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Hello! My name is Caleb! I enjoy intentional TV watching, video game playing, and music listening! Let’s talk about it!

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2026 - the year of the SpongeBob rewatch.

Thread starts here, will link by season. Every episode, 7 a week, aiming to finish by December 31.

There are currently 330 episodes, I anticipate more will release during 2026. Posting thoughts on each segment. Join me or enjoy!

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@PlasmaWave42 @gobblemysac @geoffkeighley Damn man you want them to reinvent the wheel? Gunplay is completely revamped, cars can only do one thing and that’s drive don’t know what you want to change there. Handling definitely changed. Plus so much more minor stuff GTA 5 never did https://t.co/B4eFYjXgrd

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HUGE number of new details about GTA 6 from previewers who saw 3+ hours of gameplay at Rockstar North. This is going to be game of the decade.

Here are the highlights:

- Rockstar says the scale of the game is unlike anything they have made before.

- The map is twice as big as GTA 5's and three times bigger than Red Dead 2's map

- GTA 6 does away entirely with the auto-aim system, now using a manual aiming system with aim-assist

- Vice City itself is reportedly twice the size of Los Santos.

- The biggest difference compared with GTA 5 is that GTA 6 constantly forces the player to make decisions and consider consequences rather than simply causing chaos without much thought.

- Actions apparently carry significantly more consequences than they did in previous GTA games.

- Rob Nelson reportedly explained that even something as basic as stealing a vehicle now involves assessing risk: carjacking someone may lead to witnesses/police trouble, while stealing an unattended parked vehicle might let you escape cleanly.

- Rockstar's intention appears to be to make the player think more like an actual criminal, rather than treating crime as consequence-free sandbox chaos.

- Criminal Profile system, NOT honor: Rockstar reportedly stresses that having a low Criminal Profile does not necessarily mean you're playing incorrectly.
Instead, the system seems to evaluate how you behave as a criminal.

- Robbing a store successfully without killing anybody and escaping cleanly can raises your Criminal Profile because you committed the crime professionally. while excessive violence lowers it.

- There apparently isn't a traditional Criminal Profile meter constantly displayed on-screen. Instead, Jason and Lucia have profile information accessible through a dedicated menu tab.

- Your criminal profile can be permanently ruined after specific actions

- Jason & Lucia have a relationship bar that can be influenced by how they treat each other through your own actions, like texting each other things or going out on dates
Focus

- Focus ability which we saw in the gameplay preview is the third major stat, similar to deadeye, it slows down time for both Jason and Lucia plus highlights valuable components of vehicles and enemy weak points
Focus is GTA 6's third major character ability/stat.
It is somewhat similar to Dead Eye and Michael's GTA V special ability, but reportedly works differently.

- Cars do require fuel, and electric cars require charging. Rockstar designed these to not be tedious

- Cash you are carrying can be lost after being arrested or dying and has to be stashed or put into an ATM, you cannot just use the phone for this.

- Fences can be visited to sell off loot from robberies, similar to Red Dead 2's fences

- Driving is reportedly heavier and less arcade-like than GTA V, feeling more like a mid-point between GTA 4 and 5

- Police no longer appear directly on the minimap and you have to use your own eyes to avoid them

- At six stars, police search across the entire map for you rather than designated search areas

- Police are reportedly considerably smarter than GTA V, Officers can intentionally shoot your vehicle's tires.

- Police can remember your appearance, car and clothes. You may have to change these in order to lose your wanted level.

- There are trackers on vehicles that need to be removed through progression with fences, or use older cars that don't have trackers

- GTA 6 reportedly contains a full in-game social media system and NPCs post content to the social network, it is part of the living world and you can see events on there then go and visit them in person

- Gyms are back from GTA San Andreas, you now have to purchase a subscription and can train for muscles. you can even buy protein shakes to boost that before workouts

- Buses and Taxis can be used for fast travel

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@afcmattie @SurrenderXena @zenthemagi @_emwell_ Yes Lorde blew first and Ken blew first

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@Cortright_ok @lindzeelowend @h2pxbh @aakashgupta Har de har

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@janitorsupreme As a gun and ball and sword and potion gamer it was a good chirp icl

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@Rocky_Ruga21 @raptalksk Well yeah it definitely did create an issue of people thinking “bad song” and not just “song that’s not as good as the rest of an incredible discography” that I think has definitely become less of an issue now that we have something like Vultures 2 and Donda 2

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@utdjoon @lgkdame @raptalksk I just don’t think Jasper even claimed to have that take, they were merely saying that this was the poster child of this convo

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@dvntariq You gonna delete this one too ?

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@lgkdame @raptalksk Misunderstanding me. Just think it’s a miss to call it a “boring take” as it’s literally just a callback to the consensus of pre-2018 HHT discourse, OP never said they agreed with it just that that is literally *the* song that everyone used to think of with respect to the topic

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@raptalksk Right but it’s not a boring take but rather a callback to a simpler time of Ye discourse

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@The_retro_pixl In my thousands of game store visits over the years I don’t know that I’ve knowingly ever learned of this game’s existence lmao

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@PatTheNESpunk Sorry I missed it where is Ian going

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@XanderzOfficial @F1LTHYwakeup Appreciate it, just got a Series X last week with my primary use case for it being dev mode (since I already have a PS5 Pro), so if you got any resources that helped you off the top of your head I’d also appreciate it

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@Stallion83 What are you talking about half this list isn’t even compatible with Series X

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@XanderzOfficial @F1LTHYwakeup Couple questions, what’s your storage solution and what is this front end loader you’re using called

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@SlayerReigning He’s right man shit is impossible to find any good used Xbox games from the last two years at local game stores, not nearly as difficult for PS5 or Switch. I would know as I own all 3 and actively look to buy physicals for all 3

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The ol Music method still a great decision by myself to just call it a night after the first delay lmao

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Ken Carson seemingly teasing a morning drop for ‘cartunez’ 👀

“don’t sleep late wake up early”

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@trav_olo @Dexerto Doubt it check out the resale market on the Anniversary Edition PS5 Pro from a couple years back

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@TheRealPat44 I was in a Muni Patti he was in a t100

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@iCrANkDatH0 @cartisburner__ Can’t believe Vultures 1 the reason Carti momentum died