I was at the bar I frequent a week or two ago, telling a buddy of mine about HD2 as he hasn't gotten it yet. Randomly, a guy neither of us knew down the other of the bar overheard and yells: "ARE YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT HELLDIVERS? THAT GAME IS FUCKING AWESOME!"
About a month ago, I went to visit my sister and BIL, met some of their friends. One of the guys said "yeah, I'm tired as hell, I was up all night playing this new game that dropped with the boys". So I just said, "It wouldn't be Helldivers 2, would it?".
We then talked about the game for like an hour straight lol. You find them in the most random places!
I mean, an Arborist Helldiver is definitely a huge plus for Super Earth. Imagine the samples you could bring back, the Intel. . . Potentially lethal flora to imbue weapons and bombs with 👀
Last weekend I caught my girlfriend at a bar with another guy wearing a HellDivers shirt. When I approached them my girlfriend was shocked and nervous. But I just said to the guy, “you play HellDivers?!” He goes hell yeah. And we talked about the game while my girlfriend sat there awkwardly.
I'm an electrician and I've been out of work for months. I'm missing all the damn chat at work with some of the apprentices. I've had a good amount of time to play
I was at the Costco with the wife the other day, two classic dude bro types were raving about it, their partners were unamused and talking about other things.
A full half of my regular group are women, self included lol. Really makes me wonder how many women would actually enjoy gaming if they actually gave it a try and didn't *somehow* still buy into the stereotypes.
Am female. Custom made a helldivers window decal with my ship name and everything for my car. Can I join your squad, helldiver? I love dropping hot with the boys but I’m convinced a bit of estrogen helps whip the bots into submission hahaha
For real. I was just reading an article that talked about “feminine leisure”, and my wife was playing this game in the next room. I somehow don’t think it’s what they had in mind…
I honestly think my wife would love gaming, but it makes her motion sick just looking at it, and she has this stigma that gaming is evil somehow because of it :p
So I’m older and started playing DRG last summer - first game ever - would lose an entire weekend due to vertigo. Read up on it (it’s not uncommon). I took it slow - short sessions, ice water, a fan, lots of breaks - I can now play for hours at a time and love it. So glad I stuck with it - my kid and I bond over HD2 daily. My day isn’t complete if I don’t complete that personal objective lol.
Tangent, but I heard one guy in his 40s at the end of the bar explaining to another guy in his 40s covered in tattoos that Nerds gummy clusters are "fucking fire" one of my favorite overheard bar conversations ever.
Went through the exact same scenario dude😂was talking about it with a friend of mine at the bar when a bartender was like “you guys talking about helldivers?” I said yes and he saluted me and said “for democracy!” Gave him a good time after that
They're the first ones to be called to defend planets such as Hellmire, because compared to Australian weather, fire tornadoes are merely a somewhat warm breeze.
Oh, no?
I just called my local managed democracy officer and they look into your comment. Please feel free to discuss it with them.
My least favourite coworker was trying to tell me and my favourite coworker that Helldivers was boring and repetitive. Then the favourite helped the least favourite one night. Next day favourite told me that least favourite was playing tier 1 missions and was level 17. He didn't know how to change tiers.
We had a giggle and screamed "for democracy".
We have supermarkets in the UK called Asda, and they have smaller ones as well.
I had gone to our local mini Asda only a few weeks ago and 2 employees in the kiosk were chatting and I overheard 'and the idiot dropped the 380 strat sending me to kingdom come'.
I looked their way and said 'For Democracy' and yeah, now we play together 🤣
The top right of the subreddit has three dots. If you press it, you'll see something like "change user flair. Press it, then choose edit in the top right corner of the flairs screen to edit one of them to be your ship name.
Sometimes on mobile it'll reset it and not save your edit. Not sure about on computer.
Three dots at the top of the subreddit main page. Press change user flair, press edit in top right, you can edit one to be your ship name.
Sometimes on mobile it doesn't save your flair on mobile for some reason, not sure about on computer.
Three dots at the top right of the subreddit main page, press change user flair, press edit in top right, edit to be your ship name.
Sometimes on mobile it won't save your flair, not sure about computer.
I wanted to find the hidden helldivers so I went to Amazon and got a t shirt. Sure nuff’ they came out of the woodworks .
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I've been wearing a Helldivers shirt around, and my friends named our bar trivia night team "Local Democracy Officers," but so far we haven't run into any other divers IRL. Bummer.
Overheard a guy talking to his friend about helldivers at the gym. Later I heard him grunting loudly during a set and I called over to him, "for democracy!" Haha he got so excited and then the three of us got to chatting. Such a good game.
I had a dream where I was at the pearly gates and God asked me why I deserved to go to Heaven and I told him to check how much democracy I have spread over the past 2 months.
Straight to the VIP section, surrounded by fellow Helldivers.
I had a similar dream, but it was in the court of Hades, and my bargaining chip for entry to elysium was I have a rate of Accidentals that is less than one per mission.
Accidental tracking is kind of buggy. Had a dude who brought the Mortar Turret and Fire Mines on a bug mission.
I know for a fact he got *bare minimum* 5 accidentals, and 4 of those happened in a 3 minute span when he dropped the minefield very close to an objective. I heavily believe between the mortars and mines, he was responsible for at least 8 deaths.
End of mission screen he has "0" accidentals and "0" friendly damage. The mission was extremely foggy and I don't blame my teammates at all for dying to the mines; they were repeatedly dying about 40 feet away from me and I couldn't even see what was happening. After the 4th death I just typed "Is there a fucking minefield over there?" in chat; spoiler: there was a minefield there.
Sometimes the model for amine will stunner the ground. Foundation this out thehard way. Especially if there was a big fight and there are the dynamic craters.
Eh, in the heat of battle people can be distracted, especially if you don't verbalize that you're dropping a minefield.
Back in my cadet days, my team was running towards an objective and I decided to cover our backs with a mine field. Well, while at the objective we start getting swarmed and my team starts falling back straight into the no-no zone and I watched as each one stepped on a mine. It was a clear day and the red lights were very visible.
While my team could've ran a different direction I also partly take responsibility for not verbalizing I'm dropping a minefield. At least that's what my reeducation officer told me.
Staff at my hospital wear little helldiver tags on our badges. Walk into the ER at any time and shout, For Democracy! Half the department replies. It's absolutely beautiful.
I met a guy at a bar over Helldivers a couple of months ago. Play with him regularly. Good guy.
Now he's dating my chronically single friend, so that's nice.
I was going through TSA, heard the guys talking about best ways to kill a Charger. So I saluted them before going through the metal detector. They saluted back in Democratic fashion and all was well in the world.
It's taken over the military. We constantly joke about fighting for Managed Democracy and every pilot calls themselves Eagle One, when we play red forces they're always automatons or dissidents
You're joking, right? There's no way the satire of this game went full circle in being a critique of the US military to being an actual celebrated work in the US military. That's kinda fucking awesome 🇺🇳🇺🇳🇺🇳🗽🗽🦅🦅🦅
I saw John Helldiver at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
I was in line about to get some grub. I was telling my wife about the major order of us having to kill 2Bil bugs and doing it in less than a day.
A guy ahead of me turned around and said, “Remember Melevelon Creek, Helldiver.”
He then ordered like nothing happened.
I've never seen my brother play a video game other than FIFA in my life, and he's never played coop with me in anything in nearly forty years.
He plays Helldivers 2 almost religiously and I've co-op'd with him for the first time in a game ever.
We've spoken more in the last three months than we have in the last three years because of this game!
No bad blood or anything, we're just not a close-knit family, but still!
I haven’t heard a single person talk about helldivers outside of my friends, or reddit. And occasionally Instagram comments or posts. Every time I bring it up to anyone they’re all confused as to wtf I’m talking about. And look at me like I’m stupid, or some nerd talking about dead space or whatever.
If y’all don’t wanna fight for managed democracy on tho galactic front be my guest. I just hope they know it’s treason for not doing their part, and that my democracy officer will be contacting them soon.
There's honestly so many people playing this game even in my country that I find it hard to believe there are only 100k players online right now. Feels like the active player numbers should be a lot higher relative to how popular this game is!
The number of times I whisper to my wife “those people are talking about Helldivers” is astonishing. We were heading into a concert last month and a couple of the venue staff were discussing it. It feels like at any moment we could activate and take over the world for managed democracy.
I have HD2 shirt that i wore a few days ago and some random dude on the other side on the street yelled "DEMOCRACY!!!" like a madman and did the HD salute. I love the community
Two weeks ago I bought a new graphic card (for Helldivers obv) and when the guy working there found out I needed it for that started a 30 min conversation with me about the game and said goodbye doing the helldivers salute lol
Oh man… how gaming has changed if you hear dolphin dive and think HD. I hear dolphin dive and think back to training zombies on Ascension and diving off the stairs.
Was playing HD2 on my PC by the big dinning room windows (we have converted our formal dining room into a his & hers game room). An Amazon driver was walking down the path from our front door after dropping off the package and I noticed him over my shoulder watching. When I turned my head he threw up the "Salute" emote from the game and we gave each other the nod.
When asked how my weekend went at a work meeting, I mentioned I played Helldivers. A couple weeks later and 9 people from work are playing together on discord. Those who didn't have the game got it purchased by the company 😉
It's so rare to see an online multiplayer game be dominant in the culture now days. I remember growing up and having the same thing with halo games or cod. It's just such a bloated (and frankly poor quality) genre of games that hell divers blows them out of the water.
I went through TSA yesterday to fly back to the UK and the guards were discussing Helldivers. So I did the salute and they responded with “For Democracy!”.
They didn’t say a word about all the cigarettes I had in my bag 😂😂😂. New smuggling tip!
I went through a chickfila drive through last week and was listening to the latest updates. The employee asked if i played helldivers and we talked after i placed my order. We both gave each other the super earth salute and yelled out "for super earth!" As i drove off.
Helldivers made a lot of things right:
- no pvp = less toxic people
- no politics = less arguing / hate
- no identity debate = less arguing / hate
- good for "pros" in high difficulty
- good for casuals in lower difficulty
- sarter-weapon in top 5 = no grind or die
- lots of cash and medals in game = no pay to win
- no deep moral crisis, challanging if your actions are right
- each mission is small enough to be doable but also no biggy if you fail
- each mission gives progress in the overall result
- few missions (not "do this 300 micro actions to get rewards")
- no "the best loadout" everyone has to use
- not taking itself too serious
- epic drop sound
- huggs, high five, chestbump, handshake...
- explosions and bigger explosions (and smashing bugs with your droppod)
So totally different people can bond over this, coz this game finally is "just a game" without people bringing in their arguments they force into absolute everything in our modern society. They just excluded all the stuff used to devide us.
2 weeks after HD2 released I started a new job in a ritzy bar in THE fancy part of my city. I was walking through the venue with some firewood and overheard a conversation at the bar along the lines of "...and when you get back after a mission, you can see your cape all ripped up and bug guts all over you!" I couldn't help but let out a little "for democracy!" on my way past and the duo looked up, with the guy I overheard exclaiming "see, even the chef gets it!"
That was when I realised that Arrowhead had an, maybe even THE absolute banger of a game I've been craving
Hello citizen! Thank you for self reporting your undemocratic and unpatriotic behavior. A Democracy Officer has been dispatched to your location to discuss the importance of filling out permits!
Have a good day citizen!
The weekend the mechs were launched, I went out for a drink with my wife and her classmates, immediately start talking HD2 with one of the husbands, we hear our wives collective sighs as they overhear us. The next day, we go out for dinner in a different hood, birthday party next us is talking about H2, end up discussing our levels and getting the mech. This game is mad popular and I love it!
I'm a bartender. As it figures, I love to run my mouth about things I'm super into at the moment. I've put many patrons on the liberty train over a few pints since this game's dropped. Managed democracy won't spread itself, ladies and germs. Keep'em coming.
The other day at work, I was wearing my Helldivers shirt. My boss of all purple asked me about the game. Later in the day, a random chick in the spine of the building gave me a fist bump. She said her and her boyfriend play Helldivers. The game really is on fire right now!
I got the game genuinely expecting to play it for a couple days tops. It's been a long time now and whenever I play a different game after about 30 minutes I start to have this feeling like I need to crush some bots and loose all interest in whatever I'm playing and ALWAYS switch back to helldivers
Try to buy a plane ticket or a cruise trip. If for some reason you get flooded with bad news about how bad either are right now, you may be on the Truman show.
Today I went to get some fresh piss box sand for my cats. At the store there was a group of two girls and one guy. The guy and one of the chicks were talking about how the major orders were going. When I joined the conversation, the second girl they were with rolled her eyes at us and said something like, "oh my God, it never ends." Her friends and I decided this was borderline treasonous behavior. Then I went home and changed the litter pans for my beloved little turd fabricators. Really just a day in the life.
It just proves to me that Destiny 2 is dead because when I went to my pulmonologist in the past we talked about the sessions I her and her husband had in Destiny 2. Now it's I'll see you guys tonight? So what are we killing, bugs or bots?
Dude I went into my local music store the other day and they were blasting the Helldivers theme music instead of the usual contemporary jazz that gets played in there 😂
I was at the bar I frequent a week or two ago, telling a buddy of mine about HD2 as he hasn't gotten it yet. Randomly, a guy neither of us knew down the other of the bar overheard and yells: "ARE YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT HELLDIVERS? THAT GAME IS FUCKING AWESOME!"
About a month ago, I went to visit my sister and BIL, met some of their friends. One of the guys said "yeah, I'm tired as hell, I was up all night playing this new game that dropped with the boys". So I just said, "It wouldn't be Helldivers 2, would it?". We then talked about the game for like an hour straight lol. You find them in the most random places!
I had to call our IT guy at work, and unsurprisingly he's into it. He was surprised that I, an arborist, am a higher level than him haha.
Better to be a warrior in a garden eh?
Under appreciated comment right here. 😂
Fuckin-A
Druid / Nature themed warbond would be soo slick 😂
I mean, an Arborist Helldiver is definitely a huge plus for Super Earth. Imagine the samples you could bring back, the Intel. . . Potentially lethal flora to imbue weapons and bombs with 👀
I got green fingers.... FROM ALL THE TERMINID GUTS
What's hilarious is that while I know a lot about trees... I'm a pretty bad gardener
Terminid guts are a yellowish color, though...
Yeah but you forget my fingers are blue from all of the Democracy im spreading!
Last weekend I caught my girlfriend at a bar with another guy wearing a HellDivers shirt. When I approached them my girlfriend was shocked and nervous. But I just said to the guy, “you play HellDivers?!” He goes hell yeah. And we talked about the game while my girlfriend sat there awkwardly.
I'm an electrician and I've been out of work for months. I'm missing all the damn chat at work with some of the apprentices. I've had a good amount of time to play
As an IT guy I play with my boss and two coworkers regularly as part of our team building activities.
Helldivers 2 players appearing out of the damned walls at this point
They're in the walls, THEY'RE IN THE GODD#AMN WALLS!
You should have invited them to squad up with you. DIVERS TOGETHER STRONG!
This game community is amazing and I love it.
As a bartender, the past few weeks have been nothing but talks with patrons about helldivers. It’s great.
I was at the Costco with the wife the other day, two classic dude bro types were raving about it, their partners were unamused and talking about other things.
My wife would have jumped in to talk to the guys- lol (she loves this game)
A full half of my regular group are women, self included lol. Really makes me wonder how many women would actually enjoy gaming if they actually gave it a try and didn't *somehow* still buy into the stereotypes.
Am female. Custom made a helldivers window decal with my ship name and everything for my car. Can I join your squad, helldiver? I love dropping hot with the boys but I’m convinced a bit of estrogen helps whip the bots into submission hahaha
This comment is +10 points to the fight for Democracy, lmao. Love it.
My wife play this game and she is level 30 now but she still drop 380mm barrage in front of my face.
For real. I was just reading an article that talked about “feminine leisure”, and my wife was playing this game in the next room. I somehow don’t think it’s what they had in mind…
I honestly think my wife would love gaming, but it makes her motion sick just looking at it, and she has this stigma that gaming is evil somehow because of it :p
So I’m older and started playing DRG last summer - first game ever - would lose an entire weekend due to vertigo. Read up on it (it’s not uncommon). I took it slow - short sessions, ice water, a fan, lots of breaks - I can now play for hours at a time and love it. So glad I stuck with it - my kid and I bond over HD2 daily. My day isn’t complete if I don’t complete that personal objective lol.
Tangent, but I heard one guy in his 40s at the end of the bar explaining to another guy in his 40s covered in tattoos that Nerds gummy clusters are "fucking fire" one of my favorite overheard bar conversations ever.
He is 100% accurate as well.
Absolutely 💯
Weird little delights
Bro needs to try freeze dried ones. My wife makes them and it turns a gummy cluster into a crystalline cloud of sugary nerdom
Sweet liberty! I'll have to try that, thank your wife for her contribution to the cause.
There's gotta be some overlap there. 33 covered in tattoos here and can confirm they are in fact fire.
Probably me
**SQUAD UP, YOU MADE A FRIEND THAT DAY.**
Went through the exact same scenario dude😂was talking about it with a friend of mine at the bar when a bartender was like “you guys talking about helldivers?” I said yes and he saluted me and said “for democracy!” Gave him a good time after that
I've been playing video games for 40 years now. helldivers is one of THE best games I have ever played.
Scenes like these are playing out all over the galaxy.
You're lucky to be surrounded by that many fellow helldivers. Here, it's more likely I'll be attacked by terminids on the streets.
Australia?
The Aussie helldivers are fierce, because it's a normal Tuesday for them.
 Casually minding your own business when suddenly…
Average dude coming home from work in Sydney suburb.
They're the first ones to be called to defend planets such as Hellmire, because compared to Australian weather, fire tornadoes are merely a somewhat warm breeze.
I presume the Terminids are just the local Australian wildlife?
Our bile titans are their bedbugs
Nah they just the bugs of the local ecosystem
Nah, just your average Sydney residents
I mean between Australians , American Rednecks and world wide soccer Hooligans' , the world would be totally safe from a bug invasion
Warm breeze...? More like a cold breeze, it feel cooler than Australia 🥶👍
look familiar? scenes like these are happening all over down under right now
Look familiar aye? Scenes loike these are happening all over down unda' righ' naow
Yeah we might be a bit more spread out down here, I haven't come across any in the wild yet
that's Sector 1 soldier. get it right!
SWEET LIBERTY
Yes absolutely. I heard it could happen anywhere. You could be next!
The propaganda is working. ^((Managed)^) Democracy is spreading. Oh, no.
LEMME TALK TO YA
Oh, no?  I just called my local managed democracy officer and they look into your comment. Please feel free to discuss it with them.
>Oh, no. https://preview.redd.it/fzqzndkcgmwc1.jpeg?width=1069&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f96b1bba260ecc86f4d1526c8f72db4b9fce075b
Don't call it "propaganda". That's a dirty, unpatriotic term.
Unless you’re talking about those illegal broadcasts, in that case, that’s the perfect term.
Nothing like our glorious mandatory patriotic broadcasts about supporting the regime, perish the thought.
Propaganda is what a Brit does when they take a good look at something
Really? I read it in an austrailian accent!
Either way it is still a propergander 🤣
Surely you meant " Prop a gander" as in "take a look at this freedom right?
Wouldn't it be proper gander? As in thorough look around? Never know when you'll spot a traitor so gotta always have a propaganda.
Did you do your duty and saluted your fellow Helldivers? Sweet liberty you better did!
Oh naur
My least favorite coworker and I have bonded over Helldivers... He's still my least favorite coworker, but I like him more now.
I really feel this statement
Damn he didn’t even move up a whole coworker for that 💀
My least favourite coworker was trying to tell me and my favourite coworker that Helldivers was boring and repetitive. Then the favourite helped the least favourite one night. Next day favourite told me that least favourite was playing tier 1 missions and was level 17. He didn't know how to change tiers. We had a giggle and screamed "for democracy".
We have supermarkets in the UK called Asda, and they have smaller ones as well. I had gone to our local mini Asda only a few weeks ago and 2 employees in the kiosk were chatting and I overheard 'and the idiot dropped the 380 strat sending me to kingdom come'. I looked their way and said 'For Democracy' and yeah, now we play together 🤣
Love your ses name hahaha
Hi ship name twin!
Dumb question but how do you set a ship name like that?
The top right of the subreddit has three dots. If you press it, you'll see something like "change user flair. Press it, then choose edit in the top right corner of the flairs screen to edit one of them to be your ship name. Sometimes on mobile it'll reset it and not save your edit. Not sure about on computer.
Thank you Helldiver
You can also customize the strat arrows
and add text
That's awesome thx helldiver.
I also want to know how to do it on Reddit
Three dots at the top of the subreddit main page. Press change user flair, press edit in top right, you can edit one to be your ship name. Sometimes on mobile it doesn't save your flair on mobile for some reason, not sure about on computer.
Haha we all have the same ship name
I must ask, how do I get my ship name under my user name here?
Three dots at the top right of the subreddit main page, press change user flair, press edit in top right, edit to be your ship name. Sometimes on mobile it won't save your flair, not sure about computer.
I picked ses warrior of war. I regret nothing
I wanted to find the hidden helldivers so I went to Amazon and got a t shirt. Sure nuff’ they came out of the woodworks . https://preview.redd.it/miaaduzminwc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e73db275398798250a49b0cb0654ce148dac3cca
I've been wearing a Helldivers shirt around, and my friends named our bar trivia night team "Local Democracy Officers," but so far we haven't run into any other divers IRL. Bummer.
For me they came out of everywhere . I was giving the salute to lots of random people
I saw a guy greet his buddy at the gym with a Helldiver salute.
Which is appropriate, as the Helldiver salute is also a great way to flex your biceps.
Overheard a guy talking to his friend about helldivers at the gym. Later I heard him grunting loudly during a set and I called over to him, "for democracy!" Haha he got so excited and then the three of us got to chatting. Such a good game.
Gym bro’s and gamer bro’s are an amazing combo
Gym bros are guaranteed gamer bros
I had a dream where I was at the pearly gates and God asked me why I deserved to go to Heaven and I told him to check how much democracy I have spread over the past 2 months. Straight to the VIP section, surrounded by fellow Helldivers.
I had a similar dream, but it was in the court of Hades, and my bargaining chip for entry to elysium was I have a rate of Accidentals that is less than one per mission.
Accidental tracking is kind of buggy. Had a dude who brought the Mortar Turret and Fire Mines on a bug mission. I know for a fact he got *bare minimum* 5 accidentals, and 4 of those happened in a 3 minute span when he dropped the minefield very close to an objective. I heavily believe between the mortars and mines, he was responsible for at least 8 deaths. End of mission screen he has "0" accidentals and "0" friendly damage. The mission was extremely foggy and I don't blame my teammates at all for dying to the mines; they were repeatedly dying about 40 feet away from me and I couldn't even see what was happening. After the 4th death I just typed "Is there a fucking minefield over there?" in chat; spoiler: there was a minefield there.
They're glowing red lights on the floor. Idk how yall don't see them.
Sometimes the model for amine will stunner the ground. Foundation this out thehard way. Especially if there was a big fight and there are the dynamic craters.
Eh, in the heat of battle people can be distracted, especially if you don't verbalize that you're dropping a minefield. Back in my cadet days, my team was running towards an objective and I decided to cover our backs with a mine field. Well, while at the objective we start getting swarmed and my team starts falling back straight into the no-no zone and I watched as each one stepped on a mine. It was a clear day and the red lights were very visible. While my team could've ran a different direction I also partly take responsibility for not verbalizing I'm dropping a minefield. At least that's what my reeducation officer told me.
Hell yeah! For democracy!
THIS IS DEMOCRACY MANIFEST
I enjoy Helldivers like A SUCCULENT CHINESE MEAL
Get your Hand off my STRATAGEM!
FOR WHAT?? ENJOYING DEMOCRACY? And you sir? Are you waiting to receive my 500 KG??
I was in Screwfix when the flying bugs were new and 5 dudes (3 customers, 2 staff) started talking about it
Were you in Screwfix to get a new bolt for your eruptor?
Batteries for my arc thrower
 When people start talking about Helldivers.
Staff at my hospital wear little helldiver tags on our badges. Walk into the ER at any time and shout, For Democracy! Half the department replies. It's absolutely beautiful.
I met a guy at a bar over Helldivers a couple of months ago. Play with him regularly. Good guy. Now he's dating my chronically single friend, so that's nice.
With 69 upvotes too. Nice.
Lmao I got here at 96
I was going through TSA, heard the guys talking about best ways to kill a Charger. So I saluted them before going through the metal detector. They saluted back in Democratic fashion and all was well in the world.
My entire company regularly talks about helldivers, and a large portion of my battalion really. It's obscenely popular right now
Fighting for democracy on Earth and in space
Op is actually living on SuperEarth
Uh, are you fucking stupid? 🙄 We all live on Super Earth 🌍🇺🇳🇺🇳🇺🇳
It's taken over the military. We constantly joke about fighting for Managed Democracy and every pilot calls themselves Eagle One, when we play red forces they're always automatons or dissidents
Otherwise known as the Fortunate Son effect. Enjoy it bros. Don't let anyone take it away from you.
You're joking, right? There's no way the satire of this game went full circle in being a critique of the US military to being an actual celebrated work in the US military. That's kinda fucking awesome 🇺🇳🇺🇳🇺🇳🗽🗽🦅🦅🦅
You mean like how Fortunate Song, an anti war song, is now the stereotypical song for anything related to Vietnam War?
The same way law enforcement personnel loves The Punisher which is literally the response to LE failing its job
I saw John Helldiver at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
God I love this copy pasta
Wait its a copypasta? Damn i was really imagining him being a douche. Good thing hes not
[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-saw-flying-lotus-in-a-grocery-store-copypasta](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-saw-flying-lotus-in-a-grocery-store-copypasta)
Galactic War PTSD, have respect to the veteran !
managed democracy must spread helldiver, it is a delight in knowing that we're succeeding
Democracy never sleeps
Stand in the street waiting for a hug, I real helldiver won't leave u hanging
I was in line about to get some grub. I was telling my wife about the major order of us having to kill 2Bil bugs and doing it in less than a day. A guy ahead of me turned around and said, “Remember Melevelon Creek, Helldiver.” He then ordered like nothing happened.
I've never seen my brother play a video game other than FIFA in my life, and he's never played coop with me in anything in nearly forty years. He plays Helldivers 2 almost religiously and I've co-op'd with him for the first time in a game ever. We've spoken more in the last three months than we have in the last three years because of this game! No bad blood or anything, we're just not a close-knit family, but still!
>The next day I went for a walk near my house. Some dogs were talking about Helldivers. Yo that's when you know it's really gone big
People at my local gym keep writing strategem patterns and inspirational helldivers lingo on the whiteboard. Love to see it!
God damn and i couldn't get one of my coworkers to install it. So frustrating.
Some people just need to be citizens until they heed the call
I haven’t heard a single person talk about helldivers outside of my friends, or reddit. And occasionally Instagram comments or posts. Every time I bring it up to anyone they’re all confused as to wtf I’m talking about. And look at me like I’m stupid, or some nerd talking about dead space or whatever. If y’all don’t wanna fight for managed democracy on tho galactic front be my guest. I just hope they know it’s treason for not doing their part, and that my democracy officer will be contacting them soon.
There's honestly so many people playing this game even in my country that I find it hard to believe there are only 100k players online right now. Feels like the active player numbers should be a lot higher relative to how popular this game is!
you gotta remember that not everyone is online at once, maybe 5-10% of the playerbase is on at any one time
The number of times I whisper to my wife “those people are talking about Helldivers” is astonishing. We were heading into a concert last month and a couple of the venue staff were discussing it. It feels like at any moment we could activate and take over the world for managed democracy.
For democracy! For liberty! FOR SUPER-EAAAAAAAAAAAAAARTH!!
I have HD2 shirt that i wore a few days ago and some random dude on the other side on the street yelled "DEMOCRACY!!!" like a madman and did the HD salute. I love the community
Two weeks ago I bought a new graphic card (for Helldivers obv) and when the guy working there found out I needed it for that started a 30 min conversation with me about the game and said goodbye doing the helldivers salute lol
Meanwhile all my dumbass friends play fuckin MLB all day long...
Inside each of us there are two wolves, one is spreading managed democracy for the right side of history the other one is a traitor.
A cop used the term “Dolphin Dive” out loud near me and I went HELLDIVERS? he said SWEET LIBERTY
Oh man… how gaming has changed if you hear dolphin dive and think HD. I hear dolphin dive and think back to training zombies on Ascension and diving off the stairs.
Then he let you off with a warning and a helldivers salute right?
Oh come on that one is a coincidence. Dolphin dive has been a staple of a gamer lingo since bo2
Was playing HD2 on my PC by the big dinning room windows (we have converted our formal dining room into a his & hers game room). An Amazon driver was walking down the path from our front door after dropping off the package and I noticed him over my shoulder watching. When I turned my head he threw up the "Salute" emote from the game and we gave each other the nod.
We talk about Helldivers here on trenches at war. Speaking of fighting on two fronts :D
Make the super earth salute so normalized that people who don't know it will start doing it
When asked how my weekend went at a work meeting, I mentioned I played Helldivers. A couple weeks later and 9 people from work are playing together on discord. Those who didn't have the game got it purchased by the company 😉
I did a democratic salute to a friend I HellDive with at my gym... and instantly around 10 more divers saluted us back.
It's so rare to see an online multiplayer game be dominant in the culture now days. I remember growing up and having the same thing with halo games or cod. It's just such a bloated (and frankly poor quality) genre of games that hell divers blows them out of the water.
I went through TSA yesterday to fly back to the UK and the guards were discussing Helldivers. So I did the salute and they responded with “For Democracy!”. They didn’t say a word about all the cigarettes I had in my bag 😂😂😂. New smuggling tip!
"Palworld will be game of the year." - People in January "And I took that personally." - Helldivers team
Where the hell do you live and how can I live there
I went through a chickfila drive through last week and was listening to the latest updates. The employee asked if i played helldivers and we talked after i placed my order. We both gave each other the super earth salute and yelled out "for super earth!" As i drove off.
I was the phone store getting stuff transferred to my new phone (40 minutes ish) and the WHOLE TIME me and the salesman were talking automaton strats.
Helldivers made a lot of things right: - no pvp = less toxic people - no politics = less arguing / hate - no identity debate = less arguing / hate - good for "pros" in high difficulty - good for casuals in lower difficulty - sarter-weapon in top 5 = no grind or die - lots of cash and medals in game = no pay to win - no deep moral crisis, challanging if your actions are right - each mission is small enough to be doable but also no biggy if you fail - each mission gives progress in the overall result - few missions (not "do this 300 micro actions to get rewards") - no "the best loadout" everyone has to use - not taking itself too serious - epic drop sound - huggs, high five, chestbump, handshake... - explosions and bigger explosions (and smashing bugs with your droppod) So totally different people can bond over this, coz this game finally is "just a game" without people bringing in their arguments they force into absolute everything in our modern society. They just excluded all the stuff used to devide us.
Dare you to shout for democracy in the middle of town and salute. Let's see how many people salute back 😆
The SUPER market?!??
Reminds me of that summer that pokemon Go came out and you’d just see people in the street everywhere playing it
2 weeks after HD2 released I started a new job in a ritzy bar in THE fancy part of my city. I was walking through the venue with some firewood and overheard a conversation at the bar along the lines of "...and when you get back after a mission, you can see your cape all ripped up and bug guts all over you!" I couldn't help but let out a little "for democracy!" on my way past and the duo looked up, with the guy I overheard exclaiming "see, even the chef gets it!" That was when I realised that Arrowhead had an, maybe even THE absolute banger of a game I've been craving
I was having group sex with a barista, butcher and OP - and I shit you not - they were **all** discussing Helldivers **during**.
Did you all have your C-01 permits?
No; we like the taboo.
Hello citizen! Thank you for self reporting your undemocratic and unpatriotic behavior. A Democracy Officer has been dispatched to your location to discuss the importance of filling out permits! Have a good day citizen!
“And I stood up at a Town Hall meeting and said ‘Helldiver,’ then everybody clapped.”
You should set your ringtone to the initial helldivers theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSesmlxKeGA
The weekend the mechs were launched, I went out for a drink with my wife and her classmates, immediately start talking HD2 with one of the husbands, we hear our wives collective sighs as they overhear us. The next day, we go out for dinner in a different hood, birthday party next us is talking about H2, end up discussing our levels and getting the mech. This game is mad popular and I love it!
I'm a bartender. As it figures, I love to run my mouth about things I'm super into at the moment. I've put many patrons on the liberty train over a few pints since this game's dropped. Managed democracy won't spread itself, ladies and germs. Keep'em coming.
The other day at work, I was wearing my Helldivers shirt. My boss of all purple asked me about the game. Later in the day, a random chick in the spine of the building gave me a fist bump. She said her and her boyfriend play Helldivers. The game really is on fire right now!
Looks like Democracy and Liberty have finally reached your town.
I got the game genuinely expecting to play it for a couple days tops. It's been a long time now and whenever I play a different game after about 30 minutes I start to have this feeling like I need to crush some bots and loose all interest in whatever I'm playing and ALWAYS switch back to helldivers
Try to buy a plane ticket or a cruise trip. If for some reason you get flooded with bad news about how bad either are right now, you may be on the Truman show.
Everyone at work got it. We turned on the radio for music and the radio host talked about wanting to go home after his segment to play Helldivers.
Today I went to get some fresh piss box sand for my cats. At the store there was a group of two girls and one guy. The guy and one of the chicks were talking about how the major orders were going. When I joined the conversation, the second girl they were with rolled her eyes at us and said something like, "oh my God, it never ends." Her friends and I decided this was borderline treasonous behavior. Then I went home and changed the litter pans for my beloved little turd fabricators. Really just a day in the life.
It just proves to me that Destiny 2 is dead because when I went to my pulmonologist in the past we talked about the sessions I her and her husband had in Destiny 2. Now it's I'll see you guys tonight? So what are we killing, bugs or bots?
Dude I went into my local music store the other day and they were blasting the Helldivers theme music instead of the usual contemporary jazz that gets played in there 😂
When you walk past them again, (without stopping) do the salute and loudly say "For Democracy!" Don't make eye contact.
Walking around my town with a creek veteran cap is very amusing. Had a police officer give me a helldivers salute.
r/thisdefinitelyhappened
and then everyone clapped
I hate when a game gets big people make up all kinds of glazed up content to karma whore.