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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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[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 56 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I guess Geraldo of Rivera is more familiar with The Witcher games than Halo games shrug-outta-hecks

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 31 points 4 days ago

Little known indie gem Witcher 3 with my favourite witcherino Geraldo Rivera

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 47 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Halo

fantasy role-play

Loool fellow-kids

[–] built_on_hope@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

yeah that sure was a collection of words

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 39 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Geraldo Rivera is almost the name Brazilians say as a joke for Geralt from The Witcher. I instantly thought it was a bit.

[–] CrookedSerpent@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

My mind went to the same place, no way hes named that HAHAHA

[–] BioWarfarePosadist@hexbear.net 44 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Lol.

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

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 39 points 4 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 4 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 4 days ago

Also everyone loved Arbiter???

[–] FedPosterman5000@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago

“Bork Bork Bork! Kill the demon!”

[–] QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 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 4 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 4 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

ODST: Confirmed Woke.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Halo 3 came out when Robinson was four years old, and the series hasn't had a major level of cultural relevance to his cohort.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 25 points 4 days ago

It would have been more appropriate to say Helldivers 2, since one of the casings had a reference.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 32 points 4 days ago

Assassins creed is right there, stg, fucking boomers

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 26 points 4 days ago

Geraldo is the funniest character FOX has ever created

[–] LeninsBeard@hexbear.net 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Whether 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 Slime Rancher and similar fantasy role-play than by substantive political discord. The game features pink slimes vs gold slimes. I'm guessing nobody wants to be a gold slime.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The common thread of every mass shooter is 100% completion of Popful Mail on the Sega CD from 1995

[–] PolyethylenePt2@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago

Whether 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 Bloons Tower Defense 6 and similar fantasy role-play than by substantive political discord. The game features monkeys vs bloons. I'm guessing nobody wants to be a bloon.

[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Is this dude this fuckin smooth-brained, or is it a front to keep his job?

[–] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No, I think he was really influenced by political Discord

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Cosmere-posting, in MY Hexbear? more-likely-than-you-think

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago

this is lds/fbi crossover posting zone now, where was brandosando on 9/10 in utah soviet-hmm

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago

TIL Geraldo is still alive

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago

hell yeah geraldo this rules

re-poison the boomers against gamers, split the chuds lmao

guy literally had helldivers logo on the bullets

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You'd think someone who looks so much like Wario would know more about videogames

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago (3 children)

What does Geraldo even think he's saying?

[–] axont@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Reading the tweet it looks like he misunderstood what "political discord" means and thought it meant more like political conflict. I think he's trying to say this was a dumb brainwashed kid lost in the fantasy of video games rather than any substantive political ideology.

But even that is an argument like 30 years out of date. Dude thinks he's Tipper Gore trying to ban Mortal Kombat.

[–] WildWeezing420@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago

I mean he’s more right there than most of Liberal and chud media. It’s an incoherent nihilist, not an organized ideologue

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

that in the world of azeroth people prefer playing goblins (grunts) killing humans (elites), and that directly translates irl #goblinmode

[–] WildWeezing420@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Trying to do a moral panic around Halo? He's like several decades out of touch at this point, hasn't been a relevant halo game in 15 years

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago

This may be the only silver lining of fascists running amok. Its a thin one but screw freeze-gamer sicko-beaming

[–] Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

literally the meme name for geralt of rivia

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

Alright, let’s get you to the funeral home grandpa.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Hey Geraldo go open Al Capone's vault again

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

So in this sick fantasy your grandma slaves form a pact with an elder god who summons demons that steal your cookie production, or so it seems. It actually allows you to hoard more cookies, thus proposing that witchcraft and pacts with Satan can be used for profit.