Reddit reviews The Warning Label Book: Warning: Reading This Book May Cause Spontaneous, Uncontrollable Laughter

I think you have to give people a certain degree of credit for "assumed basic common sense". I don't know if you've ever read this, but it's hilarious. There are tool companies putting warning labels on hammers saying "do not use to strike any solid object". On a hammer. Warning labels on packets of salt not to put it in your eyes, warning labels on lighters that "flame may cause fire", warning labels on urinal cakes not to eat them, warning labels on superhero Halloween costumes that WEARING THEM WILL NOT GIVE YOU REAL SUPER POWERS!

Actual labels on actual products that got put there because the company is terrified somebody will do something COLOSSALLY DUMB and then sue them. And I don't wanna see that attitude come to the arts, where one person's stupidity becomes everybody else's problem and "this is why we can't have nice things".

So sure, if a game, or any other piece of media, is making big pretensions about its authenticity and how it's "ripped from the lost pages of history" and so forth claiming to be accurate, and it's NOT, it's totally reasonable to say, as it would be to say to anybody else spouting bullshit, "hey, stop spreading misinformation!", but the rest of the time, if you're playing Civ or COD or watching fucking Aladdin or whatever, you HAVE to realize that you're getting the theme park version of an event or a culture or whatever else, not reading a history textbook. And if somebody is dumb enough to get their impressions about what other cultures are like, or what groups are moral or whatever from such media, that is clearly neither real nor reflective of reality, we as a society have to be willing to say to them "that was YOUR problem. The work doesn't need to come with warning labels".