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"I want to make a movie so painfully obvious in its satire that everyone who understands it lives in perpetual psychological torment inflicted on them by all the people who don't.”
Wellcome to the post-internet era, where u can no longer tell if that obviously idiotic argument was written by a bot, a troll, your average right-winger or a twitter justice warrior.
I wonder if when extreme satire flies over someones head, outside of not consuming the media critically enough, the difference between heavy satire and pantomime can be subtle. A quick example being One Punch Man, I'd categorize that show as a Pantomime of Anime Cliches rather than satire, as while its playing up the ridiculousness of common anime tropes, its clear it's doing so with a full love of the medium, and indeed the tropes its making fun of
I wonder if conservative fans of One Punch Man miss the progressive politics in there, too.
The satirical nature of Helldivers 2 is obvious, but in Starship Troopers the bugs flung a meteor at Earth which destroyed a major city and killed millions. I would argue that Starship Troopers has a bit more of a serious vibe with subtle satire, aside from some of the commercials like the one of soldiers giving kids guns. In Helldivers 2 the intro video shows that bugs are killing civilians, which could be true or could be purely propaganda. But yea, anyone who doesn't understand that Helldivers 2 is satirical is a fucking idiot. It all makes fun of militaristic imperialism, you can literally name your ship "King of Democracy".
Are you sure it was the bugs that launched the meteor
As per the lore of Starship Troopers, yes I'm sure. There is no evidence even slightly that it was done by humans in that universe. On the other hand, in Helldivers 2 the intro video is clearly staged and prerecorded produced by the "Ministry of Truth" with the statement "scenes like these are happening all over the galaxy" making it clear that it was a staged video.
https://starshiptroopers.fandom.com/wiki/Bug_Meteor
The bugs in Starship Troopers even tried to send another one which was stopped:
"Later, at a certain point, the Arachnids launched a second meteor towards Earth. Fortunately for the Federation, it was destroyed by a Missile defence turret on Luna Base. The meteor would have slammed into southern Africa, possibly at Cape Town. "
So the thing is that it's not just the movie and novels that should be taken as separate canons, it's the first movie and everything else built off the movie that should be taken as separate, including the pre release materials.
The novel wasn't a satire of fascism (and wasn't fascist either, but that's a whole other thing).
The movie was, but Verhoeven fairly famously didn't read the book, and everyone around him knew what "due diligence" means so they did the bare minimum, so all the other material built off it has a different direction.
That said, Buenos Aires was definitely a false flag/accident in the movie.
I don't know if you know much about space, but a small amount of energy applied to an object at a distant point can have significant implications for the trajectory of, say, an asteroid traveling through space.
We see the asteroid that hits Buenos Aires, and a Federation ship bumps into it in space.
It couldn't possibly have been on a ballistic path to take out Buenos Aires, that bump would have made it miss.
But, okay, maybe it was just lobbed in Earth's general direction, and that was just a tragic accident? (This is what the supplementary material goes with btw)
With what technology?
The bugs in the movie show absolutely zero technological use. Not one bit.
These are the questions Verhoeven wanted you asking. They're also the ones every other bit of material ignores, despite the clear criticism (if not actually fair to source) laid out by the movie.
That said, Buenos Aires was definitely a false flag/accident in the movie.
Not true.
With what technology?
https://starshiptroopers.fandom.com/wiki/Plasma#Arachnids
Not replying after this as to not waste my time.
Well, I can't say I'm surprised to find someone going to bat for the movie Federation despite everything in the gaming sub.
Got any opinions on how Caesar's Legion is the only hope for New Vegas?
Oof, looks like someone had a deadline looming and decided to take the non-issue of a few dummies lacking media literacy and blow it up into a full article.
Bruh the more light we can shed on media literacy in this election year the better...
I'm not sure its just that. There seems to be alot of discourse surrounding this game.
Do you have any thoughts about the topic or did you just want to be critical of the article?
Of course there's a lot of discourse, it's a popular game, it's a lot of fun and it's been a long time since something so high profile was also so over the top in it's satire.
Now I thought these comments WERE about the article, but if you want thoughts on the topic itself before you'll be satisfied, sure.
There will always be people who miss the point. There are people who unironically think Starship Troopers is the best thing ever and represents a model society. There are also people who honestly think Fallout doesn't contain any political commentary. There are people who thought SpecOps: The Line was just an okay modern military shooter. That isn't a flaw of the media itself, nor is it the problem of people who do understand. Dummies with a complete lack of media literacy or social awareness aren't a new concept, and the media they fail to understand isn't responsible for them. It isn't news that some people didn't understand a thing, and trying to MAKE it news is just disingenuous and reeks of clickbait and lazy journalism.
Thanks for clarifying your point.
I agree its not a particularly noteworthy occurrence, I thought your comment seemed kinda gatekeepy.
I don't know much about the game so I value your insight.