When liberals whine about America bombing brown people, a.k.a. "hard power", they claim that their alternative, "soft power" is better. They point to Vietnam, and how they have ended up turning into capitalist allies, meaning that if we had cut and run right away as the hippies wanted, we still would have "won" the Vietnam War without firing a shot.
Well, if the Vietnamese are such capitalist allies, how can they explain their new computer game, a Call-Of-Duty clone called "7554"? (The title seems to be "1337" in Vietnamese. I'll trust their math, but only because they're Asians)
7554 is Viet Kong propaganda, pure and simple. It recreates their glory days of the battle of Bien Yen Poo, among others. Unlike Call Of Duty there is no driving of vehicles, either because they figured Asians would find that made the game too difficult, or because by giving people practise, they might destroy Asia's cultural tradition of being terrible drivers.
I've heard it has a secret mission where you hunt cats for food, but I stopped playing because got carpal tunnel syndrome right around the 100th spelling error (level 2, I believe).
Now before you say "so it's Call of Duty where you shoot Frenchies instead of Krauts, so what?" Well, each mission starts with a long lecture on the Viet Cong (as a way of hiding the horrible load times) and while the translation is so bad it usually makes no sense, remember that kids are capable of making sense of rap lyrics and text messages. Yes, it looks like "soft power" works both ways, and now it's the Vietnamese who are conquering US without fireing a shot.

"Me so clickey!" She seems to be putting far too much loving care into simulating that Frenchman's pant-bulges just right. And why is that guy in the background playing a game? Tell him to get to work!
Forget Cambodia, the new VC santuary is right inside your child's XBOX!
Well, if the Vietnamese are such capitalist allies, how can they explain their new computer game, a Call-Of-Duty clone called "7554"? (The title seems to be "1337" in Vietnamese. I'll trust their math, but only because they're Asians)
7554 is Viet Kong propaganda, pure and simple. It recreates their glory days of the battle of Bien Yen Poo, among others. Unlike Call Of Duty there is no driving of vehicles, either because they figured Asians would find that made the game too difficult, or because by giving people practise, they might destroy Asia's cultural tradition of being terrible drivers.
I've heard it has a secret mission where you hunt cats for food, but I stopped playing because got carpal tunnel syndrome right around the 100th spelling error (level 2, I believe).
Now before you say "so it's Call of Duty where you shoot Frenchies instead of Krauts, so what?" Well, each mission starts with a long lecture on the Viet Cong (as a way of hiding the horrible load times) and while the translation is so bad it usually makes no sense, remember that kids are capable of making sense of rap lyrics and text messages. Yes, it looks like "soft power" works both ways, and now it's the Vietnamese who are conquering US without fireing a shot.

"Me so clickey!" She seems to be putting far too much loving care into simulating that Frenchman's pant-bulges just right. And why is that guy in the background playing a game? Tell him to get to work!
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