Gonna spend all afternoon playing Diablo II, then watch an episode of the Simpsons before I do my homework.

  • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Carjackings have gone thru the roof in the past two years in Chicago, which is probably what's driving this rhetoric. Lot of the carjackings are being done by kids that have admitted that they're drawing influence from GTA. Most of em take the cars for joyrides and then abandon them, while some of them just use it to commit other crimes.

    All that to say that once again, Democrats putting the cart before the horse.

      • regenerativedespair [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Really makes one reconsider the relationship of culture to materiality with stories like this lmao. Normally I'm confident in my approach but...did these people really commit to long term criminal records to LARP as Niko Bellic?

        • Harukiller14 [they/them,comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          If you were to provide an analysis to the situation, the the part of GTA that is harmful to kids is the capitalist part of it. The entire point of GTA is to make money by commiting crimes. The gangster businessman will always be the main figure of rebellion in American capitalism because it's really the only figure it can produce while still maintaining hegemony.