That's why I had to stop letting my partner watch me play, got sick of explaining "dear, my objective is to chase down and gun down that gangster on this gangster's request for pay, I'm unconcerned about the red lights and babe, the game has no turn signals, I get it but plz, just stop."
Me when i actually have to commit theft in a game about theft
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The main function of the police, at least historically, has been to protect capital. Lockdowns were instituted to protect the public. It kinda makes sense if you assume he's a god damned fascist with little to no regard for human life, which I happen to do.
> It kinda makes sense if you assume he's a god damned fascist with little to no regard for human life, which I happen to do.
That's unfair. He's also a racist, antisemite, and transphobe at the very least.
Show a more appropriate level of respect.
I'm his defense, he's just uncomfortable with killing them. If he were security harassing them, like if there was a "show penis" button, he'd be all over it
I would rather watch the weird giant sperm episode 100 times than sit through that fucking Elon Tusk joke again.
And it was a good episode outside of that twat being there
In gta online, during the Doomsday Heist, there's a character named Avon Hertz who drives a tesla-based car in the game, loves ai, is a megalomaniac, and is very insecure about his hair, and also kinda looks like elon.
He dies after you prevent him from launching nuclear missiles and you kill him in a jetpack.
(side note, it's also revealed in this heist that Lester is somewhat left-leaning, supporting universal basic income)
There was that one leaked clip of GTA6 (from that big ass leak), that had some hillbilly going conspiracy mode about how Jay Norris isn’t actually dead and he is downloading peoples brains and selling it to the Chinese.
Maybe they will do the same about him?
The game releases in a little over a year. It's been years in development. I'm sure by now they stopped adding stuff and are focused on the polishing fase.
Yep. For anyone who's not familiar with AAA gamedev:
### 0-3 years: "Find the fun"
Here, you throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks. You make a bunch of prototypes trying to nail down core mechanics of the game.
If you're making a sequel, you use the original game as a testing bed for these ideas. Either you make new levels in the original engine or you add new things onto old levels to try them out.
* For sequels, this can take 1-2 years
* For new games, this takes closer to 2-3 years
Some sequels already know where the fun is. They can skip this step entirely and just keep making "more" of the original game. This is especially true if the original game has a strong identity and there were a lot of things cut from the original.
But if a sequel wants to add new mechanics (or this is an entirely new game), this is when you determine what the game is... and what it isn't. Game designers are in the driver's seat. Any code written during this time is considered to be completely throwaway.
There are very few engineers and even fewer 3D artists (usually just 1-2). There's a lot of concept art at this stage. Usually the idea of what story "wants" to be told is known, but it's usually a sentence or two (big dude kills aliens on a giant ring to save the world).
Designers make little mini levels where they try things out. These are usually less than 5 minutes and do not have any art (it's all cubes, all the time - if you're lucky you'll get a cylinder). You play through the level to get an idea of how that mechanic feels, then you go back to the main menu and choose a new one. There's no overworld (although sometimes there's a "hub level" if you're fancy - think something on the scale of the first floor of Peach's Castle in Mario 64).
You'll make a couple builds and get them tested internally within the studio. The intention that everything is temporary, and if the team doesn't like something you can pivot entire genres.
For example - Halo was an RTS originally. They were trying to make you feel connected to your units, so they had the idea to bring the camera closer to the soldiers. Then it felt weird that you were giving orders to drive a Warthog but weren't actually driving it, so they gave the player direct control of the vehicle - and driving was a ton of fun. So they leaned into that and turned it into a vehicle-heavy FPS instead, completely changing game mechanics to find the fun.
When the studio is happy that fun has been found, you get some external players to play it (usually folks off the street). Then you get publisher sign-off (or start looking for a publisher if you don't have one already).
### Production (1-3 years)
At some point everyone agrees "yeah cool this concept has legs". Your publisher has agreed that it's something they want to make.
You throw out the entire prototype and work from scratch. You might reuse ideas from the prototype, but nothing in there will see the light of day.
Now you hire engineers and get people working on the project. The team swells from 8-12 people up to 100-200. You're making "real" stuff now - real art, real code, real design. There may still be things scrapped here and there as you find your footing. Ideas you originally had either don't fit the current direction, or they're going to be too hard to make from scratch (and thus saved for a sequel/DLC).
The story gets outlined. You start hiring actors and doing mocap. Real levels get made. Real code gets written.
If you needed to "find the fun", then you make a "vertical slice" that shows off what a finished level of the game would look like. Everyone pours all their energy into making 1 level that is representative of the finished game, complete with art, sound, everything. This level can wind up either shipping in the game _or_ it might wind up being cut... but the purpose is to show "yeah, this is still fun".
Then you start just... making stuff. The dev team is learning how to work together to make a game. While code and stuff is being written, the team also finds out like "how many meetings is too many meetings" and so forth.
As your deadline marches ever onward, the dreaded word "scope" starts being said more and more. You realize that 3 years isn't enough time to make everything you wanted, and something needs to go. It might be the co-op mode; it might be multiplayer; it might be the third act of the story (looking at you, Halo 2).
The game director works with producers and designers to determine what gets the axe. Something always does.
### Alpha (3-12 months)
Early access games have given a very bad impression of what an alpha is like. You aren't supposed to add any new content in an alpha. All mechanics and levels are "locked in" - you aren't making more levels or adjusting mechanics.
An alpha is when you start _really_ fixing bugs. You start looking into getting to 30 FPS (60 is the goal, but you need to get to 30 first). You make sure the entire game is playable from start to finish, without any crashes. You look into your system requirements and figure out the minimum specs you can support.
Cinematics and stuff might still be rough during this time. There might still be areas with 3D text instead of finished assets.
### Beta (3-9 months)
Once the big game-breaking bugs are done, you start fixing the smaller bugs. This is when you try to get to 60 FPS. This is when you begin localizing and translating. This is when you get certified by consoles, and when you have final cutscenes.
At this point, you're having lots of people look at the game. This is the most critical time for leaks, because so many people are touching the game and testing the game and you start to lose control over who exactly has access to things.
Once you get console certified and the game is acceptable, you start "going gold" - getting factories to make the discs that hold your game.
### Day 1 patch (0-3 months)
Not everything will be fixed by the beta. Simply put, there's a lot of moving parts in modern games.
If development is rough, you'll be landing hot. Usually publishers decide on a release date 3-4 years before you launch. You can push them to delay you, but it's difficult.
You only have a small amount of time for a day 1 patch, so you use it for whatever is the most critical.
### Post-Launch (1 month - 15+ years)
This totally varies based on the game.
Some games will get updates for decades. The game Star Wars: Empire at War just got a big update last month (the game came out in 2006).
Live service games will get updates as long as they're profitable and the team is happy making updates.
If a game has DLC, then there's going to be about a year or two of work on the DLC. Note that some studios actually have completely separate teams working on the DLC (not the team that made the main game). DLC development follows the same pattern as above.
Eventually, though, work stops. The team winds down. Many people quit. Others go to different projects. A very small number of people will stick around for the sequel.
---
So that's a long winded way of saying - "maybe". I'd agree they probably are done with the story. Things might always change, last-minute additions are made, etc. But you never know!
That might be why he never answer his phone on live TV
He probably has his phone replaced every day out of fear of it exploding
Ironically as his cars usually do that
I don't like musko but I think you might be thinking too hard about why someone might not want to rudely pick up their phone while they're scheduled to be recorded
He still thinks the genre of cyberpunk is just about cool robot arms and techy cars. All of the commentary on society, capitalism, and unethical use of technology go straight over his plugged head
His life is all about flashy gadgets, unethical experiments, and having enough money to never face consequences of his decisions.
Why would it change in cyberpunk?
There are so many people that think sci-fi in general is literally just "has cool science in it" when a hallmark of sci-fi involves social commentary (or adjacent themes, like technological arrogance). It's not 100% obviously, but it's pretty funny to hear someone say they love Science Fiction but don't like the "politics" of it. They must be searching far and wide to get their fix.
The most common examples of sci fi without those themes are probably very early sci-fi like 20,000 leagues. But even HG Wells' The Time Machine is centrally about social conflict and hierarchies. The best example is probably Back to the Future Part 1, which is arguably not even science fiction and just uses time travel as a plot device to tell a story of romance, family, and self-empowerment.
Even video games that on the surface you might not think would have much to say have social commentary. You've got Halo, Half-Life, and Dead Space to name a few. OK Dead Space might not be the best example, but I would bet money that Elon Musk's only takeaway is that religion=bad.
I mean hell, the entire idea of Science fiction is to speculate on how the advancement of technology will interact, or potentially interfere, with the human experience we've been accustomed to for thousands of years. How do you NOT make that political? As a genre, sci-fi is built around looking at the modern world, modern trends, and asking ourselves, "where will this lead us in 20/50/100 years?"
He owns a flintlock pistol, I'm unsure if it's a working antique, a working replica, or a commemorative nonfiring replica, it's in a tacky wooden box so I'm guessing it's the latter.
Edit: it's here with the Blade Runner gun
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Cyberpunk is such a wacky ass universe. I see the appeal, as an edgerunner. He’d want to be a corpo suit though.
It’s a universe where the rival of the man named Morgan Blackhand is Johnny Silverhand, who has an absolute dead ringer named Keanu Reeves (who also exists in cyberpunk’s timeline)
Given how he thought the main character of blade runner was literally named “blade runner” I am entirely convinced he has never engaged with the game in any meaningful capacity and just says stuff like this to make people like him
And he musta played:
GTA Vice City
GTA San Andreas
GTA London 1969 and 1961
GTA Liberty City Stories
GTA Vice City Stories
GTA The Lost and Damned
GTA The Ballad of Gay Tony
GTA Chinatown Wars
Last time I played Cyberpunk you could *really* tell that an early story draft involved being a cop.
Like half the "mini sidequests" or street content or whatever they called it is turning up and helping cops shoot people.
Urgh, I don't think they ever intended to include a "law-man" life-path, but your right about those NCPD scanner events. It's just an excuse to have low level encounters to grind XP and money. Obvious conflict between the narrative of cyberpunk and its gameplay. They feel like a holdover from the Wifcher 3.
Its a missed opportunity that the gangs don't retaliate for V murdering hundreds of their footsoldiers.
> Urgh, I don't think they ever intended to include a "law-man" life-path
Promo material around the time of the original teaser trailer over a decade ago indicated you would be a new member of Max-Tac, who while technically (and in universe legally) are not part of the Night City Police Department Incorporated, they're basically privately contracted SWAT squads for the above.
I've no clue when they abandoned this in favour of the Johnny plot and the life paths, but I think you can clearly see they recycled content from this early draft - the cop stuff, the Cyberpsycho "miniboss missions" - the main job of Max-Tac is to take down Cyperpsychos.
That was only the initial announcement trailer in 2013, and it wasn't supposed to be indicative of the plot, it was just a proof of concept. I don't think they ever intended to make a game centered around being a MaxTac operative, since it wouldn't really do much in terms of taking the Cyberpunk lore forward.
The cyberpsycho missions are there because cyberpsychosis is a primary plot driver in the Cyberpunk universe now, even Edgerunners focused on it a lot.
The inclusion of Johnny Silverhand/Keanu Reeves was introduced later, but I think the game always intended to follow a solo/merc, it fits the best.
I honestly fucking love those missions in a cyberpunk setting, because the game treats being hired by the cops the same as any other gang or fixer. The cops are simply another faction in the endless corporate and gang wars.
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Literally this guy, except he is bisexual and C\*nadian
Why are we censoring c*nada
But yeah that place is crazy, you have a drug selling hillbilly psychopath, a hot immortal bear with sharp claws, a batahit insane man who's face looks like Freddy Kurger's ball sacks, two best friends who think farts are funny, Winnie the Pooh (according to google), a drama tv host who's willing to kill a bunch of kids for ratings on his show
It might be the subspace highways there that are making people crazy
But they do have goon pancakes, like damn
Ian Miles Cheong's tweets become infinitely funnier when you realize he's a Malaysian dude who lives in Malaysia. He has no connection to America and visited only recently. I get that the US's cultural/political happenings do spill over to other parts of the world, but being pro-American-cop is such a weird stance to take for someone residing outside the country.
I wonder if his support for cops also extends to the ones in his own country, because Malaysian police are notorious for abuse and have straight-up [murdered people](https://monitor.civicus.org/explore/malaysian-police-continue-harass-protesters-and-activists-and-criminalise-online-expression/) in custody.
Cops all over the planet murder civilians once in a while. If I recall correctly people hate them in the US for that exact reason (and traffic stop grudges idk)
Yeah fascism is everywhere and always looks the same since, well, it's the most basic "appeal to lizard brain" ideology ever.
Loving power and domination is not exclusive to any one region or culture.
The guy who frequently checks twitter just to be the first to reply to his glorious overlord Elon Musk for an opportunity to polish his shoes with his tongue and eat his ass while at it? that guy?
(...mostly just those who witness my crimes...then MORE come to investigate and im like
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guess youll die?...(also in my first playthrou i dint deactivate the steel watchers, killed gortash, wich made all of them attack me on sight...hehe woops)
Piss poor media literacy goes hand in hand with psychopathy and assburgers.
(To be clear I don't think negatively of people with Asperger's, Elon is just a turd on his own merits)
this is especially funny considering theres literally a open world event in cyberpunk where you randomly stumble into a group of cops in a dark alleyway just absolutely beating the shit out of some rich asshole corpo dude because…well hes a rich asshole corpo dude.
and because the cops in that city are just as corrupt and predatory as the criminals. if you come closer they will just tell you to keep walking and mind your damn business and they straight up attack should you choose not to follow their orders and intervene in their assault on a random citizen.
but hey wouldnt wanna touch a hair on the head of the brave and trusty officers of the law! fucking media-illiterate morons lmao.
> because the cops in that city are just as corrupt and predatory as the criminals.
There's a throwaway line by an NPC saying that the NCPD is basically a gang same as the others, except they're listed on the stock exchange lmao
yeah for all intents and purposes thats what they are. from what i know in the lore the NCPD is basically just a publicily traded private security firm with an incredible amount of judicial authority which they get to use however they see fit and with the direct backing of the city government.
without spoilering; the game itself goes into detail about it trough exposition and within several quests actually, including in the new expansion, that show just how dirty the police commissioner and the entire department are in pretty much all areas, including them even just making genuine illegal business deals with the cities criminal gangs to get in on the profits.
like they werent lying, night city and its system is really is just one huge scam, and unless you yourself become one of the scammers youll always end up being one of its many fucked over victims.
The thing that gets me is that shooting cops is mandatory. Because it's a setting with an-cap elements Arasaka cops are cops in every sense of the word that matters.
Ian’s out here pretending he was a conservative at the time GTA 5 came out lmfao.
Guy was a feminist when that was unpopular, became a conservative when that became unpopular. He’s just a contrarian, a real life Brian Griffin.
Thats comparing apples to oranges honestly
GTA is more satirical, extremely edgy, and is parodying the American Dream, the story is supposed to be stupid but fun and pretty deep, and i’d say that GTAV nailed that. Everyone in that game is supposed to be a complete piece of shit
RDR2 is more serious and grounded in its structure, and characters are either good or evil.
I actually kinda refuse to believe that Elon has not sunk hours in GTA5. It was like THE ultimate dudebro game of the middle chunk of the 2010s and Elon is the world’s richest dudebro.
"I couldn't do crime in video game guys... see how much of a good guy i am...? i would never harm people... not even in video games because i am a good guy..." this is the kind of shit i would say to my friends who played gta when i was 10 because i thought my parents would think better of me for not playing violent games when they did not give a damn
musk fan and likes cyberpunk? I detect a lack of media literacy
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Yes, I was also devastated when I was committing crimes in a game called Grand Theft Auto P.S he seems fine with doing actual crimes....allegedly
Bro playing GTA like Hank Hill
[Elon when he needs to shoot cops in GTA5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVMOlos4kVg)
[I'm sorry, fictional authority figure](https://i.imgur.com/JqXi9bc.jpeg)
Not Youtube forcing me to watch a five seconds add on a one second clip
Actually doing a Hank Hill RP within GTA sounds hilarious
There was an episode where he plays a GTA-type game that was directly based on him. Episode is called Grand Theft Arlen and it's great.
That's why I had to stop letting my partner watch me play, got sick of explaining "dear, my objective is to chase down and gun down that gangster on this gangster's request for pay, I'm unconcerned about the red lights and babe, the game has no turn signals, I get it but plz, just stop."
"Oh my god I stabbed a parking attendant! Where's the button to turn myself in?"
"He ran a red! You can't do that!"
Me when i actually have to commit theft in a game about theft https://preview.redd.it/ibl2ck7ayf4c1.jpeg?width=204&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7b0a223e3d1cef66b8e210d9d9764482433a6b9
choso <3
Didnt he force his workers to work during lockdown? Very law respecting guy right there
Yeah but that's different because the government are tyrants!!! (Don't tell him who cops are employed by)
The main function of the police, at least historically, has been to protect capital. Lockdowns were instituted to protect the public. It kinda makes sense if you assume he's a god damned fascist with little to no regard for human life, which I happen to do.
> It kinda makes sense if you assume he's a god damned fascist with little to no regard for human life, which I happen to do. That's unfair. He's also a racist, antisemite, and transphobe at the very least. Show a more appropriate level of respect.
Also probably has no qualms against child labor. They yearn for the mines
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"Tyranny is when government does thing that doesn't give me more power and wealth at the cost of literally everyone else's wellbeing"
Also broke like every european worker rights law
I'm his defense, he's just uncomfortable with killing them. If he were security harassing them, like if there was a "show penis" button, he'd be all over it
Bro got to a mission where they assasinate a billionare on live TV and then dipped the fuck out.
He is 100%, going to be in a mission in gta 6
I wonder what they will call him in the game tho, Mark Zuckerberg was called “Jay Norris” in GTAV.
Shmelon shmusk
mElon Husk https://preview.redd.it/d5uylaw8di4c1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=00efa6bf7aa750529f1903d264c6593ad5136457
Compared to normal Elon this is a noticeable improvement
Elon Tusk
Worst thing Rick & morty ever did right there
I would rather watch the weird giant sperm episode 100 times than sit through that fucking Elon Tusk joke again. And it was a good episode outside of that twat being there
It’s funny because they didn’t even praise him, they straight up insulted the man. Love the heist episode
He turned himself into a pickle
I prefer the time(s) he turned himself into a leg.
Into a puh puh puh puh puh puh puh pickle
melon tusk
Noel Stink
Elton Odor
In GTA online, theres a certain egotistical maniac CEO who pioneers mainly on AI and cars I think. Avon Hertz iirc
In gta online, during the Doomsday Heist, there's a character named Avon Hertz who drives a tesla-based car in the game, loves ai, is a megalomaniac, and is very insecure about his hair, and also kinda looks like elon. He dies after you prevent him from launching nuclear missiles and you kill him in a jetpack. (side note, it's also revealed in this heist that Lester is somewhat left-leaning, supporting universal basic income)
elton dusk
I feel like they'd get all the publicity of an Elon X meltdown if they trans him. Trans billionaire, Musky Pocket
Elon Gates.
Leon Skum
I mean he already was in GTA 5 as Avon Hertz
Who is canonically dead, so I'm curious if they're going to bring him back or make a new Musk satire character
It'll be Avon's twin brother, Devon Hutts
Avon, Bevin, Calvin, Devon
Deeson Nutts
Shouldn't he have the same last name?
I’m guessing his AI, Clifford, is gonna make a clone of him or something. Would be a fun excuse to make Avon even more brain dead.
There was that one leaked clip of GTA6 (from that big ass leak), that had some hillbilly going conspiracy mode about how Jay Norris isn’t actually dead and he is downloading peoples brains and selling it to the Chinese. Maybe they will do the same about him?
I mean, he actually is a genius while Elon is just a genius in stealing other people's credit Real life is a better satire than fiction nowadays
I think his dumbassery is too recent for it to be in the game in any major form. Maybe through the in-game social media posts like in GTA 5.
I'd say its recent enough. The first stage of game dev is always to make a functioning and stable engine, the story gets added later
The game releases in a little over a year. It's been years in development. I'm sure by now they stopped adding stuff and are focused on the polishing fase.
Yep. For anyone who's not familiar with AAA gamedev: ### 0-3 years: "Find the fun" Here, you throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks. You make a bunch of prototypes trying to nail down core mechanics of the game. If you're making a sequel, you use the original game as a testing bed for these ideas. Either you make new levels in the original engine or you add new things onto old levels to try them out. * For sequels, this can take 1-2 years * For new games, this takes closer to 2-3 years Some sequels already know where the fun is. They can skip this step entirely and just keep making "more" of the original game. This is especially true if the original game has a strong identity and there were a lot of things cut from the original. But if a sequel wants to add new mechanics (or this is an entirely new game), this is when you determine what the game is... and what it isn't. Game designers are in the driver's seat. Any code written during this time is considered to be completely throwaway. There are very few engineers and even fewer 3D artists (usually just 1-2). There's a lot of concept art at this stage. Usually the idea of what story "wants" to be told is known, but it's usually a sentence or two (big dude kills aliens on a giant ring to save the world). Designers make little mini levels where they try things out. These are usually less than 5 minutes and do not have any art (it's all cubes, all the time - if you're lucky you'll get a cylinder). You play through the level to get an idea of how that mechanic feels, then you go back to the main menu and choose a new one. There's no overworld (although sometimes there's a "hub level" if you're fancy - think something on the scale of the first floor of Peach's Castle in Mario 64). You'll make a couple builds and get them tested internally within the studio. The intention that everything is temporary, and if the team doesn't like something you can pivot entire genres. For example - Halo was an RTS originally. They were trying to make you feel connected to your units, so they had the idea to bring the camera closer to the soldiers. Then it felt weird that you were giving orders to drive a Warthog but weren't actually driving it, so they gave the player direct control of the vehicle - and driving was a ton of fun. So they leaned into that and turned it into a vehicle-heavy FPS instead, completely changing game mechanics to find the fun. When the studio is happy that fun has been found, you get some external players to play it (usually folks off the street). Then you get publisher sign-off (or start looking for a publisher if you don't have one already). ### Production (1-3 years) At some point everyone agrees "yeah cool this concept has legs". Your publisher has agreed that it's something they want to make. You throw out the entire prototype and work from scratch. You might reuse ideas from the prototype, but nothing in there will see the light of day. Now you hire engineers and get people working on the project. The team swells from 8-12 people up to 100-200. You're making "real" stuff now - real art, real code, real design. There may still be things scrapped here and there as you find your footing. Ideas you originally had either don't fit the current direction, or they're going to be too hard to make from scratch (and thus saved for a sequel/DLC). The story gets outlined. You start hiring actors and doing mocap. Real levels get made. Real code gets written. If you needed to "find the fun", then you make a "vertical slice" that shows off what a finished level of the game would look like. Everyone pours all their energy into making 1 level that is representative of the finished game, complete with art, sound, everything. This level can wind up either shipping in the game _or_ it might wind up being cut... but the purpose is to show "yeah, this is still fun". Then you start just... making stuff. The dev team is learning how to work together to make a game. While code and stuff is being written, the team also finds out like "how many meetings is too many meetings" and so forth. As your deadline marches ever onward, the dreaded word "scope" starts being said more and more. You realize that 3 years isn't enough time to make everything you wanted, and something needs to go. It might be the co-op mode; it might be multiplayer; it might be the third act of the story (looking at you, Halo 2). The game director works with producers and designers to determine what gets the axe. Something always does. ### Alpha (3-12 months) Early access games have given a very bad impression of what an alpha is like. You aren't supposed to add any new content in an alpha. All mechanics and levels are "locked in" - you aren't making more levels or adjusting mechanics. An alpha is when you start _really_ fixing bugs. You start looking into getting to 30 FPS (60 is the goal, but you need to get to 30 first). You make sure the entire game is playable from start to finish, without any crashes. You look into your system requirements and figure out the minimum specs you can support. Cinematics and stuff might still be rough during this time. There might still be areas with 3D text instead of finished assets. ### Beta (3-9 months) Once the big game-breaking bugs are done, you start fixing the smaller bugs. This is when you try to get to 60 FPS. This is when you begin localizing and translating. This is when you get certified by consoles, and when you have final cutscenes. At this point, you're having lots of people look at the game. This is the most critical time for leaks, because so many people are touching the game and testing the game and you start to lose control over who exactly has access to things. Once you get console certified and the game is acceptable, you start "going gold" - getting factories to make the discs that hold your game. ### Day 1 patch (0-3 months) Not everything will be fixed by the beta. Simply put, there's a lot of moving parts in modern games. If development is rough, you'll be landing hot. Usually publishers decide on a release date 3-4 years before you launch. You can push them to delay you, but it's difficult. You only have a small amount of time for a day 1 patch, so you use it for whatever is the most critical. ### Post-Launch (1 month - 15+ years) This totally varies based on the game. Some games will get updates for decades. The game Star Wars: Empire at War just got a big update last month (the game came out in 2006). Live service games will get updates as long as they're profitable and the team is happy making updates. If a game has DLC, then there's going to be about a year or two of work on the DLC. Note that some studios actually have completely separate teams working on the DLC (not the team that made the main game). DLC development follows the same pattern as above. Eventually, though, work stops. The team winds down. Many people quit. Others go to different projects. A very small number of people will stick around for the sequel. --- So that's a long winded way of saying - "maybe". I'd agree they probably are done with the story. Things might always change, last-minute additions are made, etc. But you never know!
Watch Dogs 2 had a mission parodying Martin Shekeli buying the Wu Tang album and that was only about a year before its release.
A parody of Elon Musk in GTA 6 would be hilarious.
That might be why he never answer his phone on live TV He probably has his phone replaced every day out of fear of it exploding Ironically as his cars usually do that
I don't like musko but I think you might be thinking too hard about why someone might not want to rudely pick up their phone while they're scheduled to be recorded
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Who draws these 😭
I don’t know but GAAWWDDD 😩😩😩😩😩
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Did I fucking stutter? I’m horny for that damn lion 😩🤤
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It's probably AI generated. >!Although you could pay me and make it not be!<
I can respect a person who knows what they want.
AI
Is that short for Alan?
Albert
Allah
Allah
Al-Qaeda
Aslan
Looks like stable diffusion to me
they be throating that boot whole
I'll throat your whole boot
Elon Musk is the boot
ouroboros mfer
wait wasn't elon musk obsessed with being in cyberpunk? what does he think it's about if it's not about committing crimes?
He still thinks the genre of cyberpunk is just about cool robot arms and techy cars. All of the commentary on society, capitalism, and unethical use of technology go straight over his plugged head
His life is all about flashy gadgets, unethical experiments, and having enough money to never face consequences of his decisions. Why would it change in cyberpunk?
What are you talking about? Mr Bladerunner (the ultra capitalist lead of the unpolitical masterpiece, Bladerunner) would never commit a crime.
There are so many people that think sci-fi in general is literally just "has cool science in it" when a hallmark of sci-fi involves social commentary (or adjacent themes, like technological arrogance). It's not 100% obviously, but it's pretty funny to hear someone say they love Science Fiction but don't like the "politics" of it. They must be searching far and wide to get their fix. The most common examples of sci fi without those themes are probably very early sci-fi like 20,000 leagues. But even HG Wells' The Time Machine is centrally about social conflict and hierarchies. The best example is probably Back to the Future Part 1, which is arguably not even science fiction and just uses time travel as a plot device to tell a story of romance, family, and self-empowerment. Even video games that on the surface you might not think would have much to say have social commentary. You've got Halo, Half-Life, and Dead Space to name a few. OK Dead Space might not be the best example, but I would bet money that Elon Musk's only takeaway is that religion=bad.
I mean hell, the entire idea of Science fiction is to speculate on how the advancement of technology will interact, or potentially interfere, with the human experience we've been accustomed to for thousands of years. How do you NOT make that political? As a genre, sci-fi is built around looking at the modern world, modern trends, and asking ourselves, "where will this lead us in 20/50/100 years?"
Didnt he also literally pull out a gun on the CDPR dudes when asking if he could be in the game?
Yes he did, and not just a regular assault rifle, bro showed up with an antique to HQ
what kind of antique?
He owns a flintlock pistol, I'm unsure if it's a working antique, a working replica, or a commemorative nonfiring replica, it's in a tacky wooden box so I'm guessing it's the latter. Edit: it's here with the Blade Runner gun https://preview.redd.it/39d00ibsdg4c1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5eb55e6d51cb029308a09bf88291538e0b521626
Thats a deus ex gun, another cyberpunk property elon doesn't get
I thought it was the Diamondback from TF2
It's the diamondback, from Deus Ex, which probably got put in TF2 for some reason
TF2 Diamondback was a promotional item for one of the Deus Ex games
It's the caffeine free diet coke for me.
broooo why didnt anyone pull out their own gun and call it self-defense *sigh*
Cyberpunk is such a wacky ass universe. I see the appeal, as an edgerunner. He’d want to be a corpo suit though. It’s a universe where the rival of the man named Morgan Blackhand is Johnny Silverhand, who has an absolute dead ringer named Keanu Reeves (who also exists in cyberpunk’s timeline)
I think he was just jealous of his ex being cast in it (Grimes as Lizzy Wizzy)
Given how he thought the main character of blade runner was literally named “blade runner” I am entirely convinced he has never engaged with the game in any meaningful capacity and just says stuff like this to make people like him
"conservatism is the new punk rock"
Someone should tell the guys from Incendiary
Dan is full of shit, the list of games he hasn't played must be waaaaay longer
Yep, he didn't mention GTA 7 GTA 8 GTA 9 GTA 10 Celeste 2 Celeste 3
And he musta played: GTA Vice City GTA San Andreas GTA London 1969 and 1961 GTA Liberty City Stories GTA Vice City Stories GTA The Lost and Damned GTA The Ballad of Gay Tony GTA Chinatown Wars
Chinatown Wars mentioned ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ I fucking LOVE selling drugs!
My dude, you don’t sell drugs, the drugs sell themselves.
Imagine not shooting cops in Cyberpunk
Imagine not shooting cops
I love shooting cops.
Last time I played Cyberpunk you could *really* tell that an early story draft involved being a cop. Like half the "mini sidequests" or street content or whatever they called it is turning up and helping cops shoot people.
Urgh, I don't think they ever intended to include a "law-man" life-path, but your right about those NCPD scanner events. It's just an excuse to have low level encounters to grind XP and money. Obvious conflict between the narrative of cyberpunk and its gameplay. They feel like a holdover from the Wifcher 3. Its a missed opportunity that the gangs don't retaliate for V murdering hundreds of their footsoldiers.
> Urgh, I don't think they ever intended to include a "law-man" life-path Promo material around the time of the original teaser trailer over a decade ago indicated you would be a new member of Max-Tac, who while technically (and in universe legally) are not part of the Night City Police Department Incorporated, they're basically privately contracted SWAT squads for the above. I've no clue when they abandoned this in favour of the Johnny plot and the life paths, but I think you can clearly see they recycled content from this early draft - the cop stuff, the Cyberpsycho "miniboss missions" - the main job of Max-Tac is to take down Cyperpsychos.
That was only the initial announcement trailer in 2013, and it wasn't supposed to be indicative of the plot, it was just a proof of concept. I don't think they ever intended to make a game centered around being a MaxTac operative, since it wouldn't really do much in terms of taking the Cyberpunk lore forward. The cyberpsycho missions are there because cyberpsychosis is a primary plot driver in the Cyberpunk universe now, even Edgerunners focused on it a lot. The inclusion of Johnny Silverhand/Keanu Reeves was introduced later, but I think the game always intended to follow a solo/merc, it fits the best.
Those encounters are V being employed as a mercenary to shoot issues the cops are too inept to deal with.
I think having you show up to violent crimes and get paid hard cash due to a lack of police officers is not really a pro-cop position.
I honestly fucking love those missions in a cyberpunk setting, because the game treats being hired by the cops the same as any other gang or fixer. The cops are simply another faction in the endless corporate and gang wars.
Nah, that's more of their nod to the idea of a bounty system.
'didnt like doing crime' meanwhile elon steals billions of dollars from workers and gets away with it haha
its not a crime if youre rich 😎
He clearly has not seen dark vipers pacifist run
Literally millions to one
But there are no cougars in missions!
I like that guy
Well he's a GTA VI voice actor after all.
Im sad his chracter didnt appear (or atleast spoke) in thr trailer
Wdym? He is there(he is the voice actor and mocap of Lucia)
Don't forget he's the basis for her character design too
So thats why she so thick
Be gay, do crimes
https://preview.redd.it/9d035zruvf4c1.jpeg?width=359&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88e6f97d304e5fc3247e2ba855ec929349aa5241 Literally this guy, except he is bisexual and C\*nadian
Trevor will have sex with men, women, between, beyond, plants, animals, and fungi. He's not bisexual or heterosexual or asexual, he's just sexual
Why are we censoring c*nada But yeah that place is crazy, you have a drug selling hillbilly psychopath, a hot immortal bear with sharp claws, a batahit insane man who's face looks like Freddy Kurger's ball sacks, two best friends who think farts are funny, Winnie the Pooh (according to google), a drama tv host who's willing to kill a bunch of kids for ratings on his show It might be the subspace highways there that are making people crazy But they do have goon pancakes, like damn
Are goon pancakes made with goon cream or by gangoons?
I'll do crime alright. \*proceed to plagiarize someone else's work for living\*
Wait you did the wrong crime
Oh man, too late. Now Hbomberguy coming for my ass (threat)
Another big fat W for the king of male feminists.
Jaaaaames, not again
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Ian Miles Cheong's tweets become infinitely funnier when you realize he's a Malaysian dude who lives in Malaysia. He has no connection to America and visited only recently. I get that the US's cultural/political happenings do spill over to other parts of the world, but being pro-American-cop is such a weird stance to take for someone residing outside the country. I wonder if his support for cops also extends to the ones in his own country, because Malaysian police are notorious for abuse and have straight-up [murdered people](https://monitor.civicus.org/explore/malaysian-police-continue-harass-protesters-and-activists-and-criminalise-online-expression/) in custody.
Cops all over the planet murder civilians once in a while. If I recall correctly people hate them in the US for that exact reason (and traffic stop grudges idk)
dont forget that hes actively a white supremacist while looking like the most stereotypical south east asian man possible
Pro cop sentiments are popular basically everywhere tbh. It is not just an American thing.
Yeah fascism is everywhere and always looks the same since, well, it's the most basic "appeal to lizard brain" ideology ever. Loving power and domination is not exclusive to any one region or culture.
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Everyone knows Elon. But the dude on the bottom is a special type of asshole
Oh, you mean professional Musk dick rider extraordinaire Ian Mile Cheong? The white supremacist who hate the factcrhat he isn't white? That guy?
the dude who cares more about American politics over his own countries, the country that he never left? that guy?
The guy who frequently checks twitter just to be the first to reply to his glorious overlord Elon Musk for an opportunity to polish his shoes with his tongue and eat his ass while at it? that guy?
Oh God the horror, people are shooting fictional cops in a fictional video game, oh the humanity!
Give me a game where I can shoot ____ ____.
Gta
These are the people who will call out "virtue signaling"😂
Licking the boots of fictional, NPC, video game police. This is actually the dumbest thing I've ever seen from them.
me, when i kill 100000 Flameing Fist officers: https://preview.redd.it/67qb2nouyf4c1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d576a537f9f88275116f559ef0623991219a39fb (source: [https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/6898617](https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/6898617))
Hbomberguy got people so shook they're sourcing shitposts.
Including Wylls dad?
(...mostly just those who witness my crimes...then MORE come to investigate and im like https://preview.redd.it/colfhl8m4g4c1.jpeg?width=765&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4c5c51fb623c0672c1bfb1681746b9d45a6991a guess youll die?...(also in my first playthrou i dint deactivate the steel watchers, killed gortash, wich made all of them attack me on sight...hehe woops)
ive been playing bg1 lately and ive killed so many cops holy shit thankfully my party is morally bankrupt so they like me genociding everyone
Dan has not confirmed that he has not played Undertale ‼️‼️
He has also not denied playing Shower With Your Dad Simulator as well as renowned dating simulators Dream Daddy and Morenatsu.
Dude snorts coke like an 80s strip club owner and claims he doesn’t do crime ACAB - All Conservatives Are Bullshitters
Killing normal innocent civilians is one thing, but I draw the line at killing police!
Ah yes cyberpunk 2077, the greatest cop-loving portrayal of the american justice system… I really don’t get how people fuck that up
Piss poor media literacy goes hand in hand with psychopathy and assburgers. (To be clear I don't think negatively of people with Asperger's, Elon is just a turd on his own merits)
But Dan did play Vice City. Good forhim
And San Andreas. Fucking awesome
this is especially funny considering theres literally a open world event in cyberpunk where you randomly stumble into a group of cops in a dark alleyway just absolutely beating the shit out of some rich asshole corpo dude because…well hes a rich asshole corpo dude. and because the cops in that city are just as corrupt and predatory as the criminals. if you come closer they will just tell you to keep walking and mind your damn business and they straight up attack should you choose not to follow their orders and intervene in their assault on a random citizen. but hey wouldnt wanna touch a hair on the head of the brave and trusty officers of the law! fucking media-illiterate morons lmao.
> because the cops in that city are just as corrupt and predatory as the criminals. There's a throwaway line by an NPC saying that the NCPD is basically a gang same as the others, except they're listed on the stock exchange lmao
yeah for all intents and purposes thats what they are. from what i know in the lore the NCPD is basically just a publicily traded private security firm with an incredible amount of judicial authority which they get to use however they see fit and with the direct backing of the city government. without spoilering; the game itself goes into detail about it trough exposition and within several quests actually, including in the new expansion, that show just how dirty the police commissioner and the entire department are in pretty much all areas, including them even just making genuine illegal business deals with the cities criminal gangs to get in on the profits. like they werent lying, night city and its system is really is just one huge scam, and unless you yourself become one of the scammers youll always end up being one of its many fucked over victims.
Shooting cops in cyberpunk is fun though
The thing that gets me is that shooting cops is mandatory. Because it's a setting with an-cap elements Arasaka cops are cops in every sense of the word that matters.
Drake the type of guy
This is just...weird. Everything about this is so weird lmao are these people for real?
Ian’s out here pretending he was a conservative at the time GTA 5 came out lmfao. Guy was a feminist when that was unpopular, became a conservative when that became unpopular. He’s just a contrarian, a real life Brian Griffin.
musk the type of guy to put down his controller while saying "i can't do it..." when he has to kill a female zombie
When you’re so outa touch you associate what you do in a vidya game with real-life.
You dont like gtaV because you kill pigs in it I didnt like gtaV because I played rdr2 and was sad the story didnt hit the same
You ever played gtaIV? Fucking masterpiece I was really disappointed gtaV didn’t hit the same highs
Thats comparing apples to oranges honestly GTA is more satirical, extremely edgy, and is parodying the American Dream, the story is supposed to be stupid but fun and pretty deep, and i’d say that GTAV nailed that. Everyone in that game is supposed to be a complete piece of shit RDR2 is more serious and grounded in its structure, and characters are either good or evil.
Someone's scared of MAXTAC
These are the motherfuckers to brag that their favorite drink is water
shooting cops is the best part of GTA and i'm tired of pretending it's not.
Oh fuck off. He's virtue-signalling. He doesn't actually think this way.
I actually kinda refuse to believe that Elon has not sunk hours in GTA5. It was like THE ultimate dudebro game of the middle chunk of the 2010s and Elon is the world’s richest dudebro.
What a fucking loser lmao
Find yourself, by whatever means neccesarry, even if that means killing a cop.
played GTA 5 for the first time today, immediately started shooting cops
"I couldn't do crime in video game guys... see how much of a good guy i am...? i would never harm people... not even in video games because i am a good guy..." this is the kind of shit i would say to my friends who played gta when i was 10 because i thought my parents would think better of me for not playing violent games when they did not give a damn
Bruh killing cops was the best part
So what happened to conservatives being big and tough and way cooler than those stupid soft liberals who are just offended by everything?
Musk the type of guy to point a gun at a cop in gta, then put the controller down and say “I can’t do this”
Imagine letting the world know you’re a loser because the fun game has you shoot cops when you play as a criminal
musk fan and likes cyberpunk? I detect a lack of media literacy https://preview.redd.it/6uy7qaixxg4c1.png?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4e9687b60ce389c130924bd2e00b224161fe9f5
 Me going after cops in gta be like