games @hexbear.net Awoo [she/her] @hexbear.net 4 mo. ago

Evil communist floodlights

Honestly the funniest thing I've seen in the game so far lmao

Someone on the dev team is cool

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The original Helldivers came about because the devs read Edward Snowden’s book and started memeing around the office about US propaganda and foreign policy
- Source? Would be very useful to me for some stubborn holdouts.
  
  Was in an interview with the CEO on a Milsim gamer channel: https://youtu.be/FJs_kqHrzzQ?si=3Zy-kgXDPXLF8qxm
  
  I don’t have a timestamp sorry, on my phone atm
I remember listening to the litrpg fantasy series He Who Fights with Monsters and I vividly remember when the author started using "Authoritarian" as a visual aesthetic unironically. Like saying "The costume was more like a uniform, and had authoritarian elements," or something like that and it was just so... ugh. When the author wasn't writing about "real world" politics, it was an otherwise interesting read which is saying something about the genre.
- It's just so funny, it's a totally normal floodlight on the wall of a base. I was like "Why does this have an interact? Can I aim it?" and was greeted with "evil commie lights". Nearly fell off my chair.
  
  Someone on the team is apeing the way the US calls even innocuous things China does authoritarian and it's really funny to me.
  
  It plays into my idea that the whole thing is virtual displays, and we have no idea what things look like outside our helmets.
It's just illuminating the area, communistically
What is this from?
- Helldivers 2, you play fascist space americans, one of the enemy factions are robot communists, this was on a floodlight in one of the bases I cleared.
  
  Gotcha, that's what I figured but I wasn't sure. Been thinking about picking it up.
  
  I know nothing about Helldivers so forgive me if Im talking out of my ass, but are the robots communists or are the robots controlled by communists? I hope its latter because the idea of being forced to ram your face pointlessly into an army of communist machines while knowing full well that the average person in that society is just while the game says all the same anti-communist stuff from real life about this obviously wonderful society to justify you fighting this pointless war would be amazing. Maybe the robots should do a reverse liberty prime and spout communist propaganda.
  
  Don't they mount skulls on their robot death machines?
The first time I saw this in game I laughed so fuckin hard.
When I heard of the game I immediately thought of Foxhole, but without all of the fun of building a war economy by hand
- i wish I could forget my attempt to get you guys to help me build a fucking coal to oil refinery back when we created the discord
I chortled.
Tankie lighting for my tankie room inside my tankie bunker

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