2021-5-21 my thoughts on 6 days in fallujah

[0:00 - 0:16] Good morning, good evening, how are you today?
[0:16 - 0:25] Now I just caught onto this a little bit ago but apparently there is a brand new game out
[0:25 - 0:35] called Six Days of Fallujah which tells the story about the very real battle of the Second
[0:35 - 0:40] War in Fallujah.
[0:40 - 0:48] Now if you don't know what that's about, it's now.
[0:48 - 0:56] The Second War in Fallujah happened during the Iraq War in 2004.
[0:56 - 1:04] Now as many of you are also very much aware, I am a military family myself.
[1:04 - 1:11] My dad was a 2nd Airborne Division United States Army Staff Sergeant.
[1:11 - 1:21] So yes, I do have a very rich military background with family and friends being current and
[1:21 - 1:24] former military.
[1:24 - 1:29] Now I noticed a lot of controversy about this game.
[1:29 - 1:37] A lot of people saying that, you know, it doesn't need to be released, it's not good,
[1:37 - 1:39] you know, it's too controversial.
[1:39 - 1:46] You know, and there's this whole thing where I guess the military, the US military used
[1:46 - 1:51] white phosphorous and some of their attacks.
[1:51 - 2:00] And here's the thing, this is the way y'all that are saying that it needs to be canceled
[2:00 - 2:04] don't understand, okay?
[2:04 - 2:10] When it comes to war, there are going to be casualties.
[2:10 - 2:13] There are going to be casualties in war.
[2:13 - 2:16] That's just a sad fact.
[2:16 - 2:20] That's just a sad real fact that you have to deal with.
[2:20 - 2:24] There are going to be casualties in war.
[2:24 - 2:32] Now what a lot of people don't realize is when that battle of Fallujah was going on,
[2:32 - 2:46] the insurgents that went in actually would use civilians as human shields.
[2:46 - 2:54] They would use these civilians as human shields to protect themselves.
[2:54 - 3:02] So a lot of the times when the US military used white phosphorous, it was not directed
[3:02 - 3:06] at civilians at all.
[3:06 - 3:09] And a lot of people don't seem to understand that.
[3:09 - 3:19] The white phosphorous was not directly used on civilians.
[3:19 - 3:27] It was used against the insurgents that had taken over that city.
[3:27 - 3:33] And it just happened to be that the civilians that were there got harmed by it.
[3:33 - 3:37] Some of them got out and were fine.
[3:37 - 3:41] Some of them unfortunately did not.
[3:41 - 3:46] But at the end of the day, war is war.
[3:46 - 3:51] There are going to be casualties in every war.
[3:51 - 3:59] No matter what war it is, if you're a civilian and you're caught in the middle of that
[3:59 - 4:10] war, chances are that you could very well end up dead.
[4:10 - 4:19] Now I have seen the gameplay trailer for it.
[4:19 - 4:22] I have seen reactions to the trailer, and quite honestly, I like it.
[4:22 - 4:27] It looks like a very fun game, not just as me being a gamer myself.
[4:27 - 4:38] Not only does it look fun, but I honestly feel like it gives people an opportunity
[4:38 - 4:48] to experience what it was like for U.S. Marines to be in that war.
[4:48 - 4:53] It shows people, hey, this is what we went through.
[4:53 - 5:03] This is one of the most brutal wars in history that the U.S. Marines have gone through.
[5:03 - 5:13] The second battle of Fallujah was one of, if not the most, the latest and most brutal
[5:13 - 5:24] urban combat situation in U.S. military history since the Vietnam War.
[5:24 - 5:30] Now me personally, as I said, I do think it needs to be released.
[5:30 - 5:38] I personally think it does because it gives people that don't necessarily know what
[5:38 - 5:48] it's like to go through these situations, it gives them a chance to experience that
[5:48 - 5:57] to where maybe they'll have a different outlook.
[5:57 - 6:01] So honestly, I think it doesn't need to be cancelled.
[6:01 - 6:07] I think they need to release it like yesterday.
[6:07 - 6:17] Put this shit out, release it, because if there's one thing I will do no matter what,
[6:17 - 6:22] I will stand behind our armed forces.
[6:22 - 6:29] I will stand behind our military as I am military family myself.
[6:29 - 6:35] I have friends and family that are military and I'm going to be straight up glutton honest
[6:35 - 6:38] about this.
[6:38 - 6:51] If you can't handle a fucking video game that touches on a very real subject, all
[6:51 - 6:59] you have to do is don't buy the game, don't play it.
[6:59 - 7:08] It's not that hard, you don't have to buy it, you don't have to play it.
[7:08 - 7:21] That's like if you don't want to kill people, if you don't want to serve your country against
[7:21 - 7:30] people that want to kill us, and you don't like violence, the solution to that is simple.
[7:30 - 7:39] It's called don't join the military.
[7:39 - 7:50] Same with this video game, Six Days in Fallujah, if you don't like the game for whatever reason,
[7:50 - 7:57] the answer is simple, it's called don't purchase the game, or if you're a parent
[7:57 - 8:03] and you don't want your kid playing it, don't let them get their hands on it.
[8:03 - 8:09] It's your job as a parent to make sure your kid doesn't play that game if you don't
[8:09 - 8:12] want them playing it.
[8:12 - 8:14] Flat out, playing is simple.
[8:14 - 8:22] If you don't want your child playing the game, then don't let them get access to
[8:22 - 8:23] it.
[8:23 - 8:32] But like I said, I agree with the release of Six Days in Fallujah because it shows
[8:32 - 8:36] people what really went on there.
[8:36 - 8:49] It shows people first hand the very real life events that went on, during that war.
[8:49 - 8:58] And dude, if you let me play it to you this way, if you're going to judge Six Days in
[8:58 - 9:04] Fallujah, then you may as well judge the Battlefield series as well.
[9:04 - 9:17] Because the Battlefield series has the beach of Normandy from D-Day.
[9:17 - 9:22] So for those of you that are criticizing it, how can you sit there and say this game doesn't
[9:22 - 9:33] need to be released when Battlefield and Call of Duty have done the same damn thing?
[9:33 - 9:34] Nope.
[9:34 - 9:50] Dude, the draft was over decades ago.
[9:50 - 10:03] But like for real though, if you look at games like Battlefield and Call of Duty, then
[10:03 - 10:10] they all had very real life events within the game.
[10:10 - 10:19] The Beach of Normandy on Battlefield, prime example.
[10:19 - 10:37] The wars that went down back in the 40s and 50s with Australia.
[10:37 - 10:46] There are many wars that went down that video games depict every day.
[10:46 - 11:00] So as I said, if you're going to judge one game, you may as well be judging them all.
[11:00 - 11:15] Like for real, if you're going to judge one game, you may as well judge them all.
[11:15 - 11:16] It's plain and simple.
[11:16 - 11:18] I agree with it.
[11:18 - 11:30] And I honestly, I'm glad to see somebody stepping up and actually doing something
[11:30 - 11:43] to bring real life situations and to educate people through those real life situations
[11:43 - 11:47] through the use of video games.
[11:47 - 11:50] I personally agree with it.
[11:50 - 11:57] So to the company that is releasing Six Days in Fallujah, I love it.
[11:57 - 11:58] I can't wait for it.
[11:58 - 12:03] I'm personally, as soon as it drops, I'm going out and I'm buying it and I'm doing
[12:03 - 12:06] live gameplay of it.
[12:06 - 12:10] I'm personally going to pick it up myself, but I'm definitely going to play the fuck
[12:10 - 12:14] out of it.
[12:14 - 12:24] And to the team that they are depicting in that through the Six Days of Fallujah game,
[12:24 - 12:33] to the team of six that they are depicting in that game, and to the real life field
[12:33 - 12:46] that did serve in that battle, you know, on behalf of myself, my family, and my subscribers,
[12:46 - 12:48] I just want to say thank you.
[12:48 - 12:53] Your guys' service means a lot.
[12:53 - 12:55] And I appreciate that.
[12:55 - 12:57] We appreciate that.
[12:57 - 13:04] We appreciate what you guys do every day.
[13:04 - 13:14] But like I said, man, to those of you that want to judge and say, "Oh, this game doesn't
[13:14 - 13:27] need to be released," as I said, if you don't want to purchase the game, that is your right.
[13:27 - 13:28] Me personally, I think it's a good idea.
[13:28 - 13:33] I personally think there needs to be more games like that.
[13:33 - 13:42] I personally think there needs to be more games where they bring up real life events
[13:42 - 13:50] and kind of show people what it's actually like to go through those situations so that
[13:50 - 14:01] people might have a better understanding of certain situations.
[14:01 - 14:03] I personally love the idea.
[14:03 - 14:04] I think it's great.
[14:04 - 14:12] Like, I've played games where they've had, you know, real life scenarios, such as, you
[14:12 - 14:21] know, the Beach of Normandy event on D-Day through the Battlefield series or the German
[14:21 - 14:23] War.
[14:23 - 14:32] You know, people can get educated through that stuff.
[14:32 - 14:36] So me personally, I agree with it, and I can't wait to play it.
[14:36 - 14:40] Like I said, as soon as it releases, I'm picking it up, I'm purchasing it.
[14:40 - 14:44] 100%, I'm going to buy it.
[14:44 - 14:53] And whether you like it or not, I'm doing live gameplay of it, like it or not.
[14:53 - 15:20] And of course, you can finally go.
[15:20 - 15:27] And here's the thing, some soldiers might not want to be reminded of that.
[15:27 - 15:28] And you know, and that's true.
[15:28 - 15:32] Some soldiers might not want to be reminded of that.
[15:32 - 15:42] But at the same time, there are some people in our military and within military families
[15:42 - 15:55] like my own that agree that, you know, it's a good thing to educate people.
[15:55 - 16:04] And that's what this game is all about, educating people on the realism of war, on the realism
[16:04 - 16:11] of real life events that actually fucking happened.
[16:11 - 16:20] And like I said, if you don't want to have your children or you play the game, the answer
[16:20 - 16:23] is fucking simple, people.
[16:23 - 16:25] This is 2021.
[16:25 - 16:27] Grow the fuck up.
[16:27 - 16:32] There's more controversial shit in Grand Theft Auto 5.
[16:32 - 16:38] There's more controversial shit in GTA 5 than there is in this upcoming game, Six Days
[16:38 - 16:40] of Fallujah.
[16:40 - 16:48] There is more controversial shit in other video games than this game that's being released.
[16:48 - 16:50] Prove me wrong.
[16:50 - 16:54] Prove me motherfucking wrong.
[16:54 - 17:03] I want you to name one game where there's not more controversy than the Six Days of
[17:03 - 17:05] Fallujah game that's going out.
[17:05 - 17:10] Cause I can name a whole plethora outside of my head.
[17:10 - 17:12] Prove me wrong.
[17:12 - 17:13] I'll wait.
[17:13 - 17:39] Were they on the name any?
[17:39 - 17:42] Didn't think so.
[17:42 - 17:51] Like I said, GTA 5 has more controversial stuff than it, than anything.
[17:51 - 18:01] I mean, come on, Six Days of Fallujah, you're going through a real war that happened.
[18:01 - 18:12] You're being put in the position and reliving and being shown a story of a war that happened.
[18:12 - 18:14] In GTA 5, you know what you're doing?
[18:14 - 18:27] You're running around, killing everybody, killing people, robbing banks, killing police,
[18:27 - 18:42] killing civilians, literally robbing fucking banks and shooting people.
[18:42 - 18:45] Now you tell me which one's worse.
[18:45 - 18:54] A military based game where you're being told a story of a very real battle so that
[18:54 - 19:01] you can be educated a little bit better or a game like GTA 5 where you're stabbing
[19:01 - 19:09] civilians, stealing their cars, killing police, blowing police up.
[19:09 - 19:14] You tell me which one's worse.
[19:14 - 19:36] Cause me personally, I say GTA 5 is worse.
[19:36 - 19:42] GTA 5 is way worse.
[19:42 - 19:47] Prove me motherfucking wrong.
[19:47 - 19:52] Prove me wrong.
[19:52 - 20:00] You boot up GTA 5 right now, going to any random fucking lobby, and I guarantee you
[20:00 - 20:08] 9 times out of 10, you'll see somebody pissing off the cops, shooting the cops, killing
[20:08 - 20:16] the police, killing a civilian and taking their car.
[20:16 - 20:20] You tell me which one's worse motherfuckers.
[20:20 - 20:25] Y'all that don't want this game to be released, I'ma say it now, y'all are a bunch of fucking
[20:25 - 20:26] pussies.
[20:26 - 20:35] If y'all motherfuckers that don't want this game to be released, y'all ain't got
[20:35 - 20:41] no goddamn respect for our military apparently.
[20:41 - 20:47] Apparently y'all ain't got no goddamn common sense.
[20:47 - 20:56] This game was made to be told with the acceptance of the marines that lived it.
[20:56 - 21:04] The marines that were in that situation approve of this game being released.
[21:04 - 21:07] They helped develop it.
[21:07 - 21:16] So that right there should say something.
[21:16 - 21:24] The military squad that was in that conflict, guess what?
[21:24 - 21:29] They helped develop the game you fucking morons.
[21:29 - 21:36] So if they helped develop it, why y'all getting bitchy and pissed off?
[21:36 - 21:46] It doesn't make no sense, but like I said, that's just my two cents on it.
[21:46 - 21:50] I personally love it, I'm personally gonna buy it when it comes out because I wanna
[21:50 - 21:51] play it.
[21:51 - 21:59] It looks like a good game and it looks very well done.
[21:59 - 22:09] I'm super excited to do some gameplay on it and give you guys my input and feedback.
[22:09 - 22:16] But to the marines and the team that did help in developing that game, on behalf of myself
[22:16 - 22:21] and my friends and family and myself, thank you guys for your service man, you definitely
[22:21 - 22:23] appreciate it 100%.
[22:23 - 22:35] But like I said, at the end of the day, if you don't want to get your hands on the game,
[22:35 - 22:42] don't buy it, plain and simple.
[22:42 - 22:53] If you don't want the game, don't purchase it.
[22:53 - 22:54] Plain and simple.
[22:54 - 23:03] If you don't want the game to be in your hands, you ain't gonna purchase it.
[23:03 - 23:03] Plain and simple.