Envy

Comments

• IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A lot of Sweet’s characterisation is based around the idea that the hood is where he was born and raised, it’s where everyone he knows has always been. He feels he owes a permanent debt to the hood. Through gang warfare he has lost at least two family members and likely more friends. It’s like a duty to him to ensure that those who are under his leadership are taken care of and protected.

  Anyone who has played the game, though, understand that literally none of that happens, and that’s down to his own incompetence. He’s not a natural leader and totally out of his depth in trying to be one. As such, he has no real solutions and the Grove tears itself apart as more families see through his incompetency.

  His intentions are absolutely noble, but his actions are fucking useless.

  source

  • Samdell@lemmy.eco.br ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Something I couldn’t get while younger but now feel more understanding as an adult is how CJ’s successes are all out of luck, and how much Rockstar builds him - mostly by accident - to be a kind of class traitor I’d hate in real life. Everyone has been struggling with or against crime in Grove Street for decades, and he comes back for a few months and somehow earns a millionaire enterprise - without putting any real managerial effort into it. He just happens to meet people who will happily share companies and opportunities with him in exchange for a few favors.

    This is largely thanks to software and gameplay limitations, of course - Rockstar is capable of many things but subtle and nuanced writing isn’t one of them - that stop you from coming back and extending a hand to others (even if Sweet would slap it away) or doing real accounting and development work with your properties instead of just collecting cash, but still paints a picture.

    source

    • IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I love writing myself and I absolutely despise it.

      Not to send you down the TV trope rabbit hole, but I believe it’s “The power of trust” where side characters put unreasonable amounts of trust into a character they’ve only just met (Doctor Who is a bloody classic at this one), mixed with a bit of “The Gift” where people will grant the protagonist unrealistically generous gifts for little to nothing in return.

      And it’s not like CJ ever gets called out on the bullshit he does, either. The mission that absolutely stands out to me in terms of CJ’s insanity is the one where he straight up murders the construction site manager in cold blood for harassing Kendl.

      Sure, the part where you wreck the construction site makes sense, but to then bury the guy in concrete is plain stupid. If I were Kendl I’d be fucking horrified 😅

      source
  • cubism_pitta@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And by GTA V The Grove was taken over by ballers :(

    I know SD and HD are separate universes… but it would make sense that no matter what GSF gets pushed out

    Likewise, it fits well as GTA storylines never really have a happy ending

    source
• neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That fatso could have joined in CJ building his empire, but he sold out for hamberders.

  source

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the fatso was on it way before cj even came back

    source
• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  no wonder ryder and big smoke left his sorry ass to make real paper.

  source