Rockstar co-founder’s 6-year-old claim that he was “thankful” not to be launching GTA 6 during a Trump presidency has aged like milk

Comments by former GTA 6 dev and Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser have resurfaced as evidence of just how much the world can change during increasingly long game development windows.

Back in 2018, Houser told GQ that he was “thankful” that GTA 6 wasn’t releasing during a Donald Trump presidency: “It’s really unclear what we would even do with it, let alone how upset people would get with whatever we did,” he said. “Both intense liberal progression and intense conservatism are both very militant, and very angry. It is scary but it’s also strange, and yet both of them seem occasionally to veer towards the absurd. It’s hard to satirise for those reasons. Some of the stuff you see is straightforwardly beyond satire. It would be out of date within two minutes, everything is changing so fast.”