• Elon_Musk [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    I re watched SS troopers recently and it is just so blatant and in your face. Yes, we’re all more media literate than we were in 1997 but goddamn, they’re handing military rifles to kids and having the kids stomp the bugs.

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    It’s not even always a reading comprehension failure, sometimes they realize the real intent and just kind of do what they want with the material regardless. Authorial intent doesn’t mean dick much of the time. Hell, when John Carpenter straight up said They Live wasn’t about The Jews on Twitter a few years ago, his replies immediately ended up full of people who just kind of said it was anyways

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    Lmao fash are so easily led

    “LOOK, IT’S AN EMOTIONAL FAT TOOTHLESS WUMINS! BE MAD NOW.”

    Right-wingers are such sheep, not a single independent thought. Total NPCs.

    Is the game good? It just looks like another online multiplayer only FPS to me. Not my thing personally, but if it’s bad I doubt it’s because of “woke”.

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      The game is fun, there’s a certain level of chaotic mayhem that comes from being thrust into a situation where you’re outnumbered by the dozens and your allies are just as much a threat to you as your enemies

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      I just don’t get it, when did the SJW stereotype go from young women with dyed hair to Queen Brahne from FF9? I saw some other channel with other weird AI-generated matronly looking women as the totemic hate figure

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        That has alway been present on their discourse. How feminists are just fat ugly women that can’t get a man etc. Since it doesn’t reflect reality, they now can use AI to literally create the strawmans

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      I like it. If you have a good group to play with its a fun PvE shooter. The overall mechanics were really thought out so almost everything feels good in the game.

      Accidentally team killing is also practically a core mechanic so that’s a lot of fun. Its not like other games where its mostly the noob that team kills, no player no matter how skilled is free from an accidental TK. Makes a tk more funny than anything.

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        Friendly fire was how I learned just how flimsy the player character feels in combat. I never had to reckon with how used to Praetor Suits and SPARTAN armor I am until I got cooked in a picosecond by my homie’s flame turret. Like, I had a whole "holy shit I am a redshirt" moment until the homie threw down a rez

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          FPS typically isn’t my jam but there are some I really enjoy. I got suckered in with the “The matches are zany and everyone is having fun!” The two quick matches I did no one spoke, one person left after a minute and you run from point to point collecting objectives and ticking off boxes. I’m sure it is much more enjoyable with people you know.

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      You get dropped in from space in a small one-way shuttle. If you’re good you can hit a robot or a bug with your shuttle. Makes it feel like you’re elbow dropping a cyborg chainsaw samurai

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    Same energy as Verhoeven being bowled over with surprise that people didn’t understand the subtext that people being able to be nude coeds without lasciviousness going on meant everyone was Hitler

    The importance of specific ideology to fascism is rly overstated

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      Couldn’t understand what you were referring to so googled Verhoeven nude and discovered a reddit thread informing me that he filmed the shower scene in Starship Troopers while naked in order to get the actors to agree to being naked too

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            I think his analysis of fascism specifically is a lot more incisive than Verhoeven’s. I have this problem of not being able to recommend things to people properly, because it feels like just restating the points made in a text, but in a lamer voice. lukacs-stare The Destruction of Reason is also straight fire. I really don’t think the psychological profiling or media analysis of fascist figures or media is helpful. It’s obscuring the historical emergence and progression of fascism in its different forms.

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          I’ve read your original comment like 6 times and it sounds like you’re saying the most “in your face” clue that Starship was about fascism was that they were able to take coed showers without it being a big deal? But that doesn’t make sense so I’m sure that’s not it. But I can’t figure out how to read it any other way

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            It’s not that they’re taking coed showers without it being a big deal, it’s that they were a bunch of naked young adults in their physical primes and the only thing they’re horny for is war.

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    Of all places i didn’t expect a random throwback to 2007 french internet blogs here on hexbear. glad to see this guy (cerberusxt) is not a dipshit

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    Tries to generate the most viscerally unsettling caricature of an “sjw” he can

    Accidentally creates a parody of trad royalty

    Seriously this person looks like a planetary governor from 40K

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      The face they use in the thumbnail is a boss from Dead Rising 3 if I’m not mistaken. I forget exactly what her gimmick in that game was (DR 1& 2 are the good ones, 3 & 4 are kinda dog-shit so I didn’t play much), but I think it was more a caricature of asshole customers in food service than anything to do with social justice.

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    Helldivers is a live-service lootshooter. It’s as far away from art as you can get. It being “satire” is also a completely ridiculous statement, considering by the sheer nature of it being a live-service game, it’s supposed to be as addictive and “satisfying” as possible. You can’t make a satire of militarism and facism if your games entire “loop” revolves around mindless wave-shooting until you unlock the next “sick-ass gun”.

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      Genuinely has some of if not the least shitty monetization the genre has to offer. Not even 60 bucks original price, you can earn the warbond “battle pass” analogues by just running around low difficulty missions to find little piles of the paid-for currency. Sweaty whales are complaining that they run out of stuff to grind for/flex with and ceo is just like “play another game till we have more content 🤷”