Like every other Zoomer with an internet connection, for the past couple weeks I’ve been obsessed with the new video game Helldivers 2. Spiritual successor to Starship Troopers (the film, not the book), the game puts players in the shoes of a soldier of an authoritarian regime called “Super Earth,” which farms aliens for oil and uses sentient robots for forced labor.
The game was initially too popular on release, and so many people wanted to play that the game’s servers filled up and many people were left staring at a menu waiting to get in.