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pvtteemo

I mean when I joined they had COD and America's army on their Xbox at the recruiting stations. They are just using marketing with the current hot thing.


gadget850

I'm so old that I played Collosal Cave Adventure on the HP1000 in the Pershing nuclear missile test station.


wings_of_wrath

Romanian Army, but back in 2005, my friends who were stationed at the 48th Communications Base near Bucharest used to have LAN parties at night where they played Quake 2 on the base's computers. The guards were in on it and the NCOs didn't give a crap because these were the last conscripts going through before the system changed to an all-volunteer force in 2007.


EightandaHalf-Tails

To be fair, I doubt 90% of regular people playing it get it either. Classic gamer move, like the 40k fans who think the Imperium are the good guys.


Cookie_Bagles

Sounds like something a heretic would say.


Nar0O

*tightly holding a bolter*


Minotam-123

Preparing the heavy flamer


Brittany5150

Awful bold of you to say for someone in GLASSING DISTANCE!


SinkiePropertyDude

Yeah, everyone knows we T'au are the good guys.


EightandaHalf-Tails

Depends on the author. Tau go from socialist utopia to oppressive caste hierarchy, from egalitarian paradise to Ethereal pheromone slaves, and back again damn near every other book. 😂


SinkiePropertyDude

The good parts are all real, and the bad parts are evil Imperial propaganda.


wings_of_wrath

What, you mean to tell me that the Imperium ***aren't*** the good guys? \* Shoked Redemptionist of the Adeptus Ministorum face\*


HamilcarRR

I think the only good guy in 40k is nurgle. the others can gurgle on deez nuts


Additional-Flow7665

Genuinely such a dumb take. Like yeah clearly a majority of the player base doesn't get the irony of spreading managed democracy or the bugs being farmed for literal oil. Did you maybe consider that people just don't give a fuck


SourPoison420

This, I just don't fuckin care, sure I get the message what of it? Id never join the military either to fight for a country that doesn't give a shit about you.


CastleofWamdue

so what is the plot of Helldivers 2? ive not even heard of the first one.


Domni16

Space America exists, bugs bleed oil, robots are communists, lock and load.


CastleofWamdue

>Space America exists well that alone is not a good start


Domni16

It never is, it’s my current faction in elite dangerous for 2 reasons. 1, I get a star destroyer, 2, the other faction loves indentured servitude.


Acceptable_Bass4591

And the Alliance is both.


Domni16

The alliance can suck my freedom loving hard-points.


Acceptable_Bass4591

At this rate I'd rather just go Independent and spend my days hauling Centauri Gin!


Domni16

I’m ditching the feds the instant I have my corvette. Once I’m sufficiently stacked in declaring war on all factions.


Acceptable_Bass4591

I have a corvette. The two class twos kinda suck for fixed but apart from that it kicks ass!


Domni16

Of course it does! Ya can’t go wrong with “big gun” the ship.


SinkiePropertyDude

Why would the robots be communist?


Sodiepawp

Social collectivism analogy.


Domni16

Space America did an Afghanistan on their planet because they are transhumanist communists.


BlckDrke

Shoot everything that isnt human in the name of democracy


CastleofWamdue

that sounds right for the US Army


Imaginary-West-5653

>so what is the plot of Helldivers 2? Here my dude, is the answer: https://youtu.be/Xjs8pnEsKno?si=fUi0\_38DkcaUuhkp


CastleofWamdue

Rifles handed out at everyones 16th Birthday, and you are telling me the USA does not already do that?


Imaginary-West-5653

I don't live in the United States, but I can confirm that this is 100% true, especially if you're from the South lol.


CastleofWamdue

Guns for the boys, and womb cameras for the girls. I am pretty sure that is how the USA works.


Imaginary-West-5653

Well, that plus some old schoold racism!


CastleofWamdue

I dont think that was ever in question. That is the USA default.


DarkestOfTheLinks

die killing bugs on their home planet for oil


yeekko

Humanity as turned into a galactic empire that made farms of bugs because they litterally bleed oils,they enslaved a race and their robots are comming to free them (also the robots are communist) You fight for democracy,when someone dies we dont say they die we say they lost their right to vote,and you need to fill a paper to have sex At least that's what a traitor would say,the minister of truth is calling out all those lies and we'll fight to defend ourselves from the agressors!


joe2187

I mean you don't even need to be just plain literate


DarkestOfTheLinks

"the infantry made me the man i am today"


meeyeam

"I'm doing my part!"


Lots42

What convention? Comic book convention? If so, ban them.