Managed Democracy
It’s bizarre to see people role-playing enthusiastic fascism with the world the way it is right now.
It’s possible to be an anarchist while roleplaying a hardcore fascist in a tabletop RPG. It’s fantasy. Fascism’s best kept as a non-tenable, mockable idea for fiction.
Rping in a game is one thing. Bringing it into the world with memes and more is just…icky.
The fascism in the game is ironic and on the nose in a way that’s easy to laugh at, like “what if?”
I’m aware. This isn’t the game, though. It’s not even in a sub about the game.
The headline, which very likely isn’t even real, is also not inherently fascistic. If anything its more a statement on people being so stressed with life, that a fantastical idea of going off to live a sci-fi movie life is appealing.
You’re pulling the fascism from the movie, which is inherently satirical. It makes sense something like that, which was already popular, continues to be so when the satire has more real world connections. You’re on a platform with a ton of nerds, they’re gonna reference sci-fi classics. If anything I’d say that’s a healthy sign. Satire is arguably one of the strongest forces pushing back against fascism and the like on a cultural level.
Not fascism, managed democracy. The bugs are the fascists
I thought we started it, by invading, and they were acting in self defense?
One of my favorite lines in the game is (paraphrasing):
The problem with the bugs is that they’re relentless expansionists. We’ve found them on almost every planet in their territory that we’ve colonized.
It’s also pretty clear that we’ve been farming the bugs for space oil.
It’s explicit, isn’t it? Some of the characters on the super destroyer mention it.
Doesn’t make em not fascists, and if the solution to FTL travel was just to kill a few bugs, wouldn’t you too?
You might be thinking of the movie series, not the novel. In the book humans were essentially fascist, you could alternatively label it as “democracy” managed by a military dictatorship.
The bugs were not fascist, they were meant to represent communist China. Hienlien wrote starship trooper in a couple weeks, as a response to America announcing they were scaling back their nuclear arsenal.
Also, I don’t think the book ever mentioned FTL.
I was speaking in reference to Helldivers 2, because the parent comment was talking about roleplaying and people don’t usually use that language around books or TV shows.
Fwiw, I was indeed taking about Helldivers, though I was referring to the irl “roleplay” of it in memes and in social media, even in communities completely unrelated to the game, like this one.
Same goes for those that take stuff like Fallout’s Brotherhood of Steel or Warhammer’s Imperium of Man too seriously. This stuff is better left in the context of the game. Bringing it into real life is sketchy at best.
Sounds like traitor talk!
I would like to know more
“But only 40% said they would if it was on the Automaton front”
I’d be shocked if we got 40% of the player base to the bot front, I’d say 80% has never seen the creek
I would defect to the bugs’ side
I don’t understand these hyro-glifics. Can you just switch the number over to SEDI (Super Earth Directional Inputs)
Of course!
(Not my edit)
Keep slayin’ it. ✊🏽
Found the Enderkin
Mars One https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One received over 200,000 applications for a one-way ticket to Mars & raised money way too easily, before going bankrupt.
Lolz. LMAO, even.
Do we get power armor?
Yes, but it still reeks a bit from the last soldier who used it.
… describe him please.
Have you seen the beginning of the movie “Fury”? How the new guy had to “clean out” his seat in the tank?
Red mist
I’ve done worse.
It depends on the severity of the situation. I would only leave the planet for this purpose if it was a potential extinction event. Otherwise it would have to be an actual invasion of my area of my country. I am not a good citizen.
Guess I’m not a “man” because fuck that.
Nothing would please our billionaire overlords more than all of us “little people” getting the hell off earth for another planet. It’s unlikely anything comparable to the paradise of this planet, even in a global warming event or an ice age, will be reachable any time soon.
And we should leave it for them? Duck that.
They can keep it. I wanna bring democracy to the cosmos and clap alien cheeks
I’m doing my part!
There it is!
Do you want to know more?
We have to wipe out the tribbles.
Don’t tell Uhura.
Only if I get one of those sweet photosynthesizing green bodies from Old Man’s War
Wow, 100%. That’s really a sound result for a poll
Getting real WWI vibes - it’ll be an adventure, we’ll get to go to new and exciting places, it won’t last too long…
