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OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Asafum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bruh why do we live amongst such monsters

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    • Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Capitalism actively rewards sociopathy.

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    • harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because your village’s survival does not depend on them. Otherwise, they’d be culled/exiled long ago.

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      • yilian@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because you allow them to feel safe leaving their homes

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  • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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!

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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? :)

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    • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah I guess that’s true.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Games are games. It doesn’t mean your collegue is an asshole

      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.

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  • iamericandre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Report that asshole

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    • smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Report him to who ? The DOJ is onboard with that now

      nbcnews.com/…/justice-department-doj-pride-lgbtq-…

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      • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Employer?

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• sundray@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Asked and answered.

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• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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…

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  • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hey, let the poor pedos get their share of joy!

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      • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Your comment implies that gta is for murderers

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah. Epstein gameplay is not GTA-esque (obviously) but is actually “ride a plane and make phone calls simulator”

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it’ll be a crazy taxi simulator to the white house

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can do both of those things in GTA.

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• nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That is the point of le mémé imho.

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• takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The main characters of every GTA game are terrible people though.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It could make some dialogue funny.

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• helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So you can get them killed in all kinds of creative ways, like they should have been IRL.

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