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They collected the total words from ALL Call of Duty wikipedia pages and compared it to the SINGLE front page for WW2, and decided that says something about our culture and values.
Yeah, it says that we value anybody who can make up a statistic using a total bullshit process as long as it looks cool and seems controversial.
Then again, I doubt these idiots could count or add well enough to total up the number of words from the European Campaign page, the Pacific Campaign Page, the pages that cover the diplomatic efforts before the war, the pages to cover every single Operation, the pages that cover each battle within the operation, the pages for every ship involved, the pages for every single army and marine unit involved, the pages on the civilian actions back home, the pages on the internment camps, and the biographies of every notable participant, civilian or military, that you can follow to the point of never seeing the end of. The "0-9" index of WW2 Pages (nevermind the alphabet letters) on Wikipedia is bigger than 13,000 words.
Nah, easier to just lie to your readers, with the little bonus that you're at least TELLING them you're lying to them.
Most of the other comparisons are also bogus, like the Pokeman (everything's on one page) vs Poker (with least 25 pages dedicated to every aspect of it). The Poker Hands page ALONE is bigger than the Pokeman page, and that's before you follow the link to the even larger page on poker hand probabilities.
So this site, which admitted up front that it had to fake the data, is then cited as a source in a wired article, which now shows *two* editor/writer teams to be full of shit.
See what we mean? When the deadliest, costliest war in the history of mankind has been trumped by a videogame franchise about that war, you know something's off. One involved over 50 countries and took over 70 million lives; the other involves button mashing and tea bagging.
On an encouraging note, we did have to add all the Call of Duty games' individual pages together to reach the crazy number above.
They collected the total words from ALL Call of Duty wikipedia pages and compared it to the SINGLE front page for WW2, and decided that says something about our culture and values.
Yeah, it says that we value anybody who can make up a statistic using a total bullshit process as long as it looks cool and seems controversial.
Then again, I doubt these idiots could count or add well enough to total up the number of words from the European Campaign page, the Pacific Campaign Page, the pages that cover the diplomatic efforts before the war, the pages to cover every single Operation, the pages that cover each battle within the operation, the pages for every ship involved, the pages for every single army and marine unit involved, the pages on the civilian actions back home, the pages on the internment camps, and the biographies of every notable participant, civilian or military, that you can follow to the point of never seeing the end of. The "0-9" index of WW2 Pages (nevermind the alphabet letters) on Wikipedia is bigger than 13,000 words.
Nah, easier to just lie to your readers, with the little bonus that you're at least TELLING them you're lying to them.
Most of the other comparisons are also bogus, like the Pokeman (everything's on one page) vs Poker (with least 25 pages dedicated to every aspect of it). The Poker Hands page ALONE is bigger than the Pokeman page, and that's before you follow the link to the even larger page on poker hand probabilities.
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