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US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨CubitOom@infosec.pub⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/us-government-uses-halo-images-in-a-call-to-destroy-immigration-microsoft-declines-to-comment/

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  • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Where the Trump-as-Master Chief post is merely cringeworthy, the Homeland Security message is flat-out dangerous. Comparing immigrants in the US to a parasitic alien life form that infects and annihilates advanced societies is not deeply offensive, it’s also rooted in the worst of human history: As seen in the untermenschen of the Holocaust and “cockroaches” in Rwanda, to name a couple recent examples, dehumanizing the “other” so you can more easily inflict cruelty, injustice, and horrors upon them is hardly a new technique, and the US government’s messaging was not subtle.

    You might think that using imagery from one of its best known videogames in a call to “destroy” immigrants would prompt Microsoft to action, or at least to express some small modicum of disapproval. For now, at least, you would be wrong: Rather like Nintendo, which eagerly picks copyright fights it knows it can win but kept its mouth tightly zipped when Homeland Security used Pokémon to promote violent immigration raids, a representative told PC Gamer that “Microsoft does not have anything to share on this matter.”

    Unexpectedly good political commentary from checks notes PC Gamer

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    • BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Honestly PC gamer has been pretty solid lately. Not sure why. Almost makes me nervous.

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      • Ashtear@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Staff shake-up last year. Phil Savage and Tyler Wilde have really stepped it up and let their writers sound off.

        Like any of the major sites though, the news side still has its share of articles generated from one-liners sourced from interviews ran elsewhere.

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    • Best_Jeanist@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also if Trump is any Halo character, he’s the Prophet of Truth

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      • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nah truth was actually well spoken and was a decent leader. He’d be regret.

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  • ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lmao that fat fuck could not fit in that suit.

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    • Tire@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Doesn’t matter. They’re cultivating and growing the alternate universe for far right suckers to live in.

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  • tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …So you separate children from their parents at the age of six and abuse them? Yeah, that sounds pretty accurate.

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    • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Instead of Mexican Joker we’ll have Mexican Chief

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Image

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh my god, theyre gonna activate the ring!

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There is still time to stop the key from turning.

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    • umbraroze@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Come to think of it, the Covenant have a lot in common with American brand millennial Evangelists. Leaning really hard on immanentising the eschaton.

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  • KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s another form of kissing the ring. They know it’s bad for business but there’s the implied threat that if they retaliate he could use the FCC to grind the company to a hault.

    So it’s a way of reminding them of their loyalty, probably because it’s about to be tested much harder in the future.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Considering how dependent on M$ servers and products the 'murican government is, Microsoft could easily push for a MAD standoff against them

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  • BigBenis@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Microsoft are a bunch of pussies also release the Epstein files!

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  • waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The suit is jacking him off

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ~~Microsoft declined to comment ~~ Microsoft was completely OK with this

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    • carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      of course they are. they aid genocide abroad, why wouldn’t they do it at home too?

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  • fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Master Chief needs to finish the fight. Fuck up the (Trump) covenant

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    • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Damn, now I want a mod that replaces all Covenant enemies with these fascists, and replace all their voice lines with actual quotes they’ve said.

      You could do Stephen Miller for the Prophets, Trump for the Elites, and maybe Alex Jones or something for the Grunts.

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      • fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You kill a grunt and it screams “they’re turning the frogs gay”

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  • Kennystillalive@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Whenever you think the Turd Reich can’t get more stupid and ridiculous they actually go and do it.

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    • Jerb322@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      youtu.be/WlWmCXihec4

      Reminds me of this…

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  • gndagreborn@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The DHS equating migrants being deported to fighting the flood was surreal. I had to do a double take.

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  • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Guaranteed, he’s going to count the Console Wars in his list of wars he’s ended.

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  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is why while I love 40k, I have mixed feelings about there ever being a mainstream movie/show about it. I can already imagine MAGA wearing shirts saying “Purge the xeno scum”

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  • rafoix@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How many Microsoft executives are on the Epstein files?

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Gates is on it for sure, i believe melinda split over something similar. and his shitck of trying to reinvent his own image, so the epstein files dont bite him in the end.

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      • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They said Microsoft executives though, which Gates is not.

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  • thegr8goldfish@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would threaten to not buy any more Halo games but I haven’t bought one in like a decade so I recognize there’s not much bite there.

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  • mrmaplebar@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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    • FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even if I support the message: Fuck AI

      Firework isn’t consistently in front of the letters or in the background and switches between the two.

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      • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I was just noticing this before I read your comment.

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    • justsomeguy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Flooding the zone too stronk

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  • Taco2112@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    whenever theytry to make Pvt Bonespurs look “manly” it always looks so sad and desperate

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    • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It serves nicely as an opportunity to remind onlookers that Trump avoided military service using his supposed ‘bone spurs’ as a reason he was unfit, though. Nothing like reminding these idiots that their tough guy is that tough

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  • Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Microsoft is a criminal organisation that thrives on corruption (no real action being taken with respect anti trust proceedings is still relevant today).

    Crime isn’t only about someone stealing your phone, extracting many billion of dollars via oligopolistic methods of limiting competition and leaving people with no other option than to use their products (irrespective of price or feature consideration) is also criminal activity.

    They are not going to fight the US administratorion on this.

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  • Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are literally trying to turn Americans into the Covenant tho. Religious warriors.

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    • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also the SPARTAN program was pretty fucked, so this just looks bad in every way IMO.

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      • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        He would probably approve of their crimes against children.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The Covenant might be religious fanatics but they’re actually capable of working with other religious fanatics, in mutual cooperation.

      MAGAs are more like Species 8472, utterly hostile to anything that doesn’t conform to their very narrow and ill informed worldview, even to the point of being hostile to potential allies, thus alienating them.

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      • Batmorous@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Time to give the Covenant their bomb - The real master chief

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      • CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nah. They showed the capacity to change and grow from their experiences and interactions.

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s piss colored, and that makes it accurate.

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    • Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      lmao they didn’t even try to color correct the piss filter

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  • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lawsuit incoming…?

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    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Probably. Trump will probably sue Microsoft for stealing his battle suit for video games.

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    • nfreak@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Microsoft declining to comment may as well be a confession that they gave this shit the go-ahead

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      • Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t know what’s worse, that Microsoft may have given them the go-ahead or that they did it knowing Microsoft would be too scared to say something.

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    • Tm12@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      From who? They funded the Epstein Ballroom.

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