• lorty@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    They can be entirely justified in their resistance without being the good guys. Hard to say given the limited information we have. Also the devs probably aren't going to do some deep geopolitical analysis of a fictional world.

  • Franfran2424@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    Automatons definitely are. Bugs seem to be just wild animals bred by super earth as resources. Bugs may get more coordinated and an actual society.

  • SadArtemis@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    Considering the Automatons' makers (the totally-not-space-Soviet Cyborgs of Helldivers 1) are canonically all now enslaved and locked up in the mines of Cyberstan... yes, the Automatons are 110% justified.

  • Highalectical@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    Within the text they're the bad guys (even then, the automatons were kicked off their homeworld by the humans and the bugs are harvested for fuel, so the portrayal is still somewhat sympathetic). The enemies are comically evil subhumans not to imply enemies of "democracy" are bad, but rather to highlight the dehumanizing world view of the fascist west. The whole game is about mowing down "Russian bots" and "Chinese removed" after all.

  • Bury The Right@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    I don't care to play or learn much about the game given it's fascist fan base but I thought the bug were representative of a reactionary's idea of communism.

    • WolfLink@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      It’s a parody of what a fascist US would look like and it’s not subtle about it.

      • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
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        3 months ago

        It's not subtle but there exists a not insignificant group of fascists who take it totally at face value.

        I am guessing the same group of people who watched Starship Troopers and thought the Terran Federation were awesome. (I would say the book too but let's be honest, they never read it)