The Helldiver Corps - Helldivers Lore

[@LoreTours]

Who wins in a fight, a team of Helldivers or an ODST Squad?

[@collinthegamer510]

The helldivers obviously

[@K_Balu]

Helldivers quite easily

[@Sorain1]

That depends on if one of the Helldivers accidently drops a call in on their squad at the start.

[@BoyBacon5051]

I think ODST's. I don't know much about the universe but it looks like Helldiver's are the basic ground forces that are meant to be expendable. Seeing the large numbers in Helldiver deaths. ODST's arnt called Imps for nothing.

[@collinthegamer510]

@@BoyBacon5051 Helldivers are the most elite unit in the SEAF, but there is a huge amount of them so they’re considered expendable.

[@donk8961]

The best thing about being a helldiver is imagining my character as a white collar worker who went through a midlife crisis and believes he's invincible after clearing helldiver training in only 2 minutes.

[@LoreTours]

Ultimate self confidence

[@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing]

In defense of midlife crisis commandos everywhere....Johnny Rico's dad did join the Mobile Infantry after the bugs pasted Buenos Aires and his wife. In Heinlein's canonical book version, obviously.

[@EchoLeague2]

Lmao I imagined mine as a disgruntled school janitor

[@ZCid47]

and then he gets shoot in his first or second diving, like a real helldiver

[@anthonyortiz350]

​@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThingWait his dad survived 🤯 did they at least find each other again?

[@youthoughtaboutit6946]

Get the feeling that the vast majority of politicians in present day would absolutely support officially instituting a “managed democracy” if they could get away with it.

[@GusOfTheDorks]

Eh, wouldnt be that bad. 90% of this video was actually law shortly after basically everyone was given the right to vote in the 20s and 30s.

[@LoreTours]

Feel like the devs realised that and really leant into it haha

[@dominator146]

America is a managed democracy. We only have two choices when voting red or blue

[@HateMailPersonified]

I got news for you - we already live in a managed democracy.

[@adammauer6424]

Democrats been doing it for some time now , although most of us just consider it communism with a touch of authoritarianism

[@chumby2447]

One of the main reasons I’ve fallen in love with Helldivers 2 and Helldivers as a whole is because I KNOW that there’s more to it then is led on and that we aren’t the main character and just another cog in the machine, that’s why there’s no character creation, you don’t “respawn” another Diver is just sent to replace you.

[@heliveruscalion9124]

honestly with the cryo tubes i like to think there's a cloning system where you "are" the same person, which is why you have the same gear

[@seth12786]

​@@heliveruscalion9124if u leave everything default,you get a random voice from the 4 available every death

[@loganroderick4539]

@@heliveruscalion9124 I think of it more like your ship is like a regiment of Divers so you all wear the same gear.

[@barnstormer546]

​@@heliveruscalion9124It's so sweet that you think they care enough to clone you

[@TexGaming]

It's the same appeal that 40k has

[@dahSweep]

I feel like you missed some important parts here, mainly that Helldivers 2 takes place a century after the first game. After the events of the first game, Earth won against the Illuminates, "liberated" their technology, and used it to colonize the galaxy using FTL travel. At this time the Helldivers where disbanded and no longer deployed. It was only much later, when the previously thought to be defeated cyborgs came back (now as fully mechanized automatons) and the terminids escaped the oil farms and started wreaking havoc, that they were reinstated and brought back into action.

[@MisterZimbabwe]

Damn, the super advanced aliens with shield tech and ftl tech lost to a bunch of poorly equipped, barely trained, brainwashed space-americans?

[@dabbingraccoons6416]

Exactly

[@AC-iz7eh]

The aliens weren't a warring species like humans are so them losing is lore accurate I guess?

[@codyraugh6599]

@@AC-iz7eh also you can infer that their government is more insular and they are actually from another galaxy, so this is more or less their frontier rather than the core of their empire.

[@fashionsuckman4652]

​@@MisterZimbabwethe power of democracy baby

[@ribsi85]

I like to imagine the 5 minute tutorial at the start of the game is the actual complete training for helldivers. They're given a vague idea of how to use their equipment, told they're invincible and basically the best recruit ever by some mindless recording, and sent out to uhh... Be heroes.

[@OnionThyme]

To be fair, that is all the training the player gets, so in a meta sense, yeah, that's all the training helldivers get

[@someidiotnamedtricks6397]

Also to be fair, it's stated they are recruited from the other branches as well

[@lolroflroflcakes]

Technically if a helldiver is trained on the job the government can boast about the length, difficulty and comprehensiveness of the helldiver training program. "The Helldivers comprise only the top 1% of all applicants." The public doesn't need to know that the training program is actually just being deployed into actual combat, hopefully alongside a more experienced diver, an arbitrary number of times before you are consider to have "graduated" from the program. Plus it would be hard to train them for the sheer variety of tasks and environments they may be required to attend to in an interstellar war, its easier to just let nature take its course and you've clearly failed because you lack the qualities Super Earth expects of its sons and daughters if you get eaten. The cryogenic storage is definitely because of the sheer value of each individual helldiver and definitely not because the public should be kept in the dark about their untrained and inexperienced nature. After all look at how cool they look in the posters they couldn't possibly be cannon fodder.

[@dxun7596]

After starting the game, post tutorial you step out of a cryopod, when you join another squad you step out of your cryopod. Each time a reinforcement is called a new you is defrosted and dropped into the battle. That means there are thousands of copies of "you" in storage. The tutorial can be thought of as your first defrosting, to remind you of the basics. Each time you die you retain your memories and, are effectively an immortal being. dive, die, dive again, and again, and again until liberty is spread across the galaxy. My headcannon is that each "player" is an elite helldiver who has seen thousands of battles. Unless you didn't play the first game, and answered the recruitment call. Then you're a hero in training. I love democracy.

[@scoutwaffle6125]

​@@dxun7596 Nah dawg every helldiver deployed is a different person, u arent a single guy, u are an army

[@nonyabeeznuss304]

General Brash told me automatons keep eating his helldivers so I asked how many helldivers he has. He said he just goes down to the shelter and gets a new diver afterwards so I said it sounds like he is just feeding shelter divers to automatons and his democracy officer started crying...

[@maplemayhem1988]

Reminds me of a funny story about my neighbors cats

[@bumboy5348]

I feel like the Liber-tea line gets played 10 times more than any other voice quip

[@OPTIMUMELITE]

LIBER-TEA

[@dabbingraccoons6416]

I have played 8 hours and have not heard it yet

[@azulovesyou2]

I get it EVERY TIME I throw a grenade. It's so funny

[@itsniko9561]

It’s a grenade specific line So, respectfully, if you don’t like it: stop throwing grenades all the damn time

[@bumboy5348]

@@itsniko9561 who said i dont like it?

[@K_Balu]

The end seems quite undemocratic, i think the Ministry of Truth would like to see this

[@boxlions2073]

1984?

[@NekoLilium2012]

@@boxlions2073 Yup, and the game entry cinematic scene is supported by Super Earth ministry of Truth. It even showed it upfront in the very beginning.

[@hydrailce3404]

@@boxlions2073the devs set the year setting to 2084 (I guess that’s the first game so,Helldivers 2 is in 2184?) yep they know what they’re referencing

[@nathangarcia2356]

With birth permits only being for the most patriotic of citizens, I wonder if those chosen for helldivers are cloned en masse and that’s why they are so expendable. Also makes sense why they would freeze you rather than continuing to train their soldiers

[@LoreTours]

Good theory, would explain why so many identical troops can be dropped into the battlefield after getting killed by the enemy. Each super destroyer could just contain a giant fridge of frozen clones ready for deployment

[@PrimusValsar]

A breeding permit is like the 1 child policy in china, but on steroid.

[@tristanschmidt1239]

I assumed the freezing was for intergalactic travel though I didn't know how there space travel is

[@justaguy577]

@@tristanschmidt1239 faster than light instant travel, you can see it when chosing a mision in other planets

[@izaiaholer9876]

That theory is my head Canon lore. They'd have to flash clone soldiers at the rate they get killed then send teams to recover equipment if possible. Maybe the memories are uploaded in real time to a system on board our super destroyers so the clone remembers what's going on

[@jakejohnsen8626]

"Super earth is just propaganda" My brother in christ it worked, triple the defense budget

[@phiality9070]

based

[@codylujan]

when 4chan gets ahold of a game that is making fun of them

[@jakejohnsen8626]

Leftists be like "you don't relate with the brain sucking genocidal bugs? You're literally a nazi"

[@odsttrooper3724]

@@codylujanCry about it

[@Ben-ek1fz]

You’re both wrong^ lol - it’s not ‘making fun of 4Chan’ and there’s nothing to cry about. It’s literally making fun of US Military industrial complex and Military systems as a whole. Starship Troopers figured this out 70 years ago as a novel and 20 years ago as a movie

[@prastagus3]

I think "oil" in Terminids was retconned in HD2 to a rare resource that were used in Earth's FTL travel engines instead which makes more sense.

[@codyraugh6599]

Space oil

[@dahSweep]

Yes and no. The oil is indeed used for that purpose, but it still comes from the decomposition of terminids. That is why they farmed them in the first place, and it's from these farms where the terminids now have escaped.

[@codyraugh6599]

@@dahSweep before anyone "ats him" as has been proven recently it actually only takes minutes, somewhere between 8 and 30 for fossils to form under naturally occuring conditions such as those seen at a dam break, or sweeping flood. oil likewise actually takes a very short time to form, but we've all more or less been lied to about what Oil is (it isn't liquid dinosaur) it's liquid Coral Reef. The armor and excess meat on these bugs if it forms from something similar and they could grow, kill, bury and turn the bugs over "naturally" in a process that could likely start producing oil in as little as a hundred years... Add in sci-fi BS and all the bugs we see on a Helldiver difficulty drop could be made into enough fuel to supply a Super Destroyer for a few months to a year (assuming a similar mass conversion rate and that all the bugs are viable) within as little as a decade.

[@melonman2064]

Plus they look like shrimp and make me hungry, so I wouldn't be suprised if meat is used somehow.

[@SolyTheGreat]

i dont believe it has, think it was stated somewhere that once your done with a bug mission a cleaner crew is sent in to collect all the bug bodies for the production of that sweet sweet E-710 at all those refineries the divers helped to get back online

[@boltodj]

Feels like the love-child of the govt from Starship Troopers and 40k's Imperium of Man.

[@Mark-in8ju]

Politicians starting a 3-front war for personal gain, that is so absurd it is immersion-breaki... (looks at current government) oh wait... governments are that stupid and selfish. This game is completely plausible.

[@outrider8569]

It pretty much is. It so could be a battalion of the imperial guard.

[@arfbark3924]

It's actually really far from being the Starship Troopers Federation. The Federation is Libertarian.

[@PaleCrestedWolf]

@@arfbark3924well, yeah, but I think he means the overarching design. Watching the video, watch when they try to ram a flag into a bug dome. It’s basically like watching the extras do stuff from starship troopers. 100% this game is lowkey poking all the fun at the united snakes of America

[@arfbark3924]

@@PaleCrestedWolf I absolutely agree but it falls flat at the same time unless you acknowledge the inversion. Super Earth is Space China and Russia stacked up in a Space America trenchcoat.

[@brutalchaos92]

Been loving helldivers 1&2 but this makes me want a helldivers RTS

[@LoreTours]

Seems almost the perfect universe for a Halo Wars type game, or even a turn based game like XCOM

[@JH-gu4hj]

Helldiver's 2 is definitely an RTS, the only thing that makes it different to others is you're the soldier and not the one controlling the army lol..

[@explosivelemon8261]

@@LoreToursbro I want a halo game thats like this! All the enemy types are there, grunts, jackals, elites, brutes, phantom drop ships and wraith tanks. Drop in as a team of odsts or Spartans? Idk I think it would be so sick

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

@@LoreTours Helldivers is XCOM in real-time

[@Kyinuda]

Its not a rts in any shape or form ​@@JH-gu4hj

[@cadendains8106]

Ah, yes, the Starship Troopers method of not even trying to hide the real life comparisons with that CyberSTAN. XD

[@Alpha00Fox]

Just a heads up: Talking with the engineer tells us lots of lore. The Illuminates were sent to the far reaches of the galaxy, assumedly without any of that dangerous technology, because they lost and were pacified, the cyborgs were sent to the space mines to work forever, and the bugs were being cultivated on a farm until recently. These past 100 years since the war, with our breeding and experiments, has caused themt to be rather developed. They broke free. Now we have A.I. Atomotons, completly seperate from cyborgs, and the Neo Bugs. *ENLIST NOW TO PROTECT FREEDOM!*

[@sussysam2000]

It’s only a matter of time until those illuminate bastards return I reckon!

[@taalus2592]

Apart from the treasonous sedition at the end of the video, a great watch, especially for someone new to the Helldiver games. Thanks!

[@franciscoflorez1051]

This game is literally starship troopers, the video game, and im soooo down for it

[@Mark-in8ju]

Politicians starting a 3-front war for personal gain, that is so absurd it is immersion-breaki... (looks at current government) oh wait... governments are that stupid and selfish. This game is completely plausible.

[@theshitbagsoldier1169]

“This channel is being investigated for treason”

[@Ashy_Slashy3]

Never trust the traitorous hippie talk. For Super Earth!

[@A.Musing.Streamer]

Super Earth is 100% the actual Baddies...I love the Satire oozing from this franchise sooooooooo much.

[@fireball4429]

You seem quite undemocratic. might need to report this.

[@codyraugh6599]

I'm hoping for a fourth enemy race, a sort of mirror match foe that are just rebel humans, or aliens who fight in a very similar manner to super earth, using chaff infantry and drones to try and pin the helldiver's before their own helldiver equivalents come up from under the ground all decked out in specialized gear

[@Brotatoooo]

​@@codyraugh6599 or how about some rebels from super earth or even rogue helldivers

[@codyraugh6599]

@@Brotatoooo well rebel humans, since all of humanity belongs to super Earth, that would automatically qualify. But the rogue helldiver's would mean they'd have to have their own super destroyers, which while space station or ship battle maps where you drop onto that sort of terrain would be awesome. Giving them an alternative to recreate the super destroyer effect without having their own super destroyers. both to avoid "well why not just PVP" and to add a narrative feel that these guys are a truly rebel force using creative measures to stand up to the Super Earth government. It also lets the programmers narratively limit the abilities and animations of the Rebels to prevent any system errors and just the hassle of programming AI that is aware of and avoid bombing themselves like players do. Probably by limiting the support abilities to summoning turrets, weapons, gear, and assuming they already have them out by such a point, vehicles.

[@A.Musing.Streamer]

@@fireball4429 the SES Beacon of Self-Determination is not Undemocratic.......................................... would a bribe keep you quiet? lol

[@OmusKnowsAll]

Lore! I don't need to know lore. All I need to know is that, "I'M DOING MY PART!"

[@LoreTours]

The words of a true citizen

[@OmusKnowsAll]

@@LoreTours 🫡

[@LoreTours]

Are ready to enlist with the Helldivers?

[@cams7757]

I ready to enlist

[@NeocrimsonX]

I'm doing my part and angel's venture has been liberated excellent work divers.

[@chengdong4124]

I served the Super Earth from the HD, enlisting meself when the HD 2 released!!!!

[@thegreatoffendo4532]

Freedom isn't free

[@congnghequansuvn474]

Yes, for Space America, I mean Super Earth

[@jacknagel9387]

Helldivers after watching this video: "Hans...are we the baddies?"

[@Castitalus]

That sounds like Treason to me.

[@jacknagel9387]

@@Castitalus Have you looked at our capes recently? I've noticed they have Skulls on them.

[@K_Balu]

"Don't listen to him Jürgen, he is just a socialist bug lover"

[@comet3969]

Did I just read *T R E A S O N*

[@icecream3265]

@@jacknagel9387 That's for protection. Because THE EMPEROR PROTECTS

[@slymnasln]

I'm doing my part!

[@knpark2025]

Raising this question might send me straight to a MoT black site, but hear me out: Super Earth has FTL. But when Helldivers enters the bridge for the first time they do so by exiting a cryo pod. Why does my character stagger out of a cryo stasis pod if my character doesn't have to wait long for the super destroyer to reach the frontline? Why are there so many cryo pods in the ship? Why can my voice randomly change between two female and two male voices, as if the person inside the suit is chosen randomly from just four phenotypes every time my character is redeployed? Is Mars tutorial just a quality control procedure? Is a super destroyer secretely a clo- [message terminated - Ministry of Truth]

[@aidanedwards8931]

Treasonous

[@Mestari1Gaming]

Are the Automaton the next evolution for the Cyborgs?

[@LoreTours]

Could be a situation where they became more machine than man, and as a result could no longer be classed as a cyborg. Or could just be the Devs fancying a name change for them.

[@willvermillion1025]

@@LoreToursi mean its said in hd2 that the terminids are an evolution of the bugs from hd1 so its not a stretch to say the automatons are “evolved” cyborgs.

[@TheCRAZYEYES1000]

My guess is that the automatons are the cyborgs but after being beaten in helldivers 1 the "human" element was no longer allowed to breed leaving just the robots struggling to cope fully (probably why they seem more genocidal and dark now) @@LoreTours

[@justinroberts1290]

Yes, one line from the on ship NPCs in helldivers 2 talks about this, referencing the first game as the first galactic war, taking place a 1000 or more years ago if I remember correctly. Bugs are the same, just a little more evolved

[@Alien-oi7zm]

It's heavily implied - in the steam update by the devs. They state that the logo is very "familiar"

[@warneverchanges1114]

I’m soooo happy someone finally made a video ab this

[@TheSolarWolf]

Man the commentary of this series is just beautiful

[@TheCowboyMartyr]

We can’t be the bad guys because is we are then we’re on the bad guys side making us our own good guys

[@adrianl415]

I'm not an American but God dam this is how I see the world in the next 1000 years and it's glorious and funny at the same time.

[@TheNamelessTwo]

i am an American and god damn is it simultaneously hilarious and terrifying how many present day parallels you can see😭

[@nilodelmundo]

It's either this or the empire of man. Id rather have this

[@tevin4006]

Managed democracy sounds like if you suggest politicians to be represented by an algorithm off a social media website...Still democracy, just a messed up form of it.

[@maplemayhem1988]

The potential for corruption is staggering. Good thing my vote was cast with those questions in mind.

[@desertdude8274]

I'm going to report you for undemocratic thought.

[@SweebyMignonne]

I hope the luminids take inspiration from lovecraftian eldritch horrors when they come out in hd2

[@LoreTours]

That'd be a pretty awesome path for them to go down

[@alol441]

how many enemy factions are there

[@fashionsuckman4652]

​@@alol441there are currently 2 in game, I don't know if they are going to introduce more, but I Believe it's likely

[@snowtrooper1188]

Look at the map, there’s enough room for two more fronts

[@InspiringBard]

I don't think we'll be seeing the Iluminids again. But I suspect that whoever is responsible for these bots will come to fight their own battle soon enough.

[@Kingedwardiii2003]

Feels like if America went full warhammer mode

[@ADB_UWIM_2807]

Nice channel. Like the tour aspect as well as the narration tone. Ez sub

[@LoreTours]

Thanks! Glad you like all the theming :)

[@drysocks4412]

Those cyborgs seem like my kind of droids! The flesh is temporary, steel eternal.

[@nycto5335]

The more I think about it the more the flash cloning theory makes sense tbh. The math doesn't math super well when you try to come to the conclusion every single Helldiver is a different person. Like take into account the procreation permits and how depending on the requirements to qualify it could partially cripple the creation of new people to recruit. But the math not mathing is probably just a me thing. But yeah I wouldn't be surprised if this new Galactic War was just self inflicted. Perhaps in the 100 years of peace the Super Earth Council/AI saw more people "wake up" and what's better than a war to go through the youth population which usually is the most rebellious, stoke some renewed toxic patriotism, etc. "Nobody knows how the Terminids go from one systems to another" hints at the fact the Termininds don't do any travel and that every outbreak is just a Terminid farm messing up. This big Terminid infestation implies a lot of farms fell at the same time and all hell broke loose... but is it really that likely? I think the Super Earth government caused it all on purpose. Soon they'll do something similar with the Automatons (assuming they're definitely not the Cyborgs).

[@HongKongPhooey89]

The Ministry of Truth has been informed of your comment and it is under review for TREASON.

[@nairocamilo]

Citizen, be mindful of what you say... You know what, now I'm kind of on the side of the cloning theory... Although I still think the Federation might be overpopulated (based on nothing whatsoever XD), with the restrictions on procreation the numbers would immediately dwindle during any kind of War

[@what4521]

"I'm telling ya, the bug-farm breakout is an inside job!"

[@babygorilla4233]

That's really cool they remind me of the Sardukar from dune. Just complete warrior madman fanatics but these are being produced on a much more industrial scale. I wonder what the hell diver shelf life is if they use them as suicide squad vanguard then as long as they manage using and making them the stores could always be growing.

[@warmasher]

its funny the difference between the game and the book. The book is post apocalyptic war torn eradiated earth with only a 1000 souls left floating through the sky. And then we have the game where everything dies with Democracy lol.

[@WertzMS]

hey man, i don’t think they’re related whatsoever

[@warmasher]

@@WertzMS they are not. Pretty much the jumping out of a ship to a planet is the only thing. And well thr armor looks very similar.

[@leesnotbritish5386]

“Their bodies make oil” oh ofc they do that’s perfec

[@oniemployee3437]

I've had my fill of "humanity is actually evil" With 40k. Idc who we have to curbstomp, humanity in Helldivers is awesome! Especially compared to the hivemind stomach and the unfeeling robots.

[@jamesmoist1184]

"Oni employee" yeah that checks out

[@effive7817]

40k humans arent really evil... just a bit stupid and forced to fight a losing battle. Grim dark yadda yadda. Fundamentally humanity here is pretty similar in lore(delusional,manipulative,warmongering), it's just the universe is much less pessimistic.

[@72skci72]

40k humanity arent evil. It is just that 40k galaxy is so f'ed up.

[@romanscum5678]

@@72skci72 No they very much are evil, they really don't need to be as cruel as they are, to say nothing about the fact that the Imperium's own cruelty and ineptitude is the sole reason they still struggle.

[@blank4227]

humanity isn't evil in 40k, just because they make mistakes or have to do "bad" things to survive a worse fate

[@CozyBoat275]

*You had me at Democracy*

[@levibloong]

helldivers is the most american game to ever america

[@NCRVeteranRanger]

God bless Super Earth! 🫡🇺🇳

[@Bugman541]

*satire of america

[@dmaa88]

Very nice production bud, you got yourself a subscriber.

[@LoreTours]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it

[@TrilogyIV]

The satirical and hilarious narrative of this game harkens back to the Bush era. The parallels….“Hypothetical WMD’s”. (The invasion of Iran) “Terrorist cyborgs attacking our country” (9/11 inside job theory) and even the bugs being the enemy (yet they turn out to provide a vital natural resource…Oil. I love this game and I’ve only played it for an hour. Starship trooper vibes all day.

[@Agimam]

Helldivers is the Child of Starship Troopers and ODST

[@TeeTerr]

For Democracy!

[@condescendedwow4546]

"'Are we the baddies?" That is seditious speech, I'll have to report you to the nearest Truth Officer

[@katanafourzeronine]

Mom, can we have ODST? We have ODST at home.

[@dabbingraccoons6416]

Very different lore and purposes but definitely inspired by the drop pods

[@katanafourzeronine]

I mean, Helljumpers, Helldivers, there's clearly some inspiration@@dabbingraccoons6416

[@Burningpaladin]

Mr. LoreTours you have shown some veerrrrrrrryyyy undemocratic motives with that ending, I'll have to show this the the Freedom and Democracy Intelligence and Investigation Committee!

[@Elzippo1]

I thought the devs said that the Automatons have nothing to do with the Cyborgs and are completely separate...

[@Dustin-j3k]

Lolol love how you just take there side completely. Really get a feel for that lol gj

[@JoseTorres-ry9qe]

I did, in fact, liked to know more. You _KNOW_ PvP is coming right off that "Reproduction Permit" 4th Faction: The Insurgency

[@hunter2818]

The Devs have said they won't be doing PvP but I would bet money on an Insurgency faction in the future, Helldivers versus other humans would be cool.

[@Ghosties_Toastie]

As a warhammer 40k fan i enjoy the lore of the Helldiver games

[@icelltroo]

the video made me think about what is happening in the world of the game. What scares me the most is Helldivers' unhealthy attitude towards democracy and freedom. they extol Freedom and Democracy as a kind of religion and worship it. What if this is all a cover for something more sinister and darker in the future?

[@NaughtiusMaximu5]

really feels like a mix of Starship Troopers and 40k even the symbol on the armor looks similar to the Imperium of Man it really feels like its the start of 40K's Imperium of Man

[@someguyusa]

Honestly, a voting system that used AI questioning to determine what a person values and desires in their government in order to identify which vote would most closely match their needs and wants would be pretty awesome - if it could be designed to prevent manipulation, fraud, or whatever other forms of interference. There is certainly a lot of smoke & mirrors involved in the way current politicians try to gain votes, and the amount of information and topics to address are overwhelming for the average person that isn't dedicated to following current news, events, and politics - and that's to say nothing of the individual's ability to reason and think critically about topics while weighing social, moral, practical, economic, and philosophical matters simultaneously.

[@darthalba3785]

I left gaming for about 4 years now and sold all my stuff during hard times. But now I'm back on my feet and want to get back into my old hobbies but still put off gaming because nothing really excited me anymore, until now. Want to get my first PS5 now but want to hold off now that there's rumors of a PS5 Pro coming out.

[@fashionsuckman4652]

Id get a PC. Cheaper games, higher specs for less cost, and you have access to pretty much every game ever and a million more, you only miss out on PlayStation exclusives, of which bloodborn is the only one thats worth playing tbh

[@noah5664]

If only humanity could be this organized haha

[@firesocius9309]

Man, democracy is really the best. Thank you for sharing this video about the brave men and women currently fighting for the freedom of the people!

[@axelramirez7919]

Pure Comedic ODST's, Good Shit

[@rinardis6020]

its just so grimdark to see the number of several million dead helldivers on the bug side of the map, just for oil. disposable as the astra militarium from warhammer. but it also gives goosebumps ofc.

[@OziumG]

Spreading Democracy one payload at a time

[@JohnELPadrino33]

“they are not all that bad though” *raises super earth rifle* “as their bodies yield a high quantity of oil” *lowers super earth rifle* 6:48

[@zintosion]

HUMANITY NUMBER 1!

[@melnaisb6686]

Glad to hear that there exists atleast a single sci fi setting where the protagonists are fighting for the good guys! For liberty and for democracy!

[@s13g1313]

The video was so good, but then you ended it that way... I gotta report you to my local freedom officer

[@LoreTours]

It was all a test! You passed citizen!

[@ZenLopez]

I loved this video and the theme of your channel!

[@LoreTours]

Glad you liked it! :)

[@WertzMS]

I love Helldiver’s world because I hate super earth on principle and want to see them lose, but if they do lose it means there’s more missions to play through. I win both ways, like a true warmonger

[@CharinVZain]

My personal interpretation is that Helldivers are just footsoldiers recruited en masse with minimal training

[@SizzleCorndog]

The one thing I really appreciate about the helldivers is how macho they are, like these dudes are a perfect parallel to the marines after 9/11 when we went back to the middle east

[@insecurecow4419]

…does he know 😏

[@TotalGamer-gv4mc]

Can't wait for the third faction to make it into the game, and perhaps vehicles for the helldivers to pilot.

[@tomxaider2058]

Imperium of Man: Geez! These guys don’t even know the art of cannon folders

[@arianmoore4474]

Def a nod to the Paul Verhooven Starship Troopers

[@Cyberdemon-9001]

So, the devs confirmed that in the 2nd game the automata are not the cyborgs. The machines we fight are not cyborgs. They are a separate faction

[@Lazarultos]

Did they confirm it in an "out of character" talking to players as developers kind of way or did they confirm it "in character" talking to Super Earth citizens/soldiers kind of way? Because I've been theorizing that labelling them as Automatons is just Super Earth propaganda to hide their real origins and connections to the Cyborg Rebels 100 years ago and the devs are just rolling with it to manipulate our beliefs the same way the Helldivers' fanatic patriotism is manipulated.

[@als.c]

A concept of a rebellion, growing within the super earth's land would be smth

[@ThatDarnRedKhezu]

Comment under review for treason.

[@justrobin8155]

You were getting dangerously close to un-democratic thought at the end there, citizen...

[@OPTIMUMELITE]

Super Earth must be destroyed.

[@Alien-oi7zm]

@@OPTIMUMELITE ah a robo commie

[@dabbingraccoons6416]

@@OPTIMUMELITEthat’s very undemocratic of you. I am reporting you to the ministry of truth. They will liberate you communist traitor.

[@byronhenry6518]

“Every Citizen is given a bolt action rifle at age 16” Americans: HELL YEAH BEST SOCIETY EVER

[@SigmaForgeAlpha]

"The terminids are sentient" Dissenter propaganda

[@altaiir541]

Helldiver? Yes that him over there. He stains the image of super earth and it's fair democracy.

[@omegablackzero]

Automatons are not the same faction from the first game.

[@danielhardman234]

they are, theyre an evolution of the cyborgs, they even use the same flag

[@uhhhcam]

ykw i was looking this up bc a boy i like is obsessed with this game but the lore is actually interesting

[@Mark-in8ju]

Politicians starting a 3-front war for personal gain, that is so absurd it is immersion-breaki... (looks at current government) oh wait... governments are that stupid and selfish. This game is completely plausible.

[@j_rhyan1577]

this one right here commander

[@AphroLatinX]

Love the video about super earth and its enemies but don’t appreciate the propaganda towards the end tho, you sound like a socialist bug-lover

[@LoreTours]

Ermmm.... it was all just a test! And you passed Citizen!

[@solidboss1000]

So super earth is basically north korea, and the illuminate is iraq war 😂

[@Charlie.G506]

Ah yes, solar punk Wehrmacht with hugo boss designed ODST's, I'm totally down for this

[@sethraelthebard5459]

"Managed Democracy" is just a fluffed-up word for "Communism"

[@NCRVeteranRanger]

How dare you compare our fine civilization of Super Earth to those sinister cybernetic commies? I should report you for such vile unpatriotic slander!

[@someidiotnamedtricks6397]

That's not very democratic of you

[@NCRVeteranRanger]

@@someidiotnamedtricks6397 Agreed. We should report him for comparing our fine Super Earth to those sinister red cyborgs.

[@headphonedust]

Congratulations on having not only zero media literacy but also zero political literacy

[@kylerfox7177]

Nah, its quite the opposite. Managed Democracy is more akin to fascism. Military focused government that motivates its citizens with patriotism and an us vs them mentality. Dissension is punished harshly to force people in line.

[@benracer]

I'm doing my part! *Super earth salutes*

[@LoreTours]

FOR MANAGED DEMOCRACY

[@flaviusiacob1558]

Thanks for the video

[@sECUREij]

The price of freedom is steep, its a price im willing to pay-Captain Super Earth

[@EinsamPibroch278]

Idk I would prefer Managed Democracy: instead of voting for a candidate who tricked me into thinking he'd cater to my interests, i can instead candidly express my concerned issues, in which the candidate that best addresses my concerns is assigned my vote, through some AI or something. Most people really don't know what they want, or rather not know how to get what they want.

[@michaelmacleod6517]

I'd love to see an expansion or sequel where we could pilot ships. Super Earth Navy \m/

[@blackjack5908]

Remember: Service Guarantees Citizenship! Would you like to know more?

[@alexer52]

I love the smell of democracy in the morning

[@GelJNR]

It’s like starship troopers

[@samuelmartinelli7730]

Great video. Well researched

[@thedango6890]

Very well made, and scripted! Subscribed

[@LoreTours]

Thanks!

[@DeNihility]

On paper, Managed Democracy sounds pretty good. Most people have no idea what they're voting for anyways.