It’s about what you’d expect
The joke that aged the worst in all of GTA IV was the website making fun of tablet computers, Apple introduced the iPad less than two years later.
Lol it’s socialist really got me.
They really fucking nailed “Open Source” hitlerites with that one, as long as you replace “socialist” with “libertarian”.
The funny thing is that “Linux” is already a pun on “Unix”, which is itself a pun on “eunuchs” — I guess that given enough puns things will always eventually return to orchiectomy.
Edit: Naturally turns out that somebody else commented this without me noticing :nyoron:
Peak two-thousand-and-late satire
Who knew that 20 years later Linux would have the last laugh while windows shits itself.
I love that Microsoft focused on B2B while Apple focused on getting their computers and OS into kids hands, so you have this beautiful mess of all jobs requiring weird, niche Windows knowledge while everyone who’s under the age of 50 came up with a POSIX compliant BSD fork and probably ended up switching to Linux at some point.
Eventually everything will be Linux since that old guard is dying out, and open source doesn’t have the shareholder baggage. We’re already seeing it happen in most civilized nations.
Everyone who used Linux 20 years ago?
To be fair, windows shat itself 20 years ago too. That was around the time Windows Vista released.
reminder that the game in question required Games for Windows Live
Every other version as a farce.
Just wait until Microsoft finds an AI that can repair the damage the first AI did!
now, you can actually close the task manager window, but it will have unforseen consequences
Wake up, Windows user. Wake up and smell the ashes...
“Unix” was already a pun on being an “emasculated” homebrew version of Multics!GTA IV internet is just
I remember the one website where if you went to it, you immediately get a 4-star wanted level and be swarmed by cops
That website?
Www.prettyprincesspageant.com
IIRC that was a honeypot by NOOSE, the GTA version of feds.
I looked it up and the website you’re referring to is in fact littlelacysurprisepageant.com. That might seem like a small difference, but Little Lacy Surprise is according to the GTA wiki a “fashion underwear brand for children […] first mentioned in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories”
Ah, my memory is going!
Then again, i’m not as dedicated to GTA as I am with The Simpsons
That last one’s actually pretty good.
Ngl for a massive corporate machine, Rockstar still maintains some edge unlike other developers of their size
it’s because being edgy makes them money that’s how GTA got famous in the first place. i’d guess they had lawyers combing through every single line of text before releasing the game, otherwise it wouldn’t make the cut.
From my PoV V was a massive downgrade over IV in the edge department. Almost everything from the internet to the story’s writing to the cops’ voicelines was dumbed down, too on the nose or simply unfunny. I hope it changes with VI but I honestly doubt it.
PissWasser hehe
Given that the company had to do union busting I suspect 6 will be the most woke and self-aware that the game has ever been. Just a hunch though, could be wrong.
The general level of political education in the workforce in 2008 compared to 2024 has changed drastically. The internet has brought up the average person’s level to where most advanced people were back then, and it has advanced the advanced people far beyond where it was at the time. Social media is responsible for a lot of ills but it’s been a political education for a lot of people that otherwise never would’ve had one too.
Counterpoint: Marvelization has also completely rotted mainstream lib writers brains and convinced management that snarky but flavorless and textureless slop is the profit maximizing formula.
There’s like a 50/50 between Rockstar’s writers having kept their sharp satirical edge and irreverence but simply learned to not have characters scream slurs at the player, and those writers having been fed through a homogenizing stylistic-woodchipper/industrial mixer combo and blanched until all that remained was a perfectly smooth and featureless slurry algorithmically printed in place to create a corporate-safe simulacrum of the vague idea of their prior work.
Well senior writer is the RDR2 guy so hopefully not! Worth noting the GTA4 was when Rupert Humphries and Michael Unsworth joined the team, and they’re on this one too. I think that was the moment that the writing for the games really grew up from juvenile stuff into characters with properly fleshed out backgrounds and motivations, it all became more adult (amid the juvenile stuff) when they joined.
Roger Drew is new to the team but he has a background in British television writing. Last work before joining Rockstar was The Thick of It which is good. The junior writers all look like they have some sort of BBC writing background too. BBC news might be shit but BBC television remains very good quality with mixed class themes still all over the programming. These are all very competent people, the thing with BBC too is that nobody’s really working there for money because as far as acting and television wages go it’s pretty low. Most of the BBC television workers are there because they want to make good things, none of those people are poisoned by money or profit like hollywood writing or whatever as it’s all taxpayer.
I hope it changes with VI but I honestly doubt it.
On one hand, Red Dead Redemption 2
On the other, GTA Online
On the other, GTA Online
I hate the squandered potential of GTAO (and RDO). It makes so much sense to having built these massive environments to reuse them, and getting to make your own custom GTA character and do odd jobs with friends? That rules as a concept. But it got ruined by the drive to get people to buy shark cards. Also while some of the zaniness is fun, every lobby being people on flying bikes getting shot down with heat seeking missiles gets tiring fast.
I played it when it first came online and it was actually pretty fun being a low level crook who only had a handgun and a stolen black Sabre Turbo, doing crimes with friends.
legit, the most excitement i had in the game was when i had saved up for some shitty apartment in hollywood/vinewood, a tuned-up black dirt bike, and an AK with clothing to dress up like some black bloc guy with the t-shirt mask. bullets and pipe bombs were cheap, so that was what i figured i should get good with lol.
once they added all the crazy sci fi shit like flying bikes with homing rockets, laser beams, and all the flying military bs, it lost a lot of that scrappy charm.
i remember when the craziest shit that could happen was somebody driving a tank around downtown like a big, slow and angry dinosaur being actively swarmed by cops.
They could have reused their environments just like Sega does with Yakuza/Like a Dragon/Judgment and made about 20 games since GTA IV instead of just 2 or 3.
There should have been way more spin off dlcs like the Lost and Damned/Ballad of Gay Tony.
And I don’t get how they made a game that was playing GTA with your friends and fucked it up.
Like I was playing shared screen two player on GTA SA on the PS2, dreaming if the potential of GTA Online.
The coolness of that initial concept is why I still occasionally log in every now and then. I wish someone made a toned down and realistic big city criminal simulator
I felt RDO hung on to being fun for a little longer, plus I could name my trusty horse Marx.
There’s a reason on the rare occasion I play a girl character in games, I always name her Rosa. Or Anna Louise. I wish I ever lived up to either of their examples IRL.
There’s also a Napster parody called Shitster and it sounds like R* doesn’t like file sharing
Napster parody in 2008, truly on the cutting edge here.
How dare artists not let us buy their product and do whatever we want with it.
I mean… yes? Yes, I’m agreeing, that is a statement I completely agree with… hah.
If we look past the video game aspect of this, the number of bands and artists who put their music on Bandcamp suggests that there’s lots of artists who want this for their fans too.
the “artists” who made the game are paid the same amount regardless if we pirate or not. it’s the company that loses money. so yeah agreed as well
