Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-29326052-20161014235315/@comment-24024415-20161015224616

Brainulator9 wrote: The kill command isn't too gruesome, especially compared to everything else in life and the media. Such as...?

What story in the mainstream media could be equivacated to brutal decapitation or complete destruction of a person's head by shotgun blast? There is gun violence in the real world, yes; But these publicized cases are typically much less violent. Only terrorist group activity tends to be on such a level of gun violence and brutal execution. Which I may remark: being just as disgustingly violent as a terrorist group without actually doing it is very, VERY tasteless.



Why does this kill command offend so many as to warrent this thread? Because its a tasteless joke that is far too morbid and far too straight-faced to be considered funny. "Oh ha ha, you flicked me and I made a completely over-the-top reaction" is typically a funny scenario because it is a hyperboling of a minor act that has been used in comedy as slap-stick, typically toward a character that is annoying or flawed to warrent their treatment.

Saying how you killed me by blowing my brains out with a shotgun, and then brutally describing the violence is not nearly as funny, even by dark comedy standards. The resipiant of pain in the description alone has done nothing wrong to warrent the punishment, and that punishment is far too realistic to be considered a misunderstanding. It feels too cruel and ill-intented to make the retribution justified, and just becomes a very unnerving "joke".

One last point to consider: What if, by any slim chance, a new user was exposed to this directly? Without the slightest bit of context? With such gruesome detail directed to either the most confident person or the most crestfallen, it would not supprise me that this would be taken as a serious personal threat. Especially with PvZ's youth appeal, and them stumbling upon the Discord channel assuming discussion about innocent topics to be targeted by threats of murderer and terrorist-level violence!

I know that I sound like one of those people that cry out "THINK OF THE CHILDREN", but this command is tasteless, gruesome and uncomedic on a majority of levels that ends up disturbing the rest of the discord chat. It is not funny, it is disgusting. Just because other things may be more gruesome does NOT justify anyone to make threats of gun violence, especially from a user of ranking position that is supposed to know better to help nurture chat.