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[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 year ago

No spoilers in this sub please

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

World War 5 was the best one imo. Every one after that became a cheap, buggy cashgrab

I mean, you can only really do the whole nuclear holocaust like once every few thousand years or it'll get old.

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I mean after the death of general W. P. war wasn't the same.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah but it was kinda toned down from World War IV: featuring Dante from Devil May Cry.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, not only anticipating that there will be another 9 world wars, but that we will even reset our dating system again to start counting the years later.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

This is like Star Wars. The others are prequels

This should actually be written as "WORLD WAR XI".

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Outchie (if real). I also find the wording super weird, it's not like they're sad that ww "11" is dead/over, I hope? Sure "In memory of the lifes lost in WW2" is longer but ...

[–] ndsvw@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Pic is from 2016 or older... So, it's not AI art... Could be photoshopped, but I don't think so. Found it on an old hard drive yesterday.. Wording is maybe weird, because it may be located in Germany. At least, that's where I'm from and I got that pic somehow....

[–] flango@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 1 year ago

Easy fix: ' + '

[–] Blahaj_Blast@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An interesting read if you're into that kind of thing, there have been multiple global conflicts that didn't get the title, but could be considered a "world war"

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I heard people calling the Cold War WWIII which wasn't as cold as the name might suggest, at least outside of Europe and north America.

I also like the idea of calling the War Against Terror that or maybe – since WWI was call the War to End All Wars – it could be called the Second War to End All Wars.

[–] Voli@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Besides the numerical error, who says in memory of ? Do they miss it ?

[–] Vcio@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

time travel makes recording timeline events difficult

[–] subignition@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

They presumably wanted to write World War II with Roman numerals, but needed to use uppercase i's in this particular font

[–] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

World Wars 4 through 9 were quick little spats, mostly regarding food customs disputes such as pineapple on pizza.