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pm90 on July 3, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram throu...

This is incredible.

What happens if a country invaded another one and both has users on this game? Could future invasions be for digital assets rather than physical ones?

pmorici on July 3, 2021 | [–]

Have you ever seen the movie "Robot Jox"? it's about a future where conflict is settled using a match between two human piloted robots.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/

dmix on July 3, 2021 | | [–]

The 80s left us so many hidden sci-fi gems. Thanks for the link. Needed some long weekend material.

remarkEon on July 3, 2021 | [–]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon

Already been done, in 1967.

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