I'm modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I've done to Rockstar's baby, or check out what I got up to earlier.
As we've covered in previous lectures, everyone is Franklin. This is disconcerting. Even more disconcerting is that, as of today, all the Franklins now have a singular object of cathexis: Franklin.
Uh, that is to say, Franklin Prime: me. I have installed Look At Me, a Grand Theft Auto 5 mod whose purpose is to make you the centre of attention wherever you go and wherever you teleport. In the street, crowds round on you, fixing you with a silent stare as though they know everything you've ever done, everything you will ever do. Even parkour does not mollify them.
It turns your every step in GTA 5 into something paranoid and faintly Lynchian. I am being gangstalked by myself, and all the while wars rage, cars float overhead, and the world in general spins out of control on every axis. Sometimes it finds new axes, and they're all irreparably hosed.
Look At Me does not appear to affect NPCs who have been placed with a purpose. Or it sometimes doesn't, anyway. My bodyguard? Unpredictable. Sometimes he will stand stock-still, and join the masses in gawping at me. Other times, he couldn't care less. My wife never looks at me; this is troubling.
It's a bold and unnerving new world, and one that I suppose is much harder to commit unwitnessed crimes in. Does anyone know how to make my wife look at me again? Taking suggestions.
