I've been playing it on the Xbox One for the past couple days, and the tearing issue isn't too bad. I turned on the v-sync which helped quite a bit. The issues are there (I turned on v-sync after noticing some screen tearing), but there's nothing that detracts from the gameplay. You're right that the fault in a lot…

That is some amazing Lego work. I've been building and painting a Blood Angels army for years now and even I had to look twice to realize that was not official models.

I worked as a bartender in a pub in Oxford for a year and, being a gentle soul from Oklahoma, was a bit taken aback when a patron wandered in one day asking if we had a fag machine. My only response was "excuse me?" at which point he realized I was American and explained it was a cigarette machine.

I'd highly recommend finding a good crew if you're wanting to play more GTA Online. My crew is just a few old college and high school friends that are now scattered around the country, and it makes it a hell of a lot better than playing with randoms. The missions are good co-op fun, and the racing is quite good for…

#2 doesn't bother me at all. I love doing the missions, but trying to do them with a dozen extraneous jackasses who seem to live to pester others would just make trying to get anything done impossible. You can access some of the races and activities from the free mode map, but it will still take you into the lobbies…

I am really looking forward to the heists. I've been playing a ton of GTA Online, and my crew has been waiting for the heists with each update. A lot of folks are upset over the delays in getting the heists up and running, but as long as they work when they're introduced I'm fine with that. I haven't felt a dearth…

A broad skill set is a great place to start. A Poli-Sci degree or related studies are nice, but usually not a requirement. On my first campaign, I was in the research department and out of eight of us, only one had a Poli-Sci degree (I'd worked two years at a hardware store before joining the campaign). Good…

This game was my introduction to the series. I remember picking it up for the Xbox, and realizing there was nothing else like it that I'd ever played. It took years before I played anything else that came close, and that game was Oblivion.

I left politics in May 2012, so I wasn't around for that one. Pretty much any election cycle you're going to find a lot of unemployed campaign workers come November. A lot of the professional campaign workers I knew just planned for being out of work for a few months, treating it like a vacation (which you really…

There's a lot of similarity to my last line of work, campaign politics. You have large staffs, especially on high-level races (top-tier state-level races like Governor and Senator, can see hundreds of campaign staff, not counting volunteers and staff on Presidential races can number in the thousands), and most of…

The time limit is still there, but it's much less stringent than in the previous games. I was able to do all of the side missions and a decent amount of exploring without feeling rushed at anytime.

This is always going to be the curse of the open world game. Either you provide the player with the freedom to do all sorts of things and a small percentage of players will do terrible things with that freedom, or you restrict all your players and risk people complaining about the restrictions.

We likely do have different definitions of right and left wing. From the political perspective, the right and left has more to do with societal stratification and less to do with the level of state involvement, hence you have the Nazis being a far-right party with high levels of state involvement. From the political…

I hate to pile on, but conflating socialism with the Nazis is turning a blind eye to the lessons and history of the first half of the 20th century. The Nazis were fascists, despite having the work socialist in their name (part of an attempt to sway the then-powerful German workers movements and subvert them). From…

I'm in an odd place with the Xbox One. It made me realize that I may be a bit of a Microsoft stalwart. I have a PS4, and it is barely, but undeniably better at running cross-platform games. Despite this I would rather game on my Xbox One. I prefer the controller, although the Dual Shock 4 is a fine controller. I…

There's no reason to switch immediately if you're holding out for a price drop. If you're not, might as well pick one up. The same game released on the PS3 and PS4 costs the same $60 on both platforms (which is kind of a crap deal if you ask me). Might as well play the shinier version.

I went back and forth on the 'no real reason to upgrade' argument when I was looking at next-gen systems. My wife had probably the best response when I was contemplating the Xbox One (I'd made an impulse buy of a PS4 a couple months earlier). She just asked "Are you going to get one eventually?" I said yes. "It it…

I have similar experiences in shifting from the last generation of systems to the current one. I have and enjoy both the PS4 and the Xbox One, but my 360 still sees plenty of use. Gears 3, GTA Online, Halo: Reach, and Borderlands 2 are all games that me and my friends will fire up whenever our schedules align (all…

I have a desktop too, but it's a year older than the laptop (and still cost around $800), and runs most games worse. The major point I was trying to make back in February was that resolution/framerate don't make or break a game. I have yet to play a good game that would be bad at 720p 30fps or a bad game that would…

I have a very small, stupid complaint with this game. They misspelled "Anya." The Polish spell is Ania. Anya is the spelling usually used for the Russian name (which is from the Cyrillic alphabet unlike the Polish).