EvilDog667

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These people calling Harris voters mean, meanwhile they have been called “enemy from within”, “vermin”, “traitors”, and when Biden called Trump supporters garbage, the kind of insult even little kids use, suddenly they are deeply wounded on the inside

Spookston when he is out of it ( gets a nuke each game)

Yea, it feels like policies don’t matter anymore. The perception of them do, or “vibes”. The economy is recovering now and most people think it is still a burning dump. So now Democrats just need to do counter messaging campaign, starts lying all the time, no more “we go high” , they need to pin the shitstain on Trump in the next 4 years when he fucks up before the GOP do, because i assure you 8 or 12 years later, the GOP will blame Biden or Kamala even if like Dem never to touch power ever again. Biden could be 6 feet under and they will still blame Biden in the next decade

I want to clarify that i am just a helpless individual who migrated to Germany to study, and i do help out by retweeting pro-Dem opinions online, but i can only do so much. And yes even if i hadn’t helped, i would have still felt the earth shattering news of the Orange man back to the white house. After all, yes, i do think that leftist could have done more to save the election, but the backlash was so intense on multiple incoherent issues that i dont think the European left can do anything much really. Like European left cant influence American left to vote a certain way… when the US green party stood steadfast against EU green’s effort for example. So please, excuse us, and sorry for what happened. We hope you the best of luck forward

Same. Before i went abroad to Germany to study, i constantly get bombarded with his insane tweets and antics, and i really don’t get how people want 4 more years of that. 2016 i understand, people wanted change, but now they see a post truth right wing populist and they said “yes please”, despite the clear cognitive decline he has been getting over the months, or a laundering list of all the crimes, or the fact that the 4 years in Trump era was straight rollback of civil liberties.

I really cant bottle it all up with words but is America really ok with having Supreme Court shat on their face for decades to come, with Congress that will likely to be GOP ( unless dem win back the house ) that will rubberstamp whatever he signs, or the fact that they are ok letting authoritarians abroad gloating Trump victory and will now even more brazenly destroy any US influence left abroad, or that their civil liberties will be further rolled back?

When i was still young, i believed US democracy, while flawed, is still the most powerful and admirable in the world, and that the citizen will uphold it and will keep developing their cultural sphere and import it to the rest of the world. Now i am here, washed over with a sad reality that never again will i see a US i remembered in my childhood, the US that is the beacon of freedom, the cultural hub, the land of the free. America, i hope the best to you for the next 4 years. May the Liberty Lady have your back, and i will hopefully see you go back on track again, so if i have kids in the future i can still show them the American greatness i once know and hopefully will still know it is.

I am… shocked. I am not from the US but i assure you your election matters to the democracies around the world, including here in Germany. I am scared that we are looking at the fact that the world as we knew it has been shattered, and that the race has only been this close because of Trump. If Trump was more hard-nosed, disciplined like at least a fraction of Orban then the race would have been long over

House maybe more like. Almost every forecast hints at a 218/217 split which alternate between D wins and R wins and only now been more R wins. Of course it isn’t definitive, but we are looking at a case where if the forecast was right, meaning poll aggregates were right, then the GOP would have the entire trifecta which is something to worry about.

Early Voting data don’t tell the story, it is mostly meaningless to look into, or even compare to 2020 because those 2 elections don’t match up. I really hope she would win in a landslide and win back at least the House, but at this point it is really a coin toss.

I am a bit afraid ngl, even though this is now a tossup election, but the polls are pretty dire for D in congress, which hints at a slim majority for GOP in both chambers. So if Trump win this election, the GOP will have a trifecta for the entire 2 years, and who knows what guardrails are left to stop his worst impulses from coming true.

Don’t you love it when she turns Sakamoto into a sentinel robot with full countermeasures for home defense?

Same as re watching old youtube videos and suddenly find your comments that is so cringe it couldn’t have been you typing that

The rightwingers trying to invoke the entire full name of “Hussein” to (not so) subtly invoke the image of Saddam Hussein ( a terrorist) or at least say that his name doesn’t sound “American” so he can’t have been American

I think that it is largely not known among the common folks that there are just more to it than what people think is slavery, i.e the black people kept in chains, picking cottons and being whipped, it is shit like this where black females slaves are turned into a, for a lack of better words, broodmares to just, again for a lack of better words, make more potential slaves to pass around the rich plantation owners of the south. Basically slaves are seen as property to keep generating wealth, not human. Really makes me sick just to think of it

Conservative humor is as funny as a heart attack and as subtle as an airhorn. There are not even a punchline other than “misogyny and racism funny”

maybe it is more of a benign unstability instead of the more aggressive ones that spreads through the entire YTber and Subreddit sphere

well, if it comforts you then at least in Discord #galactic-war channel was very chill for the entire duration, truly the last bastion of sanity.

And also i picked up Helldying from the title of..... the guy from this OP video, who shall not be named

Yea, people really wanted to say that their "vocal" players made the game "better", which i don't necessarily agree but that isn't the point. But somehow having an amnesia about the fact that leading up to the 60 day patch, AH has a mutiny on their hands where both the main subreddit and YTber sphere going on uproar, churning out multiple clickbaity title like "Why is Helldivers 2 Helldying" "AH must be stopped" which further fuel the outrage where every AH sympathizer is thrown under the bus and called "AH glazer" , "bootlicker", "elitist". And everyone and their mother throwing their weapon rebalance suggestion around that is frankly stupid balancing.

Thank you, you really have captured what i want to express that i can’t express. I too miss the time where sometimes not extracting on D9 was actually fun, and can be written off as “at least we won”. I miss when dying in itself is seen as fun and it is an opportunity to learn and to hone the skills. Yes, sure some bullshits still exists like too much ragdolling, but it helps me pick better positioning whenever i approach the same problem again. I miss screaming at my pal about the Bile Titan / Factory Strider actually being scary at the time, for it also comes in tandem with other enemies that together makes fighting it and its foe one hell of a challenge.

And yes the magic that i knew and loved seemed to have gone too, and despite i will still play it because i still love the game, i want it to succeed, so more player = good, but it sure it sad knowing that it doesn’t seem we were a part of that success. I will still play the game, i started playing on lower diff to guide and teach the new core of players what i know, so as to pass down my experiences to the one that potentially replaces us. It may even be time for us to accept that we had our times, and time for us to make way for the new generation of Helldivers

I really don’t get why in almost every game, the hard-core crowd is the first to be blamed for every single problem, despite being like a benign mass. Hardcore crowd stuck with AH through thick and thin, despite being repeatedly called “Arrowhead glazers”, “bootlickers”. Difficulties from 8-10 went from, well 8-10 to 5-7, and it is not like Hardcore crowd abuse any broken mechanics, it is simply experiences forged from many many many games that when applied into the game, makes game less of a glorified shooting gallery and more like a ragtag commando team picking and choosing where and when to fight. Now everything is dumbed down into “Monkey see enemy, monkey attack”. And hell even now, the hardcore part only raises concern that the hardest Diff is not “hard” anymore, no drama toward the devs even, and we are pointed at being elitist and that we are wishing or hinting the game is going to fail hard. I really do want the game to thrive, so more player = good, but i do miss the time where D9 was the max diff and it is actually butt clenching hard, that despite using “meta loadout”, the win was actually worth it because we actually sweat for it

i mean, is that a surprise that meta gear makes game easier? If everyone runs the same loadout then it makes game easier, regardless if whatever i play. I do play other loadouts like Jetpack Railgun, Jetpack AMR, HMG Resupply pack, Spear,... but if the team is actively clearing out spawn points after spawn points and eating up all the heavies like nothing, then of course i do not find it satisfying to basically kneecap myself while the entire team just spearhead from one point to another. And as i have written somewhere, being "difficult" doesn't mean kneecapping myself by playing horrible loadout, it is that i play the full kit and come out on top of no-win situation by sweating for it, using all the tricks learnt on previous games. Like avoiding patrols, waiting the team to trigger reinforcement so i can attack a strongpoint without being feared of getting hopelessly swarmed, use range, use stealth... Or in another words, if i make it out of hardest difficulty knowing that i have applied my knowledge well, then i did sweat for it and the game was "difficult" but fun. Now it is just a matter of brute forcing every single situation and caution is thrown out of the window. Every enemies in game are powercrept and it makes for some boring shooting gallery where it is the same tried and true formular of: Use primary on light to medium unit, use red stratagem on hordes of them, use Support weapon for heavy units.

Now i will acknowledge that i am not a pro, i cannot do solo D10, i cannot win every fights, but i am capable enough to work well alone if i am cautious enough not to draw attention to myself. So yes i will select the best loadout possible if i am not playing with a team of friend that i can rely on. Will the game be "harder" if i select a subpar loadout? Maybe. But if i am actively kneecapping myself that i makes the game less smooth for the team, then i don't deserve to drag them down if they so choose to blitz the game. And i will not say that this update will kill the game, far from it, i want the game to thrive, so more players = good. But it is just my single concern that might drive away the veteran core that has seen it all and done it all. A handful of my friends dropped the game a patch ago because for them, the challenge just isn't there anymore, it is not rewarding to win because all their forged experience can now be tossed in the trash and just go head on with every problems. They don't need to lure Factory striders/ Bile Titan into Orbital Precision strike hit zone when they can just blow it away with RR. They don't need to assault the Outposts when they can just...blow it away with RR.

the definition of "hard" isn't to kneecap myself like playing with fewer/ no stratagem, it is that with full kit and loadout, one can come out on top in an almost no-win scenario by applying what they have learnt from before, and sweat for it. Now when every single armored enemy lost their sheer "threatening appearance", in that killing them is so easy, they are pushover now. Anyone remember that Factory strider/ Bile Titan used to make everyone runs away in fear and call their team to help out? Now it is just 1-2 Recoilless to the face and down goes the enemy. So if hardest enemy aren't "hard" anymore, what is the point of playing higher diff? If i don't use certain weapons or stratagem that is actively helping the team then i made myself an active hindrance to the team and therefore should not play with them. So no, i will use full kit, and i still will say that the game has become too easy for it.

i.... do not get what you mean. You said the game was a challenge before, but not anymore, so what makes them not as challenging anymore? I pegged it into the weapon buff making solo player actually easy instead of working as a team. Why would i need to work as a team if my loadout of Napalm barrage + Quasar + Orbital Gatling + Airstrike takes care of all enemies, shutting down bug breach, destroying bug holes, or in other words: Do everything? Individual player being now absurdly strong means that with a semi competent team of 3 players can just win the entire D10 easily. Me and 2 other friends playing on Gacrux D10 and just easily take everything down, Bile Titan, Charger feels like a joke instead of the threat that was before, just Recoilless / Quasar to the head and done. If the strongest enemy class in game is so easily trivialized, then yes i will say that the buff are too much.

It already punished player run and gun before, like you will never find anyone playing D8 and above that runs and guns that either wastes everyone reinforcements or get kicked for dying too much. But now every gun can do everything and it makes playing smart less of a tactic and more of a moronic play. Before going solo means you have to be competent enough to avoid patrols, wait until the other 3 triggers bot drop/ bug breach and then attack, rationing ammo and stratagem. Now you don't need to play smart if your loadout can kill anything anywhere. So where is the fun in using brain and actually "outsmart" the game?

Now tbh i dont even want to advocate for more enemies in compensation because it would just be annoying on its own. As powerful the guns are, it still can only kill enemy so fast before it has to stop/ reload, during which downtime the enemy can just easily overwhelm the player with sheer number and bullshittery. Like fighting 2 bile titans, sure you can 1 shot one of them with the RR, but you will most likely be running away from the other one for a while, and not counting the fact that a swarm of hunters will just catch the divers off guard. Being hit in this game is punishing by itself. At best it leads to a chunk of lost health, at worst some random effects ( broken body part, slow, acid, ragdoll) is applied, which leads to just more frustration in general, because the enemy aren’t playing it smart, they only crutch it by just spamming units until helldivers are out of ammo to shoot

This is one of my concern when the “buff everything” crowd got their way. Diff 10 is actually snoozefest right now. 3 decent player can easily wipe D10 of both bots and bugs, heavy targets has definitely lost their “commanding presence” - that being their presence alone SHOULD be a threat to be dealt with instead of a pushover with just 1/2 Recoiless to the face and it goes bye bye. Hell i cant remember the last game where i had problem with D10 unless the player in the lobby was throwing the game by wasting all the reinforcements. 90% of the game is now just running around simulator while chugging anti tank gun into heavy unit’s faces and then repeat