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Title: UK TV documentary thinks ArmA2 footage is real. Post by: apocrypha on September 27, 2011, 10:32:03 AM http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/09/27/itv-documentary-cant-tell-the-difference-between-gaming-and-reality-mistakes-arma-2-for-secret-ira-film/
In a serious documentary about Ghadaffi's support for the IRA, ITV show some footage, labelled "IRA film 1988", and claim it shows IRA shooting down a helicopter with a heavy machine gun supplied by Ghaddaffi. Except it isn't. It's ArmA2. ITV haven't commented yet. Possibly because they haven't worked out how to use telephones because they're gibbering retards. Title: Re: UK TV documentary thinks ArmA2 footage is real. Post by: Arthur_Parker on September 27, 2011, 11:31:48 AM The IRA didn't have camouflaged vehicles either, that's retarded. Though a golfer did take down an army helicopter in Armagh by accident once (or so the story goes) and the stuff about Libyan arms is real enough.
Edit to add, they do appear to have taken at least two helicopters down 20th March 1994 (http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch94.htm) & 17 February 1978 (http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dyndeaths.pl?querytype=date&day=17&month=02&year=1978) Double edit, the video they meant to show (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIgNj43S9sE). Title: Re: UK TV documentary thinks ArmA2 footage is real. Post by: Mrbloodworth on September 28, 2011, 07:05:26 AM Don't show them ARMA3.
:awesome_for_real: Title: Re: UK TV documentary thinks ArmA2 footage is real. Post by: sinij on September 28, 2011, 08:14:34 AM Well, we are getting close to photo realistic. In a decade you will need an expert analysis to tell real and in-game footage apart. This is not surprising, after all humanity put a lot of effort to get there - from electronic and chip design, to software and graphical engine... I'd say if this effort was spent elsewhere we'd have permanent base on marks or abundant clean and renewable energy by now.
Title: Re: UK TV documentary thinks ArmA2 footage is real. Post by: apocrypha on September 28, 2011, 08:53:44 PM Have you *looked* at the video? It's really, really not photorealistic.
It's poor journalism, nothing else. Title: Re: UK TV documentary thinks ArmA2 footage is real. Post by: sinij on September 28, 2011, 11:27:32 PM I have looked at it, and as a gamer I can easily recognize it as such. On other hand, non-gamer, especially from older generation, may not. Still, new titles (BF3 and so on) come close to where *I* would have trouble telling them apart.
Title: Re: UK TV documentary thinks ArmA2 footage is real. Post by: Azazel on September 29, 2011, 01:30:03 AM This reminds me of when Cody got taken hostage (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4229347.stm) by Islamic Extremists.
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