I wouldn't say so. In particular, every single person I know with a new gen console is dying to get this, and many of the PC owners who didn't get GTA V too.

It probably will be a little choppy in high speed chases, but don't make that judgement from a YouTube video. All YouTube videos look like they've got a bad fps rate - it's built-in.

You are the only Aiden in your game, so what you believe to be Aiden's story is exactly that. In order for other players to have that same experience for themselves, everybody is represented by a random civilian model in their hosts' games. So, you're Aiden on your screen, but when you enter my game I see you as a…

No, you're really not. This is an exciting-looking game, and there's a lot of excitement for it. I play the GTAs in spite of all the shit that's in them because, past gritted teeth, they're good. Sleeping Dogs was more my thing though. This looks like it might be even more fun.

Oh FFS. Ubisoft showed a game they COULD deliver. They showed it well over a year before the new gen's hardware spec was finalised. Every one of us was surprised by how low the bar was set on XO and PS4, and everyone expected more power in the machines. Now they have to make it work with what we got.

The actual gameplay would not necessarily be improved if the lamp posts weren't flimsy. Remember, you're looking at the final product and saying, "They didn't do this obvious thing", when it's a factor on a switch. Chances are they did try more realistic damage, and it wasn't fun.

How do you figure that? Gerrymandering is largely the reason why so many old white men are impossible to remove from power. It is absolutely vital that these protections are removed so that democracy is the US is anything more than a sham. Only when elections are real will politicians pay attention to what people…

Shhh. Canada is listening.

And YouTube, for anyone who wants it:

For all we know, she actually does shit into her hands and smear faeces over her bleeding body. Nobody's actually been able to make it further than one minute into this thing to find out.

This is exactly why the charts should never have been changed to count YouTube views towards the chart position. Probably half the views on this are going to be people like us whose curiosity was piqued by the headline, and then the people we email it to (who we laughingly call our "loved ones"). There should be a…

I suppose so, since we don't see it through the distance of Jaime-goggles. That said, I think there's a certain horror to the book's dismissal of Cersei in Jaime's feelings (everything we're not 100% clear on about her thoughts) that easily equals the sickening feeling of watching the TV scene as "us". I think I might…

Yeah, that's true about their weird relationship. It seems like GRRM leaves bus-sized gaps in the narrative that allow people to reach different conclusions, and rarely acts as the referee (and maybe that's why so many people are enjoying the books).

Yeah I guess. Depends on how you read it. What doesn't change is that Book Jamie ignored all her objections, and tore through her clothes and forced her legs apart. He didn't do all of that to wait for consent, and Book Jamie is and always was a rapist.

Ah, fair point - I suppose it could be seen that way, since parts of the order of events are a little cloudy. But nonetheless, he's a dangerous man with a literally iron fist, forcing himself on her, who has already ripped her clothes away and forced her legs apart, ignoring her pleas for him to stop. Book fans need…

Cersei is actually uniquely powerless in that situation. She can't call her guards or draw attention to what's happening at all. If anyone came back into the room and saw Jaime on top of her, she'd be ruined: if the rumours about her and Jaime were seemingly proven so publicly, she'd have no more political power,…

I don't understand why they're not both rapes. We're being encouraged by many writers today to accept the idea that the book's account, written from Jaime's point of view, is not rape because Cersei eventually verbalises the word "yes". But the penetration occurs prior to that alleged consent, among her protestations…

Yeah, I'm in the UK too, and I'm desperate for an NHA Party candidate in my area, otherwise I don't have anyone I can vote for. I grew up in a Labour family, most of whom hate what the party has become. We desperately need a different electoral system to replace First Past The Post.

I agree with you completely, but I'm not sure "copycat" is the right word. It suggests that the people who commit subsequent violence against themselves and others are simply copying the previous events, whereas you're really talking about the combination of a desire for legendary status in combination with a…

It's not actually greater honesty though, is it? It's greater freedom for one side. In American politics, is the left-wing politician any more confident about stating their support for women's right to an abortion, or union power, or workers' rights, or to chase corporations and the rich for more tax? It takes a lot…