Like the mountain cats every minute and the cops with GPS on you in GTA, I'm sure.

After watching all those add-ons and new consoles by Sega during the 1990s, one after the other, there wasn't a chance in hell I was getting another Sega system. I liked my Sega CD (back in the early-mid-90s, last system I had from them), but they basically had a standing rep for giving up on their systems.

I didn't play Last of Us but I've watched playthroughs, and I liked what I saw way more than what I experienced while playing GTA V. I loved every GTA starting with 3 onward, so I was a huge fan going into it.

Didn't want everyone guessing what the D was. :D

One other thing R* did that really rustled my jimmies, around the time they destroyed payouts on races ... they 're-calculated' strength skill. Which is to say, I had maxed out stats, doing whatever it took to get full bars of all the skills ... only to enter GTAO one day to find my strength reduced to 1/3rd of its…

Racing was the last straw for me as well. I was quite good at GTA racing on the beloved/reviled Down the Drain. That was my go-to thing, to pass the time, and make enough RP or $ (with just one other pal) to bother waiting around ... that and most of my friends moved to other stuff shortly after the new consoles hit.

Single player was beyond irritating to me. I didn't bother after the Merriweather heist. A bunch of planning and execution, for nothing? For a reason that the government would hunt them down over it? As if they're not already in the crosshairs at that point? Yeah, whatever.

Exactly. GOTY? More like Disappointment of the Year.

What's most annoying about all this is that it's clear that Rockstar tweaked the game to lean players toward microtransactions.

It was enough of a grind before they cut back on the payouts, and then they cut back on them twice, at least, from memory, after that.

Agree with everything you said.

Devil's Night was listed twice, as well as 'drinking fountain' as the dead giveaways of my origin.

I once asked a person at a concessions stand in Los Angeles for a pop. He brought me popcorn.

I am become bullet spray.

Big Macs don't kill people, free markets do?

Merry Festivus!

Money always spurs action. Since the problem is a re-direct of ad money to the copyright holder, it's not that much of Google's concern.

It can still be popular and watched by increasing numbers of people, like poker tournaments. The definition isn't really as important as the competition which is similar to more athletic contests, minus the dollar amounts and the greater physical exertion required to perform the sports that the TV show covers.

Nice! Thanks for the breakdown, that makes a lot of sense, at least from what I've seen in V.

That doesn't mean we have to be poop-water and find the sewer's table! It doesn't bother me that much, that people are shitty though. And for shit-themed platitudes, nobody's better at it than Jim Lahey.