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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Happy Halloween, everyone!)
I might be behind the curve on this one, but ice are now using halo (the computer game) images in recruitment ads, and referring to immigrants (and people who look like immigrants, i guess) as “the flood”, the all-consuming alien horde who are one of the antagonists of the series.
Given how microsoft are happy to contribute to the development of the epstein ballroom, I can only assume that they’re cool with all this.
https://aftermath.site/microsoft-halo-dhs-ice-trump-flood
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A screenshot of a twitter post by the department of homeland security, showing an image from the halo video game series and the text “finishing this fight”, “destroy the flood” and a link to “join ice gov”.
Unfortunately, the music director Marty O Donnell (iirc?) for og halo games is a bug trumper and ran for office. And he made absolute banger sound tracks too!
https://www.gamefile.news/p/halo-ice-developers-react
Dev team leads at least denouncing it as the disgusting shit it is.
That’s depressing… I really liked the music direction of halo. It really stood out to me in a way that other games never manage. I can still hum the halo theme and a bunch of its score, but I’d be hard pressed to do that with any other game… I know the elder scrolls theme, I guess, but can’t remember much else about their sound design.
if you enjoy older elder scrolls music, don’t ask too many questions about jeremy soule either.
Not so much “enjoy” as “remember at all, unlike most of the other games I’ve played in the last 10 years or so”, but I take your point.
at least the dude who writes most music for elder scrolls online seems to be decent enough.
Well, as far as I can tell, we still have Nile Rodgers.
Master Chief, you mind telling me what you are doing on that ICE propaganda?
Performing the SPARTAN Program’s original aim, sir.
hmmm, gotta name my future scifi franchise’s augmented monastic space marin-time infantry supersoldiers THEBANs
(yes homo)bet they wouldn’t take kindly to Wolfenstein spamming in return
Yeah silence is being complicit in this case.
Trump also posted an image of him in the masterchief suit. Without a helmet. Halo is not my thing but I think that is a thing which is not done, like with judge dredd, the helmet stays on.
NB: a few cocktails in. Don’t really have a point here. Everything sucks, including this.
Halo: CE was written in the late 90s in the US, so it’s pretty clear that it exists as a metaphor for conflict in the Middle East. It’s initially humans (really space 'muricans) vs. the covenant (an ancient, religious empire with many references to abrahamic religion). The MC is a genetically modified supersoldier. Most shooters are fascistic military propaganda, intentional or no.
Bungie made Marathon before Halo and it’s basically the same plot - supersoldier aided/hindered by AI/s fights an alien force consisting of many “integrated” species. It’s a cheap way of making different enemies that are all antagonists.
OFC why the colony ship Marathon needed a supersoilder on tap is never explained. After a while our protag gets involved in a rebellion against the Pfor’s leaders and then we get Infinity which is just weird. Oh and there’s an eldrich horror living in a star too.
Hey now, it’s also a clearly copy and pasted plagiarism of James Cameron’s Aliens!
I got more “the thing” vibes, tbh.
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