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The United Nations asked Arrowhead if it'd give a talk on psychological manipulation by totalitarian states (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by GhostlyPixel@lemmy.world to c/helldivers2@lemmy.ca

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"Actually, we got a message from the UN asking if we want to talk, in some form, about psychological defense against manipulation," added Pilestedt. This might all sound like the game is getting a little too real, but he said the key was in finding the right tone and using the imagery in an almost educational way: "We do it all in fun and good spirits, and we actually try to get people to recognize the science of what is a totalitarian state. If you start wearing the same uniform as everybody else and do salutes constantly, you might be in a totalitarian regime."

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[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Super interesting. I feel so weird playing this game right now with all that is going on in the world.

[–] CMLVI@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you recognize it as satire, then I think you have nothing to worry about. If you view it as a goal....

[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I get the satire, but it’s more like the game is all about “saving democracy” and here we are just sitting around playing a game. We should be really fucking saving democracy right now.

[–] GoTeamBoobies@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

I feel you. My job feels pointless, I just want to yell at the whole company that we should stop and go protest or something... But IDK if that would even do anything

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

Gimme that sweet 500kg IRL and democracy will be saved in 3 days

[–] CMLVI@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Oh in that respect understandable lol