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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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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah to be clear I played GTA 1, 2, Vice City, San Andreas and GTA 5, I have enjoyed the series immensely and it does have great biting satire of US politics, but it doesn't have a coherent ideology, the critique is rather one of pointing out how hypocritical US society is.... which is hilarious and great but the bigger and bigger the business success of the GTA series has become the more and more that has morphed into the series being edgey without being actually political in a subversive way.

GTA 5 had some great moments, there is some awesome storytelling in the GTA series, its just I don't think structurally it is concerned with being political, rather it is concerned with character portraits that encapsulate the hypocrisy, struggle and ego of US culture and the more mainstream that becomes the closer and closer it gets to "edgey without being political".