PieFedRockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there
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SalThere’s an EARLY mission in the GTA V storyline where you assassinate that universe’s equivalent of Mark Zuckerberg with a literal phone bomb. As in, the phone rings, he puts it to his ear, and it detonates right there. And in the Doomsday Heist you blow up that universe’s equivalent of Elon Musk with missile-equipped jetpacks after the dipshit tried to start a nuclear war with his super AI named Cliffford. I guess they’re cutting it for using the real world names? Maybe people should be more creative and use a non-distinct name for him. Either way it’s still a stupid thing for R* to censor.
Just call the target “Chuck” or something.
Barry Church
“It was me Barry, I was the one who whispered to that crime lord to snipe you and pulled strings so you’d be forgotten instantly even with your followers trying to turn you into a deity!”
It’s gonna be the real name thing, honestly. But I do feel GTA VI is going to be a lot more “censored” than the previous titles, I hope not.
Guess they did that because the last thing you currently want to do is getting into the crosshair of the trump gov.
They’re UK based, they don’t care. And if Trump decided to ban GTA VI from sales in the US there would be straight up riots.
Uh, they’re not, Rockstar is an american company, so is the parent company take two
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BizzleDon’t worry bro there’s no danger of GTA VI actually coming out
If there’s not riots from what is already happening in the US, then there definitely won’t be from a video game being banned.
That’s a very out of touch take.
Rockstar has always wanted to be edgey without “being political” and I think this is unfortunately the natural end result of that being applied to an ever bigger and bigger business model, an empty mirror of the worst of US culture without any courage even to grapple with it.
The difference between Charlie Kirk and a Charlie Kirk community mission in GTA is Charlie Kirk advocated for real violence, harassment and oppression with his platform whereas GTA is a fantasy video game.
I think this has to do more with real world names. In both GTA V and GTA Online you kill the equivalent of big CEOs, with the original singleplayer having an early mission where you kill Temu Mark Zuckerberg with a phone bomb, and in Online during the Doomsday Heist you kill Temu Elon Musk with a jetpack armed with missiles.
Fair, that is an important difference I just think you would be much harder pressed to prove in court GTA has meaningfully increased hateful behavior, in comparison Charlie Kirk was entirely optimized for actuating that as a media persona.
I agree any kind of targeted media that uses real names is a different level ethically, but I can’t ignore the context that in terms of real world impact here Charlie Kirk did so much harm vs. GTA which has always been a silly video game series intent on entertaining people.
Rockstar has always wanted to be edgey without “being political”
Lol. The games have always been a satire of American politics and culture. This post has strong “I liked RATM/Star Trek before it was political” energy.
Yeah to be clear I played GTA 1, 2, Vice City, San Andreas and GTA 5, I have enjoyed the series immensely and it does have great biting satire of US politics, but it doesn’t have a coherent ideology, the critique is rather one of pointing out how hypocritical US society is…. which is hilarious and great but the bigger and bigger the business success of the GTA series has become the more and more that has morphed into the series being edgey without being actually political in a subversive way.
GTA 5 had some great moments, there is some awesome storytelling in the GTA series, its just I don’t think structurally it is concerned with being political, rather it is concerned with character portraits that encapsulate the hypocrisy, struggle and ego of US culture and the more mainstream that becomes the closer and closer it gets to “edgey without being political”.
They literally have JFK assassination games and even columbine shooting games. Why not one for Chuckie?
CerebralHawksColumbine happened in the 1990s. I remember when they came out with the DOOM map for it. In the 90s. I never actually played it, but I kinda wanted to.
I feel like if Blood came out after Columbine, they would have had a school level. They did have a grocery store level. Blood was more like Duke Nukem 3D, way more advanced than DOOM, but still that same generation (what people now call boomer shooters).
There are some delicate snowflakes who are pained to leave their safe room echo chambers if content like this exists in the world.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder
DarkFutureI always liked the mission in GTA where you’re sent to kill the “high priest” of the “baldheads”, who turns out to be a suited man in a suspiciously well-guarded motorcade.
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“Disney took the popular comedian Jimmy Kimmel off-air after he joked about it,”
No. Kimmel ragged on trump and maga but did not joke about kirk. Stop the gaslighting.
Crazy how repeating a false narrative allows it to stick. That’s why these ass clowns are always so quick to get in the first word and say shit like Renee Nicole Good was a domestic terrorist. Spouting bullshit is powerful.
The Big Lie is an old strategy that the Nazis used to great success, so not surprisingly, it has become the foundational strategy for MAGA as well.
One of the things we need to do in the future is to regulate political speech. Politics is just marketing for candidates, and advertising/marketing speech is regulated for truthfulness. If politicians decide to start spewing demonstrable lies, they need to held accountable, with fines, loss of access to the media, loss of the ability to run for office, and perhaps even prison time.
And we need to regulate the Conservative Propaganda Machine as a National Security Threat. You can responsibly oppose and criticize the government, but you can’t deploy your media outlet to organize with others to help overthrow the government, or provide cover for the treason or government abuse of others. At that point, your media has become a weapon of sedition, and should be dealt with decisively.
PCGamer is officially off my reading list now.
Gaming “journalism,” everyone.
true, Kimmel hasn’t made someone laugh in years.
Or what? I might see pixels from a video game.
https://xcancel.com/GTASixInfo/status/2010798891269243103
Except for the mission name and general concept of “roof, gun, tent, crowd” its quite the shit recreation honestly.
I’d be very surprised if he wanted to make it so accurate that you could use it in a documentary. It’s probably a shitpost cobbled together in a few hours for himself and his buddies.
This reminds me more of the movie Vantage Point.
I loved that movie!
Lol yeah, just watched that clip, crowd was like 3 ppl lol. Not a high effort recreation.
Don’t let this story distract from the far more important news of Rockstar firing 33 employees for forming a union, making up a flimsy excuse after the fact, and getting a judge to deny interim relief to the fired workers.
Didn’t they literally make a game about bullying, also is there a game (by another studio) about “going postal”.
I even saw a game trying to recreate the JFK headshot, but this is something they frown upon?
JFK Reloaded was made to dispel conspiracy theories by simulating the assassination and grading each shot on how close it was to real life. The ballistics were advanced. It turns out it is a lot more fun to play when you shoot the drivers first, stopping the motorcade, and start shooting the sunglasses off the cops and the guns out of their hands. It’s no Sniper Elite but you can really pump JFK’s guts full of lead.
It sounds so fake, but wikipedia doesn’t lie
I wonder if he ever made a game about driving Lady Di off a road with papparazzi…
Capitalism. The rich owner types don’t like this sort of thing, and they have a lot of power. They don’t really have coherent values except “in-group to protect, out-group to bind” and “no one tells me what to do. i tell you what to do.”
It’s about timing. If someone did this before he died, you wouldn’t even hear about it in the news.
The Postal games faced bans and censorship. The ending of the original Postal was changed at one point. I believe all the Postal games were pulled from something at one point or another. JFK reloaded caused a huge amount of backlash and politicians and stuff denouncing the game. But these games don’t have anything to do with Rockstar at all. So it’s not really relevant to Rockstar not wanting a Charlie Kirk mission.
I didn’t realize Bully came out ~20 years ago. Fuck. I can believe I’m saying this but, it really was a different time.
I avoided that game based on the name, but from what I gather, it was misleading; pretty much every sect of that school is full of jerks (sadly including the nerds, who often cater to their own victim complex), and your character is just facing the larger of them.
right wingers got mad when GTA made it by miami/la having crazy right wingers in it.
where can I piss on his grave? it’ll have to make do until the orange window licker dies
Unknown. They wisely kept the burial details a secret.
really? even in findagrave?
Yup, deliberately hidden.
cowards
If these could be missions for Hitman, that would rock.
So we should make Alex Jones and Stephen Miller missions to train people for the sequels?
Pussies.
Karlie Chirk mission
Rockstar doesn’t make games for you anymore; it makes what the wealthy elite want you to play.
Fuck Rockstar.
remember when Postal did a parody of the Waco massacre?
Suppression is often countered with flooding tactics.
Not allowed to kill fascists in gta?
I haven’t played GTA in years. I guess you can make your own missions now? And this was a user created mission?
Too bad there’s not an article that answers all of these things in the first paragraph.
Prove it. Post the article in the comments right here and now!
The article in the post you brain dead moron
Well, there goes the only legitimate reason to still play GTA online.
I am curious how into this they got, with the details of the killing being that the official story is untrue, patently on it’s face impossible. That rifle was not what shot him at that range. The shooter presumably didn’t disassemble that rifle into that litlle pack in 1 minute either.
If honest, the mission is to orchestrate a killing for israel’s factions in the US, for them to make turning point into a nazi youth and both college and public school policer of thought and cataloguer of students and teachers, after kirk rejected that plan and the Israel back board member p(r)icks for his own guys with his own vision.
Most people would not want to be on their side though. What being nazis and all.
All those devs who got fired by those corps, might as well form their own collective and make a better game.