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[–] [email protected] 176 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

you mean good cops?

/s ←

[–] [email protected] 146 points 9 months ago (7 children)

In the South Park game the "difficulty" setting is a slider that changes your skin tone.

[–] CitizenKong 35 points 9 months ago

And Jew is a character class that starts rich, but everyone hates you.

[–] jose1324 8 points 9 months ago

It's a fake slider. Cartman just say it will affect every aspect of your life, just not the game one. Still funny af.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 9 months ago (3 children)

realistic american cops is woke now? get outta here

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Hmm, it fits to the literal meaning, at least. If you are awake, you see the reality.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Decoy321 53 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Didn't they have those in gta3?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Racism is an Easter egg in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto IV, and Grand Theft Auto V.

https://gta-myths.fandom.com/wiki/Racism

Sounds like this will be the first for racial profiling by police, well if the denial of it happening in V is true.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

racism is an easter egg. wow never thought I'd see those words together.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Sometimes, the cops will say "I only listen to white rappers"

I think that's very funny and poignant satire. It's racism of the most stupid and least consequential order.

[–] themeatbridge 23 points 9 months ago

And Vice City, and San Andreas.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

Yeah I'm pretty sure this is nothing new for the series

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago

That's actually kinda awesome imo. GTA has always been a parody of real life; parodying police brutality against minorities might actually help people to stop and notice when it happens irl (assuming they handle it well).

That said, and I might be misremembering this, didn't postal 2 do this? You never saw it happen to you since the Postal Dude's white, but I swear I remember cops would occasionally randomly arrest people who weren't white. That's not to say that Postal 2 is """woke""", it's about as far from it as you can be; nor do I think that a lot of the jokes would land nowadays because some of the edgier ones were satirizing the politics of the time. However, I vaguely remember it having some really potent satire about society hiding under the crackhead edgy humor (the Postal Dude is literally a crackhead).

[–] MaxPow3r11 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

evil cops is redundant.

They could have just said COPS.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Realistic cops.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (7 children)

They could have just left out the word “evil” there.

Anyway, never mind that - when are they doing a modern take on GTA London?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (15 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Like far too many people, OP appears to not understand the definition of woke.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 46 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Are people not aware that this is gaming circle jerk?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

But the "corrupt/evil cop" archetype is a staple in the GTA franchise. Remember Tenpenny? Is this just rage bait for right-wingers again?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Who cares. Ill be doing so much crime, them pulling me over will be warranted.

They will have to catch me first.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

This just in, GTA 6 will feature COPS.

[–] zepheriths 13 points 9 months ago

Just like GTA IV and V have right? ( neither game has that programed dispite that people insist it's in those games)

[–] MIDItheKID 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Have cops pulled over NPC citizens in GTA before? Or is this hinting at a similar multi-character storyline like GTA5?

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[–] JDtheGeek 10 points 9 months ago

GTA going woke?

It boggles my mind that so many people don't realise the entire GTA franchise is a satire of American culture, by the Scottish development studio. It's always been liberal.

[–] morphballganon 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The recognition that there are entrenched systematic inequalities based on bigotry in American society, and the belief that action should be taken to break them down.

Source : Ron DeSantis's lawyers (not joking)

[–] money_loo 12 points 9 months ago

DeSantis' general counsel, Ryan Newman, responded that the term means "the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them."

But, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

To be "woke" is to be aware that things are not all butterflies and puppy dogs, and to acknowledge that fact.

In other words, to be anti-woke is to willingly chose to remain ignorant about all the awful things that are happing in the world, such as racial inequality, for example.

It's a good thing to stay woke.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

The real answer is just that it’s a blanket term used by conservatives to refer to liberal ideas. For example, saying that gay marriage should be legal makes you “woke”

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Smh, everyone knows cops famously love black people. We can't openly say the n word most of the time now, so we basically solved racism.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

GTA worlds have always been about reflecting what goes on in the real world, either played straight or as a parody. Something like this is not off-brand for Rockstar North at all, and certainly isn't them going woke.

[–] EdibleFriend 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In the remaster trilogy they removed a southern flag from some inbred redneck because they said it's no longer culturally sensitive. I seriously doubt they would do something like this with the next game.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That was Grove Street Games who made the remaster trilogy. Rockstar North had nothing to do with that.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You say that as if going woke is a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I don't think woke is a bad thing, I'm just saying this isn't even a change of course for Rockstar North. They have always done this kind of social commentary in GTA.

[–] dylanTheDeveloper 6 points 9 months ago

GTAV already has this for Franklin

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