not sure if my slop belongs in c/slop or in chapo so I'm just going to go for the latter.. Was hoping for a funny shitstorm of reactionary reactions @ .ml 2hrs after posting, but it seems like I am the 1 out of 5 lemmings in total across the fediverse that touched this game at all lol.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35492920
Parliamentarism/electoralism will not save you, it only serves to extend the misery on the Global South. I hope this meme is palatable enough to show you why.
May the Global South be liberated from the US empire and Western Imperialism.
sidenote: took me a fucking while to color-correct Heavy's shirt and banner, if looks too pink for you, you can blame it on my skill issue. lol.
The Heavy is overall such a shame of character development tbh. He could have been (well, I say this, but as we all know, Gaben is a libertarian, but in a hypothetical alternate timeline) a Soviet uncle type character to the team, actually playing into his only hinted at communist sympathies. Like, he's potryaed as a "smart, well educated, yet silent and brooding bear". Instead, we have an anti-communist Russian guy who constantly gets called a "damn commie" by Soldier and Heavy can only respond by saying "I'm not communist, in fact, I'm so not communist that I'll cry about how my family were SLAUGHTERED by ebul bolsheviks!"
Like, they constantly redwash him, (new term, don't @ me) but in the comics, they feel the need to spell it out that he's not communist, but actively anti-communist and against the big bad Bolshevik menace.
I already had bad vibes when I saw someone mention that he's anti-Soviet. They made him an actual Tsarist sympathizer in the comics, too???
Tbh though, reading Saxton Hale beat up hippies felt viscerally uncomfortable the first time I went through the comics and to this day, after dropping it, I still can't tell if that was trying to make a dig at something or glorify real-world parallels of what Saxton did- and I'm not particularly interested in finishing it to find out. I'm not surprised to hear that it gets worse in terms of having gross shit
Maybe I was a bit too zealous in saying that, as I was just kinda going off memory. Sorry. I'm looking at several wikis, and they say his father was a "counter revolutionary" and was sentenced to a gulag in 1941. My bad for not investigating properly. It's still sus though.
A "counter revolutionary" in 1941 is sus as fuck
https://www.teamfortress.com/tf03_cold_day_in_hell/#f=62
it's alluded that Heavy's family killed and tortured communists, if I'm reading this panel right.
Also the achievement names and their respective criteria attempting at referencing USSR and communism are funny too:
https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/List_of_references_(Heavy)
yeah, despite Heavy being literally front and center on almost every TF2 related image, this character is a missed opportunity through-and-through, it seeps into the very design of his gameplay.
Your the slowest character in the game in a game where high-octane movement (save for the Sniper and Engie) can absolutely determine games, you're pidgeonholed into meta loadouts because your alternatives are so situationally niche that they only end up working for some gamemodes (Brass Beast and MvM) or are straight up downgrades (Natascha), and the only variety you can add to shooting a stream of hitscan hitboxes (Minigun) is by kneecapping and hemorrhaging yourself to using only your shotgun (Fat Scout).
Everything about this character is an afterthought followed by another. His only "saving grace" is him being overweight, so as to justify writing fat joke lines for other characters in the game..
Even his cosmetics and items barely have any references to Russian media, the most you'll get is a reskin, the "Iron Curtain".