"Real" Real Time Strategy?

Mr. Fluffyhead writes "This hardcore RTS gamer's rather thoughtful wish list asks the question, if somebody made a 'real' war sim, would anyone want to play it?" From the fake Newsweek cover story about the "Ultralisk Rape Scandal" to Mr. Wong's yearning to break the Geneva Convention in pixel form, this one's a humourous yet realistic look at real time war games.

Comments

Re:Interesting way to make a political statement

[Rayonic]

I know its a tired arguement, but there are a lot of not nice governments and we aren't invading their countries.

But how many of those countries do we have a tenuous cease-fire with? Where we're maintaining costly no-fly zones? Where crippling sanctions are in place? Where the provisions of the direct cease-fire are routinely flouted, and never complied with for over a decade?

All of the above were true with Iraq. Sooner or later, that fragile setup had to end. Your problem is that you wanted to wait until we had a direct and immediate threat before taking care of the situation. Well, there are three points about this:

1) The situation on the ground would not have improved, and may have gotten worse. (The War would not have been easier)

2) The situation in the media, on the other hand, would have been much better. I mean, just look how they gloss over the problems in Afghanistan and Kosovo.

3) The President specifically stated, in his 2003 State of the Union speech, that he didn't want to wait until Iraq became an imminent threat. Naturally you can disagree with his decision, but you can't claim that this wasn't the publically stated decision he made.

Question: Would you have complained so loudly if we had invaded Afghanistan before 9/11/01?

Re:It has to be said...

[Mike Hawk]

If you cannot justify, excuse, or mitigate torture, you just aren't trying hard enough. Don't give up.

Re:Interesting way to make a political statement

[Twirlip of the Mists]

Huh? source?

Google it. We ain't your momma.

Already shown to be unexploded ordinance from Gulf War 1.

Well, first of all, no, that hasn't been shown, by anybody. And secondly, the leftover stockpiles from Iran-Iraq are precisely what Saddam was accused of hiding.

And that VX likely came through Saudi Arabia

Except that's not where it was found. It was found at the Jordanian-Syrian border.

The truth is Pres. Bush said Saddam had tried to buy uraniam from Niger.. AFTER being told it was NOT true

Except it was true. Again with the googling.

Al-Queda/Saddam links are non-existant.

Al-Qaida/Saddam links are plentiful and persuasive. One: the Czech connection linking Iraqi Military Intelligence to al-Qaida before 9/11. Two: the Ansar al-Islam connection. Three: documentary evidence uncovered in Baghdad during the occupation. There's more. You just need to open your eyes to it.

I think that the US media has painted the brightest picture possible and still be considered independant.

Is this some kind of funny, funny joke?

Try thinking for yourself for a change.

Right back atcha. Use that big old brain of yours.