If it isn’t Zionazi freaks, anti-communist fascists, or dog-whistling Ukranazis it’s few and far between you find someone who’s into military stuff that isn’t throwing up the roman salute.
Big shoutout to local hero @Tervell@hexbear.net for reminding me that not all mil geeks are blood and soil weirdos.
Also let’s not forget the GOAT Hideo Kojima who also gets bonus points for being the only ameriboo in the world who understands that this country is evil
I used to dislike how his whole thing is to explain what his games are about for hours until every thought he had is fully and completely exhausted, then one time I read a Gamer mention Metal Gear to defend nuking Hiroshima and Nagazaki.
I’m sorry Mr. Kojimbo, I didn’t consider the audience.
genuinely the reason i can’t get into military sim games is that the communities are some of the worst people i’ve ever had the displeasure of interacting with on this planet and the genre requires a lot of communication
the only sphere that gets close to its awfulness is medieval game players, but luckily you can turn off the chat in chivalry 2 lmao
games would be a lot better if we could get rid of the g*mers
Worst part of gaming easily. Even with all the industry fuckery.
games would be a lot better if we couldget rid of the g*mers
I should really download arma 2 (my laptop can play that) and muck around with it.
most fun I ever had in arma 2 was just being a really shitty transport pilot
helicopters, C-130s? you name it, I can crash it while playing free bird over the mic
I love playing Squad but yeah, the combination of gamer + military nerd produces some of the most awful people you’ll find online
I just wish someone made high quality model kits of Soviet planes and tanks lol
Tamiya has a lot of kits in a variety of scales that are meant to be accurate display pieces. They often feature etched and die-cast metal for sharper details. Unfortunately, they’ve discontinued a lot of their Soviet stuff. I’m not sure if they’re doing redesigns or pulled them altogether. You’ll still find T-34 variants, though.
Rubicon Models does high quality 1/56 scale Soviet tanks (and trucks!). They pretty frequently have sales where kits drop down to like $15~$20 from $35. I have an ISU from them, but I haven’t put it together yet.
Warlord has decent models, but they’re often missing specific details of other manufacturers. The upside was being decently priced until rather recently. I have this KV-1/KV-2 I did:
I think it’s kind of an online thing. Every boomer dad has an illustrated WWII encyclopedia cause their dad/grandad was a veteran and they think it’s cool. I think for that reason there’s a divide between people who got into it because their parents were into it and people that got into it because they played too many videogames.
Plenty of us also grew up watching Top Gun (loved American war movies as a kid) and played 1990s DOS military sims (anyone remembers Jane’s Combat Simulations with AH-64D Longbow Apache?) with low polygon count 3D graphics lol. Good times.
The Comanche game was great too, as well as Jane’s Advanced Tactical Fighters game too!
Yeah typically the younger video game players are groypers while the boomers are just garden variety chuds who hate nazis because their dad fought against them in the war.
inrangetv is ok as far as gun youtube goes. Karl is essentially an anarchist who has never read any theory and “doesn’t like isms”, but he’s got it together enough to know he’s more worried about the US government than any foreign one and he takes “the second amendment is for everyone” fairly seriously.
i heard the SRA imploded, idk what John Brown Gun Clubs are up to, there’s queer and womens’ shooting groups popping up but a lot of those are gonna be full of white liberalism or worse.
the SRA imploded
shit, news to me. What happened?
idk we’re like 5th hand here, i read about it in passing in a comment on here months ago.
I’m also glad Karl got to keep Russel Phagan/“Sinistral Rifleman” in the divorce with Ian McCollum, since I think the KP-15 polymer AR lower receiver that Phagan produces is pretty neat. Plus Phagan is a very good shooter who posts incredibly fast match times despite looking like he doesn’t do a lot of cardio
yeah I was pleasantly surprised that Russel is chill, that wasn’t obvious a few years ago.
Honestly same for Karl, I remember him treating his K-98k with a little too much reverence during a mud test & thinking he was chuddier than Ian. Then Ian tried publishing a Swedish nazi’s AZOV memoirs & posted 3 deleted justifications for why he needed to platform the fash before finally acceeding to peer pressure
oh man that day was wild. bro was professionally “apolitical” for so long he forgot the rest of the world doesn’t work that way.
A final note on the InRange clique then I’ll cease my parasocial ramblings: I’m grateful for a Hexbear making me aware that Deviant Ollam’s wife has a Wikipedia page for being a CFR ghoul. But that’s unsurprising for anarchists.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s noticed. I remember getting into a back and forth with my ex once because they showed me an extremely detailed art of some anime girls laying out all the equipment in a panzer tank and I had said “this person must really love fascist shit to put that much detail and effort”
Knowing Japan it probably is a fascist, since a lot of their otaku are.
You just need to find some ex mil commies. There aren’t many, but they’re out there
military otaku
otaku
Military otaku… Kutsuzure Sensen is only liberal anti-communist I think?
Academic history is not very fascist so there is no need to ever concede any interest in history to any fash adjacent group. I am personally very interested in history in general and military history too and almost everything I read on the matter is written by nuanced understanding regardless of what its political or ideological leanings are which range from neoliberal conservative historians to more materialist or Marxist analysis. A lot of pop history is just very fascistic because pop history is superficial and lacks substance, that’s also the main appeal of fascism, just a generalized incoherent aesthetic vibe without anything behind it.
