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Guess they can’t keep buying Xbox controllers fpr their drones. So they create a console to get kids to play video games and natively learn the new controller they will eventually use on the battlefield

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I hate how accurate you are. There’s no other reason it would be government backed ESPECIALLY during war time where they’re pissing money away and losing their soldiers left and right without be able to fill the open spots.

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Call of Duty is very literally the greatest military recruitment tool the US government has and I’m pretty sure the c-levels at Activision have been full of former state department officials for the last 15 years

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I remember seeing a documentary about Tom Cruise and how the movie Top Gun made lots of young people sign up for the military. Just a fun fact, not arguing against you.

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Well, the reasons are probably:

  • wanting to develop domestic chips
  • wanting to develop software companies
  • wanting to push russian culture among the young population
  • and others
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From what I hear, the war spending is still pretty low, all things considered. This could just be another autarky subsidy.

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