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Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 86 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

There's an EARLY mission in the GTA V storyline where you assassinate that universe's equivalent of Mark Zuckerberg with a literal phone bomb. As in, the phone rings, he puts it to his ear, and it detonates right there. And in the Doomsday Heist you blow up that universe's equivalent of Elon Musk with missile-equipped jetpacks after the dipshit tried to start a nuclear war with his super AI named Cliffford. I guess they're cutting it for using the real world names? Maybe people should be more creative and use a non-distinct name for him. Either way it's still a stupid thing for R* to censor.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Just call the target "Chuck" or something.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Chuck Kurk

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 18 points 4 months ago

Cuck Churk seems apt.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Barry Church

[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

"It was me Barry, I was the one who whispered to that crime lord to snipe you and pulled strings so you'd be forgotten instantly even with your followers trying to turn you into a deity!"

[–] warm@kbin.earth 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's gonna be the real name thing, honestly. But I do feel GTA VI is going to be a lot more "censored" than the previous titles, I hope not.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 6 points 4 months ago

Don't find out.

[–] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Guess they did that because the last thing you currently want to do is getting into the crosshair of the trump gov.

[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

They're UK based, they don't care. And if Trump decided to ban GTA VI from sales in the US there would be straight up riots.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 6 points 4 months ago

If there's not riots from what is already happening in the US, then there definitely won't be from a video game being banned.

That's a very out of touch take.

[–] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Uh, they're not, Rockstar is an american company, so is the parent company take two

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_Games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take-Two_Interactive