech to be phased out more quickly, thus necessitating different countermeasures.

      Some pretty wild trolling must have gone on back and forth between the US and the USSR towards the end of the Cold War.

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
    hexbear
    40
    2 months ago

    Posting confidently incorrect takes on the War Thunder forums might be the most effective praxis you can do from behind a computer screen.

  • TheDoctor [they/them]
    hexbear
    27
    2 months ago

    So many documents are classified that I accidentally leak stuff sometimes just because my document happens to coincide with classified info monkey-on-a-typewriter style.

  • ReadFanon [any, any]
    hexbear
    18
    2 months ago

    Julian Assange been real quiet since the War Thunder forums were established

    • Egon [they/them]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      13
      2 months ago

      smh if wikileaks had just had a gamer on staff none of this would have happened