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BallardRex t1_iy9n8x3 wrote

Those clips all look credibly fake, especially the terrain and vegetation. How are people falling for this?

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Boo_Guy t1_iy9qwvk wrote

Incredibly poor media literacy.

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3mium t1_iy9u8r9 wrote

Posts og Command & Conquer gameplay as footage of the frontlines.

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lucimon97 t1_iyal16f wrote

Putin is going to the only place that hasn't yet been corrupted by captialism Ukrainian fascists...

SPACE!

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dexter30 t1_iycq30l wrote

"OH cool, I didn't realise ric flair was leading our armies"

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taisui t1_iybwqne wrote

If you think about, the average person is really dumb, and half of the population is even dumber.

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Mikeavelli t1_iyb25x5 wrote

Remember that time North Korea put out Call of Duty footage in a propaganda video about invading the United States?

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Alternative_Dish740 t1_iy9u2v4 wrote

A lot of video from foreign sources looks like fucking potato in the first place, especially when it's not from a big studio.

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zero0n3 t1_iyakmxa wrote

A filter here, some contrast change here and bam - it’s now on Fox News and CNN

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lucimon97 t1_iyal61h wrote

Just give it the once over with shaky cam + grainy image and god knows where that is or if it's even real.

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FewPresentation1314 t1_iybh8ee wrote

The linked video from the article felt more like a how to: Just blur you in-game footage and have no camera stability. Honestly it feels more like a PR stunt for people to talk about that games

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spoollyger t1_iy9wt6t wrote

Some people have never seen video game footage in their entire life. How are they supposed to be able to tell?

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DirtyPolecat t1_iya6yub wrote

Unless someone's some sort of feral forest wolf-child or Amish, I refuse to believe there's anybody left in the western world over the age of 12 who has never seen video game graphics even in a commercial or something. These things have been with us for 50 years now.

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lucimon97 t1_iyalisv wrote

Doesn't matter if they've seen ArmA, or any other game for that matter, before. They've all seen the real world and even when ArmA 3 was new it wasn't exactly a looker.

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