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.
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Bytemeister@lemmy.world 20 hours agoYeah. 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.
NotBillMurray@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Some people just obediently blow up the illegal broadcasts without reading them.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 20 hours 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 20 hours 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