{"id":1710368,"date":"2026-10-05T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UAhWX5i72SSNeRDLaiiprC"},"modified":"2026-10-05T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:00:00","slug":"i-am-cavorting-with-a-gazelles-grace-in-grand-theft-auto-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/i-am-cavorting-with-a-gazelles-grace-in-grand-theft-auto-5\/","title":{"rendered":"I am cavorting with a gazelle’s grace in Grand Theft Auto 5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Los Santos Customs<\/div>\n
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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<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

La Rochefoucauld once wrote, “What grace is to the body, good sense is to the mind.” He wrote this some time before the release of Grand Theft Auto 5<\/a>, and was likely referring to Mirror’s Edge instead.<\/p>\n

Regardless, it holds true today. And you know what? Whatever their qualities, the gentlemen of GTA 5 simply don’t have much grace to them. They are lumpy, ambling figures, and move like young children unused to their bulk. I have rectified this using Back Flip Mod<\/a>\u2014a mod for back flip. “Simple backflip for Single Player,” it says, with an alarmingly cavalier attitude to capitalisation and style-guide coherence.<\/p>\n

But it’s true. Now, with a tap of page down (enormous shoutout to the author for choosing page down, by the way: one of few keys left on my keyboard not already colonised by another mod) the lads of Los Santos will, whimsically, backflip in place. Then they’ll get very pleased with themselves for pulling it off.<\/p>\n

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\"Franklin<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

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“There’s a chance the backflip fails and your character ragdolls,” notes the mod’s author, which is delicious. Of course, in my testing so far, failures happen not mid-backflip<\/em> but more at the conception of the backflip<\/em> idea.<\/p>\n

That is to say, you hit the backflip button and\u2014if the dice roll deems it to be a failure\u2014your character collapses immediately, without even moving. In fairness, many of my own ideas and impulses fail in precisely the same way.<\/p>\n

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