Ethical? perhaps. Fanning the flame? definitely.
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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.
Just call the target "Chuck" or something.
Chuck Kurk
Cuck Churk seems apt.
Barry Church
"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!"
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.
Don't find out.
Guess they did that because the last thing you currently want to do is getting into the crosshair of the trump gov.
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.
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.
Uh, they're not, Rockstar is an american company, so is the parent company take two
I thought I'd never hear a reason to make me want to pay GTA Online
Rockstar has always wanted to be edgey without "being political" and I think this is unfortunately the natural end result of that being applied to an ever bigger and bigger business model, an empty mirror of the worst of US culture without any courage even to grapple with it.
The difference between Charlie Kirk and a Charlie Kirk community mission in GTA is Charlie Kirk advocated for real violence, harassment and oppression with his platform whereas GTA is a fantasy video game.
Rockstar has always wanted to be edgey without "being political"
Lol. The games have always been a satire of American politics and culture. This post has strong "I liked RATM/Star Trek before it was political" energy.
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".
I think this has to do more with real world names. In both GTA V and GTA Online you kill the equivalent of big CEOs, with the original singleplayer having an early mission where you kill Temu Mark Zuckerberg with a phone bomb, and in Online during the Doomsday Heist you kill Temu Elon Musk with a jetpack armed with missiles.
Fair, that is an important difference I just think you would be much harder pressed to prove in court GTA has meaningfully increased hateful behavior, in comparison Charlie Kirk was entirely optimized for actuating that as a media persona.
I agree any kind of targeted media that uses real names is a different level ethically, but I can't ignore the context that in terms of real world impact here Charlie Kirk did so much harm vs. GTA which has always been a silly video game series intent on entertaining people.
They literally have JFK assassination games and even columbine shooting games. Why not one for Chuckie?
Columbine happened in the 1990s. I remember when they came out with the DOOM map for it. In the 90s. I never actually played it, but I kinda wanted to.
I feel like if Blood came out after Columbine, they would have had a school level. They did have a grocery store level. Blood was more like Duke Nukem 3D, way more advanced than DOOM, but still that same generation (what people now call boomer shooters).
You can download most maps made by Dylan Klebold himself still. No joke.
There are some delicate snowflakes who are pained to leave their safe room echo chambers if content like this exists in the world.
My next upload: "Karlie Chirk Tracheostomy © (Bluetooth edition)"
Personally, I could watch racists die all day, every day.
There was a story about Roblox kids creating Charlie Kirk simulators and that made me laugh
Fuck
No no, this is the Kharlie Cirk mission, completely different guy.
I always liked the mission in GTA where you’re sent to kill the “high priest” of the “baldheads”, who turns out to be a suited man in a suspiciously well-guarded motorcade.