“Show me the champion of light, I’ll show you the herald of dark souls”

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I don't know how to tell you this, but Starship Troopers isn't just a dumb action movie.

Special circumstances, dude got straight As in school, don’t worry about it.

@@mutskun Alright, that makes sense.

True, though we see the war continuing at the end of the film, with newer generations filling the places of Rico and Carmen. Plus the propaganda at the end does state "they'll keep fighting and they'll win," meaning this war is probably not close to ending. "Everlasting" may have been a bit of an exaggeration, my bad. The federation uses the idea of the bugs threatening their "way of life" to keep the people angry at an outside enemy instead of letting them get angry at the government. I'm sure that if they did end up winning the war against the bugs, they'd just find someone else to fight. It's kind of like Oceania in 1984, constantly "at war" to keep the people focussed on outside threats.

​@@mutskun I'd point out that all forms of government talk about the 'outside threat' that threatens the citizens way of life. We pay taxes as protection against criminals (outside the war) that want our stuff, other nations (outside the nation) that want our land, and space bugs (outside the species) that want our planets. As for using external conflict to distract from internal conflict, Britan got into WW1 for just that reason; so, I don’t view it as anything more sinister that what we already live with. The fact the Federation is using (and needs to use) propaganda to encourage volunteer service is something we see mirrored in most of the western world. And unlike Helldivers means Starship Troopers more palatable to live in. After all, while the book shows Starship Troopers as something like a Natural Rights focuses Roman Republic, Helldivers is run by an Authoritarian Corporate Bureaucracy. (The Starship Trooper films vary in their depiction of the Federation, from Verhoeven’s attempt of satire that’s more parody, to Starship Troopers 3: Marauder a.k.a. how the Federation found religion.) But your point on what would happen if the Federation won against the bugs may be true; in the book the opening chapters cover a lighting in raid against the ‘Skinnies’ another alien species that fell into the bugs sphere of influence and are attacked in something like a proxy war with a clandestine raid. But the book also points out that when Juan Rico signs up the Federation military doesn’t really want more recruits, and is struggling to find some of them appropriate work to fulfil the military constitutional requirement to accept all volunteers. So, the veterans who control the vote in Starship Troopers may or may not vote to avoid further wars; so I’m not sure I agree with the comparison to Oceania or 1984. The fact that the events and world in the book, and movies differ so greatly certainly only confuses things further.

@@mutskunBut they aren't using the "at war" to keep people focused on outside threats. Most people do not want to sign up for military service and they do not have to. If we are just going on the first movie then you can see that the government takes responsibility for the disastrous invasion. The head of the military even steps down to be replaced and a new strategy is adopted. They are literally not fascist in the least with people like Rico's parents being able to entirely distance themselves from the political side of things and be openly anti-war. If your analysis is only "they have propaganda and grey uniforms" then that's pretty shallow since every society has propaganda trying to convince people to volunteer for service. They were literally recruitment ads like in modern day for the military of any country. It was literally a liberal democracy with limited suffrage. It was so equal that men and women were able to shower together without any sort of problems. The big problem with the movie is that the director did not read the book, made it so that a liberal democracy was fighting an existential threat, and the humans were all portrayed as very good people. If you are going to look at the books then the original military government was created in response to a coup by intellectuals and scientists that failed. Before the coup that tried to establish a technocracy, the world was falling apart because the laws became too liberal when it came to dealing with children. Without structure and boundaries, gangs of under 18s were terrorizing the streets until they would turn 18 and be tossed in prison or executed. The government was openly against people joining since they only had so many useful slots to fill. Rico in the books only qualified for two things K9 training and mobile infantry. Dogs hated him so that left one option for him. He started with something like 2000 people in his training group and they ended with like 200. This world wasn't without issue, some people who washed out did attack those who were serving later in the book and there was some apparent animosity between the people who were not citizens and those who were, at least on the fringes. The thing is that the soldiers who beat up the men later were the ones punished since citizens were held to a higher standard than civilians. This fits in with the idea that those who are supposed to govern need to be held accountable just like the scene in the movie when the head of the military steps down. If your point is that neither have universal suffrage, that's a fair critique. They were not supposed to be entirely fair for the people who did not want serve since the point of governance according to each system is to be of service to those you are governing.

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As someone who went to a pretty prestigious game development school for a couple of years, this topic is still very much discussed and there were several students there who disagreed with games being art. If you hear someone make an argument against games being art, you should take them seriously and either accept their opinion or try and debate it (in a friendly way) I did my research for this video, and there are definitely still people who don’t see games as art (at least the big AAA titles)

I agree that there are still tons of people that feel that way, but there are also still millions of people who get angry at Duchamp's 'Fountain' and point to it as an example of the degradation of "art" in the modern era, both completely missing the point, and trying to use it as a bludgeon against their subjective disinterest in certain themes, topics, or mediums being explored. What art is to any given person is subjective, and arguing for or against that doesn't go anywhere. Exploring a topic, and expanding upon what it means to you is a great way of potentially bringing people around to your way of thinking, which is exactly what you did in this video. I don't think you're wrong in your approach, but you do cheapen it by pointing to a pretty tired and meaningless argument that people only frame in the way of "are games art" as a bad-faith way of bringing up drawing comparisons to what they do consider "art". I hope that makes sense, I don't disagree with your video, or your argument, I just think the title reduces it to less than what it is.@@mutskun

also "as someone who went to a pretty prestigious game development school" doesn't really mean much to random people on the internet, it just makes you sound like an ass.@@mutskun

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Thanks for this, love me some constructive criticism. I guess simplifying some of the concepts to get it into a ~40min format did make me leave out some details. Didn't know the stuff about dr. Bright, thx for the info. I'll let you know that I don't have any more SCP content planned for now (want to talk about a bunch of other topics first) but I definitely want to dive a bit deeper into certain SCPs at some point. Glad you liked the video!

You're welcome. I look forward to your future content

More coming soon, just you wait!

where did you get your phd in Enby? (:

@@heliveruscalion9124 They were handing those out at the annual gay agenda meetings :)

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