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abobla@lemm.ee to gamingcirclejerk@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

gta going woke

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gta going woke

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abobla@lemm.ee to gamingcirclejerk@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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  • GreenMario@lemm.ee
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    evil cops

    You mean cops?

    • darcy@sh.itjust.works
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      you mean good cops?

      /s ←

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

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

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

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      Which South Park game has this?

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

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        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.

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          I don’t remember that in either one and I own both…

          Maybe it’s time for a replay

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            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

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              No doubt… They were both super fun from what I do remember.

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    realistic american cops is woke now? get outta here

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

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      Check the sub you’re in

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        Me when I dom (I’m blind)

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      More like realistic US cops.

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    Didn’t they have those in gta3?

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      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.

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

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        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.

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      And Vice City, and San Andreas.

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

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      I always thought they were more aggressive with Lamar vs Trevor out in Blaine County. At least it always felt that way when playing.

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    That’s actually kinda awesome imo. GTA has always been a parody of real life; parodying police brutality against minorities might actually help people to stop and notice when it happens irl (assuming they handle it well).

    That said, and I might be misremembering this, didn’t postal 2 do this? You never saw it happen to you since the Postal Dude’s white, but I swear I remember cops would occasionally randomly arrest people who weren’t white. That’s not to say that Postal 2 is “”“woke”“”, it’s about as far from it as you can be; nor do I think that a lot of the jokes would land nowadays because some of the edgier ones were satirizing the politics of the time. However, I vaguely remember it having some really potent satire about society hiding under the crackhead edgy humor (the Postal Dude is literally a crackhead).

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    Woke?

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

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        Are people not aware that this is gaming circle jerk?

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          Also, as far as I’m aware, highlighting police brutality and racial injustice IS woke

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            The point is that it’s being used as satire by posting in a circlejerk sub, not that it’s being used incorrectly.

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        Shit. I don’t understand what it means.

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          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.

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

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

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            A bad definition, to be sure.

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            That definition is really helpful for blocklist curation.

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        So many people don’t understand what woke means that the meaning of woke changes

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        Name me one person or company that has gone broke after “going woke”

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            So you can’t name one, got it.

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                Are you gonna edit this comment as well once you get downvoted enough?

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      How’s that onion taste?

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      'n Boke?

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    evil cops is redundant.

    They could have just said COPS.

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      Realistic cops.

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

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

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      GTA London? What? Please explain.

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        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

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          Oh I had fun with that one. Never finished it.

          Had good multiplayer too if I recall.

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          Maybe referring to The Getaway- https://youtu.be/2CA8c-4jyQQ?si=oQFnKyP2R7RxU5ZO

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          I think I still have a copy of the original one but I wasn’t aware an expansion set in London was available.

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          https://youtu.be/drIQzu0R0FM

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

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

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

    They will have to catch me first.

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

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    This just in, GTA 6 will feature COPS.

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    Have cops pulled over NPC citizens in GTA before? Or is this hinting at a similar multi-character storyline like GTA5?

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      You could always come across chases going on, there were nocshootouts happening. But I don’t know if you ever saw the race of the npc.

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      I think I’ve seen it before, but admittedly I think my actions lead to the interaction.

      Ie: I was driving as one does hit a car which hit a police car leading to the civilian getting shot

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        Yeah I think I’ve seen stuff like that, but I don’t think I’ve seen an actual pull-over. Like a car on the side of the road and the cop walking up to it and issuing a ticket. NPC interactions have definitely advanced over the generations of the game, this might actually be interesting to see.

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    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.

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    What does woke mean?

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      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)

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        DeSantis’ general counsel, Ryan Newman, responded that the term means “the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.”

        But, yeah.

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      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.

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      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”

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      Alternatively, and one adopted by the alt medicine movement, new age and fringe groups, is to be aware of chakras, crystals aliens (Pleiadians, the Grays, etc) and other conspiracies. Basically to buy into the quack. I used to lurk those communities on FB for years often back in the day and was incredibly confused when people meant the other type of woke when the term gained traction.

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