So far we’ve gotten: LA, New York, Miami, and kinda Las Vegas and San Francisco.

But I struggle to think of any others.

Chicago is a cool city, don’t get me wrong, but aesthetically it’s kinda boring for a video game setting. I think Boston is too old to set a game where driving in a major mechanic, who wants to drive through those streets? Not Bostonians based on the ones I’ve met. And DC, nah fuck that!

Only ones I could maybe think of are New Orleans and Philadelphia. Honestly GTA Pittsburgh would be a risky but potentially interesting choice.

Idk, anyone want to play GTA Cincinnati?

  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    GTA has been known to be based around political events. For example, San Andreas had plot points around the LA Riots and the 80s crack epidemic.

    Has there been a US city more politically relevant in the past 10 years than Minneapolis?

    Ilhan Omar is the congress member who represent Minneapolis, second muslim to ever serve in congress. Donald Trump brings her up any time he talks about muslims, he uses her to be Islamophobic. Ilhan Omar is Somali-american and there is a large Somali immigrant population in Minneapolis

    Around 2019, there was a fraud case around the organization ‘Feeding Our Future’, which was intended to be a program for feeding school children. Chuds blamed the fraud case on being caused Somali immigrants.

    In 2020, there was the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis which ignited nationwide BLM protests. Protestors burned down the Minneapolis third precinct Police Station.

    The muslim population of Minneapolis was upset with Biden and Kamala for being complicit in the Gaza genocide. Then there was the ‘uncommitted movement’ where Joe Biden was on the ticket for the Democrat primary. 19% of people in Minnesota voted for “uncommitted” and 8% voted for Dean Philips.

    In 2024, Minnesota changed their flag and there was a chud conspiracy theory that the flag was changed to be the flag of Somalia.

    After Biden dropped out, Kamala selecting Tim Walz as the VP candidate put a spotlight on Minneapolis again. This also made Minneapolis into a target for the second Trump administration.

    During Trump’s second term, there was Nick Shirley making up a conspiracy theory that every daycare center in Minneapolis is actually fraudulent. Driving around to random daycares and demanding that he can see the children.

    Then Trump sent ICE into Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge. There was anti-ICE protests. Then ICE murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

    Also near the end of 2025, we had memes were Somali people adopted Israeli settler rhetoric to mock Zionists. There was memes that said like “Minnesota was promised to us 3000 years ago”.

    Also there was some talk about Israel about forcibly displacing Gaza people to Somali. I’ve speculated that the Trump administrations focus on villainizing Somali-Americans could be related Israel wanting to relocate Gazans.