Arma 3

But no, it was like a life sim servers.

All of them were based originally in Arma 2 and Arma 3.

Arma 3 was not as good for RP.

But Arma 2 was heavily RP.

I mean, yeah, the... lyric clearly uh is heavily involved in the boom of rp for games and and making it more public i'm playing a lot of the armor 2 servers um armor 2 life and stuff like that so yeah we we probably i don't think rp in gaming would be as popular if it weren't for streamers like lyric heavily at the time and other ones who then led along followed and built their own communities around rp um if it didn't happen in Arma 2.

Well, not necessarily.

You can't just instantly go into that.

I mean, when I was doing Arma 2 and Arma 3 stuff, the servers I joined, to do that, you definitely had to do a real-life application to be able to do it.

They fed a completely synthetic reality into the highest echelons of the Russian military command structure and built a Potemkin village out of pixels to soothe the ego of this aging dictator.

And I think that's a progress for them because in the early war we saw them using Arma 3 screenshots.

Yeah, they've moved from video games to at least, well, what AI they can access.

The psychological snap on the Russian internet was instantaneous.

that this Telegram account, when I looked at it, was created April 1st of this year, consistent with these timelines, that they're trying to set up a legitimate propaganda outlet to give it legitimacy.

Then we have this fake fact check, this fact check two days after they created the Telegram page, that they used footage from a video game, and Reef had heard of the game, I had not, Digital Combat Simulator World, DCS World, or Arma 3.

They had put out basically Hasbara propaganda, but it was propaganda that was pro-Palestine and made it look like Iran was hitting an F-15.

But this was fact-checked multiple ways.