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Apple Parody in GTA 4? Bah! Grand Theft Auto skewers Linux

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The fake internet in Grand Theft Auto 4 is so wonderful it defies explanation: You need to be experience it to see its full beauty. Ads overflow promoting useless wares, Web 2.0 sites bask in their uselessness, and ego whores blog until their hearts are overflowing with praise (Hmm…). While the GTA series has always been a parody machine, the fake GTA internet is so skillfully on-target it gives chills.



Yesterday The Unofficial Apple Weblog shared Rockstar’s Apple parody in the fake GTA internet…and to be honest it was rather weak. Funny enough but it hit the only the cliches (cost, ego, beauty over substance). A hit and run satire at best.

But since people seemed to enjoy the tame Apple edition, I thought the internets might enjoy a real Rockstar satire, this time on Linux. The roast rages on for six pages, including one Q&A page which goes to town and back on the corpse of poor Linus Torvald and friends. It makes the Apple parody look like an endorsement by comparison. Enjoy!


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One important note: There is no fake website for To$$ OS, which is clearly Microsoft. But why? Is this already tired ground or were they afraid of offending the company that gave them $50 million to create some extra Grand Theft Auto DLC? If only the fake GTA internet held the true answer…

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9 insightful ideas to “Apple Parody in GTA 4? Bah! Grand Theft Auto skewers Linux”

  1. AvatarMr Pitiful
    Posted: May 2nd, 2008 at 3:34 pm
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    woh, you have GTA4?

    I think we need to have a meeting at your house next week.

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  2. AvatarKree
    Posted: May 4th, 2008 at 8:10 am
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    *yawn*

    I’m sorry, I just haven’t gotten onto the GTA bandwagon. For me it got boring the moment it let go of the overhead look and tried to do all that gansta crap. That’s right, I remember the old overhead 2D sprite version.

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  3. AvatarEunux
    Posted: Dec 10th, 2008 at 12:32 am
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    LOL the devs of GTA IV doesn’t have the capacity to install a little GNU/Linux distribution. We understood better why the PC version is so bugged : they seem inefficient in computing, and prefer create easter eggs than debugging the PC version…

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  4. Avatarbsod
    Posted: Sep 9th, 2009 at 4:53 am
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    Grand Theft Auto is a great game, but as a Linux using Esperanto speaker, I’m slightly offended by this. They didn’t even bother to change the name of Esperanto when slagging it off, and the complaints about Linux not working for music, movies, email and games are just plain lies and tired cliches . Yeah GTA doesnt work well on Wine as far as i’ve tried but a lot of games do, and “plug&play” devices work a lot better on linux with open source generic drivers than eny time when I’ve had to go searching for drivers to fix a friend’s windows PC for them.

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  5. AvatarTEI Thessaloniki
    Posted: Sep 16th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
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    Grand Theft Auto ForEVER!!!

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  6. Avatarnico
    Posted: Nov 7th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
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    Ahah, funny, both of them (Linux user here)

    I expecially loved the comments about the Apple parody from the Apple fanboys in the blog you linked… jeez touch their iCrap and they start whining immediatly.
    On one thing they’re right, though, it’s not a parody.
    And that’s because it’s just the plain truth: it’s simple, it’s bare minimal. And it’s bloody overpriced.

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  7. AvatarViztro
    Posted: Dec 3rd, 2009 at 11:55 am
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    They rant against FOSS in their parody of linux, but the physics engine in the game is Opensource, Bullet Physics Engine. A gorgeous display of ignorance :).
    Anyway i laughed.

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  8. AvatarVanessa Bennett
    Posted: Jul 20th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
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    the latest version of Grand Theft Auto have more detail on its graphics, nicely done.,~”

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  9. AvatarIsabella Williams
    Posted: Aug 29th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
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    me and my brothers do have lots of passion about automotive stuffs,*’

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