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ross-hollander · 8 months

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#signalis #elster #silent hill #james sunderland #spec ops the line #martin walker #video games #inescapable nightmare of surreal torment gang

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tumblingxelian · 4 months

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Both Agent Walker and General Ironwood are really similar characters I think.

Both are well respected and relatively well liked military men who take great pride in their military and are subtly to overtly dismissive of civilian elements.

Both are men who want to establish communication with the rest of the world, but they made communication harder on themselves. Ironwood by closing Atlas off & Walker by refusing to go backwards.

Both are men who very much want to be heroes, to be saviors but whose skills and personalities lead them to choosing violence and force as their first response to problems.

Both are men who hold another ally in incredibly high regard, (Konrad & Ozpin) but whom they turn on when they need a scapegoat.

Both are men who cannot, will not , admit when they are wrong; they are instead, excellent at justifying whatever immoral decision they make. Be it shooting refugees or shooting their own citizens.

Both are men who directly and indirectly, intentionally and unintentionally cause mass death amongst civilians. Walker by his general penchant to shoot first, as well as using the White Phosphorus and destroying the water; Ironwood by cancelling the evacuation, shooting down evacuation ship and trying to bomb Mantle.

Both have narratives heavily defined by their desire to be a hero and their unchecked, unrestrained bullheadedness leading them down a path of murder and death. One they refused to admit they've been on until seemingly or at least potentially realizing it before they die.

("Was it? None of this would've happened if you'd just stopped. But on you marched. And for what?"

"No, you have sacrificed everyone else! You closed the borders, you squeezed Mantle until it broke!")

They're also both meta commentaries on the military industrial complex, military adventurism and military as saviors narratives.

So uh yeah, wow, there were even more than I realized.

#Spec Ops: The Line #RWBY #James Ironwood #Martin Walker

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asmoteeth · 8 months

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Doomed tragic yuri

#spec ops the line #spec ops #sotl #I'm never finishing this sketch #martin walker #john lugo #“What is wrong with you” Touch grass 🧚🌷❤️

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2amtechnicolor · 1 year

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Milgram Project and Spec Ops: The Line - The Only Way to Win is Not to Play

"They are guilty. But what is justice? And how would you see it dealt?" - Konrad, Spec Ops: The Line (2012)

[TW: mentions of murder, violence, various war crimes, and the American military]

So Fuuta's second MV and voice drama premiered last night...and it's a lot. This is our first time hearing directly from a "Guilty" prisoner and honestly, probably one of the best example of how a vote can change personalities in Milgram next to Haruka's second VD.

(I will be pulling Milgram ENG translations from @onigiriico)

So we all know the basic premise of Milgram, the music videos. We watch a prisoner sing about their "murder", we listen to their talks with the warden, Es, and then we voice them "innocent/justified" or "guilty/unjustified" accordingly.

In season one, us, as the audience, had a sense of naivete. We had no idea what a "guilty" or "innocent" vote would do to the prisoners. There was no real explanation for what the consequences of our actions would be. Now, the curtain has been pulled back. Sure, we heard the story from Jackalope, but listening to a second-hand account and a first-hand account are two different things. One is clinical observation, the other is emotional.

One person's death is a tragedy, but a million deaths is a statistic.

When just given the factual events (Kotoko attacked Amane, Mikoto, Mahiru, and Fuuta before being subdued by Kazui), it's easy to digest. Person A moves to Persona B and commits Action C.

A 17-year-old boy strangles a 10-year-old girl.

An 18-year-old girl aborts her child.

A 20-year-old man harasses a middle schooler online until her death.

At face value, any one of these could easily be voted "guilty" from one sentence according to your own values. It's when you get into the specifics, when we see their point of view for ourselves, when we hear it from their mouths, that it becomes more complicated.

Why is Muu, a girl who stabbed a classmate, more forgivable than Fuuta, who never laid his hands on anyone?

Why is Mahiru, a woman whose boyfriend committed suicide, less forgivable than an organ harvester?

Does internet harassment justify losing an eye? Does a toxic relationship justify being on the brink of death? If you had known the outcome, would you even have chosen differently?

Fuuta: "You and I are exactly the same breed!...Like I’d let someone like this judge whether I should be forgiven or not!"

This brings me to Spec Ops: The Line.

For all of you who don't know what SO:TL is, it's a military shooter game in the Spec Ops series, released in 2012, near the height of the military shooter genre's popularity (Gears of War, Halo, Call of Duty, etc.) However, SO:TL isn't a video game--it's an art piece.

You play as Captain Martin Walker, a special ops soldier in the US Army, searching Dubai and the surrounding area for an missing army comrade of his: Lieutenant Colonel John Konrad, the 33rd Infantry's commander. Konrad had defied orders in an attempt to bring order back to Dubai after the worst of sandstorms in its recorded history hit.

I won't go into detail on the whole plot, but while the player searches for Konrad and the rest of the 33rd you also:

use white phosphorus against opposing forces, killing 47 civilians who were evacuated for shelter in the process

execute either a Emirati civilian who stole water from the desert city or a member of the 33rd who was sent to apprehend him, killing the civilian's whole family in the process. Choosing to not choose kills them both.

assist in decimating the water supply of Dubai, dooming the city's inhabitants to dehydration

and many, many more atrocities.

In the end, when you finally find Konrad, the man who has been taunting you over the radio the whole game...he's dead. He's been dead for a while. You, the player, as Captain Walker, did all this, killed all those innocent people, justifying that it would all be worth it in the end, to find a man that was already dead.

Konrad: "There were 5,000 people alive in Dubai the day before you arrived. How many are alive today I wonder?"

There is no way out of these missions but through. You have to use chemical weapons, you have to murder civilians in cold blood. You have no choice.

But...There's always a choice.

In the words of the game itself: "If you were a better person, you wouldn't be here."

You don't have to play this game.

Turning your console off and never touching the disc again is a valid choice.

You don't have to be a war criminal. You have the choice to walk away.

You don't have to vote in Milgram.

You, the audience, are Captain Walker. By playing SO:TL, you are responsible for the destruction of Dubai.

We, the audience, are Warden Es. By voting in Milgram, we are responsible for Kotoko's vigilante justice. We are responsible for Fuuta losing an eye. We are responsible for Mahiru's near-death experience, and Amane's broken mental state.

But we don't have to be.

...

However, There's one major difference between SO:TL and Milgram, and I'm not just talking about genre.

Spec Ops: The Line is a singleplayer video game.

Milgram is decided by majority vote.

If you choose to opt out of Spec Ops: The Line, no one has to die.

If you choose to opt out of voting in Milgram...you can't necessarily stop everyone else.

So if a "guilty" or "innocent" outcome is inevitable, which is the most moral decision?

Not voting?

Or voting with your conscience without knowing the results of your outcome?

Are you setting a shattered bone, or breaking it in another place?

...

I can't answer that for you.

Es: "It’s alright. If you and I really are the same kind of person like you say, I’ll end up like that sooner or later anyway."

#milgram #milgram project #milgram es #kajiyama fuuta #shiina mahiru #sakurai haruka #kashiki yuno #yuzuriha kotoko #spec ops #spec ops the line #martin walker #john konrad #meta #essay #long post #lux talks

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tokiko220 · 1 year

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Noone ever does, Walker.

#spec ops the line #spec ops #walker #martin walker #work #fake anime screenshot #anime illustration #fanart #game fanart

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illusivesoulgaming · 1 year

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"Gentlemen, welcome to Dubai"

#spec ops the line #dubai #martin walker #captain walker #dailygaming #gameplaydaily #gamingnetwork #vgedit #gamingedit #videogameedit #illusivesouledits #videogame gifs #gaming gifs

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yourfaveisclasspected · 5 months

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CAPTAIN MARTIN WALKER is a PAGE of RAGE!

Requested by @autisticsupervillain!

#homestuck #classpect #page #rage #page of rage #martin walker #spec ops the line #mod tacky #my classpects

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cynthiabertelsen · 2 months

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A Little Side Trip to the Dordogne/Périgord

Reading Martin Walker’s Bruno, Chief of Police Novels Adobe Stock Photo (Village of Roque-Gageac in the Dordogne) It’s interesting how synchronicity works. My current, long-term writing project involves France – actually Paris – during World War II. However, there’re are only so many words about that time I can take in at once. So when I discovered a series of novels set in the idyllic…

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#Bruno Chief of Police #Bruno&039;s Cookbook #Cookbooks #Cooking #Dordogne #Fiction #France #French Cooking #Julia Watson #Martin Walker #Mystery Series #Paula Wolfert

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fpsprotag-poll · 1 year

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Round 1

#spec ops the line #martin walker #gunfire reborn #crown prince

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rebelwithoutaclock · 1 month

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#spec ops the line #meme #martin walker #John Lugo #alphonse adams

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ombwarrior47 · 4 months

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The Dark Vineyard by Martin Walker

Title: The Dark Vineyard Author: Martin Walker Series: Bruno, Chief of Police #2 Number of Pages: 303 Genre: Police Procedurals / Suspense Thriller Publisher: Vintage Date of Original Publication: July 26, 2011 ISBN: 978-0307454713

Last book of 2023 down. Got a busy New Years Eve weekend so I know I will start another but not finish it in time.

The Dark Vineyard by Martin Walker is the second book of his Bruno, Chief of Police series about a French policeman who is loyal to his town and everything in it. The first book I found to be very long and drawn out so I wasn’t sure I’d like the second.

I liked the storyline and the new characters introduced in this book. I liked that Bruno’s character developed and continued to move the storyline. The deaths were interesting and other criminal acts were investigated that led you to keep thinking. I also liked the ending more than the first one.

I didn’t like that this one seemed to have less humor than the first one. It also got a little bit long winded when it came to the topic of wine. I will still give the third one a chance.

★★★★ Not a top recommendation but it’s an interesting series.

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#Martin Walker #Bruno #Cheif of Police #The Dark Vineyard #Book Review #France #Wine

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