Linked List / April 2020

Disliking Call of Duty ➶

Nick Diamon, in his review of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare at Quarter to Three:

I was a young soldier in 1991. I state this, not to establish my bona fides, but just to let you know that I carried all the wisdom of a young man given a weapon and sent around the world to kill people in service of ideas I really didn’t understand. My team, part of a U.S. Army infantry battalion, was there for the build-up in Desert Shield and we were, like the protagonist of Jarhead, going a bit nuts with all the waiting. If it wasn’t drills, then it was the endless chores of filling sandbags, digging ditches, burning barrels of human waste, or hauling supplies hither and yon. Our camp was drudgery and we couldn’t wait for the shit to start. This was a young man’s foolishness that went away as soon as the shit appeared.

✶ Friday, 17 April 2020


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