hey everybody welcome to another episode of glasses off a video series i do every so often every now and again whenever a piece of news tickles my confusingly structured frontal cortex these videos are usually a little bit more laid back a little bit less heavily edited than my standard fare and also i'm very sick i don't know if you could tell is it obvious so i apologize in advance if this is absolutely unbearable to listen to i wanted to talk a little bit today about censorship specifically in video games because it's been a little bit of a conversation that's been happening in the games industry recently due to some modern re-releases of classic titles that have some alterations from their original releases alterations that some find arbitrary at least to downright censorius at absolute worst now you don't have to be an epic video gameist like myself to know what grand theft auto is i'm sure everybody and their grandparents know what gta is open world violence crime the exact same font as price is right for some reason a gosh darn good old time it's such a good time in fact that the classic psNUMBER_TOKEN era trilogy grand theft auto NUMBER_TOKEN vice city and the universally beloved san andreas are being re-released with modern graphics new controls it looks like a gosh dang good old time it really does look great look at those weather effects huh yeah you never seen psNUMBER_TOKEN look so weathery then a few days later i'm scrolling through twitter and i come across this article on my feed gta trilogy trailer removes confederate flag and immediately i thought god dammit this bothers me so much for such specific reasons but i know there are certain people who are only going to hear my criticisms and all they're going to hear is i love the confederate flag and i i want to defend it every single PROFANITY_TOKEN chance i get this is such a massive inconvenience and i'm sick can't catch a break i don't know man i i just i always hate it when older pieces of art are altered from their original intent with the explicit intention of you know appealing to modern sensibilities especially when those changes are so surface level and arbitrary that they almost act in exact opposition to the modern sensibilities they're supposedly intended to uphold this example in vice city is actually like really perfect because this character phil cassidy is a bumbling PROFANITY_TOKEN PROFANITY_TOKEN how's it going hey cuddy how you doing this PROFANITY_TOKEN i swear you should lay off that boom shine man it smells like paint stripper just make my eyes burn bobby hey come over here because there's something i want to show you oh damn
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