Yeah, can we please just stop talking about him?
Like, especially for things that have absolutely nothing to do with him…
The best bit of is I don’t think he even said anything? He said he didn’t play GTA because it got to the bit where you have to shoot cops and he couldn’t morally do it, that’s super dumb but I haven’t seen anything he said about the characters and no one in here is talking about it.
I think people have imagined how he probably feels and now we have to hear about that too!
he didn’t play GTA because it got to the bit where you have to shoot cops and he couldn’t morally do it
How you play a video game is as much a moral choice as writing/reading about the same.
I’ve found it’s a huge red flag when someone’s opinions are always hardline and binary like this. It’s literally choosing to be unreasonable when you never consider nuance, context, etc. I would agree that some issues are black and white, but most things in the world are shades of grey…
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I know it’s not relevant here, but since we’re talking globe etiquette: if your graphic of a globe shows New Zealand, be sure to shop it out to not reveal its location. At least cover it with a spoiler tag.
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EUROPA EST MAXIME MOMENTI
Why, though?
Pretty clearly a joke.
Oh
America is essentially the center of the universe, so to exclude it from a photo of earth is pretty much an overt hostile act. A hostile act towards the people with the F-22s.
Source: am American, have to deal with other Americans that are less aware of the world.
Lol what?
Pretty clearly a joke.
But then all the nice countries are occluded, I don’t get it?
Poe’s law is strong with this one!
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I like how three of those aren’t the American flag but the Liberian lol
Damn Elon is the very fucking last thing I’d think of when I consider video game reviews. What’s Bill Gate’s opinion?
GTA made a name for itself by scaring parents for being violent and edgy. They do the same thing now, except it’s far more terrifying to just scare fragile white losers.
At least Bill Gates was connected to Xbox, or something.
I think he even invented Halo or so I’ve heard! He’s a true gamer.
That was Bungie, and little known fact before Microsoft made a deal with them halo was going to be a Mac exclusive.
Due to I would guess Bungies history of making Mac exclusives like the very overlooked Marathon
nah, Marathon’s not overlooked, they just put out a trailer for that
lootershooterextraction shooter.
That’s hillarious
It wasn’t even good at it, Saint’s Row feels like the game GTA is trying to be.
Saints row 2 is the best GTA game
Damn straight
Nah saints row is when the mom says “but we already have gta at home”
Yeah, if your home was the fuckin’ Playboy Mansion
Saints row fans are the gamer equivalents of people who like to watch Kardashians and shit like that.
GTA fans who diss Saint’s Row fans are the people gobbling up post Endgame MCU while seeing nothing wrong with the current state of cinema
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You were the one dissing GTA and I’m sorry, but gta is so far a head of saints row that it’s not even remotely close. I’ve only ever finished the story of one gta game, because I didn’t like it in the other games, but I still spent a ton of time in all of them despite that, because the world is so immersive and there’s so much to do in there.
The stories in saints rows feel like they just put all the ideas in the game and give no thought if it fits the game at all. I have adhd and they still always manage to overwhelm me with so much senseless crap going on at all times. You just end up zoning out and not focusing on the story at all. I’ve never managed to play any saints row for longer than a few hours because of that. Meanwhile I’ve spent many times more than that in all gta games, outside the story, just exploring and messing around. You can easily spend more time just messing around in GTA than it would take to finish a story in saints row.
I like to play games where you can spend time doing stuff between the story missions, instead of just running from one mission to another. That really gets you immersed and makes it an unforgettable experience. I’ve played over 400 hours of gta v and every time I open the game, I still keep finding new stuff I haven’t seen previously in that game. Saints row doesn’t come even close to achieving that.
Saying that saints row is the game gta wants to be, implies that gta wants to be some cheap brainless entertainment that you forget in a day after playing it, which isn’t true. They have ambitions beyond that and it clearly shows in their product.
Ok so that’s all you can give, a dislike? Come on bring on the counter arguments.
Righties 4ish years ago: “Those cuckwokes in the land Downunder are pulling GTA V from shelves over violence, what a bunch of snowflakes. 😂😂”
Righties today: “um, could you stop doing violence in the M rated video game? My Hypothetical children are getting influenced. 🤓🤓”
The only thing consistent on that side of the fence is their inconsistency.
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Elon Musk’s many children are only insofar hypothetical that he has yet to see them
I like how he’s turning extwitter into 4chan. Advertisers hate it though, but advertising only accounts for 90% of their revenue, nbd
I don’t remember hearing what Jack Dorsey thought of anything.
Musk has literally paid 30 billion to have his own private megaphone on the internet.
That’s ok, Muskoid is going to sue the ADL and Media Matters, and based on his extremely flawed ideas regarding Freedom Of Speech, he probably believes he can win lol.
he’s such a fucking clown
His claim for suing Media Matters is that ads don’t always appear next to Neo-Nazis, therefore they had to hit refresh until one did.
Which… they never said otherwise? And that doesn’t really change things?
right? they’ve illustrated it happens. Advertisers don’t want to be shown with nazi content, elon’s hosting nazi content, it’s really that simple.
No, it’s that they didn’t for anyone organically. Media Matters essentially broke their advertising algo and pretended anyone else saw them.
Nonsense. All they did was hit refresh. Anyone can do it.
They followed specific people and topics (neonazis and major brands) to bring it about. Seems fine to me.
That isn’t accurate - you can look up the details before getting all fussy. Of all the twitter users they were the only user that saw one pairing and one of the other pairings may have been seen by one actual user, but also might’ve just been MM seeing it twice.
It wasn’t an organic thing and it’ll be interesting to see if it goes to court.
It wasn’t an organic thing and it’ll be interesting to see if it goes to court.
it was completely organic. no outside-twitter resources were used to achieve the result - they literally used twitter’s tools and proved it could happen readily. That’s all advertisers need to see to bug the fuck out.
We have different definitions of organic. I think the fact that only they saw some of the pairings shows it’s something no legitimate user did.
You don’t have to modify a lawn mower to flip it upside down and throw cats in it my friend.
Even Twitter isn’t claiming that Media Matters somehow broke their algorithm (unsurprisingly, since that makes Twitter look terrible):
The lawsuit filed Monday accuses Media Matters of publishing a report that distorted the likelihood of ads appearing beside extremist content on X, a move the social media company says led major and influential advertisers to suspend their campaigns en masse. The company alleges that the group’s testing methodology was not representative of how real users experience the site and calls for a judge to force Media Matters to take down the analysis.
The case appears to be a “bogus” attempt to chill criticism in a way that “flatly contradicts basic First Amendment principles,” Ted Boutrous, a First Amendment attorney with years of experience dealing with the tech industry, told CNN. Boutrous added that the case could backfire for X in the discovery phase, as Media Matters could demand internal information that, if presented at trial, could prove embarrassing or highly damaging to the social media company.
The lawsuit also contains “fatal flaws” by conceding that ads did, in fact, appear beside extremist content, regardless of how Media Matters achieved that result, according to Steve Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas and a CNN contributor.
“The complaint admits that the thing Media Matters was making a big deal about actually happened,” Vladeck said. “Most companies wouldn’t want their ads running next to neo-Nazi content even once, and wouldn’t care about the exact percentage of users who were encountering such side-by-side placement.”
Contrary to the complaint, Media Matters “never claimed that what it found was typical of other users’ experience,” Vladeck added.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/21/tech/elon-musk-texas-lawsuit-media-matters/index.html
They contrived a situation that literally happened to nobody else. You’ll have to excuse my liberty with the word broken, but this is a non-issue.
If it wasn’t musk none of us would give a fuck. If a right wing propaganda mill did the same thing everyone would happily admit it’s misleading. The fact that it gets any traction at all is so fucking depressing.
Musk and Yaccarino claim hat it wasn’t displayed that way to any regular users. We have no way of verifying that.
You can read my other comments. They filed a lawsuit referring to their analytics. If it’s a lie it will come out in discovery.
How’s Elon’s boot taste?
I don’t like being lied to, even if the lie fits my worldview.
What’s the advertising like on 4chan? I haven’t been on there in like 15 years. Maybe there were banner ads last time I was on there lol.
Weeb merch, dick pills and malicious links. So pretty much what it’s always been tbh.
“Oh my god, who the hell cares?”
I hope the writers in charge of the radio station dialog are. This is great fodder.
I can definitely see them including a Musk-like character.
Full Lethal Weapon 2 accent, over compensating hair, quests to test his wacky inventions, crushed in a quest where you help him move server racks.
Then Rockstar and Take-Two get their Twitter accounts locked under some bullshit about “incitement of violence” against him and his family.
it’s just been revoked!
Then we will have come full circle. Back to the days right wingers getting mad a Rockstar games.
A jackass not being a fan of something is, to me, a pretty good advertisement for that thing.
It’s like a loud, obnoxious racist complaining about a nearby bar. “They don’t believe in freedom! They asked my friends and I to leave just for telling a few jokes!”
Oh, they don’t put up with bigots and aren’t afraid to kick them out? Maybe I should start hanging out there!
Wait do people not like the new GTA lady?
Because bobs and vagene.
I remember a time when we all liked bobs and vagene.
I used to. I still do, but I used to too.
Same here Mitch. Same here.
Face it Trevor, you’re a hipster.
A very tiny loud minority on the Internet.
Those people confuse me. GTA6 protag is realistic but still at model level of conventional beauty.
It’s not like Sarah Rider (Mass Effect Andromeda) or Jesse Faden (Control), who aren’t as “conventionally” attractive. Although after writing that, Jesse is super hot, and I’m not sure if I’ve been gaslit by the internet into thinking she’s not “conventionally” attractive.
Being charitable and taking these people at their word, I feel like with the more divisive examples it’s a problem with modern lighting being softer and more dynamic? Leading to more “bad” angles and softer looking features. Most professional photoshoots have very contrasty and deliberate lighting, so maybe they’re too used to that?
Jesse Faden is modeled after a soap-opera actress lol, are people really saying she’s not attractive?
Jesse Faden not conventially attractive? Wow, the internet is a wild place
She’s not white, that’s all it takes for many of them.
This is the first I’m hearing of it, but I’m sure there’s a non-zero % out there
Incels don’t like seeing a woman have any sort of power over their own lives, or seeing non-white/white-asian women
It’s not even that the protagonist is a woman, the Boer said that he didn’t want to play GTA V because he just couldn’t kill police officers
He’s a fuckin’ virtue-signaling wiener who needs to be given a swirly; I doubt it’s even true but if it were, he’d use the same reason not to play any of the Wolfenstein games
Hell, she’s actually pretty cute. I’ll take her over the typical 2020s female character design style.
what’s the typical 2020s style? i’m out of the loop
Stoic flat-chested tomboy with no personality outside of the occasional metajoke.
I’m fucking tired of it myself
Edit: You downvote me, but play any movie or watch any game from the past 3 years and tell me I’m wrong.
So exactly the same as a half the male characters in video games since ever?
men are usually meant to be flat chested and boyish, yes
Sorry for thinking women and men shouldn’t be identical
Don’t forget side-shave haircut.
I’m s sucker for that, zero complaints here.
Rank S taste
we’re downvoting you because you are rejecting tomboy supremacy. sorry but it’s just nature taking its course, jack.
Yes, but the Preservation Council must recognize the presence of an endangered species
She’s honestly fucking fine.
This picture is wrong. Whole world is shaped like Murica . nothing else is known to man or so they say.
Man, someone needs to make a filter that checks images.
Wait, why is Hawaii no longer in the after?
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why is the too stylised as a youtube reaction video thumbnail, with the red background and all
