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For some Helldivers 2 players, the fascist role-play has gone too far (www.polygon.com)
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It took GantztheDemon 10 days to be able to play Helldivers 2 again. On Feb. 21, TikTok user AJGaming shared a video featuring Gantz killing them. The sequence went viral overnight, garnering 4.8 million views as of this writing. A subsection of the Helldivers 2 community, hung up on the politically charged satire theme of the online shooter, labeled the player as a “traitor” and began inciting others to shoot on sight. Alongside dozens of TikToks campaigning for a witch hunt, Gantz’s PlayStation account was temporarily banned after receiving hundreds of reports.

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[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Maybe if you want a satirical fascist regime to fight for, stick with Starship Troopers Extermination? Idk, but it seems like that community is more meme-y than HD2.

I just think back to the OneyPlays video where they kept coming across the guy who kept saying "you apes wanna live forever?!"

[-] Bimfred@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

If Starship Troopers had the player numbers of Helldivers, these articles would be about that game instead.

[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What an amazing piece of dialogue, it invokes a paradox. The way to achieve eternal life for a trooper is to die in glorious combat. So the answer is both yes and no.

What a great film, too bad there were no sequels.

[-] Kushan@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

There were several sequels, but they were all terrib-ohhhhh, I see what you did there

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