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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OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Why would people want to role play as them? Unless they’re also terrible
FishFace@piefed.social 2 days ago
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 2 days 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.
Allero@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Hey, let the poor pedos get their share of joy!
sundray@lemmus.org 2 days ago
Asked and answered.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah. Epstein gameplay is not GTA-esque (obviously) but is actually “ride a plane and make phone calls simulator”
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days ago
it’ll be a crazy taxi simulator to the white house
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You can do both of those things in GTA.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
The main characters of every GTA game are terrible people though.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
It could make some dialogue funny.
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That is the point of le mémé imho.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So you can get them killed in all kinds of creative ways, like they should have been IRL.
Asafum@lemmy.world 2 days 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 2 days ago
Bruh why do we live amongst such monsters
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Capitalism actively rewards sociopathy.
harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Because your village’s survival does not depend on them. Otherwise, they’d be culled/exiled long ago.
yilian@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
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WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Because you allow them to feel safe leaving their homes
yakko@feddit.uk 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago
Yeah I guess that’s true.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago
Report that asshole
smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
Report him to who ? The DOJ is onboard with that now
nbcnews.com/…/justice-department-doj-pride-lgbtq-…
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Employer?
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 days 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.