SYABM comic 27 “Hands up, don’t loot”

I spent a disproportionate amount of time writing this comic, specifically because >Extra Credits’ actual video on it was so fractally stupid< that I went through four or five takes on it. In the end, I had to leave out the part where they go “think of the children”.

And talk about Geraldo Rivera.

I am not joking in the slightest.

The really baffling part about this video and >a similarly imbecilic article from Killscreen< was the fact that The Division just keeps getting misrepresented. For example, you’re supposedly completely unaccountable, but you can’t shoot allies unless you’re in the Dark Zone, where the brass can’t monitor you. Not to mention what’s going to happen to the President, politically, for activating the SHD.



The fact that there are literal secret agents embedded in American society should be morally ambiguous enough, but morons like Killscreen have to insist the game is a right-wing narrative from “Donald Trump’s America” where you’re a government agent who guns down minorities and lower-class people just for having the temerity to protect themselves.

There’s an obvious problem with that narrative, of course. Specifically, right-wingers are stereotypically working class people who own lots of guns to protect themselves and don’t like government interference. Oh, and the fact that most of the time, the enemies are almost completely covered up, probably to both save dev time, and probably to avoid any unfortunate racial implications.



Hence EC trying to backdoor it with the “hoodie = minority” nonsense. What, do they seriously think some redneck is going to play the game, walk down to his basement, grab a shotty, and then just walk outside and start unloading on the first person they see with with skin darker than an eggshell?

Older comics here. Chronological order here.