kontextmaschine:

The single-player plot of GTAV was rushed and spread-thin,

but its depiction of South Central as a sedate place increasingly defined by lower-professional single female homeownership, where there were a few OGs and crackheads but they were mostly taken as cautionary examples from the old days (with the real fucked-up gangland now in the high desert), but no one from the rest of LA seemed to notice this, still going off a ‘90s gangsta sense, was dead on

I think a big part of this is that Figueroa, the big north-south route through it, with the 110 paralleling it, was annexed to LA as a narrow panhandle down to the port at San Pedro, and in LA’s council fiefdom system it was never particularly important to anyone, so the part more Anglo Angelinos are likely to draw their impressions of is this incongruously shitty strip even as like, Inglewood and Compton reminded me of the '70s “pot where the white ethnics melted into white” neighborhoods I grew up seeing after the fact