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OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why would people want to role play as them? Unless they’re also terrible
sundray@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
FishFace@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
It’s news to me that GTA protagonists are typically upstanding moral citizens… I haven’t played GTA since 2, but I seem to remember going on mass killing sprees. Not to try and equate very different crimes but that’s gotta be at least in the same area code as mass child sex trafficking and abuse…
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Going on a video game killing spree can be cathartic, gross as that is. I cannot say I would be anything other than revolted by being presented with the video game scenario of getting into the shoes of an Epstein.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
It is interesting how sexual crimes are seen as so much more severe. Anything sexual really. Like, in gta you can murder, but fucking a prostitute is censored. Theres blood and death, but genitals would be too far?
Allero@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Hey, let the poor pedos get their share of joy!
Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Your comment implies that gta is for murderers
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah. Epstein gameplay is not GTA-esque (obviously) but is actually “ride a plane and make phone calls simulator”
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
it’ll be a crazy taxi simulator to the white house
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can do both of those things in GTA.
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That is the point of le mémé imho.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The main characters of every GTA game are terrible people though.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It could make some dialogue funny.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So you can get them killed in all kinds of creative ways, like they should have been IRL.
Asafum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My coworker outed himself as fucking awful. He was talking about the game and how he’s so hyped about it and then says “they even have pride parades, so you know what I’m doing!” and makes a gesture of loading a shotgun…
I figured he was that kind of asshole but he never said anything that direct before.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Bruh why do we live amongst such monsters
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Capitalism actively rewards sociopathy.
harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Because your village’s survival does not depend on them. Otherwise, they’d be culled/exiled long ago.
yilian@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
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WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Because you allow them to feel safe leaving their homes
yakko@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
So you were like "yeah can’t wait, I hope it’s also got food banks! Chk-chk! And daycares! Chk-chk! And churches! Chk-chk!
1984@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I mean, people do all kinds of things in games they never want to do in real life. Smashing up a parade with a shot gun would be fun. And if it’s pride, it’s even more fun because it’s just so wrong. You know?
When I was playing gta, I had so much fun just hitting people on the street. Who didn’t do that? :)
Dojan@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I get what you’re getting at, and to an extent I agree.
Simultaneously, to me it feels like there’s something off about being hyped up to specifically shoot up a pride parade in a game that has yet to be released. That feels very pointed.
1984@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Yeah I guess that’s true.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
remember how people were torching klansmen in rdr? this is an explicit response to that and it’s an advertising bullshit. that’s what it’s going to be
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
okay, so behavior in games can be assholey, like if you go around explicitly trying to ruin someone else’s fun. (i have this asshole [former] associate who was one of those foul everyone in basketball, play rogue in dungeons and dragons and steal from everyone in the party and start fights, and then cry “it’s just a game” when people got mad at them) but if they’re just running around in RDR torching klansmen, tally ho comrade i’m in.
iamericandre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Report that asshole
smeenz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Report him to who ? The DOJ is onboard with that now
nbcnews.com/…/justice-department-doj-pride-lgbtq-…
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Employer?
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Did you ask him if the game had mosques too, and what he would do with those?
Maybe the game should have a Jan 6th style mission.