"keep politicts out of video games" you guys realize this game is a political game right

[xxduckperson465]

Like the entire premise of all the lore in this game is a criticism hyper authoritarian governments that promote nationalism to blind the population into undying faith and the ideas of the American dream. What do you mean keep politics out? The premise of the lore IS politics LMAO. PLUS trans people/lgbtq people existing is not politics! they are just real, not political!

[PRISM]

[Kashra Fall]

People don't care about satire game politics. They care about the ongoing debates of what is ok and what isn't ok in the world we live in, not the world we play in. We don't want the two combined.

[KZ]

Don't care. Shoot bug.

[Forblaze]

There are two genders: Male and political
There are two races: White and political
There are two sexualities: Straight and political

[Khloros]

Imagine being such a miserable person, with the inability to have even the slightest amount of fun, with out finding the need to project your knowledge of topical political content so that others think you are educated and informed on politics that you cant even enjoy a game, that no one takes seriously, because its a meme.

Enjoy your jesters.

[jautja]

dont feed, report and block

[PETROL SNIFFER]

dont give him jesters just give them to me :)

[Snogre]

"PLUS trans people/lgbtq people existing is not politics! they are just real, not political!"

... guess what - straight people exist too bro. Wheres the straight flag or straight capes in the game?

I personally agree that this sort of identity politics should be kept out of video games where all they do is stoke arguments. Do you also think they should put in a Donald Trump / MAGA cape? Do you want one that allows you to show your support of either Israel or Palestine? It's all pointless.

If it's 'not political', why do you so badly want a flag in the game and why are people pushing it? Is it too difficult to use your imagination to pretend the character you are playing is trans? Would that be so difficult? Why do you need everybody else to know too?

It's a video game lol, people could care less about the sexuality, political views, or anything else, of the people they are playing with. It's just not relevant.

[Sharkle_Bunwich]

Keep politics out of my games! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to play my favorite apolitical game Metal Gear Solid.

[WastingSanity]

I fixed it for you.

Originally posted by xxduckperson465:

"keep real world politics out of video games" you guys realize this game is a political game right

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Originally posted by xxduckperson465:

...people existing is not politics! they are just real, not political!

You might want to tell that to the USA embassies that were flying that subculture's flags.

I guess you didn't know, politics are downstream from culture. So yes, a subculture pushing itself on to the greater culture artificial and forced is political. It is colonialism at its finest, just without the war.

[Sharkle_Bunwich]

Originally posted by Snogre:

"PLUS trans people/lgbtq people existing is not politics! they are just real, not political!"

... guess what - straight people exist too bro. Wheres the straight flag or straight capes in the game?

I personally agree that this sort of identity politics should be kept out of video games where all they do is stoke arguments. Do you also think they should put in a Donald Trump / MAGA cape? Do you want one that allows you to show your support of either Israel or Palestine? It's all pointless.

If it's 'not political', why do you so badly want a flag in the game and why are people pushing it? Is it too difficult to use your imagination to pretend the character you are playing is trans? Would that be so difficult? Why do you need everybody else to know too?

It's a video game lol, people could care less about the sexuality, political views, or anything else, of the people they are playing with. It's just not relevant.

Tell me you don't understand what the pride flag actually means without outright telling me.

[Zogtar]

If you need a straight pride flag, I'll help you make one. That way you feel included to marginalized groups who are just trying to live their lives and be okay with who they are...

[Modest Mauser]

Originally posted by Sharkle_Bunwich²:

Originally posted by Snogre:

"PLUS trans people/lgbtq people existing is not politics! they are just real, not political!"

... guess what - straight people exist too bro. Wheres the straight flag or straight capes in the game?

I personally agree that this sort of identity politics should be kept out of video games where all they do is stoke arguments. Do you also think they should put in a Donald Trump / MAGA cape? Do you want one that allows you to show your support of either Israel or Palestine? It's all pointless.

If it's 'not political', why do you so badly want a flag in the game and why are people pushing it? Is it too difficult to use your imagination to pretend the character you are playing is trans? Would that be so difficult? Why do you need everybody else to know too?

It's a video game lol, people could care less about the sexuality, political views, or anything else, of the people they are playing with. It's just not relevant.

Tell me you don't understand what the pride flag actually means without outright telling me.

Tell us what you think it means.

[Mepho]

Originally posted by Zogtar:

If you need a straight pride flag, I'll help you make one. That way you feel included to marginalized groups who are just trying to live their lives and be okay with who they are...

So these groups are so marginalized and oppressed that they're concerned with having a flag in helldivers 2.

You realize the point you're making, do you.

[edit]
Just to be clear, I'm not laughing at the idea of "living one's life and be okay with who they are" by having something catering to them in a videogame (which don't get me wrong, it is laughable) but the implication that these people are suffering so much by the oppression of society and systemic issues that one of these would be not having a flag in helldivers.

Just think it through. Really do that.

[Alex]

Originally posted by xxduckperson465:

Like the entire premise of all the lore in this game is a criticism hyper authoritarian governments that promote nationalism to blind the population into undying faith and the ideas of the American dream. What do you mean keep politics out? The premise of the lore IS politics LMAO. PLUS trans people/lgbtq people existing is not politics! they are just real, not political!

It's fantasy politics. A fictional earth with a fictional political system. Everyone under one flag. That's the idea.

The devs said no to your real world politics. The community said no. Give it a rest.