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I feel like WWI would be less spooky and horrifying if it took place in 2023. Like guys just dicking around on drones on video game controllers vs guys getting gassed and machine gunned down and bleed

https://lemmy.world/post/8723191

I feel like WWI would be less spooky and horrifying if it took place in 2023. Like guys just dicking around on drones on video game controllers vs guys getting gassed and machine gunned down and bleed - Lemmy.World

ing out on barbed wire and shit. Brutal ass insane war. to paraphrase an amazing tweet, everything - the unis, the guns, the wardrobe - had a very sort of holocaust-museum spooky and sorrowful and dark atmosphere to it.

Nov 25, 2023 at 8:24amWeb
Show threadOtterNov 25, 2023

I feel like this

holocaust-museum spooky and sorrowful and dark atmosphere to it

was because of the aftermath and the knowledge of what happened during the war. It will be bad regardless of when it happens. That feeling you feel is part of why we SHOULDN’T want a repeat of it

Show threadZeppoNov 25, 2023
what happens when battlefields are all drone vs. drone and remote controlled tanks?
Show threadNighedNov 25, 2023
Have you not seen what the russia-ukraine front line looks like? It’s basically a high tech ww1.
Show threadKalashNov 25, 2023

Ah yes, so much less horrifying …

streamable.com/9qo1mu

Streamable
Show threadMeho_NohomeNov 25, 2023
I’m going to guess that you’ve never been anywhere near a war. War is hell, no matter what the tech is. War is death and destruction at all cost. It’s the most horrific place a human can be at any time in history. Anyone who volunteers for it is either ignorant, brave, suicidal, homicidal, sadistic, or all of the above.
Show threadjantinNov 25, 2023
Eh, 2022-3 wars are just as horrifying, they just happen on a smaller scale. Look up what was going on in the Bucha town, what are living conditions in Gaza, how many people were forced to leave homes in African and Asian civil wars… The scale of minefields in Ukraine, etc.