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They organized on discord with their names 💀 Either discord snitched or someone scooped up all the intel and went to rockstar. You'd expect nerds to be at least a little bit aware of the importance of privacy and anonimity.

>>44798

are you kidding? they probably all knew their pseudonyms and just used the same ones in discord.

imagine namefagging (heh)

i think bootlickers are out in force so rockstar doesnt gotta say shit

>>44802
How tf do you defend Rockstar in this? I am genuinely curious what the cuck logic is

>protests erupt
Because some crusty ass video game was delay?

GTA 6 was going to suck anyways

>>44821
I think it's just hard to continue a series of games that was known to be great for satirizing, among other things, the corporate america Rockstar grew to be.

It's interesting to note that in GTA IV you murder union leaders during a mission to break their strike so you rapper buddy can do a favor to real estate pork.And of course R* made them linked to the mob and throwing racist insults at you so you wouldn't feel too bad doing it.

>>44819
Monkey want cattle entertainment, monkey disregard everything else

>>44822
>It's interesting to note that in GTA IV you murder union leaders during a mission to break their strike so you rapper buddy can do a favor to real estate pork.And of course R* made them linked to the mob and throwing racist insults at you so you wouldn't feel too bad doing it.
everyone knows in GTA you play as the bad guys

>>44822
> murder union leaders during a mission to break their strike
>And of course R* made them linked to the mob and throwing racist insults at you so you wouldn't feel too bad doing it.

There's a media criticism podcast (yeah I know, hear me out) deconstructs (haha) this

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep-164-labor-union-depictions-in-hollywood-part-i-from-demonized-to-ignored-or-mafia-plot-cliche

Ep 164: Labor Union Depictions in Hollywood (Part I): From Demonized to Ignored or Mafia Plot Cliche

"Chances are you’ve seen this storyline play out on either a big or small screen: An FBI agent investigates a prominent labor leader. Or maybe a union boss orders a hit on a recalcitrant member of the rank-and-file. Or perhaps a union president skims money off a pension fund to make an illegal loan.

Plotlines like these derive from one of Hollywood’s longstanding and most favored tropes: the corrupt, mobbed up union, and more specifically, the corrupt union boss. It lends itself to countless stories: The rise and fall of a Mafia-backed labor head, the rebellion of rank-and-file workers against their tyrannical leadership, the precarious union on the verge of implosion. Accordingly, over and over again, we’ve seen stories of labor unions entangled with extortion, bribery, blackmail, theft and murder. But, even if union bosses can make compelling characters, why is it that they must all be corrupt mafiosi? Why is it that heroism in pop culture is overwhelmingly the domain of police, attorneys and doctors and hardly ever people fighting for labor rights and the collective power of their co-workers and communities? Why, instead of highlighting the courage of labor organizers and the life-changing protections won, must Hollywood repeatedly emphasize only unions’ historical ties to organized crime and a seamy underbelly of corruption, murder and intrigue?"

One thing I wish they had gone into more was how mob infiltration and corruption of labor unions was a byproduct of CIA meddling… not to mention part of the larger process by which class conscious trade unions decayed into opportunist and class collaborationist unions.

>>44822
>a series of games that was known to be great for satirizing, among other things, the corporate america Rockstar grew to be.
Shakedown Hawaii is a retro GTA clone that is better about this than GTA ever was.

literally every other mission is capitalist characters finding some new way to fuck up society for a quick buck

>>44993
Thanks for this

>>44822
It was always destined to happen because there's really no reason why Rockstar should be immune to the profit motive that drives the rest of corporate America.

The satire also got a lot softer as the series went on, the comic critique of America became a lot more American than that of Brits looking at the US from the outside. As in it became a lot more politicised in that really generic liberal "Late Night" way where republicans are all rednecks and democrats are all pretentious urbanites, whereas GTA 1, 2 and III scarcely mention politics at all because it's correctly treated as an irrelevancy in a blowing-up-police-helicopters Hollywood depiction of the US where the protagonist collecting prostitutes and ferrying them to a police ball, picking up stolen donkey porn and pictures of a morgue party involving the most influential businessman in the city, mincing people into dog food so someone can avoid their debts, etc are presented as reasonable jobs for a career criminal. In such a world, the trite bi-partisan politics of Washington DC simply don't matter, it's obviously not of importance in this virtual world where someone is causing enough carnage to get the frigging army after them and then escaping after repainting their car, but the question then is does it matter in the real world that still has powerful criminal gangs, mass shootings, and hookers a plenty?

>>45001
no problem :) glad you found it interesting

>>45003
> the comic critique of America became a lot more American than that of Brits looking at the US from the outside. As in it became a lot more politicised in that really generic liberal "Late Night" way where republicans are all rednecks and democrats are all pretentious urbanites, whereas GTA 1, 2 and III scarcely mention politics at all because it's correctly treated as an irrelevancy in a blowing-up-police-helicopters Hollywood depiction of the US where the protagonist collecting prostitutes and ferrying them to a police ball, picking up stolen donkey porn and pictures of a morgue party involving the most influential businessman in the city, mincing people into dog food so someone can avoid their debts, etc are presented as reasonable jobs for a career criminal.
yeah i noticed the "late-night-libification" as well.