sorry but unless you prove to me the same cops that use the symbol are acting like the punisher and are a threat I have no reason to believe you.

As someone who deals with the military’s various branches:

Yeah we should ban all violent movies and video games also...

You should realize that the term “military grade” is all marketing/scare tactics. Anything that is built to “mil spec” just follows a specification so that they can interchange parts. A Remington 700 hunting rifle you can buy at the sporting goods store is “military grade”

I’m not sure what ridiculous shit you’ve read about our police. They sure as hell don’t carry military armaments.

Soooooo...that’s a vote for the long, slow, gentle ass-reaming?

Ahhhhh, it’s the ol’ “Hey, vote for us. Our candidate isn’t great, and doesn’t really give a shit about you, but he/she isn’t as screwed up as the other guy,” play. We saw how well that worked out last time.

The guy who designed it, Brendan Greene, is Irish, but I don’t really see why that’s important to the argument. Content is reflective of culture, in general. I didn’t say anything about that being strictly limited to national borders and national cultures. That’s a far too simplistic way of framing it.

There are much bigger problems. Actual gun violence. Poverty. Drug use. Gang violence. Illiteracy. Bad water.

It is really hard to respond to your comment here due to the lack of explanation and the cognitive dissonance that comes from that lack of explanation.

If you don’t enjoy the message a game is putting forward, you don’t play it. Also, games are an art medium. Sometimes, they go places that are uncomfortable because there’s an idea they want to explore. Imagine trying to defend a game like Homefront or Spec Ops. Imagine any kind of game that paints our military in a…

Have you read 1984 by George Orwell? If not, you need to. Immediately.

government regulating art, like the Nazis did. sounds great...

It’s not about preventing a game from glorifying violence, it’s about preventing a game from glorifying individualism. PUBG is a game about fucking everyone else over and coming out on top in solo queue. The Chinese government wants all of its citizens to be completely subservient and toe the party line at all times.…

The reason why it’s a problem is because, if the government has this power, it will never just end with “savory” conditions placed on creative output. It begins with something we all find morally agreeable, and then turns into far more blatant political programming. I realize it’s become fashionable to disdain…

I was of course joking.

Hey Wiim, just fyi, some jackass is making stupid posts under your name.

So basically you want censorship. Please think before you type.

I was going to say lets give him what he wants by arbitrarily censoring the media he consumes based on what we feel is best for him, but then I was thinking it might be better to just force him to play PUBG until it polices his thoughts into accord with our own. You know, like violence, but psychological instead of…

It’s not a debate tactic, I was literally struck dumbfounded, wanting to say something, but having no words. I’m still kind of at a loss.