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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

GTA going woke?

It boggles my mind that so many people don't realise the entire GTA franchise is a satire of American culture, by the Scottish development studio. It's always been liberal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

This just in, GTA 6 will feature COPS.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

But the "corrupt/evil cop" archetype is a staple in the GTA franchise. Remember Tenpenny? Is this just rage bait for right-wingers again?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

evil cops is redundant.

They could have just said COPS.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Realistic cops.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Just like GTA IV and V have right? ( neither game has that programed dispite that people insist it's in those games)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They could have just left out the word “evil” there.

Anyway, never mind that - when are they doing a modern take on GTA London?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

A GTA game without guns or cuss words would be pretty bland

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GTA London? What? Please explain.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

They are referring to the standalone expansion set in London in the 1960s for GTA 1 (the top down one), if I'm not mistaken

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

realistic american cops is woke now? get outta here

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

More like realistic US cops.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Hmm, it fits to the literal meaning, at least. If you are awake, you see the reality.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Me when I dom (I'm blind)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The real answer is just that it’s a blanket term used by conservatives to refer to liberal ideas. For example, saying that gay marriage should be legal makes you “woke”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To be "woke" is to be aware that things are not all butterflies and puppy dogs, and to acknowledge that fact.

In other words, to be anti-woke is to willingly chose to remain ignorant about all the awful things that are happing in the world, such as racial inequality, for example.

It's a good thing to stay woke.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The recognition that there are entrenched systematic inequalities based on bigotry in American society, and the belief that action should be taken to break them down.

Source : Ron DeSantis's lawyers (not joking)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In the South Park game the "difficulty" setting is a slider that changes your skin tone.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It's a fake slider. Cartman just say it will affect every aspect of your life, just not the game one. Still funny af.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which South Park game has this?

I don't remember it and I'm pretty sure I've played them all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Either or both of stick of truth and fractured but whole. I can't remember off the top of my head which, but it's definitely there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't remember that in either one and I own both...

Maybe it's time for a replay

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Quick googling tells me they don't affect gameplay at all. Being said, I really liked both games and wouldn't ever tell anyone not to get another run in

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

And Jew is a character class that starts rich, but everyone hates you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

you mean good cops?

/s ←

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like far too many people, OP appears to not understand the definition of woke.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Shit. I don't understand what it means.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Woke simply means being conscious of diversity and discrimination issues happening in your society.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Woke - Anything right wing politicians and media has decided to rile their base against. Defining "woke" any more specifically than that today will mean that the definition is wrong tomorrow because what is or is not "woke" changes almost daily.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

someone who is overly worried about issues like discrimination to the point they create their own problems would be one definition.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That definition is really helpful for blocklist curation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

A bad definition, to be sure.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Who cares. Ill be doing so much crime, them pulling me over will be warranted.

They will have to catch me first.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Didn't they have those in gta3?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Racism is an Easter egg in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto IV, and Grand Theft Auto V.

https://gta-myths.fandom.com/wiki/Racism

Sounds like this will be the first for racial profiling by police, well if the denial of it happening in V is true.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Sometimes, the cops will say "I only listen to white rappers"

I think that's very funny and poignant satire. It's racism of the most stupid and least consequential order.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

racism is an easter egg. wow never thought I'd see those words together.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm pretty sure this is nothing new for the series