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Hello everyone! And welcome to the July 2021 Staff Update. With the month of July we have had some changes within the Administrative Team & Management. First things first, I would like to congratulate @Notbond on his retirement from GTA World Management.. After a long four years Notbond decided to step down and resign from Management as he was formally the Head of Factions. We appreciate the extreme amount of dedication, work ethic and overall support that you have given to the community through these past years. Being one of the longest standing Administrators & Management members, it is sad to see you go, but we can understand that life has many more opportunities then just GTA World. Over the past four years Notbond has overseen the community along with Nervous and various other Management members, however, his legacy, time, work and dedication to this community will never be forgotten about here on GTA World. Thank you once again Notbond for everything that you have done for us as a Management Team, Administrative Team and Community as a whole. With Notbond retiring, we would like to give a warm welcome to @Shanks who will now be taking over as the Head of Factions for the community, replacing Notbond's old position. We feel Shanks is a strong, dedicated candidate who is willing to do whatever it takes to make sure factions are running as smoothly as possible and to make sure operations for both Legal Faction Management & Illegal Faction Management are continuing to run as needed. Since Shanks originally became the Head of Illegal Faction Management, he worked nonstop to improve the illegal factions within the community and make them striving over these past few months. @Bospy will now be taking over the position of Head of Illegal Faction Management, as he was formally the Assistant Head. I would like to personally congratulate both of them on the promotions, as this was no easy step. We look forward to working with both of you and keeping this as fluent as possible. I would also like to personally congratulate @Odin on Level Four Administrator and now overseeing the Administrative Team with myself in Staff Management. Odin has worked extremely hard over these past months, and I feel he is a great candidate for the position that he has been serving so far. With Staff Management in conversation, @Wally and @KV have been assigned as Senior Administrative Support for Staff Management, and will now be able to help Administrators & Players with any general inquires relating to the Staff Team itself. For the community overall, we have seen two new showcases for the month of June, which led into July. One of these being the new Body Weapons which allows you to realistically place the firearm your character might be using, on the character itself rather then just pulling or equipping a larger weapon from the default GTA V animations. The second major update was our Hotel Script which allows players to physically rent a hotel room for a period of time and live there as needed, with getting the taste of a luxury lifestyle for their characters.. We look forward to adding more Hotels over time. And last but not least, for those who have an interest in dating, in the early part of June our new website called "Quickdate" was released to the community. This website allows players on an in-character perspective to make a profile that would be seen by those registered and for those that match the type of the character. This allows for characters to have an easier way of meeting and dating other from around San Andreas, on a more "social media" scale rather then finding your new love at the traditional club or bar. I would like to thank the Administrators personally this month for the extreme amount of dedication and effort they continue to put into the team, not only for the team itself, but for the players and the community as a whole. I am proud to say that our Administrative Team has been on top of their game and continue to show an amazing work ethic for GTA World. Thank you all and have a happy upcoming holidays, we look forward to seeing you again next month! GTA:World Management Team Admin Promotions Game Administrator Level 4 to Management @Shanks (Head of Faction Management) Game Administrator Level 3 to Game Administrator Level 4 @Odin (Assistant Head of Admins) @Bospy (Head of Illegal Faction Management) Game Administrator Level 1 to Game Administrator Level 2 @shiroq @Monster. Trial Administrator to Game Administrator Level 1 @Seanny @Brian3898 @heathen @SandroXiX Senior Support to Trial Administrator @Armolis @Biscuit @Moe @LilManiac Support to Senior Support @Wuhtah @Igloo @delanto @Banks @BaileyG New Support Team Members @Timid @j0sepy @blood sugar @JackieH @dxrkside @dawpi @slothy If you were a staff applicant and were not given support you can check your application to see if it was marked as denied or reserved. If you have been denied you will need to post on your application and request the reasoning if you wish to learn more about why you were not accepted. Be sure to tag both @Groz and @Jonesy so they can respond as soon as possible! As there is often a large influx of denial requests Please allow us 48 hours to update the status of your application, once your application has been updated with (Denied/Reserved) you may then request the decision reasoning. Once requested please give us 72 hours to respond to any denial reason requests. All reserved applicants will be automatically responded to with our expectations for your reserved month, there is no need to request a response on applications marked "Reserved". Any denied applicants this month may not reapply until the staff applications open again in October for November 2021's staff update.

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Greetings, "My character killed a child, but I don't want to role play him losing an arm, nor him being armless, because that makes me uncomfortable." I want to discuss with you guys a specific kind of characters and how they can often "hide" from consequences that are borderline expected/natural for such characters by pointing to the offensive roleplay rules. Now, I'm in no way some torture/rape (even though rape is no longer legal at all) role playing enthusiast. This isn't my character and I haven't resorted to such things in the server (pull logs). That's beyond the point though, I just wanted to step lightly into this and not give off the wrong vibe. My issue is in principle. The point is that I can't be the only one who finds it weird/suspect to have characters like... Let's use prostitutes and the no longer existing rape rp permissions as a go-to example. Many of the prostitutes in the server will have no problem engaging in hour(ly) long, in-depth erotic role play, as long as it pays. Many of which will do and let themselves be subjected to anything, including the most gross of fetishes, as long as THE CUSTOMER PAYS. As soon as things aren't going their way however and they run into the 'wrong customer', they automatically do not consent to rape role play and not even rape FTB. I don't have an official statistic, so take my implications of 'many' with a grain of salt. I do think that however, based on from-a-distance personal observations that it is many indeed, if not most. It's sort of been 'the way to go', not just here, but at role playing playgrounds in general and over the years. There's other potential examples. Let's take torture. What if a guy has no problem torturing someone (given the ic victim's ooc consent), but a week later and when at the 'wrong end of the gun', they deny torture role play, because it makes them uncomfortable. Where am I going with all of this? Playing to win and generally not being keen on engaging in role playing scenarios where you lose has been a trait of many (role)players over the years of role playing, including here, and hiding behind offensive role play rules is sometimes just another example of this. I think deep down, we all know this, but turn a blind eye, given how sensitive the topic is. Literally, we all know this and most of us have probably witnessed it at some point. People who have no problem being the do-er, but as soon as they are the victim, the 'I'm not comfortable' card is pulled. That being said, do you guys think that there should be an additional note in the offensive role playing rules that exempts certain characters from hiding behind it? E.g. you can't deny rape if you role play a crackhead prostitute(yes I know rape is illegal now, its an example, and I mean as a FTB happening, not having to sit thru a hour of such rp). You can't deny torture if you role play a mobbing sociopath that would be quick to do it to other people themselves and etc. Note these are just examples to get the point across, so when replying, please do not address the example directly, but rather the context it tries to present. Now let's see how much heat this catches. This is in general discussions and not suggestions at the moment, because I feel it can get more discussion here initially. TLDR: Refusing offensive role play as a particular kind of character is just like a prostitute refusing rape role play (even as a ftb happening) /and/ should you be able to deny it, if you have done it? (Even just as FTB, too) NOTE: I support rape rp and paedophilia being banned entirely from the server, please do not get the wrong impression. I know how sensitive this topic can be. Why role play a hardened mobster, but refuse to have a finger chopped off? This shouldn't happen. EDIT: Fade to black being used implies parties agree to the outcome. And like I said, people can use said rules to NOT agree having to continue and role play a now maimed character. So, it's not just dodging the rp, its dodging ic consequences. IN CONCLUSION AND IN MY OPINION -- THERE SHOULD AT THE VERY LEAST BE A LINE IN THE OFFENSIVE ROLEPLAY RULE THAT SPECIFICALLY EXEMPTS CERTAIN CHARACTERS FROM 'HIDING BEHIND THE RULE' (E.G. HARDCORE CRIMINALS). IF THEY ARE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THE EMOTING, THAT'S FINE, BUT AT THE VERY LEAST THEY SHOULD BE LEGALLY REQUIRED TO AGREE TO FTB AND TAKING THE CONSEQUENCE (E.G. MAIMED CHARACTER) FROM THERE ON AS OPPOSED TO JUST DODGING IT ENTIRELY. AGAIN, NOT ALL PEOPLE/CHARACTERS SHOULD BE FORCED TO ROLE PLAY MAIMED VICTIMS, BUT AT THE VERY LEAST THESE IN CIRCLES WHERE IT'S INCREDIBLY REALISTIC TO BECOME ONE (E.G. PROSTITUTE-RAPE ANALOGY; MANY SEX WORKERS ARE VICTIMS OF RAPE IRL). Edit 2: I understand some of the examples/analogies here are not ideal, if you care for more elaboration, please look to my replies around pages 3-4. Or this: "My character killed a child, but I don't want to engage in role play during which he loses an arm AND I also don't want to agree to FTB that results in my character being armless, because that makes me uncomfortable." ^ This shouldn't happen. And at the very least agreeing to FTB should be in rules, when its not. As for the prostitution point, rape rp is banned for a good reason, so I'm not argueing about it, but more-so I was trying to draw a comparison that pertains to actions-consequences dynamics. Making a wrong move in a harsh, underground and cruel criminal world is realistically probable to get you hurt, just like its realistically probable for prostitutes to be sexual victims. Paid sex and being raped are not the same. But realistically a lot of paid sex workers are victims of rape. Also I don't think all characters should be 'forced' to have to cope with role playing maimed for example if it gets to it and if it makes them uncomfortable. But those that chose a dangerous life walk IC, shouldn't be able to avoid the consequences thanks to OOC. Again, nobody is saying you must sit down thru a 3hr torture session, but consent the consequences if you decided to fuck with the mob per se. Or... Essentially, if you chose a certain life path, you should be prepared /and/ willing to face the consequences that often come with it. Or... You can't fuck with the mob, but then say no to torture. You want to get into a situation but only get the good and absolutely void the bad. Thats objectively badrp. Or... If my character chokes ur character's baby and you decide to cut my arm off as retaliation, I shouldn't be able to say no, even to FTB, because I'd feel uncomfortable rping a character without an arm, or one that had their arm cut off. An IC Actions = IC consequences dynamic is fundamental to quality role play. Consequences aren't always great or pleasant, but they are realistic and this is why role play is different and great. Edit 3: This is getting long but @SaintBatemanofWallStreet said it better than I ever could. "So after reading through this thread, the one thing I've gotten out of it is that 95% of the people who replied have actually missed the point of the thread because they're either virtue signal to OP that he shouldn't be doing this RP because it offends their delicate sensibilities or laughing at him and calling him a weirdo after virtue signaling. He's not saying that we should be able to kill children by the bushel. He's not saying that people should be given carte blanche for rape. And I don't even know how the pedo shit got brought up, but I don't think I even need to say how much he's not asking for that to be repealed either. I don't think he's even saying we should be hacking off limbs like it's Europe in the 1300's. What is being pointed out is there is a flaw in the rules that says if someone is uncomfortable RPing something, then it can't be allowed to be RP'd. Now in other communities that rule has meant it doesn't have to be roleplayed through. But for some reason in this one, it means can't happen. That's the problem. Everywhere else it is faded to black and explained what would've happened and the characters would then just have to figure out their progression from there, or do what most people do when something bad happens to them on this server - act like it didn't happen after a day or so. There have been characters - not just on this server, who have been some real brutal characters who have used people's willingness to let scenes play out how they may to their advantage, and when their character was meeting their end or getting a comeuppance for their transgressions, opted to say "I'm not comfortable with this RP. Can't happen." and are suddenly absolved of all their wrongdoings and skate on the consequences of it. That's the point. Shouldn't be allowed. When you put yourself on the hook for it, you should have to ride it out. Whether or not you choose to fade it to black every single time or when one of the parties is not comfortable with the RP in depth, the actions still exist. And once you're in that jackpot, what is being said is, that whatever you're opting to take part in, you shouldn't be able to opt out of when it's not working in your favor. Nobody is saying you can't fade to black. The discussion is that you shouldn't be able to say it can't happen. This has not really been defended all that well and far too many people have piped up and just said "Yeah shouldn't be allowed to RP that anyways." Yeah. Heard you. Not the question. Nobody asked whether your mall rat should be allowed to have a hand hacked off on a whim, or whether your hooker with a heart of gold, a meth addiction, perfect teeth and a sports car should be subjected to sexual assault at every turn. It's about the people who are choosing to take part in the "offensive" roleplay hiding behind the rule when they've taken part in it, and the tables have turned against them and they opt out to not take the L." Edit 4: basically this post Edit 5:

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Months ago, Buju Clart and Winston Clark get involved a shoot-out, before Samuel Groves even steps foot within Los Santos. https://gyazo.com/51879025978a572c34297f2147728484 Months, later, tensions escalate: