I don't have any particular military or paramilitary fantasies, except perhaps to simulate very small versions of them with tiny dolls I have painted, but one thing I did like about playing Call of Duty's only canonical mode Kill Confirmed was how unified it was conceptually. You could really buy it, and it was fast enough to sand down any sticky-outy edges. Gabriel got back in recently, because it's always sorta the right time to get into it, and he says that capitalism has transformed the game into a lethal mall kiosk that sells Funko Pops.
This is just something that Fortnite does better, its aggressively universal vibe maintaining a coherent, toy-like aesthetic across years of content, and they've only leaned further in with their collabs. My cohort described a scenario where he was murdered in the street by a phtotorealistic Nicki Minaj, which he said "pierced the game's diegetic aegis." I can't speak to any of that but I can see how it would be a surprising state of affairs. Plus, after the roasting she endured from Megan Thee Stallion, Harajuku Barbie should be convalescing in a burn ward somewhere. She's in no position to capture B.
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In this vein, they are dropping RX-78-2, Aerial, and Zaku skins for those unique perverts whose interests lie at the intersection of two equally potent ley lines. Speaking of Call of Duty, this week I saw about ten articles saying that this year's Call of Duty would appear on Game Pass. Yeah, probably! Jesus Christ. What did you thnk they were buying for seventy billion dollars?
(CW)TB out.
