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What would it be like to have a "tactical war game" based on the
current (2026) "war" in Iran?

The initial cut scene is that when the current US administration
realizes what a bunch of little pansies current Gen-Z is, where they
grew up with helicopter moms setting up "play dates" and making sure
they have their "safe space", they decide that the war will primarily
take place using remote drones (since the only real "fighting" skill
GenZ males have involves a console gamepad).

Then, in Chapter One of the game (subtitled "Bloodshed"), a total of
like maybe half a dozen soldiers die at the hands of the enemy. Just
as many die from accidental death due to operational incompetence.

Starting from Chapter Two on, the World War consists mostly of
political posturing over social media.

This is where it gets good.

You play the role of "Kyle"... A Gen-Z'er who grew up in a school
system which left him in a state of constantly questioning his gender.
Thanks to the constant hovering of parents making sure his friends
were closely vetted, he is still a virgin and therefore has not been
corrupted by sinful thoughts. He is hired by the government to be the
Social Media director for this World War.

So for the duration of the game, you're looking at sort of a pseudo-Facebook/Twitter-like interace, posting shit and watching your credibility bar go up or down. The main challenge is maximizing your credibility bar before the timer runs out (when the timer runs out, AI
takes your job away completely and its game over, so its a race for
high score).

The actual gameplay is constantly interrupted by a Trump-like clone
with orange skin and road-kill hair, who talks a lot of shit but never
just finishes the job and nukes the fucking enemy like they should be.
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What would it be like to have a "tactical war game" based on the
current (2026) "war" in Iran?

A more historically accurate game would begin with a first-person perspective ala psychonauts from the draft-dodging-fascist-in-chief's fuzzy memories of an iranian slight during his salad days in the '90s, his deep racial hatred of his black predecessor, tearing up of a perfectly
serviceable agreement, in favor of a bloody street coup and a utopian US-friendly capitalist state that ivanka can build hotels in, followed by role-playing as the strong-jawed fox-'n-friend, following him during tense
War Room sessions, watching helplessly while a gutted CIA gives bad intel, obliterates from 20,000ft a schoolhouse filled with 128 children, and mysteriously loses a massive weapons drop for that exciting bloody street-battle that should have ushered in a utopian US-friendly capitalist state that luscious ivanka can build hotels in with silk sheets on the beds, with the proud family logo plastered in gold leaf over the entrance: It
would have been glorious.

rms

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On Sat, 6 Jun 2026 19:01:00 -0600, "rms" <[email protected]> wrote:

What would it be like to have a "tactical war game" based on the
current (2026) "war" in Iran?

A more historically accurate game would begin with a first-person
perspective ala psychonauts from the draft-dodging-fascist-in-chief's fuzzy >memories of an iranian slight during his salad days in the '90s, his deep >racial hatred of his black predecessor, tearing up of a perfectly >serviceable agreement, in favor of a bloody street coup and a utopian >US-friendly capitalist state that ivanka can build hotels in, followed by >role-playing as the strong-jawed fox-'n-friend, following him during tense >War Room sessions, watching helplessly while a gutted CIA gives bad intel, >obliterates from 20,000ft a schoolhouse filled with 128 children, and >mysteriously loses a massive weapons drop for that exciting bloody >street-battle that should have ushered in a utopian US-friendly capitalist >state that luscious ivanka can build hotels in with silk sheets on the beds, >with the proud family logo plastered in gold leaf over the entrance: It >would have been glorious.

rms

This seems like a great thread for DLC ideas. The strategic placement
of a school house right next to military targets in hopes of using
them as as human shields to save the supreme leader alone could be
entitled the "humanity battle pass, season 1".
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What would it be like to have a "tactical war game" based on the
current (2026) "war" in Iran?

Goodbye to all that anyway! Now it's on to a genuine tactical war game
in cuban waters, where your inevitably victorious forces sweep over the defenseless primitives still living in the '50s, and your oil baron
corporate armies can jostle and joust for territory.

rms

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