Operation: Epic Furious

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NDlurker•2 minutes ago

Hilarious. I played through it twice. I think I found everything except for the vial of measles. Maybe it was never meant to be found hahaha

an0malous•about 1 hour ago

It's great except the war is obviously for Israel not oil, we had more access to oil before the war

namuol•about 1 hour ago

Oil prices going up is “good” for petrol states who aren’t blocked.

But yeah fair callout about Israel.

han1•37 minutes ago

They say Palantir israeli good software ;)

captainbland•about 1 hour 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

an0malous•3 minutes ago

The oil is a secondary objective to keep markets stable so there’s less dissent domestically, the primary objective is to weaken Iran so that Israel can continue their expansion in the Middle East with less resistance.

The war will continue at least up to elections, these ceasefire negotiations are a farce. The US will get no benefits and the spin will be how incompetent the Trump administration is for creating another quagmire but there was never anything for the US to gain from this and the real objective of exhausting the US military resources to undermine Iran will have been achieved. They ideally would still like to install the descendant of the last Shah as the new prime minister, but if that can’t be accomplished they’ll just reset the Iranian civilization back 20 years by destroying infrastructure and killing influential and popular leaders.

The only redeeming factor of the Trump admin is that they are genuinely incompetent so this hidden hand influencing our foreign policy is more apparent but they’re not so incompetent to have started a war they have nothing to gain from.

athrowaway3z•10 minutes ago

No - it indicates gross incompetence of the people in charge of the war and its communication.

Any media worth its salt spend a brief time explaining why invading Kharg would mean mass US casualties, while having no critical objectives only achievable by seizing Kharg.

If one of your media sources only echoed "reports of the US looking to seize Kharg island" without that context it was wasting your time for attention.

engineer_22•19 minutes ago

Trump meeting with China this week, China maybe part of the calculus

namuol•42 minutes ago

Is this post shadow-flagged or something? It’s off the front page.

ge96•40 minutes ago

makes sense political

chabes•14 minutes ago

Political doesn’t equal not relevant to HN

adriand•about 2 hours ago

Wow - the writing in this is fantastic. This is genuinely hilarious!

chabes•about 1 hour ago

Why was this removed from the front page? It was number one just a couple minutes ago

fyrn_•about 1 hour ago

Can't rock the boat too much, when the captain has a lot of money

tolerance•41 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.

fallingmeat•44 minutes ago

here for this comment

jryio•about 1 hour ago

Who remembers the Newgrounds games making fun of Bush during the Iraq war?

baggachipz•about 1 hour ago

Absolutely brilliant and I'm amazed at how current it is. Huge kudos to the developer.

lbrito•about 2 hours ago

I was unsure if this was a legit propaganda piece for the first few seconds!

JKCalhoun•about 1 hour ago

Here's hoping there are expansion packs (and that Mexico will pay for them).

tofuahdude•about 1 hour ago

Anyone finish burning the files yet?

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

yndoendo•33 minutes ago

For what MAGA views as good for the USA is actually a deplorable loss for the civilized world.

dwa3592•about 1 hour ago

I decided to get the diet coke and call it "enough" for the day.

sailfast•about 1 hour ago

"Hold Hands" > GAME OVER

input_sh•11 minutes ago

Does the game just loop? I got the lube, then the TP, then the lube again, then the TP again...

I mean it'd make sense for it to loop, but I'm just wondering if I'm missing something or should I just call it there.

egorfine•about 1 hour ago

Excellent. I remember King Quest, Larry Quest and the rest and it immediately gave me the same nostalgic vibes.

lorecore•about 1 hour 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.

benoau•about 1 hour ago

And Hero's Quest, later known as Quest for Glory. This was arguably more fun because it added RPG traits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_Glory%3A_So_You_Want...

egorfine•about 1 hour ago

Space Quest was my absolute favorite!

alterom•about 1 hour ago

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of Lounge Lizards, if we're to be pedantic, with episode subtitles like Love for Sail :)

TarqDirtyToMe•about 1 hour ago

This would be perfect on a play date

numpad0•about 1 hour ago

  > Error
  > Your browser does not allow to read local files.

WHAT

consp•31 minutes ago

It's rpgmaker which might use the "local storage api" for some state management depending on the exact version.

dlev_pika•about 1 hour ago

It’s so hard to parody these mfers, like AJ - no matter how outrageous, could very well fit in their actual week

han1•42 minutes ago

I think we know why Trump needs three barrels of lube... for his best friendstein!

sarthak_sachdev•about 1 hour ago

I should have gone ahead with the diet coke

ge96•about 1 hour ago

Man no ball room?

general1465•about 1 hour ago

If Iran would have ball room, Khomeini would be still alive.

tt_dev•about 2 hours ago

love the music

LetsGetTechnicl•about 2 hours 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•about 1 hour ago

Try again, fighting the Pope is worth it.

nosrepa•35 minutes ago

Wait, I thought the game just loops and you're stuck getting lube.

alistairSH•16 minutes ago

You get lube the first time, then collect TP (and fight the pope to get one oll of TP). Then back to lube, but slightly different. I stopped there.

mschuster91•about 1 hour ago

Idiocracy was supposed to be a warning, the GOP took it as an instruction manual.

daft_pink•about 1 hour ago

It’s the easiest way to make money!

avaer•about 2 hours ago

For context, this is made by https://www.thesecrethandshake.com/, the same group behind the Trump + Epstein statue at the National Mall.

b40d-48b2-979e•about 1 hour ago

Amazingly high-effort art.

christkv•about 1 hour ago

Reminds me of that Alex Jones shooter

jansan•about 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•about 1 hour ago

> it only works on Firefox for me, not on Chrome

Sounds like a feature, not a bug

kg•about 1 hour ago

Try going to chrome://gpu and looking for red text or error messages

avador•about 1 hour 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•about 1 hour 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•about 1 hour 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•about 1 hour ago

Useful - thank you. I will contact them.