gta going woke

3 years ago by abobla to c/gamingcirclejerk

GreenMario 182 points 3 years ago

evil cops

You mean cops?

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darcy 7 points 3 years ago

you mean good cops?

/s ←

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ImplyingImplications 151 points 3 years ago

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

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CitizenKong 39 points 3 years ago

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

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jose1324 9 points 3 years 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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scottywh 4 points 3 years ago

Which South Park game has this?

I don't remember it and I'm pretty sure I've played them all.

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reverendsteveii 6 points 3 years ago

Either or both of stick of truth and fractured but whole. I can't remember off the top of my head which, but it's definitely there.

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scottywh 1 point 3 years ago

I don't remember that in either one and I own both...

Maybe it's time for a replay

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reverendsteveii 2 points 3 years ago

Quick googling tells me they don't affect gameplay at all. Being said, I really liked both games and wouldn't ever tell anyone not to get another run in

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Mandy 88 points 3 years ago
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aksdb 16 points 3 years ago

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

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RaivoKulli 10 points 3 years ago

Check the sub you're in

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SwiggitySwole 4 points 3 years ago

Me when I dom (I'm blind)

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Ignacio 5 points 3 years ago

More like realistic US cops.

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Decoy321 53 points 3 years ago

Didn't they have those in gta3?

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Deceptichum 37 points 3 years ago

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.

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DrCatface 22 points 3 years ago

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

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Akasazh 15 points 3 years 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.

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themeatbridge 24 points 3 years ago

And Vice City, and San Andreas.

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apprehensively_human 21 points 3 years ago

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

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ramble81 4 points 3 years ago

I always thought they were more aggressive with Lamar vs Trevor out in Blaine County. At least it always felt that way when playing.

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MossyFeathers 35 points 3 years 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).

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MaxPow3r11 30 points 3 years ago

evil cops is redundant.

They could have just said COPS.

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WindowsEnjoyer 10 points 3 years ago

Realistic cops.

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NigelFrobisher 29 points 3 years ago

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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dylanTheDeveloper 2 points 3 years ago

A GTA game without guns or cuss words would be pretty bland

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qyron 2 points 3 years ago

GTA London? What? Please explain.

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baropithecus 18 points 3 years ago

They are referring to the standalone expansion set in London in the 1960s for GTA 1 (the top down one), if I'm not mistaken

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qyron 1 point 3 years ago

I think I still have a copy of the original one but I wasn't aware an expansion set in London was available.

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cynar 1 point 3 years ago path: 0 3548430 3549383 3549574 3551702, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
jjjalljs 1 point 3 years ago

Oh I had fun with that one. Never finished it.

Had good multiplayer too if I recall.

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calhoon2005 -2 points 3 years ago path: 0 3548430 3549383 3549574 3550079, hotness: undefined, score: -2, children: 0
Blapoo 25 points 3 years ago

Woke?

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Immersive_Matthew 16 points 3 years ago

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

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Potatos_are_not_friends 46 points 3 years ago

Are people not aware that this is gaming circle jerk?

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HonoraryMancunian 1 point 3 years ago

Also, as far as I'm aware, highlighting police brutality and racial injustice IS woke

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Steeve 6 points 3 years ago

The point is that it's being used as satire by posting in a circlejerk sub, not that it's being used incorrectly.

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Blapoo 5 points 3 years ago

Shit. I don't understand what it means.

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Burninator05 16 points 3 years ago

Woke - Anything right wing politicians and media has decided to rile their base against. Defining "woke" any more specifically than that today will mean that the definition is wrong tomorrow because what is or is not "woke" changes almost daily.

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520 10 points 3 years ago

Woke simply means being conscious of diversity and discrimination issues happening in your society.

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6mementomori -26 points 3 years ago

someone who is overly worried about issues like discrimination to the point they create their own problems would be one definition.

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GrammatonCleric 25 points 3 years ago

A bad definition, to be sure.

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eestileib 15 points 3 years ago

That definition is really helpful for blocklist curation.

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xantoxis 1 point 3 years ago
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EddoWagt 1 point 3 years ago

So many people don't understand what woke means that the meaning of woke changes

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reverendsteveii 2 points 3 years ago

How's that onion taste?

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bigwag 1 point 3 years ago

'n Boke?

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oldGregg -15 points 3 years ago
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WiildFiire 12 points 3 years ago

Name me one person or company that has gone broke after "going woke"

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oldGregg -10 points 3 years ago
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Duke_Nukem_1990 8 points 3 years ago

So you can't name one, got it.

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rustydrd 22 points 3 years 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?

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Leperhero 18 points 3 years ago

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

They will have to catch me first.

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Franzia 13 points 3 years ago

This just in, GTA 6 will feature COPS.

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zepheriths 13 points 3 years ago

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

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MIDItheKID 12 points 3 years ago

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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TheFriar 4 points 3 years ago

You could always come across chases going on, there were nocshootouts happening. But I don’t know if you ever saw the race of the npc.

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toasteecup 4 points 3 years ago

I think I've seen it before, but admittedly I think my actions lead to the interaction.

Ie: I was driving as one does hit a car which hit a police car leading to the civilian getting shot

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MIDItheKID 5 points 3 years ago

Yeah I think I've seen stuff like that, but I don't think I've seen an actual pull-over. Like a car on the side of the road and the cop walking up to it and issuing a ticket. NPC interactions have definitely advanced over the generations of the game, this might actually be interesting to see.

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JDtheGeek 10 points 3 years 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.

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morphballganon 9 points 3 years ago

What does woke mean?

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eestileib 35 points 3 years ago

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)

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money_loo 12 points 3 years 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.

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Psythik 32 points 3 years 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.

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gamer 5 points 3 years 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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Lemminary 0 points 3 years ago

Alternatively, and one adopted by the alt medicine movement, new age and fringe groups, is to be aware of chakras, crystals aliens (Pleiadians, the Grays, etc) and other conspiracies. Basically to buy into the quack. I used to lurk those communities on FB for years often back in the day and was incredibly confused when people meant the other type of woke when the term gained traction.

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mojo 8 points 3 years ago path: 0 3562383, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 0
520 7 points 3 years ago

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.

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EdibleFriend 6 points 3 years ago

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.

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520 7 points 3 years ago

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

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EdibleFriend 0 points 3 years ago

Oh I know that they were the ones who actually did the work. But Rockstar had to sign off on this stuff in some way. They definitely had a say in what was removed from the game.

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520 8 points 3 years ago

They in no way had to sign off anything about that game. The GTA franchise is controlled by Take Two Interactive, not Rockstar North.

It was very evident that Rockstar North had no input into these games, or they simply weren't listened to, considering the game launched with obvious errors that clashed with the intended designs for the original games.

Edit: also, do you really think that Rockstar North of all people, the developers of the original Manhunt game and the same people that put a graphic torture minigame in the GTA5 mission By the Book, would somehow draw the line at the Confederate flag?

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Psythik 5 points 3 years ago

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

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520 5 points 3 years 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.

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dylanTheDeveloper 6 points 3 years ago

GTAV already has this for Franklin

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lord___vader 1 point 3 years ago

Evil cops Guys!!

Meanwhile San Andreas: 😎

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elxeno 1 point 3 years ago
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nostradiel -3 points 3 years ago
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