Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net to games@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agoHelldivers devs really went with satirising the "UNPROVOKED INVASION" language around the Ukraine warhexbear.netimagemessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1175arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1174arrow-down1imageHelldivers devs really went with satirising the "UNPROVOKED INVASION" language around the Ukraine warhexbear.netAwoo [she/her]@hexbear.net to games@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square75fedilinkfile-text
I’m genuinely impressed with their balls. Libs probably won’t notice it but they’ve done this both on twitter and in-game.
minus-squareTreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52·8 months agoThe devs absolutely are left-leaning, the whole thing started as an in-joke in their office. They even make it explicit that super-earth doesn’t develop any tech of it’s own, they just steal it.
minus-squareblakeus12 [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·8 months agoalso the “authoritarian light: used for tyrrany” is such a good bit i doubt a lib could come up with it
minus-squareLENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 months agothis was the first thing I interacted with in game and I fuckin cackled.
The devs absolutely are left-leaning, the whole thing started as an in-joke in their office. They even make it explicit that super-earth doesn’t develop any tech of it’s own, they just steal it.
also the “authoritarian light: used for tyrrany” is such a good bit i doubt a lib could come up with it
this was the first thing I interacted with in game and I fuckin cackled.