I mean, people can be conventionally attractive, and also do awful things. Equating beauty with goodness and ugliness with evil is some Disney movie morality.
Also infantile and a bit fascist. And the poster feels slightly antisemitic to me personally, as a German who is professionally over-aware of these things.
My coworker outed himself as fucking awful. He was talking about the game and how he's so hyped about it and then says "they even have pride parades, so you know what I'm doing!" and makes a gesture of loading a shotgun...
I figured he was that kind of asshole but he never said anything that direct before.
I mean, people do all kinds of things in games they never want to do in real life. Smashing up a parade with a shot gun would be fun. And if it's pride, it's even more fun because it's just so wrong. You know?
When I was playing gta, I had so much fun just hitting people on the street. Who didn't do that? And who didnt look at the girls in very inappropriate ways?
Games are games. It doesn't mean your collegue is an asshole. When I was playing duke nukem in the 90s, I was playing co-op and I laughed my ass off when I killed my buddies with remote triggered explosives. I mean I was laughing so I got tears coming out of my eyes. :)
It's just games. And when we start acting politically correct in games, it's all over. We have become machines.
I get what you're getting at, and to an extent I agree.
Simultaneously, to me it feels like there's something off about being hyped up to specifically shoot up a pride parade in a game that has yet to be released. That feels very pointed.
Games are games. It doesnât mean your collegue is an asshole
okay, so behavior in games can be assholey, like if you go around explicitly trying to ruin someone else's fun. (i have this asshole [former] associate who was one of those foul everyone in basketball, play rogue in dungeons and dragons and steal from everyone in the party and start fights, and then cry "it's just a game" when people got mad at them) but if they're just running around in RDR torching klansmen, tally ho comrade i'm in.
It's news to me that GTA protagonists are typically upstanding moral citizens... I haven't played GTA since 2, but I seem to remember going on mass killing sprees. Not to try and equate very different crimes but that's gotta be at least in the same area code as mass child sex trafficking and abuse...
Going on a video game killing spree can be cathartic, gross as that is. I cannot say I would be anything other than revolted by being presented with the video game scenario of getting into the shoes of an Epstein.
Your comment implies pedophiles are same as child molesters. Many pedophiles do not abuse children, knowing full well it hurts them - or simply being in fear of law enforcement
Same way, someone with violent inclinations may vent some steam doing a virtual murder spree rather than a real one. Win-win!
It is interesting how sexual crimes are seen as so much more severe. Rape is seen as worse than murder.
Also like, in gta you can murder, but fucking a prostitute is censored. Theres blood and death, but genitals would be too far?
Maybe it is because there is some mild resemblance and because Epstein's face has been shoved in mine far, far more than Anthony's had something to do with it.
85 Comments
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 139 pts · 85d
STOP MAKING GHISLAINE MAXWELL LOOK HOT SHE'S MID
Juan_de_Silentio@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 85d
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 65 pts · 85d
I mean, people can be conventionally attractive, and also do awful things. Equating beauty with goodness and ugliness with evil is some Disney movie morality.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 85d
The halo effect is a real problem, Disney notwithstanding.
Society needs to move on from the belief that beauty is a blessing from the gods. But its been a problem since forever.
bridgeburner@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 84d
Did u just call women 'period people'?
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 84d
Oof, that's an unfortunate typo. You can thank my phone's autocorrect for that one đŽâđ¨
Historical_General@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 85d
Also infantile and a bit fascist. And the poster feels slightly antisemitic to me personally, as a German who is professionally over-aware of these things.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 85d
Make her attractive...to magnets.
swagmoney@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 85d
make her attractive... to the consequences of her actions.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 85d
I prefer gravity
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 85d
we just need a magnet so powerful it will rip the iron from blood. wil wheaton seems to know a thing or two about those
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 59 pts · 85d
Pass, I have no desire to cosplay as a man responsible for the rape and murder of children.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 85d
But, you can get wasted by SWAT over and over, that could be cathartic in its own way.
ajmaxwell@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 85d
I'd rather play as SWAT at that point
areakode@riskeratspizza.com · 6 pts · 85d
Nah. ACAB. Dead Jeffrey is okay too.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 84d
All crabs are bi.
voidsignal@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 85d
better to mod the faces of all NPCs then
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 85d
Epstein hoard survival mode built in GTA6 is a much better mod idea, good thought
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 85d
why wait for GTA? state of emergency is on PS2
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 85d
Why would people want to role play as them? Unless they're also terrible
Asafum@lemmy.world · 76 pts · 85d
My coworker outed himself as fucking awful. He was talking about the game and how he's so hyped about it and then says "they even have pride parades, so you know what I'm doing!" and makes a gesture of loading a shotgun...
I figured he was that kind of asshole but he never said anything that direct before.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 47 pts · 85d
Bruh why do we live amongst such monsters
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 85d
Capitalism actively rewards sociopathy.
harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 85d
Because your village's survival does not depend on them. Otherwise, they'd be culled/exiled long ago.
yilian@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 85d
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 85d
Because you allow them to feel safe leaving their homes
yakko@feddit.uk · 19 pts · 85d
So you were like "yeah can't wait, I hope it's also got food banks! Chk-chk! And daycares! Chk-chk! And churches! Chk-chk!
iamericandre@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 85d
Report that asshole
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 84d
Report him to who ? The DOJ is onboard with that now
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/justice-department-doj-pride-lgbtq-erg-trump-rcna189866
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 84d
Employer?
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 84d
HR exist to project the employer. If its no longer problematic for the company to embrace anti lgbt behaviour, they won't do anything about it.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 84d
I still try. I have some privilege I can leverage for myself and others who have to labour for a salary.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 85d
Did you ask him if the game had mosques too, and what he would do with those?
Maybe the game should have a Jan 6th style mission.
1984@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 85d
I mean, people do all kinds of things in games they never want to do in real life. Smashing up a parade with a shot gun would be fun. And if it's pride, it's even more fun because it's just so wrong. You know?
When I was playing gta, I had so much fun just hitting people on the street. Who didn't do that? And who didnt look at the girls in very inappropriate ways?
Games are games. It doesn't mean your collegue is an asshole. When I was playing duke nukem in the 90s, I was playing co-op and I laughed my ass off when I killed my buddies with remote triggered explosives. I mean I was laughing so I got tears coming out of my eyes. :)
It's just games. And when we start acting politically correct in games, it's all over. We have become machines.
Dojan@pawb.social · 28 pts · 85d
I get what you're getting at, and to an extent I agree.
Simultaneously, to me it feels like there's something off about being hyped up to specifically shoot up a pride parade in a game that has yet to be released. That feels very pointed.
1984@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 85d
Yeah I guess that's true.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 85d
remember how people were torching klansmen in rdr? this is an explicit response to that and it's an advertising bullshit. that's what it's going to be
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 85d
okay, so behavior in games can be assholey, like if you go around explicitly trying to ruin someone else's fun. (i have this asshole [former] associate who was one of those foul everyone in basketball, play rogue in dungeons and dragons and steal from everyone in the party and start fights, and then cry "it's just a game" when people got mad at them) but if they're just running around in RDR torching klansmen, tally ho comrade i'm in.
sundray@lemmus.org · 11 pts · 85d
Asked and answered.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 85d
Yeah. Epstein gameplay is not GTA-esque (obviously) but is actually "ride a plane and make phone calls simulator"
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 85d
it'll be a crazy taxi simulator to the white house
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 85d
You can do both of those things in GTA.
FishFace@piefed.social · 10 pts · 85d
It's news to me that GTA protagonists are typically upstanding moral citizens... I haven't played GTA since 2, but I seem to remember going on mass killing sprees. Not to try and equate very different crimes but that's gotta be at least in the same area code as mass child sex trafficking and abuse...
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 85d
Going on a video game killing spree can be cathartic, gross as that is. I cannot say I would be anything other than revolted by being presented with the video game scenario of getting into the shoes of an Epstein.
Allero@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 85d
Hey, let the poor pedos get their share of joy!
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 80d
Your comment implies that gta is for murderers, since they currently get their share of joy?
Allero@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 80d
Your comment implies pedophiles are same as child molesters. Many pedophiles do not abuse children, knowing full well it hurts them - or simply being in fear of law enforcement
Same way, someone with violent inclinations may vent some steam doing a virtual murder spree rather than a real one. Win-win!
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 80d
It is interesting how sexual crimes are seen as so much more severe. Rape is seen as worse than murder. Also like, in gta you can murder, but fucking a prostitute is censored. Theres blood and death, but genitals would be too far?
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 85d
That is the point of le mĂŠmĂŠ imho.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 85d
It could make some dialogue funny.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 85d
The main characters of every GTA game are terrible people though.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 84d
So you can get them killed in all kinds of creative ways, like they should have been IRL.
zeroConnection@programming.dev · 43 pts · 85d
â ď¸ FUCK AI SLOP
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 84d
Yup
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 85d
That dude who wanted pride flags removed from Spiderman. This is his mod. Epstein is his,favorite dude.
Not joking.
That's all very, very likely true.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 85d
the funny thing with that is all the mod did was change location to somewhere in the middle east, as thats how the game came out there
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 84d
There are people that can't handle pride flags in videogames? Wild. Put more.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 84d
Gormless pussies. I wonder if they would have an aneurysm if you threw them at Palm Springs?
kurikai@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 85d
its missing trump
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 85d
If we're all lucky, he's in the briefcase.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 85d
Youâd need a luggage set.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 85d
That would be something. Rockstar of old would probably put in a scathing parody of the grifter in chief.
Somehow I don't think they have that kind of balls, though.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 84d
Well, Dan Houser left and I'm pretty sure many of the other senior writers have as well. I'd be impressed if that had any balls left.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 84d
Exactly
falcunculus@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 84d
Donald Love from III and Vice City is supposedly inspired by Trump.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 84d
So they could easily follow up and put him in the next one
rethnor@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 85d
Each gta is sort of like a cultural snapshot, I wouldn't be surprised if this sort of thing was in the base game.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 85d
âTrump, you ainât nothinâ but a busterâ
Electric_Druid@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 85d
It's Palm Beach Pete!
ArchsageRamases@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 85d
OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 84d
GTA: Mar a Lago
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 84d
One mission should include sneaking into the bathrooms to steal or copy the secret documents.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 85d
Who?
mbp@slrpnk.net · 49 pts · 85d
Anthony Bourdain and that girl from The Office
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 9 pts · 84d
Almost though he was Epstein.
mbp@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 84d
Couldn't possibly
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 1 pts · 82d
Maybe it is because there is some mild resemblance and because Epstein's face has been shoved in mine far, far more than Anthony's had something to do with it.
mbp@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 82d
he hold the gun like a chef
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 84d
Seriously not Epstein and Ghislaine?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 85d
Thanks.
And why?
CovfefeKills@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 84d
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 84d
I can't wait for it to get an ad supported free version
yilian@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 85d
Iâm lk mad I laughed
BigDiction@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 84d
You can make a joke about anything if itâs funny enough.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 6 pts · 84d
As long as I can shoot him. Repeatedly.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 85d
Better mod would be freeguy
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 84d
Will the MOD include Russian SVR and Mossad agents gathering and stealing the data about Krasnov?
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 85d
GTA 6 release, LOL.