fact check, true. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Black_Ops_II
Black Ops II's single-player campaign features two connected storylines, with the first set from 1986 to 1989 during the final years of the First Cold War, and the other set in 2025 during a Second Cold War and rare earths trade dispute[15] between the United States and China.
you fact checked the fiction
Fiction check.
*explodes*
That Blops2 summary implies the new cold war began because of something China did.
In this timeline it's 100% the US
Does this mean that 8 year old was right about my mum?
yes
Dear gods. Without rare earth metals the US could regress technologically. We'd likely revert to cathode ray tubes and other post WW2 tech. That is until fusion is sustainable and then we get fight over energy for some reason. Next thing you know it's October 23, 2077...
Rare earth metals aren’t even rare though. They are just not found in concentrated form like gold. And metallurgists in the past had a hard time isolating the metals that’s why they called them rare.
It’s just that China can mine them cheaply since the Chinese government doesn’t care about labor rights and the environment. Europe and Australia has rare earth metal deposits.
And that's why all labour rights should be dropped!
Some wastelander is gonna find my bottle cap collection and get as excited as a pirate finding a buried chest full of gold dabloons. If they don't immediately go to New Vegas and visit Fisto then I collected them all for nothing
Luckily I'll be a dead gonk by then.. Wait, wrong universe. But no chance I'll end up as a ghoul.
In the cyberpunk universe the tech exists that we could all still be alive, I mean look at Rogue, she didn't age a day in 57 years.
But I'm pretty certain I'll be pushing daises by the time the bombs drop
If only we had an ally who needed our oversized military who also had a huge reverse of rare earth elements.
If only they were still an ally after the current shenanigans of the senile president.
October 23, 2077
It will be the Black Friday before another Great Depression.
....right?
....right???
Ooh I hope tubes come back. I need cheaper and better quality tubes for my guitar amp collection damn it!
Thd difference is that the president of US is female there, here is just a bitch...
what the fuck does that even mean
Th[e] difference is that the president of US is female there, here [he] is just a bitch…
Out of rare earth metals? Just start a war with cyber robots! They are built from wood and love.
A Magic Doll made out of Wood and hate is an alternative
besides robotic weaponry, we are literally in this timeline
Did you forget about drones?
Also remote controlled tracked vehicles and robodogs have been used in ukraine.
Drones are unmanned vehicles
Yeah, we already have all those things apart from futuristic technology. But the boffins promise it's less than 5 years away now.
Life imitates
artcall of duty black ops 2Ok, I'm calling shenanigans! Shenanigans!
This is clearly a simulation let me out!
You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave.
We are manipulated. Check out the documentary Century of Self by Adam Curtis.
