Cosplaying the CIA-backed colour revolution faction, curious...
Seriously though, doing urban exploration in military gear (even imitation stuff) is probably a bad idea in general, but especially when you're actually at war. I guess the FSB were just like "dudes hanging around a power plant, shoot 'em", and then tried to pull the saboteur thing post-facto, like American cops claiming "he was totally going for a gun" after shooting some guy in the back.
this seems wierdly callous
lol this is not a meme, these dudes are dead
Sorry, that was pretty poor taste. I'm in a callous state of mind right now.
Counterpoint: anyone who willingly hangs up a union jack in their room deserves what they get.
Damn so Russia just admits that they killed 3 dudes without any physical threat? Feel like capturing them and and getting a (forced) confession would be more valuable propaganda wise. Or, you know, just realizing they're gamers and letting them go
They do not admit that. The FSB claims they were shot at. The video report shows pictures of guns and bombs next to the bodies and in an apartment.
An unnamed member of the local airsoft fan group told the paper "Stalker Phosgene was an anarchist, a rebel and supported Ukraine" and that he was "banned many times from games due to rule violations."
uhhh
imagine if this is some actual ukrainian operation but they did this to make it all seem absurd
:stalin-stressed:
Absurdity as camouflage is well within the fascist repertoire
Lest we forget, they did have the 1st Volunteer Reddit Brigade
Let those guys get fuckin' smoked too
its wierd cause Stalker is huge in Russia, you would think that someone would know
But Stalker cosplay is just milsurp. It's not like they shot a bunch of Rebel Alliance troopers
Por que no los dos? Wouldn't there be a lot of overlap between people who like STALKER (a video game set in Ukraine, demonizing soviet Russia) and people who think "Ukraine good, Russia bad"?
its just wierd that they are like "this is a flag of some obscure ukrainian group" when its just a logo from the game
From what I understand It's a flag of a fictional obscure Ukrainian group in the game that just so happens to share a name with a far right Ukrainian political party that exist in real life, Svoboda.
A Ukrainian company making a game in 2009 doesn't accidently use the name Svoboda.
People put "freedom" in names and iconography all the time. It's almost generic.
Did the games have a "ukraine good" message? It seems like it was more "USSR bad"
If anything, they portray the Ukrainian military as thoroughly corrupt and incompetent, showing it as completely incapable of actually stopping the movement of people and artifacts in and out of the Zone, and its low-level soldiers as underequipped, demoralized, and often easily bribable.
I really wonder how the new game is going to handle that angle, given the changed political climate.
love the way this headline is structured. oh, a report you say? well then
also that the headline uses an unambiguous "says" and the first line of the article uses "suggests"
I mean yeah, WW2 was nothing but devirtualized hoi4, fifa World Cup is but devirtualized ea fifa. My everyday life is nothing but devirtualized sims 4 — no wonder it’s so cash grabby and you have to pay for every single shit that you’d think it’s normally part of everyone’s life experience.
