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Jacob “Jake” Marino, an American of Italian descent, grew up in Palomino Creek, a small town near the flashy Vinewood, Los Santos. He always dreamed of becoming a famous actor, but his career started with low-budget ads that didn’t bring him much fame. Despite his efforts, Jake struggled to get noticed in the competitive world of Vinewood. He kept his passion for acting alive, but he needed to find a way to make ends meet. In search of money, Jake got involved with the local American mafia. Through some young Italian criminals, he landed a job as a counter at a gym owned by a guy, closely connected to the mafia. This job gave him a steady income but also dragged him deeper into the criminal world of Los Santos. Even though he was on a risky path, Jake never gave up on his dream of becoming a star. Every day at the gym, he imagined a future where he would finally make it big in the movies.

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The greatest African American gangster roleplay to ever grace LS-RP's roleplaying platform.

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Very nice. Killing it already my g, no doubts about how far you'll take this. The skies the limit and the world's your oyster.

This isn't talked about nearly enough. It's high time to stop pretending that spouting such nonsense as "you're expected to realistically portray the LASD/LAPD" is conducive to good roleplay, or that simply integrating real-life codes and procedures is a gateway to unlocking the secrets of police portrayal, or that pasting actual slogans over in-game mappings is all you need to achieve your best performance as a pixel cop, because nothing could be further from the truth. If the only defining trait of your character is acing 100% of the LASD/LAPD lingo while jumping from shootout to pursuit to tactical deployment, then you're not much better than any other virtual gangbanger who uses gang roleplay and AAVE as a paper-thin disguise to engage in server-sanctioned DM without any consequence. Law enforcement roleplay somehow managed to pull a complete 360 and move from robocops whose only aim was to rack up as many arrests as possible while only engaging in action-packed scenarios, to a somewhat engaging and balanced level of police portrayal, right back to robocops whose only aim is to fill their sentences with as many LASD/LAPD terms as possible while only engaging in action-packed scenarios. It's just a long string of disjointed episodes without anything holding the whole thing together, and how could it be otherwise? Hardly anyone takes their time to do some station roleplay or get to know other characters beyond a cursory introduction, debriefs after situations are done just because it's "real life procedures" and not out of a genuine interest of interacting with fellow faction members, good luck finding anyone above a first-line supervisory rank to discuss important matters because it's not "realistic" for commanders to be in-game and expect to be called out over faction chat if you don't use the right code or just say it in plain English instead of getting your message across in numbers. While it's true that law enforcement factions receive a large amount of calls and can't possibly handle them all, it's also true that almost zero attention is given to anything else beyond the run and gun. Investigative roleplay is in shambles, held up by maybe five or six people in total. Patrol work is more shallow than it was in 2014 because even though the characters use more accurate terminology, they're nowhere near as interesting or have as much of a personality as they used to 10 years ago. Passive police roleplay is basically unheard of. And there's still people who somehow feel it's appropriate to use the "it's not about policing the server" motto. And it's absolutely not a problem limited to this server only, regardless of how popular others might be on other platforms. The law enforcement roleplay scene these days can be summed up as people playing LSPDFR in multiplayer.

Over the years I've noticed you've taken pride in the fact that you have no problem performing these robo-robberies so your comment in regard to this matter doesn't really come as a surprise. However, this behavior you're catering to just creates a toxic roleplay environment and has no real positive influence. It's no big deal giving vigilantes $500, but when it happens five or six times a day it doesn't add up to what LS-RP is considered to be as a heavy roleplay server. I'm not saying that if you're in a gang infested neighborhood that you should be protected by a rule stating you can't be robbed or whatever. But if your entire development of a character is only centered around roaming the entire SA map and shouting at people to raise their hands so you can spam /frisk and do the same thing over and over it serves no benefit whatsoever.

its obvious some people only came back here to dm and not rp

Don't take this as admin-bashing because it's not (well, mostly) but what's going through your staff's minds when they kick somebody for subpar English? These players aren't logging off for a study session on Rosetta Stone: they are fundamentally unable to grasp the language. Unless you're going to open up a server-sponsored ESL school, they're just going to come back and continue dragging down the standard of roleplay with incompetence. I understand that they're only a fraction of the non-RP problem but it's still a prominent issue that needs to be addressed if overall standards are expected to return to previous levels.