So, not just mafia style monopoly anymore. Now also supporting facism.
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I hate this fucking timeline.
I used to be a Halo fan, Microsoft ruined it.
I used to want to travel to the US, MAGA ruined it.
I used to have ambition for the future, a bunch of crusty old fucks ruined it.
I used to enjoy life. This incessant hatred and uglyness ruined it.
Find your thing, mute the rest.
Big wisdom in this.
Don't assume it is "checking out" from society or taking the easy way out. The news will find you, don't worry. Plus maintaining focus on your thing is something that can take significant effort.
I have noticed that the smaller I make my world, the happier I am. My free time goes into my family, friends, hobbies, and pets (which I guess is a big subset of the hobbies). I think a big part of the benefit is not just focusing on the people who can have the biggest effect on my life, but focusing on the people whose life I can improve the most with my involvement.
Our brains evolved to keep tabs on our clan or our village, not to monitor the events of the entire Earth in near real time, as if we're going to do anything with that information. In fact, I think that "need" to be informed is often just an addiction manufactured by the need to drive engagement to validate 24/7 news as a business model.
Feel this 100% as an American though.
I was about to rebut the "visit the US" thing, but people really should wait until immigration no longer looks at peoples' phones or social media. I think I can still refuse as a citizen on 4th amendment grounds, but until that's extended to visitors, I recommend holding off.
Draft dodger say what?
Also, that flag would only have been valid for a week in 1889.
Probably because Trump gave them a $12 billion dollar tax break…
Edit: Billion
And all it cost them was $1,000,000 donated to the inauguration fund
Bootlicking cowards.
The CEO of Microsoft is deep throating Trump regularly. The company won't do anything.
... Did they not realize that the UNSC is an authoritarian fascist organization, and the Spartan program was originally aimed at fighting "rebels" who wanted to have control over the planets they lived on?
Literally the MC was kidnapped and experimented on to become a killing machine for the military junta for the express purpose of murdering colonists. No pay, no benefits, no end of contract.
also in-lore the UNSC nuked an entire planet because they couldn't stop a rebellion on it
https://www.halopedia.org/Far_Isle
Far Isle was a human colony planet, within Unified Earth Government space. The colony was the site of what is considered to be one of the United Nations Space Command's worst atrocities; in response to a rebellion in 2492 that they were unable to quell, the UNSC razed the colony using nuclear weapons, leaving no survivors.
Just like with Starship Troopers, satire like this goes flying over people's heads so low and fast, it breaks the sound barrier and loosens dentalwork.
Yeah. I'm waiting on them to show ICE agents as helldivers or something. That IP could not be more clear about it's parody of the far right "freedom" quislings.
I'm actually starting to think it's on purpose. Just like with spam email with misspellings and the kind of ear-marks that warns off smart people, the only ones left to click on "win a free iphone" are easily duped. Going after people that are drawn in by iconography and optics, but fail to understand nuance and the substance behind them, may be entirely the point.
I've been saying it for months, but fascists are "stupid" for the same reason Nigerian prince emails are always poorly written, and full of spelling and grammar mistakes....
Trump's tweets make a lot more sense if you view them in this contey
Beneath the layers is Microsoft allowing a fascist regime, that Microsoft donated money to, to use their IP in facist promoting material.
I look forward to the day Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Apple get broken up.
Where the Trump-as-Master Chief post is merely cringeworthy, the Homeland Security message is flat-out dangerous. Comparing immigrants in the US to a parasitic alien life form that infects and annihilates advanced societies is not deeply offensive, it's also rooted in the worst of human history: As seen in the untermenschen of the Holocaust and "cockroaches" in Rwanda, to name a couple recent examples, dehumanizing the "other" so you can more easily inflict cruelty, injustice, and horrors upon them is hardly a new technique, and the US government's messaging was not subtle.
You might think that using imagery from one of its best known videogames in a call to "destroy" immigrants would prompt Microsoft to action, or at least to express some small modicum of disapproval. For now, at least, you would be wrong: Rather like Nintendo, which eagerly picks copyright fights it knows it can win but kept its mouth tightly zipped when Homeland Security used Pokémon to promote violent immigration raids, a representative told PC Gamer that "Microsoft does not have anything to share on this matter."
Unexpectedly good political commentary from checks notes PC Gamer
Microsoft declines to comment
More like 'Microsoft approves of this imagery'
Silence is consent, be it from approval or cowardice, the outcome is the same.
I understand your outrage but silence is not consent. It is fear. Apply that phrase to any other situation where consent is required and that would be considered victim blaming.
Now M$ COULD be fine with this, we truly don't know, but they could also be afraid of how the administration would retaliate against them if they spoke up. I do agree with you when you say these companies are cowardly.
Lol, they willingly work with this fascist regime and others around the globe. Their silence is implicit consent, because a multi billion dollar company doesn't get to cry fear in the face of the governments they willingly work with.
Stop defending corpos, they'll gladly sell you to the government and tell your family they're suuuuuper sorry you got nabbed but there's nothing they can do.
They provided some insight to why they think MS didn't comment. Then agreed with you. I don't think they were defending MS.
The current government strategy of illegal use of copyrighted materials, often with the full understanding that the artist/IP owners will not consent to it should really have a harsher punishment to it. The DHS social media pages in particular keep using songs without artist permission because they know it will be taken down but by that point it doesn’t matter and they just steal another song. Given that the use of these songs implies tacit approval from the artist, this should absolutely count as the rights of the artists to free speech are being infringed upon.
Yeah it almost reads like Microsoft has endorsed the Trump administration and its marketing. Like a forced brand crossover. These things aid in the far right pipeline. Has young men thinking hating immigrants is as cool and mainstream as Halo.
Spartans were originally made to fight rebels.
also in-lore the UNSC nuked an entire planet because they couldn't stop a rebellion on it
https://www.halopedia.org/Far_Isle
Far Isle was a human colony planet, within Unified Earth Government space. The colony was the site of what is considered to be one of the United Nations Space Command's worst atrocities; in response to a rebellion in 2492 that they were unable to quell, the UNSC razed the colony using nuclear weapons, leaving no survivors.
Fuckin hell
Homelander-ass post

Even if I support the message: Fuck AI
Firework isn't consistently in front of the letters or in the background and switches between the two.
I was just noticing this before I read your comment.
Whenever theytry to make Pvt Bonespurs look “manly” it always looks so sad and desperate
...So you separate children from their parents at the age of six and abuse them? Yeah, that sounds pretty accurate.
Master Queef
Microsoft are a bunch of pussies also release the Epstein files!
Uh let's be honest here, the UNSC was straight up losing the war against the covenant. The only way they survived was to ally with them.
~~Microsoft declined to comment~~
Microsoft was completely OK with this
They are literally trying to turn Americans into the Covenant tho. Religious warriors.
Microsoft is a criminal organisation that thrives on corruption (no real action being taken with respect to anti trust proceedings is still relevant today).
Crime isn't only about someone stealing your phone, extracting many billion of dollars via oligopolistic methods of limiting competition and leaving people with no other option than to use their products (irrespective of price or feature considerations) is also criminal activity.
They are not going to fight the US administratorion on this.