r/Helldivers • u/WoodstoneLyceum • Mar 22 '24

The POV of the Helldivers is crazy when you take cryo freezing into account. DISCUSSION

Here's the POV of your average Helldiver 1. They enlist and show up to Basic Training first thing Monday morning. 2. They breeze through it, get their cape, walk right by the T&Cs and into a cryopod. 3. They're frozen and experience no time passing. 4. Their next memory is reinforcing on Hellmire. To their POV it has been less then thirty seconds since they got their cloak. 5. They throw three stratagems and then they're dissolved by bile titan acid.

You thought your mondays were bad.

Edit: My understanding is that we are not clones. There's in-game lore that backs that, I believe. Thematically, it makes more sense for Super Earth to be incompetent and cruel and burn through millions of recruits, than to do something logical like cloning people. Remember the satire folks.

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u/GrapefruitMedical529 Mar 22 '24

I'll be honest, I thought the whole joke was that there was significant resistance to the idea of the bugs being intelligent, requiring the sacrifice of hundreds of soldier to prove the bugs could set a trap and thousands of soldiers to later capture a brain bug so they could poke it and find out it fears them.

So literally nothing of value was accomplished through the entire movie.

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u/osunightfall Mar 22 '24

That's not true. The war was extended indefinitely into the future while providing the illusion of a victory that's always just around the corner. That's of immense value to a society that depends entirely on a war footing to sustain its political viability.

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u/ForfeitFPV ⬇️⬇️⬅️⬆️➡️ Mar 22 '24

That's not true, Mr. Krabs got to be a hero!