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And I think for me, I think that yawksa games have replaced Grand Theft Auto Games for me. We'll

number one because they don't make Grand Theft Auto games anymore, but also it is a little unrealistic

and it is like a euphemism for all the ugliness in the world, but I do feel like yawksa games

leave me feeling good instead of making me feel gross. Like everyone in this game sucks. Everyone's

a murderer. There's no hope for anyone or the world. Yeah, especially like GTA 5, they're just all

of them are unrepentant assholes and Kiryu is just so earnest. Like and he's earnest with everybody.

Yeah, GTA or sorry, rockstar got really salty with me because I wrote it editorial basically saying

like I love the world of GTA 5, but I hate the story and everyone in it because they're just so

ugly and they were like, how can you take a pot shot at us like that? I wasn't. I was talking about

my personal exhaustion with everyone being horrible and ugly. That's it. Which and it's odd because

red dead redemption too is actually probably closer to the yawksa character side. Like, oh, I kind

of like these people. Like they want to be better people. They're just in a bad situation. And I

think probably red dead too is probably the best thing. And I've played from rockstar in a very long

time. Yeah, I think I think rockstar got over their love for like the sopranos and breaking bad

and their fascination with bad anti heroes. Well, with the success of GTA 5 as a platform for

just online play, I think they're just kind of done with stories. They're like, why did we bother

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