Events in Kazakhstan have been worrying the public for a week now and have not left the screens of the main TV channels and editorials of news publications. And if we have long been accustomed to the fact that each media show its own version of the “truth”, then the connection of what is happening with video games came as a surprise even for trained readers.
The author of “Komsomolskaya Pravda” Alexander Boyko (Don Cossack, sportsman, pianist and correspondent of the department of politics) found outthat the Kazakhs have been preparing for what is happening now for a long time. Further only quotes:
Those who took up arms in Kazakhstan are now on average 25-30 years old. Most of these are young people who grew up on American computer simulation games, where one of the missions was the destruction of Baikonur, as one of the symbols of the USSR. To date, there are four such popular shooters among gamers.
And here is a list of games that systematically prepared the residents of Kazakhstan for dissatisfaction with the authorities:
- Command & Conquer: Generals
- Destiny
- Frontlines:Fuel of War
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
Here’s an example of words about the last game:
In it, the player had to neutralize the security of the Baikonur cosmodrome, shoot down the Soyuz-2 rocket, save the CIA agent, eliminate the Soviet General Dragovich, who after the Great Patriotic War forced Nazi scientists to work for the USSR. This liberation mission called “Special Assignment” was written by American programmers in 2010.
And a beautiful conclusion:
It turns out that scripts of coups in Kazakhstan began to be written in the United States 20 years ago. The young generation of Kazakhs was actually raised on American toys, where one of the main missions is the capture and explosion of Baikonur, as a symbol of the USSR. Over the course of 20 years, many of them have been convinced that this is quite enough to replace Kazakhstan with a prosperous emirate of some Middle Eastern state.
In principle, using the same parameters, you can draw some more interesting conclusions about other video games:
- Space Invaders prepared us to fight the invaders
- Metro 2033 – to life in the metro after the Americans bomb Voronezh
- Dark Souls taught us to roll
- Animal Crossing has helped everyone discover their interior designer
- After STALKER, we know that we must hide from emissions and do not forget to drink vodka with canned food
You can add to the list yourself. There will be no conclusions about the text “KP”. You yourself understand everything. And in the headline of the news is a picture, to which especially big dreamers can come up with the signature “terrorists attacked Baikonur and hijack Buran in order to give it to American programmers.”