America has not yet understood what the war was like and thus has been unable to use such understanding to reinterpret and redefine the national reality and to arrive at something like public maturity. Because the Second World War was fought against palpable evil, and thus was a sort of moral triumph, we have been reluctant to probe very deeply into its murderous requirements. The same tricks of publicity and advertising might have succeeded in sweetening the actualities of Vietnam if television and a vigorous, uncensored, moral journalism hadn't been brought to bear. Thus, as experience, the suffering was wasted. The real war was tragic and ironic beyond the power of any literary or philosophic analysis to suggest, but in unbombed America especially, the meaning of the war seemed inaccessible. The Great War brought forth the stark, depressing Journey's End the Second, as John Ellis notes in The Sharp End, the tuneful South Pacific. The troops' disillusion and their ironic response, in song and satire and sullen contempt, came from knowing that the home front then could (and very likely historiography later would) be aware of none of these things. The Allies had nothing as good, despite the fact that one of them had designated itself the world's greatest industrial power. And they knew that the single greatest weapon of the war, the atomic bomb excepted, was the German 88-mm flat-trajectory gun, which brought down thousands of bombers and tens of thousands of soldiers. They knew that the anti-tank mines supplied to them became unstable in subfreezing weather, and that truckloads of them blew up in the winter of 1944-1945. They knew that their own tanks, both American and British, were ridiculously underarmed and underarmored, so that they would inevitably be destroyed in an open encounter with an equal number of German panzers. They knew, despite official assertions to the contrary, that the Germans had real smokeless powder for their small arms and that they did not. They knew that their automatic rifles (First World War vintage) were slower and clumsier, and they knew that the Germans had a much better light machine gun.

They knew that despite the advertising and publicity, where it counted their arms and equipment were worse than the Germans'. They knew that in its representation to the laity, what was happening to them was systematically sanitized and Norman Rockwellized, not to mention Disneyfied. It was the conviction that optimistic publicity and euphemism had rendered their experience so falsely that it would never be readily communicable. The above does not apply to user initiated *.INI changes, those are allowed, although setting your own options incorrectly can result in problems.WHAT WAS IT ABOUT THE SECOND WORLD War that moved the troops to constant verbal subversion and contempt? What was it that made the Americans, especially, so fertile with insult and cynicism, calling women Marines BAMS (broad-assed Marines) and devising SNAFU, with its offspring TARFU ('Things are really fucked up'), FUBAR ('Fucked up beyond all recognition'), and the perhaps less satisfying FUBB ('Fucked up beyond belief')? It was not just the danger and fear, the boredom and uncertainty and loneliness and deprivation. The most simple guidance here is, do not use third party programs which change the DCUO gameplay, or change the DCUO files, in any way unless it has been specifically cleared by Daybreak Games. These may also result in actions against your account unless we specifically exempt them and declare them as ok to use. There are some applications that modify the Windows or DirectX environment without changing the client. The result of this is that you will likely be banned. If you do this, you are indistinguishable from various cheats that work in the same manner. This same rule applies to data that DCUO uses for gameplay.

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