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submitted 7 months ago by Awoo@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

I'm genuinely impressed with their balls. Libs probably won't notice it but they've done this both on twitter and in-game.

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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 95 points 7 months ago

un-coolqin-shi-huangdi-fireball

Unlimited genocide on super earth, Cyberstan will be free

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 44 points 7 months ago

Whyesseff is amazing how do we already have a super earth flag?!

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 56 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

lol no, its the UN flag, super earth flag its like the UN flag in logo with Nato flag colors nato-cool

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Nice to finally have a game without politics

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[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 86 points 7 months ago

OP I'm not sure what you're talking about? This game doesn't have politics, it's not some Disney woke nonsense. Not sure if you're thinking of another game.

[-] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 44 points 7 months ago

Not true, there's a woman on your space ship. Not even Heckdivers is safe from Woke these days.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 31 points 7 months ago

Nono that's fine, she's serving you. But you can play as a woman and THATS woke

[-] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 26 points 7 months ago

I've changed the in-game options to randomize whether I spawn in as a man or woke, and I'm keeping an excel spreadsheet to determine the percentage of SJW propaganda being forced on us. I've been invited onto the Joe Rogan Experience to discuss my findings.

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[-] Waldoz53@hexbear.net 57 points 7 months ago

its not my kind of game, but im LOVING how the devs are using the games online capabilities. i read somewhere that they essentially have a tabletop rpg style DM who manages the events like this and its such a cool idea.

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[-] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 53 points 7 months ago

The post before that was amazing too

mission-accomplished-1 mission-accomplished-2 mission-accomplished

[-] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 53 points 7 months ago

Oh my god, the "the fight continues" banner in the op poster is just pasted over the mission accomplished text data-laughing

[-] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 50 points 7 months ago

The last thing I want to do is play an online game with all the people who wanted to be the troopers in starship troopers.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 53 points 7 months ago

Yeah but friendly fire is always on.

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[-] jack@hexbear.net 44 points 7 months ago

Feels more like satirizing Zionists around 10/7

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 43 points 7 months ago

That would definitely be a safer bit of satire but I'm convinced there's a ukraine element going on here.

I was looking at Sweden's Left Party and they have seats and an anti-nato position, so it tracks that there could be a whole studio with this mindset.

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[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago

Bit of both really

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[-] Moonworm@hexbear.net 43 points 7 months ago

It feels like a leap to me that they're specifically satirizing Ukraine.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 64 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Why? Google "unprovoked invasion" and it's page after page of Ukraine shit, this language has practically been a meme surrounding the ukraine war, and the left has criticised it very heavily: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/05/11/gfgh-m11.html

If the devs are socialist-leaning then it tracks. Put it this way they also satirise the use of "authoritarian" to describe socialists in the game, which means they're definitely left of lib.

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 52 points 7 months ago

The devs absolutely are left-leaning, the whole thing started as an in-joke in their office. They even make it explicit that super-earth doesn't develop any tech of it's own, they just steal it.

[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 40 points 7 months ago

also the "authoritarian light: used for tyrrany" is such a good bit i doubt a lib could come up with it

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[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 47 points 7 months ago

I was gonna say I think OP called down the jump pack stratagem

They're satirizing the language of political propaganda in general. There's no reason to think they're commenting on Ukraine specifically.

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They're satirizing American imperial language and there are definitely enough people in that studio to have chuckled about Ukraine, or October 7th, etc.

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 41 points 7 months ago

The game is pretty explicitly about NATO imperialism and isn't subtle with it. It tracks.

[-] Gay_Tomato@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago

Its the most recent version of this. It would be weirder if Ukraine wasn't at least on some minds.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Egh, it's subtle enough for them libs to not notice... see the flag... looks more UN than NATO-ish so I suppose the least someone can think of is the U.S-led "U.N" campaign in the Korean War...

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 71 points 7 months ago

As far as I can tell the average helldiver lib hasn't put together that Super Earth is a satire of 21st century western imperialism at all. Asking them "which fascist power is super earth satirizing?" Breaks their brains.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

As far as I can tell the average helldiver lib hasn't put together that Super Earth is a satire of 21st century western imperialism at all. Asking them "which fascist power is super earth satirizing?" Breaks their brains.

And why would they? Let them sink into the marsh, as Lenin would've said...

If they want to rebound back, we can accept them back.. until then.... blob-sleep

[-] sloth@hexbear.net 30 points 7 months ago

I contend that this is the correct interpretation.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 41 points 7 months ago

Libs will no doubt take it at face value

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 39 points 7 months ago

You've lost me at "this game has politics"

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 38 points 7 months ago

Either we're making this all up in our head or we've got comrades in Sweden.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 48 points 7 months ago

I'm quite certain these people are very left of lib.

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[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago
[-] StalinStan@hexbear.net 59 points 7 months ago

Helldivers is a game about being a disposable soldier for a fashest empire. They pretty much copy American propaganda directly. Libs do not get the joke.

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 26 points 7 months ago

Awooooooooooooooo

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago

They'll use "full-scale invasion" next

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