Before our world became what it is, things used to be a little funny. We'd see something on TV, regurgitate it IRL. Now it's kind of hard to laugh because we 1) live in different corners of the internet 2) have very large frame of references 3) can never understand every frame of reference.
For real and out loud our entertainment is pr0p4gh4nja which is like also for real not funny T_T. Who knew Enders Game would become reality? A: all of us did.
get high michael, weed is legal now in like 42/50 states
GTA 5 offers us an almost terribly accurate map of Southern California AKA Los Santos, where a rich guy criminal, a lunatic from the desert, and a young black guy become unlikely friends and ??? Was there any winning? Not really. You play some bad guys who are just trying to get their own, fighting corrupt cops who are also trying to get their own within a system that fucks you (a bad guy) and reaps the benefits. It used to be funny.
yay an on the rails torture scene ur forced 2 play that i 4got about
What else is there to say about this game? It's eerily familiar but not in the nostalgic way. It feels like reality, it looks like reality -what am I missing? If nostalgia is a longing for the past but memories degrade the more we remember, then who is to say we're all not maniacs about town with the choice to do "good" or "bad".
Can't help but imagine the permission Trevor Phillips gave to people across the world to cosplay as a sloppy gross piece of shit.
With Rockstar's impressive licensing of over music, accurate maps, recognizable actors, why shouldn't I believe this is reality? If it looks like it, might as well be it. Sure, this must be how things work in the world, it must be how things are. Real enough for my reality.
I can hear many assholes around the world going "but you don't get it, they're supposed to be assholes" and actually, yes I do get it, I just demand more of the people I decide to spend my time with (IRL and in game). The expansive world of GTA 5 online makes it so you never have to leave Los Santos and the millions of things you can do there -namely and the foreverly awaited GTA 6 (I'm assuming will be a reflection of the disparities between monied and poor + the movie Wild Things). The actor who played Lester shared some of this sentiment in a recent interview.
With so many songs, it was overwhelming to make a mix. Something that doesn't just sound like a million songs you heard over and over again in the span of this 20 something hour game. I'm always shocked to learn that no, it's not just the same 10 songs repeating, but over 400 tracks that just kind of blend together behind too much talking. There is in fact no samples from GTA 5 at all because 160k lines of dialogue is actually too much to sift through -surely there's a standout line? 13 years later, not really. Ain't nobody got the capacity for that and neither do Rockstars employees 💩.
dl GTA5 mix: 26GTNR05_69used2bfun
the people thought I'd sneak in there w cypress hill but hit 'em w conejo instead 😛
next mix I'll finish out this Rockstar lineup by jumping into LA Noire. I'm doing a lot more research for this mix because quite frankly it could be the biggest shit of them all?