History NightmareFuel / DEFCON

* A game that is a {{Deconstrucion}} of the "Global Thermonuclear War" game from ''Film/WarGames''. Watching cities all around the world, possibly even yours, vanish with dry, clinical tallies of the dead is terrifying. "The only winning move is not to play", indeed.

* A game that is a {{Defictionalization}} of the "Global Thermonuclear War" game from ''Film/WarGames''. Watching cities all around the world, possibly even yours, vanish with dry, clinical tallies of the dead is terrifying. "The only winning move is not to play", indeed.

* The game's tagline ''is'' '''''[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt EVERY]][[OmnicidalManiac BODY]] [[KillEmAll DIES]]''''', what did you expect?

* While the soundtrack is your normal haunting music (including Adagio for Strings, [[VideoGame/{{Homeworld}} which is already bad enough]]), listening closely reveals faint coughing while it is playing.
** Normal? It's totally disturbingly awesome.
** Coughing? It sounds like quiet ''sobbing.''
*** It could be either one (and the coughing ties into [[IncurableCoughOfDeath radiation sickness]]).

*** This is similarly awful if you consider games like [[VideoGame/Metro2033 Metro]], where the nuclear destruction is so complete that it ''destroys the afterlife'', dooming those trying to survive in the rubble to never reach heaven or hell.

* The game's tagline ''is'' '''''[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt EVERY]] [[OmnicidalManiac BODY]] [[KillEmAll DIES]]''''', what did you expect?

** Consider that you are bearing witness to the most devastating war humanity has ever experienced. The end of an average game results in anywhere from 300 million to almost 1 Billion people dead all over the world. To think that one war chunked off around 10-14% of the world's 7 billion population is nothing short of terrifying, and that's just the beginning. Millions more will die from radiation, destroyed infrastructure and lack of supplies, starvation, exposure, collapsed society, sudden and violent climate change, and long term medical problems resulting from the incredible nuclear devastation.

** Consider that you are bearing witness to the most devestating war humanity has ever experienced. The end of an average game results in anywhere from 300 million to almost 1 Billion people dead all over the world. To think that one war chunked off around 10-14% of the world's 7 billion population is nothing short of terrifying, and that's just the beginning. Millions more will die from radiation, destroyed infrastructure and lack of supplies, starvation, exposure, collapsed society, sudden and violent climate change, and long term medical problems resulting from the incredible nuclear devastation.

*** Listen to it with headphones on. This isn't always that bad, [[MoodWiplash but when it happens right as]] [[DispairEventHorizon enemy nukes impact Chicago?]]

*** Listen to it with headphones on. This isn't always that bad, but when it happens right as enemy nukes impact Chicago?

* A game that is a {{Defictionalization}} of the "Global Thermonuclear War" game from ''WarGames''. Watching cities all around the world, possibly even yours, vanish with dry, clinical tallies of the dead is terrifying. "The only winning move is not to play", indeed.

** Consider that you are baring witness to the most devestating war humanity has ever experienced. The end of an average game results in anywhere from 300 million to almost 1 Billion people dead all over the world. To think that one war chunked off around 10-14% of the world's 7 billion population is nothing short of terrifying, and that's just the beginning. Millions more will die from radiation, destroyed infrastructure and lack of supplies, starvation, exposure, collapsed society, sudden and violent climate change, and long term medical problems resulting from the incredible nuclear devastation.

*** Oh, and then there's a ''whole slew'' of ambient noises which sound like a distorted choir--all of them labeled "'''souls'''." You are hearing the cries of souls lost in the nuclear fire--even more terrifying if you already have familiarity with hearing the souls of humanity scream from watching ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End of Evangelion]]'''s {{Instrumentality}} sequence.

* The game's tagline ''is'' '''''[[{{TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt}} EVERY]][[{{OmnicidalManiac}} BODY]] [[{{KillEmAll}} DIES]]''''', what did you expect?

*** Oh, and then there's a ''whole slew'' of ambient noises which sound like a distorted choir--all of them labeled "'''souls'''." You are hearing the cries of souls lost in the nuclear fire--even more terrifying if you already have familiarity with hearing the souls of humanity scream from watching ''EndOfEvangelion'''s {{Instrumentality}} sequence.

** Actually: If you look closely, it's a website adress.