TJLazer
TJLazer
TJLazer

Opening with a brief sentence or two and then going straight to kissing is an aggressive move. Aggressive as in "boldly assertive", not "hostile". Your specific situation (in its entirety) isn't grounds for demonizing – now that we know the guy practically put a sign over his head saying "go for it".

Guys do things like this to women all the time.

I was going off the story as described in her first post, without the additional details she revealed in her reply to me. I'm glad it worked out in this special case. In general, leading with that degree of physical aggression isn't "game" or comically whimsical.

And if he was of a different sexual orientation, was already in a relationship, or was simply uninterested in you, your actions could have easily qualified as sexual assault.

That's assuming the final shots were the fatal ones. You're also overestimating the time it takes four people to fire 59 rounds from their pistols. It probably took less than 10 seconds from the first shot to the last.

Ideally they'd divulge the video to a disinterested, independent investigator before anything else. Also, the family of the deceased may not want their relative's violent death plastered all over the internet.

If you're not under arrest, you are under no obligation to comply with a cops orders.

Well, yeah if you exclude pedestrians, store clerks, characters in the main storyline, and side quests, then the remaining female NPCs you can interact with (using menu choices) are pretty much prostitutes, strippers and bartenders, which is unfortunate. I think if R* wants to keep strippers and prostitutes in GTA,

The fact that you can't play as a woman in the main story is definitely a disappointment. Hopefully an upcoming expansion or GTA 6 will change that. That said, most of the female NPCs I see in a typical GTA session are store clerks, irate drivers I crashed into, businesswomen, random yoga moms or trendy 20somethings

I wouldn't worry too much about any precedents. Australia isn't exactly known as a model of level-headedness when it comes to adult-rated video games. In GTA's case, the market has already spoken. The game has sold like hotcakes and will continue to do so in future installments. I'm sure the same pearl-clutching

I don't get how this applies to GTA and not to other free-roaming sandbox-style games that let players go on NPC killing sprees if they so choose. Don't games like Fallout and Assassin's Creed also let players act like depraved murderers?

#22 is not Eastern Promises. It's a screencap from The Indian Runner (though Viggo's peen is on display in both movies).

Bitterness, and an inability to self-reflect or deal with a nuanced, adult world correlate heavily with a conservative worldview. Major red flags include just-world victim-blaming, griping that political correctness has "run amok" or done "more harm than good", and the general sense that things used to be fine until a

It's an age-old derailing tactic. The false dilemma of "no point in discussing problem A because somewhere in the world there's a more severe problem B going on".

Cultural critics aren't whiners or hypocrites or "sitting on their ass" for pointing out the faults they see in a thing while failing to produce a superior thing. A film critic doesn't have to build a film studio from the ground up and produce a superior movie to Django Unchained if he doesn't like Django Unchained. A

The problem with them is that [wearable cameras] are expensive and no one wants to pay for them.

I coulda drownded, Gilbert!

It's probably a mix-up with "artesian" which describes a type of aquifer, not a skilled craftsperson.

While those are the true pronunciations, pronouncing foreign words like "croissant" or "tostones" exactly like a native speaker comes across as irritatingly affected in most English-speaking situations.

Exactly. Console games already let you adjust screen borders, gamma, difficulty, button configurations, gore, audio, etc etc. Offering two display options isn't going to boggle anyone's fragile mind.