As someone who doesn't understand any of this, it's awful damned funny looking in from the outside.

Just how old are you? I ask this because at the end of the Clinton administration, the US had a budget surplus.

The irony of which is this is all wind-in-sails; you can't defund the ACA because 80% of its funding comes from mandatory spending, the same mandatory spending that keeps our elected jagoffs paid while they do no actual work.

Oh, I'm not commenting about the game's portrayal of women, I'm talking about real-life criminal society. Excellent writing or no, I can't play a game where I play as a criminal...Vice City already poisoned the well for me on that count.

I think I may have hit the end of the line; none of this excites me. I mean NONE of it. I'd rather play what's already out than just about anything I've seen that's coming...maybe I'm just done with gaming. Is gaming something you can age out of?

Oh, it was just an observation from a disinterested third party. I played Vice City once a long time ago and decided these games weren't for me.

Because typically, women are regarded as merchandise in criminal undertakings.

Chose E because...well, she's in the middle, and I used to work at a Call Center.

A bit more partial to E, actually.

That's...kinda awkward.

Maybe a better idea would be to monitor people who watch Fox News.

Let's hope it's less crazy than the latter, and more functional than the former.

Not sure how that's even possible, since PvE servers require you to be flagged before anyone can 5 vs 1 another player.

Somehow, games blogging would hardly seem like a job to me. :p

You're taking PvE servers a bit too seriously; the reason PvE servers are popular is because the internet at large is a 'ludicrous passel of driveling galoots.' If MMOs were online forums, PvP servers would be unmoderated ones.

I try to stay a little authentic with WoW naming conventions so they wouldn't seem out of place. I like to try and blend in with the world, not stick out like a busted clavicle.

I'm not so sure; this goes back to the point I made earlier about the teeming masses buying games for the teams and players, not the game itself. It's essentially a functional monopoly, as anyone who plays football won't buy a game without NFL teams or players. The NFL is just as misguided with its exclusivity…

To answer your questions, yes I am angry about exclusive clothing licenses, just as I am about exclusive sports game licenses. The death of the 2k football franchise was a deathknell to sports innovation in this category, imo. I don't know why the NFL was fine with multiple licensees before, but now for some reason,…

Oh, it isn't any worse than the corporatist mentality of monolithic conglomerates that squash innovation by eliminating any potential competition, or by the teeming masses who buy and play sports games not for the game itself, but for players and franchises.

I just don't understand how - the second time around - you underestimate your server capacity so drastically.