I don’t understand this “boys do dumb stuff when they’re young” excuse regards to rape. I did plenty of dumb stuff when I was a teenage boy: swiped liquor from my parents’ cupboard, cheated on a few homework assignments, drove my car a too fast on the street, etc. Normal teen shit that I now regret but is fairly…

Based on what I’ve seen in official Rockstar press releases and screenshots, I’m guessing the “five states” in the game will, in minature, roughly represent:

From what Rockstar has previously mentioned about the game world, I’m assuming that the largest settlement will be a Bayou city standing in for New Orleans.

I assume OP has mostly seen Leone-style Spaghetti Westerns, which were pretty much all filmed in Southern Italy and take place in areas along the US-Mexico border. This is the “western / cowboy” aesthetic that most non-Americans are familiar with in pop culture.

Most of the Western United States gets snow during at least some of the winter especially the mountainous parts. And a lot of American westerns feature snow.

A frequently-overlooked aspect of RDR’s atmosphere was the phenomenal sound design. The first time I heard a thunderstorm roll into Armadillo while playing the game on a surround sound system, my jaw dropped at how real it sounded.

Weren’t most people using double-action revolvers by the turn of the century though? I could be wrong about that.

Jesus Christ, that picture. The tacky leather chair, the hideous wallpaper & carpet, the skins plaque, the dorky glasses, the Captain Morgan pose, the creepy Ted Cruz-esque smirk, the tracksuit, the thumbs-up + “look at my sneakers” finger point combo. It’s Dan Snyder’s entire douchebag essence distilled into a single…

You think Snyder is covering their travel expenses?

Somewhat believable: Mark Cuban was too busy during his whirlwind 6-week purchase process of the Mavs to become aware of the sexual misconduct reports against the Mavs president.

They used the exact same “separate game” language to describe GTAO 5 years ago as well. Ignore this marketing nonsense. RDO is in fact the online mode of RDR2 - it uses the same map, same controls, same engine, same gameplay, and you have to purchase RDR2 to play it. It’s about as ”fundamentally separate” from RDR as C…

I saw Maroon 5 open for Guster at a concert in early 2002, shortly before Songs About Jane came out and they became pop megastars.

Seriously. The Switch is a dream machine for me. Perfect portability (including instant pause and resume for any games) + host of ports means I get to catch up on tons of classics I missed the past in a super-convenient way. Fuck the haters. I'm loving this.

“Black people are lazy.”

My thoughts on the Beta:

The SNL thing wasn’t what made the public turn on her music career. That moment came three months later when she played the halftime show at the 2005 Orange Bowl (with live vocals this time) in a performance so horrendously bad and off-key that a crowd of 80,000 attendees booed her afterwards. That was when everyone re…

Oh I completely agree with you. Pre-order culture makes no sense to me. It sometimes made sense in the past when all games were sold on physical media with finite supplies, and a popular game might sell out and be backordered for weeks. But everything’s digital now so that problem longer exists. I guess some people…

I will occasionally pre-order (or buy on launch day) a game from select companies that have earned a reputation for meticulous quality control and delivering on promised content (basically, Rockstar and Nintendo). Everything else is a “wait and see” for me. Too many studios these days release games that require months…

I honestly think a big reason pre-orders are down is because people no longer trust EA to fulfill its post-launch support promises on it’s own games anymore. Multiplayer games are particularly dependent on post-launch support, and EA has a history of effectively abandoning games that sell poorly or have troubled…

Seriously. I hate when hipster douchebags say they watch something “ironically” is if the act of them watching a television show was itself some kind of performance art. Jesus Christ people, just own the fact that you genuinely enjoy certain things that your peers don’t. It’s really not that hard.