Will there be anime girl cosmetics for COD: Vanguard's WW2 weapons?
>Warzone will soon be adding its third wave of weapons to the game with Call of Duty: Vanguard. The new title is set in World War 2, so players can expect to be using all the staple weapons of WW2 like the M1 Garand, the Tommy Gun, Lugers, and more.
>Players can also expect skin bundles and cosmetics for the various World War 2 additions to the game.
>World War 2 is considered one of the most important events in human history and was the defining event of the 20th century.
>It established many of the international relationships and agreements that exist today, and it involved many of the most powerful actors in the world vying for material and ideological control of the world's resources. In many ways, it is the war that defined the most important ethical and political questions of the 20th century.
>So with all that in mind, many Warzone players are already meming on Activision about the possibility of them adding some of the anime-style skins to World War 2 weapons and characters. It's just a really funny idea, considering the importance with which the war is treated by western culture on a broad basis.
>Of course, Vanguard is just a game, so the developers also want to keep it fun and light-hearted. It's not like the game needs to bum people out with all drab cosmetics in the name of being faithful to the events of World War 2. So a lot of Warzone players are waiting curiously in the wings to see exactly what Call of Duty plans to do with these skins, amid the bright cartoony skin meta that is dominating not just Call of Duty, but also CS:GO, VALORANT, and others.
>The direction that many of Warzone’s new store bundles and battle passes have taken over the past year is pretty flamboyant and cartoony in some cases. This is in spite of the fact that they are ostensibly portraying historical weapons from the Cold War.
>Where will they draw the line on the anime girls, sci-fi shimmery skins, and otherwise ahistorical skins for guns that are explicitly from World War 2? Are they going to just forge ahead with the anime girls and the bright sci-fi skins, or will the developers take a more historical route in presenting these weapons?
>If Raven does choose to stick with Anime bundles, they could face criticism for their cavalier approach to presenting World War 2 material.
>There are always higher levels of scrutiny targetted at games that touch World War 2, more than any other war. Take for example when Battlefield 5 came out and there was a huge discussion about whether the game's focus on a disabled woman character in their trailer was appropriate since the majority of soldiers were men in that war.
>There was a lot of pushback to the claim that women weren't involved in World War 2, since there were a large number of women fighters, but the point stands that players cared more about the historical accuracy of that game because it was World War 2.
>Rarely do we hear similar debates around other war games, there is something exceptional and almost sacred about how people tend to think about World War 2 depictions, including ones in video games.
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Twitter declines to classify Taliban as 'violent organization' despite tweets celebrating mass killings
>Twitter repeatedly dodged the question of whether the Taliban were a terrorist organization and subject to disciplinary action, a thorny issue in light of the Big Tech platform's decision to ban former President Donald Trump.
Representatives for the company repeatedly declined to comment on the Taliban's status as a "terrorist organization" or "violent organization" per the site's rules, despite emails from the Washington Examiner Tuesday linking to accounts that may have violated Twitter's terms of use.
>The situation in Afghanistan is rapidly evolving. We're also witnessing people in the country using Twitter to seek help and assistance. Twitter’s top priority is keeping people safe, and we remain vigilant. We are taking steps to safeguard the voices of those on our service who represent protected groups including, humanitarian workers, journalists, news media organisations, human rights activists, and others," a Twitter spokesperson responded Wednesday afternoon when asked whether the Taliban's presence on the platform violated company rules regarding violent organizations.
>Our strong and dedicated teams are providing 24/7 global coverage to proactively enforce our rules at scale and swiftly actioning content that violates the Twitter Rules, specifically policies prohibiting glorification of violence, abusive behaviour, hateful conduct, wishes of harm, and gratuitous gore.
>When asked for clarification on the Taliban's violations of the company's rules, Twitter declined to comment, pledging the company would "circle back should that change."
>Further pressed on whether the social media giant "has no comment on the Taliban's status as a violent organization per the site rules," the Twitter spokesperson responded later that day, "We've no comment beyond shared statement at this time."
>Users "may not threaten or promote terrorism or violent extremism," according to the "Violent organizations policy" section of the Twitter Rules page.
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Same twitter that bans Donald Trump and proud boys are allowing and defending the Taliban having an official twitter account. Something sus about Silicon Valley at a whole allowing Taliban using their service.