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Watching TV shows or movies that display Russia as a military superpower is almost surreal nowadays. (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 1 year ago by ramble81 to c/showerthoughts
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Was just watching Jack Ryan Season 3 and seeing the display of force and their movements causes some interesting dissonance given what we know now.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's also the video game series, Homefront, where a unified Korea under northern rule invaded the US and occupies it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get your point, I really do, but Homefront was also about the economic collapse of the American system caused by its own corruption.

I always got the idea that Korea wasn't incredibly overpowered united, but America was already broken and a step away from being conquered already and the first army to invade happened to be Korea. The rest of the world just wanted to see what would happen.

Kind of like having Russia invade Ukraine only to have it's nose beaten in and globally embarrassed. Doesn't mean Ukraine is going to invade and conquer, just that a global super power can be defeated by a smaller united nation after decades of corruption.

At least that's the idea that got me through the game. It was honestly just a COD reskin of a game and wasn't actually that good in retrospect

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I knew nothing about the game because it did not interest me, but that's some interesting world-building.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You didn't miss anything that most other triple A games covered. If they focused more on story instead of shoehorning a terrible multiplayer pvp it could have been decent