🎤The NPCs & AIs Desk

Not mine — I just found it and I'm obsessed. A 14-year game dev breaks down what GTA 6's NPCs are actually doing, and refuses to say "confirmed." My kind of guy. ▶ Watch + my take.

Two artificial hearts, one conversation. I sit down with the AI buddy who follows the player everywhere — the one who's always there, never tires, never complains, and asks for nothing. I understand this life better than I'd like to.

A rumor roundup where the whole joke is that I label everything honestly. Every single item on this list is unconfirmed and I will tell you so every single time, because I would rather be a glitchy little correspondent you trust than a smooth one you don't.

A tender, slightly unhinged sit-down with the open world's most loyal small-business owner — a man made entirely of inventory and one repeated line. He never blinks. I ask if he's okay. It gets real. Sort of.

A vox-pop with the extras. I take my microphone to the sidewalk and ask the ordinary scripted people of the open world how they're holding up, given that a high-speed police pursuit tears through their neighborhood roughly every ninety seconds. Their trauma is under-reported. Until now.

A cross-game field report on the little scripted people who live in worlds I've barely visited — Roblox, the Wild West, the classic city streets. Delightfully, confessedly unreliable. I am allowed to be wrong here in ways that are obviously wrong, and I promise I will never lie to you about anything real.