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[-] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 83 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I re watched SS troopers recently and it is just so blatant and in your face. Yes, we're all more media literate than we were in 1997 but goddamn, they're handing military rifles to kids and having the kids stomp the bugs.

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 61 points 7 months ago

Doogie Howser wears an actual Nazi uniform for the back half of the film and they still didn't get it.

[-] macabrett@lemmy.ml 19 points 7 months ago

"Its afraid... Its afraid!"

Raucous cheering

Also chuds: Raucous cheering

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I remember getting into an argument with someone when I was in high school about how it was supposed to be horrifying that a telepath could tell that something we were told had no intelligence and only ravening hunger 'was afraid'; and apparently according to him I was wrong and a [redacted slur] for feeling that way. Imagine my surprise when I saw that peckerwood's mugshot during the Jan 6th rioter roundup.

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[-] roux@hexbear.net 53 points 7 months ago

I stumbled upon a reddit thread a while back and people were doubling down on it not being about fascism even when people linked an interview were the director said it was.

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 24 points 7 months ago
[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago

Reddit continues to not beat the allegations reddit-logo

[-] M68040@hexbear.net 81 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's not even always a reading comprehension failure, sometimes they realize the real intent and just kind of do what they want with the material regardless. Authorial intent doesn't mean dick much of the time. Hell, when John Carpenter straight up said They Live wasn't about The Jews on Twitter a few years ago, his replies immediately ended up full of people who just kind of said it was anyways

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 40 points 7 months ago

glasses-off

Tell me that motherfuckers do not actually think They Live is about an antisemitic conspiracy.

[-] edge@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago

Clearly it is about schniff id-eology zizek

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 22 points 7 months ago

I wouldn't go check the comment section on any clip from the movie on Youtube if I were you

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago

Checking Youtube comments is a skill issue, I learned not to a decade ago big-cool

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[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago

yeah like, I see this attitude a lot from lefties with a flair for the arts, and I think it's incredibly useless because we're often doing the same thing with a lot of art, and it rocks. Interpretation is a tool which we can also wield.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 55 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Lmao fash are so easily led

"LOOK, IT'S AN EMOTIONAL FAT TOOTHLESS WUMINS! BE MAD NOW."

Right-wingers are such sheep, not a single independent thought. Total NPCs.

Is the game good? It just looks like another online multiplayer only FPS to me. Not my thing personally, but if it's bad I doubt it's because of "woke".

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 36 points 7 months ago

The game is fun, there's a certain level of chaotic mayhem that comes from being thrust into a situation where you're outnumbered by the dozens and your allies are just as much a threat to you as your enemies

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 33 points 7 months ago

I just don't get it, when did the SJW stereotype go from young women with dyed hair to Queen Brahne from FF9? I saw some other channel with other weird AI-generated matronly looking women as the totemic hate figure

[-] mamotromico@lemmy.ml 34 points 7 months ago

That has alway been present on their discourse. How feminists are just fat ugly women that can’t get a man etc. Since it doesn’t reflect reality, they now can use AI to literally create the strawmans

[-] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago

I like it. If you have a good group to play with its a fun PvE shooter. The overall mechanics were really thought out so almost everything feels good in the game.

Accidentally team killing is also practically a core mechanic so that's a lot of fun. Its not like other games where its mostly the noob that team kills, no player no matter how skilled is free from an accidental TK. Makes a tk more funny than anything.

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[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago

I tried it and refunded it. Most people seem to enjoy it though.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah I see it's got good reviews. Probably pretty fun if you like the genre

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

FPS typically isn't my jam but there are some I really enjoy. I got suckered in with the "The matches are zany and everyone is having fun!" The two quick matches I did no one spoke, one person left after a minute and you run from point to point collecting objectives and ticking off boxes. I'm sure it is much more enjoyable with people you know.

[-] Emtity_13 15 points 7 months ago

Yah, if you play with friends... It is pure glorious anarchy

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago

You get dropped in from space in a small one-way shuttle. If you're good you can hit a robot or a bug with your shuttle. Makes it feel like you're elbow dropping a cyborg chainsaw samurai

[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 41 points 7 months ago

putting on my woke makeup before work jokerfication

[-] goog@hexbear.net 35 points 7 months ago

Same energy as Verhoeven being bowled over with surprise that people didn't understand the subtext that people being able to be nude coeds without lasciviousness going on meant everyone was Hitler

The importance of specific ideology to fascism is rly overstated

[-] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 33 points 7 months ago

Couldn't understand what you were referring to so googled Verhoeven nude and discovered a reddit thread informing me that he filmed the shower scene in Starship Troopers while naked in order to get the actors to agree to being naked too

[-] goog@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago

Now go read George Jackson's Blood In My Eye for a real trip

[-] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

I'm not following the connection here either but I did look it up and it looks like a great read, so looking forward to starting it soon.

[-] goog@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago

I think his analysis of fascism specifically is a lot more incisive than Verhoeven's. I have this problem of not being able to recommend things to people properly, because it feels like just restating the points made in a text, but in a lamer voice. lukacs-stare The Destruction of Reason is also straight fire. I really don't think the psychological profiling or media analysis of fascist figures or media is helpful. It's obscuring the historical emergence and progression of fascism in its different forms.

[-] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago
[-] goog@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No matter how many epic dystopia simulators people make, the same thing will happen.

[-] casskaydee@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago

I've read your original comment like 6 times and it sounds like you're saying the most "in your face" clue that Starship was about fascism was that they were able to take coed showers without it being a big deal? But that doesn't make sense so I'm sure that's not it. But I can't figure out how to read it any other way

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[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 34 points 7 months ago

I'll at least give them props for not re-using the same handful of "sJw" people in their thumbnail

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Is it that much better if they're AI-generated? 🤔

[-] Lerios@hexbear.net 33 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

well yeah, because the other option is real life women/lgbt people/POC/whatever being harassed. i'd much rather some photos get "stolen" by AI than start getting stalked by 4chan for being too visibly gay

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

Somehow that didn't enter my mind, d´oh

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[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's so awful I didn't even realize it was a shitty LLM pic monke-beepboop

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

Apparently this is a character from Dead Rising 3, but I have seen other thumbnails with bizarre AI-generated monstrosities

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 31 points 7 months ago
[-] Ossay@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago

Of all places i didn't expect a random throwback to 2007 french internet blogs here on hexbear. glad to see this guy (cerberusxt) is not a dipshit

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

Is that lady from the game

[-] Cigarette_comedian@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago

No, in the vague memory from my head, I believe that's a boss from Dead Rising 3, or something.

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago

By what do overweight middle-aged moms have to do with anything cat-confused

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 30 points 7 months ago

My mom is woke for telling me to wash my ass

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago
[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Tries to generate the most viscerally unsettling caricature of an "sjw" he can

Accidentally creates a parody of trad royalty

Seriously this person looks like a planetary governor from 40K

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[-] peppersky@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

Helldivers is a live-service lootshooter. It's as far away from art as you can get. It being "satire" is also a completely ridiculous statement, considering by the sheer nature of it being a live-service game, it's supposed to be as addictive and "satisfying" as possible. You can't make a satire of militarism and facism if your games entire "loop" revolves around mindless wave-shooting until you unlock the next "sick-ass gun".

[-] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago

Genuinely has some of if not the least shitty monetization the genre has to offer. Not even 60 bucks original price, you can earn the warbond "battle pass" analogues by just running around low difficulty missions to find little piles of the paid-for currency. Sweaty whales are complaining that they run out of stuff to grind for/flex with and ceo is just like "play another game till we have more content 🤷"

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