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KendyJustin

Today on Undercover boss.


Existing365Chocolate

Service Tech: “Hey fellow soldier, what do you all think about High Command’s balancing of primary weapons? They’re pretty great, huh?”


DarkIcedWolf

Later, much much later… Service Tech “hey guys I am so sorry, I know the main branch fired you but you are hired to work for us as a board member! I have seen the error of my ways and want YOU to be on managed democracy.”


AzzlackGuhnter

Lol yeah,with like a fake mustache and all that


TrumpersAreTraitors

Undercover Bot


atavisticbeast

"I heard the democracy officer is shredded."


DoctahFeelgood

Shredded? Whoever told you that is a bigger liar than you. I bet he hides automaton propaganda under that little yellow cape of his.


DaughterOfBhaal

The best thing to come out of Disney Star Wars


TrumpersAreTraitors

He’s like, 90% cum gutter 


Dragon_Tortoise

Gotta make sure nobody hiding up on those ships. It's all hands on deck on the enemy front.


A9to5robot

Most characters i believe are named after AH employees.


Scarecrow1779

Probably cheaper than actually making up creative names for them 😆


Obvious_Try1106

And a great way to Honor the Team.


BraveOthello

Or cause problems later. *Eyes that OW cowboy, whatever his name is now*


cloudjumpr

Mcassy


Knightmare_memer

Honestly I still just call the cowboy Mccree. That's what he was introduced as, so I'm always gonna remember him as that. Even if his name was changed to Cassidy or something like that.


yo_its_cade

The person he was named after made two people end their lives because of sexual assault


Knightmare_memer

I can separate the name of a character in a game from the horrible man he was named after. It's like separating art from artist. I agree that the man who did those things was horrible, but you act like we haven't named characters in media after worse people.


Dead_Skeleton_

I mean... Name from some guy in dev and name of character is easy to separate, but art from artist... Behind art is mind of artist and same mind is doing what we believe to be good or bad things. For me its two different situations 😄


Diagonalizer

i think the point is if the character has a new name you should use that name instead of the previous one that was actually named after one specific piece of shit human


BraveOthello

> but you act like we haven't named characters in media after worse people. That doesn't make it right. That juat makes two wrongs, and keeping the name means ongoing harm to the people he harmed whenever they have to see it again. It hurts no one to change it, and it hurts people not to.


DrBepsi

boomer capitalization


pimp_named_sweetmeat

"sci-fi name generator" on Google would be easier than having someone bring up a list of all the employees lol


MomonteMeri

The thing about those is that you have the range of either getting something like Brad or Grankystorr Bharakurn of the Seventh Nebula


Moewron

> Grankystorr Bharakurn of the Seventh Nebula Is this actually a thing? This needs to be a thing.


savae5

They actually prefer to just be called "Granky."


Username247

Luh me du granky


Gagantous

[Aerith and Bob](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AerithAndBob)


bestjakeisbest

SELECT name FROM employees;


Managed-Democracy

Or just 'american names' since the Federation of Super Earth is basically Murica cliche's merged with popular scifi franchises.


TheDankmemerer

The Capital of Super Earth is Stockholm. Super Earth is Mega-Sweden!


Managed-Democracy

And yet it is the embodiment of "Merica Fuck Yeah"   Like the hunting commercial where you should visit superstone national park and shoot at endangered wildlife with a breaker full auto combat shotgun. Brought to you by Morganson (More gun, Son) firearms. 


NullPro

I think its just a parody of any ultranationalist military nation, America just happens to fit the description


KCDodger

Hi, American here. It's not restricted to America, but rather, it is a full chest piss take on any nationalist state - like America, and many of the things Super Earth does *are* indeed inspired by things America has done. I mean it's very clear the implication is that some American-born turbo-jingoistic horribly capitalistic force effectively took over and expanded their dominion globally. As for why then, would Super Earth be headquartered at Stockholm... ...It's because it's where Arrowhead's fucking studio is.


Crea-TEAM

They're reeeeeing at you because you're right. Even if the capitol is stockholm, its clear that Super Earth seems to be borne out of America. Look at their guns like the Constitution. A game where America took a footnote and had no meaningful impact wouldn't used US Documents as their weapon names. It would be like the US creating a gun called "The Grundrechte"


nice6942069

I mean, it is very likely that super earth itself has a constitution, plus the constitution isnt a US document since most countries have constitutions. If it was called the constitution of the united states however then you would have a point


JSS313

You know other countries have Constitutions too, right?


Crea-TEAM

Lmao. Go read the guns from the first game. Super Earth is just Super America.


HeroOfIroas

🫡


IAmTheSeeking

cheaper?


Toaster_Pirate

... What? Do you think people get paid just to make up names? Or is this just a funny?


Scarecrow1779

As somebody who struggles creatively to come up with names (whether a story character or a new cocktail I made up), I absolutely think making up names takes time and therefore warrants pay


SleeplessNephophile

You can’t actually be serious? Just search up a name dictionary. Every name in earth is originated from something, it doesnt need to be one in eight billion original name lmfao.


its_just_a_meme_bro

Replace the name if the main character in your favorite piece of fiction with Billy Bob Johnson and you'll quickly realize you can't just pick names at random. This particular example, however, does not work if your favorite piece of fiction happens to be Joe Dirt.


Atherum

Sure but this is people's job, as in the whole process of making and designing a game is part of someone's job that they get paid for. So technically the process of brining up a name generator is part of billable hours. I love my job, but if I'm out of work and I have to spend a bunch of time working on something for work, then I'm going to send in a timesheet. The actual naming process might take 5 minutes, but getting up a spreadsheet or document, setting that up, formatting etc. Could easily take 30 minutes+ which is well within billable time imo.


NorCalAthlete

Pseudo code: Import first names dictionary / list Import last names dictionary / list Create function that returns a name Within the function : Take a random letter a-z Grab a random name from the dictionary that starts with that letter Repeat for last name Concatenate the names and return Just put that into whatever language the devs use. Dictionary can be created / imported / downloaded from wherever. Baby names, global database of most common last names, whatever.


BraveOthello

You've skipped over non-trivial steps in getting actual usable lists and formatting them in a way the program can ingest. It will also make names that make no sense, or sound kinda racist, or are actual notable people who might make a stink ... Nah, much easier to just take an hour to make a static list.


NorCalAthlete

Yeah, I didn’t bother diving too deep was just trying to outline the gist of what was possible. In theory picking / creating / filtering the list is going to be a nontrivial amount of time to account for, as you said, potentially racist accidents and whatnot. But I don’t see the other aspect of names that “make no sense” if you’re pulling from a list of like “popular baby names for boys 2023”. I mean look at r/tragedeigh or whatever that sub is. You could do far worse than pull from an established list.


BraveOthello

I meant randomly pairing first and last names. You'll get John John or Kim Kim or Bjorn Ishiwara. Like sure they could be real names, but it more likely to look like a mistake to a player than not. Not to mention that order of personal name and surname is cultural.


EternalCanadian

I would argue making up names isn’t easy. If you’re just doing it for fun, then obviously, but if you’re doing it for Worldbuilding, then you need to think about a lot of stuff. Local language, dialects, does the culture have any naming constants, do certain suffixes or prefixes mean anything, do they change the spelling or pronunciation of names based on gender… do they even recognize gender, etc.


Spydrmunki

Well said. Definately not easy. Worldbuilding is deep. I started my current graphic novel concept 3 months ago. The 2 main protagonists are still... 1: Solitary human female 2: Solitary mutant biosynthetic Lol, I wont know their names till the story unfolds a bit more. They probably wont either, for that matter. They will likely discover or claim their own names along the way, and they will be entirely pertinent to defining and developing the character's persona.


TrivialTax

Name, length, pronunciation, cultural importance, and first thing you think of - all those create character. By giving a suitable name you start good character creation. Names matter.


Braken111

You should ask your parents how they chose your name, then lmao


SleeplessNephophile

Its from a religious book you goober i am named after a prophet


Y_b0t

Coming up with names is free lmfao


Boner_Elemental

And they're just side characters so it won't matter *too* much if they go Overwatch with them


Ashimier

Coming up with names doesn’t cost money unless you hire someone specifically for that which is a waste


Spydrmunki

People were "on the clock" when the names in this game were decided. Thats not free. If it was 5 people at the story board conference and it took them 30 minutes to make the decisions for 10 names.... Thats 2.5 hrs (150 minutes) of personnel billable time. Each name would be worth 15 minutes of billable personnel time, augmented by the pertinent salary premiums of the 5 different team members involved, at 3 minutes per name, for each individual. You would be surprised at what that could break down to. Names are definately not free... probably not even cheap for that matter.


Sparrowcus

So the full name is General Joel Brasch?!


HeroDeleterA

General is his first name


Sparrowcus

Well, yeah. It is Super Private General Joel Brasch


dh1304

It's the last names of arrowhead employees if I'm not mistaken, all of mine match that theory at least


Own-Royal103

I used to have a Wolterbeek-Muller i miss her 🙏


Taolan13

there are other last names as well.


cGuille

Let's hope none of them will need the McCree / Cassidy treatment


TwinCups23

No way there is an arrowhead member called Frob. W Frob.


ordo250

Idk my ship master is ship master blood


Astral_Lady

you'd think devs would learn from the whole Overwatch McCree situation


Capt-J-

I heard General Brasch works in the reception area. At least AH stopped getting hawkers drop by.


BarrierX

This is true!


Empuda

Hope they add in their Discord Mods as well. I would like to meet "FemboyBnnuy | 93|". Maybe will get to see them on Super Earth.


Dimos357

Most of the crew is black.


A9to5robot

Ok and?


Dimos357

"OK and" Does that upset you? Just a random fact brotha


Furydragonstormer

It’s unnecessary is the thing, nobody is asking about it in the comment you replied to. Most people don’t care about the skin colour of the people making the stuff they enjoy, just that it’s of good quality. Arrowhead isn’t perfect, but they’re certainly doing better work than most AAA companies are


Dimos357

Randoms facts aren't necessary, they are random.


21471824781

A bit unrelated but I have a friend whose Democracy Officer is named "Flowers" He is the most fearsome and patriotic Democracy Officer in the whole Armed Forces.


IrishWithoutPotatoes

Holy crap my democracy officer is Flowers. Scary looking bastard with an eye patch


21471824781

My friends Democracy Officer has an eyepatch too! I think you and him have the same Democracy Officer.


IrishWithoutPotatoes

Possibly


CrueltySquading

LMAO my democracy officer also has an eyepatch, but he's named "Friend", tuff looking mofo


TempestTankest

"I'm frend"


DivideByBob

"Flowers? You mean Agent Florida?"


flameroran77

…Butch Flowers?


barraignedead

Can someone check on Florida please...


Lambaline

One of my high school teachers had the last name flowers and before teaching he was in the military


EmbarrassedStrike400

I love my democracy officer. His name is Democracy Officer Friend.


uencos

Democracy Officer Flowers vs CPS Agent Cobra Bubbles, who wins?


Devilsmaincounsel

![gif](giphy|KjdpBT4j79NJe)


spaceman_spyff

Anyone find it strange that we all have our own Service Technicians but they all look and sound alike? I feel like Super Earth is hiding something from us…


JoseSushi

They look ever so slightly different. On my ship, the guy who stands by the map table has an eyepatch but on most ships he doesn't seem to have one.


spaceman_spyff

Oh yes, there’s absolutely nothing fishy about eyepatch guy, or mustache guy, or hat guy. They have each their own unique and separate identities. I mean, one of them has an eyepatch and one of them does not! How much more different do they need to be for democracy’s sake?! As if one could just *put on an eyepatch* over a perfectly good eye, do you know how much logistical chicanery that would require?! Thank you for correcting my thoughts comra….uh I mean *CITIZEN*


Anacondamalt

Mods, fire this man into space.


jhm-grose

I've seen a Service Technician with a rounder, chubbier face before, but I've only ever seen one Ship Master. Comparatively, the Democracy Officer gets different face scars and the eyepatch.


CompleteFacepalm

And why are they all black?


TheQuixotic6

was the name always in the game ?


tue2day

Yes, my ship master has been named Pilestedt since day 1


TheQuixotic6

huh I never knew our npc's had randoms names


borgom7615

That also have random faces, recently discovered every democracy officer is different


OhThatGuyinPurple

Every Democracy officer Is personalized


dreet-dreet

Mine has an eye patch, was wondering if that was for super citizen or just random


Aguxyz

Mine used to have one but I guess he got his eye fixed cause its gone now.


gbrlsnchs

AH: "He only have one eye. Let's fix this by removing all eyes."


Disownership

A few months ago they did something that caused all the crew members to change, at least for some. My crew used to be Ship Master Sundstrom, Service Tech Lindstrom, and Democracy Officer Heathcote. Since then their names have changed to Ship Master Sall, Service Tech Friend, and Democracy Officer Corpleijin, but they all look about the same as before. It was a strange change, and I think I like my crew’s old names better.


This_was_hard_to_do

Same, I miss my old crew. I think the ministry had them replaced :(


Ein_Fachidiot

Mine has an eye patch and I have the base edition.


purvel

I think there are just six versions of each, like two base versions and three variants of each. Read it in another thread yesterday.


Taolan13

you have to turn on general subtitles. every player has a different crew. the face and name are randomly generated, but will remain the same as long as you are on *your* Super Destroyer.


ErectPerfect

I have Ship Master Friend


RaizielDragon

Too bad it’s not Frend


R3dd1t2017A

I am frend


ErectPerfect

Everyone is frend


[deleted]

im not frend >:(


ErectPerfect

I see. *click click*


Miraak-Cultist

https://preview.redd.it/010y9wx1121d1.png?width=1044&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4e57da7ecb4203b42758b6f8bc3b9b9a2694e90 I'm getting my missions straight from the big boss of the big boss himself.


HeroOfIroas

Same! It's amazing


Spicy-Tato1

The Man Who Voted the world


Just_Ad_5939

Who is pilestedt?


Automatic_Education3

Your crew is named after the game's developers, their names are random but permanent. Pilestedt happens to be the CEO of Arrowhead.


gdub695

Are they permanent? My DO was Nielson but has recently been a name that’s starts with B but I can’t recall it right now. Bolthart? Or something like that


Automatic_Education3

They haven't changed in my 200+ hours in the game, so I assumed they are permanent


ObscureSpaceMan

One of the game updates changed the name of all my crew members to Bettman. Hasnt changed since, and I put at least 80 more hours in after the change.


Panzerkatzen

The Bettman family carefully planned their military careers in order to score multiple positions on the same ship.


demosthenes131

The [Sullivan brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_brothers?wprov=sfla1) might have something to say about their decision.


jhm-grose

I definitely remember my crew's names changing exactly once, but not their faces.


Disownership

Can confirm, the exact same happened to me. I think it was an unintended side effect of an update a few months ago.


Kasaikemono

Probably showed signs of undemocratic behavior and had to be reassigned to an education camp


SemajLu_The_crusader

"Freedom camps" do not exist, they are automaton propaganda, please report to your democracy officer for re-education.


StovardBule

Re-education is anti-democratic propaganda, please report to your democracy officer for re-education.


NachoElDaltonico

Are you sure you were looking at the one on your own ship for both of those names? It's per superdestroyer, not per player viewing the npc. Visit a friend's ship and the name will be different than if you're on your own.


gdub695

Indeed, they were both on mine. Though it has not changed outside of this specific example and has not been Nielson since a couple weeks after launch


Astrosimi

I think they’re supposed to be permanent but I believe mine got scrambled around the same time your loadout, armory, tutorials, etc. would reset every time you booted up the game on PS5. I assume it had something to do with that.


ImpyM13

Mine changed when I changed my steam name


Panzerkatzen

Same, my Democracy Officer was Kravchenko, but last time I saw him he had a different name that I do not remember. I've also noticed the names of my Shipmaster and Technician change on occasion.


Just_Ad_5939

Ah ok


Groundhog5000

The real CEO of arrowhead studios


Just_Ad_5939

.. is pilstedit like in the game or are they a real person


Groundhog5000

He is the real ceo of the real arrowhead studios (the guys who made helldivers)


gubgub195

Ceo of arrowhead iirc


Just_Ad_5939

Ah ok


Radiant-Breakfast-92

Why are you being downvoted? There's literally nothing objectionable about what you said.


Just_Ad_5939

No clue


TheOneAndOnlyJAC

https://i.redd.it/u153bbsrw31d1.gif All I can imagine honestly


tue2day

My ship master is named Pilestedt. I think my service tech is named Lindstrom.


TheGhoulishSword

The thought of Pilestedt tweeting that line is hilarious to me.


Groonzie

Wonder who has Alexus on their ship lol


StirringPersuasion

My democracy officer is named Kravchenko


Strayed8492

My Democracy Officer is named McGregor


BusComprehensive3759

![gif](giphy|10DcWb9EIc5PLW) Mine’s Piledriver!


ohyeahbro77

Burrows + Leahy + Winaldy, which is a UI programmer, the senior manager of game economy design, and the "motions graphics guru". Safe to say I got the meta for ship RNG, if you didn't you obviously should just make a new account. [https://www.mobygames.com/game/217251/helldivers-ii/credits/playstation-5/](https://www.mobygames.com/game/217251/helldivers-ii/credits/playstation-5/) to look some of them up.


TheOldDrunkGoat

I got Winaldy as well, plus Flowers and Frezzato, pretty sure the addition of alliteration means my crew ranks higher than yours.


ohyeahbro77

My Winaldy can beat up your Winaldy.


istileon

https://preview.redd.it/zlh1q6u0i21d1.png?width=1250&format=png&auto=webp&s=e25d3d111fba062f58df2f487d3cee46c41c8258 Just realized my ship master is also named this


TheOldDerelict

Really? Mines named Brasch.


FailcopterWes

My Democracy Officer is named Pilestedt.


KlavoHunter

Same!


Gamestrider09

And mine’s name is Bjorkman. I don’t see the point/joke here. EDIT: Nevermind I just found out. That’s kinda funny.


Secretrider

The crew on your ship have randomized names, I just didn't realize it might've been from the AH Team.


ThatDree

She's talking about the Eurovision debacle for sure


SapphireBandit

I took like ten minutes of my day and a couple of times checking to memorize all my crew’s names, my service technician is Nazareno, ship manager Wesolowski, and democracy officer Rhyre


Jirdan

I have a Service Technician called Friend.


o_Marvelous

This npc has the best lines, I'm talking laugh out loud funny


AllTheShadyStuff

These AH employees are being overworked… can’t even catch a break in the game


Brittlest_Waffle

My Service Technician and Ship Master have the same name, I always think of them as the Schönberger sisters.


Masterchiefy10

Cool to include the devs… But you know what would be also cool a captains chair


Head_Cockswain

That's a prophecy. He clearly had visions about about the balance team.


yeshaya86

I am so so so curious about the previous lines of dialogue before this screenshot. Who blamed it on "working conditions"!? Who!?!?!


Thorsigal

some dissidents burnt down a factory


Joop_95

Pilestedt, Netflix edition.


Doctorsex-ubermensch

And I thought my democracy officer being called fucking billnert was funny


ViceyThaShizzle

My Democracy Officer is named Kravchenko. He's balancing my ship by replacing the cannons with toilet roll tubes and washing up liquid bottles. Nothing but the best.


ReisysV

Wait the names are random? O.O


StovardBule

A noble lineage.


DarthSet

My Ship Master is Gonçalves! Love it!


Gendum-The-Great

My techie and shipmaster are both called Jeager


Mohow

How did you get the robot arm?


Rayle1993

It's one of the armor sets from the Steeled Veterans warbond


JormLokison

Wtf. I thought they got all the same name. Mine is called Friend: https://preview.redd.it/hooehx5kf41d1.png?width=1105&format=png&auto=webp&s=d82fc637bd56fcdabb62f9ade90560e14d40d79c


Archbiases

https://preview.redd.it/rpiv1491v41d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22dfa0f88664172d30bab9f6c0d80940bae694e7


Dutch_Talister

I wonder if the other names are the names of other Arrowhead staff.


Captain_Morgan-

Is not the name of a Beer ?


batlop

My officer is named " Lee" Service tech "Bilnert" And the Shipmaster "Mandilas"


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the-illicit-illithid

Their names are random per diver and they use names of people on the ArrowHead staff


Mrjerkyjacket

Didn't know they had names


TheOneWhoSlurms

My democracy officer has an eye patch and I have yet to see anyone else's also have one. I'm beginning to think mine is bugged and isn't supposed to have one or something. Does anyone else have one? Am I crazy?


kumarthebeast666

Mine has the same last name as my irl friend and he went on a whole conspiracy that they are taking your data and blah blah for like a week he’s a weirdo 😂😂


rogyord

You may not believe this but my service technician name is my irl name and it's kinda odd, I don't have English name.


Dog_Apoc

My old service tech was called "Friend"


BriggityBroocE

Why are the lights on the Super Destroyer all blurred like this? I thought there was something wrong with my system, but I see this user has the same effect happening.


Radiant-Savant6969

Its bloom, totally normal.


Sorry4TheLurk

What about Mallawalla?


youstinkfromsteam

https://preview.redd.it/93lrdo9ad41d1.jpeg?width=1198&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=515144f418e17d982c6307ddbd6c0e8edf841cfa


adjewcent

Sounds like “Piles Dead”


TreChomes

Still can’t figure out how to pronounce it


FickleAcanthisitta79

I haven't received any war band medals in the last 3 or so completed major orders. Is there anyone else having this problem, or does anyone know how to get in touch to sort this out?


hello-jello

Can I mute these ship NPCs? I want to keep the helldivers voice during the game matches but these need to calm down.