Researching writers of GTA 6. Why inclusivity in videogames is important.

[Tighty-Whitey]

Before we research gta 6 writing team and how the game will potentially feel in terms of diversity, equity and inclusion, let’s first refer to what DEI as a whole is and why it is important for modern day videogames.

The thing is, in the world where there are a lot of minorities, some people will feel left unnoticed, ignored when games refuse to explore concepts deeper apart from typical stereotypical and offensive ones. The reason why you are seeing things like this being implemented into today’s world videogames is because nowadays games are trying to be more than just things where you pass time, they are trying to have a lot more layers to their message. It is important to shape the society towards a more free and acceptive of minorities direction where you can accept differences between people such as nationality or skin color, leave behind any kind of potential negativity to rest regarding those factors. It was and still is important to educate people on those matters, that other people exist and that they are also human, they have their own interests, orientation and so on. Without those things videogames will stay «dumb» and not thoughtful, which is what the industry is trying to avoid. It’s important to show to people and make them think about subjects of oppression, where people have been oppressed quite a lot throughout history and why that oppression was meaningless. They were just making lives of the minorities worse for nothing, all due to blind-consuming hatred.

People have lives and there are growing social inequalities and issues that plague the world. That’s where DEI comes in to take care of that, to help social groups that haven’t been treated fairly and equally for centuries. Videogamers hate the inclusion of those things in media, but not everyone is spending 24/7 in front of a monitor. People out there have lives. It’s easy for gamers to ignore realistic issues, but DEI messaging was and still is important for gamers to understand why this entire thing is not bad and is actually culturally important. Games were never separate from real life elements, thus, real life messages should also be integrated into videogames and they are, those things aren’t as separate as people valuing fantasy over reality think. You may ignore politics, but politics do not ignore you, politics shape the environment around you and one man as an individual depends on it. There are great games like Deus Ex: Mankind Divided that shown discrimination and how hatred towards minor groups takes place in modern day world. GTA 6 could easily follow that track.

Even with trump, with whatever president, it doesn’t matter, it is important to represent people that had no freedom and were in dark places for many centuries. The typical caveman mentality that tries to ban, abolish, prohibit everything is detrimental and goes against the whole idea of being a diverse human. People should not be the same, they are diverse and imposing someone’s restrictive opinion on minorities is a very inconsiderate thing to do. There is nothing bad about other people being different to other people, the diversity and the depiction, the representation of culture has found its way into the entertainment medium to show to people that things aren’t as stereotypical as many thought them to be, the DEI tries to explain to people that there is a real world out there beyond computer monitors, television screens and that people are fighting for their own identity, for their own selves to stand to who they really are. Minimizing hatred towards such minority groups, as they were oppressed for centuries, was and still is important, will continue to be important until people understand that hurting other people for them being different, for diversity that exists as a core of idea of being human, that people should have equal rights with whatever orientation they might have is vital to the society and their emotional, ideological growth. Because hurting other people for being naturally different does not make a bully a better man than the ones they hurt. For those reasons, people are encouraged to embrace the diversity that exists and haters can do nothing about, as even with all the oppression and hate towards the minorities, such minorities still existed for centuries. A battle that follows hate, hatred towards the minorities is a pointless one, as closing one’s eyes on people’s differences will not somehow change the human existence and diversity regardless. Hatred might ignore it, might suppress it, but it cannot kill it. For that it is important to put the hate towards human differences regarding minorities of different skin, orientation behind and embrace who they are and who we are as humans.

Now let’s go on to actually talk about gta 6. To anyone wondering, the game will be a game inclined to be more DEI. There is a reason why.

The original Rockstar CEO and writer of gta/rdr games dan houser was always a follower of a more diverse approach towards protagonists where their values are depicted to a significantly large detail. The first gta game already had a female protagonist because women are just as human as anyone else. GTA San Andreas had a black protagonist already and in many of those games there were strong, independent women that essentially carried men like Catalina in GTA:SA and 3. On top of it, there was a character in gta 3 called «Donald love» who was depicted as a very corrupt character in the game. He is a parody of trump, that guy who is the U.S president at the time of writing and dan houser in one of the claims had stated that he is glad to not be releasing gta 6 during trump because things they’d do would make a lot of people mad. (he clearly referred to people getting mad over gta 6 being so-called «woke» even though there is no such a thing.) and that trump’s actions will be yet again depicted through a parody very negatively for a good reason. Dan and a bunch of other writers wanted to pursue other projects without being explicitly bound to just another gta game, which is why they’ve went to dan’s company. They wanted to do something different, but their care towards people’s diversity remains the same.

Now the new writers came into rockstar and they will help shape the diversity, equity and inclusion even more so. Quality of the game is one thing, but the strength of its DEI is another and we are discussing the DEI aspect specifically.

Any reference of GTA 6 writers’ work expertise is a public, open information.

So, after researching the information about GTA 6 writing team, I’ve found the names of those new writers. We will be looking into what they’ve done before and reasoning as to why they are in the studio. First name that I would like to mention, the one for the «additional writer» role (likely extra scenes, in-game TV documentaries, shows and the like) is Nick Brooks[en.wikipedia.org]. He will be responsible for bringing the representation aspect into gta 6 in proper detail. He made some documentaries about black people and their importance, even had a short movie shown at a film festival called «American Black Film Festival». He has a new thriller in the works that is planned to come out May 6th. «It’s a thriller set in DC, centered around a mysterious murder that takes place at a Black Lives Matter protest.» That alone tells us the messages we can expect in GTA 6.

Of course, it’s important to hire new writers for the job when the old ones left and some people with experience at DEI had to be hired to keep the GTA inclusion aspect going. They are the ones who can shape GTA into something much greater than a silly criminal drama about shooting random NPCs in the open world.

The website of Nick Brooks[www.thenickbrooks.com]

Let’s continue. The next writer for GTA 6 we will be looking into is Jeff Topolski[ucbcomedy.com], an associate writer at Rockstar, he is some sort of a comedy writer who’s main focus is to write plays of some kind. His expertise involves teaching at University of California. (most of the new writers are from California)

Take a look at his YouTube channel and by observing the videos he published, a lot of things involve a fairly diverse set of people in their theatrical-like cast.

Here's a couple of sketches by this particular «writer»:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lVYqKCc8iI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STFOYqhHu_w

There is also this sketch thing from some sort of a low-rent theater:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FPnXKy8Yk0

As we can see, this is exactly the type of humor we can expect from GTA 6. Those things fit commercials and TV shows in GTA 6 which is likely what he’ll be responsible for also.

For pedestrian and ambient dialogue, GTA 6 has Lilah Taber[www.lilahtaber.com]. Yet again, from California. All those writers are graduates from California, meaning they’ve went through advanced DEI training. They needed the Californian mentality in their next game because they are the ones able to provide the vibe, the atmosphere of DEI to the fullest. Her dialogues, monologues from pedestrians you will be able to hear in GTA 6, even if their quality will feel questionable, they still represent and representation is what’s important and what we look for here.

As for the non-californian writers, let’s look into who’s responsible for the narrative this time.

There was also a need for the new narrative designers. They’ve hired Emi Schaufeld[www.emischaufeld.com]. It is a New-York based narrative designer. She will be responsible for designing dialogue in GTA 6.

Let’s take a look the biography for this gta 6 narrative designer:

«Emi Schaufeld is a writer, director, and comedian who lives in Astoria, NY. Her work is super rad and has been showcased in festivals worldwide such as Frameline Film Festival, BFI: Flare Film Festival and Wicked Queer: Boston LGBTQ.»

We’ve seen what we need to see here.

She was also responsible for the unpopular «Yay Women» tv series that almost no one heard about.

Let’s take a look at someone who isn’t necessarily responsible for the narrative, but was responsible for the narrative in other projects. Check out the Tori-Lynne Davis[torilynne.carrd.co], the «Camera Resource Technician» for GTA 6. By looking at their page we can already see their strive for DEI, as clearly they understand its importance.

There are still older writers such as James Horton, but they aren’t the ones who interest us when we talk about DEI aspect in GTA 6, though they might as well be. Some are fresh graduates with no prior experience such as Rosie Taylor, thus there isn’t much to talk about when it comes to their «writing».

Originally Lazlow Jones was responsible for finding music for radio stations in GTA series with dan handpicking certain songs, but now, seeing all the questionable nightclub music authors that new rockstar ceo (sam houser) loves, we can expect sam houser to find more strange music that sam is fond of for the new gta game. We should probably expect keinemusik or someone like him to return.

There was also Rupert Humphries, but where he is currently is unknown because he wasn’t hired into Rockstar in a typical fashion, rather having housers as their contacts.

There are also other writers, such as technical writers responsible for writing documentation for the company itself. We will not be covering them.

As we can see, there are plenty of writers of different genders, backgrounds. All of them will shape GTA 6’s writing to be as inclusive as possible. Because it is important to depict the society for what it is, to cover important topics so that people, in such a mass consumer product won’t feel left behind and will feel represented.

[Fives5555]

GTA6's writing was most likely completed years before those employees were at R*. Going on long-winded things is just stupid. R* has always been edgy, and will continue to do so.

[Tighty-Whitey]

Originally posted by Fives5555:

GTA6's writing was most likely completed years before those employees were at R*. Going on long-winded things is just stupid. R* has always been edgy, and will continue to do so.

except this is not how writing in videogames works. you don't write a story for the company and make the developers work around it. the entire writing process for videogames involves writers being inside the studio during development to see what things work, what things don't work and mission designs, character designs are still in development, things are subject to change in an ever evolving process where developers are evaluating their structure and how the story would work around those missions. it's like that with any triple a videogame and writer is not a detached from the development, communication entity. it simply does not work like that, a writing cannot be magically finished years before the development. stupid is if one is not able to distinguish writing as a process and the story which is always a subject to change.

[BORG]

Here we go again with this stupid s#!t. DEI and ESG are why the industry is falling flat on its face. 2024 is a perfect example of it. Look how far it got those woke studios. Also anything coming out of California these days, the mass general consensus is it will be pure garbage. Just look at Hollywood. That says it all. The game industry there is right along with it.

As we can see, there are plenty of writers of different genders...

There are only two genders. Male and female. Biology wins.

[Tighty-Whitey]

Originally posted by BORG:

Here we go again with this stupid s#!t. DEI and ESG are why the industry is falling flat on its face. 2024 is a perfect example of it. Look how far it got those woke studios. Also anything coming out of California these days, the mass general consensus is it will be pure garbage. Just look at Hollywood. That says it all. The game industry there is right along with it.

As we can see, there are plenty of writers of different genders...

There are only two genders. Male and female. Biology wins.

nope, burying your head in the sand from other diverse genders won't suddenly make people of unique genders not exist. general consensus, biology don't matter, as any science is pseudoscience based off of constructs that tries to reach the bar, the standard to a construct that you would start believing is real. in other words, people have gender that they have and you getting angry over their genders is further proof of why anti-gender, anti-pronoun mentality is based on hatred and nothing else while attaching it to an ancient biology that was always wrong.

[BORG]

Originally posted by Tighty-Whitey:

Originally posted by BORG:

Here we go again with this stupid s#!t. DEI and ESG are why the industry is falling flat on its face. 2024 is a perfect example of it. Look how far it got those woke studios. Also anything coming out of California these days, the mass general consensus is it will be pure garbage. Just look at Hollywood. That says it all. The game industry there is right along with it.


There are only two genders. Male and female. Biology wins.

nope, burying your head in the sand from other diverse genders won't suddenly make people of unique genders not exist. general consensus, biology don't matter, as any science is pseudoscience based off of constructs that tries to reach the bar, the standard to a construct that you would start believing is real. in other words, people have gender that they have and you getting angry over their genders is further proof of why anti-gender, anti-pronoun mentality is based on hatred and nothing else while attaching it to an ancient biology that was always wrong.

I'm angry? I'm being hateful? Not sure how you came to that conclusion seeing as I said nothing to indicate I was angry or hateful, but OK. You do you. If anything, you said that because you got emotionally defensive and assumed I was angry because you got upset and offended by what I said. I never disrespected you at all, but you became prejudice, assuming I'm being angry and hateful.

Genders are not diverse. Biology says so. There is male and female. That's it. Biology was never wrong and still isn't. What's wrong is denying biology is right and that there are only two genders - male and female.

I could say more, but I won't because I'm really trying my best to be polite, respectful and considerate towards you about this. How about we agree to disagree and move on. OK? Fair?

[Tighty-Whitey]

Originally posted by BORG:

Originally posted by Tighty-Whitey:

nope, burying your head in the sand from other diverse genders won't suddenly make people of unique genders not exist. general consensus, biology don't matter, as any science is pseudoscience based off of constructs that tries to reach the bar, the standard to a construct that you would start believing is real. in other words, people have gender that they have and you getting angry over their genders is further proof of why anti-gender, anti-pronoun mentality is based on hatred and nothing else while attaching it to an ancient biology that was always wrong.

I'm angry? I'm being hateful? Not sure how you came to that conclusion seeing as I said nothing to indicate I was angry or hateful, but OK. You do you. If anything, you said that because you got emotionally defensive and assumed I was angry because you got upset and offended by what I said. I never disrespected you at all, but you became prejudice, assuming I'm being angry and hateful.

Genders are not diverse. Biology says so. There is male and female. That's it. Biology was never wrong and still isn't. What's wrong is denying biology is right and that there are only two genders - male and female.

I could say more, but I won't because I'm really trying my best to be polite, respectful and considerate towards you about this. How about we agree to disagree and move on. OK? Fair?

i'm not being offended, you are. a long time ago people thought that the earth was flat. today people think that earth is round. today's biology and constructs about it are outdated and you are being offended that you are, in an analogy, a flat earther for some reason. if you don't have an individual opinion, if it's based on what has been forced on you in the school based on outdated program that didn't involve consideration to diversity and equity, then you should probably refer what the new program says and how people are being teached to correctly use pronouns. you should learn to use pronouns, because you'll need it after trump. no amount of denying pure facts and being afraid to accept a pure reality about diversity of genders will ever change it just because old biology and you wanted it. you are denying it because you want something worse. "only two genders" is a common stereotype and science was wrong and you are still wrong. question is, are you a man enough to admit it?

[davewalter]

Just go away with your DEI. It is the reason we have unqualified people doing important jobs and causing disruptions and failures all over the world.

[sana]

Originally posted by davewalter:

Just go away with your DEI. It is the reason we have unqualified people doing important jobs and causing disruptions and failures all over the world.

what disruptions and failures? do you have a single factual example of DEI doing that?

[BORG]

Originally posted by davewalter:

Just go away with your DEI. It is the reason we have unqualified people doing important jobs and causing disruptions and failures all over the world.

Bingo. DEI has definitely caused its bountiful share of disruptions and failures all over the world. Art, entertainment, social spaces, the workplace, schools, child care services, governments, etc. etc. it just keeps unraveling and unraveling, snowball after snowball. OP can't let it go and agree to disagree either. Typical DEI culture. DEI culture is why I won't bother with GTA6.

[Joe Cool]

The solution to racism isn't more racism.

This whole "diversity, equity, inclusion" ideology is extremely racist to the core.

The entire thing centers around making people focus on race first and foremost.

Skin color is the only thing that matters to DEI and woke cultists. In some ways they're even more racist than the KKK.


The real solution is to stop with all this race bullsh** and just look at all of us as one singular race = Human.

[Tighty-Whitey]

Originally posted by Joe Cool:

The solution to racism isn't more racism.

This whole "diversity, equity, inclusion" ideology is extremely racist to the core.

The entire thing centers around making people focus on race first and foremost.

Skin color is the only thing that matters to DEI and woke cultists. In some ways they're even more racist than the KKK.


The real solution is to stop with all this race bullsh** and just look at all of us as one singular race = Human.

so does that mean you support DEI ideology? it's strange how you speak out against it and at the very end accept that DEI is correct. yes, people independent of race, all of them are also human. you accept DEI, they are human and they are also equal. equality is a part of that thing. i'm glad you figured out that you are wrong at the end sentence.

[Lefty[AGHL]]

Another Troll blocked. Yawn

[psi onix]

Originally posted by BORG:

Here we go again with this stupid s#!t. DEI and ESG are why the industry is falling flat on its face. 2024 is a perfect example of it. Look how far it got those woke studios. Also anything coming out of California these days, the mass general consensus is it will be pure garbage. Just look at Hollywood. That says it all. The game industry there is right along with it.

first of all, why are you so mad? you should consider therapy if you are this easily triggered.

secondly... the irony of your avatar literally being from a franchise who's core values have always revolved around the celebration of diversity. i think you must be confused.

[Tighty-Whitey]

Originally posted by psi onix:

Originally posted by BORG:

Here we go again with this stupid s#!t. DEI and ESG are why the industry is falling flat on its face. 2024 is a perfect example of it. Look how far it got those woke studios. Also anything coming out of California these days, the mass general consensus is it will be pure garbage. Just look at Hollywood. That says it all. The game industry there is right along with it.

first of all, why are you so mad? you should consider therapy if you are this easily triggered.

secondly... the irony of your avatar literally being from a franchise who's core values have always revolved around the celebration of diversity. i think you must be confused.

the core of american values were founded on those values and for some handling those values is difficult due to inner hate. as for "biology", old biology was written when people weren't advanced in gender research and weren't able to progress with surgeries and other things that create chemical, biological changes within the body. science is a mere interpretation that is also always a subject to change. ignoring those facts is ignoring the moral values and ignoring genders, people of different skin to then say that everyone should be equal is a contradiction prevalent in most of the people in this discussion. obviously a confusion of gamers at its finest, many gamers are afraid of thought-provoking content that makes them question.

[Man o' War]

Originally posted by Tighty-Whitey:

Originally posted by BORG:

There are only two genders. Male and female. Biology wins.

nope, burying your head in the sand from other diverse genders won't suddenly make people of unique genders not exist.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984"