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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Did you miss the drug and fast food commercials?

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  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, the deug one cut off early… The fast food one fwlt like society has already passed that level. Like, it it was on TV I would accept it as a marketing campaign.

    People IRL know where meat comes from. It wasn’t like “hunt your own burger” - or “Now with the special cannibal beef”… It was Poe’s law, nothing signalling extreme parody.

    …they just felt like, ads.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh my. If you didn’t sense the parody in those ads, I fear that satire is lost on you.

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      • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s kind of the point of Poe’s law…

        It was a weak sense of parody. Like what are they parodying? That drug and fast food ads exist? We live in an age of Trumpism… People wearing gold diapers… You think I’m flinch at ads for drugs and meat?

        There’s no play or even pushing of limits there. There’s no spice.

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I skipped through it but there was a very obvious die hard inspired mission towards the end. I think that counts as a parody although it lacked humor in my opinion.

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• zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe the game itself is the parody. Like when Jeremy Strong’s character in Succession thinks he’s gangster because he listens to rap music and does drugs sometimes.

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  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t that the premise of every cop/drug movie ever?

    I kind of expected a game where you shifted between comedic versions of the current cast of social characters there are in American society today. Parodying all sides of poverty/wealth, woke and Nazis, Q-pilled Grandmas with guns, Tech Billionaires and fascists, gen-Z and gen Alpha and aging millennials… Hit us all up and make fun of it all.

    I’m betting there’s no ICE deportations, flock cameras, or AI bros in the script.

    Rockstar used to be a British company parodying America… Now they’re an American company, contributing to America’s corporate politics. That’s probably why this feels… Under done.

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