With our timeline being as weird as it is, I give it a year, tops, before this becomes real

Petro Oleksiiovych Poroshenko (born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian politician and oligarch who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019.

Dude wants to play a game for the weekend, where can he buy the tickets?

Oh wait he’s probably already playing the beta-test lmao

You jest, but a Texan company created an internet controlled rifle turret over 20 years ago. There was talk of using it for hunting, but I don’t know if that went anywhere. The jump from that to hunting humans with flying drones is more one of morality than technology.
Manhack Arcade from the Half-Life 2 Beytah
@PugJesus nah, I think its real and in production, and a long overdue
Never heard about such thins happening, it’s not that easy to implement and would be really disappointing for the large majority of people. I’ve heard about people asking for such service, and reply was along the lines of - easy, get to position and you can do it.

@esc
war is dehumanizing, sorry to disappoint "large majority", but it's no difference to donating big sums and doing some demo flights by yourself.

in the end they will die, we just trying to optimize resources. that or death.

when russians opened same services but against civilians in Kherson do those people were also disappointed? people still dying, so there's no need to be disappointed, no effect of this but your bad day.

Actually killing someone with an fpv or even working as a navigator is a rush.
@esc maybe for a first few years
Well maybe it depends on a person (it’s not like it was many years since fpv warfare has evolved into current form), most people that I’ve met said similar things. Heavy bombers when used as a bomber are extremely gratifying as well.
That’s seriously fucked up
That doesn’t even hold a candle to the mobile crematoriums that were deployed early in the war.

It’s not a competition, but the people who “buy” this “service” are not involved in the war in any way, they have zero reason aside from mental illness to participate in it. It’s seriously fucked.

Killing people is not a sport, even in war it shouldn’t be done lightly, no matter who’s the taeget. Check yourselves.

checks self

Wow! After some self-examination I was surprised to discover that I actually have zero problem with anyone killing fascists, for any reason, and in any manner! I was also surprised to discover that I have a negative opinion toward anyone who thinks that’s a problem!

Yeah sure, let’s keep on exterminating poor people, while also giving rich fucks a chance to hunt them for sport, that’s absolutely fine.

There’s a difference between fighting an invader because you have to, and paying just to kill someone, putting yourself willingly in a situation you had no need to be in.

Luckily it’s just a meme.

I mean if this were real those people were going to die anyway so it’s not exactly a blood spot.
That’s so completely beside the point I wouldn’t even know where to start, but let’s ignore that, would it be ok for you to pay for the privilege of killing a death row inmate?

Isn’t that the whole point though? They’re going to die anyways so the method by which they die is irrelevant. It certainly has nothing to do with any decision that I may make.

From a moral point of view nothing has changed, death has occurred but it was always going to occur.

From a moral point of view nothing has changed, death has occurred but it was always going to occur.

It has. Something unpleasant that could arguably be a necessary evil, became a source of pleasure for disturbed individuals.

Lol.

Completely wiffing the point of how fucked this invasion by Russia is that paying to kill an infantry soldier with a drone is orders of magnitude less of a war crime than the top of the list.

As I wrote, I don’t think it’s a competition in fucked-up-ness.
Don’t worry, it’s not real.
I know, otherwise there would have been several expletives
Ender’s Game shit.

I could so see them chopping up a person, spreading their entrails in the hope to grow into a tree.

Oh wait you mean the controlling the simulation thing, my bad

That only works after the war is over and you have time to reflect on your role in genocide.

Man that series went off the rails fast

Yeah such a strong start then just crazy. Still I really enjoyed the books but it certainly felt unrelated.

Kinda reminds me of the Alastair Reynolds books. Very interesting but only vaguely connected

I really enjoyed the 2nd one, but 3 and 4 were so insane I can barely remember them. IIRC one was about the planet of people with genetically engineered OCD they’d turned into a religion, and the other one I can’t recall right now. I don’t think I hated them at the time but just felt like a different series, like you said. The Bean novels didn’t go quite so far astray.

Alastair Reynolds

Looks like I missed this guy’s stuff, but he sounds interesting.