- cross-posted to:
- games@hexbear.net
- cross-posted to:
- games@hexbear.net
It took GantztheDemon 10 days to be able to play Helldivers 2 again. On Feb. 21, TikTok user AJGaming shared a video featuring Gantz killing them. The sequence went viral overnight, garnering 4.8 million views as of this writing. A subsection of the Helldivers 2 community, hung up on the politically charged satire theme of the online shooter, labeled the player as a “traitor” and began inciting others to shoot on sight. Alongside dozens of TikToks campaigning for a witch hunt, Gantz’s PlayStation account was temporarily banned after receiving hundreds of reports.
Maybe if you want a satirical fascist regime to fight for, stick with Starship Troopers Extermination? Idk, but it seems like that community is more meme-y than HD2.
I just think back to the OneyPlays video where they kept coming across the guy who kept saying “you apes wanna live forever?!”
If Starship Troopers had the player numbers of Helldivers, these articles would be about that game instead.
What an amazing piece of dialogue, it invokes a paradox. The way to achieve eternal life for a trooper is to die in glorious combat. So the answer is both yes and no.
What a great film, too bad there were no sequels.
There were several sequels, but they were all terrib-ohhhhh, I see what you did there