So, not just mafia style monopoly anymore. Now also supporting facism.
US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment
Submitted 5 months ago by CubitOom@infosec.pub to games@lemmy.world
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random_character_a@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Plurrbear@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Probably because Trump gave them a $12 million dollar tax break…
CubitOom@infosec.pub 5 months ago
And all it cost them was $1,000,000 donated to the inauguration fund
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Confused, it was a reply to celebrating Halo on PS5, where does the ‘destroy immigration’ part come in?
CubitOom@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Several hours after the White House post, the Department of Homeland Security put up its own Halo image with the message “Destroy the Flood,” and a link to the ICE recruitment page.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Weird not to include that image, thanks.
TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Draft dodger say what?
Also, that flag would only have been valid for a week in 1889.
Gorgeous_Sloth@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Fuckin hell
jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Bootlicking cowards.
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 5 months ago
[deleted]sturmblast@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Always has
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
The CEO of Microsoft is deep throating Trump regularly. The company won’t do anything.
bfg9k@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I hate this fucking timeline.
I used to be a Halo fan, Microsoft ruined it.
I used to want to travel to the US, MAGA ruined it.
I used to have ambition for the future, a bunch of crusty old fucks ruined it.
I used to enjoy life. This incessant hatred and uglyness ruined it.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Feel this 100% as an American though.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I was about to rebut the “visit the US” thing, but people really should wait until immigration no longer looks at peoples’ phones or social media. I think I can still refuse as a citizen on 4th amendment grounds, but until that’s extended to visitors, I recommend holding off.
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Find your thing, mute the rest.
Zink@programming.dev 5 months ago
Big wisdom in this.
Don’t assume it is “checking out” from society or taking the easy way out. The news will find you, don’t worry. Plus maintaining focus on your thing is something that can take significant effort.
I have noticed that the smaller I make my world, the happier I am. My free time goes into my family, friends, hobbies, and pets (which I guess is a big subset of the hobbies). I think a big part of the benefit is not just focusing on the people who can have the biggest effect on my life, but focusing on the people whose life I can improve the most with my involvement.
Our brains evolved to keep tabs on our clan or our village, not to monitor the events of the entire Earth in near real time, as if we’re going to do anything with that information. In fact, I think that “need” to be informed is often just an addiction manufactured by the need to drive engagement to validate 24/7 news as a business model.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Spartans were originally made to fight rebels.
vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
also in-lore the UNSC nuked and killed 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.
Shamber@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yoy mean Microcunts declined to comment
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I feel like one of the covenant prophets would have been more fitting what with how racist they are.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Trump demands time machine to go back and keep his ancestors from coming over.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Uh let’s be honest here, the UNSC was straight up losing the war against the covenant. The only way they survived was to ally with them.
Jhex@lemmy.world 5 months ago
so if you want to be a pedophile, senile, racist with a full diaper, play Halo… got it Microsoft
devolution@lemmy.world 5 months ago
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Trump can barely stand upright in real life.
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I wish somebody did shove that old cunt into that suit like somebody trying to stuff a sleeping bag into the carry bag it can’t in. the trauma would be unreal.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Xenophobia is out of control.
yufoh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve been a fan of Halo since CE, so many memories and custom games, I got legendary editions and autographs from chief and cortanas va’s, in no way are the white house’ shit posts diminishing all of that, after all this is just the churned SLOP of some intern. I sure as shit won’t be buying anything Halo or XBOX, spineless corporation…
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months 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 5 months ago
Too bad the Arbiter wasn’t around to council on that one.
yogurt@lemmy.world 5 months 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?
DNS@discuss.online 5 months ago
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.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months 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.
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Kinda out of topic, but why do all of those AI images have those yellowed filters?
CubitOom@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Its called the piss filter.
Generative models (what is often referred to as AI) are opaque and it’s almost impossible to understand exactly how something got added or why it’s happening. But somewhere along the way models started to use it and no one looking at the output thought it was bad enough to not post.
Tire@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Yeah all AI images have a bend towards warm yellow hues. So much that If you keep feeding the output of AI back into AI it just gets more yellow over time. It’s probably something to do with training sets taking in movies and social media posts where people prefer to show themselves in “golden hour”.
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 5 months ago
AI-caterpillar effect.
hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I assume that part of the prompt is tying back to WW2 era propaganda and a lot of those posters have yellowed with age by the time they made it into the dataset.
6nk06@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Same question. It’s weird and instantly recognizable. I guess training data but I have never seen a real explanation about that.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The current government strategy of illegal use of copyrighted materials, often with the full understanding that the artist/IP owners will not consent to it should really have a harsher punishment to it. The DHS social media pages in particular keep using songs without artist permission because they know it will be taken down but by that point it doesn’t matter and they just steal another song. Given that the use of these songs implies tacit approval from the artist, this should absolutely count as the rights of the artists to free speech are being infringed upon.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 months ago
illegal use of copyrighted materials
It’s quite literally the least bad thing they’ve done across two terms in office.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Who seriously believes that?
If an artist consents to the use of their song in a specific way, it’s not a matter of belief at all. It just is tacit approval. So when the government does this without consent, until the moment the artist responds, the implication is that the artist has approved it. Which isn’t as big a deal if a private entity does it, but it’s a much bigger deal when the federal government does it.
Tire@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Yeah it almost reads like Microsoft has endorsed the Trump administration and its marketing. Like a forced brand crossover. These things aid in the far right pipeline. Has young men thinking hating immigrants is as cool and mainstream as Halo.
Jhex@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not almost, it is exactly that
Microsoft could have issued a note to the tone of “we were not consulted” but their vaporware spine did not amount to even that little
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Donald J Trumps Mjolnir armor would require a XXL waste system.
UsedLinuxDealer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Homelander-ass post
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Microsoft declines to comment
More like ‘Microsoft approves of this imagery’
Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I understand your outrage but silence is not consent. It is fear. Apply that phrase to any other situation where consent is required and that would be considered victim blaming.
Now M$ COULD be fine with this, we truly don’t know, but they could also be afraid of how the administration would retaliate against them if they spoke up. I do agree with you when you say these companies are cowardly.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lol, they willingly work with this fascist regime and others around the globe. Their silence is implicit consent, because a multi billion dollar company doesn’t get to cry fear in the face of the governments they willingly work with.
Stop defending corpos, they’ll gladly sell you to the government and tell your family they’re suuuuuper sorry you got nabbed but there’s nothing they can do.
Jhex@lemmy.world 5 months ago
long past the point of continuing to extend the courtesy they constantly deny everyone else
KarlHungus42@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Master Queef
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m sure if Satya Nadal were to become a target of ICE he’d have a comment.
Dlayknee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
But that would never happen because, you know, money.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t think so. It’s unlikely, but not implausible. I don’t think ICE have a list of “don’t arrest” people, and not everyone knows what every CEO looks like. They might run into him randomly and just act on it.
I don’t think Satya Nadal is going out in public like regular people, but it could still happen.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
We do have to hold Microsoft to a very slightly different standard, because they’re a Military Contractor. They’re not going to risk hundreds of billions of dollars to take a stance and make a statement. In that sense, this should not surprise anybody.
Routhinator@startrek.website 5 months ago
Fuck that shit. Standards are called standards for a reason. MS can eat shit or comment.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No, we really don’t have to hold them in a different standard. It makes sense they are kowtowing to the fascist regime though
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes my entire point is that what they’re doing makes sense. It would actually be strange if the did anything differently given their position.
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Fuck! Fuck fuck fuck. I have SOOOOOO MUCH SHIT BLOCKED and I still have to see this invasive fucking shit fucking EVERYWHERE IN FUCKING LEMMY. fuck you fuck everyone fuck all this endless fucking fellatio you give this fucking twat. Just shut the fuck up and stop sharing the images and name and giving it attention. Holy fucking shit it’s god damn inescapable.
Get so fucking fucked fucking assholes!!!
CubitOom@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Man. I’m sorry you are experiencing reality. But like, maybe you should be aware of what is happening?
The fact that you are more mad about reading an article from PC gamer than that hundreds of thousands of people are being abducted says a lot about you.
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Some of us used to care and the endless exhaustion is too much. I simply am a person trying to exist, and I only continue to shrink how much bullshit I consume more and more and more since it infects everything.
Not wanting to see horrible shit constantly doesnt equate to not caring.
Get fucked.
Jerb322@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Then don’t click on it, asshole! There is plenty of shit on here that I don’t care about, but I don’t bitch about it. I just scroll on.
Fuck you!
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I scroll on 99% of the time and/or hide it.
Fuck you.
Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
It gets worse. This is a bit further down on that article=
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Jesus fucking Christ.