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When Grand Theft Auto 5 first launched in 2013, it felt incredibly timely.
This is the way Grand Theft Auto works.
Its good because it felt honest to the time we were living in then.
Unfortunately, the world is very different in 2025 from the way it was in 2013.
It feels like the world moves faster nowadays than it ever has.
Back in the day, trends like Harlem Shake lasted for months.
The Florida Man meme was created.
People planked on horizontal surfaces in public for like, ayear.
Now, there are three Twitter main characters a week.
The political stability of the United States could shift radically without warning on a random Tuesday.
Memes and trends come and go in a matter of weeks, sometimes days.
Thats twice as long, if you do some simple math.
Hardware has also seemed to have reached a limit in terms of technological capabilities.
But even then, theres a debate to be had that weve already seen it all before.
We live in a time where The Onion headlines come true, because reality is really just that absurd.
What was once considered satire precisely because its unthinkable is now very much thinkable, and in fact predictable.
The United States has an initiative called DOGE, for crying out loud.
Doge is also a meme relic from 2013, by the way.
Time is a flat circle and all that.
Maybe itll surprise me.
