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Helldivers devs really went with satirising the "UNPROVOKED INVASION" language around the Ukraine war (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm genuinely impressed with their balls. Libs probably won't notice it but they've done this both on twitter and in-game.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I was gonna say I think OP called down the jump pack stratagem

They're satirizing the language of political propaganda in general. There's no reason to think they're commenting on Ukraine specifically.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They're satirizing American imperial language and there are definitely enough people in that studio to have chuckled about Ukraine, or October 7th, etc.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Yes this is my read