• Frank [he/him, he/him]
        hexbear
        8
        4 months ago

        I am sooooo over all the "you're being reported for treason!" Shit in the subreddit. I want to talk about how cool the game is but everyone on reddit, no surprise, is a jerk.

        • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
          hexbear
          7
          4 months ago

          It's a subreddit for a game that exploded and got a ton of media coverage, and it's got that Starship Troopers discourse on top of it. Frankly I'm shocked that it's not even worse.

          That said, the image I posted was the funniest fucking response to someone talking about how the entire war is a false flag I've ever seen and I immediately saved it for repeated usage elsewhere.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
      hexbear
      46
      4 months ago

      You are, though. They show the bugs being tortured and at the end Doogie Howser, SS, drags the brain bug out of it's home and tells everyone that it's terrified of all these monkeys who just invaded it's home and murdered all it's friends.

      • @whoops
        hexbear
        24
        4 months ago

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        • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
          hexbear
          11
          4 months ago

          I think it's less that slinging asteroids from across the galaxy is impossible -- the bugs may well have some sort of FTL travel as they exist in multiple star systems -- and more that a society as militarized as the one in Starship Troopers would have intercepted it easily.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
            hexbear
            12
            4 months ago

            Yeah, my interpretation is that the Feredation, being a bunch of fascist twits, didn't act to intercept the asteroid. And then, since you never let a good disaster go to waste, they blamed it on the bugs and just piled on propaganda to silence anyone who pointed out how silly and impossible that is.

            Later on they show the big space artillery guns that can destroy asteroids, sort of a cya thing.

            Do you think the Klendathu sequence where the Arachnid's surface to orbit planetary defense batteries are shredding the federation space ships should be viewed as part of the propaganda, or a more "real" sequence that shows all the fascist bravado and machismo breaking down. Like they're now facing the enemy for real, and shocked to find out that their enemy isn't as weak and pathetic as they believed. Same with the actual ground battle, where you see the propaganda camera crew get shredded. I wonder if that should be viewed as part of the framing narrative propaganda video, or as a place where the fascism beliefs break down when confronted with reaity.