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- Malcolm: Like it it is just shooting people, killing people in different game modes with those type of you hear the lines, right? you know, like like it's very you you you can tell like the people that made this game are not actually black people 'cause these are the most like exaggerated, Thomas: Stereotypical. Malcolm: stereotypical, kind of like what I imagine a a hood Thomas: Mm. Malcolm: black person or a gang or some a black person in the gang sounds like. Like these are very, very like Like like there's these are very extreme, I think, kind of like expressions that happen after you kill someone. and it's very Like I said, I think it's I think rightfully so. It's getting a lot of the criticism that it should be because I think it just kind of like it it just it just one, I think it sets up a very, very bad it just sets a very, very bad precedent. I mean not even precedent 'cause like people have been saying this and and pushing this out. Like even Chicago, I think like the the the violence has been dropping for the last like few years. I'd I'd like to think, double check that. But like this just this just like especially for people that who don't know any better. haven't been to Chicago, all they know is like what they see online. They listen to, you know, famous drill rappers that have come from the area. and that may be their entire kind of worldview of Chicago and of the city and of just like the black people that live out there. And you know, this game pretty much makes like all of Chicago. And I think it just sets it present for like all black communities and, you know, lower income, kind of like more, I guess, considered hood areas, as like, Basically making the whole city just seem like it's O Block. Like it's just constant violence and and gang war and and people fighting over turf. and it's like I mean, I get it, bro. Like I don't actually no, I don't get it. Like, I mean, they're obviously doing this to like, you know, get it make a quick buck off people being that pressed to play it and, you know, kind of like take take advantage of like you know, like what some people can may consider a joke. I think it's just like I I I'd be I'm particularly like more upset with some like the more popular streamers and stuff that are like pushing this stuff out there and making it seem like it's just a game. Cause I think when you reduce something like this to it's just a video game, it's just a game I'm playing, it's only six dollars, it doesn't really mean that much. Like that's exactly what the people that developed this game were hoping you'd say. They're they're hoping that you don't like read between the lines and see that like people are making like a joke in it, like a little they're making a game out of like some of the most like like s like something that literally sets back has set back our community like hundreds of years because like we've been brainwashed to think that like you know behavior and stuff like this is is okay for the sake of like street code and and you know just being where you're by being a product of your environment. So it's it's a little concerned, man. just how many people have bought this, especially like I'm I'm I'm especially concerned if you're a black person and you bought this. Call of Duty is one thing. I mean There isn't a a very there isn't an obvious, you know, like like like like you know, target of on one community or ethnicity in Call of Duty. Like it's just it's just shoot it's just it's a shooter, period. This game is literally it's literally just making fun of every single s black stereotype ever and putting it to a game where we are just like shooting each other casually. And there are just so many layers of issues that I have with that. and yeah. I think it should I think there should be a lot more backlash than than what I've seen online. But I said definitely curious to hear your thoughts, man. What you what you're thinking on this.