Beneath the layers is Microsoft allowing a fascist regime, that Microsoft donated money to, to use their IP in facist promoting material.
I look forward to the day Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Apple get broken up.
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Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 days ago
… Did they not realize that the UNSC is an authoritarian fascist organization, and the Spartan program was originally aimed at fighting “rebels” who wanted to have control over the planets they lived on?
Literally the MC was kidnapped and experimented on to become a killing machine for the military junta for the express purpose of murdering colonists. No pay, no benefits, no end of contract.
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Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m here for it. Is it okay if I throw Facebook and Twitter/X on the pyre? I’ve long considered them to be horsemen of the apocalypse.
vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
also in-lore the UNSC nuked an entire planet because they couldn’t stop a rebellion on it
Far Isle was a human colony planet, within Unified Earth Government space. The colony was the site of what is considered to be one of the United Nations Space Command’s worst atrocities; in response to a rebellion in 2492 that they were unable to quell, the UNSC razed the colony using nuclear weapons, leaving no survivors.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Too bad the Arbiter wasn’t around to council on that one.
yogurt@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes, Halo is what they believe, the plot of Halo is just standard 2000s South Park conservatism. Fascism is bad I guess but you libs will come crying to the SS for help when the space Muslims attack, so is it really bad?
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Just like with Starship Troopers, satire like this goes flying over people’s heads so low and fast, it breaks the sound barrier and loosens dentalwork.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah. I’m waiting on them to show ICE agents as helldivers or something. That IP could not be more clear about it’s parody of the far right “freedom” quislings.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m actually starting to think it’s on purpose. Just like with spam email with misspellings and the kind of ear-marks that warns off smart people, the only ones left to click on “win a free iphone” are easily duped. Going after people that are drawn in by iconography and optics, but fail to understand nuance and the substance behind them, may be entirely the point.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I’ve been saying it for months, but fascists are “stupid” for the same reason Nigerian prince emails are always poorly written, and full of spelling and grammar mistakes…
Trump’s tweets make a lot more sense if you view them in this contey
NotBillMurray@lemmy.world 2 days ago
One of my most surreal gaming experiences was playing helldivers with a player I didn’t know. They said they liked the game because it “wasn’t political”. I was just fucking flabbergasted.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Some people just obediently blow up the illegal broadcasts without reading them.
astropenguin5@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I mean there was some guy at a military event that literally did the helldivers recruiting intro but replaced it with marines
(Forgive the shorts link, it’s just what was shared with me about it) www.youtube.com/shorts/MZ8dhiNHbTk
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
In a different timeline, that would be funny.