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tweet by geraldo riveraWhether Tyler Robinson faces a firing squad in Utah for the murder of Charlie Kirk, my guess is the accused killer will probably have been motivated more by Halo and similar fantasy role-play than by substantive political discord. The game features Grunts vs Elites. I’m guessing nobody wants to be an elite.

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[–] BioWarfarePosadist@hexbear.net 44 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Lol.

Elites and grunts were on the same side, for the most part.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 39 points 6 days ago (3 children)

And plenty of people wanted to be an elite judging by how popular elite skins were online.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 29 points 6 days ago

They're gnarly looking aliens with energy swords and guns that shoot exploding astrology mood ring crystals, thats hella sick

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 29 points 6 days ago

Also everyone loved Arbiter???

[–] FedPosterman5000@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

“Bork Bork Bork! Kill the demon!”

[–] QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I think he is assuming Halo was a game where the grunts were good guys and only the elites were evil enemies, you know, because in real life the elite are always so persecuted and made out to be the bad guys by all the lazy poor people. Thats why he says "grunts vs elites," not realizing they were both antagonists as members of a religious zealot alien empire (which was actually coded in such a way as to at least somewhat play into Islamophobia) being fought by the righteous American special-forces-coded protagonist. Seriously I bet he thinks it was a class war styled video game and he's "guessing no one wanted to be an elite" because he thinks they were probably the baddies, made that way by woke game developers to malign the hard working ultra-rich job creator class who the dirty proles will call "elite" as a pejorative.

Or I dont know, maybe I'm way off and that's not what he's saying, but knowing how this bootlicking wannabe-intellectual chud has presented himself in the past as a warrior for the persecuted rich, it seems to fit with this word salad of ignorance and cringe.

[–] falgscode@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

being fought by the righteous American special-forces-coded protagonist

so wild what a mismatch the game is to the lore prequel they had eric nylund write lol

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I guess the sci-fi marine guys/regular infantry guys with space guns are technically grunts, but you can't play as them lol

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