In summary, this is what happens when 1984 meets Ender's Game and has babies.

@henryheavy8044

2 ай бұрын

Spot on

You've been a great producer of videos but I detected some sympathy for the enemy in this work. I'm sorry, but I will have to report you for sedition. Know that this is for your own good as well as for ours.

@LackofFaithify

2 ай бұрын

Who are you talking about?

@NoName-sb9tp

2 ай бұрын

@@LackofFaithifyr/woosh

@LackofFaithify

2 ай бұрын

@@NoName-sb9tpThe sound made by *redacted* never existing after committing an act of sedition by means of video broadcast.

I love "Managed Democracy" as a turn of phrase. It tells you so much about their society in so compact a package.

Do not question why Super Earth needs ICBMs on every single planet...

And here I kept expecting you to ask, "Would you like to know more?"

The contract reads like any common EULA.

@GreenBlueWalkthrough

2 ай бұрын

And when you boot up the game pretends to be one too.

Remember the Creeeeeeeek!

@setojurai

2 ай бұрын

the trees speak beep boop

@SomeKindaSpy

2 ай бұрын

We tried so hard to retake it multiple times and now its down to 0.0300% last i checked.

god dammit, Ric you really should make a cultural Index about WarFrame. :D

For the record, I would have joined your patreon just for that opening alliteration alone.

Drop pods being non-lethal... yeah, right. Also I remember one point in the original Helldivers trailer where a whole squad got crushed under their own evac shuttle... says it all really.

I still find it massively ironic, that my birthday is also on the same day as the top holiday in the game's lore.

Wait so I get the Verhoven references but the AI in charge of democracy gives me Paranoia RPGs vibes too

@weldonwin

2 ай бұрын

With a chunk of Orwell's 1984 in there too for flavour

@cholten99

2 ай бұрын

Please report for compulsory re-education friend citizen.

@VulpisFoxfire

2 ай бұрын

@@weldonwinYup...the Ministries, if nothing else.

Service guarantees citizenship… in Super Earth.

Aside from killing the Bugs/Mechas......"Are we the baddies?" 😅

@GreenBlueWalkthrough

2 ай бұрын

Why do I get the feeling the bots are what's left of Nato and the Asian axis...

@Namelesswhirl

2 ай бұрын

Report to freedom camp.

@MrChupacabra555

2 ай бұрын

@@Namelesswhirl .......Oh, Sweet F*cking Liberty.........😂

We fight and die for Democracy.

[Comment under investigation for treason]

Someone has not drunk their liber-tea

This sure does take a jab at US politics XD nice video!

@TheVeritas1

2 ай бұрын

Definitely. This is even more true in light of the TikTok Ban recently passed by the House and being debated in the Senate.

For Democracy! Managed Democracy! Would you like to know more?

Honestly, this just feels like Starship Troopers but worse, including the bugs (both with and without a capitol B.) I would REALLY like to see you do a Cultural Index on the universe of Starship Troopers, both the movies and the animated series.

@Heatx79

2 ай бұрын

Book first, then movies, then games

@TheOneTrueDragonKing

2 ай бұрын

@@Heatx79 And what about cartoons/anime?

Been awhile since you did a Cultural Index video!

American capitalized fascism mixed with swedish governments

@Its-Just-Zip

2 ай бұрын

The devs are a swedish company with a decent number of Americans. But also a lot of this was lifted from Warhammer and Starship troopers which tracks.

@Shapes_Quality_Control

2 ай бұрын

What the hell is “capitalized fascism?” Thats an oxymoron.

@SomeKindaSpy

2 ай бұрын

@@Its-Just-Zipalso terminator here and there.

The lore shares quite a bit with Shipbreakers.

The Astartes called, they want the Imperialis back

@LackofFaithify

2 ай бұрын

Don't do that, you'll let in the Dune fans. And then comes the Foundation fans and everything gets irritating quick.

I guess I'm a helldiver now. Dang. I was going to retire this year.

I'm doing my part!

Right off the bat, Helldivers dropping in to bring democracy.

Glory to the confederation of earth, err... I mean super earth. Gods dammit, how many of these do we have?

"Feet First into Hell"

Just another universe slightly off from Federation ideals. Curious how much of the variances we’ve seen can be attributed to ancient aliens (ie the Preservers, the Metrons, the Organians, etc and of course the even more ancient aliens that influenced them in turn) and chance. From what I’ve seen in video games how a small community turns out can be drastically different depending on how the early community chooses to shape itself which often in turn is dependent on which voices rise to to the top at the beginning. Do we work together, is it dog eat dog, is it pure apathy? And then obviously new members are shaped by the mores of established members that socialize them.

@LackofFaithify

2 ай бұрын

Not really. Unless the federation secretly made, oh, the Borg, the Dominion and lets say, Klingons to create un-ending war (you could argue the Vulcans created the Romulans) .

Something that does concern me is that we're actually getting pretty close to voting algorithms being real. Granted as they work now they just give suggestions who to vote for instead of voting for you but that's only a few lines of code away.

An 18 year old rookie in charge of a warship

@Heatx79

2 ай бұрын

Not actually in charge of the ship, you just get to decide where to go.

@Heatx79

2 ай бұрын

Think of the rookie officers in charge of sections and platoons in Vietnam; they had some ncos there that actually knew what was what.

Remember citizen, friendly fire isn't.

I can just imagine the super federation losing a war the democratic council and president probably would not like being told that things are going bad

spreading democracy, one video at time...

Hey Ric, can we get a 40k Lore (series) Vid or do you still value your sanity?

Would you like to know more?

We drop in feet first into hell.

All helldivers go through ranger training?! How are they not highly trained?

@herdsire90210

2 ай бұрын

1 day.

@zarelli7831

2 ай бұрын

@@herdsire90210 the lore says different

please do some Star Wars personal stuff

Haven't played the game, but have a question: can you play as any one of non-human factions? Humans are extremely unappealing here.

[ This comment is under review for treason]

"'Overly' Patriotic" sounds a little bit like Treason, Citizen.

This game looks great, ain’t on Xbox yet though.

Battletech please

I like know about Space warships

The Inquisition/of Truth is watching.

woah this looks like canada

As much as I like the content of the channel, I am afraid it must be reported to my Democracy Officer aboard SES Song of Midnight.

HUMANITY FIRST!!!

hi

EMBRACE DEMOCRACY!

😅 good luck with basic you'll need it

does germany exist on Super Earth?

Super earth was made by Sweden super earth is space fascism

@UniversalChallenge4454

2 ай бұрын

The system is probably run an ai and now I will save super earth the trouble of killing me

"Unearth?" I'm not sure this is appropriately patriotic language. Have you cleared this with your Democracy Officer?

Wow......😮😮😮 I was looking forward to playing this game. But now hearing the storyline behind the game... I think I'll take a hard pass at it now. 😅😂

So Super Earth is basically just America with warp-drives? Got it.

Is this treason?

@BennyLlama39

2 ай бұрын

Well, as someone once told me, it's only treason if you get caught. 😈

Helldivers are clones!

One downside of the game being the toxic player community that takes the lore waaay too seriously. :-/

@LackofFaithify

2 ай бұрын

I keep seeing these comments like yours. What multiplayer games do you play? CS Go? LoL? CoD? Fortnite? See, I think a certain type of parrot has picked up this line. One that has never played an online game that does PvP, because being campy like the game you are playing is not toxic. Go do a week in any of those games, then tell me how this game has a toxic community. Not a joke. Go play LoL. You will then know what a toxic game community is.

: { D

I don't mean to offend the fans, but the worldbuilding here feels like incredibly lazy and cheap. It feels like what I would make in a typical Stellaris playthrough.

@WhitzWolf92

2 ай бұрын

I feel like that's kind of the point. This seems like a game that would rather live or die by its gameplay alone with the lore being only just enough to justify its own irrelevance to the average player.

@Shapes_Quality_Control

2 ай бұрын

Yeah essentially no thought went into the background, but as the other guy says that’s kinda by design. In the short time the game has been around the collective effort to drive its own kind of improvised storytelling is what has made the game so immersive. Mavelon Creek wasn’t some lore rich planet but is the most recognizable name associated with Helldivers because of how players interacted with it.

Glad I don't play the game, I don't want to play as evil guys.

So this is where communism leads to. HHMM.

Free Palestine ✊✊

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