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Nov 3rd, 2010 at 23:42:40 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (XBX) |
Today I played very few missions and messed around a lot. During my first mission, I was driving to the destination when I heard this on the radio: “What are you going to do if someone breaks into your house? Call the police? They take an average of 35 minutes to arrive. In that time a murderer could have killed your wife, smoked a ciggerette, in seconds. It is vital to protect yourself. That’s right, patriot arms has the inventory to protect your family from the evils of a liberal society: mortars, submachine guns, shoulder launched missiles that accept all manner of heat seaking missiles and more just in time to celebrate the Gulf War. Pink and red tracer bullets are in so you can protect your family in the dark. Start the week off right with ‘Make my Day Mondays; with two for one on maim, strike and, kill landmines. Got gulf war syndrome? You get ten bucks off all machine gun rentals. Hey if you love your family prove it with a gun, ammunition, and protecting your rights.” I should note that this isn’t exactly what the radio-guy said, but the second half is almost word for word what he said (I paused the game to write what he was saying). Though the tone of this commercial is mixed with seriousness and comedy. It is satire. And as we know, satire draws from real life, and this is no different. It makes a pretty good point too: if no one had guns we wouldn’t need to have guns to protect ourselves. There is truth to that, but that could only work if we never had guns. Though, lots of people own guns, so if we banned guns we would still have guns, and most importantly the bad guys would have guns. So we end up having to have guns because of the people that are using them in a regular basis (bad guys/criminals).
It’s interesting how the police in the game react to different situations. They only seem to be concerned with what CJ is doing. There was one exception, but it seemed scripted. The firefighters and the paramedics do care what goes on with everyone. The police followed me home after I completed the drive-by mission. At this point they were annoying and not causing too much trouble, but after a few minutes they were really hurting me. And although I did not HAVE to kill them, I proceeded to kill them. I died and wondered off into a corner of the world. It was at this point (after my car blew up) I witnessed a cop shooting a suspect for seemingly no reason. I never saw the suspect with a weapon and couldn’t find one on his body. The cop killed this unarmed man for no reason!
Later on I used a cheat to get infinite health. I had some fun with it, and then while I was just standing around some gangsters started punching me. They tried to beat me up for about a minute, and then they pulled out their guns and began shooting at me. I let them try to kill me for about five minutes. Not a single cop came by. Usually there are cop cars driving done the streets but I didn’t see one this time, and I would assume they wouldn’t have done anything anyway. It makes me wonder how much truth is behind something like this. Do cops wait until the violence is over to come in and investigate in order to protect themselves? And how many corrupt cops are there out there?
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Nov 2nd, 2010 at 23:23:42 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (XBX) |
Today was my second time and my second day playing GTA San Andreas. I played some missions for the first three fourths of my gameplay and then just ran around shooting people during the last fourth of my time. This time I had to do a few missions again because I did not save and I had killed Ryder. So I got my haircut. Which, the first time I didn’t understand that CJ’s gang still ran the barbershop. Then I went back to my place and we went off to spray paint over other gang’s tags.
Sometime around this time I heard CJ say, “don’t blame me, blame society.” I think many people in the hood have this idea. Now they are partially right and partially wrong. Yes, they have bad schools. Yes, they can actually be killed by gangs if they are not in one. Yes, they might not have internet or the knowledge to get out and into college or move somewhere better. They need money to get out first off. If they don’t have money they could try to get a loan. But their mom is dead, their dad’s where-abouts are unknown, their uncle is a crackhead, they have no siblings, and their grandparents are dead. They cannot have anyone co-sign for a loan, and they cannot get a loan on their own. So a loan is out of the question. They could try get a job at a fast good joint. They would have very low wages, might be robbed, and might be shot. If they join a gang they could make a lot of money by robbing places, robbing people, stealing cars, and selling drugs. They would also have the gang for protection. So the person joins a gang to get enough money to get out of gang. Assuming they don’t get shot they start to rise to the top and life actually starts to look a little better. So they decided to stay and make a ton of money. This is a perpetual cycle in hood, and CJ might not be too off with this statement.
After I spray paint some more tags I go back to Grove street to do another mission. This time we are after a crack dealer. The mission goal actually told me to, “go beat up a crack dealer.” In this situation CJ and the crew are acting as if the dealer as agreed to a social contract. While law and common sense says you should not deal drugs, especially dangerous ones, the dealer has not agreed to those terms. If he had a punishment would be suitable. However, death is not a punishment that fits this crime. If there was more information on the dealer, like people were being killed from the drugs he was selling, then death would be a suitable punishment. However, he has not agreed to any contract and law, so this punishment is not suitable. And it isn’t even suitable if he was in agreement, because we don’t know all of the details.
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Nov 1st, 2010 at 22:33:45 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (XBX) |
I play Grand Theft Auto: Sand Andreas for the first time. I’ve played the other, later, games on friends’ consoles, but not this one. The game starts off with CJ (your character/you) being thrown back into Grove Street, his old neighborhood. You go back to your house and find out that your (CJ’s) mom has died. You do not know why, and you are going to find out.
Right as you arrive at your house you hear two hookers talking and one says “there ain’t enough horny men around around here.” That was quite a surprise to me. The characters being hookers was not that surprising, but the fact that they were actually talking about what they did in detail did surprise me. I left and went inside. I met some friends and found out that my mom wasn’t the only person that recently past in the area. Apparently, many of my old friends had died. CJ decides he is going to do whatever it takes to find out who killed his mom, similar to ethical egoism. And then CJ starts to go on missions for his gang. In the game you have little to no choice in how to complete missions. It does not allow the player to choose to be bad, they simply must be bad. However, you can also do unnecessary bad things like shooting people, like this time during a robbery.
At one point during my play through Ryder tried to rob a fast food place, but the employee had a shotgun. We ran off. However, the guy continued to shoot at me. I was not fond of this and I had no gun. I ran him over and took his shotgun, an example of ethical egoism. I did not need to run him over and I did not need his shotgun, but I wanted it and it would benefit me so I did it.
Another point during my play through I wanted to see what my character would look like when he was fat. So I went into Cluckin Chicken and ordered a lot of food. But after a number of orders I vomited and was unable to any more food. I had not gotten fat, so I was irked. I decided to shoot the employees because I had not used my new shotgun yet and I wanted to get fat but I could not. So I shot them and left the building to take on another mission.
At this point during my play through I was somewhat bored because there was not much action going on. I had just accepted another mission and Ryder and I were suppose to get in the car and leave. However, I decided not to do that. I wanted to see what would happen if I killed him. I thought it would restart where I had just accepted the mission, but it did not. I had just killed my partner and nothing had happened. The game had not reverted. I was quite surprised. Then I started killing other people to see what would happen. I found a baseball bat and killed a few more. Eventually an ambulance came. I never saw the Police come. I stole the ambulance and drove off to explore more.
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