https://x.com/stephentotilo/status/1752444899310342399
NEW: Spec Ops to be delisted entirely from online gaming stores (not just Steam)
— Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) January 30, 2024
A 2K rep tells me: "Spec Ops: The Line will no longer be available on online storefronts, as several partnership licenses related to the game are expiring." 1/2
If you have not played Hard-working American Ops The Line, please pirate and play it if you can since it has now effectively become abandonware, or if not, then just watch some videos about it, it actually is an anti-war masterpiece, the vidya equivalent of this: 
To kill for yourself is murder. To kill for your government is heroic. To kill for entertainment is harmless''
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spec_Ops:_The_Line
https://kotaku.com/spec-ops-the-line-steam-delisted-removed-2k-licenses-1851209947
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Game was peak Reddit.
But yes, it was perfect
for house 
edgy.
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Why do you think that?
1. No Adult Swim/Borderlands-esque sarcastic quips every sentence
2. No "religion bad" euphoria
3. No foids as protagonists (
)
4. No pop culture references every minute
Sure, the "war bad" and "America bad" takes may be a little bit overrated, but Hard-working American Ops is absolutely not something for !g*mers that you would see on /r/Gaming.
The game came out in 2012 so I am using the leddit tropes that were common back then, as in 2012 the RethugliKKKans/Genderspecial/Nazichudbigot culture war brainrot had fully metastized on leddit, and the MCU style of writing and CGI superhero slop were still in their infancy.
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The game just ripped off Heart of Darkness. Video games ruined writing
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Well maybe Reddit's changed a little
but it was definitely a Reddit 
darling when it came out. Places like /r/truegaming wouldn't shut up about it for years.
And honestly “military and America
bad” are arguably truer Reddit 
tropes than modern 
goyslop 
stuff because Reddit 
still felt that way even before 
2016 when most of the users were libertarian 
dudebros — back when the argument 
was made because America 
was getting involved 
in random 
wars, as opposed 
to nowadays where 
it's because America 
isn't doing “enough” for slavshit 
or sandshit 
or whatever.
The culture war has changed but some Redditisms don't
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They wouldn't shut up about it because it was actually under-rated until it became a focal point and redditors couldn't shut up about it.
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Le hidden
gem 
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The only game worse for soyjacking insufferability was Life Is Strange; an absolute miasma particularly in its dialogue and reveal of the killer.
I could have lived with the r-slurred "wowsers" if they never found the killer and the game was instead about coming to terms with awful shit that sometimes happens in life. They even set it up with the "save dad" episode.
What a waste.
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If they'd only remained in the kitchen
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Eat shit and die robot chicken 🐔 hater
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Opinion discarded
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Robot chicken is probably the worst adult swim property of all time. It's like mad TV tier pop culture parody sketches made with GI Joes.
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Yeah and MadTV rocks
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Yeah comparing it to mad tv is giving it too much credit. Its more like, kids who grew up watching mad tv sitting around smoking weed in the writers room coming up with punny derivative bullshit.
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Anything
that has more than "shoot bad guy" is reddit. Having themes or any kind of point 
of view is considered "politics" or "pandering"
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You are the first person outside of reddit i've seen praise the game. I've never played it because every i know said it was annoying how they made you do bad things and then went wooooow how could you do bad things.
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when the entire game is a direct 50-50 mix of fight club and apocalypse now, you really don't need to make constant references. The fricking premise does it for you.
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