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[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago
[-] PigPoopBallsDotJPG@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Is that before the big monologue on how he's going to build a gamer town where normies are not welcome, and it will be awesome because he watched a lot of Rust base building videos and there's this one bunker base in the shape of a swastika and he'll totally live there and the normies will rue the day they shoved him into a locker?

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Before, I think

[-] commiespammer@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

As a normie I feel excluded, why can't I join ender's gamertown sadness

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

That cringe epilogue where all the Epic G!mers federate and become the enlightened oligarchs to rule society from that point forward was incredible Great Man Theory brainworms

[-] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

It's a classic trope in epics and in history.

Reason there is always a lot of paranoia from political elites towards military leaders that return home victorious. Generals with a lot of political goodwill from the masses returning home to the imperial metropol with a loyal battle harden army high on a recent victory. Throw into the mix a sense from the military that the political leadership is ungrateful and doesn't value their sacrifices.

It's been around two decades since I read those books but at the end of the formic war wasn't the fk up when the political leadership on earth ordered all the commanders arrested immediately after the final victory over the Formics? Treating them as both a threat and a potential spoil of war to be secured. The preemptive move didn't just fail due to a sizeable percentage of the soliders at the facility turning their weapons on those sent to make the arrests but it had the side effect of radicalizing all the commanders. Even after the situation was deescalated and all of Enders commanders were safely returned home, the damage was done and they had been set on a course that would only end with the eventual military coup d'etat of earths political leadership.

[-] Mehrunes_Laser@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like the part when enders game gets up on a crate and calls all the girls around him slurs because they told him to take a shower.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago

"I'm random and say the must extreme things I can think of... That must be humor!!!"

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this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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