I went and tested it out by turning on passive mode and driving near red players and someone blew me up with a sticky bomb. Being run down didn’t seem to harm me though.

Even in passive mode you can still die from bombs or being run over.

Great. So any console player who doesn’t want to fork over the cash for a peripheral like this should probably avoid multiplayer FPS entirely or get used to being demolished by xXxM0u53M45t3RxXx

There wasn’t and still isn’t an online economy the way there is in Diablo or WoW. It’s a static, one-dimensional system where money is generated from missions and goes straight to moneysinks like clothes, ammo, and replacement cars. Aside from wagers and cash gifts, player-to-player transactions aren’t much of a…

Exactly. It boils down to this: everyone in the United States who can read a menu knows what “scooped” means. The same cannot be said for “dipped” and countless other quaint little flyover bumblefuck regionalisms. Page one of the Steak & Shake employee manual should include a brightly-colored aside about “scoop vs…

This is why I don’t understand why deadlifts are recommended to total newbs. Deadlifts are supposedly the greatest “bang-for-buck” compound lift, but the slightest form imperfection can put you in traction for the better part of a year. Seeing my awful deadlift form and realizing I could have permanently ruined my…

This is something that still confuses me. We’re told the best way to burn fat and lose weight is to increase muscle mass. But to add muscle mass, one must do resistance training and eat a slight calorie surplus so the body will have the “building blocks” for muscles to recover and grow on non-lifting days. In other…

And I thought I was all alone in my Dakota Johnson-as-Lisa advocacy. She really is perfect for the role. Connery is too old and too retired to ever want to play a space captain in a CG robot movie, so my vote is for Giancarlo Giannini. Gerard Butler should be Breetai. Sonequa Martin-Green as Claudia, Ryan Gosling as…

Well there's the problem. How would an uncultured dullard like me determine which art critic knows what they're talking about and which one doesn't? The world's leading theologians may be extremely well-read and able to articulate the finer points of their field in an engaging way but it's not enough to get me to…

Hate to break it to you but all art criticism is superficial. As in random blather. As in completely subjective, and completely devoid of meaningful information. The Sistine Ceiling? Meh. Schmaltzy chocolate box art. No wait, it's a breathtaking work of genius. It's both. It's neither. It's whatever, man.

Well, think of this "bullshit cynicism" as the chickens coming home to roost. Long before this video, "everyday folks" had gradually become aware of their status as philistines incapable of appreciating that which can only be understood by an elite group of sophisticates steeped in bleeding-edge critical theory. So…

Consumer broadband is nowhere near what it has to be to stream a live sporting event in detailed, realtime VR. We can't even get our HDTV stations up to Blu-Ray quality yet.

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,…