Gaming Hot Takes That Will Melt Your Brain 

GTA 6 was officially revealed last month and with it came a steaming load of hot takes to make fun of. It would be weird if a new Grand Theft Auto didn't spark some controversy, wouldn't it?

Grand Theft Auto without any Controversy is like expecting there won’t be moths flying around a lamp

I can't believe you can kill cops in a game about crime

God I love how Andrew and Tristan’s points always just devolve into “we’re successful and no one else is. You all suck”

I love the Tate argument "Don't play videogames pay ME money in my shitty discord and get the idea you'll make money"

I hope GTA 6 is even more unhinged than the previous games, I wanna see how mad Twitter can get.

My favourite part of GTA VI is when Lucia said "it's WOKING time" and everyone become woke.

The ironic thing about Tristan Tate saying he doesn't see how people under 21 can play games where you kill people, is that he likes to drive fast cars and shoot guns and show that off to his 13 year old followers...I hate this timeline..

One side: GTA is Woke Other side: GTA is sexist, racist, etc…. Me: okay, but is it a good game? Them: Good game?

Props to you for continuing to use the "and suddenly... You're a Nazi" bit all these years later. Truly a gem of a line to meme on.

actman's delivery of "you didn't ask for this, you didn't choose this, yet there it is" gets me every time

“I hope I don’t have to shoot pixels that when put together resemble law enforcement.” I love you so much.

Dang Tim Pool was really grasping for straws in that video LOL

My brother is a law enforcement officer, and he absolutely loved all of the GTA series. It's a game

"A murderous outlaw avoiding child support" is a crazy description for John Marston😭😭

GTA with the radio talk shows with racists, xenophobes, vegans, Republicans, religious zealots and unhinged psychopaths is the ultimate tongue in the cheek of America. The fact it's so exaggerated but at the same time relatable on some level makes it entertaining as hell. The writers know exactly how to write comedy.

Andrew Tate talking about saving purity while literally being famous for running an exploitative Camgirl website is peak Conservative grift.

A billionaire saying 'I don't like doing crimes' is comedy gold

The absolute irony is that their entire podcast would fit in PERFECTLY as a radio station on gta 6 - or at least a parody of that sort of podcast. They had some great talk shows on the radio in 5 so I hope they really go in deep

"Your children and grandshildren wont care about your video game accomplishments" My whole family used to play world of warcraft together, and my parents share stories of vanilla - wrath when me and my brother share our video game stories

The political/social commentary in RDR2 is so subtle yet so powerful and interesting. Besides the Wapiti reserve quests, I remember riding to a mission with Lenny and he just casually talks about the racism he experiences and it hits you. These guys have not played a single Rockstar game, they are so well written, I honestly wish it was RDR3 and not GTA VI coming out, the latter franchise just tends to have an overly goofy feeling, whereas RDR games feel more balanced and grounded, but with all the fun still there.

I genuinely think the “ban GTA6 now” thing is a marketing move by Rockstar itself. It’s the same energy as “your mom’s gonna hate this game” from EA.

The whole entire moral of the GTA story is that the pursuit for crime and short term pleasures like drug abuse, casual sex or material possessions like expensive cars or sex trafficking rings are NOT the secret to living a long happy life. There are brutal, life destroying consequences in the real world and the only way that COULD be plausible is in a fictionalized world of faked entertainment like a video game.

“I sure hope that I don’t have to shoot any pixels that combined, resemble law enforcement” 😂😂😂 subbed

I can tell you from personal experience that video games do not make people bad. They would be bad regardless. Growing up I played video games. I never caused trouble and use to avoid anything that could lead me into it. Sadly my mum's house where I was living at the time as I was only 18, burnt down. I ended up sofa surfing for several years which lead to my mental state falling apart. I then began to use drugs which then lead to other complications. I have had to come to terms with my past which still to this day is not easy to think about. Eventually I got help and found my way back on the right track. 1 of the things that helped me more then anything was going back to what I enjoyed, video games. If someone is playing games they aren't doing anything they shouldn't be. Therapists are even using games to help people. Some schools use them for education. There is a church using VR chat! Video games are helping countless people.

The use of “you didn’t ask for this, you didn’t choose this” will never get old

Criminals murdering, torturing cops in movies: That's alright Criminals shooting cops with 1 bullet in GTA: Not OKAY

Bro, my dad literally destroyed my 3DS. I felt that.

I ALWAYS love tuning in for your Hot Take vids. You never disappoint 😂

It makes me so happy to see Act Man include RD2 more into his content. Just hearing the songs in his videos also shows how much of impact that game has.

At least Jack Thompson actually believed what he was saying. Most of the people on twitter don’t and are just look for approval from strangers.

Bro, these guys are complaining about "shooting police officers" but imagine when they see the Modern Warfare 2 story or better yet play God of War 3....... Like imagine....

8:37 agreed, chances are, that kid won’t speak to his dad after he moves out. Your kids don’t forget how you treat them.

25:20 He really said: “Let’s look at this trailer… Minority detected! Minority detected! Minority detected! This is not a drill!” This shit just gets funnier and funnier lmao

I love how the Tate brothers unironically reference Super Mario Bros. Who do the Mario Brothers rescue the princess from? An evil turtle who kidnaps said princess, keeps her locked in the basement of the castle, and sends his impressionable minions to stop the brothers.

The way Glenn Beck talks about GTA it remind me of Doctors saying eating a Wendy's Baconator will result in death. I literally ate modified triple bacanators when i was on Keto and at almost a minim 5k calories everyday and lost 60lb in 4 months and was extremely healthy and joined the Army.

I like the Actman. He is not woke. He is not anti woke. He is only relatable. He is relatable man.

Act Man: You need to put the quote "What the fuck is up with the extreme unchecked racism on this app??" on your wall

“ a woman hitting a man isn’t realistic” “ I thought games were supposed to be my escape from reality” WTF DO YALL WANT????

The fact that kid has the audacity to say "Tell your husband to move" is a clear sign that dad hasn't done this enough. I've gotten my ass whooped for far, FAR less then that. Doesn't matter Mum or Dad, they don't have to ask 3 times.

The extra credits clip has been immortalised on this channel and I love it

There is literally a video game genre called "Female Protagonist". I love how suddenly it's woke to have a female lead in a video game. We went from "videos are sexist because you play as a male lead," to "video games are woke because you play as a female lead." And the pendulum forever swings back and forth.

People complaining that GTA VI has black people have never ever went to Miami/Florida

Its always funny that some guys will complain when a fictional woman beats a dude, yet they have no problem with a male protagonist winning a fist fight against 10 armed dudes simultaneously.

21:15 “We don’t yet know if there will also be a male protagonist.” Yes we fucking do. We do since the first leak about the story being “Bonnie & Clyde” inspired released.

The irony of Andrew Tate is insane. He's been arrested for actual crimes but he's complaining about the virtual crime in GTA.

I can't believe you shaved just for your sponsor segment, and then waited to regrow your beard to the same length to continue the video during the editing process. That's some dedication.

heres my hot take. people should be more cautious about gta 6 considering all the nonsense anti consumer moves they pulled with gta 5 and online. BUT NOPE yall be droolin over rockstar games parading them as some fkin saint

There... there are people so fragile that they think playing as a female character in a game is... icky? Did they like Portal?

I love how Andrew Tate the pimp and according to him,”mafia boss” is giving me a lesson on the morality of video games

I just love the internet. It is the place I assure myself I can‘t be as stupid, as I think I am.

It's depressingly hilarious and ludicrously sad that people complain and say that achievements in games are worthless, playing games is meaningless and a waste of time and money, and shows you have no life or skills when you could do everything in games for real. Clearly, they don't understand that STAR DESTROYERS are fictional, and playing like a raving Cowboy in 1899 or 1900 isn't possible IRL. We are not living in those years. Nor can most people just earn millions and buy dozens of cars and hundreds of GALAXY-sized mansions. And a lot of people are depressed or in some form of downs. The world sucks, everything sometimes sucks, in the worst form. Games allows us to escape reality. But the idiots don't want us to escape reality, they want us miserable and almost suicidal. Because their level of comprehension and intelligence is shallower than a puddle. Even if they are just as miserable as some of us are, or happy as some of us gamers are, they still can't understand, or they just won't, they don't want to. Games also allows us to wipe out entire species in the blink of an eye. IN A GAME. It's not the same as killing people IRL - it's simulated. But we might be fed up with something in life. Maybe someone annoyed us at work, maybe I stubbed my toe, maybe the food I had was really really bad. Gaming can help us vent. As for me... yeah, I am not successful, I'm on fucking welfare. But I am doing okay. Not many can say that today. And I have elephantine proportions of free time on my hands. If I am not reading, tinkering, walking around or such? GAMES. It's a good time sink, it gives me some level of fulfilment, it gives me a routine. I need that. A lot of people need that. We need the fun, we need the community it brings. If people refuse to even try to understand that, that's their problem. If they enforce it to be our problem... we tend to get rather pissed and fight them off. We want our games. We want our Empire builders, murder simulators, crime simulators, strategy, war games, all of it. We have our likes and dislikes, and games allow us to explore so much that we are not allowed to, or can't afford to, in real life. Games can be the solution and escape, and WE gamers love it and need it sometimes. OKAY, speech over, apologies if anyone is allergic to walls of text!

I paused at 6:28 and have absolutely 0 regrets. Dude, I am crying real tears from laughing!

The ol' "This power cord is coming with me." routine worked way better than getting spanked or yelled at. Just calm action/consequences with a clear message.

I always love when you do that “now for something completely different.” Outtake. Please never stop that. I love that.

I know I'm very late to the party, but that that clip with the dad brought back way to many bad past memories for me with my family and I...

Eh, I dunno. The nice thing about living the GTA life in a game instead of irl is that unlike the Tatertots I've never had to spend an actual day of my life behind bars since I can just turn the game off.

One thing that so many of these people do not seem to understand is that one of the key reasons why we engage with stories is that we want see other points of view and what other people's lives are like that are different from our own. Like I have never been to war, but that doesn't mean that I wouldn't find it interesting to read, watch, or play a story about a person who fights in a war as long as it is good.

My favourite thing about the conversations about GTA 6 is that I've seen so many posts of people getting mad over a leak saying that there would be pronoun options. it's funny because 1. The "leak" isn't real 2. Our GTA online characters are already referred to as "they" and "them" so it literally doesn't change anything

I love how you can tell when the sponsor started because he instantly lost his beard.

Didn't you spell your name wrong? It's the act mam. Right?

I love how the argument has gone from "historic accuracy" to " Yes, no black people" The honesty is refreshing.

i recently heard someone describe this sort of stuff as " an oroborous of stupidity", and i just can't think of a better description 😂

Dude, this video has me laughing my ass off @ 1am on a Thursday morning. Love it!

Thank you for the vid act man! This one was great!

Actman getting outrageous and angry is always the best part of any video

what I learned from this video: Community notes might be the best addition to twitter.

“Act Man cried, Starfield died and Heelzvsbabyface was right.”

I find it absolutely hillarious how everyone keeps talking about the protagonist issues as if Jason wasn't even there, my man turned invisible. I agree that the premise and state of Lucia's life is very intriguing to explore, especially with Rockstar's phenomenal history with writing. Overall, watching so many people absolutely lose their minds over the tiniest "controversy" they can dig up has been a blast so far, can't wait until the game actually releases and these borderline asylum level takes ramp up.

GTA 6: *shows up in the news for the wrong reasons* Hardcore gamers: _Ah shit, here we’re go again…_

Andrew and Tristan should be parodied in GTA someday.

Act Man calling someone else a grifter (though in case of Tim Pool, he is kinda correct, I don't think even I would argue with that) is reaching levels of "pot calling the kettle black" that I never thought possible.

I like how the Act Man just pick a fight with literally everyone in "that part" of the internet~

Tbh even a game as early as GTA: SA does the diversity thing pretty nicely with the triad leader, the hombre from Southside, the G-Man, anti G-Man, crazy hispanic lady(?) and more. It doesn't feel forced. Instead, the game felt like an adventure where you meet tons of interesting people

"Chun-Lee's thighs would like a word with you" 😂 Love it!

Bro the parenting stuff just made my entire week lol

You’re using the Mass Effect background music/ sound aint ya? Thats awesome.

The extra credits clip is the gift that keeps on giving

So glad you’re keeping the “you didn’t ask for this, you didn’t choose this” joke alive Act Man. Please don’t ever let the joke die 😂🤣

I can't believe some people would think that destroying a $500 piece of hardware is ever a good idea, especially when it was you who paid for it. I don't see Timmy in the third grade with a job so he can pay for his Xbox to play Call of Duty. Just... Just take the power chord and hide it somewhere your kid cant reach or access if it comes down to that. Thats all you need to do. No need to throw your money in a furnace.

Holy smokes, the Tim Pool takes you made were eye opening! Even if you sided with him, why would you want to waste your time listening to him when he probably used AI to find that reddit post no one's ever read. He's basically lying to his audience telling them there is a rumor that doesn't exist! Most people are no longer bothered by the Trans movement. It was just a shock to many American like 5 years ago but I think we are byenlarge accepting as a culture. What are they going to do for clicks when they realize no one wants to hear about anti Trans hate speech anymore?

Every time Act Man talks about click farmers all I can think of is the darkest dungeon quote that goes “The worst type of parasite, opportunists”

I love how GTA controversy makes every other game in the industry look like a baptism on Easter Sunday

Yo... RU-vid dropped an ad in the middle of your "whose that pokemon?!" bit. Took be back

I Love how the fact that GTA VI will be 18+ Content. And they often talk about how it's not game that children should play, like as if a game with a 18+ rating should be ok for people literally under a f*cking age restriction.

Why Is The Batman Arkham Series SO AWESOME!?

This video was better than I was anticipating: I relish how consistent TheActMan is in how he frames his arguments, as he does in all of his critique videos - opinion, facts to support with references, opinion summation. It's as if he understands how to construct a proper OpED. Long time subcriber. I watched "Why is Elden Ring so Successful?!" about twenty times, but this is my favourite TAM video. Well done, good sir.

The great Rick Sanchez has said " Your Boos Mean Nothing, I've Seen What Makes You Cheer."

How are you going to play GTAV & VI and not expect this? People are a joke

To me as a Spider-Man 2 fan, saying the game awards were rigged is like saying The Day Before was a good game.

um your bit with the fire and metal music overlaying that tweet about nakeyjakeys video crashed my browser tab it was so HARDCORE!

Using Mass Effect and Skyrim music when talking about Starfield is the cherry on top 😂 Love that detail.

Certainly what IS tiring is seeing nothing but the extremes because that's all the algorithm cares about. Love your videos by the way

My wife is not into gaming and we were both dying watching this. Perfect video man!

16:31 has to be one of the funnies Act Man moments of all time.

Gotta love the (at least somewhat) popular sentiment that GTA and similar games are bad for kids and that they shouldn't be allowed to play them while completely ignoring the fact that those games are very much so age restricted.

04:11 "My brother in Stendar" will now live rent free in my brain. Thanks Act Man

"Controversies" like these are nothing but free advertising for GTA6. When it launches, it will be the number 1 selling game of all time

“GTA is woke” Why? “Because… they got a Hispanic girl” And they don’t exist in real life?

I think the biggest point from this vid that I got was Tim Pool finally ID'ing himself for the grifter everybody always claimed him to be..... amazing it took a degenerate franchise to bring this revelation out..... Also, nice pokemon ad brake..