![]() ![]() It’s jumping online with your friends for three hours of mass slaughter dressed up as tactical combat. For decades now series like Call of Duty or Battlefield or SOCOM: Navy Seals have trained us, as gamers, to think of war as fun. ![]() The relationship between war and games is, to be blunt, fucked up. Of course the Call of Duty series has included controversial elements before from the mass killing of innocent civilians to the use of nuclear bombs but what’s especially messed up this time is that this new Call of Duty, a re-imagining of 2007’s Modern Warfare, is claiming to be anti-war. Later this year white phosphorous rockets will appear as a kill streak reward in the multiplayer of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Unsurprisingly it’s been illegally used as a weapon against civilians in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and the Gaza Strip. Imagine then what it does to flesh and bone. That’s 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, hot enough to melt titanium. White phosphorous burns at 2,760 degrees Celsius. ![]()
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