Operation: Epic Furious

(epicfurious.com)

263 points | by dmschulman 2 hours ago

29 comments

  • an0malous 37 minutes ago
    It's great except the war is obviously for Israel not oil, we had more access to oil before the war
    • namuol 32 minutes ago
      Oil prices going up is “good” for petrol states who aren’t blocked.

      But yeah fair callout about Israel.

    • han1 20 minutes ago
      They say Palantir israeli good software ;)
    • captainbland 32 minutes ago
      I mean it's not clear the current state of things was the ambition before the war, a while back they were talking about seizing Kharg island which indicates capturing oil resources was an objective
      • engineer_22 2 minutes ago
        Trump meeting with China this week, China maybe part of the calculus
  • namuol 25 minutes ago
    Is this post shadow-flagged or something? It’s off the front page.
    • ge96 23 minutes ago
      makes sense political
  • chabes 30 minutes ago
    Why was this removed from the front page? It was number one just a couple minutes ago
    • tolerance 24 minutes ago
      This is one of those submissions that will invariably descend into a flame war if someone dare criticize it and infringe upon the consensus joy of others.
    • fyrn_ 28 minutes ago
      Can't rock the boat too much, when the captain has a lot of money
    • fallingmeat 28 minutes ago
      here for this comment
  • adriand 1 hour ago
    Wow - the writing in this is fantastic. This is genuinely hilarious!
  • jryio 59 minutes ago
    Who remembers the Newgrounds games making fun of Bush during the Iraq war?
  • baggachipz 34 minutes ago
    Absolutely brilliant and I'm amazed at how current it is. Huge kudos to the developer.
  • JKCalhoun 36 minutes ago
    Here's hoping there are expansion packs (and that Mexico will pay for them).
  • lbrito 1 hour ago
    I was unsure if this was a legit propaganda piece for the first few seconds!
  • tofuahdude 37 minutes ago
    Anyone finish burning the files yet?

    I tried... but it looked like it would take awhile...

  • sailfast 31 minutes ago
    "Hold Hands" > GAME OVER
  • yndoendo 16 minutes ago
    For what MAGA views as good for the USA is actually a deplorable loss for the civilized world.
  • egorfine 1 hour ago
    Excellent. I remember King Quest, Larry Quest and the rest and it immediately gave me the same nostalgic vibes.
    • lorecore 49 minutes ago
      They were actually called Kings Quest and Leisure Suit Larry. There was also Police Quest and Space Quest. Sierra Online really had some of the canonical adventure game series.
  • dwa3592 55 minutes ago
    I decided to get the diet coke and call it "enough" for the day.
  • TarqDirtyToMe 1 hour ago
    This would be perfect on a play date
  • numpad0 30 minutes ago

      > Error
      > Your browser does not allow to read local files.
    
    WHAT
    • consp 14 minutes ago
      It's rpgmaker which might use the "local storage api" for some state management depending on the exact version.
  • dlev_pika 34 minutes ago
    It’s so hard to parody these mfers, like AJ - no matter how outrageous, could very well fit in their actual week
  • han1 25 minutes ago
    I think we know why Trump needs three barrels of lube... for his best friendstein!
  • sarthak_sachdev 29 minutes ago
    I should have gone ahead with the diet coke
  • ge96 37 minutes ago
    Man no ball room?
    • general1465 34 minutes ago
      If Iran would have ball room, Khomeini would be still alive.
  • tt_dev 1 hour ago
    love the music
  • LetsGetTechnicl 1 hour ago
    I can't believe we're so beyond parody at this point. Also, instant game over from trying to hold Melania's hand lol
    • epistasis 32 minutes ago
      Try again, fighting the Pope is worth it.
      • nosrepa 18 minutes ago
        Wait, I thought the game just loops and you're stuck getting lube.
    • mschuster91 58 minutes ago
      Idiocracy was supposed to be a warning, the GOP took it as an instruction manual.
      • daft_pink 49 minutes ago
        It’s the easiest way to make money!
  • avaer 1 hour ago
    For context, this is made by https://www.thesecrethandshake.com/, the same group behind the Trump + Epstein statue at the National Mall.
  • christkv 46 minutes ago
    Reminds me of that Alex Jones shooter
  • jansan 1 hour ago
    I know this is frowned upon on HN, so feel free to vote me down.

    But it only works on Firefox for me, not on Chrome.

    Error Message on Chrome:

        Error: Failed to initialize graphics.
        at SceneManager.initGraphics (rmmz_managers.js:1957:15)
        at SceneManager.initialize (rmmz_managers.js:1929:10)
        at SceneManager.initialize (CGMZ_Core.js:1662:41)
        at SceneManager.run (rmmz_managers.js:1918:14)
        at Main.onEffekseerLoad (main.js:150:22)
        at _onRuntimeInitialized (effekseer.min.js:35:44)
        at effekseer.min.js:35:327
        at Module.onRuntimeInitialized (effekseer.min.js:15:164351)
        at doRun (effekseer.min.js:15:164904)
        at run (effekseer.min.js:15:165064)
    • barnabee 34 minutes ago
      > it only works on Firefox for me, not on Chrome

      Sounds like a feature, not a bug

    • kg 50 minutes ago
      Try going to chrome://gpu and looking for red text or error messages
  • avador 41 minutes ago
    epicfurious.com is blocked by my service provider. It’s a small, local, fiber company called mornington.

    They do not say why in the returned html.

    I do not approve of such blockage.

    Nevertheless. Knowledge is knowledge. So I post for everyone’s sake.

    • epistasis 32 minutes ago
      I was going to say that political censorship is out of control in the US, but that appears to be a Canadian ISP?
    • mschuster91 37 minutes ago
      A DNS WHOIS [1] shows what's likely the cause:

      > Important Dates: Created 4/28/2026

      Many an ISP these days blocks domains that have been registered less than a month ago because most scam campaigns have to cycle through domains way faster than that time.

      Check if you have enabled some sort of "malware protection" at your ISP, because that usually is based on DNS filtering.

      [1] https://who.is/whois/epicfurious.com

      • avador 34 minutes ago
        Useful - thank you. I will contact them.
  • tamimio 54 minutes ago
    [flagged]
    • anonzzzies 49 minutes ago
      trump is not done yet. don't worry.
    • malcolmgreaves 48 minutes ago
      Blatantly not true. Do you parrot such lies to seek attention?
      • tamimio 37 minutes ago
        Go and ask your LLM of choice, and get back to me. Have this quick recap:

        >bush

        Created two wars, direct deaths and enabled ones are 500k to 1M, $4-$6 trillion cost, it destroyed iraq and Afghanistan.

        >obama

        No new wars, cont previous plus libya plus drones strikes in the region (check how many kids killed in those), 100k-200k deaths, $1-$2 trillion, destroyed libya, yemen, syria, plus iraq/afghanistan

        >biden

        We all saw what was going on in gaza (~50k killed) and still paid billions to israel

        Meanwhile trump had doha deal, reduced spending and pulled military from there. Hate trump for whatever reason you had that’s your own (maybe justified in domestic stuff), but the fact that what he did in that region is nothing compared to what previous presidents did, and unhinged tweets don’t count.

  • moralestapia 1 hour ago
    [flagged]
    • shimman 45 minutes ago
      How do you feel about the President mocking Jesus and the teachings of Christ? Do you choose to not engage in any business inside the US or do you just hold your outrage until it's convenient to express?
      • john_strinlai 39 minutes ago
        answering this would require battling probably the most serious cognitive dissonance the poster has faced in their lifetime, so i would not hold your breath while you wait for a reply.
    • YeahThisIsMe 59 minutes ago
      He'll be fine.
    • jwmoz 56 minutes ago
      Not a fan of free speech?
      • moralestapia 53 minutes ago
        The opposite. I'm a free speech absolutist, as Musk would say :).
        • berbec 8 minutes ago
        • malcolmgreaves 45 minutes ago
          You’re a fan of the political party whose leader insults and mocks the pope. Literally insulting the person who is channeling the word of the Lord. Why do you support those that deeply insult Jesus?
          • aipatselarom 37 minutes ago
            Chill. GP never said he was against or in favor of the current US administration. This is quite a deranged strawman argument that borders on a personal attack.

            This behavior does not lead to clever or constructive conversation. There are much better ways to get your point across.

            It feels weird to have to write this but it seems warranted: A religious preference is something that extends beyond the limited time and space of a US political party.

            • pear01 26 minutes ago
              Except a cursory glance at their comment history shows otherwise. You could have put in some basic effort.

              Also don't insult our intelligence. It's pretty clear what side of the partisan line someone who says both - "I'm a free speech absolutist" citing Musk while in the same breath complaining someone is being mean to Jesus - is on.

              Maybe you are simply projecting some guilt about your electoral choices. I can't come up with a better reason for your comment beyond empty moral posturing.

            • jmye 13 minutes ago
              > deranged [...] that borders on a personal attack.

              He says, unironically.

              > This behavior does not lead to clever or constructive conversation.

              He says, unironically.

              Physician, heal thyself.

            • john_strinlai 35 minutes ago
              certainly off-topic and unlikely to lead to clever/construction conversation!

              nothing about it is deranged, a strawman, or a borderline personal attack though.

              >GP never said he was against or in favor of the current US administration

              they have, actually! i quote: "I personally like Trump as a president."

              • aipatselarom 22 minutes ago
                I'm happy to clarify but also please don't take it personal if this is my last comment wrt. to this; again, this does not really lead us to productive conversation and we can all do much better than that.

                All definitions come from Google's AI summary, of course we can argue about those but I think they are pretty accurate.

                deranged argument: a "deranged argument" refers to intensely illogical, paranoid, orpathological reasoning that often disrupts rational public discourse, characterized by extreme, often toxic, comparisons. It seems to me like that label is warranted, GP just wrote "I don't like that the game mocks Jesus" and got a somehow extreme response that I would definitely characterize as an "extreme, toxic comparison".

                strawman: a dishonest debating tactic where someone misrepresents, exaggerates, or fabricates an opponent's argument to make it easier to attack. In this case, GP wrote "I don't like that the game mocks Jesus", whereas the discussion was turned by some people into "I like the Trump administration".

                Criticizing someone because of their political and religious preferences (and nothing else) is as personal as you can get. Most laws against harassment around the world specifically point out this behavior.

                YMMV, if you consider this to not be relevant, it's actually ... ok. We all have different points of view and even "logical" things might seem illogical to others and I mean this honestly and without snark. We don't have to agree, the best I (we) can do is to thoroughly explain our points of view.

          • czottmann 38 minutes ago
            Stop with the logic and whatnot
        • mindslight 41 minutes ago
          Are you saying this with an awareness that you're calling yourself a hypocrite? I'm not trying to attack you here, that's just the plain meaning of Musk's "free speech absolutism".
    • mihok 44 minutes ago
      Because they were both doctors?
    • thrance 44 minutes ago
    • lbrito 38 minutes ago
      The Trump administration does it all the time, so you can't really have a Trumpian game without that, can you?
    • SirFatty 45 minutes ago
      "This was fun until the mocking of Jesus."

      Are you referring to Trump?

      • vunderba 41 minutes ago
        Now now. He was clearly being depicted as a doctor - couldn't you tell from the glowing orbs of light in his hands? /s
    • SimianSci 56 minutes ago
      Jesus doesn't care, and neither should you.
      • ge96 37 minutes ago
        He did but we mounted his ass to a cross

        (I'm not religious)

        Was thinking about the dumb animalistic shit we've done like burning Joan of Arc for wearing men's clothes

    • periodjet 52 minutes ago
      [flagged]
      • kg 48 minutes ago
        Your deity of choice can most likely survive being mocked with no harm sustained whatsoever, being a supernatural entity beyond human comprehension. He/she/it might get angry with you, which is a good reason to personally choose not to mock supernatural entities or religious figures.

        On the other hand, antisemitic slurs or other attacks on oppressed groups can result in real emotional and physical harms against real living people, your neighbors, your coworkers, your friends, even your family.

  • simianparrot 41 minutes ago
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    • kridsdale1 38 minutes ago
      If the Democratic party were smart or had even a single drop of Rizz, it would be them.

      So we know that it isn’t.

    • 542458 38 minutes ago
      Are you implying that this must be funded by some shadowy group? I don’t see why, people independently make media mocking politicians all the time.
    • dlev_pika 36 minutes ago
      Soros and IRGC duh!
    • wiseowise 37 minutes ago
      Zionists, left and immigrants who want to destroy the big, beautiful country.
      • mschuster91 35 minutes ago
        If there is one coalition that wants to destroy everything the US stood for ever since WW2 it is the modern-day GOP.
      • saltyoldman 36 minutes ago
        Zionists would be a confusing one to be in this list.
      • sixothree 32 minutes ago
        Are you sure it's not the globalists?
    • saltyoldman 37 minutes ago
      China, Russia