not sure if my slop belongs in c/slop or in chapo so I'm just going to go for the latter.. Was hoping for a funny shitstorm of reactionary reactions @ .ml 2hrs after posting, but it seems like I am the 1 out of 5 lemmings in total across the fediverse that touched this game at all lol.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35492920
Parliamentarism/electoralism will not save you, it only serves to extend the misery on the Global South. I hope this meme is palatable enough to show you why.
May the Global South be liberated from the US empire and Western Imperialism.
sidenote: took me a fucking while to color-correct Heavy's shirt and banner, if looks too pink for you, you can blame it on my skill issue. lol.
I already had bad vibes when I saw someone mention that he's anti-Soviet. They made him an actual Tsarist sympathizer in the comics, too???
Tbh though, reading Saxton Hale beat up hippies felt viscerally uncomfortable the first time I went through the comics and to this day, after dropping it, I still can't tell if that was trying to make a dig at something or glorify real-world parallels of what Saxton did- and I'm not particularly interested in finishing it to find out. I'm not surprised to hear that it gets worse in terms of having gross shit
Maybe I was a bit too zealous in saying that, as I was just kinda going off memory. Sorry. I'm looking at several wikis, and they say his father was a "counter revolutionary" and was sentenced to a gulag in 1941. My bad for not investigating properly. It's still sus though.
A "counter revolutionary" in 1941 is sus as fuck
https://www.teamfortress.com/tf03_cold_day_in_hell/#f=62
it's alluded that Heavy's family killed and tortured communists, if I'm reading this panel right.
Also the achievement names and their respective criteria attempting at referencing USSR and communism are funny too:
https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/List_of_references_(Heavy)