>Everything you thought was cool when you were 12 is what is actually cool: Arnold, war, metal, huge boobs; all of it
Name the game.

Mortal Kombat is actually extremely cool. music, aesthetic, all of it is just fucking brilliant

>>717049581 (OP)
Not a great fit but Im enjoying DND games as a barbarian. Playing Kingmaker right now.

>>717049721
too bad the gameplay is fucking shit, which is why people buy it in droves but only stay for the first week.

>>717049581 (OP)
>war
War is the lame. It's just a bunch of suits sending the poor to die for their pocket books.
Jets and tank are rad though.

>>717050081
Real life war? Yes. Fictional war? Extremely badass.

>>717049768
retard

>>717050365
yes, you need to be a retard to buy and enjoy mortal kombat.

>liking boobs at 12
where did you get groomed

>>717049581 (OP)
Path of Achra

>>717050081

>>717049581 (OP)
Devil May Cry
It even has the edgy half-devil chuuni man

You already made this thread, but cut off the picture this time.

>>717050365
MK is a pathetic series bro, the first three had novelty and now nostalgia but stop pretending it's a good series with good players

>>717050441
I liked boobs at 0 like any other healthy human.

It was Castlevania then and Castlevania now???

>>717049768
mk is the only fighting game for normal people, the rest of the FGC is full of dysgenic neckbeard freaks

>>717050441
I absolutely looked up anime boobs on google search when I was in middle school.

>>717050640

>>717049581 (OP)
Kingdom hearts, naruto, digimon,

>>717049581 (OP)
>metal
Phew, I think I'm safe guys...I'm one of you...

>>717050081
It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.

>>717050538
I don't give a shit about the series. I just like the first 2 games.

>>717049581 (OP)
No. You just never grew up.

>>717049721
Shame MK went woke. Of all fucking series.

>>717050889
Your pretty words and lovely pictures will not sway me. We've seen the true black heart that powers war, that it is merely greed. Its endurance is our failure and proof that we are a fallen species.

>>717049581 (OP)
Call of Duty, Gears of War, Halo

>>717051676
Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Who has not heard such a tale? A turn of the card. The whole universe for such a player has labored clanking to this moment which will tell if he is to die at that man’s hand or that man at his. What more certain validation of a man’s worth could there be? This enhancement of the game to its ultimate state admits no argument concerning the notion of fate. The selection of one man over another is a preference absolute and irrevocable and it is a dull man indeed who could reckon so profound a decision without agency or significance either one. In such games as have for their stake the annihilation of the defeated the decisions are quite clear. This man holding this particular arrangement of cards in his hand is thereby removed from existence. This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.

BWAAAAAAHHH!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3ddoN93LGc

>>717050889
Maybe the "War is beautiful and glorious and poetic" idea had merit back in the old days of arrows and spears and sword and board
When it's nonstop artillery strikes and shrapnel and deafening explosions where you can barely tell what the fuck is happening before life stops because of a tiny object moving faster than sound hitting your heart, then fuck no war isn't desirable anymore it's too fucking terrifying

>>717050647
>dysgenic neckbeard freaks
those probably exist in MK too, just in a lower amount than usual.

>>717052123
NTA
That is exactly why it is so beautiful, that is what we were born for, to advance war. War is the Alpha and the Omega. We are merely vessels to carry out war, and continue war, and perfect war. War is one. War is all.
From the first breath of the cosmos, to its final twilight. Since single cell organisms, to hyper intricate beings beyond our comprehension. Life has always been about competition. It is the... meaning of life.

>>717049581 (OP)
Thanks Deyus

>>717052123
It never had merit. People who never fought in one romanticized it. It's blood and misery and pain, nothing more.

>>717052585
We advanced it too far and it turned into something hideous.

>>717052123
You can read accounts from the era of warriors coming home from war afraid of the sounds of clanging metal, missing hands and having to beg. War's always fucking sucked ass, and also been super cool.

Especially once we mass produce power armor and mechs. Any day now.

Any musou game

>>717053191
I tell you this. As war becomes dishonored and its nobility called into question those honorable men who recognize the sanctity of blood will become excluded from the dance, which is the warrior's right, and thereby will the dance become a false dance and the dancers false dancers. And yet there will be one there always who is a true dancer and can you guess who that might be?

You aint nothin.

You speak truer than you know. But I will tell you. Only that man who has offered himself up entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his innermost heart, only that man can dance.

Even a dumb animal can dance.

The judge set the bottle on the bar. Hear me, man, he said. There is room on the stage for one beast and one alone. All others are destined for a night that is eternal and without name. One by one they will step down into the darkness before the floodlamps. Bears that dance, bears that dont.

>>717050081
War is cool provided no one dies for real. Videogames about war, Warhammer, paintball, lazer tag, all cool.

>>717050441
Faggot. When did your dad fuck you?

>>717049581 (OP)
The entire Sonic series prior to Colors.

>>717050441
Unless you had some kind of pituitary issue,11 to 12 years old is about the time your brain starts going "Hey, women" in vague terms. This mostly comes in the form of noticing which girls in your class have started to get boobs.

Jean Claude was cooler to me growing up desu. Sly and Arnie had better movies but JCVD just hit the spot for me
It's about mastery, technique, discipline and honor. And splits and high kicks

>>717052123
>>717050081
Yes it's easy to understand that death and destruction caused by war are bad, and i in particular would definitely not want to go to war, but there will always be something fascinating about it.

Humans aren't so simple.

>>717049581 (OP)
>war
go enlist for the foreign legion for Russia/Ukraine and rid the genepool of your retardation

>>717052585
You're a moron that has probably never seen a street fight let alone experienced war.
I won't argue with you whether it's an inseparable part of being human or the way the universe works. I can just say that if it is, then taking a shit should stand on equal footing with war.

>>717053879
As a hu-white boy in the 90s, I can say Bruce Lee did it for me, but I also very much enjoyed JCVD.
Did you see that movie they did not too long ago where he breaks the fourth wall? I found it really touching, still go back and watch it at times.
https://youtu.be/vMvdGC2FIEU?si=H8-Tm5rvd3OVPY9a

I think there is something in men that longs for war, which modern society provides with video games. It used to be sports and brawling in the street, violent crime has cratered since vidya came out.

>>717054070
2 tours iraq, brown belt in brazilian jiu jitsu, 4-1 amateur mma record, buried 6 men.

What have you done with your life? Gooned to anime?

>>717053706
The power of autism

Feels like half the bellyaching about war is caused by our ridiculous approach to it. Used to be good pay, respect, and opportunity for advancement in civilian life, now it's just used to give people with poor planning knee problems to get them addicted to painkillers.
>>717054070
>I won't argue with you whether it's an inseparable part of being human or the way the universe works. I can just say that if it is, then taking a shit should stand on equal footing with war.
Exactly, same with the miracle of childbirth, or holding your mothers hand while she passes.

>>717050081
War for a tyrannical state that hates its own people is mega gay, but war for a higher calling or a great man is super cool.

>>717054082
Yeah it's his best acting"
It's really just himself but it's kino now nonetheless.
Truthfully my favorite classic action hero is Jackie, but I singled out JCVD because he was closer to Arnie than say Bruce Lee

>>717049581 (OP)
That statement is dumb, but Sonic The Hedgehog 1,2,3,S&K
https://youtu.be/AqYrnGcQEHA?si=vFBCvteKWH7JWy0D

>>717050081
"War" is just a shorter way of saying "propelling 2,000 pounds of high-explosives, computers and aluminum at 7 times the speed of sound to strike a target the size of your grandmother's TV on the other side of the planet." And that is very cool, not the poetry night stuff about great generals or god. Fighter jets are cool, battleships are cool, tanks are cool, even/especially if they're shooting wrecked hulks of steel in the middle of the desert of the ocean.

>>717054248
>Exactly, same with the miracle of childbirth, or holding your mothers hand while she passes.
The point I was trying to make is that just being "universal" isn't enough for us to consider a thing beautiful. We might take this cosmic approach and talk about endless cycles and how valuable shit and rot are, but we generally don't. And when someone does, you'll see that basically everything in life stands on equal footing as part of this cycle.
Your examples are valuable not just because they're universal (and holding your dying mom's hand is not universal btw) but because we feel (mostly intuitivly) that there's some greater value to these moments. Considering that (you) gave the whole cycle of life in these two examples, I think it's fair to assume that (you) value life itself, but war is the direct opposite of it.

>>717055249
I hope my son becomes a warrior, and kills many enemies.

You want your son to wear makeup and have a fashion vlog.

We are not the same.

>>717055249
Valuing life means getting along with death. You can't sit there afraid and hating it, it's all part of the same cycle. Death is the most meaningful thing to happen to most people, I think. You haven't seen someone waxing philosophical while butchering an animal? Half the cultures in the world still thank the animal for dying and providing food for them.

>>717055947
I think that we shouldn't legitimize war as "getting along with death," simple as.
I don't have a problem with killing animals for food and the kind of tradition you describe actually shows to me the recognition of the tragedy of needing to kill in order to survive. It's not that we cannot find beaty in war or whatever, but I think that the tragedy behind it should be recognised. Even in cases when war is defensive and is necessary to protect your family, liberty and so on, we cannot hide the fact that it's synonyms with undeserved and avoidable death both among the military and civilians.

conan exiles?

>>717049581 (OP)
I literally played 2 games when I was 12 if I wasn’t renting another NFS and trying to beat it in a weekend

And that was gran Turismo 2 and FF8

Now I still played those games recently in the past few years so… I agree. GT2 just needed a longer track and campaign. FF8 just had a janky ass material system. You know what’s pathetic? I never finished it. I got to the end even fought the final boss and finally dipped out… DESU the plot was confusing and idk what happened

Not a game but game adjacent - ReBoot

>>717050081
>take away the bread and circuses
>pushing for war as a good thing now
Starting to notice a pattern here

>>717056927
Game over. The user wins.

>>717050441
are you retarded?
you didn't want to fuck your teacher when you were 10?

>>717049721
I always look back very fondly at the intro for Deadly Alliance. There's something about atmosphere and tone of it. It takes it itself so sincerely. I think that era of MK was super cool, despite its flaws.

>>717056728
This is, by far, the gayest take, I have ever heard, in my entire 40 year life.

Ritualized combat for the sake of mastery of one's skill is way cooler than war ngl.
War is where poor sod get drafted or press ganged into dying for a cause that might be tangentially related to theirs and hoping that they are not part of the large statistic that ends up being maimed by whatever new technology is popping off at the time.
When you choose to become a fighter instead is to perfect your body and prove you're better than other people who are also people striving for the path of mastery.
The very act of engaging in this is sacred and divine

>>717049581 (OP)
Blasphemous 1-2, most metal game ever.

>>717050441
extremely formula fed post.

>>717053707
This pretty much, if you didn't somehow get an orgasm at 13-14 just by being alive and noticing opposite sex, you might be a genetic dead end hormonally, get your testosterone levels checked.

>>717052646
>People who never fought in one romanticized it.
That's not necessarily true. Look at the Teutonic Knights, for example. People back then thought of war differently primarily because of the natural brutality of life even outside of war, but also because war itself was different. WW1 was such a turning point because of that. Read any books from around that era, there was droves of people signing up to fight when the war first began because war was seen as a way for boys to become men, a way to secure higher social status, etc etc. It wasn't seen as a meatgrinder yet despite horrific shit like Napoleon's failed Russian campaign being in the close past and a widely known failure. Even with that said, there's accounts of even WW1 vets that overtly disagree with the idea there's a lack of merit in warfare.
War and the public view of it is as awful as it is for multiple reasons, but it can pretty much all be traced back to the overwhelming advancement of technology and the death of patriotism. It's very telling that nowadays a regular individual can sniff out how awful war is with little to no exposure. We aren't having viewing parties for battles anymore for a reason.

>>717054070
You are not removed from existence after taking a shit. He's completely correct, all in this existence is in a perpetual state of war. From the smallest bacteria on or inside your body to the largest heavenly bodies consuming one another via gravity or dissipation by celestial winds. Before we did not exist, these things could not be named, but now that we are here to observe and practice them, they are. You opining on this matter is as relevant as a stone rolling down a mountain after being kicked. Cause and effect, caused by nothing of import, going nowhere in particular. Only war endures.

>>717059625
>>717054070
War isn't just violence in general.

>>717050081
War can be revolutionary as well plus those two thing would not exist without war thus war’s cool

Yeah, I know. I don't need a giant / nephilim to tell me that.

>>717059989
Jet could exist in a theoretical world without war.

Damn I wonder if that's what every single person ever has thought. Surely they can't all be right at the same time?

>>717050441
this is your brain on gen alpha, huh

>>717060070
True, jets without artillery could exist if its for logistic purposes of getting from difficult place to get to type of thing. Most logistics things could also exist like trains and ships. Nothing of value is lost if war doesn't exist in a world and only focuses on civilization building and solves its violence issues through duels. That would be fucking kino.

>>717052585
hey anon, why did the first cells form into multicellular organisms? that wasn't competition, that was unity.

>>717060070
A world without war would require different laws of physics or biology.

>>717060478
I agree war is part of civilization existence but this is all to say that while I agree that airplanes get faster development because of war, there's still a need for them outside of war. They were co-opted by war but they don't need war to justify it's existence
Unlike say tanks who are weapons and only that

>>717060635
What i mean is, who can say what would or wouldn't exist in a world so fundamentally different?

>>717060695
Sure but my argument really is that war doesn't really get to have the credit for jets being a thing.
Jets exist because people have out of the own volition have decided that flying is cool. Like actually cool.

War can take the credit for tanks and guns tho

>>717050081
>they hated him because he spoke the truth

>>717055592
>I hope my son becomes a warrior
you won't even reproduce

>>717049581 (OP)

>>717050441
Everybody has liked boobs since they were a baby, you fucking retard.

>>717054230
Your country and their country were better before you did your 2 tours and are now worse off after your 2 tours

I don't get how can someone find modern warfare cool or honorable or worthy of respect besides the autistic stem guys who get to geek out for the technology involved.

>>717060238
eukaryotes formed when larger cells failed to completely consume smaller cells

>>717054230
>buried 6 men
I know you are no soldier for sure

>>717050441
10/10, check out all the seething this post caused.

>>717049581 (OP)
Everyone who ever died for America died for nothing. Less than nothing, actually.

>>717049581 (OP)
>WHERE THE FUCK IS YOUR BROTHER
>iunno
>BULLSHIT I SAW WHAT YOU FUCKING DID NOW YOUR ASS IS GRASS KAPOW
>wuh
>YOU'RE A VAMPIRE HARRY ADIOS

>>717054230
>i am the goodest goy, what have you done?!
not murdered people so a tiny clique of ultra wealthy can become even richer off of the suffering of innocents
your life has been a net negative to the rest of the world

>>717061212
lmao you are way too much into rol play. What do I know. I know I like gaming.

I've seen one of these pictures here before,

Anyway, if you like playing video games because they are fun, you put your production buildings in the center, and you fill literally everything with roads haha

I see more and more people playing video games like they all are truck simulator or you name it (I don't play those), so yeah, who knows.

Definitely interesting. You do you! I still have to think this is "wrong" though... like a missed oportunity, like playing with the gift wrapping

>>717050081
>NOOO man you just dont get it here see this video of some dude running from a drone and shooting at it and screaming before getting blowup? crazy right sooo cooool here i got like 100 more of those to show you!

>>717050081
Plenty of people love war
For all the talk from Gen XYZ and Boomers about how war is le bad they forget that mercenary work is the worlds oldest profession next to prostitution

All true warriors strive for this peace.

>>717050441
This is the most retarded thing i've ever read. At that age you're usually starting puberty. If you weren't looking at tits at that age there is something wrong with your dick.

>>717064269
Not if you watched Tiny Toons and got aroused by featureless crotch first.

>>717050081
All wars are bankers wars after all.
Great documentary. Watch it if you haven't.

>>717049581 (OP)
The PSP, and I say that as a DS guy.

>>717050081
this

>>717054230
>imagine being proud of a mercenary for hire to kill people for the profit of jews

>>717050889
>>717052047
>>717053513
faggiest israeli propaganda i've seen this week, congratulations

>>717052585
shalom to you too, fellow goycattle!

>>717064618
what documentary are you talking about you dumbshit gonk

>>717056728
Based

>>717061146
THEY CAN'T STOP US LET 'EM TRY
FOR HEAVY METAL WE WOULD DIE

Despite being severely overrated, it's a fine game. Although it aged like milk in some regards.

>>717066772
For me it's
HAIL
TO THE QUEEN
OF THE MASQUEEEERAAAAAADE

>>717065336
You don’t know what you’re talking about, do you?

>>717068063
How much have you ever lost on a game of cornhole?

>>717049581 (OP)
Xpiratez

>>717049581 (OP)
Command and Conquer never stopped being cool though.

>>717049581 (OP)
Modern war is gay as fuck. If this means shit like medieval warfare, WW1 and WW2, then sure, but this modern drone fucking is gay as hell.

Gay af thread

>>717069074
hard agree. bunch of nerds and women sitting in a server room with an actual xbox controller, what the fuck is this shit

>>717058610
Yeah agreed. Seeing someone push themselves to the brink of strength and competing with others who pushed themselves is amazing. You knowingly accept the risks involved but you aren't aiming to literally end a life.
Then in war some poor sap who could have lived a fulfilling life gets shredded to mincemeat because a fuckhead needs more money.