If you don't have enough money to LARP, you might want to become a Helldivers 2 player, because those guys are embodying the spirit of the satire-laden universe without setting a single foot outside. As evidenced by a recent Discord poll that allowed players to rename the city of Remembrance, which was reduced to near-rubble .

Remembrance shall be reforged in the fires of truth and democracy as the shining city of Gun. No, really. Just "Gun".

As you can see in the above image, Helldivers 2 players overwhelmingly voted for Gun to be a canonical city in the Helldivers 2 universe, and it wasn't even close. Gun received 82,188 votes—around 72.5% of total votes possible in a poll with five options.

In fact, if you add up all the other options, their votes come to around 32,250—meaning Gun was more than [[link]] twice as popular as an option than the four alternatives combined. I'm a little sad that "Winds [[link]] of Change of Tides of War" or "Peacebeacon's Bloodlight" didn't make it, but Gun is, by way of brevity, absolutely the funniest choice here.

I'm reminded vividly of when a cutting-edge autonomous submarine, used by the UK for some very serious scientific research, launched from the RRS Sir David Attenborough, was . Because the fine folks over at Southampton’s National Oceanography Centre made the similar, poorly-advised decision to open its name up to a poll.

CEO Shams Jorjani, donning his killjoy boots, joked in the Discord that he's still flabbergasted by this development: "I really don't know where we are with that. I personally hope we go the managed democracy route and pick something else."

However, he admits that "the people have spoken". I, for one, will be proud to spend my hard-earned super credits at the new metropolis of Gun. A city that I sort of secretly hope gets destroyed so we can name it Gun 2.