u/sparetheearthlings

Please enjoy democratically.

MEME-711 stockpile (711 more Helldivers memes/reactions):
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPfwycpbJBXVfIuvyjxyK7eTyxNK8Khm19lN4w7SwYJwNHHZacRwG7hp0HXKR11vQ?key=cl9YSHJEX1g0U0Jhd2s2WkYyTVZ3OVVZVUZ0TXlB

Original MEME-710 stash:
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipM5MplQqEMg0onnFoPEddlCLLkc09nLAVi2_AETxSwBTd_5jctEsSFdKeze7wRLiQ?pli=1&key=NG1KaVVWY0ZZZFJwV0t5bjNSTndrQW5XaGRmVm5n

Yes there are some duplicates. Democracy doesn't have time for quality control. Thank you to everyone in the community who provided these.

at 12:40ish in the new patch notes video: https://youtu.be/sBuj4YR7J5w

Just look at this clip! There's no friggin way that I should be able to survive jumping into a warp gate with a jump pack while dodging alien zombies and a robot laser beam. Democracy protects??? I hate how unrealistic it is.

Everything was 100% believable and realistic up until I didn't die in that warp gate. Smh. Literally unplayable. Why would Barrowlead ruin a perfectly realistic game like this???

Democracy truly protects.

This shot of the floating eye reminded me of something...

This shot of the floating eye reminded me of something...

This shot of the floating eye reminded me of something...

My Democracy Officer is on his way, so I'll make this fast.

Tl;dr: Campaign rewards are the next Warbond, released one piece at a time. Actives earn the pieces free by playing, everyone else buys the finished bond later, and Arrowhead gets every single item battle-tested before it ever ships as a bundle.

Full version:

The theory

Arrowhead is releasing future Warbonds one piece at a time as Galactic War Campaign rewards. Active players earn each piece free by fighting through campaigns. Once enough pieces are out in the wild, the full Warbond drops for Super Credits so anyone who missed the campaigns can still get the gear. That's what "available at a future date" actually means.

The evidence

• Campaigns now run every one to three weeks with exclusive rewards for completing them. That's not a one-off event. That's a delivery pipeline.
• Arrowhead just changed reward eligibility so only players who log in during the active period get anything. Participation is the whole point now.
• They've been signaling for a long time that they'd rather ship fewer, better Warbonds. This gets them there without a content drought.
• Killzone already sketched the blueprint for converting individually released items into a full bond.
• Alleged Leaked Warbond contents look suspiciously like the exact items showing up as campaign rewards.
• Huge backlash over the two vehicles in Exo Experts. Then two vehicles quietly appear as campaign reward options and the next Warbond slips. Curious timing.

Why this is genius

Every item gets battle-tested solo before it's bundled. A million divers stress-test one weapon at a time, Arrowhead hotfixes one thing at a time, and by the time the full bond ships they know exactly where every piece sits in the meta. Compare that to dropping ten items at once and praying nothing is broken. We're the QA department, and we're being paid in guns.

It rewards the people actually playing without locking anyone out. Grind the campaign, the gear is free. Miss the campaign, buy the bond later and catch up.

It's a retention machine. Multi-week campaigns mean you keep logging in, which is exactly what the eligibility change was built for. Meaningful things to work toward, like Commissar Kai said in his soup video.

And it frees up dev time for the stuff we actually want. Fewer Warbond crunches means more big events, longer story arcs, and campaigns that stretch across weeks.

A potential flaw

Money. If active players earn the bond free, who's buying Super Credits? My best guess: the same people who always were. SC is farmable, so Warbonds were never a hard paywall. The real buyers are time-poor players, new and returning divers facing a back catalog over twenty bonds deep, and Superstore enjoyers. Campaigns keep the player count high, and a high player count is what feeds the Superstore.

There's also a sneakier version of this: campaigns drip the weapons and armor, but the capes, emotes, player cards, and booster stay exclusive to the paid bond. Actives still have a reason to spend.

How we'll know I'm not crazy

Watch the next Warbond. If it launches mostly full of items we already earned through campaigns, rounded out with fresh cosmetics, the yarn was true. Bonus points if campaign rewards start sharing a suspiciously cohesive aesthetic, because that means they were designed as a set from day one.

The problem: The tip adjustment on my bolt action doesn't stay fully locked in place.

I'll adjust the tip out to the length I like, and then over the course of a few weeks it will shift so it is shorter (poke out less) than I want. (see the difference in the picture)

My question:

Has anyone else run into this? And if so, have you found anything to keep it locked in place?

Some additional context: I fidget with the bolt all the time (thanks ADHD) and carry it with me everywhere. I also use dry lube on it every month or two when it stops sliding as well. Maybe some lube got into the adjustment mechanism?

I'm thinking maybe I just pull apart the brass adjustment piece and put some loctite in it or something, but I wanted to check here first.

What bugs me is I know its getting shorter over time and it feels like a ticking time bomb where at some point it'll become way too short. So I have to keep adjusting and keeping an eye on it instead of just writing with it.

This was one of my first dives with the belt-fed gl, and I remembered I could raise the rpm...

Diving with randos and I had the honor to start America's 250th birthday leveling up the Constitution with George Washington. Absolute Democracy.

And of course he had the highest kills and least deaths.

complaining on reddit builds character

O3 if you see this, I hope this was a disconnect and not a rage quit. You drove well and there was nothing you could have done to save us. o7

Plus, it was kind of hilarious to go out this way.

Scrolling YouTube for my daily dose of things to be mad about and saw NarrowSpread called us this. so mad right now.

I immediately came to reddit to share so you could be mad too. lets all be really really mad. that'll show them

I have a long corporate training today and all the corporate lingo reminded me of Marathon. Turned on the OST in the background and its much better now.

Though I do keep checking over my shoulder for cloaked Assassins...

After 2 years of hyperfixation on Helldivers 2, I have collected 710 units of MEME-710. Link to the reserves is in the comments.

Included some meme-stealing memes to honor everyone who contributed to the stockpile. All credit to their original creators. I didn't make most of these, I simply extracted with them to build a strategic stockpile.

I've added text descriptions to many of them to make them a little more searchable. Enjoy them in the name of Super Earth!