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[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 180 points 2 years ago
[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

you mean good cops?

/s ←

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 149 points 2 years ago

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

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago

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

[-] jose1324@lemmy.world 9 points 2 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.

[-] scottywh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Which South Park game has this?

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

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 points 2 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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[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 91 points 2 years ago

realistic american cops is woke now? get outta here

[-] aksdb@feddit.de 17 points 2 years ago

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

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 years ago
[-] SwiggitySwole@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Me when I dom (I'm blind)

[-] Ignacio@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

More like realistic US cops.

[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 52 points 2 years ago

Didn't they have those in gta3?

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

And Vice City, and San Andreas.

[-] apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 38 points 2 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).

[-] MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

evil cops is redundant.

They could have just said COPS.

[-] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

Realistic cops.

[-] Blapoo@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 years ago
[-] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 years ago

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

Are people not aware that this is gaming circle jerk?

[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Steeve@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 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.

[-] Blapoo@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Shit. I don't understand what it means.

[-] Burninator05@lemmy.world 17 points 2 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.

[-] 520@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 29 points 2 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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[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 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?

[-] Leperhero@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago

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

They will have to catch me first.

[-] zepheriths@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Franzia 13 points 2 years ago

This just in, GTA 6 will feature COPS.

[-] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

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

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 4 points 2 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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[-] JDtheGeek@lemmy.world 11 points 2 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.

[-] 520@kbin.social 10 points 2 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.

[-] morphballganon@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago
[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 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)

[-] money_loo@lemmy.world 13 points 2 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.

[-] gamer@lemm.ee 6 points 2 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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[-] mojo@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years 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.

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

GTAV already has this for Franklin

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