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  • SamdelltoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksEnvy
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    1 day ago

    Something I couldn’t get while younger but now feel more understanding as an adult is how CJ’s successes are all out of luck, and how much Rockstar builds him - mostly by accident - to be a kind of class traitor I’d hate in real life. Everyone has been struggling with or against crime in Grove Street for decades, and he comes back for a few months and somehow earns a millionaire enterprise - without putting any real managerial effort into it. He just happens to meet people who will happily share companies and opportunities with him in exchange for a few favors.

    This is largely thanks to software and gameplay limitations, of course - Rockstar is capable of many things but subtle and nuanced writing isn’t one of them - that stop you from coming back and extending a hand to others (even if Sweet would slap it away) or doing real accounting and development work with your properties instead of just collecting cash, but still paints a picture.