Or, you know, get cheap AF and lob a Gatling Sentry onto the high ground along the edge and stroll through like the patriotic float princess you are, lobbing incendiary sweets at all the greedy bug holes along your parade route... It's like 🎶Central Park in faaalll🎶
They'd have to know what the concept of subtext meant first, and then be able to perceive such, before even beginning to understand the blatant (to most anytime else in the human species) undertones of eviscerating sarcasm.
I apologize if I gave you that impression, as that is incorrect and I completely agree with your assessment: the movie was a cult classic for many reasons that include it being just subtle enough to almost feel sincere but overt enough to deliver the cheeky dark humor that Heinlein himself was too fervent a fanboi to grasp.
While it is no secret that Heinlein was a closeted auto-fellating fascist with a fetish for ubermensch fantasies, neither is it argued that he was disingenuous in writing the book as unabashed bootlicking propaganda. His earnest attempt to aggrandize the measuring of individual citizens' worth by hardline nationalism, et al, is precisely why Starship Troopers is an unintentional satire.
The 1997 movie underscores this in its simplicity, and the chucklefucks described in the article above are yet more reasons why the rest of us need to be vigilant against the normalization of this bullshit.
I don't disagree with this synopsis, but I'm sadly unsurprised that your familiarity with the source material stops at the movie — which, in fact, was preceded (nearly 40 years) & inspired by a (far better) book of the same name from Heinlein. 😅😶 What's more, Helldivers 2 seems to take more cues from the book than the movie, and it does the original more honor than the cult classic did in '97, too.
Lastly, who in their right mind ever expects alt-right fucknuts to parse irony? Isn't that integral to their M.O., the consistent whoosh so frequent that it must be like white noise in their skulls 24/7? (Yes, there's a supremacy joke in there, but I'm too tired to dig it up)
I completely agree that no one's likely to get into "entomology" fights over mountain lions' scientific minutiae... because they're not fucking insects. 🤦🏽♂️
The fuck it is. There's no economy, simultaneous instancing, raids, rarity of weapons/armor/items/mounts, and the "DM" makes completely arbitrary game-wide decisions. Hell, there's barely even a "levelling" system. You high? 🤪
edit: not only is the "anti-cheat stupid simple to bypass, should you want to, therealconcern should be that it's a kernel-level invasion of privacy for no fucking reason... but who cares, right? 😅😶
Insofar as your point is a call to action for Steam's competitors to do better with their own services, I completely agree with you. Epic & OP are whiny bitches with half-assed output that expect to be taken seriously without putting in the work. 🤌🏽
Or, you know, get cheap AF and lob a Gatling Sentry onto the high ground along the edge and stroll through like the patriotic float princess you are, lobbing incendiary sweets at all the greedy bug holes along your parade route... It's like 🎶Central Park in faaalll🎶